By A Texas Reader
The elderly resident mentioned in the article talks about the apartment complex being less safe now than when she moved in.
Why is that?
Could it be because suburban Lewisville is a haven for illegal aliens?
At The Dallas Morning News.
CHILD ABUSE,CATHOLIC PRIEST STYLE
ReplyDeleteGRA:This is such a horrific story just on the surface.But think about it.Pennsylvania is only one state,yet approximately 300 PRIESTS are accused of rape and molestation of thousands of kids in the "Keystone State",alone.In the story I'm pasting from Marketwatch,they detail millions of dollars in payouts in Minnesota.In otherwords--it's everywhere.All you can surmise from years of similarly disgusting stories,is that gay sex offenders become priests--which leads to another question:Can we be confident that the kids,who are allowed to be adopted by homosexuals and lesbos from adoption agencies,are safe from abuse?You know the answer to that one.Here's the Marketwatch story:
Pittsburgh mom Derya Little is such a devoted Catholic that she wishes she could go to church every day.
But with four small children, she has to limit her Mass attendance to Sundays. Another key part of her faith is the $10,000 a year she and her husband give to Catholic causes. They adhere to a traditional definition of tithing and donate exactly 10% of their gross income to charity per year.
But this week she won’t be leaving a check in the collection plate at her church. In fact, none of the money she and her husband typically donate to Catholic groups will go to her local parish or diocese this year.
Little was so appalled by the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing how 300 priests sexually abused more than 1,000 children and then bishops systematically covered it up that she can’t stomach giving anymore money to church leaders. Instead, she says, she’ll donate only to Catholic causes she trusts, like Ave Maria Radio and missionaries who work in her native Turkey.
Little is writing a letter to her local bishop explaining her decision, and she’s hoping other Catholics will join her in halting donations while also praying for a “cleansing” of the church.
‘I have only one tool in my box. Money’
The abuse described in the grand jury report — which the Vatican said Thursday was “morally reprehensible” — has Catholics reeling and wondering about the limits of their loyalty to the church.
Money is one tangible way to express that anger and uncertainty.
“As a lay Catholic, I sometimes feel helpless to stop this and I have only one tool in my box. Money. I am strongly considering not offering my money at Mass in protest until this is cleaned up. I will spend more time volunteering,” said one “heartbroken” church follower on Twitter.
Others have been more direct: one enraged churchgoer posted a video of church collection envelopes burning on a barbecue grill. Some have suggested that parishioners should stop donating to their churches and, instead, collect money in special accounts that they would control themselves.
The church’s sex abuse scandals have left many of its 1.29 billion worldwide followers feeling betrayed, and they’ve also taken a financial toll. This May, for instance, the archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis agreed to pay $210 million to 450 sex abuse victims. That archdiocese is one of 19 dioceses or religious orders that have filed for bankruptcy protection as the church has paid out more than $3 billion in settlements and monetary awards for victims, according to the watchdog website Bishop Accountability.
GRA:When I was about 8 or 9,I was walking down my empty school hallway to go to the bathroom.A priest at my church,which ran the school,was coming down the same hallway.He picked me up,took me to an empty classroom and hugged me for a short time.I remember him saying,"You're such a nice young boy."
Then he let me go.I ran back to the bathroom and then to class.Later,at home,I told my mom.She didn't seemed too alarmed.Now,I consider that incident,a "very close call",one I was lucky to escape without damage.
We should not let people,who live abnormal lifestyles adopt little kids--and that would include --priests.
--GR Anonymous