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« on: March 19, 2012, 05:30:39 pm »
I wonder if this can really be true. I don t know how trustworthy the web site is.

http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/03/19/report-reveals-catholic-church-castrated-boys-raped-by-priests-to-cure-homosexuality/
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« Reply #1 on: March 19, 2012, 07:14:18 pm »
No doubt the story will receive more publicity if it is true.  But I find it entirely possible.
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« Reply #2 on: March 19, 2012, 09:36:37 pm »
Sad, isn't it, that the organization which claims to be the Body of Christ has got itself into such a mess that reports such as that one are actually believable?  Poor Jesus must be spinning in his grave.
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« Reply #3 on: March 20, 2012, 09:01:05 am »
Another report with much more detail today. Ghastly.

Will the RC church ever adopt a less arrogant tone in the light of its failings?
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« Reply #4 on: March 20, 2012, 09:04:08 am »
Can hardly bear to read it. Sad
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« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2012, 11:25:58 am »
I wonder what you'd have to cut off to cure the RC Church of its arrogance... Mind you, the higher clergy are doing a more than adequate job of amputating their own credibilty.
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« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2012, 01:25:35 pm »
Thanks everyone.

I did find the story theoretically beleivable -so many terrible things happened in WW2 and since etc.

But there was something about the website which sounded some kind of warning bell for me.  somehow.

i have worked under an Irish govt scheme giving counselling to people my age and older abused in 'orphanages' and schools etc run by religious orders of men and women in Eire.  So I'm up for believing almost anything alas...

Even my 'ordinary' state school in UK used a lot of humiliation and physical beatings with the cane, hand or slipper and we had parents to (in theory) speak up for us
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« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2012, 01:30:05 pm »
Was the car crash death convenient ?

What has become of the others ?

I notice they were in some kind of orphanage or institution.

Neither Church nor state come out well in the film

The Leaving of Liverpool.

A lot of class bias too.  Along with the mysogeny and failure to apprecaite or tresaure the children
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« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2012, 04:55:49 pm »
also came across this account of the matter and comments :


http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2012/03/20/the-netherlands-catholic-church-castrated-boys-as-gay-cures-and-punishments/
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