Yet experts say there's simply no data to support the claim at all. No formal comparative study has ever broken down child sexual abuse by denomination, and only the Catholic Church has released detailed data about its own. But based on the surveys and studies conducted by different denominations over the past 30 years, experts who study child abuse say they see little reason to conclude that sexual abuse is mostly a Catholic issue. "We don't see the Catholic Church as a hotbed of this or a place that has a bigger problem than anyone else," said Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. "I can tell you without hesitation that we have seen cases in many religious settings, from traveling evangelists to mainstream ministers to rabbis and others."
“For God’s sake, why do you damnable sodomites pursue the heights of ecclesiastical dignity with such fiery ambition?” - Saint Peter Damian, Book of Gomorrah (1051)
It's sodomites, the Catholic Church has been infected and infiltrated by damnable, grooming sodomites. But she is the spotless bride of Christ and they'll be ejected soon enough.
The Church of Christ is made up of born again believers. I came out of the Catholic Church and joined a church made up of Born Again Believers. The Catholic Church is NOT the spotless bride of Christ. The collective of Born Again Believers all over the world from the time of Christ up until His return are the Spotless Bride of Christ.
They are made spotless by His sacrifice, because He willingly went to the cross as the Spotless Lamb of God, where God put the sins of all those who would believe on His son and put His own Son to death as propitiation to satisfy the judgements of God. 2 Cor 5:21 says "For He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
Only those who are Born Again will be part of the Spotless Bride of Christ.
For if the lineal succession of bishops is to be taken into account, with how much more certainty and benefit to the Church do we reckon back until we reach Peter himself, to whom, as a figure of the whole Church, the Lord said: “Upon this rock will I build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it!” [Mt 16:18]. - Augustine of Hippo (400 AD)
That's an improper exegesis of the text. Peter or in the Greek Petros = stone, pebble or small rock. Rock in Greek is Petra = Rock, cliff, or ledge.
Christ was referring to the statement Peter had made about Christ when he said "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
It is also evident that Peter was not the first Pope or even the head of the Church in Rome because in Acts 15 Paul goes to meet with the Apostles and Elders of the church to discuss whether gentiles need to be circumcised, and it is James, the brother of Jesus, who makes the ruling for the church, and not Peter.
Catholic teaching is that Peter is the first Pope and that there is a direct line of succession from the Pope of today all the way to Peter, except history tells us otherwise. I was once a practicing Catholic and was taught doctrines of Catholicism. I left in 1982 and became born again in 1989, and joined a Bible preaching church, that teaches sola scriptura, sola gratia and sola fide, that is, scripture alone, by grace alone, through faith alone. That is to say salvation is not by works, but by the Grace of God, through faith which is a gift of God, based on the Gospel which is the Word of God.
In Aramiac there is only one word for rock and that is Kephas. So it would say "your are Kepha and upon said Kepha I will build my Church." Augustine is only 350 years separated from Christ so I trust him over you. And Cyprian was only 200 years separated.
The Lord says to Peter: “I say to you,” he says, “that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church, and the gates of hell will not overcome it. And to you I will give the keys of the kingdom of heaven . . .” [Mt 16:18–19]. On him he builds the Church, and commands him to feed the sheep [Jn 21:17], and although he assigns a like power to all the apostles, yet he founded a single chair [cathedra], and he established by his own authority a source and an intrinsic reason for that unity. Indeed, the others were also what Peter was [apostles], but a primacy is given to Peter, by which it is made clear that there is one Church and one chair. . . . If someone does not hold fast to this unity of Peter, can he think that he holds the faith? If he deserts the chair of Peter upon whom the Church was built, can he be confident that he is in the Church? - Cyprian of Carthage, 250 AD
The exegesis of the early Church Fathers is far more accurate than anything someone 2000 years removed can say.
*Yawn
https://www.newsweek.com/priests-commit-no-more-abuse-other-males-70625
https://twitter.com/ProtecttheFaith/status/1549369579742400512
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1Jt6el2LFQ
It's sodomites, the Catholic Church has been infected and infiltrated by damnable, grooming sodomites. But she is the spotless bride of Christ and they'll be ejected soon enough.
The Church of Christ is made up of born again believers. I came out of the Catholic Church and joined a church made up of Born Again Believers. The Catholic Church is NOT the spotless bride of Christ. The collective of Born Again Believers all over the world from the time of Christ up until His return are the Spotless Bride of Christ. They are made spotless by His sacrifice, because He willingly went to the cross as the Spotless Lamb of God, where God put the sins of all those who would believe on His son and put His own Son to death as propitiation to satisfy the judgements of God. 2 Cor 5:21 says "For He (God) made Him (Jesus) who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him."
Only those who are Born Again will be part of the Spotless Bride of Christ.
That's an improper exegesis of the text. Peter or in the Greek Petros = stone, pebble or small rock. Rock in Greek is Petra = Rock, cliff, or ledge.
Christ was referring to the statement Peter had made about Christ when he said "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.”
17 Jesus answered and said to him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but My Father who is in heaven. 18 And I also say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.
It is also evident that Peter was not the first Pope or even the head of the Church in Rome because in Acts 15 Paul goes to meet with the Apostles and Elders of the church to discuss whether gentiles need to be circumcised, and it is James, the brother of Jesus, who makes the ruling for the church, and not Peter.
Catholic teaching is that Peter is the first Pope and that there is a direct line of succession from the Pope of today all the way to Peter, except history tells us otherwise. I was once a practicing Catholic and was taught doctrines of Catholicism. I left in 1982 and became born again in 1989, and joined a Bible preaching church, that teaches sola scriptura, sola gratia and sola fide, that is, scripture alone, by grace alone, through faith alone. That is to say salvation is not by works, but by the Grace of God, through faith which is a gift of God, based on the Gospel which is the Word of God.
In Aramiac there is only one word for rock and that is Kephas. So it would say "your are Kepha and upon said Kepha I will build my Church." Augustine is only 350 years separated from Christ so I trust him over you. And Cyprian was only 200 years separated.
The exegesis of the early Church Fathers is far more accurate than anything someone 2000 years removed can say.