Catholic Church | Welcome to my Merry-Go-Round!
Posted on August 20, 2018 by Off the Wall
News headlines of late have focused on the Catholic sexual abuse scandal that erupted in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, this scandal has dodged the Church for a long time.
Back in 2015, the movie Spotlight, an award winning docudrama, gives a detailed account of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the widespread pedophilia scandals and subsequent cover-ups within the Catholic Church. As per Justin Chang’s review from Variety, Spotlight was “a superbly controlled and engrossingly detailed account of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the widespread pedophilia scandals and subsequent cover-ups within the Catholic Church. This measured and meticulous ensemble drama sifts through a daunting pile of evidence to expose not just the Church’s horrific cycles of abuse and concealment, but also its uniquely privileged position in a society that failed its victims at myriad personal, spiritual and institutional levels.
Where the film proves extraordinarily perceptive is in its sense of how inextricably the Church has woven itself into the very fabric of Boston life, and how it concealed its corruption for so long by exerting pressure and influence on the city’s legal, political and journalistic institutions. Given the blurrier-than-usual separation of church and state, and the fact that the newspaper’s own readership includes a high percentage of Irish Catholics, it’s no surprise that it falls to an outsider like Baron — a Florida native and the first Jewish editor to take the helm at the Globe — to play hardball with the Archdiocese.”
But that was just one city’s problem with Catholic priests. Recently, new revelations have come to light in Pennsylvania, which I fear is just the tip of the iceberg. Even the Pope is cracking down now in public, instead of sweeping it under the rug and moving predator priests around to different parishes like chess pieces.
And like the tip of the iceberg that took down the Titanic, even something that is considered bullet proof really isn’t. In fact, that attitude makes it even more vulnerable when the cracks start to split open. The major players start to scatter like rats from a sinking ship. We have had many examples of this behavior throughout history, and not just with the church. But I digress.
I think the Catholic church archaic rules of priests/nuns not marrying has landed themselves into attracting a certain kind of person who finds his pleasure elsewhere. Sometimes at the expense of innocent victims. Most other Christian religions allow marriage. Perhaps this would help.
As a Catholic, this issue of sexual abuse by priests has bothered me for a long long time, primarily because of all the payoffs and coverups. Now it seems to be coming to a head, with the revelations coming to light, at least monetarily. For years now many Catholics have been financially boycotting the church. The Catholic church is the 3RD LARGEST LANDOWNER IN THE WORLD. Financially it is one the wealthiest organizations in the world, Number 1 for religious organizations with 200+BILLION, and on the world stage puts it on par with oil companies and Walmart.
To sum it up, this all is a sad commentary on the world’s largest religion, with nearly a third of the population of the world, with Islam coming in a very close second and poised to take over the number 1 spot in the foreseeable future. And lets be honest, Islam/Muslims scare many Americans, don’t they, since 911, which changed how we perceive Muslim-Americans. The majority of Islam are very peace loving, but as with anything, a few radicals spoil the whole pot.
So what do we do to clean the Catholic house? Keeping in mind it is a VERY BIG HOUSE. It is as corrupt as any large corporation. Or government. In my honest opinion. What is yours?
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Is there only one true Jesus? – REDUX
Posted on March 6, 2013 by Off the Wall
Now that we are “Popeless”, and Lent to boot, my Catholic friends and I have been having “Christian” dinners together on Friday nights. (This means meatless). We have been having some lively discussions on the reason behind the Papal retirement. I mean, he quit. There is no quitting in the Papacy! I’m sure to non-Catholics, all these cover-ups and conspiracy theories are making for a lot of “told you so” fodder. Anyway, I originally wrote this blog over a year ago, but it seems very relevant today.
I grew up receiving most of the sacraments and going to church and never questioning the teaching of the church. That has changed since I began questioning evolutionism versus creationism. I have my own theory on that which combined the two to my satisfaction. (I will write a blog on my theory soon!)
Posted in Ramblings, Religion	| Tagged Allah, Book of Revelation, Buddah, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic school, Christian, God, Jesu, Jesus, Left Behind, Papacy, Papal, Pope	| Leave a reply
Catholic Church | Welcome to my Merry-Go-Round!
