Comments on: DELIVER US FROM EVIL

By: Overseas Think Tank for Indonesia » OVERSEAS THINK TANK FOR INDONESIA

Overseas Think Tank for Indonesia » OVERSEAS THINK TANK FOR INDONESIA — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:24:31 +0000

[...] other good news is that one of the OTTI’s articles, Deliver Us from Evil was archived by http://www.bishop-accountability.org, a non-profit corporation based in Massachusetts, [...]

By: colson

colson — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 10:05:08 +0000

Sexual abuse takes place in situations of inequality. It ranges from trafficking and exploitation of girls and women who live in desperate economic conditions, by pimps disguised as businessmen, via rape of women by a gang of men, to children molested by their parents or wives raped by husbands in marriages of inequality.

Institutions like prisons, military compounds even combine two dangerous conditions: strict hierarchy ( inequality) and isolation. This is – to a certain, milder, degree- the case also in institutions like boarding schools, scouting, sports clubs etc. In these institutions adults have got responsibility to take care of children. Unfortunately the RC clergy often operates in conditions that are similar.

So the phenomena reported above are a shame, but not a surprise. The same kind of terrible incidents happen in the other institutions. And may even outnumber ( relatively) the cases of pedophilia in the RC Church. But nevertheless in this case these crimes are extremely disgusting because
a) priests claim to act as men of God and b) the Vatican, RC church hierarchy at large, which claims to stand for the truth by definition, did and does in fact its utmost to lie, deny and cover up.

By: lyl

lyl — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:37:58 +0000

Yeah.. that pedophile priest are bad if they are proven guilty. They are iresponsible with his commitment to enter the celibacy. I don’t know why they stay as a priest. I think married will not solve the problem too. They will make more mistakes with corruption, because wife need to go on cruise and kids want bimer. Or wife want week end times with the family instead of letting the priest to give church service.Catholic institution gives people choices; if you would like to become a priest then you have to take a celibacy vows. If not then get married. I think Catholic priest also have to take several vows to leave in proverty, celibacy and.. serve , not sure about other vow.

Oh… well, we just need to be carefull.

By: yeny

yeny — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 06:07:21 +0000

pedophile and sexually abusive mostly did by people in society very nice attitude like teacher, priest and loving father.

Celebacy is main cause of this?I don’t think this is not true enough, if i can analysis the pedophilia is man/woman that really want having sex badly, they won’t doing this with a mature person but with young person.Hmmm…maybe there is true that celebacy one of the reason why they love child. Married did by two of adult.So desire about sex they express to child or someone don’t have power to say no .

But I’m still confuse with father that have patner (wife) can do like this and in society he have good manner

Hehehehe…I’m confuse now

By: Beni Bevly

Beni Bevly — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:59:07 +0000

Micheal, Rusdy, Bleu and Guebukanmonyet, thank you for the comments. In the Deliver Us from Evil documentary, it obvious that the Pope did not accept the victims at the Basilica, Vatican and he requested immunity prosecution from President Bush. This is not a solution because he still kept the secrecy. Sometime, especially for many Catholic practitioners, it is hard to see those priests as ordinary human beings just like us. That's why, many of them think they will not make mistakes. Once it happens, even though the percentage is still below average, it's seemed already way too much and beyond their tolerable lines. If somebody is interested in older women, it tends to show the normal symptom. Because it is normal, so it is easy to control. But not with the pedophilia symptom.

By: guebukanmonyet

guebukanmonyet — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:14:33 +0000

I wonder why there are so many priests have committed such sin. I mean they could’ve chosen older women, right? But, I think never blame the religion for people’s stupidity.

By: bleu

bleu — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 14:30:09 +0000

I don’t really buy that mandatory celibacy is a main cause of this disgusting act. I do think it’s, again, blown out-of-proportion, just because these people ’should be’ religious. An online source refers to 2-20% of overall population is somewhat pedophilic. So 4% is below average.

To Jennie’s point, I think the number of agnostic, or agnostic-like, people out there is growing.

By: Rusdy

Rusdy — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 01:17:24 +0000

My prayer for the victims, I hope they will find true comfort from the true God, not men!

By: Michael McManus

Michael McManus — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 09:31:03 +0000

If the Church had followed Christs teaching from the bible and not church dogma there would have been many less victims, One thing that puzzles me Catholics claim to be against child abuse, But they back the cover up, When you point this out you are classed as a bigot or your evil, This documentary proves my point

By: Beni Bevly

Beni Bevly — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 04:45:47 +0000

Jennie, thank you for pointing out and elaborating more on dogma or doctrine point of view that causes absolute power. And we know “Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts absolutely." Adhi, nice to hear from you again. I agree with you that not all priests got involved in this embarrassing matter. As I mentioned above, there were 4% of all the priests in the United Stated who did it. But still, it is not acceptable.