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Pennsylvania's Predator Priests
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I'm sharing the link to the Pittsburgh ones but there is a full list out there somewhere I'm sure.

So I personally know two priests on this list.  I knew one had been accused (he no longer can hold mass) the other I had no idea about.

I often tell the joke about how I was an altar boy, and involved in our youth group and went on weekend retreats (boys and girls).  Often I was at the church as much as the priest was!  And I can't think of a single occasion where I felt that someone was doing something inappropriate to me either verbally or physically.  And I wonder: What was wrong with me?!?!  I could use some of that sweet church money right now!  Ninja

But all seriousness aside I have racked my brain over the years trying to think of ANYTHING I might have seen or heard involving ANYONE (youth or priest) and I have nothing.  

I knew a couple priests that were drunks.  A few me "knew" were gay.  But I never saw or heard or was told anything about any kind of sexual abuse.

Yet here we are with a list of 300 (there have to be more) that had their names released yesterday.

My problems with the church started after I stopped taking religion classes every day.  21 years of catholic education and a lifetime of undoing it.  But my problem is with the PHYSICAL church and the "men" who run it...not with religion per se.   Sure I make fun of it...but it usually comes from man's interpretation and man's writings and how they are used to manipulate the masses.

I believe in "something" bigger than all of us.  I have too much catholic guilt still in me to completely disbelieve the story of Jesus...but enough world experience to question the validity of all of it.

This report is just ANOTHER example of how people (mostly men) with power use that power to get away with so much...and how many never ever pay a personal price.  And how many people will STILL believe the people with the power because that is what they were taught to do.
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Pennsylvania's Predator Priests - GMDino - 08-15-2018, 12:39 PM
RE: Pennsylvania's Predator Priests - Vlad - 08-20-2018, 04:46 PM
RE: Pennsylvania's Predator Priests - Vlad - 08-20-2018, 11:39 AM
RE: Pennsylvania's Predator Priests - Vlad - 08-20-2018, 04:54 PM
RE: Pennsylvania's Predator Priests - Dill - 08-20-2018, 05:37 PM
RE: Pennsylvania's Predator Priests - Vlad - 08-20-2018, 05:05 PM

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