Krazeh
Part of the furniture
- Joined
- Dec 30, 2003
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By all accounts he is tryng to deal with child abuse problem. There are reports that he has shown absolute disgust at what he's heard some of the church's priests have been up to.
Oh well that's good, he's shown disgust. How about actually doing something about it? Or ya know not getting himself into situations where he can appear to be linked to cover ups? This is a situation which has been going on for many many years, it's not a new thing and yet in the 5 years as Pope i'm yet to see him do anything of any real substance to deal with the problem. He offers platitudes, nothing more.
Would HIV/AIDS be the problem it is in Africa if people practiced the Christian standard of monogamy and no sex before marriage? I should stress I'm not a Catholic and I have no problem with condoms but I do think that a lot of the flack the Catholic Church gets is because people have a problem with authority.
Noone's denying that abstinence and remaining faithful is the best way to deal with the HIV/AIDS problem but that doesn't change the fact that when that fails, which it does due to basic human nature, practicing safe sex is a very good way to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS. It's bad enough telling people not to use condoms, but the Catholic Church have gone as far as propogating nonsense about them being ineffective or actually increasing the spread of HIV/AIDS.
As for the reason the Catholic Church gets a lot of flack I disagree entirely. It's got nothing to do with having a problem with authority and everything to do with realising that the Catholic Church, for all the good things it does do, has many many things (both in the past and present) to apologise for and with their continuing track record cannot claim moral authority or superiority on anything.