NEW CATHOLIC SEX SCANDAL

DJ March 25, 2010

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Abuse within the Catholic Church is back on the rise. Recently, an usher for Pope Benedict was caught running a gay sex ring out of the Vatican in Rome. Late last week, the Pope wrote an unprecedented letter to Ireland apologizing for chronic child abuse within the Catholic Church there. Now comes word of a new scandal in South America.

Police are investigating an abuse scandal in Brazil, which was uncovered last week when a Brazilian network aired a video that showed a priest having sex with a teenage altar boy. The report, aired by the SBT television network, identified the priest as 82-year-old Luiz Marques Barbosa.

In the video, a man said to be Monsignor Marques Barbosa realizes he’s being videotaped and is heard on camera asking, “Who is it? Who’s at the window? Who is it? Who’s there?” According to SBT, the videotape was secretly made by an unidentified 21-year-old man who alleges that he was previously abused by the same priest. According to Brazilian media reports, Bishop Valerio Breda has ordered Marques Barbosa’s removal from the priesthood.

Since priests are required to be celibate and not marry, many Catholics are calling for the church to get rid of this ancient and outdated concept. The church has suffered in recent years to attract dedicated men into joining the priesthood and has discovered that the priesthood is rampant with homosexual pedophiles.

SHOULD THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CONTINUE TO REQUIRE PRIESTS TO BE CELIBATE?

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March 25, 2010 10:54 AM

HuffPost:Pope Sexual Abuse Scandal: Benedict Implicated In Cover-Up Of Wisconsin Abuse Case“As a cardinal, Pope Benedict XVI and other Vatican officials did not punish or even hold a trial within the Catholic church for a Wisconsin priest who may have molested as many as 200 deaf boys, according to The New York Times.The Times reports that despite warnings from "several" bishops to then-Cardinal Ratzinger about Father Lawrence Murphy, a priest at the St. John's School For The Deaf in St. Francis, WI, the Vatican chose not to act and ultimately allowed Murphy to go unpunished before his death in 1998.”Full story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/world/europe/25…

March 25, 2010 11:03 AM

DJ:"SHOULD THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CONTINUE TO REQUIRE PRIESTS TO BE CELIBATE?"I think it’s pretty clear that the expectation of “Celibacy” among many Catholic “priests” AIN’T working!But, for me, this whole “rampant pedophilia” issue within "THE" church speaks to even more disturbing considerations or questions: What kind of “church” promotes a culture of MASS deception, whereby pedophiles are made to feel right-at-home within THAT “church” to carry out all manner of perversions and abuses against defenseless children, with the assurance that the hierarchy of THAT “church” will protect them (and in some cases, even PROMOTE them) without fear of exposure OR prosectution_??? What kind of twisted sense of “obedience to God’s word” FORBIDS hetero OR homo_sexual marriage between consenting ADULTS while providng a SAFE-HAVEN for perverts and pedophiles to PREY on defenseless children?!I. do. NOT. get. it.

March 25, 2010 12:13 PM

I grew up Catholic but I left that behind years ago. The church has become a collecting ground for gay pedophiles since they get unchecked access to children. This is sad!

March 26, 2010 7:37 AM

London Evening Standard:Pope 'led cover-up of child abuse by priests'The Pope played a leading role in a systematic cover-up of child sex abuse by Roman Catholic priests, according to a shocking documentary to be screened by the BBC tonight. In 2001, while he was a cardinal, he issued a secret Vatican edict to Catholic bishops all over the world, instructing them to put the Church's interests ahead of child safety. The document recommended that rather than reporting sexual abuse to the relevant legal authorities, bishops should encourage the victim, witnesses and perpetrator not to talk about it. And, to keep victims quiet, it threatened that if they repeat the allegations they would be excommunicated.The Panorama special, Sex Crimes And The Vatican, investigates the details of this little-known document for the first time. The programme also accuses the Catholic Church of knowingly harbouring paedophile clergymen. It reveals that priests accused of… Read more »