re: #120 daddycrack

This debate isn’t going to solve anything. I hear “catholics” saying that they disagree with church doctrine and that they can’t identify themselves as one anymore. Catholicism isn’t a democracy, so if you feel comfortable in another denomination or none at all so be it.

But, it was the church’s attempts to please people and retain their population that had them lower their standards and allow these monsters into the priesthood.
There is no excuse for this, and especially not the coverups that have followed. But I would expect a better rounded debate from this group than bashing catholics and organized religion.

I’ve never seen any report that the church had foreknowledge of someone being a molester prior to their entry into a monastery. Where the church is at fault is keeping them in AFTER they have exposed themselves as such