Posted on August 20, 2018 by Off the Wall
News headlines of late have focused on the Catholic sexual abuse scandal that erupted in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, this scandal has dodged the Church for a long time.
Back in 2015, the movie Spotlight, an award winning docudrama, gives a detailed account of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the widespread pedophilia scandals and subsequent cover-ups within the Catholic Church. As per Justin Chang’s review from Variety, Spotlight was “a superbly controlled and engrossingly detailed account of the Boston Globe’s Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into the widespread pedophilia scandals and subsequent cover-ups within the Catholic Church. This measured and meticulous ensemble drama sifts through a daunting pile of evidence to expose not just the Church’s horrific cycles of abuse and concealment, but also its uniquely privileged position in a society that failed its victims at myriad personal, spiritual and institutional levels.
Where the film proves extraordinarily perceptive is in its sense of how inextricably the Church has woven itself into the very fabric of Boston life, and how it concealed its corruption for so long by exerting pressure and influence on the city’s legal, political and journalistic institutions. Given the blurrier-than-usual separation of church and state, and the fact that the newspaper’s own readership includes a high percentage of Irish Catholics, it’s no surprise that it falls to an outsider like Baron — a Florida native and the first Jewish editor to take the helm at the Globe — to play hardball with the Archdiocese.”
But that was just one city’s problem with Catholic priests. Recently, new revelations have come to light in Pennsylvania, which I fear is just the tip of the iceberg. Even the Pope is cracking down now in public, instead of sweeping it under the rug and moving predator priests around to different parishes like chess pieces.
And like the tip of the iceberg that took down the Titanic, even something that is considered bullet proof really isn’t. In fact, that attitude makes it even more vulnerable when the cracks start to split open. The major players start to scatter like rats from a sinking ship. We have had many examples of this behavior throughout history, and not just with the church. But I digress.
I think the Catholic church archaic rules of priests/nuns not marrying has landed themselves into attracting a certain kind of person who finds his pleasure els
ewhere. Sometimes at the expense of innocent victims. Most other Christian religions allow marriage. Perhaps this would help.
As a Catholic, this issue of sexual abuse by priests has bothered me for a long long time, primarily because of all the payoffs and coverups. Now it seems to be coming to a head, with the revelations coming to light, at least monetarily. For years now many Catholics have been financially boycotting the church. The Catholic church is the 3RD LARGEST LANDOWNER IN THE WORLD. Financially it is one the wealthiest organizations in the world, Number 1 for religious organizations with 200+BILLION, and on the world stage puts it on par with oil companies and Walmart.
To sum it up, this all is a sad commentary on the world’s largest religion, with nearly a third of the population of the world, with Islam coming in a very close second and poised to take over the number 1 spot in the foreseeable future. And lets be honest, Islam/Muslims scare many Americans, don’t they, since 911, which changed how we perceive Muslim-Americans. The majority of Islam are very peace loving, but as with anything, a few radicals spoil the whole pot.
So what do we do to clean the Catholic house? Keeping in mind it is a VERY BIG HOUSE. It is as corrupt as any large corporation. Or government. In my honest opinion. What is yours?
Posted in Ramblings, Religion	| Tagged Catholic, Catholic Church, pedifile, pedophilia, priest, sexual abuse, Spotlight movie	| Leave a reply
Is there only one true Jesus? – REDUX
Posted on March 6, 2013 by Off the Wall
Now that we are “Popeless”, and Lent to boot, my Catholic friends and I have been having “Christian” dinners together on Friday nights. (This means meatless). We have been having some lively discussions on the reason behind the Papal retirement. I mean, he quit. There is no quitting in the Papacy! I’m sure to non-Catholics, all these cover-ups and conspiracy theories are making for a lot of “told you so” fodder. Anyway, I originally wrote this blog over a year ago, but it seems very relevant today.
I grew up receiving most of the sacraments and going to church and never questioning the teaching of the church. That has changed since I began questioning evolutionism versus creationism. I have my own theory on that which combined the two to my satisfaction. (I will write a blog on my theory soon!)
Posted in Ramblings, Religion	| Tagged Allah, Book of Revelation, Buddah, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholic school, Christian, God, Jesu, Jesus, Left Behind, Papacy, Papal, Pope	| Leave a reply