Sums it up.
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Yeah, but imagine how disgusted youād have to be as an avowed member of a Catholic monastic order to say that.
Thatās the kind of proclamation that started the Reformation.
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And courageous? I would hope there are other equally disgusted members of the Catholic clergy, who either havenāt spoken out and/or havenāt had such a visible platform.
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Itās so great that all the people who have been raping young people and the people that covered that up for years have courageously gotten together to fix the churchās problem of rape. I wonder what kinds of solutions the molesters and enablers will come up with after they listen to the victims?
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One thing I have slowly learned over the last ten years or so is that the Roman Catholic Church has been an ongoing train wreck of oppression and hypocrisy from the get-go.
First, remember there is no Catholic Church, but Catholic churches: Orthodoxes, Coptics, and on. On top of that, the Roman church has had splinter groups all through its history. Some have been integrated into the main church. Some have been declared heretical and crushed. The Protestants are partly notable because they broke from the church and survived.
As for hypocrisyā¦ recall that in Shakespeareās time a ānunneryā was slang for a brothel. Thereās historical reasons for that.
There are a lot of very devout, religious people in the monastic orders, and priests too, who are sick of the crap coming from the Vatican.
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Oh, Iām more than aware. Heck, the Pauline Letters show that trying to get heretical elements under control goes back to the very origin of the Church. Although the real abuses probably didnāt start until Constantine made the Church an entity involved in political and secular affairs.
That said, my point is just that thereās a huge difference between a Catholic nun saying, āI am sick of the shit the Catholic Church is pulling,ā and āthe Catholic Church is no longer blessed by the Grace of God.ā
And, again, that may not be the sense of ādisgraceā that she was using, but the word āgraceā has a very particular meaning in the Catholic Church, so the fact that she used it a second time, is, in my mind, a huge indicator that she used the word deliberately.
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No doubt.
This is one of those things it feels like everyone has known about for a very long time, but there just havenāt been any real consequences.
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Iām just saying itās good at least one person in the clergy is speaking out.
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Iām singing this song for my sister Sinead
Concerning the god awful mess that she made
When she told them her truth just as hard as she could
Her message profoundly was misunderstood
Thereās humans entrusted with guarding our gold
And humans in charge of the saving of souls
And humans responded all over the world
Condemning that bald headed brave little girl
And maybe sheās crazy and maybe she aināt
But so was Picasso and so were the saints
And sheās never been partial to shackles or chains
Sheās too old for breaking and too young to tame
Itās askinā for trouble to stick out your neck
In terms of a target a big silhouette
But some candles flicker and some candles fade
And some burn as true as my sister Sinead
And maybe sheās crazy and maybe she aināt
But so was Picasso and so were the saints
And sheās never been partial to shackles or chains
Sheās too old for breaking and too young to tame
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tw for everything
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Isnāt that true about most articles, these days? /smdh
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Where do people think comic book villains come from?
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But what if the cruelty is the point ? What if the problem isnāt sex, but power? What if the problem is there are far too many people who enjoy cruelty for its own sake, and are using their wealth, power and privilege to evade consequences?
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Posted in the wrong threadā¦
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Iām about to hit submit on a formal complaint about the guy who harassed me, and a faculty member he rallied to publicly retaliate against me.
Thoughts and prayers, yāall.
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I really, really hope this all works out for you.
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I hope it works out!
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