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	Are the Bishops a Bunch of Nuts? Do They Really Think Predator Pedophile Priest Rape Survivors Want to Go on a Retreat with a Bunch of Priests? By Kay Ebeling City of Angels March 14, 2008 http://cityofangels4.blogspot.com/2008/03/does-church-think-predator-pedophile.html Two items today on Abuse Tracker really got my craw to the point that I've got to sneak away from work to write a post about them. All those people watching their churches and parochial schools close while the archdioceses sell the real estate need to step in and stop them. Those churches belong to the people who go to them and families that have been tithing to them for generations. How preposterous that the church can say we're closing these churches and schools due to the sexual predator clergy crisis, and then sell all the real estate (prime $$$$) and keep the profits. Doesn't anyone else see something a little bit wrong with that? Then we have the report released March 7 by the US Conference of Bishops bragging that "Counseling, retreats, support groups and spiritual direction are among the types of assistance U.S. dioceses have offered to victims of sexual abuse, notes a new," as the Tidings wrote about it. ARE YOU KIDDING? Do you think I trust my psyche to anybody in the Catholic Church right now? You think I want to go off on a retreat run by a bunch of priests and people who act like priests???????? ARE YOU NUTS??? Spiritual direction? From you????? Sorry, Church, what I want is my life changed. I feel sorry for people in the LA settlement who ended up with far less than a million after everything got deducted from their settlements. Because anything less than several million is not enough. Face it, church, you RUINED OUR LIVES. I don't want to go on a spiritual retreat with people I think are straight from SATAN, do you think I'm nuts? I grasp onto what's left of my spirit by staying as far away from anything Catholic as possible. I had to quit going to Kairos Church because they promoted Lent too much and sang songs I recognize from Catholic Church. I almost vomited last time I was there. Sorry, guys, but that's where you stand right now. How dare you call running retreats for us progress when as far as I know, most of us won't come near your church anymore. The only way to recompense is to CHANGE OUR LIVES, and I don't mean give me the down payment on a condo and therapy done by someone you recommend.
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