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and 'look after them' and when that priest is a paedo-sexual or an abuser those words take on a sick and disturbing conotation.
I am shocked to hear that any priest would say
“if you criticize your priest you criticize God“
or that they would claim
ontological superiority.
It sounds like they are using the priesthood to prove they must be okay because they know just how depraved they are.
Spot on Dolores. I wanted to post the following but needed to read all the above posts first. I wanted to say that it wasn't so much we who put them on a pedestal but they who put themselves on a pedestal and commanded for us to worship.
This kind of narcissism is particularly found in the paedo-sexual because of their own deeply unrealised/unadmitted trauma and self deception. I am sure most 'normal' priests would never believe such statements as Ian quotes above, but a padeophile or even a deeply emotionally stuck priest, yes, it fits in perfectly with their probably damaged childhoods and resulting warped self-perceptions: Boy do they take such teachings seriously and run with them and insist on them being followed by their 'worshippers'.
I still cannot get that now convicted priest (he wasn't at the time of the filming of him here) out of my mind from that other brilliant documentary, "Hand of God": it is towards the end of the doco (5 mins:40 sec in Part 10 of 10) here:
Wanna hear it again?
"I'm a man set apart, different and when you're different you gotta watch out for them".
For some reason I can't get Part 10 except in this 'foreign' (and slow to load) version. Wonder if Bishop Lennon also featured in the last part - he was Law's replacement - didn't like being exposed as such and arsehole?????
Here is the link to all the other parts (1-9) It is well, well worth the viewing but I do so now get even more than I did a few years ago, Paul's conclusions in Part 10.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Child+sexual+abuse+by+Catholic+priests+in+t...
Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill
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- OVERSEAS COMMENT ON SCAPEGOATING - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-12, 00:16
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- OVERSEAS COMMENT ON SCAPEGOATING - georgeh, 2012-05-12, 10:15
- OVERSEAS COMMENT ON SCAPEGOATING - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-12, 21:49
- OVERSEAS COMMENT ON SCAPEGOATING - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-12, 21:49
- Maybe it wasn't the final word! - CathyT, 2012-05-12, 10:49
- Unfair attention - James, 2012-05-12, 12:20
- Unfair attention? Not when more examples surface. - desi, 2012-05-12, 13:39
- Unfair attention? Not when more examples surface. - desi, 2012-05-12, 13:42
- iT IS THE SAME IN MY PARISH DESI. - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-13, 02:45
- iT IS THE SAME IN MY PARISH DESI. - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-13, 02:45
- Unfair attention? Not when more examples surface. - desi, 2012-05-12, 13:42
- Unfair attention - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-13, 01:33
- Unfair attention? Not when more examples surface. - desi, 2012-05-12, 13:39
- Maybe it wasn't the final word! - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-13, 00:26
- Unfair attention - James, 2012-05-12, 12:20
- Putting priests on a pedestal - Dolores, 2012-05-13, 01:17
- Putting priests on a pedestal - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-13, 03:42
- Putting priests on a pedestal - Dolores, 2012-05-13, 09:24
- They put themselves on a pedestal and insist we worship - Oh Yet We Trust, 2012-05-13, 10:39
- Putting priests on a pedestal - Helen, 2012-05-13, 11:12
- Putting priests on a pedestal - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-13, 11:22
- Putting priests on a pedestal - judith, 2012-05-13, 15:32
- Putting priests on a pedestal - Dolores, 2012-05-13, 09:24
- Putting priests on a pedestal - Macbee, 2012-05-13, 12:54
- Putting priests on a pedestal - Ian Lawther, 2012-05-13, 03:42
- OVERSEAS COMMENT ON SCAPEGOATING - georgeh, 2012-05-12, 10:15
