When will the Watchtower dot their bit?
The Pope Did it!
by Gozz 1 Replies latest jw friends
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zerubberballz
Thankyou Gozz,
"when will the WBTS do it" you ask. It's quite simple really. If the Society were to admit to the massive systematic emotional abuse they've instituted, they might feel moved to change. But if they change the judicial proceedures and disfellowshipping system, where will thier power go but directly back into the hands of brother and sister blind faithful who, but for smooth mind control techniques and/or psychological need, would/should never have relinquished it in the first place.
The Brooklyn boys have the publishing donkey where they want it, everlasting carrot in front, hot stick of eternal obliteration behind. For paranoid men desperately clinging to power loosening the reins in anything but a supperficial way is unthinkable.
'Steady as she goes' is the call from the watchman, as the Towers dark cold shadow speads over the zombies head down and bum up in the field.
Reform is for idiots and control freaks, bring the watchtower crumbling down to hell i say.
unclebruce, who climbed out from under 15ft of pure white snow job.
===‘Sexual abuse by some clergy and religious has caused great suffering and spiritual harm to the victims.’ — JOHN PAUL II
THE APOLOGY, addressed among others to nuns in the developing world, was contained in a long and wide-ranging document issued by the Pope summing up the themes of a synod of bishops from Oceania that was held in the Vatican in 1998.
“Sexual abuse by some clergy and religious has caused great suffering and spiritual harm to the victims,” the Pope said in a small part of the 120-page document.
FIRST INTERNET MESSAGEFor the first time in his 23-year-old papacy, the Pope sent the document to churches around the world by pushing a button on a computer and dispatching it by email over the Internet.
“It (sexual abuse) has been very damaging in the life of the Church and has become an obstacle to the proclamation of the Gospel,” the Pope said in the document. Only one paragraph of the document was dedicated to sexual abuse. The document ranged from subjects such as evangelization and aboriginals, who he said were subjected to “shameful injustices” by some members of the Church in the past.
Still, the apology was important because it was the latest in a series of times the Pope has asked forgiveness from those who had been hurt by members of his Church.
In what appeared to be a reference to the sexual abuse of nuns in parts of the developing world, the Pope said: “Sexual abuse within the Church is a profound contradiction of the teaching and witness of Jesus Christ,” he said. “The synod fathers wished to apologize unreservedly to the victims for the pain and disillusionment caused to them.”
He said the Church in Oceania was seeking what he called “open and just” procedures to respond to complaints. The Church he said also was “unequivocally committed to compassionate and effective care for the victims, their families, the whole community and the offenders themselves.”
INTERNAL REPORTSLast March, the National Catholic Reporter (NCR), a major U.S.-based Catholic weekly, ran a series of stories on internal reports in the Vatican about the sexual abuse of nuns and other women by priests and bishops around the world. The Vatican acknowledged that the problem existed.
The internal reports said some priests and missionaries had forced nuns to have sex with them, and had in some cases committed rape and forced the victims to have abortions.The reports cited cases in 23 countries, including the United States, the Philippines, Ireland and Papua New Guinea. The author of one of the internal reports was nun and physician Maura O’Donohue, who presented it to the head of a Vatican department in February 1995. The Vatican ordered a working group to study the problem with O’Donohue.
Last July, some 150 Catholics protested at the Vatican’s United Nations mission, demanding an independent commission to investigate alleged violence against nuns by priests. In a petition to the Pope they sought punishment for priests who engage in violence and reparations to victimized nuns.
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