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Justicia

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Hi Justicia,

Have we posted simultaneously? I have posted the same link under the "Watchtower Topics" and don´t know how to delete it.

Anyway, I find the last paragraph interesting.

AR

Okay, I have it deleted.

Dear Alien Resident:

Great minds think alike...or alike minds think they're great...or something like that.

Justicia

Haven't our articles over the years slandered other Religious entities? I well remember the bitter articles referring to the Catholic Church and other major institutions. Perhaps they should have tried to sue the WTBTS then. Its  gross hypocrisy, no more and no less. I'm glad they lost!:thumbsup::cheer:
Sister Grateful,:giverose:

I particularly enjoyed how she addressed the "Free Speech" issue. Oh we are the poster child for Free Speech...as long as it works for us and not against us!

The WTBTS is systematically disassembling decades of postive legal social collateral with these nonsensical cases.

Justicia

Didn't the WT also print some articles on the child abuse issue in the Catholic Church? :confused:

Take care.

Andy

Reading this really was sickening. It's the same strong arm tactics that major corporations use against small business. U can be totally wrong but with enough legal muscle and money u can put people out of business.

Did I say Business? Oh wait this is a religious entity. And yet they act like a corporation. Hmmmm. What a waste of publishers moneys with these frivilous, nonsensicle, "worldly" lawsuits.

I didn't know Jehovah needed the court system to protect him.

You are right. Here are a few examples.

*** g90 9/8 p. 29 Watching the World ***

CLERGY MORALS

According to The Toronto Star, the Ottawa archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Canada was recently ordered by the courts to pay $150,000 for failing to act on a complaint against one of its priests. The priest was accused of sexually assaulting young boys. The victims’ families “felt driven to seek a civil remedy because, having gone to the church for help after the assaults, they were shut out by officials, including the archbishop,” noted one lawyer. According to the Star, another lawyer stated that Catholic Church officials, on discovery of child-abuse complaints, have historically kept the priests in the clergy. He said: “Instead of reporting them to the police or booting them out of there like most any other institution, they have, out of loyalty to their own, just moved them around secretly.”

*** g93 10/8 p. 5 How Can We Protect Our Children? ***

Tragically, adult society often unwittingly collaborates with child abusers. How so? By refusing to be aware of this danger, by fostering a hush-hush attitude about it, by believing oft-repeated myths. Ignorance, misinformation, and silence give safe haven to abusers, not their victims.

For example, the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops concluded recently that it was a “general conspiracy of silence” that allowed gross child abuse to persist among the Catholic clergy for decades. Time magazine, in reporting on the widespread plague of incest, also cited a “conspiracy of silence” as a factor that “only helps perpetuate the tragedy” in families.

*** g89 1/22 pp. 10-11 Christendom Walks in the Way of Canaan ***

Just over a year ago, newspapers across the country were flooded with reports of sexual assaults on children by Catholic priests. The following report from the San Jose, California, Mercury News, December 30, 1987, is typical:

“At a time of heightened national awareness of the problems of child abuse, the Catholic Church in the United States continues to ignore and cover up cases of priests who sexually molest children, according to court records, internal church documents, civil authorities and the victims themselves.

“Church officials insist that a notorious 1985 Louisiana case in which a priest molested at least 35 boys has taught them to deal firmly with the problem. But a three-month Mercury News investigation reveals that in more than 25 dioceses across the country, church officials have failed to notify authorities, transferred molesting priests to other parishes, ignored parental complaints and disregarded the potential damage to child victims. . . . Millions of dollars in damages already have been paid to victims and their families, and one 1986 church report estimated that the church’s liability could reach $1 billion over the next decade.”

The “notorious 1985 Louisiana case” mentioned in the Mercury News report concerned a priest named Gilbert Gauthe. There has been a “payment of $12 million to his victims.” The homosexual activities of Gauthe were known for many years, but ‘the diocese handled the problem by transferring him from parish to parish at least three times.’ In one instance “parents testified that Gauthe sodomized their 7-year-old son on his first day as an altar boy and for a year afterward, until the priest was transferred.”

The “damage to child victims” was also mentioned in that report. Sometimes the damage is final. One 12-year-old boy took his life, leaving a note saying that “it wasn’t worth living” after having been “made a virtual sex slave of a Franciscan brother.” Another, molested by a priest, hanged himself after telling his brother, “Contact Father S.— and tell him I forgive him.”

Most sexual assault cases involve boys, but many girls are also victimized. As reported by the Cleveland Plain Dealer of December 19, 1987, a 16-year-old girl and her parents filed a civil suit in 1986 against seven priests for sexual molestation. She had become pregnant, and the priests urged her to get an abortion. When she refused, they arranged to send her to the Philippines to cover up her pregnancy. The church is against homosexuality and abortion but apparently not when it involves their own priests.

The newspaper reports go on and on listing many specific cases of Catholic youths sodomized by Catholic priests, of millions of dollars being paid out to settle lawsuits, of many settlements made out of court, and of insurance companies that “will no longer cover diocesan personnel against molestation charges.”

Thomas Fox, editor of the National Catholic Reporter, says: “There has been a national cover-up of the problem for years by the bishops.” Eugene Kennedy, a former priest and now psychology professor at Loyola University, says: “What you see in the courts is just the tip of the iceberg.” Thomas Doyle, Dominican priest and canon lawyer, declares: “The sexual molesting of little boys by priests is the single most serious problem we’ve had to face in centuries.”

Warm Christian Love
Bangalore

Thanks Bangalore.:hibye:When reading it, just replace Catholic Church with WTBTS and the various Catholic heirachy titles with our own, and we can see the exact same picture. The only difference at the moment, is that the Catholic Church has repented in dust and ashes, and given credence to all those children who were abused over the years.:clap: Well, at least, it has tried to make amends. But the WTBTS? No way. They continue, and probably will continue, to fight little children in courts throughout the world and frighten them into subjection. With our money, to boot! They have put a millstone around their necks and will pay, hopefully, very heavy consequences. They have blasphemed God's name to the nations,:cry: ( the only ones to have done that, because they are the ones who so haughtily carry His name to the world ) and Jehovah must act to put right what they have made vile.:readthis:They will deserve everything coming to them.As Jehovah said, he will have no pity for them. Ezek 9: 9,10

Christian love and peace to all those sighing and groaning about all the detestable things being done in God's name.

Sister Grateful.:giverose:

AMEN, my sister!

Come Lord Jesus!

AR