Pope Benedict XVI is being praised for his speech in Lisbon, Portugal, on the clerical sex abuse scandals within the Catholic Church. “The church needs to profoundly relearn penitence, accept purification, learn forgiveness but also justice,” Benedict said.
The scandals are “born from the sins within the church,” and not from the media and critics from other faiths and Christian
Bishop Michael Sheridan
Michael Sheridan, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Colorado Springs, took a similar compunctious approach in his latest editorial in the Colorado Catholic Herald.
Here are some excerpts:
“I think it does little good to cast blame solely at the media or plaintiffs’ lawyers.”
“I don’t think it’s helpful to point fingers at public schools or other groups and suggest that they are worse than the church has ever been. We must first remove the plank from our own eye before attempting to pluck a splinter from someone else’s. Accordingly, I want to reassure our Catholic faithful that the church in the United States has taken extraordinary and unprecedented steps over the past decade to ensure the safety of our children.”
“We cannot undo the sins of the past, but we can and will take every precaution to ensure that young people are protected now and in the future. Our children are our most precious treasure.”
You can read the entire editorial here.
I wrote a Pulpit column for the Gazette published April 7 that defended the Catholic Church in the wake of the media onslaught regarding the latest alleged clerical abuse scandals. You can read that column here.
No – they should be arrested and put in jail like the criminals they are. “penitence” is a load of meaningless jargon.
Religions are toxic. Snake oil salesmen making money off the gullible without even giving them snake oil. The ultimate shake down.
Until there is proof of any god they should have their tax exempt status taken away. They are holding our society back with their made up rules.
Chris, REALLY? What is so mentally wrong with you that you would shoot your mouth off like that? Were you “unpleasantly touched” as a kid by a priest or something? The only real problems in our society come from atheists like you.
Haters like chris usually hide like cowards behind their keyboards to talk like that.
What do you mean, Bob? It was Roger who made the personal attack against Chris. And you, too. Who are the “haters” now?
CCMan, I see you have no problem with Chris spewing hatred against religious beliefs of people who hold them very dear? Are you totally blinded by your hate?
Chris wrote: “Religions are toxic. Snake oil salesmen making money off the gullible without even giving them snake oil. ”
Funny how people support the hatred spread by atheistic people against Christians, yet these same people expect Christians to just stay silenced? No, that will never happen. When attacked, Christians have every right to fight back. And we WILL.
I can’t believe people would act the way they have on this story! Strange how people suddenly feel that it is ok to hate on Christians and at the same time demand respect for their views! The only real hate i see here is from the two above that felt some perverted need to cause trouble against Christians.
Chris says “Until there is proof of any god ….”
Well, Chris, the fact that matter can think certainly did happen by the doings of your time plus chance god.
As Romans 1 says, people worship the creation instead of the Creator. I would think a 3-year-old could come to the conclusion that things didn’t happen by themselves. It will do no good to present arguments, because I have found those worshipping their god of evolutionism, are so close minded it is a waste of time to argue.
The watch didn’t just happen, and neither did man.
ROMANS 1:19-23–19 They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. 20 For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.
21 Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused. 22 Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter fools. 23 And instead of worshiping the glorious, ever-living God, they worshiped idols made to look like mere people and birds and animals and reptiles.”
Yup, a house didn’t make itself, but had a maker, but man just happened. Worship your god of chance, I’ll worship the Sovereign God of the Universe, that PERSONAL God, who is there and is not silent.
THAT MATTER CAN THINK DID NOT JUST HAPPEN! SORRY FOR THE TYPO