This one goes straight to the pope
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If those kinds of reforms are proposed, I'm not buying it for one second. This image immediately comes to mind.
I agree with you completely. This is the case for all corporations and nonprofits. If there is scandal and you handle it appropriately you can come back stronger than if the scandal never happened in the first place.
If those kinds of reforms are proposed, I'm not buying it for one second. This image immediately comes to mind.
And truth be told, I cite those reforms (at least partially) in a tongue in cheek fashion. It is only relatively recently that the Vatican proudly announced a "zero tolerance" policy with respect to molestation. This made me immediately think- what was your f-ing policy before, you SOBs???!!!
So while I believe these reforms are necessary, I find it ludicrous that they even need to be implemented/that they don't already exist.
What other organization has such policies or lack thereof related to criminal activity like the church? What other organization has such a cultural benefit of the doubt for such behavior?
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This is all kind of ridiculous. How does infallibility fit in with apologies and resignations?
A Church Mary Can Love
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Op-Ed Columnist - A Church Mary Can Love - NYTimes.com
"... a pious soul who dies, goes to heaven, and gains an audience with the Virgin Mary. The visitor asks Mary why, for all her blessings, she always appears in paintings as a bit sad, a bit wistful: Is everything O.K.?
Mary reassures her visitor: Oh, everything?s great. No problems. It?s just ... it?s just that we had always wanted a daughter." ........
"In my travels around the world, I encounter two Catholic Churches. One is the rigid all-male Vatican hierarchy that seems out of touch when it bans condoms even among married couples where one partner is H.I.V.-positive. To me at least, this church ? obsessed with dogma and rules and distracted from social justice ? is a modern echo of the Pharisees whom Jesus criticized.
Yet there?s another Catholic Church as well, one I admire intensely. This is the grass-roots Catholic Church that does far more good in the world than it ever gets credit for. This is the church that supports extraordinary aid organizations like Catholic Relief Services and Caritas, saving lives every day, and that operates superb schools that provide needy children an escalator out of poverty.
This is the church of the Maryknoll Sisters in Central America and the Cabrini Sisters in Africa. There?s a stereotype of nuns as stodgy Victorian traditionalists. I learned otherwise while hanging on for my life in a passenger seat as an American nun with a lead foot drove her jeep over ruts and through a creek in Swaziland to visit AIDS orphans. After a number of encounters like that, I?ve come to believe that the very coolest people in the world today may be nuns.
So when you read about the scandals, remember that the Vatican is not the same as the Catholic Church. Ordinary lepers, prostitutes and slum-dwellers may never see a cardinal, but they daily encounter a truly noble Catholic Church in the form of priests, nuns and lay workers toiling to make a difference." - NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
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I would like to see grass root efforts for reformation in the church. Maybe a non fundamentalist Catholic Church ....... ?
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Op-Ed Columnist - A Church Mary Can Love - NYTimes.com
"... a pious soul who dies, goes to heaven, and gains an audience with the Virgin Mary. The visitor asks Mary why, for all her blessings, she always appears in paintings as a bit sad, a bit wistful: Is everything O.K.?
Mary reassures her visitor: Oh, everything?s great. No problems. It?s just ... it?s just that we had always wanted a daughter." ........
"In my travels around the world, I encounter two Catholic Churches. One is the rigid all-male Vatican hierarchy that seems out of touch when it bans condoms even among married couples where one partner is H.I.V.-positive. To me at least, this church ? obsessed with dogma and rules and distracted from social justice ? is a modern echo of the Pharisees whom Jesus criticized.
Yet there?s another Catholic Church as well, one I admire intensely. This is the grass-roots Catholic Church that does far more good in the world than it ever gets credit for. This is the church that supports extraordinary aid organizations like Catholic Relief Services and Caritas, saving lives every day, and that operates superb schools that provide needy children an escalator out of poverty.
This is the church of the Maryknoll Sisters in Central America and the Cabrini Sisters in Africa. There?s a stereotype of nuns as stodgy Victorian traditionalists. I learned otherwise while hanging on for my life in a passenger seat as an American nun with a lead foot drove her jeep over ruts and through a creek in Swaziland to visit AIDS orphans. After a number of encounters like that, I?ve come to believe that the very coolest people in the world today may be nuns.
So when you read about the scandals, remember that the Vatican is not the same as the Catholic Church. Ordinary lepers, prostitutes and slum-dwellers may never see a cardinal, but they daily encounter a truly noble Catholic Church in the form of priests, nuns and lay workers toiling to make a difference." - NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
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I would like to see grass root efforts for reformation in the church. Maybe a non fundamentalist Catholic Church ....... ?
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Or we could just all get together and help others and do all sorts of good without the church...
Much less overhead.
Much less overhead.