tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post1101869360684595942..comments2024-03-19T13:11:49.614-07:00Comments on Save Send Delete: Response to Andrew Sullivan "The Dish" Regarding TuamD Goskahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-34349716424340265112014-06-05T13:43:05.466-07:002014-06-05T13:43:05.466-07:00Anonymous -- why not post under a real name -- you...Anonymous -- why not post under a real name -- you wrote:<br /><br />end up protecting the abusers <br /><br />Can you please tell me how I have protected an abuser?<br /><br />My guess is that you know zero about me and don't want to know -- which is fine -- but since you know nothing about me, why accuse me falsely? <br /><br />I've received many emails from Sullivan's readers, and most are lynch mob style. <br /><br />How does that make any of you any good at all? <br /><br />Lynch mob members are not exemplars of ethics. D Goskahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09353495585591945881noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-46201268830124789562014-06-05T13:14:48.232-07:002014-06-05T13:14:48.232-07:00In 1944, with German U-boat activity at its height...In 1944, with German U-boat activity at its height, how much of Ireland was malnourished?<br /><br />There is a whole lot of forgetfulness of history in this anachronistic Catholic hate-fest.Peter Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10710410499391419230noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-85868531842741325392014-06-05T13:10:14.280-07:002014-06-05T13:10:14.280-07:00You know that Sullivan is Catholic don't you? ...You know that Sullivan is Catholic don't you? At least he was until he was hounded out of your church because he married a man. How Christian of you all! Good luck on your hate campaign against any form of criticism of your blind support of the Vatican no matter who suffers in the wake. <br /><br />If you knew anything about Sully you'd know that he's been writing about female infanticide and genital mutilation for years. Hell, he just wrote about the evils of the caste system just yesterday. But of course you don't care. Your faith means more than the lives of anyone. God forbid if any Catholic is called up to answer for participating evil or its cover-up. The church must survive no matter what, right?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-88370258698762896002014-06-05T12:10:52.343-07:002014-06-05T12:10:52.343-07:00Oh please! No one ever said anything about all chi...Oh please! No one ever said anything about all child abuse being caused by Catholics alone (the martyrdom is strong in this one!). But as we have seen in the last decade or more, it does have an institutional record of ignoring child abuse at the hands of it own. And for you to pretend that it is the people (priests, nuns, layfolks, whomever) and not the institution that are entirely to blame is disingenuous and has allowed that child abuse to go on for far too long.<br /><br />If you weren't so intent on your own martyr complex, you would be aware that many Protestant congregations are going through similar ordeals. They don't attract the same kind of attention, probably due to the fragmented nature of the Protestant churches.<br /><br />Those nuns at The Home were supervised by the hierarchy of their order and the larger church, and no one in that time saw a problem? Perhaps they are as blind as you.<br /><br />You claim "When I witness child abuse, I do something" but then stick up for an institution that coddles and protects (or has in the past - to a massive degree) these abusers. Sullivan is a Catholic, but one that understands that the Church is not infallible, and is working to change the many problems that such and old and massive organization will undoubtedly have over time. It is folks like you who claim to want to protect children, and then end up protecting the abusers and the environment that fosters them implemented by the Church. that is the problem. And then you have the nerve to castigate Sullivan? Wow.<br /><br />Maybe you should remove the plank from your own eye before you start pointing out the plank in others. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174606706448853915.post-60001552274682503602014-06-05T12:09:11.292-07:002014-06-05T12:09:11.292-07:00I totally agree with Danusha. Child abuse is NOT ...I totally agree with Danusha. Child abuse is NOT a Catholic thing. The Catholics who committed the offenses, as Danusha points out, are doing so OUTSIDE Of the teachings of the Church. These homes in Ireland, for unwed mothers, were barbaric, the poor young women were treated horribly, made to work like slaves, stripped of the rights to their children. But these abominable acts, were committed by Nuns, who themselves were sick and twisted and maybe had been forced by sick and twisted families to join the convent. These were unhappy woman, who were bitter cruel and vengeful. Just as the nuns were when I went to Catholic school, they were very abusive to small children,,surely these were NOT "brides of Christ" but frustrated unhappy women. The Catholic church did NOT teach them to behave this way. I think it is highly unlikely that anyone in Rome with any power in the church had any idea what was going on in those homes. They were meant as a refuge, and unfortunately they were anything but. Not a Catholic condition but a human condition. And as Danusha pointed out, something that all religions, cultures, societies have had to deal with through the ages. Our prisons are FULL of child abusers of all kinds, colors, shapes, sizes, religions, nationalities. I too am a survivor of Childhood sexual abuse.. It had NOTHING to do with being Catholic and everything to do with the fact that sick and perverted people come from all walks of life. O.k. just my two or three cents on this... <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com