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	Anonymous Keeps Tapping the Keys, and Rocky Hits Home Harder on His Webcast, As the Comments Saga Here and Attacks on Advocates in Illinois Continue By Kay Ebeling City of Angels February 27, 2008 http://cityofangels4.blogspot.com/2008/02/tod-tamberg-continues-tippling-keys-and.html "A more clear question for 'Anonymous:' how has the PRIESTHOOD where all of this filth thrived been changed? How has the training and recruitment of priests changed? What has the LA Archdiocese changed in priests' lives to ensure your priests aren't wacko sickos who only come to the church because they know that there, in the seminaries and confessionals, they can get away with all these sex crimes and NO ONE WILL STOP THEM? "How has the archdiocese addressed that problem, the real problem that exists in the Catholic church and the Catholic church alone, because of its sick preoccupation with sexuality in the first place. Phew." The above quote is my response to a person called "Anonymous" who jumps in to the comments section here at City of Angels Blog after almost every post. He/she copy and pastes articles from The Tidings and archdiocese press releases to show what a great job Roger Mahony and the bishops have done handling perpetrator priests. The more he posts, the more I see the holes in the church's claims. I'm swamped at work, but went over to the CTL website to see what they're up to and found "Rocky's" latest webcast (see February 23rd post) with this rant: "Individuals who have stated both privately and publicly that they have been abused either by a priest or a lay person. (We have) validated, validated, confirmed, that they lied, that they simply lied, many thinking, wanting, needing, desiring the financial gain, a quick settlement, a quick way out, the sympathy from the public." The Rush Limbaugh imitation continues: "CTL NYC Documentary news has documented moneys that were given to charitable organizations to help those credibly abused who have stated that they have been abused sexually as an adolescent, validated where that money went, nowhere near the sexual abuse victims." The voice of CTL never follows any of these accusations with facts. Just promises that we'll all find out the whole truth when the documentary they are producing comes out. . . . ==== The Truth Pops Up in the Strangest Places On my other job, the one that pays, not this blog, I was transcribing an interview for an upcoming show on E! Entertainment Network called: "15 BEAUTY QUEENS GONE WRONG" Honest that's the name of the show. Anyway, this woman who is a former Miss Universe said: "It depends on how the girls handle the scandal, if they come out of it, if they're honest. If they are saying this is who I am, I'm learning from my mistakes, this is who I am, let me be, then they really can thrive. If they just sort of shy away from it, it really can hurt their career in the long run." Now why couldn't the church have said that a long time ago? Roger Mahony and the bishops should spend more time listening to the words of beauty queens. ***** Thoughts on a rainy afternoon: People say why focus on priests, there's sex abuse everywhere. Why single out the Catholic Church. It's not the same in other churches. In American Bible-based churches the pastors have no private life. There are committees overseeing everything they do, investigating everything they've ever done. As one lady said to me, "People be in their business all the time." With the Catholic Church it's the secrecy, the sacrosanct, the very mysticism on which the church rests, that attracts deviant men to the priesthood from the beginning. There, they can disconnect from normal life attachments like a wife and family. They wear robes (do they wear underwear under those long flowing robes?). They wear dressed in a world where men wear pants. And that silly celibacy vow. ***** One more excerpt from The Rock at CTL narrowcast radio punditry: (Choir sings in Latin) DIFFERENT MALE VOICE: Because it's not only pastors who are not trained in seminary to deal with clergy killers, media reporters were not trained to understand the impact of this, that when a people abuse and kill their spiritual leader, that is damaging not only to that community of faith, but to the surrounding community as well. And when we now have this happening to thousands of spiritual leaders, there is a ripple effect that simply cannot be ignored. WHEN you kill your shaman you kill yourself. (CHOIR: sings Latin) ROCKY: A clergy killer is a member of a congregation who has a desire to meet some need either personal or on behalf of the congregation. And they use the pastor as a means of getting that need met." By the way at CTL a Clergy Killer is someone who opposes the way the church has handled the perpetrator priest crimes so far. Anyone who doesn't continue to sit in the pews and spew adoration on criminal priests is in their eyes a "clergy killer."
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