A survey published in early April 2010 showed that a quarter of Germany’s Catholics were considering leaving the Church following media reports of sexual abuse by priests.

Are not these people traitors, turncoats and pikers?

They know — and the Church’s enemies in the media who report these things know — that abusing children is not part of the Catholic Faith.

They also know — and their enemies know – that, compared with other occupational groups, sex abuse by priests is, in fact, relatively uncommon.

Children are, and have always been, safer with priests than with the celebrities of the worlds of media , fashion, sport, entertainment, politics etc.

And certainly safer than with Mummy’s latest boyfriend.

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So why are these Catholics quitting?

Was their commitment to Catholic belief and practice already wobbly?

Were they waiting for an excuse to bail out anyway?

With the Church under pressure of accusations – some unfortunately true – should not its members redouble their commitment to the Church?

Dear troubled Catholic, the Church needs you now, more than ever.

Stay in the Church. Help to make it better and more faithful. Pray more. Live better and more pure yourself.

Insist on the facts when you hear the Church accused of being supposedly the worst community group regarding child abuse.

If you aren’t sure of the facts, check this blog, dated 13 April 2006 (www.marymackillop.org/2010/04/13)

Or www.zenit.org/article-3922?l=english

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The media, responsible for saturating our children’s minds with sex served up as entertainment and as an advertising ploy, making sexual sin seem trendy, seeks to distract us . . . .

To distract us from their never-ending sociopathic, neo-pornographic excesses, day in, day out, for decades . . . .

They want the Catholic Church exterminated — it being their last remaining source of criticism for their dishonesties, impurities and hypocrisies.

Let’s stick together and unmask them.

Tip-toeing away from of the Church will help nobody.

Thank God for the good the Church has done, is doing, and will still be doing when its critics have all gone to their reward.