The Church’s aim will thus be to hear, watch over, protect and care for abused, exploited and forgotten children, wherever they are. To achieve that goal, the Church must rise above the ideological disputes and journalistic practices that often exploit, for various interests, the very tragedy experienced by the little ones.
It is difficult to grasp the phenomenon of the sexual abuse of minors without considering power, since it is always the result of an abuse of power, an exploitation of the inferiority and vulnerability of the abused, which makes possible the manipulation of their conscience and of their psychological and physical weakness. The abuse of power is likewise present in the other forms of abuse affecting almost 85,000,000 children, forgotten by everyone: child soldiers, child prostitutes, starving children, children kidnapped and often victimized by the horrid commerce of human organs or enslaved, child victims of war, refugee children, aborted children and so many others.
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It is difficult to grasp the phenomenon of the sexual abuse of minors without considering power, since it is always the result of an abuse of power, an exploitation of the inferiority and vulnerability of the abused, which makes possible the manipulation of their conscience and of their psychological and physical weakness. The abuse of power is likewise present in the other forms of abuse affecting almost 85,000,000 children, forgotten by everyone: child soldiers, child prostitutes, starving children, children kidnapped and often victimized by the horrid commerce of human organs or enslaved, child victims of war, refugee children, aborted children and so many others.
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At the end of Mass this morning in the Sala Regia of the Apostolic Palace, the Holy Father gave the following concluding address to the participants of the Vatican summit on “The Protection of Minors in the Church”:
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This will depress the fake catholics who post here:
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/02/23/defunded-new-trump-admin-rule-cut-planned-parenthood-subsidies-almost-60m/
Why didn't your wooden god, Obama, do this? Feeling used and abused yet?
The Washington Post has a commentary on the pope's speech with comments by readers, most vile, agnostic, anti God, and anti Catholic, all comments printed since this kind of prejudice and hatred is acceptable today as racism and slavery were generations ago.
But one comment was the truth which this conference evaded or conflated with pedophilia. Here is the comment:
The problem is not pediphila, which is sexual attraction to prepubescent children, it is the sexual abuse of young men by homosexual Priests. This is a fact the Catholic Church is unable to admit.
Pediphila is a mental diorder, sexual abuse of young men and women is simply vile criminal behavior by vile dispicable men, heterosexual or homosexual.
Survivors enraged at pope's final remarks:
Campaigners furious after pope's 'defensive' speech on child abuse
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/24/pope-francis-calls-for-all-out-battle-against-abuse-of-children
The vile comments in the Washington Compost are from Democrats since no self-respecting Republican would bother with the Bezos rag. Moreover the Dem Party has swung hard left which would explain the anti religious comments.
So, is this the "everybody else does it, too" defense?
Gene,
Of course!!! These folks aren't too bright. I think we will have to wait until these loons die off to see any meaningful change.
Yep, Fr. and Gene, you understood PF’s final comments perfectly. We all (here at least), with the exception of MT and cronies, knew this was how it would end because that’s the way it began weeks in advance and proceeded non-stop since Thursday. No surprises here...
Fr. Allan J. McDonald said..."Survivors enraged at pope's final remarks: Campaigners furious after pope's 'defensive' speech on child abuse."
"Peter Isley, spokesperson for Ending Clergy Abuse, an organisation that brings together activists from different countries, criticised the pope’s speech for failing to signal that church leaders would get tough on removing from the ministry priests guilty of abuse and bishops who covered up for them."
From the other day.... Who is Peter Isley?
Peter Isley is in Rome. He's on the warpath against Holy Mother Church and His Holiness Pope Francis.
Who is Peter Isley?
-- He is a founding member of SNAP.
-- In 2010 A.D., Isley traveled to Rome to defame Pope Benedict XVI:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/abuse-in-the-church-the-demons-of-pope-benedict-xvi-a-686495.html
-- SNAP demanded that the International Criminal Court charge Pope Benedict XVI with "crimes against humanity."
Pope Benedict XVI/Cardinal Ratzinger was accused of having, for decades, covered for priests who had abused minors.
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https://www.ncronline.org/news/world/snap-submit-evidence-abuse-icc
SNAP charged Pope Benedict XVI and three additional top Vatican officials with the "systematic and widespread practice of enabling, concealing and tolerating ongoing rape and other forms of sexual violence by clerics across the globe."
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Latest SNAP Publicity Stunt by Leader Peter Isely Demonstrates New Low In Frivolity
http://www.themediareport.com/2013/07/10/peter-isely-snap/
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Just one of the many folks who trashed Pope Benedict XVI...Pope Francis...and who will trash each Pope as no matter what the Vicar of Christ says, Peter Isely and his colleagues will trash the Holy Father.
We are dealing with defamers who will always find cause to trash the Church...trash Her Pope.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
There not just defamers MT. You forgot to add VICTIMS. This might explain their emotional and psychological propensity to anger.
But I'm sure a thank you note will be arriving any moment from Francis himself thanking you for your support.
Father Dan,
See what I mean? MT suffers from arrested emotional and intellectual development. If he can't cut and paste non sequiturs he has nothing to say.
Dan said..."There not just defamers MT. You forgot to add VICTIMS. This might explain their emotional and psychological propensity to anger."
You forget to add DEFAMERS.
Their having been abused by a priest has given them the right to spread lies about Pope Benedict XVI...Pope Francis? They have the right to defame Holy Mother Church, Her Popes, Cardinals, and bishops.
