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    At the same time it's not uncommon for the same kind of things to happen in organizations that aren't like that at all. Think of the recent pedophilia scandal involving the boy scouts. That was huge. It would seem that pedophilia is much more common than one would think, it's just that it's both illegal and also completely socially unacceptable - at the moment at least. Which doesn't seem to deter a lot of people from doing it in secret.
    We have a large (for small town) RCC that used to be an orphanage for primarily Native Americans, as well as other local peoples. Books have been written on the sexual wickedness between priests and nuns, nuns and boys. Stuff that people kept hush-hush for decades.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Colonel View Post
    In general the scandals involve anything except heterosexual relations. In previous times a lot of Catholic priests had "wives" that weren't sanctioned by the RCC but who were tolerated locally. But back then there were better incentives for becoming a priest, for instance to get out of abject poverty.
    I do remember a news story though a few years back of all these baby bones found buried under a Catholic convent or whatever you would call it where priests and nuns are together. They were having sex and having babies and aborting/killing them. If I remember correctly though it was one from like several centuries ago.

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    I do remember a news story though a few years back of all these baby bones found buried under a Catholic convent or whatever you would call it where priests and nuns are together. They were having sex and having babies and aborting/killing them. If I remember correctly though it was one from like several centuries ago.
    I have read articles on baby bones under the convents, resembling a catacombs situation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fuego View Post
    I do remember a news story though a few years back of all these baby bones found buried under a Catholic convent or whatever you would call it where priests and nuns are together. They were having sex and having babies and aborting/killing them. If I remember correctly though it was one from like several centuries ago.
    I had heard that many years ago, but never investigated whether or not it was true.

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    There was a Chick tract on that subject.

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    Looking back at grade school years at catholic school after finding out years later that a priest that had been there at that time and was a child molester..... I can name the names of the boys who were alter boys who changed, and they were all similar in the shape of their bodies. I thought back how they became quiet, not so energetic on the playground, just changes from what they had been like. The things in their lives later can most likely verify the trauma they went through.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ezekiel 33 View Post
    I had heard that many years ago, but never investigated whether or not it was true.
    This was an actual news story if I remember correctly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FireBrand View Post
    There was a Chick tract on that subject.

    I read that on Chick
    Last edited by Cardinal TT; 01-16-2020 at 12:29 AM.

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    I have read articles on baby bones under the convents, resembling a catacombs situation.
    I thought we had something about that on the forum a while back.

    Mass grave of babies and children found at Tuam care home in Ireland

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    I saw it on a show on pbs on tv. So hard to actually think that those who claim to be the one true church do horrendous things as that and to children.................

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