re: Archbishop fires board of Second Harvest for not diverting money to pay for pedophiles.

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The Catholic Church pretends that they’re the original Christians when the Bible clearly says that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist into the Baptist faith

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el Gaucho

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Almost fell for that shiny hook

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The first Baptist congregation was started in England in 1612, so no.

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You got gauchoed

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The Catholic Church pretends that they’re the original Christians when the Bible clearly says that Jesus was baptized by John the Baptist into the Baptist faith

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This is the most foolish take I have ever seen.


The Baptist church was founded in Holland around 1609. John the Baptist didn’t have a church.

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it's been well past time to move on from the catholic church for many people. they shed light on their good deeds to mask the deeds that they want to stay hidden. it's how they have always operated. stop donating and stop going. faith isn't determined by going to church once a week or how much you donate to their corruption.

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All of this.

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Archbishop fires board of Second Harvest for not diverting money to pay for pedophiles.

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Never realized that the line in this movie would describe the majority of large churches from Joel Olsteen, Jimmy Swaggart, the Catholic Church, and others:

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“I believe in a God that doesn't need heavy financing.“

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Fletchers Lives, 1989


You add to that all the talk about Catholic Charities and other groups on the federal government take to care, house, give legal assistance, and feed the migrants.

I've always had a lot of respect for Bishop Aymond but this is a bad look. He's turned into nothing but a politician.

For others mentioning donations. I donate my my Parish weekly and I specify what I'm donating towards. Every parish has different objectives. Look into your parish before you decide to start withholding for whatever reason.

I love my Parish and the parishioners that go there. It's an amazing organization locally top to bottom

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All organized Religons are horrible organizations only out for profit and control!

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youre entitled to your opinion even when it's stupid

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When they say Archbishop / Archdiocese, remember they really mean the attorneys. So, with that in mind...

1) Most attorneys think laws and rules don't apply to them / their clients.

2) Most attorneys fully support bullying others to get their way.

3) Most attorneys are terrible at PR (hence, why they had to get the Saints PR machine to help)

4) Most attorneys are terrible with finances / understanding restricted net asset issues

That's not to say Aymond is blameless. Far from it. He started this mess and he continues to talk about of both sides of his mouth.

But, I also believe he is no longer calling the shots.

Also let's not forget the victims here who want $1M a piece, as if that's going to fix their lives.

At this point, withdraw from bankruptcy and let the lawsuits happen and let the chips fall where they may.

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Bet you didn’t resist very much when the priest put it in your mouth. You seem to slurp with pleasure

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Also let's not forget the victims here who want $1M a piece, as if that's going to fix their lives.

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Is that where the greed is, or could it be with the attorneys on boths sides that stand to make millions on the case?

You have attorneys that are billing the Diocese several hundred dollars an hour to litigate the bankrupcy case and offer advice to the diocese in the bankruptcy and victims cases.

And then you have the victim's attorneys that are working on a contingency who stand to profit millions of dollars from any settlement that is reached.

It is not like any attorneys are working pro bono.

The victims will likely see just a few thousand each while the attorneys will be raking in the millions.

I almost feel the the plan for the diocese to come out and say the case has been going on for so long that any money we have is tied up in attorney costs, and we can't pay anyone unless we sell everything and dissolve the organization.

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If you think today is any different than the past, then you don’t know history

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I am not sure who downvoted this, but this seems pretty accurate. We (as in the general public) only know what we hear about.

I watched it years ago and I can't remember the name of it, but it was a documentary about.. It was either one guy or several people, who had been at a school ran by the Catholic Church that was for deaf kids. The priest was molesting the kids (it was an all boys school) and I want to say it was never reported outside of the church. It was going on for years and when it was finally reported to the church, they did a quick investigation and just moved the priest.

It was pretty sick and I remember it actually making me angry because kids are valuable enough much less deaf kids and the one person who was supposed to protect them was using them as his sex toys. That's fricking sick and one of the worst things a human can do in my opinion.

I truly believe anyone who gets sexually aroused by kids need to be kept out out of society for the rest of their life. They will always be a threat to kids. Its sick and I don't know if its something that can be passed down to off springs, but they need to be kept out of society because they shouldn't have any opportunity to reproduce.

But in that documentary, I want to say it was a situation that law enforcement was never involved in. It was a guy who was a victim of the priest and he wanted to confront him. The priest was old AF at the time, but he finds out where he lived and went confront him (some of you might know what I am talking about, if so do you remember the name of the documentary?). I want to say he knocked on his door, the priest didn't recognize him, because he hadn't seen him since he was a child, but when the guy explained who he was and asked him why he did what he did, the priest closed the door on him.

When there were a lot more priest (in middle school I went to a small catholic school and the church was for a small community, today it is now part of several smaller communities, that all had its own priest, but today only has one priest and I know that pretty common now. There was a time when there were enough priest to send one to every small community throughout the country. Dudes who were not allowed to have sex, there is no telling all the things that went on.