Guns-In-Church? Priest pedophiles? Tea-Party-Jesus? Excommunication? Inquisition of women religious?

Posted on Jul 08, 2010 - 11:52 AM

Have our country’s “places of worship” become hot-beds for exploitation, oppression, propaganda, and cruelty masquerading as sincere faithfulness to religious and spiritual values? 

A Louisiana state representative from Haughton, Louisiana, a town with a population of less than 3,100 people and 40 churches, introduces a bill that was signed into law by Gov. Bobby Jindal allowing guns in places of worship.  What’s really behind this bill?  The New Orleans Times-Picayune offers some information for thought in a recent article, “Gov. Bobby Jindal signs bill allowing guns in church.”

An article posted in The New York Times, July 1, 2010, reveals information about the long struggle of sexual abuse among Catholic priests.  An office led by Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, “had actually been given authority over sexual abuse cases nearly 80 years earlier, in 1922, documents show and canon lawyers confirm. But for the two decades he {Cardinal Ratzinger} was in charge of that office, the future pope never asserted that authority, failing to act even as the cases undermined the church’s credibility in the United States, Australia, Ireland and elsewhere.”  How many young lives could have been spared the trauma of sexual abuse by priests had action been taken?  New York Times writers Laurie Goodstein and David M. Halbfinger offer insight to the concern in their article, “Church Office Failed To Act On Abuse Scandal.”

So often is the case, a tactic of diversion is implemented to distract from what is really destructive in the Church, and spotlights an easier target that the Church has abused and oppressed for thousands of years – Women!  Sister Joan Chittister’s FROM WHERE I STAND, and a recent article by Thomas C. Fox from The National Catholic Reporter reveal the truth regarding the doctrinal investigation of women religious.

And if all this isn’t disturbing enough, click on the following link for a real experience of “Tea-Party-Jesus’ “ love thy neighbor.

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