Comments on: Pope Focuses On Future Of American Church

Pope Benedict XVI Offers Support To Clergy And Young Catholics In Moving Beyond Scandals

[pollroller1]

FuzzyBear9 It''s called freedom of speech my friend.
I don''t agree with everything I read here, but I respect the poster''s right to say what is on their minds.

[fuzzybear9]

Oh and by the way and I can see that there are those
who might feel some justification in their hurt
but
you can`t seriously believe 500 million people are all Bad ?

think about it

I mean that`s like blaming Fuzzy for the condition of the United States Economy.

come on people get a grip on yourselves.

what about the singing Nun Maria in
The Sound Of Music

, or the Flying Nun
you really can`t believe all those people are Bad ?

come on every budy Join in,
``what do we do with a girl like Maria,
a will of the wisp , la la la la ... ``

sincerely Fuzzy

[fuzzybear9]

Hello CBS Viewers

Fuzzy what do you find disturbing about this article ?

well the posted comments by some of the viewers here.

Cinasism

I`m not Catholic
but I see know reason to attack someone even if it he be the Pope for know particular reason, it is just down right rude and crude.

and is a clear sign of our society to attack a person of leadership for no just cause.
it just makes you right tired of these people.

arrogance thats why people around the world find Americans so arrogant and crude , to critisize someone they don`t even know,

have any one of you sat down and talked to the Pope ?

NO

not one of you, and you never will .

Oh that I could only live in a curtious society.
just once.

sincerely tired of crude people Bear
Fuzzy

[pollroller1]

The pope is here to see if he can fleece the flock.
I mean what is this poor church to do. They may be down to their last hundred billion dollars.

[trishab4]

Not only it should apologize for the sexual abuse its pervert priests caused to innocent kids and older victims, but The Church should apologize for every penny they extorted from gullible people and return more Billions to the needy. The church should return to the simplicity and ''poverty'' they vowed to, facing God! They should not be running Billions $ of assets and luxury properties throughout the World, while poverty is strking in majority of Catholic, and third world countries.

[trishab4]

The future of the American church? None I hope. Only stupid people believe stuff like that and their percentage of the population is falling.
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Posted by fibonacci_ at 05:43 AM : Apr 20, 2008

-Amen!

[gronamox-2009]

Why do we have to be exposed to these ''religious'' leaders coming to the US to hawk their wares or in the pope''s case, gloss over his organization''s crimes? They are looking for contributors; they are polishing up their rotten reputations; they are trying to lure young men into twisted and repressed lives of sexless(hardly) obedience to other men. Join the Tibetan Church (I don''t think so), become a priest(I don''t like boys). Let''s keep these mf''s out. They can never atone for their inhuman behavior. And if you think the Dalai Lama is an innocent, you are crazy.

[fibonacci_]

Actually I change my mind - future of the American church - a museum.

[fibonacci_]

The future of the American church? None I hope. Only stupid people believe stuff like that and their percentage of the population is falling.

[brianbwb-2009]

"My own years as a teenager were marred by a sinister regime that thought it had all the answers,"

You mean like when you said that "Ours is the only true church"?

Certain ways of thinking do become ingrained.

[rushlimpdrug]

Great.

The suffering is behind us!

Now let''s all go to Walmart and help out
the chineeze economy.

China, now there is a market for christianity!

Go get''em!

[newsterl]

The pope says the s3x scandal..."has caused the church and him great suffering."

YEAH RIGHT! the church and HIM, but he makes NO mention of the VICTIMS! typical right wing idiot, he is more concerned about how much CASHOLA his dumb sheeple are losing to lawsuits.

Every new lawsuit against these right wing pedo protectors I read about brings JOY to my heart.

Go back home ponTIFF, preferably in pieces in a pine box.

