So...the Times gets indignant and "upset" when gay priests abuse minors...but they're not allowed to screen new priests so it doesn't happen again.

Ummm, am I missing something here?

WSJ says that the Tribune Co. - owners of LA Times and Chicago Tribune, among other papers, is preparing for a bankruptcy filing, possibly this week.

How could this happen? Don't we - the great unwashed - realize how important the media IS? Are we so foolish that we don't understand that they are the (self-proclaimed) 4th branch of the government... the "watchdogs" for all of us. Why, without them, we would never have known how stupid Sarah Palin is, and how Messiah-like Obama is. And this is how we thank them? By not buying their birdcage liners?

I am just sorry I cancelled my subscription 2 years ago. It would have been so much more satisfying to do it first thing tomorrow morning - to drive another nail in their coffin. Ahhh well. 

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ~ Martin Luther King Jr.

I hope people take note, so there can be more unity with the base.

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In an evil land, religion is bad.

The LA Times will run a hit piece on Muslim clerics who overlook child abuse within their flocks....any day now.... 

I'm a typical white person.

"Pope's new edict on the priesthood"

While not typical of the "general population", a majority of the abusers in the Catholic Church were/are homosexual and committed acts of ephebophilia (abuse of adolescents/teens) rather than pedophilia.  Quite frankly, they were doing no different than what NAMBLA encourages (although that in no way justifies it).

Theologically liberal types (the kind the LA Times would approve of) tried - after Vatican II - to remake the Church in their own image by taking over seminaries, colleges, parishes, and religious orders.  They want the Church to overturn 2,000 years of doctrine and - rather than be a beacon of Christ's teachings - be a social club with a doctrine no different from the DNC.  Pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-women priests, etc.

A Catholic blogger I know said the day will come when the Church is attacked not for the abuse and cover up, but for addressing the issue and attempting to remove the offenders (and those likely to offend - homosexuals) from the priesthood.  Looks like he was right, and sooner than he predicted.

All of you who look at this and scratch your head, your feelings are justified.  The Church must be punished for the abuse, but must also be punished for removing the abusers (or potential abusers) from her midst.  In other words: the abuse is not the problem, the prudish doctrines of the Church (which prohibit such disgusting behavior) are what's wrong and should be changed.

"What would Mary do?"

Those of you who know Scripture know that Mary - upon the visitation of the angel Gabriel - said to the angel that she would willingly, gladly accept whatever plans God had in store for her.  "Be it done unto me according to thy word," was her response when she was told she'd be the mother of Jesus our Savior.

In other words, Mary was obedient to God's will from the moment of her conception...

PSA: By the way, Catholics, today is a Holy Day of Obligation, the Immaculate Conception of Mary.  This is a friendly reminder to go to Mass...we'll now return you to your regularly-scheduled comment. 

and Mary remained obedient until her death and Assumption into heaven.

Mr. Pierre is absolutely correct that the Church has no authority to change a sacrament instituted by Christ (not that liberals get that - they think they are god and savior, so anything they want goes).  Additionally, a priest at Mass acts in persona Christi ("in the person of Christ") in order to consecrate the bread and wine during the Liturgy of the Eucharist.  ONLY a male priest can act in persona Christi because Christ was a MAN.   A woman - acting (and only acting) as a priest - cannot consecrate the bread and wine and cannot confer sacraments like Reconciliation or Last Rites. In other words, three of the four central sacraments of the Catholic faith, vital to salvation, would be rendered invalid.

But, of course, what does the salvation of souls have over political correctness, right?

Mary would not only cancel her subscription, she'd tell the LA Times that she'd obey God's will and not man's wishful thinking.

"Solace, for some, is set in stone"

This ties into the first one inasmuch as the Church will never be able - in the eyes of the liberal LA Times and anti-religious public - live down the abuse, no matter what they do.

As Mr. Pierre points out, teachers (and non-Catholic clergy) have also engaged in sexual abuse and at a greater rate.  I did the math and of the world's Catholics, only .0013% abused.  That doesn't make it right by any stretch of the imagination and I - as a Catholic - want the offenders defrocked and imprisoned.  Teachers who abuse (see: Mary Kay Latourneau) are treated like celebrities, especially if they're young, blonde, female, and attractive.  It's "love" that led her to assault a teenaged boy repeatedly and bear his children. 

However, the notion that the Church's teachings on homosexuality and the all-male celibate priesthood is to blame is akin to saying abstaining from drinking makes you an alcoholic.  Teachers can be women and marry; as can non-Catholic clergy and the population at large.  If the Church's teachings were to blame, there'd be no abuse in society because the factors (women, marriage, etc.) would be the only difference.  They aren't.

The Church is working very hard to ensure this doesn't happen in the future.  And - lo and behold - parishes, dioceses, and orders that are orthodox and follow the Church's teachings had few, if any, cases of abuse.  Wonder why...???

To my fellow Catholics, I can say this to you with certainty:  Take heart and know that the age of the "Call to Action", "Spirit of Vatican II" Catholic is swiftly coming to an end.  Look at any event held by such liberal Catholic churches or groups and you'll notice most of the heads there are platinum or well on the way to being so.  There are few, if any, youth who join such churches and stick around for long (and, any child-bearing age couples there often don't have children to continue on the traditions). Religious orders and parishes and diocese that play fast and loose with the Catechism will either turn back toward Christ or fold.

Remember that they stay "Catholic" (in name only) because the media clearly laps up their weak theology, and that they are the rebels.  Ever wonder why the "Catholics" who support abortion, gay marriage, women priests never jump ship for, say, the Episcopal church?  Because then they'd be anonymous fish in a sea of alike thinkers.  Attacking the Church, which they clearly despise, makes them "cool" and favored in the media.

The Church will never change her teaching on the faith.  N-E-V-E-R.  NEVER.  We will be the same today as we were yesterday (and two millenia ago), and we will be the same tomorrow.  Two millenia of this stuff didn't defeat her, they won't win now.

Christ gave St. Peter the keys to heaven and promised the hell would never break down the gates of our Church.  We - in conjunction with our fellow Christians - will fight the evil in our culture and we will prevail. But we must remember to pray for our fortitude in the times ahead, when we will certainly face attacks from without and idiocy from within. And for those who are led astray by clergy and religious and laity who don't understand the teachings of the Church or willfully misinterpret them for political, personal gain.

Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

why women couldnt become priests, Can't a women love god as much as a man?  I Always had an issue with that - to me it felt like the "old boy network" was in full force.

The Tribune Company appears to be filing for bankruptcy later this week. with any luck, the LA Times will be one of the first parts to fall.

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of the Catholic Church & the Pope regarding female priests or gays or any thing else  DON'T have to be Catholics.  There are plenty of other churches that might be more to their liking. 

I'm not Catholic, either, but I even find some of the comments here disrespectful. I am a Christian, I go to a Baptist church, sometimes I visit Methodist churches, I go to where I feel the most comfortable. I guess some of the comments weren't meant to be disrespectful to someone elses feelings and the faith, but I took them that way. I cannot imagine trying to tell others they should think a way different to mine. I don't care for lots of things that go on in other churches, I went to a snake-handling church when I was young, and yes, they were really big rattlers there, and I didn't like it at all! But, hey, they are entitled to do whatever they want in my view. If that is part of their faith, I feel no one has any standing to say they are wrong. Maybe a little nutty.......I feel like if you don't like something in a church, or in  religion, keep looking, usually you will find what you can be happy with. Not really sure if I am explaining my feelings well, so, I will leave it there. God Bless All.