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youngsters, who can be kept in the centers for months, are exposed to abuse and
exploitation by older children and adults |
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| Angel, a 13 year old little girl clad only in a flimsy dress, was chained to a post in the detention center and left there crying |
When
the pope and other heads of state visit other countries what is the purpose of
their visits? Do they just want publicity for themselves? Do they want to make
speeches and hear crowds cheering for them?
Do they actually help the countries they visit? Not economically: For
the pope’s visit to the Philippines that started today, the expenses are
tremendous: Over 25,000 police and thousands of soldiers must provide security.
Helicopter gunships circle overhead. Streets
must be cleaned – of dirt and of children who live under the road bridges where
the Pope will travel.
Hundreds
of boys and girls in Manila -- Street children as young as five are caged in detention
centers with adult criminals who sexually abuse them according to an
investigation by MailOnline, a British news service. Some have been starved and
chained to pillars in the centers. A senior official admitted there had been an
intensive round-up by police and government workers to make sure the children
are not seen by Pope Francis.
The
pope is going to visit with young people – but not the children locked up in
cells. He can wash the feet of inmates as a photo op, but does he really
care? These practices of locking up
children have gone on for a long time in Manila – there are 17 detention centers
across the city, where an estimated 20,000 children a year are detained for no
obvious reason other than begging for food. The same thing was done when Obama
visited. According to Rosalinda Orobia,
head of Social Welfare Department in Manila, 'It happened before President
Obama's visit to the Philippines in April last year. When we tried to have them
released we were told they couldn't come out until after Obama had gone.” So this is not a new practice, it hurts
thousands of children and it is unlikely that heads of state have no knowledge
of it.
Pope
Francis said that a priority of his visit would be to send a message to the poor
who face "social, spiritual and existential" injustices. What good is a message? Does it help the poor? The Filipino President Aquino also wants to
eradicate poverty: he would like to see fewer children born into poverty but
the local Roman Catholic Church is fighting to overturn a 2012 reproductive
health law that promotes artificial birth control. The church is not taking
care of these children, the government allows such practices to continue – the
children are invisible. So these
children will continue to live in the streets while popes and presidents parade
by waving and smiling – bread and circuses but not for these children.
In order to understand the Catholic Church each of us must understand the following concepts.
ReplyDelete1.) The Catholic Church has been, and is, an evil organization that does not care for anyone except it's own survival.
2.) The Catholic Clergy, from the top of the organization to the bottom, cannot be trusted.
3.) Children should never be left in the hands of this organization.
4.) The Catholic Church does not like "critical thinkers" or people who ask questions.
5.) The Catholic Church likes "blind obedience" from it's membership.
6.) The Catholic Church wants to extract as much money as possible from the faithful to be used as "hush money" for the crimes of their criminal clergy!
7.) The Catholic Clergy a fakes, frauds & phonies. They are not out to help anyone except themselves! The clergy live very well on the backs of the faithful.
8.) Do not contribute to the Catholic Church! If they lose their financial base, they will listen to the people. Money is "power!"
close your eyes and open your pockets seems to be the message. you are correct - the best way to stop them is to cancel their funding
DeleteYes, this is another example of why children should never be left in the hands of this organization. Thank you for your list of catholic church concepts.
ReplyDeleteThe leadership of the Catholic Church would like to blame the people for leaving the Catholic Church
DeleteThey blame the "disintegration of the American Society," the chasing of individual success in life, sex and material things in the society!
I think the reason for people leaving the Catholic Church is on the other side of the coin. Maybe, it is time that the Catholic Church started to give the people a reason to stay as a member of the church.
SUGGESTIONS:
1.) Clean up your act, and give justice for the abused people.
2.) Turn over your files on the criminal clergy for criminal prosecution.
3.) Deliver positive / up-lifting sermons. (Like the Christian Churches)
4.) Provide Saturday & Sunday services that are user friendly.
5.) Make being "Catholic" an enjoyable experience.
6.) Learn how to deal with people in a straight forward / professional manner
with no hidden agendas.
7.) Stop ordering the faithful around like "cool-aid drinking sheeple"
8.) Show some human respect for the people who are paying the bills.
The Catholic Church will never do this because it is easier to "blame the people" rather than to take the blame themselves!
they blame everyone for their sins -- they don't want to look in the mirror because the devil might be staring back at them!
DeleteA THOUGHT TO CONSIDER!
ReplyDeleteWhen viewing the Catholic Church, the person has to separate the Christian Religion from the Corporation known as the Catholic Church!
The Catholic Church is, and has always been, a Criminal Organization hiding behind the Christian Religion!
There is more truth in the "Jerry Springer Show on TV, than in the Catholic Church!
The Pope, Cardinals, Bishops, Priests & Nuns are fakes, frauds and phonies. They are "users and abusers of children and adults." They are only interested in how much money they can milk from the "cool-aid-drinking sheeple!" They indoctrinate children into a distorted way of thinking and reasoning, because it suits their long term agenda! ------ Personal success and Catholic indoctrination are NOT compatible! Catholic indoctrination produces average people, when in reality, there is GREATNESS in the individual!
they are too arrogant and self-centered to want to see greatness in anyone, especially not children - as you say they want them to grow up to be sheeple (I like that word)
DeleteThe Catholic Church Corporation is all about control of the individual from birth to death. The management DOES NOT want the individual to be a "free thinker!" Being a "free thinker" is dangerous to the Corporation, because "free thinkers" start to ask questions.
