name the player,or post whatever you friggin' want

im sure theyr'e battling tim hortons! haha

 

Not tim hortons, well, maybe a bit of the breakfast crowd. I would say more the burger joints, after b/k, it's all burgers and fries.

 

What did he do to deserve that?

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and why is there a cop in church?

there's a lot of pedophile priests out there who escaped scot-free and left his victims in agony over their freedom. i wouldn't be surprised if it was something of that nature.

 

anyone watching the Super Bowl on Sunday? I am bc I play block pools.

What is on the menu?

I know they're bad for me but wings and pizza of some kind will be it! Gotta die of something...

 

I went to this place last year called jack astors, they had a lot of prizes.

 

Pedophile is the first thing that you would think of, after that, maybe the person that punched him is mentally ill.

I was thinking the same thing, why is the police there? My guess would be that he's a bishop, not your normal everday sermon, thus the security.

Was he a possible victim? Let's do the math, the assaulter is 42 and the priest looks around 58. He was an alter boy, let's say at 12, that's 30 years ago, the bishop would've been 28. It could be that other victims revealed something to that man.

The catholic church has a lot of politics, postions carry weight, just like government politics. I've talked to some that were involved and had to step away because it was beginning to turn them off and were afraid they would abandon the faith.

 

all i know is many of these priests are protected when they shouldn't be. they ruined lives and should be in jail. a punch in the face is nothing.

 

This is not to absolve the Catholic Church and certainly not the deviant priests, but it does not seem evident in this conversation - or in any conversation I can recall in many years - that there's an acknowledgement that pedophilia is NOT exclusively a problem in the Church. Actually it is no more prevalent than in society at large. (The number of pedophiles in the Church is proportionate to the number in all of society.)

The problem for the Church is that it is much more hierarchical (it is more structured). The Boy Scouts, police, and other religions had an equal number (proportionately) of abusers, but none had a clear chain of command like the Church leading to one person. The tragedy of the sexual abuse scandal is that the hierarchy turned a blind eye - at best, but more often that they covered and essentially excused aberrant priests. Other orgs. did not have the structure to permit individual criminals from being systematically protected.

Of course, we all look at these matters more critically now. As recently as the 1990's these things were simply not discussed. That is no excuse, but it is important to bear that in mind when we consider how this was ever allowed to happen.

 

well said Dan. I personally know a victim of priest abuse in Philly. This individual and his cousin were both victims for several years. His cousin could not live with the shame and pain of it and took his own life in his 20's. My colleague has been at the front of the battlelines in the newspapers and tv media against the priests and coverups and moving them to other parishes. In the Oscar winning movie Spotlight about the same topic, they mentioned settlement money for the victims. My colleague has never seen a dime from anyone for the abuse he endured by this priest who molested hundreds of young boys over 2 decades. that to me is wrong too. these victims should be compensated.

 

If you go back in history, the church was always appealing to those that wanted to escape the hate and homophobia that existed back in those days. My dad tells me stories of the generations before him and how hard they had it. They lived in absolute fear, and sometimes had no choice but to join the priesthood. Let me point out, this doesn't represent the majority, but even if it's 5% and they act on their pedophilia, the optics alone will tarnish the good name of the church for years.
My dad tells me stories of his dad's generation and how there were real roughnecks from the backwoods. They would get together at night drinking until the wee hours and go looking for fun. They would get their rifles and break into houses, grab anyone they percieved to be a homosexual, take them to a field and shoot them. They would wear masks and in those days it was real hard to know who did it.

 

So your Grandfather was a murderer? Jeez.

If I get my time machine working, remind me not to go back to that era!

 

No, my grandfather was more progressive, he lived 11 years in the US. There were roughnecks that were from outside of the town that worked as lumberjacks or just wanderers. It was a dangerous time for those type of minorities, and they were pushed into the priesthood.

 

i don't wanna know any more about it...

 

I'm talking about 1920, but that's how it used to be.

 

well my grandparents came from Newfoundland probably bf 1920 to Philly and NY and I rather not know what the hell they were doing back then either! Just keep it on the DL.

 

My family came from a rural area, whatever was happening there in those days, was happening globally in all rural areas.

 

--what happens in the rural area STAYS in the rural area!

 

Lol, no different than the wild west.

 

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