Below is a scan of an ad that ran in today’s issue of The New York Times. The ad was paid for by the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, and it ran on the Times’ op-ed page.
Apparently, the Catholic League is unhappy with the Times’ recent coverage of yet another sex scandal in the Catholic Church, this was reaching as high, possibly, as Pope Benedict, with some charging that the pope — back when he was Cardinal Ratzinger — participated in a cover-up of at least one instance of a priest being accused of molesting a child. So the Catholic League ran this ad that, in essence, blames the gays.
The articled referenced in the ad is “Vatican declined to defrock U.S. priest who abused boys,” by Laurie Goodstein. Goodstein and David Callendar wrote the article “For years, deaf boys tried to tell of priests’ abuse.” And today, The Washington Post published “Vatican defends Pope amidst Catholic Church sex abuse scandal,” by Anthony Faiola, in which some Vatican church officials seem to be trying to lay all the blame at the feet on the late Pope John Paul II.
What it sounds like to me is an argument between my sons — ages 13 and almost-11 — over who is responsible for the mess in the living room: “He did it, not me!” “Nu-uh! It’s his fault!” That can go on forever, and the end result is, the mess in the living room doesn’t get cleaned up.
I think it’s time for the leaders of the Catholic Church — starting with the pope — to stand up and say, “We either messed up, or we were in charge of the people who messed up. And either way, it’s our responsibility. And we are going to clean up the mess.”
If you would like to see the paper trail published by the New York Times, it’s here: https://documents.nytimes.com/reverend-lawrence-c-murphy-abuse-case?ref=europe#document/p5
The Diocese knew about this for sure. The wanted poster posted by boys at the school is perhaps the most telling evidence.
The RCC will never admit to anything. When a church is backed by Satan what else can you expect? . They are who they are and if you don’t like it leave. There will always, they think, be people dumb enough to believe their crock of Bull. and stay. Why, because they love the eletism, the pomp and ceremoney,the we’re the one and only church and we’re the better than you. group.’ We have something you don’t have. Well, you can HAVE it..We don’t want it and neither does JESUS CHRIST!
IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE BIBLE AND JESUS CHRIST, YOU KNOW JESUS WOULD NEVER APPROVE ANY OF THE STUFF THAT THE RCC HAS BEEN DOING FOR MILLENNIUMS.
Jesus never acted like these men. He even included WOMEN. They have done buckets of stuff that no one knew about but now we know.
Who needs more crap in your life , especially when they claim to be the ambassadors of Christ here on earth.. Try them in the World Court, They will lose. TBTG
You’ll have better luck getting the 11 and 13 year olds to fess up and clean up their mess.
I would hardly call this ad blaming the gays. It just states a fact, most of the abuse has been on post pubescent boys ( usually over the age of 13) not small children. The ad itself says ” homosexuality does not cause predatory behavior and most gay priests are not child molesters”
I understand that gays don’t like the church , since the church views homosexual acts as sinful but the ad itself does not appear hateful.
The ad also makes clear that the Fr. Murphy case does not link the Pope to sex abuse in the church. The Times went too far on this one. Maureen Dowd continues to write articles on this very case with HUGE information gaps.
“Here’s what’s really going on,” writes Bill Donohue.
Nonsense. What’s really going on is that priests — and possibly the pope — have been and continue to be shielded by the Roman Catholic Church. Medieval, preposterous, and evil.
Shielded by the RCC…? They are the RCC,plus all the “generationally brainwashed parishioners” plus their UNSUSPECTING CHILDREN and marginalized adults. They alow these sickening people to keep on keeping on..
Can you imagine a child and or a deaf or handicapped child, thinking this priest is the closest I’ll ever get to seeing and being with Jesus Christ here on earth(because they confess their sins to the priest and not to God Almighty) so he must be right I am wong to think he’d be doing something to me that isn’t right.
How dare these bastards try and get away with this UNFORGIVEABLE SIN , I guess they haven’t read the Bible enough to know that thst is exactlly the sin they are comitting
. Who would want to be associated with such an evil. We left in 2001 when the —- hit the fan and we had 5 pedophiles in our church alone AND DIDN’T EVEN KNOW IT TIL 2002. THAT WAS, PURE CONFIRMATION TO US.
I’m 80 yrs. young and was a very good Catholic my whole life along with my family of 6. Ugh! Are we ever glad we’re not contributing to these horrendous Crimes Against Humanity anymore!
PS Remrmber what happened to Pope Paul I in 1978? Dead as a doornail and another cover up..No autopsy, cleaned up the whole apt. 33 days into the Papacy and murdered. Jesus same way. Dead after 33 yrs. No coincidence!