4392 Priests accused- 572 Mil. for setelments, Is caholic church rich in money bankrupt in morals?
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absolutely. its against every bible priciple about protecting the young and defenseless to just turn their heads and ignore the blatent immoral and abusive behavior of the priests.  i dont see how anyone can honestly believe that God supports an organization who allows/condones such horrible acts.
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Dear Priest,\nI am writing on behalf of the youth. We are requesting that you release the funds necessary for us to purchase musical instruments. It says we are to praise him on the instruments, so please help us to do so.\n\nDear people,\nThis is to inform you that we wish to have you join us in being Patrons and Metrons for our youth. Please help us, thank you.
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This is the seat of power for manipulation and corruption on a grand scale. They believe themselves to be law unto themselves, without having to pay for the consequences of their actions.\n\nBut in one sence, we the people throughout history have to take some of the responsibility for this, due to the fact that many in the world were happy to relinquish control of their own actions and responsibilities over to the vatican.\n\nThe big problem that I see, is that Catholics in particular have forgotten that the church is there to serve them not the other way around. Most people forget this, but churches in many cases seem to thrive on it.
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Generally, church taxes have always been referred to as "tithes", equal to 10% of a person's wages.  \n\nThere also were items that could be purchased called "indulgences" whereby a person could basically buy the right to sin, to cancel out that sin.  They were really able to indulge in that wrongful behavior.  This was particularly tied to the Medieval Catholics, and thought by most to be a creative method of raising funds.
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I am not Catholic (used to be as a kid-but now I know better)\nI learned a lot from the answers posted.\n\nI was just curious of the answers because I've always resented that catholic is catholic and EVERYTHING ELSE is protestant.\n\nI think thats highly self righteous of catholicism and overplays the validity (altho false) of catholicism. History and numbers of followers do not validate a false religion. \nFurther, from the pope on down, I believe they know the truth which they withhold from their followers. If they loved their followers they would tell them the truth.\nThey love the money. As I recall, it was a 365 days a year's worth of envelops given to followers, with bogus celebratory days noted on each envelop.\nYou realize my concerns for catholic people is that they are being led to the slaughter.\nThe pope is the only Catholic who can answer that charge. No followers of Catholicism can answer with absolute knowledge.\nCatholic or Protestant? Thats pretty lofty.
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The Catholic church have come a long way.  During the Middle ages there have been many corrupt popes, however there have been always good folks within the faith.  The Church have acknowledged their mistakes and today they take the lead in trying to resolve world problems.  Many historians marvel that the Catholic Church have survived; I guess that God has used the catholics to spread his Good News.
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Greed and corruption.
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As a Cradle Catholic and current CCD teacher, I can assure you the Catholic Church is a true Christian church.  I believe they are attacked so much because they are the strongest, and largest Christian denomination.  Those in power are always reviled.  It's sad, too, because there is so much beautiful, rich tradition in the church that others will turn from simply from a lack of understanding.\n\nSomeone once said the Catholics are the "Marines" of religion.  I think people expect a higher standard from them.   I think because of the history, the scandals seem even more atrocious.  I'm not about to condone the way the church handled the most recent sex abuse scandals.  Our own priest blasted the church for not calling these priests down as the criminals they are;  but I do know from my theological studies that no matter the scandals in the heirarchy of the church, it has always been THE FAITH OF THE PEOPLE that is the true strength of the church, and where Jesus lives best.\n\nAs to theological divides, I believe that most of those stem from misunderstanding.  An example is that many people believe Catholics worship Mary.  We don't.  We worship God.  But Mary, as the mother of Jesus and first Christian, is important.  Jesus honored her;  so must we.  \n\nThis was a good question.  You phrased it with an open mind.  Good for you!
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Nope, the love of money, which is greed. It can be a sin of the religious and the non-religious alike.
