Saints’ PR Team Implicated in Covering Up Church’s Pedophilia

Did the MGoCrowd seriously debate the morals of Catholic Church?  

Not opposed to a debate (if you want to call it that) on this topic but this is like website #4,352 on my list of websites where I would come to discuss religion (other than fake football coach “gawd talk” - the Hugh Freeze / Dabo Sweeney types)

Is that still a thing since points don’t work?

Doubtful. These are the same people who believe the big boogeyman in the sky watches everything you do every second of your life. So you tell me if they're going to stop giving.

The Catholic Church is fucking horrible... and this is coming from someone who was raised Catholic.

I've thought the same thing, but more on a worldwide scale. I'm sure there are those who have left the church, but not enough to make anyone truly notice. 

When your church's general message is that the way to eternal salvation is through us and only us, that's enough to make people afraid of leaving. 

I have, fwiw.

Sports have had their fair share of scandals and coverups and yet people still watch, buy tickets and merchandise. 

Sports and religion have alot in common. Cover ups at high levels is one of them and this is true of pretty much every single large organization. 

Many years ago. 

Negged for suggesting that Catholics tithe. I’ve seen studies report that U.S. Catholics give about 1% to the Church. In short, they tithe their tithe. I, myself, as a Catholic, decided not to contribute to my parish’s latest capitol campaign. The Church needs to focus on healing and transparency (and women’s rights,) and not on building more edifices to replace the ones they had to sell as part of the scandals.

The more organized a religious faith becomes, the more mischief it's going to get into. Once you rise to the level of institutions, it becomes about protecting and feeding the institution instead of whatever it was you believed at the beginning. If you can even remember.

1.2 billion Catholics comprise 50% of all Christians worldwide and 16% of the world's total population.  The Catholic Church is the oldest single institution in western world, with roots going back nearly 2000 years.

There is plenty of abuse going on in every religion, including Islam and the protestant versions of Christianity.  It just doesn't get nearly as much press.

That said, many of us are disgusted with the way the sexual abuses were handled by the Vatican.  Donations are down and so is mass attendance.

But this stuff isn't being ignored or stuffed under the rug so much anymore. 

When your church covers up a pedophilia problem, you might take a few well deserved shots.

The Church has never taken a hit on its pedophile problem that it didn't fully 100% deserve or have coming. 

Bigots? Really? Aren't you the bigot for wanting to infect public school classrooms with the teaching of creationism in the classroom and other pseudoscience bs?

How about the time the pope said aids isn't as bad as condoms? The organization is a mess. 

Some of the shots on Catholics in general are unfortunate. Shots at the Catholic Church leadership for uncountable scandals and policy positions that impact millions of people are fair game. 

I guess that I'm a bigot that I have a huge problem with the Catholic Church spending millions of dollars suing New York State to stop the State from enacting the Child Victims Act... or that the Catholic Church buried the numerous credible allegations against four priests that served at the church I grew up going to or that one of those is a priests was someone I served under as an alter boy and abused several children that were my age at the same time.

The Catholic Church is reaping what they've sowed.

"All I got from that entire article was a member of the Saint's PR staff gave private advice on how to handle public relations."

The article clearly states it wasn't just "a member":

"Attorneys for the men suing the church say multiple Saints personnel, including senior vice president of communications Greg Bensel, used their team emails to advise church officials on "messaging" and how to soften the impact of the arch-diocese's release of a list of clergy members "credibly accused" of sexual abuse."

I presume Gayle Benson is the sole owner of the franchise, and if so, she is free to direct her employees to do whatever she wants them to do. If that includes helping the local archdiocese deal with a pedophilia scandal, that's her right. There are no stockholders whose opinions she has to consider.

However, I do wonder if the Saints franchise has been the recipient of public tax dollars.

Having said this, Gayle Benson is a freaking idiot if she thinks that having multiple members of her organization use their official Saints email accounts to assist the Catholic Church isn't going to be extremely controversial, especially given what they're assisting the church for.

Jesus, you read the article and formed your own opinion? What kind of person does that nowadays. To the stocks with you!

Read the headline, or at least no more than the first paragraph where the press (left or right) tells you what you should think, then immediately be outraged like everyone else.