[newsterl]

"CBS News Seized By Chronic - Habitual Spammers - Again !
Chasing Away Serious Posters and former Patrons of CBS ...
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Posted by lastdance112"

READ the disclaimer you fool, it says;

"Now you''re in the public comment zone. What follows is not CBS News stuff; it comes from other people and we don''t vouch for it."

What does that MEAN lastdance112 ? It means STOP WHINING, the comments section is totally FREE to you, if you don''t like to read other people''s comments then go somewhere else!

[element51]

clew37....Thank you for your kind words. In fact, thank you for simply believeing me. One of the hardest things to deal with my whole life was that if I tried to talk to anyone about this no one believed I was telling the truth. I think that hurt more than anything else. As the years have gone by, I have slowly reached the point where I have been able to forgive the man that did those things to me. Once I did that I was able to take my life back and that has brought me peace. I still have times when I get flashes of anger when I see organized religion manipulating the people but I tell myself that if that brings comfort to people I have no right to be angry about it. When you listen to the President talk about his "faith" and then watch young men and women dying because of his actions it makes you angry. But again, the people chose him and who am I to go against the people''s will. Anyway, thank you again because just to read your words makes me realize that there are good loving people out there so all is not lost.

[byeneocons]

As long as the Catholic church preaches celibacy, they will have the perversion of pedophilia. To preach against condoms in the age of AIDS is a sin.
To go to countries where starvation is the way of life where women have kid after kid and preach against birth control is a sin.

Religions, like mankind, should evolve. Did Catholicism stop the abomination of slavery? No.
The evolution of cultures did.

The Pope can apologize all he wants. Two billion dollars in settlements to victims of pedophiles is an abomination. If they''re strapped for money, they should sell some of their massive real estate assets all over the world. Or a couple of those jewels from the crown.

[thisandthat1]

While it was going on, the Pope, in his position then, swept it under the carpet, hoping it would go away. Now, the cashflow is being effected at the Vatican, because Catholics are leaving the Church in droves .... so, now all of a sudden, he cares deeply about the issue!

[clew37]

For Element51:
I''m not a Catholic either, nor do I believe in gods. I apologize to you though. For all the suffering you went through that adults could have stopped, for the continuing embarassment and anger you have to go through every day, I apologize...People could stop these things from happening with just a very little effort. But we don''t. We put words on paper and then look away. I hope you find someplace in your mind you can feel happiness occasionally. You are a very strong-hearted man.

[element51]

It''s still hard to talk about this but here goes. Having been molested by a parish priest at the age of 11, I have lived with it all my life. And it has had a disasterous effect on me. I won''t go into how it has affected me but it has. At one point I went to a Bishop who is the head of the church in the area where I live and told him what happened and asked for an apology. He informed me that he could not apologize for something that I had no proof of and dismissed me as though I were an errent schoolboy. I was 56 years old at the time. All my life I wanted some sort of apology but was afraid no one would believe me and I had no physical proof so I have just lived with it. I had all this happen and I''m not even a Catholic. To me, organized religion is nothing more than manipulation of the masses based on a bunch of fairy tales and this Pope in just another scammer who is bleeding the sheep. The church robbed me of my innocence and has never made the slightest effort to even acknowledge what they did. I''d say they can rot in hel1 but I don''t believe there is such a place.

[tucano2]

Works, do Works, get something Done! For example fire Mahoney and most of the rest of the leadership in the USA for leading Americans, particularly young male Americans, down the garden path and behind some Bushes where priests rape the boys and the leadership hide the monsters and give these perps other parishes to attack still more Americans. Mahoney''s hide and seek ''game'' with prosecutors to protect child-rapist priests is criminal; throw the s.o.b. in jail with other *** offenders, and perhaps he''ll cough up the files quickly enough. These miserable monsters need to be treated as any other child-rapist is treated. Take off the gloves!

[cyberus-2009]

Time of Healing .. hmmmm

All the things that can get someone kicked out of the church, a Priest abusing children is a time to forgive and heal.
Some set of standards there.