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cjan -> RE: The Pope: America is too sexualized (4/17/2008 6:53:51 AM)
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Having been raised Catholic and educated (grade school through Jesuit University) and having personal experience with severely sexually repressed nuns and "brothers" and priests, I think I have gained some insight into the church and it's clergy. Mostly, I feel sorry for the disturbed clergy (men and women) whose repressed sexuality has caused them and others so much anguish and pain.
The Catholic church as an institution, and the papacy, has a loooong history that they would rather not discuss. From the daysof the Crusades(which occurred in Europe too, baptizing "pagans" by the sword while looting their treasure),through the Inquisition, which may have single handedly brought on the "Dark Ages" in Europe, through the selling of forgiveness of sins and papal and church hierarchy sexual shenanigans ( including the practice of sending young, though unmarried upper class women to "nunneries" which were infamous for sexual promiscuities and partying), through papal clandestine support for the Nazis, including being instrumental in helping Nazi war criminals escape post WW2 Europe, to todays church which while opposing birth control, extorts $$ from the poor, ignorant, laity in 3rd world countries world wide.This is a church which is the single largest landowner,art and precious stone horder and richest entity in the world, by far.
I wonder ( and I wonder if the pope , in the dead of night ever wonders,) what Jesus, who, supposedly, was born in a manger, preferred the company of whores and sinners,and rode a donkey into Jerusalem for his "coronation" would think of all this.
It seems the Catholic church's attitude toward scandal and criticism since it's beginning , about 1600 years ago (yea, neither Christ nor Peter started the Catholic church, it was started by a council of bishops around 400 A.D. in Nicea ), is to ignore it and, as history and time have shown, it will "blow over". So far, it's worked for them.
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