A psychologist who treats priests was not surprised by continuing revelations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. But there was something that surprised him:
“It was a surprise for me to see how many psychopaths I met in the priesthood,” Dr. Leslie Lothstein said. “Glib, callous, could say anything to you and be charming.”
Read A psychologist steeped in treatment of sexually active priests, on nytimes.com.
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super chic
jeannie812… I think priests should be allowed to marry. Is there any truth to the story that the Catholic Church decided not to let them marry… because that way they would not leave their estate to their wives and family??… instead, they would leave it to the Church?? Is there anything in the Bible that says priests should not marry?
jeannie812
Ohhhhh, Shabbychic follow the dollar! I think your story is hitting on the truth! It sure sounds like a Catholic story. I’ll never forget the way the priests chased me down with their fist full of donation envelopes for me to deposit 15% of my income per week. Even though I was dressed in thrift store clothing.
Hopeforjoy: I agree with you. It would take years to get healthy minded priests. It is do-able. It won’t happen today, tomorrow, or the next day. It would take years. Yet it is do-able.
jeannie812
Buttons,
You gotta admit that the Baptist do not have the problems like the
Catholics. Or are they more slick?
If not. How can you compare isolated incidents in the Baptist church to the large scale violations of the Catholic church?
jeannie812
I’ll say one more thing before the hit man comes for me.
I did take my kids to the Catholic Church but we couldn’t attend undetected for the life of me.
I am not unfamiliar with the Catholic church. I was raised in it. I was the church organist (organist as a kid!)
Once I had kids I wanted them to experience church. I wanted to downplay and hide in the back of the church. My kids were hyperactive, I was low income, I didn’t want attention.
I couldn’t hide from the attention.
The priest invited me to a singles dance. He didn’t want to go with me. He was entertaining the group of guys elbowing each other next to us. I kept telling that priest that I am married. The priest ignored that and continued to encourage me to attend the singles dance. I gotta wonder if that priest knew something was terribly wrong in my marriage. Even though he knew nothing about me.
It freaked me out and I again quit the church.
Wasn’t the first time I quit.
BloggerT7165
Jeannie the SBC has just as many problems, maybe even more. In fact TIME magaine had a piece on them as one of the top 10 under reported stories for 2008 http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1855948_1861760_1862212,00.html
http://stopbaptistpredators.blogspot.com/
Ox Drover
Dear Jeannie,
Charles “Jackie” Walls III who is in Arkansas in prison was well known to me. This man is one of THE most prolific pedophiles in the US–1500 KNOWN children over 20 years in the Boy Scouts–and he was married, had children and appeared to live a “normal” life—pedophiles are not just guys who aren’t married, or priests/ministers, they are “every day joe the plumber” and your friendly family doctor, your teacher and so on.
It is just that for so long, this particular group have hidden inside the Catholic church because it gave them access to lots of children. PEDOPHILES ARE EVERYWHERE not just in Church, it is just at this moment the Catholics are getting the big hit in the media.
Thanks for those articles blogger, we can always count on you to know the score! (((hugs))))
super chic
Yes, and they just didn’t “hide” inside the church,
they were protected by the Bishops, etc, etc.
I think that is one of the most shocking aspects of the whole thing,
after they were “found out”… they were just moved
to another parish,
no parents were told, no one was warned.
I agree, pedophiles are everywhere.
BloggerT7165
Oxy,
You are right. They are everywhere that allows them access to children. One that not many people think about is babysitters. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf9Ak0BV2cg&feature=youtu.be
super chic
Blog, that is just unbelievable, well,
I guess I have to believe it.
My brain doesn’t want to.
What a sick sick sick sick woman.
Wini
jeannie812, no where is it written in the Bible that those that teach scriptures can NOT marry. That is a Catholic doctrine of man made rules and regulations, not from the word of God.