Does anyone find the Catholic Church be a hypocrite? ?
I can not believe they have all these rules and are so selfish, however, that many of its priests have been molesting children for decades. What do you think?
I can not believe they have all these rules and are so selfish, however, that many of its priests have been molesting children for decades. What do you think?
You can say the same about the Boy Scouts, sweet pea.
Romophobia is SO 2008 …
And no one acts as "Priests are God!" Dear … We fully accept that they are as human as you and I
Do not think you're old enough to be trying to discuss these issues.
You have written many lies about the Church to be responded to the demands of justice:
>> so many of its priests have been molesting young children>>
In fact, the number of offenders was less than 1% of all Catholic priests worldwide. The number of sex offenders in the general population is much higher than this.
>> The Catholic Church is proud to be so just, so Hollier than you, more than any other organized religion!>>
The Catholic Church is made up of sinners, and has declared this from the beginning. If Catholics are "fair" and "holier" than everyone else, why do we need regular confession and penance and Communion?
>> many of their own priests (who treat them like God) … these are the same priests who worship!>>
Absolutely false. Catholics do not worship priests. Catholics worship God alone. The priests are respectable, as appropriate, due to their sacred office. The priests need our prayers and good priests always ask for it.
Peace be with you +
In every human population to a few people are sick or ill who commit horrible crimes, even in the Church.
The percentage of pedophiles in the clergy of the Catholic Church is actually less than that of society at large.
These few terrible not to deny the faith, hope and love more than one billion Catholics.
Remember that the Church is neither the Church hierarchy or priests. The Church is God and his relationship with over one billion Catholics living on Earth and God knows how many in the sky, all of which are the Body of Christ.
Remember that political scandals in the country, including up to and including the highest leaders, like President Nixon and the Watergate scandal, do not make the nation as a whole evil, immoral, or worthless. And the Catholic Church is much holier and more important than any other nation.
Hove you ever found a church that does not have any sinners in it?
With love in Christ.
I have known many Catholics all my life. I know many, many, many more that are not self-righteous than the few who are.
I have met many priests and all of them were good, wise, caring men who served God in silence, and nobody ever bothered.
However, the 000,000,009% of priests that bother him, make the evening news, not everyone else.
If all Catholics who know that are abusers car right, it must find new Catholic friends.
Christianity in its purest, most basic form, is in no way hypocritical. It is based on 2 concepts:
1. Like humans, they are defective. We will make mistakes, we sin against our Creator, no matter how not to try.
2. If you really seek forgiveness for our sins will be forgiven.
Being self-righteous is not a flaw in religion, but in the person. There are many religious leaders, some Catholics, even not try to push their beliefs on those who do not want them. And there are many people out there, religious or not, who live their entire life showing a "do as I say, not as I do" lifestyle.
Why Catholics, and for those of you who chose to put all of the branches of Christianity, together, why criticize something that is not willing to try to understand?
EDIT:
Those who worship their religious leaders, instead of accepting them as academic intended to guide us in understanding a relationship with God, they are wrong too. The fact of the matter is, power corrupts, no matter who it is. You can not judge the whole church on the basis of the actions of a minority group within it. Tons of parents abusing their children, is not it a most serious violation of trust that is in the relationship between a religious leader and an altar boy?
I agree, however, that these men are treated as much more than they are. They must be humble servants of God, prophets rock star's word is law.
Yes, remember the victims, but also see how many priests molested someone NO.
Furthermore, I suspect that a large percentage of people responding to this question does not know the meaning of the word hypocrite. The questioner is using it correctly, but not necessarily see that all the answers …
1. It was not "many" priests. It was a small percentage of pedophiles who were posing as priests and not to defend the votes he spoke.
2. Not only the Catholic Church has a problem of pedophilia. Many churches, the Boy Scouts, public schools, etc have the same problem. Any paper that gives unfettered access to the victims of pedophilia.
3. Catholics do not believe that priests are God's. We know that standard rates sinners like the rest of us.
4. The Church's role is to set the standard. Everyone falls short in one way or another, but at least we know what is expected of us and every time you meet the standard, we can feel good about what we have achieved. Not that it is "self-righteous" to set the standard of law, especially when you have a complete system to help people when they meet standards.
So we have not done any homework, but that was raised at his trial. I hope not die young. "By thy words thou shalt be condemned"
The percentage is lower than the general population, most of it is the same sex, and those people did in the first place because you idiots, liberal thought is a good idea. Now, as you know the Vatican is moving to anchor them. Please support this, you are a hypocrite.
Do not make me pray to be punished. Because you deserve it.
Catholics do not believe that their priests are God. That is a false image of that attack.
Moreover, the percentage of priests who have been accused of child abuse (1.5 - 3%) is less than the number of teachers who have been indicted. This is not "many" priests. Even "very few".
I guess if you can not find anything to criticize sincere Catholics, you do something.
uh wow-so you know any church has hypocrites … not mean that all are! and btw, the Catholic Church is not the only church that has pastors that children bother! People do ephasis in the Catholic Church because of the priests-celebacy happens in all religions. and just because some priests out there doing that does not mean that all they do, the church does not admit that, in any form. It is evil. and the church does not tolerate such things!