Peter Isley, a SNAP co-founder, quoted in the article (he is always quoted by the news media...he's a go-to source as reporters know that he will always trash the Church and Her hierarchy), has claimed that...
-- Pope Benedict XVI/Cardinal Ratzinger had spent some 25 years in Rome having protected abusive priests.
Peter Isley has the right to spread that horrific lie?
SNAP demanded that the International Criminal Court arrest Pope Benedict XVI on charges of "crimes against humanity".
Peter Isley/SNAP insisted that Pope Benedict XVI refused to have confronted the priest sexual abuse "crisis."
Today, the "victims," in question employ the same script to defame Pope Francis.
Their anger has granted them the right to continue to spread lies?
They are justified to claim, for example, that at least in the United States, that the priest sexual abuse "crisis" is a major problem...
...even though said "crisis" peaked 35 years ago...and even then, only a microscopic amount of priests were charged as abusers?
Dan, should you wish to side with the liars...the defamers in question against Holy Mother Church...then so be it.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
MT,
You are a left-winger so you are siding with abortion and gay marriage. Think about it. It would probably be a new experience for you
The text in the linked address makes it sound as if this situation is abstract to him. Or that he is frightened.
MT, how do you KNOW they are liars? Also, re read comment. Where did I forget to add DEFAMERS?
MT, I'm convinced you would accuse Saint Catherine of Siena of being a "LIAR" and "DEFAMER."
MT, remember too that it takes two for "clericalism" to happen.... the clerics and oblivious worshipful laity that put said clerics unquestioningly upon pedestals. You wouldn't want to enable the greatest sin ever according to Francis, would you?
Father Dan,
Particularly if the Pope Saint Catherine of Siena was admonishing happened to be a left-winger!!!
Btw MT, I just wish to point out that when you implied that I did not mention "defamation" in my comment - you LIED!!!
FrAJM, Forgive my lack of Charity, but Mark Thompson has become tiresome and pointless. His discussion is two dimensional and lacks any relevance. Can we be given a respite?
If it makes things seem more fair you can do as Jerry Clower requested snd shoot us both to get some relief.
Dan said..."MT, I'm convinced you would accuse Saint Catherine of Siena of being a "LIAR" and "DEFAMER."
Dan, I am convinced that your comment denotes that you are loath to acknowledge that the folks in question — victims, either alone, or belong to orginizations designed to pressure the Church, who employ their victimization to defame the Church and Her ministers — who, to advance this or that agenda, spread lies about and defame Holy Mother Church and Her Popes, Cardinals, and bishops.
Your Saint Catherine of Sienna reference is not a serious response.
Peter Isley is one of the victims in Rome this past seek who defamed the Church and Pope Francis.
He is a darling of the news media. He is a go-to source. They employ him as they know that he will attack the Pope, Cardinals, and bishops.
The reporters use hit-piece stories to attack the Church...they camouflage their desire to denounce the Church by using Peter Isley, and his ilk.
I demonstrated that Peter Isley is a professional defamer of the Church.
He employed the same lies about Pope Benedict XVI as he's employed against Pope Francis.
He insisted that Pope Benedict XVI/Cardinal Ratzinger, who SNAP wanted arrested, had spent 25 years in Rome covering up for abusive priests.
You refuse to acknowledge that the victims are also defamers. They have an agenda to rip apart the Holy Catholic Church so as to build a "new" Church that conforms to their desires.
Anyway, it's a scam, fraud...utter nonense for the news media to present Peter Isley, who is enraged at Pope Francis, Cardinal Ratzinger, Cardinals, and bishops, as a respectable, unbiased, serious source.
To have demanded that the International Criminal Court should have arrested Pope Benedict XVI for "crimes against humanity" has demonstrated that the defamers in question are frauds...they despise our Holy Church and Her holy ministers.
I am pleased that in line with Pope Benedict XVI, His Holiness Pope Francis has refused to kneel and bow to said folks, their pressure groups...their anti-Catholic agenda.
Our holy Popes are serious-minded men who have taken serious approaches to the sexual abuse "crisis."
Pax.
Mark Thomas
rcg said..."FrAJM, Forgive my lack of Charity, but Mark Thompson has become tiresome and pointless. His discussion is two dimensional and lacks any relevance. Can we be given a respite?"
Translation: Mark "Thompson" does not say that which you desire to hear.
Should Mark "Thompson" have applauded the garbage Pennsylvania Report...here is what Father McDonald posted about that report:
BOMBSHELL! MAYBE MARK THOMAS WAS RIGHT!
http://southernorderspage.blogspot.com/2019/01/bombshell-maybe-mark-thomas-was-right.html
If Mark "Thompson" trashed Pope Francis daily. If Mark "Thompson" pretended that we have a massive child abuse "crisis" in regard to priests...
Then you would applaud me daily.
But as I don't march in lockstep with you, I am to be censored or banned from Father's blog.
rgc, you remind me of the right-wing and left-wing readers of "traditional" and liberal blogs/Twitter pages who called upon the owners of said blogs/Twitter pages to ban me.
Certain folks desire to shutdown people with whom they disagree.
Pax.
Mark Thomas
RCG, MT's comments provide interesting insight into a mentality entirely alien to mine. I would prefer if he continued to comment.
"There not just defamers MT. You forgot to add VICTIMS."
Should be "they're" (my comment)
"You refuse to acknowledge that the victims are also defamers." MT's comment.
MT - you LIED!!!
Father Dan,
Care to rethink your statement about MT's posts? He dodges any question that calls into the bona fides of PF
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