Primetime Pope and the Maverick Mother

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There are approximately 50,000 Catholic priests in the United States. Of that number a very small fraction, in fact statisically less than the general population have sexually ``molested`` young people. It is the press that regards this as a pedophilia problem, when in fact it is a homosexual problem. Since homosexuality is an exalted , praiseworthy status in the United States the press has a blind eye to real exploration of the truth.

I for one don`t know which is worse, the greedy ``molested`` victims coming forward after several decades to claim large sums of money or the stupid church officials handing the large sums over.
The clerical offenders including those in the Episcopacy deserve their day in court and then be properly jailed.

Great to find myself agreeing with Farzana about Mother Teresa (and largely about Lata too in her previous article)! She certainly was an achiever - but a saint? And as for the so-called ``miracle``, there have been enough scientific proofs that it was no miracle.

While I do admire and respect the Pope for many reasons (the years of indoctrination in a Catholic school - the ``convent`` education so much prized in matrimonial advertisements! - are bound to surface!) I also agree that he doesn`t deserve the Nobel Prize for his efforts in Iraq. And I don`t think he`s as open-minded as Farzana seems to have been led to believe. I constantly interact with Roman Catholic priests and nuns and base my ideas on their comments.

ferz:

... ‘goodness’ and ‘badness’ are all momentary lapses?...

where?

...t

gorabandar:

would that explain why in America only catholic preists are pedophiles?


Liked your psuedonym. Hamidm is it you?

The Pope was the only world leader who daily, tirelessly, diplomatically, prayerfully begged the political rulers of the world to prevent the destruction of Iraq up to the second American bombs fell. In fact the Vatican called for an end to the brutal economic sanctions imposed by the American owned UN that killed thousands of Iraqi children after the Kuwait crisis.

Regarding Mother Teresa....to all those she administered to, feed, educated, nurtured, mentored and saved...she is a Saint. As to rice paddy?? Tum pagal !!!!

Maybe you should have taken a stronger stand here -re: Theresa the sainted ``white`` mother here. The article is a bit limp....


Farzana memsahib, a word or two here. There is no female version of Chris Hitchens. Thisis the first step to replacing him. You need to be a bit more strident, and obnox here. But you are getting there.

Marketing takes many forms.

The Roman Catholic Church has decided that the best way to appeal to people of the Third World is to give them their own saints.

Along the same lines, an Adivasi (member of some Tribal group) from India has now been named a Cardinal.

The one prince of the Church I like is Cardinal (Jaime) Sin of the Philippines... I like his name. You don`t get better than Cardinal Sin. Unless it is.... no, I won`t say it; it is too politically incorrect.