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Catholic Church

Catholics are now trying to link the problem of child-molesting priests to same-sex attraction. Don’t let them.

August 19, 2018 by Randal

The Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report is an 800-page study of the systemic rape and molestation of children on an industrial scale by hundreds of Catholic priests over decades in the state of Pennsylvania. The horrors include beating and raping children, making child pornography, hitting children with whips, forcing children to commit sexual acts on priests, and […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Catholic Church, Catholicism, child molestation, homosexuality, pedophilia

Does the systemic sexual abuse among Catholic clergy undermine the Catholic Church itself?

August 16, 2018 by Randal

Yesterday, a Pennsylvania grand jury released a report chronicling the crimes of more than three hundred priests throughout Pennsylvania, predators who raped and traumatized more than one thousand children and young people dating back to the 1940s. The grand jury further chronicled how dozens of people in the church covered up the crimes, acting in essence like a […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: abuse, Catholic Church, ecclesiology, pastoral theology, problem of evil

Today I Think of Bob Jyono

June 30, 2017 by Randal

Yesterday I learned about the latest emerging pedophile scandal in the Catholic Church, one that centers on Cardinal George Pell, by some reports the third most powerful man in the Church. (I’m not up on Catholic polity so I won’t render an opinion either way on that.) This will be settled in the courts, but […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Bob Jyono, Catholic Church, Deliver us from Evil, pedophile, problem of evil

Hollywood on God’s side

April 3, 2013 by Randal

Hollywood studio Dreamworks has announced that they are making a film on the Boston Globe’s decade old investigation into the Catholic Church abuse scandals and cover-ups in Massachusetts. This is the pivotal investigation that was the flashpoint and inspiration for a seemingly endless series of investigations into instances of abuse and cover up in the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Boston Globe, Catholic Church, Dreamworks, Hollywood

Why does the Catholic Church continue to protect its abusers?

February 26, 2013 by Randal

The 2006 documentary “Deliver Us from Evil” tells the horrifying story of convicted pedophile (and, in my non-professional assessment, clinical psychopath)  Oliver O’Grady. Father O’Grady was a priest in the Roman Catholic Church who was shuttled around various dioceses in California for decades, groping and raping children along the way. His victims are in the […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: Catholic Church, Deliver us from Evil, Oliver O'Grady, psychopathy, rape, Roger Mahony

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