The Pope Did What to be Closer to God?

[poppy]

Evildoers will have to account for their actions one day. I feel so lucky that I survived Catholic upbringing without being molested:roll:

I think it is pathetic that you read the entire article Geo posted and pulled out a sentence that you could use as an inroad for the reliable 'Catholic priests are pedophiles' crap. If you hate Catholics, don't go to their church. If you know of a priest that is molesting a kid, call the cops.

What good do you think you are doing by perpetuating a very painful chapter in the life of abuse victims and the millions of Catholics who had nothing to do with child abuse and recognize it for the vile sin that it is?

How about I explain it to you like I'm a third grader? Your (lack of) comprehension is amazing.

The original sentence read as: In actual Catholic self-flagellation, "there is no blood, no injury, nothing to harm a person's health, nothing traumatic. If it caused any harm, the Church would not allow it," he wrote on Opus Dei's Web site when the movie came out in 2006.

You, for some reason known only to yourself, chose to key onto "there is no blood, no injury, nothing to harm a person's health, nothing traumatic. If it caused any harm, the Church would not allow it," completely disregarding the entire point of the sentence that pertained to self-flagellation. You made a leap that had no basis in logic. Help me understand how a "protected priest" relates to self-flagellation?

And BTW, I thought your comment was referring to corporal punishment inflicted by parents. Additionally, please keep your pathetic comments about my compassion for abused children to yourself. You have no idea what my history is with regards to this subject.

I posted a reply to these but then went back and deleted them. I was out of line. There is another place and time for this conversation.

 

[Jesus]

If by poverty your definition means being in charge of a city/state, ultimate ruler of millions of followers, living in a palace surrounded by guards, wearing designer robes worth thousands, jewelry, private jets, and a vehicle named after you. Then yes he took a vow of poverty.

This always bothered me too.