Yes, I admit. Catholics there are some evil out there that give us a bad name, but as I said - were not so. There are very dovout Catholics there as well! It is found in all religions there are people who defy God in some of the teachings of the church just because they believe in themselves, these are the hypocrites and those who are not only in the Catholic Church.
New Comment: There is like trying to priests of God - EVER! and think of themselves as God either! … yes, it is very sad for victoms involved ….. this happens everywhere! Think of the many people and children are raped every day and are not even the priests or pastors! Yes it's sad! I'm not defending these priests who molest, I am defending the church is against it!
Not at all.
People of all beliefs and lifestyles can be a hypocrite. Take overweight doctor, the nurse who smokes, the technical team does not back themselves so hard hypocrites are everywhere, because we all tend to say "do as I say not as I do" the occasion. It is very easy on ourselves.
That said, there is no excuse for anyone who abused children or to conceal the truth. But as with most things it is not so black and white as that.
Childhood sexual abuse happens everywhere, not only in the Catholic Church. In fact, statistics show there are more Protestant ministers convicted of pedophilia, then Catholic priests. This can be found in the book: Pedpohiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis by Philip Jenkinshttp: / / http://www.amazon.com / pedophile-priests …
With regard to potential offenders moving to other places, what is wrong, but it was common practice for years for all organizations. Remember that, although much of this has been recently made public, it happend decades ago, when our society was far more likely to believe or to deal with such allegations. Heck, so rape victims were victimized again in court by lawyers and jurors. We have come a long way.
I grew up in the 70s and can say that I was sexually accosted by teachers at the age of 13. I did not know what to do, there were no classes on those things, however, there was no sexual harassment laws.
Therefore, this does not mean that the Church was right, but the Church does not exist in society and so many things go as knowledge of science, knowledge of medical advances, the knowledge to cope with certain crime, etc. of the Church will continue the company standards. The Church has never claimed to know better about the current problems of society. My point is that the way the church handled these matters was more or less the way, everyone did.
Take for example the education system … have many educators accused of sexual misconduct with minors, and yet it has been transferred from school district school district, some even promoted. The media calls the school system-case "worse than the Catholic Church" and yet we hear very little about why it is better to report rating celibate priest pedophilia then teacher.http: / / archive.newsmax. com / archives / art http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/con http://www.bostoninjurylawyerblog.com/20 … … … … http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/08/2
Moreover, the peacekeepers of the United Nations … again … use, exploit and abuse children for years. You will find that this was reported before 2004, then again in 2008. What has been done? Who knows? Http: / / news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6195 … … http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/13 http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content / Pu …
Here are some statistics for you:
Between 1950 and 2002 (52 years) had 4392 priests accused (not convicted) of sexual abuse. Priests who happens to be 84.5 per year. In the United States approaches there are 500,000 child sex abuse allegations. This means that there 499,915.5 charged each year that are NOT Catholic priests.This problem is not a Catholic problem is one of an immoral society.
Here are some more links: http://www.christianpost.com/church/Gene http://www.reformation.com/http://www.fisheaters.com/clergysexabuse … … http://www.catholiceducation. org / article …
Fathers and stepfathers who abuse their children are also hypocrites.
ADDED: Can you send a link of its contention that a priest molested more than 2,000 children in 40 years? I can not find anything on the Internet about it.
ADDED: We do not worship or believe that priests are God. They are sinners like all of us go to confession and face temptations like other human beings on the planet. But men who are ordained and have a special role in the Church. The Church does not act "holier than thou", which is his preception, not a fact. I see just the opposite, the Pope, the priests I know, and many Catholics are very humble, love and God and everything to follow and live their faith.
Hi,
We have not had much of that in my country. It was more than football, hockey and other sports coaches and some school teachers who have been hauled up on the carpet of these charges.
That said, the Catholic Church would be the first to admit that we are all hypocrites in our midst and you and I and many others are also welcome to worship other with the hypocrites and sinners.
Cheers,
Michael Kelly
It seems hypocritical at all, if self-righteous hypocrite, which proclaims that all priests and bishops go directly to heaven and be holy, no one ever believed it. Why is self-righteousness to teach the truth, the gospel of Christ? It is not. It's your job to maintain the truth of what Christ taught, setting the gold standard for holiness, this means teaching the whole truth and not release a drop of it.
There have been terrible priests, bishops and popes in history (for example, Pope Alexander VI), but not taught wrong. The pope is not here to tell us how he himself is holy, it does not, he's here to teach us about Christ and help us to follow, even if it does not.
I do not know if you've read the Gospels, but Jesus gave a lot of rules, he made it easy. What good would it do for the church to say just because some priests are bad you should try to follow Christ?
"The priests (who treat them as if they were God, I might add)"
I'm not sure what you've seen) probably heard of some anti-Catholic site), but that's what Catholics do. They are ordained to offer the Holy Sacrifice and other sacraments, but that does not mean that personally holier than us, the Church has never taught otherwise.
