Pope Francis confirms Catholic clergy members abused nuns
Pope Francis has acknowledged for the first time that members of the Catholic clergy abused nuns, adding to a string of recent allegations about widespread sexual abuse by priests and coverups by the church hierarchy.
When girls are allowed to wear shorts, 60 percent will wear acceptable shorts. Others will wear very, very, very, very short shorts.These are the shorts young people find in the stores and see in the magazines. These are shorts that do not completely cover the posterior of the young woman's torso. These very, very, very, very short shorts are not appropriate anywhere.
Principal Mary Liz Ivins
It's interesting. There is a concern for Catholic values outside of the Church, but not within the Church ... We are the faithful Catholic sons and daughters who were raped and sodomized by priests that our parents trusted.
-BB
I thank God I was raised Catholic, so sex will always be dirty.
-JW
Being raised Catholic myself, I think people who are Catholic tend to carry a lot of guilt. It's almost a joke.
-LC
I'm Catholic and Mum taught me the comfort that you can get from going to church. But I'm an a la carte Catholic. I love all the pomp and ceremony of it.
-PK
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Hearing nuns' confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.
-FJS
VATICAN CITY - A document obtained by The Associated Press on Friday shows Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests over just two years for molesting children.
Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.
-BC
My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
-NM
For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.
-GR
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
-AA
One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.
-GO
I had an Irish Catholic education. Horrible nuns, vindictive and cruel.
-JL
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