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Catholics Not Happy With Pope's Handling of Sex Abuse Scandal


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While two thirds of Catholics believe that Pope Benedict XVI should remain the head of the Roman Catholic Church despite a widespread sexual abuse scandal, a majority of those polled disapprove of how the claims have been handled.

Additionally, 72% disapprove of the American Catholic bishops' response to the abuse allegations, and 56% disapprove of the pope's reaction to the situation. Only 15% think the pope acted appropriately.

The Zogby poll was conducted April 30  to May 3 among 705 Catholics across the United States.

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  • Name: Jose
    Date posted: 5/7/2010 11:08:54 PM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    before you hit the I-ran-out-of-Valium-drama-button: "Please don't expect to rest of us to excuse acts of moral terpitude just because you were cruising South Beach.. THESE BOYS WEERN'T CRUISING!" You are deflecting the blame back on the underage kid ...

  • Name: Jose
    Date posted: 5/7/2010 11:01:38 PM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    If you or anybody reading this gets something out of this conversation, I hope that AT LEAST you understand: if an 8 year old were walking around the street accepting the advances of a 35 year old, the act of the child giving himself over sexually doesn't make it ethically or morally correct to take the bait. A 15 year old is also in the same category as a child, if he gives himself over sexually that still makes the older man a child predator.

  • Name: Jose
    Date posted: 5/7/2010 10:34:55 PM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    d that was 15 years ago, I have no issue mentioning my past, it's nothing I feel that needs to be hidden under the rug (and of course it's past me on my own confessions :-P ). Would I have done it again? no. I haven't made any accusations because I decided its something that happened in the past and you just move on in life. These aren't pedophiles... If you had any reading comprehension or in this case i suppose it would be recollection it would be ephebophilia but a child predator none the less. Folks tend to use the pedophile term to defame a bit deeper. But I wouldn't expect you to understand any of this because you misquote post after post. I'll also keep mentioning it over and over again because apparently you seem to not understand the morality of abusing underage kids, since according to you it's only wrong if you are ordained. Please quote me once when I defended an abusing priest ... and in context please since you don't seem very sharp.

  • Name: d
    Date posted: 5/7/2010 8:08:13 PM
    Hometown: raleigh

    Comment:

    Jose you are simply just an idiot. Here you are defending Priests who molest boys. Then you say Gay men are infamous for pedophilia even though Science says you are wrong. Then you spend a lot of time telling us all how much sex you had when you were 15 and fucking on South Beach like a whore in slut training. It never occurs to you that rest of us simply see you are a horny 15 year old who slept with lots of men and now want to punish them for it. How many times are you going to tell us how many men you fucked? Even prostitutes don't keep count!

  • Name: Jose
    Date posted: 5/7/2010 8:09:01 AM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    "Gay child molesters are statistically rare and they don't have the Church to hide them in the Vatican and bury the truth. " right ... I could have exposed about 10 of them in my youth. Just because you can talk a kid into sex and the kid naively agrees to it doesn't make it fair game and you are somehow not doing anything wrong. That still makes you a child predator. Most gay people I talk to that were out of the closet as teens will say they've been with much older guys during that time frame ... face it, it's more common than you think.

  • Name: Jose
    Date posted: 5/7/2010 7:39:17 AM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    This all sort of reminds me of how democrats always tell republicans that they don't understand the intricacies of the Middle East. Republicans always dismiss the region as a lot full of terrorists, while only the smallest fraction of the region is actually involved in terrorism. Most Muslims decide to deal with those types of situations on their own, within their own communities as you've seen in Iraq for the most part. It's a problem that will only be fixed from within and not through outside influences. It's a bit the same here on the advocate website, every time a Catholic story is posted, there come all the jaded queens posting their "opinions". "The entire Church is now pedophiles because I'm hurt they told me that I'm a sinner". Guess what, be an analytical thinker and separate in your head what is Church philosophy and what is biased opinion. It's no secret certain clergy have an axe to grind with the gay community. The Church is bigger than it's sole parts.

  • Name: d
    Date posted: 5/7/2010 7:37:21 AM
    Hometown: raleigh

    Comment:

    You know Jose, you seem to defend the Church when it is convenient for you and yet you place no value on the vocation and calling of priests. Gay child molesters are statistically rare and they don't have the Church to hide them in the Vatican and bury the truth. Gay molesters don't have thousands of people on their legal teams, access to foreign transfers for protection and the power and fear or excommunication on their side to disuade prosecution.Call me anything you want. If you think that defending children makes someone a molester then why am I even wasting my time ON A FUCKING IDIOT LIKE YOU? It is clear to every single person who has posted here that you are a demented case. Bye bye CHILD RAPE DEFENDER!

  • Name: Jose
    Date posted: 5/7/2010 7:22:57 AM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    I have yet to defend a single child predator, my posts have been to Church reaction to the scandal. Yet you seem to find no issue the actions of all the gay predators in every stretch of the gay community. Because one has an official counselors role and the other is trying to find naive kids on the street, you somehow see the greater sin in the one that has the kids delivered to him. They are both as disgusting. I think you are likely to be closer to abusing the kids than anybody else that has typed anything on here.

  • Name: d
    Date posted: 5/7/2010 7:16:50 AM
    Hometown: raleigh

    Comment:

    Why Jose, now you're psychic as well as being twisted and sadistic. Are ya' gonna Speak to the Dead for Us? Thank you for being all knowing. It is such a convenience to simply say "Oh you're just Mad"! Rather than admit you are wrong. How easy it must be to say, using your Wonder Powers of ESP, "Your arguments don't matter because Your motivation is misdirected". If you weren't so heinously disgusting, you would truly be funny! I think what is appallingly clear here is that you yourself seem to condone child rape. Tell me Jose, have you been having sex with children? It's a very good thing we aren't neighbors.

  • Name: Jose
    Date posted: 5/7/2010 7:03:52 AM
    Hometown: Atlanta

    Comment:

    d, I know you couldn't possibly give a rats ass about the victims of the sex abuse scandal. As most on here, you just have an axe to grind with the Catholic Church, it has nothing to do with the victims.

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