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02/14/2004: "Immoral Christians and their Immoral Christian Leaders!"
Michael Jackson's Never Never Land and The Catholic Church
Please click of the link "more" below for the connection.
Michael Jackson has been accused (not convicted) of molesting a young boy at his Never Never Land Ranch in California; yet, my Catholic sister was outraged by the fact that the mother of the child allowed him to sleep-over at the ranch. I asked her, why then did she send her son to a Catholic boarding school and allow him to be an Altar boy? She found my question insulting.
I took both of these articles off the Religious News Service website on the same day!
Church Blames Sexual Freedom, Media for Rise in Domestic Violence
MADRID, Spain (RNS) After a record number of Spanish women were killed by male partners, Spain's Roman Catholic bishops have fingered the sexual revolution as the cause.
-- Jerome Socolovsky
Newspaper: 10 Accused Priests Remain in Los Angeles Pulpits
(RNS) At least 10 priests in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles remain in their pulpits despite being accused in sexual abuse lawsuits last year, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Realist Comment: Think about it, how is the media responsible for Christian immorality? Aren’t all of these husbands and priests Christian? Does Christianity play any role in the immorailty of its adherents and leaders? Will Christianity give the media credit if a Christian does something noble?
Citing Survey, CNN Says 4,450 Priests Were Accused of Abuse
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
The survey was commissioned by a national review board of prominent Catholic laypeople appointed by the bishops at the height of the sexual abuse scandal in 2002. The New York Times Tuesday February 17, 2004
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Realist Comment: Friends - there is something terribly wrong here! Please do not turn your eyes away - we must confront this crisis together!
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