Comments for Mapping Our Disordered Desires at http://www.thecatholicthing.org , comment 1 to 9 out of 9 comments http://www.thecatholicthing.org Tue, 21 May 2013 14:04:51 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/mapping-our-disordered-desires.html#comment-13155 ib, Soros is actually paying for stuff like that? Wow, he is one determined person. As to Grump, i would be very surprised if he were one of those. I think he is exactly what he has told us about himself--someone who lost his faith a long time ago. I can only assume that he is seeking and that is why he keeps reading and commentating. - Louise Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:09:42 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/mapping-our-disordered-desires.html#comment-13137 As for grump, he's just a troll. Ignore him he'll go away. Soros-funded groups have hired trolls like grump to harass serious Roman Catholic websites. Since they are paid to do this, they simply spew nonsense and venom in the comments. Best to ignore these type of trolls, as wise Dr Smith does. - ib Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:38:59 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/mapping-our-disordered-desires.html#comment-13136 It's all about the money. You can only rarely sue school districts for teacher pedophiles. Organized religion is like shooting fish in a barrel for SNAP-like groups.ISKCON, for example, was nearly bankrupted. Point is that although the problem is endemic to many societies, because of the legal structures in the U.S., only organized religion bears the vengeance and the concomitant financial punishment. However, the Roman Catholic Church has endured worse and will survive this as well. - ib Sat, 25 Aug 2012 17:32:12 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/mapping-our-disordered-desires.html#comment-13135 Actually, I'm a little shocked at my results. I live in a rather dense, older, not-so-glamorous closer-in suburb of DC, in an area with a lot of high-rises, and yet there's only one offender within a half-mile of me, and only two within one mile. The concentration of offenders is much higher in the "nicer", less-dense areas. I would've expected at least one in my building of 900+ condos, but in a grouping of about 8 buildings of similar size, there's only one. Good news indeed, but definitely not what I expected.. - T.D. Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:43:29 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/mapping-our-disordered-desires.html#comment-13131 If all the allegations -- and perhaps even convictions -- of paedophilia by priests were true, then priests have been working double shifts at being predators, with no time for anything else. Even one creep is about a hundred too many, though, and we must all do penance for the children because given our popular culture there might not be anyone else willing to do penance. - Mack Sat, 25 Aug 2012 04:53:24 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/mapping-our-disordered-desires.html#comment-13130 Do we really need a map to know where most of the violent crime is committed in America? Let's see: 13% of population commits 55% of "reported" crimes? Draw your own conclusions. - Grump Sat, 25 Aug 2012 04:41:45 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/mapping-our-disordered-desires.html#comment-13129 Things aren't always as simple as they appear. Unless things have changed, a great portion of those triangles are 19 year olds who had sex with their 16 year old girlfriends mixed in with true sex offenders. The cops don't care because, actually, the pension money is more likely to flow from the mostly innocent than the completely guilty. You'll not find someone who agrees with your larger point more, I'm just making note that there are more evils than just sexual dysfunction at work here. The whole society is diseased, and a great portion of it is hoping to find someone else to lynch (Catholics work best) so they can forget about their own diseases. - Jacob R Sat, 25 Aug 2012 03:01:31 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/mapping-our-disordered-desires.html#comment-13128 Bear in mind that the register only records cases that have been prosecuted to conviction. Many cases go unreported and, given the need for corroboration, implicating the accused, it is usually impossible to prosecute, unless there are two complainants, who then become mutually corroborative. There is no more painful task for a prosecutor than to have to mark a file containing a credible complaint, “no proceedings,” knowing full well that the file will arrive back on his desk a few months later, with a second victim. - Michael Paterson-Seymour Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:36:05 +0100 http://www.thecatholicthing.org/columns/2012/mapping-our-disordered-desires.html#comment-13127 "But clearly we don’t live in a wiser culture." No, we do not. It's always a gas whenever that culture seizes on priestly celibacy and then presumes to lecture the Church on sex and love when it is a culture that has failed spectacularly at both of these things. It's a culture where so many marriages fail, and where far too many people don't even know what sex is for despite it being everywhere (though they do nonetheless pay it a backhanded compliment through hogwash such as "unprotected sex makes babies" as well as abortion and contraception). - WSquared Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:09:35 +0100