This is the usual stuff about pedophile priests, maybe you should look in the Anglican Communion, where you'll find most of what was happening in the Catholic Church, largely though.
Maybe I should remove the plank from your own eye before trying to remove the speck from others.
had "all these preists" one is more likely to be molested by a member of the public in genral that for a Preist. Therefore, your site is incorrect.
And the Church has addressed this issue from all angles, from removeing the perpatator to provide cash and the VICTIMS cousneling, implementation of programs to prevent this sort of thing and it indetify.
Therefore, your facility is comletely false.
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I think they are wrong and can prove it, we as Catholics condemn anyone, we know that we are all sinners, even the Pope is a sinner. We are all human and subject to temptation and sin, everyone is susceptible is the disease of the human race. And so they are aware that there are more pedophile priests well, then, only 1% of priests have been or will be convicted of the crime so heinous. Most are good honest men of God who deserve to be respected and revered.
Pray for priests and religious life, they are persecuted, even by those who have committed sins.
The priest and the rabbi of the most learned men on this earth, no one can claim the kind of education of these men. I must say I have no idea what we're talking about.
Pray the Rosary and receive the sacraments
They are human and accountability. There are over pedophilia in schools, medical clinics, kindergartens, and other religions such as Baptist, JW and Jew, then mix in the Catholic faith, where is your question about this?!
You have't any idea what we're talking about.
All religions are hypocritical.
Take "the invocation of yesterday" and "blessing" at the opening of Obama … now go read Matthew 6:5-6, and tell me if Christians were doing what Jesus told them to do, or if it exactly fits the description of the hypocrites that Jesus supposedly gave him.
Peace.
Hyocritical I can not find it in the least.
Priests are human beings capable of sinning.
The Church does not endorse or support their sins.
Rather, it encourages them to repentance and reconciliation, as any other sinner.
No "many of its priests" … only 1%. As abhorrent as the scandal was - and still is, in some cases - you can not group them all together. If there are 10,000,000 Muslims who hate America, it is still only 1% of over 1.1 billion Muslims worldwide.
How many priests are behaving morally has nothing to do with the divine truth revealed to them. still are the true Church of Jesus Christ - founded in AD 33 at Pentecost, when the power of the Holy Spirit descended upon the apostles. There were no Protestants until 1517 - a known fact.
I think there is a difference between man and honest man who did wrong actions.
It's a stupid generalization to find the man erroneus only in the Catholic Church.
Not only the Catholic Church is guilty of many other too, and people wonder why people are so hard to achieve when even non-believer, I would not.
You act as if less than 1% of clergy representing the whole Church. Thanks for the indulgence Vatican II.
If you did actually "find" the Catholic Church would not be saying these things. It is the pearl purchased at any price.
Distorted view of Catholicism.
(((Spiritroaming))) that passes through here.
Yes I think that attending any church to be a hypocrite, too.
Bozo still loves you but Butchie boy!
EDIT: Wow, you must be really frustrated, given all the issues and capital letters. Do not you know it's rude to shout?
I think all of Christianity to be hypocritical not only Catholics.
No, what are you doing right now is being hypocritical on the Catholic Church.
There are plenty of Christian denominations who have had similar problems with their ministers. The Catholic Church has much less of this than most Protestant churches. For some reason the media, the Catholic Church is more publicity. In fact, the Catholic Church has instituted programs much more to prevent future occurrences of the Protestant faith ANYTHING.
Also, how is the Catholic Church is "self-righteous"? We have created charity programs that raise more money for a good cause in a week than you ever will win.
And, our priests … treated as God??? I'm confused about the source of that idea. Any priest who spoke at that accusation would be insulted. Priests are humble people who devote their lives to the Lord and his Church. Did you know that an ordained Catholic minister is not married, like Protestant ministers? Priests to focus as much of their lives in the Church as possible, and are much more humble and reverent toward Christ that no Protestant minister.
You are completely wrong to make such statements against the Church that Christ himself established (Matthew 16: 18-19). Make us all a favor and research before you post.
<< "And remember: there were thousands of victims! A priest in England alone more than 2,000 abused children between 1957-1993! ">>
No name? No research? No links? No evidence? No evidence?
Nonsense.
Misty0408 - Best response!
I find the comedy relief of the Catholic Church. How anyone can believe in the doctrine that spread is beyond me. There are many fools in the world.
Paul, who is the man who resurrected Christ gave him the Gospel of Grace of God, preached the simplicity of Christ. That is NOT her.
Yes, history is full of his crimes and atrocities. Only a few of them really short walk their talk.
Practicing Shaman …. rocks of quantum physics.
I think you just hit the tip of the iceberg, with his comments. He is absolutely right and there are many other examples of hypocrisy too.
Yes, much of the church wanders in his confession, where they believe they can maintain their sin if they go to confession once in a while.
All Christian churches are hypocritical. How is the Bible and the actions of their three gods / god.
Only using blindfolds believe that God takes care of everything.