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10/09/09
10/09/09
Completely. I watched Downfall (which is so so so good, I highly recommend it), and the Goebbels were the creepiest characters by far; you could tell Hitler had lost his mind at the end, but they seemed to be lucid in their blind love for the Reich.
10/09/09
10/09/09
ACORN!!
10/09/09
10/09/09
Anything that will make Glenn Beck's head explode for real.
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10/09/09
HA! Good. Answer.
10/09/09
09/15/09
And here's another thing that has always really pissed me off. Why is it that local diocese can file "bankruptcy", when they are irrevocably linked and sponsored by the wealthiest church on the planet. The surviving victims should all be awarded HUGE compensation packages. Only then will the Catholic Church have the motivation to institute stringent preventative measures world wild. It's time for them to stop screwing around, with the victims and the perpetrators.
09/15/09
09/15/09
09/15/09
I know that this is technically a positive step towards acknowledging abuse...but...I'm just disgusted with the Vatican's stance on this. Penn & Teller did a Bullshit on it that really...the corruption on top of the abuse just makes me ill.
09/15/09
09/15/09
And kudos to Scicluna, for admitting that these things have always happened, and it's not that they are increasing. It's that more people are able to come forward and that we are more capable of discussing it.
09/15/09
07/02/09
They are selling convents, but a lot of that has to do with the decline in vocations (aka people who want to be nuns). The numbers have plummeted and a lot of these convents were nearly empty, so they're consolidating. It isn't like nuns are being kicked out of their homes. The child molestation lawsuits are having a bigger impact on Catholic schools. The money has to come from somewhere and Catholic schools were often heavily subsidized.
The other thing is that most orders have a mission statement, women pick an order partly based on how they want to serve. There are teaching orders, there are orders that work with the poor, and there are less common cloistered orders.
There are lots of messed up things about the Catholic Church, but I'm not ready to call this a witch hunt yet.
07/02/09
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07/02/09
I do think it is a little fucked up, but I don't think they are going to ban nuns from teaching or stop them from working with the poor.
07/02/09
07/02/09
I do think that's fucked up, but there is a big leap between that and forcing every nun to be cloistered or leave.
07/02/09
Or from the Pope not living in a Palace?
Or from the Catholic Church melting down and getting rid of all that gold?
Or...mmmm, so many things.
Jesus Christ did not in a palace. Jesus led a life of poverty, administering to the lowest members of society.
One of the reasons I left the Catholic Church is because of the fabulous among of do as I say, not as do-ism there.
07/03/09
@NewsBunny - I'm sorry but that's not entirely a relevant point. Maybe the Prada loafers, but that's like a drop of water in an ocean.
Jesus Christ was attacked during his own time for not giving enough to the poor - don't forget the woman who anointed him with extremely expensive oil, which caused many to be upset that she wasted all her money on it. Jesus' response was that her actions were proper.
The money, gold, palaces, fabrics, paintings, etc. do not exist for the glory of those who use them. They exist to glorify God in their usage. As Catholics, we believe that we should glorify God above all things. And that includes helping the poor. I'm sorry if that rubs you the wrong way, but that's what the religion teaches.
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07/02/09
The reason the Vatican cares so much about the US is there are a millions of well off Catholic in the US who still donate a lot of money but used to donate a lot more.
07/02/09
I am BEYOND angry. Pope FAIL. Way to work on disproving how the catholic church oppresses women. Awesome. Going after your own women? Seriously?!
I know so many amazing, strong, progressively-minded, kickass nuns and I would wholeheartedly leave the church faster than you can say "Jesus H Christ" if the Pope beat the spunk and strength out of them.
This is all colors of wrong. And the church wonders why there are no new nuns. Seriously displeased.
07/02/09
*sigh*
07/02/09