VIDEO: Vatican orchestrated child abuse

1. Evangeline April 16, 2018

   I saw the video.
   What bothered me was what you noted Louie, the unlikely nature of the question from a child this age. It doesn’t make sense, children don’t ask questions like this, unless they are deeply immersed in Catholic theology and thought. Even then, it would be very “unusual” to have a child ask such a question. It does not ring true. He isn’t old enough to grasp the idea his father may be there, and certainly not due to his being an atheist yet having “his four children baptized”. Set-up question, fake. Even if he had this concern, he would have spoken of it to his mother or other relative, who should have encouraged him and consoled him. It would occur to no child to take this to the pope. No child his age should be, or likely would be, worried about such a thing.
   But it gets worse. The child says “I can’t do it…I can’t do it…”, he doesn’t feel ABLE to comply with someone by asking the question! He has emotionally folded, can’t do as he was asked, but as he finds out, it is not an option, he HAS to. The grip the priest has on his arm is something to notice right away. He did not put his hand on his back, a supportive hand, but a grip, and a tight grip. Since when can a small child, a baby really, not change his mind? Are children not allowed to change their mind? This one couldn’t. He had a part to play.
   We don’t know what he said. He could have asked the question, but this is so far fetched, and perfect timing with the recent hell-scandal. These men are so obvious, good grief they don’t even bother to be subtle! Why bother, I guess.
   I didn’t know about Carlotta’s question. We’re in the realm of ridiculous, people coercing children, who themselves have no idea of what real children act and sound like so they don’t realize they are giving it away by their silly scripts.
   A real journalist could get the backstory on this poor child and check things out.
   Poor little boy, my heart goes out to him, but then, the church has no real care for these boys. They allowed them to be sexually molested time and time again, and still can’t be bothered to do anything about it except write a check to compensate for a life ruined.

    

   • sweepoutthefilth April 16, 2018

     Great point Evangeline….they do not have children and are clueless as to how children normally behave.I am reminded of Groeschel’s statement that these little boys sometimes seduce the priests. Yeh right sure they do.
     Having cared for many many patients with dementia let me assure everyone , there is truth in dementia because they do not pre screen their statements.

      
   • 2Vermont April 16, 2018

     I would just like to say, as someone who does not have children, that you don’t have to have your own children to know how children act/behave. The issue here isn’t that they don’t “have” children.

      
   • Evangeline April 16, 2018

     No of course not, the issue is that people who do not have children or spend time around children do not have the best sense of what they say and do. It’ s the same phenomenon when you see a sitcom or program and you think, no kid would say that.

      
   • sweepoutthefilth April 16, 2018

     Perhaps better stated….you have to have been around children or remember what it was to be a child.
     Using a child n this way would therefore be something one would not want to do. Although ,in the background there appears to be a mother ,grandmother or teacher encouraging the boy to recite his lines.

      
   • my2cents April 16, 2018

     It reminds me of children brought to haunted houses on Halloween. The children are dragged in crying in fear. If this isn’t child abuse, I don’t know what is.

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1. Working Hermit April 16, 2018

   There are many who will fall for this charade… Ok, practically everyone will fall for it. And they will become quite angry if you try to open their eyes. Of the few who see through it, most will not want to discuss it.

    

• mpoulin April 16, 2018

  Proverbs 9:7 -10 He who corrects a scoffer gets himself abuse, and he who reproves a wicked man incurs injury. Do not reprove a scoffer, or he will hate you; reprove a wise man, and he will love you. Give instruction to a wise man, and he will still be wiser; teach a righteous man and he will increase in learning. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.