And they are MARRIED! Check the statistics.
2006-10-22 04:59:01 · 7 answers · asked by Midge 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Nobody listens to what is said, There is the equall amount of Protestant offenders--how is it just a Catholic thing. I mean Protestan CLERGY--they can be married so how do you rationalize this besides just spouting anti Catholic rhetoric
2006-10-22 07:36:59 · update #1
Some do listen.
2006-10-22 07:37:54 · update #2
Not just as bad, worse.
Protestant ministers have a higher incidence of scandals than do their Catholic counterparts, and that is according to the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, not the media hype of cheap news rags.
Printing headlines of bad priests will sell more newspapers and the public has had constant drilling of such stories into their brains. A story of Protestant minister abusing a child might make in in the news, but not a headline.
Studies reveal that school teachers are 100X more likely to abuse a child than Catholic priests, and such is the hypocracy of our society in the concern for children. This was reported in Christianity Today, a Protestant publication. Get the priests, but look the other way when it comes to school teachers, social workers, or health care professionals. (???) What I am saying is it is a cultural problem, not just a church problem.
People also believe that having bad priests in the church discredits it. Makes it look stupid. Well, having Judas as an Apostle would have stopped the church dead in its tracts, if everyone just sat around and could only see what he did wrong.
2006-10-22 05:32:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Hi, Elton. There are many well solutions from many educated Catholics right here, and so I will simplest reply #6. Catholics belong to the only and simplest Church that Jesus began, in approximately 30 AD. This offers Catholics an apostolic connection--Catholic leaders had been appointed by means of different Catholic leaders, going the entire as far back as Peter, who was once appointed by means of Jesus. While there are lots of different precious Christian firms, a few of which name themselves church buildings, the Catholic Church (and might be the Orthodox) is the modern-day-day embodiment of the fashioned and simplest Church. The fashioned and simplest Church wrote and decided on the scriptures within the New Testament Bible. Accordingly, the Church that did the writing and the determination of scriptures has the pleasant reminiscence for what they imply. Many Protestants do not realize suggestions like Holy Communion (John 6) or being born once more in baptism (John three) for the reason that they do not have the authoritative interpretation from the humans who studied with Jesus. They are simply taking a bet from the ambiguous phrases preserved in scripture. Finally, simplest the Catholic Church, by means of apostolic authority, can administer the sacraments Jesus designed for nourishing lifestyles in Christians. Those no longer ordained don't have any authority to utter the "telling prayers" to which God responds by means of replacing bread and wine into the frame and blood of Christ. Too, simplest the ones with the authority given by way of the apostles can absolve you of your sins.
2016-09-01 00:51:34 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I used to work with victims of sexual abuse and yes, it is just as common with Protestant ministers as with Catholic priests; and the church organizations are just as bad in terms of handling it badly. It seems very strange to me that this has not been investigated by the larger media.
2006-10-22 05:13:22 · answer #3 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Catholic church is a non-Christian cult, that claims Mary was sinless, but God's Word says ALL have sinned.
Do Protestants make such false claims that contradict God's Word?
(I am not Protestant)
2006-10-22 05:06:08 · answer #4 · answered by Born Again Christian 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There seems to be a sexual oppression experienced by Catholic priests (and often nuns) that does not exist in Protestant sects--yes, sexual abuse can happen anywhere, but some conditions do have a tendency to breed it.
2006-10-22 05:02:31 · answer #5 · answered by Nipivy 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, but they believe their system is better. I think a married man has an outlet..he gets his needs met if he is intimate with his wife. A priest doesn't have that option and that is a problem.
2006-10-22 05:06:25 · answer #6 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
sorry I do not beleave you the reasun preist are tempted is becouse they can not marry I blaim the catholic church and the papancy
2006-10-22 05:03:11 · answer #7 · answered by Sam's 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