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In reply to the discussion: For those of you who want me to lay off the Pope: "Let Me Show You" [View all]Swagman
(1,934 posts)29. but what about the thousands of nuns and priests who don't abuse
and who 'tend to their flock' and do amazing works of charity in Asia and Africa and South America ?
The priests and nuns who get paid little and live in one room with a single bed and devote their lives to a church, albeit one that has covered up abuse, but nevertheless devote their lives to just helping others and who on so many occasions have been tortured, raped, abused and murdered simply because they were helping others.
What happens to them in all of this? They certainly far outnumber the abuser but It seems they are the forgotten ones.
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The RCC has run the longest on-going criminal enterprise the world has ever seen.
Ikonoklast
Feb 2013
#1
Remember the years and millions the FBI spent looking for Satanistic Child abuse?
panzerfaust
Feb 2013
#32
If it were a political party instead of a church, how much support would it have here?
NYC Liberal
Feb 2013
#13
Me too. That was a hugely courageous stand to take. And she took so much shit for it.
calimary
Feb 2013
#46
Eff the pope, the Vatican, the Cardinals and all the corrupt creeps in that miserable institution.
Arugula Latte
Feb 2013
#7
Defending child molesters and their enablers is an invitation to be mocked and bullied.
backscatter712
Feb 2013
#67
the hierarchy of the church weren't thinking of them when they were busy covering their butts.
liberal_at_heart
Feb 2013
#30
All the good charitable work could be accomplished without a "church". nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Feb 2013
#62
Oh-boo hoo. The all-knowing, infallible, all-powerful catholic church can't take the truth!
lindysalsagal
Feb 2013
#37