Irish church obsessively hid child abuse: report

A couple of interesting links:

http://www.breakingnews.ie/archives/2001/0321/world/qlmhkfgb/

http://www.strike-the-root.com/columns/stevens/stevens1.html

'maybe suppression of natural inherent urges like the need to procreate causes deviant behavior?'

Yes

'A new monk arrives at the monastery. He is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that they are copying copies, and not the original books.

So, the new monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out that if there was an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies. The head monk says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son."

So, he goes down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original. Hours later, nobody has seen him. So, one of the monks goes downstairs to look for him. He hears sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and finds the old monk leaning over one of the original books crying. He asks what's wrong.

"The word is celebrate not celibate," says the old monk with tears in his eyes.'

This is same Church that preaches the evils of being gay.

Meh...and ACORN gives advice to promote prostitution and human trafficking of 13 year olds.

Ah, yes, Organized religion.

maybe suppresion of natural inherent urges like the need to procreate cause deviant behavior?
if the world was filled with only me and a billion 6 yr olds i would eventualy begin to talk politics with them. not because i value thier minimal perspective but it is what is available.

Throughout the history church has been powerful, controlling and often corrupt entity. The dark secrets are very sad facts but not surprising. Being religious does not prove high level of spirituality.

It just dawned on me why the Vatican so emphatically demands government make abortion illegal. They really love children don't they?

When will we protect our children rather than save face?? Why do we allow for these things to go virtually unpunished?? These things are swept under the rug to allow us to feel better about ourselves and our religions....

Another reason for people to stay away from churches and do their praying at their homes. There are to many pedophiles in Religion overall to think it's safe and have your children around them.

There's no need for churches and the help they receive from people, when they themselves don't take care of their people.

Great posting Vierotchka and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here!!

Did it just say "the Warren Report"???

Yeah, let's not call it that...

A hidden world protected by the church ... honey to a bee.

I was brought up in a Christian Brother's College. While at that school there were 3 pedophiles. One was transferred to our school for abusing young boys in another state. Luckily no one was abused as far as I know, two boys where approached and called the alarm.

There was an interesting documentary on the subject years ago. One priest opened up on camera, saying that their thinking was that if you abuse the boys they'll be psychologically twisted enough to join the church and continue the cycle.

It's all really sick stuff. Anyone working with children should be thoroughly checked out and tested and monitored.

SHOCKER!

Is it that Catholic priesthood attracts pedophiles, or is it the conditioning that trainee priests go through that creates pedophilia in them?