ReplyDeleteToday, I came across two quotes that I think are very important for individual success. They are as follows:
1.) "You were designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness!"
2.) "If you do not see yourself as a winner, then you cannot perform as a winner!"
The Corporation will never sell these concepts from the pulpit at their Saturday & Sunday services because they do NOT want you to feel good about yourself. They want the direct opposite. They want the Corporation to be in control of your life, and your thinking! They want you to "think" the "Corporation Way!" They want you on your knees begging for forgiveness! QUESTION: ---- I should beg for forgiveness because there is greatness in me that was put there by my creator? ----- GET REAL! ---- If the Catholic Church cannot stand up to people who want to hold them accountable for their actions, and the message that they preach, then the Church deserves the reaction that they are getting from the "Thinking Catholics!" ---- For years the Church has been indoctrinating our children into being happy just being average. They have robbed success from the lives of people for their own agenda! They are criminals hiding behind the Christian Religion, and finally, they are being exposed for what they are in the world, and they are running scared!
The "corporation" doesn't realize it yet but their foundation is crumbling, Let's make sure their stock crashes! You, me and other readers are the people who are exposing these criminals -- and just like the criminals on Wall Street, they will be looking out from behind bars!
ReplyDeleteRecognize that the Catholic Church is a global corporation with its tentacles in every government throughout the world. The Church has never been about what is best for the average person, but rather, it has always be about what is best for the Church, and the Church
ReplyDeleteleadership.
The purpose of the Catholic Church worldwide is to collect as much money as possible from the indoctrinated people, and use that money to gain power in the "world of politics." It has never been about helping people. If they somehow help people that is purely by accident.
The Catholic Church trades "money" for "empty promises." The management of the Church gets the people to believe that if they support the Church with their money, and they say the "magic prayers" at the appropriate time, they will somehow achieve eternal life in heaven. And while the Church is "selling this story to the people," their priests and nuns are abusing their children in the name of the Catholic Church. And to add insult to injury, the people are taught that it is only a few of the clergy! ---- FLASH: One is too many!
Power and Sex are the driving forces of the Catholic Church. If you cut off their money supply you control their power, and their sex abuse of children! ----- WAKE UP PEOPLE! The Pope, Cardinals, & Bishops are laughing at you!
As long as people believe they can buy a ticket to heaven the catholic church will have a hold on their minds and their children. I hope they hear your wake up call.
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ReplyDeleteQUESTIONS: ---- Why is the Catholic Church able to protect their criminal clergy from prosecution throughout the world? ---- Why can't civilian authorities gain access to the files on the criminal clergy? ---- Why are priests and nuns, who have committed crimes against children, allowed to escape prosecution in the courts?
ReplyDeleteNOTE: ---- We are still uncovering Nazi War criminals, and when this happens, these people are brought to trial, but not the Catholic Clergy!
Is the Catholic Church above the law? ---- Are their clergy above the law? ---- Are their clergy being protected by world governments, because it is a neat "good old boys & girls network? ---- Are Catholic Children in Catholic Schools and Institutions expendable pawns to be used and abused by the sick clergy for their own enjoyment and gratification?
If you support a criminal organization like the Catholic Church, you are part of the problem. By your dollars, you are giving them permission to carry on "business as usual!" ---- Children have been, and are currently being abused at the hands of the priests and nuns, and no one seems to care, --- just as long as it is not "THEIR CHILD!" ---- (Remember; --- a Leopard does not change it's spots! ---- These sick people are still in the ranks of the Catholic Church waiting for the opportunity to abuse a child in some way! ----- Are you going to let that happen?
you are absolutely correct! World governments are protecting the catholic church because the church "buys" politicians. The church has lobbyists that block laws that would treat the church as any other business -- like paying taxes on commercial interests. We all need to remember what they are doing with our donations.
DeleteI have been reading this blog for a while. There are a lot of issues regarding nuns and priest in the Catholic Church. Every organization has a mission statement. What is the mission statement of the Catholic Church and the clergy? What have they been trying to accomplish in the past? What are they trying to accomplish now? Are their goals in alignment with the welfare of the members? Only the readers of this blog can answer these question?
ReplyDeleteFrom what I see, the mission of the Catholic Church is to protect the Catholic Church no matter what evil they commit -- like caging children. Thank you for your comment and questions. I also would like to know what readers think the mission of the church is or should be.
DeleteUpdate on caged children: So Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Tagle says that Pope Francis got to see poor children. According to Tagle, “We were able to bring the Holy Father to the street children being sheltered in one house and they were able to interact.” Tagle admitted there was a problem and said, “But even without the Pope’s visit, we should really look for ways to respond to this situation..” This problem has existed for years so acting like he just found out is another coverup. I am sure that Francis wasn’t brought to the places where children are in cages—when word got out that children were being pulled off the streets the local dioceses found or set up a “shelter.” And if Francis knows about the problem, why didn’t we hear any comment from him?
ReplyDeleteThe reason why you hear nothing from Pope Francis is because he and his clergy DO NOT care about anyone except themselves, and keeping the Church in the financial black! The average Catholic "thinks" that the Church knows that they exist! The only way they know you exist is if you use a donation envelop on weekend services. I have never heard of "Card Carrying Catholics!"
DeleteIf everyone put a note in their donation envelope that said, "lock up the pedophile priests and stop protecting them" do you think it would make a difference? I don't think so -- but no cash in the basket would catch their attention.
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