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This error you are making is called donatism - the idea that priests have to be perfect.\n\nAnd St. Augustine answered this challenge of yours 1600 years ago.\n\nhttp://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1408.htm
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As a catholic i am ashamed of those priests and greatly troubled about how they have tarnished the worlds views of catholics.  Not to point fingers though just as many abuses happen all over the world in many different faiths.  The simple fact is that those priests should be (and many are) excomunicated or kicked out of the priest hood.  Another thing that in needed to be pointed out is how hard it is to actually get into the priest hood now as compared to when these pedophiles where geting in is increadably harder now.  They go through an intence screening prosesses and pschologicle testing.  Please do not compare all priests and the many catholics in the world (11% of the worlds population is catholic) to these men.
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But of course.\n\nWho leads a Xtian church?  Why the priests of course.\n\nWho sets the moral standards that are to be followed by Xtians?  The priests frothing at their mouths reading excerpts from the Bible.\n\nSo, how can a priest, who is supposed to in communion with God and his perfectness, lead a flock of parishioners without having known his sins and the evil they supposedly entail?\n\nPriests are the root of how we view the dichotomy of bad & good, and have had cultural impact as such since the times of Biblical record.  They have helped, over time, to develop our value system of good / evil in every religion.\n\nTherefore, they must have been in concert with immoral values at one time to know that they were evil.  It is the priests and the noble class that have lead us to our cultural viewpoint we have today, which is that of a slave of religious ethics.\n\nSo....that makes the Xtain church leaders exceedingly hypocritical for they are the ones responsible for defining sin.   They have told us how to live ethically in accordance with the Bible.  Therefore they are the ones who have set the value of sin in the first place.  We are slaves to their good values, and are appalled by their evil valuations.  THERE WOULD BE NO EVIL IF IT WAS NOT FOR THE PRIESTS SAYING IT IS EVIL.\n\nThat is how the Xtian leaders are hypocritical.
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How else do you think they can afford to pay for all of their court cost's and moving Priests to different locations. Secrecy doesn't come cheap.
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Two wrongs don't make a right.  The church is the worst thief though because they tell every one it is going to god.\nTammi Dee
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Rice christian is a very old term. throughout history Christians have converted for money all over the world.\n\nIt looks like you touched the person some sensitive nerve of answerer above me.\n\nThe fact is people get money to convert and so does the person who brings that person for conversion.\n\nThe rate in my city is Rs50,000 for the convert and Rs25,000 for the middle man or the "missionary" per convert.\n\nIt is a Money making business.\n\nAs for the rhetoric's of person above At least that Shankaracharya is no more an official Shankarcharya. \n\nHe is forgetting there are numerous cases of molestation of young children by church officials including missionaries and priest of churches in Infdia. And the church official pressures the parents not to report it.  Every time a case is finally reported it is stated by parents that they were threatenned and asked to let it go.\n\nThe nun claims rape turns out she was already pregnant by the priest and created the drama .\n\nIt would be better to clean up your own system instead of mud slinging at the religion for the acts of individuals.\n\nDo not forget the Terrorist activities and active support to such activities given by Church of almost all dominions in India and some other counties.\n\nChurch uses all kinds of tactics to get converts.--Saam , Daam, Dand , bhed. (by preaching, by money, by force and by fraud).
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hahaha!\n\ni used to belong to a catholic church, and i didnt go for a couple of weeks, so they sent me a letter saying that i would be forgiven for not attending if i paid something like $100. then, i didnt go again, and they sent me a letter saying they wanted to increase my donation to $220. \n\nwhat, am i paying a protection fee?
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How much can you sue for?\n\nI see. This isn't about closure. This isn't about holding someone responsible for an allegedly inappropriate act.\n\nYou are out to extort the Catholic Church because, in your opinion, it is "way too wealthy". The reason the Catholic Church has the money it has is because of charitable Catholic parishioners!\n\nI have a suggestion: stop pretending to have a moral backbone and just admit you're looking for easy money.\n\nIn your question, you stated the touch was "unpleasant", but then you go on to claim you were "aroused"? It can't be both.\n\nYou are looking for easy money and using the Catholic Church as an excuse to get it. You had the wherewithall to know the Catholic Church has a lot of money, and you fail to addresss the moral side to the issue. This is proven by the fact you asked, "How much can I sue for?" as opposed to "Should I sue?"\n\nGranted, 6% of the clergy has made the Catholic Church an easy target. But that does not mean you have the right to extort money from the Catholic Church.