{"id":25490,"date":"2010-04-15T12:21:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/catholicism-from-a-jewish-view\/"},"modified":"2010-04-15T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T16:21:21","slug":"catholicism-from-a-jewish-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/catholicism-from-a-jewish-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Catholicism from a Jewish viewpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><!--StartFragment--><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Having another perspective is always helpful. Excerpts of an article written by non-Catholic Sam<br \/>\nMiller &#8211;&nbsp;a prominent&nbsp;Cleveland&nbsp;Jewish businessman: &#8220;Why<br \/>\nwould newspapers carry on a vendetta on one of the most important institutions<br \/>\nthat we have today in the&nbsp;United States, namely the Catholic Church?<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Do<br \/>\nyou know &#8211; the Catholic Church educates 2.6 million students everyday at the<br \/>\ncost to that Church of 10 billion dollars, and a savings on the other hand to<br \/>\nthe American taxpayer of 18 billion dollars. The graduates go on to graduate<br \/>\nstudies at the rate of 92%.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">The Church has 230 colleges and universities in<br \/>\nthe&nbsp;U.S. with an enrollment of 700,000 students.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">The Catholic Church has a<br \/>\nnon-profit hospital system of 637 hospitals, which account for hospital treatment<br \/>\nof 1 out of every 5 people &#8211; not just Catholics &#8211; in the&nbsp;United States<br \/>\ntoday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">But the press is vindictive and trying to totally denigrate in every way<br \/>\nthe Catholic Church in this country. They have blamed the disease of pedophilia<br \/>\non the Catholic Church, which is as irresponsible as blaming adultery on the<br \/>\ninstitution of marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Let me give you some figures that Catholics should<br \/>\nknow and remember. For example, 12% of the 300 Protestant clergy surveyed<br \/>\nadmitted to sexual intercourse with a parishioner; 38% acknowledged other<br \/>\ninappropriate sexual contact in a study by the&nbsp;United Methodist Church,<br \/>\n41.8% of clergy women reported unwanted sexual behavior; 17% of laywomen have<br \/>\nbeen sexually harassed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Meanwhile, 1.7% of the Catholic clergy has been found<br \/>\nguilty of pedophilia. 10% of the Protestant ministers have been found guilty of<br \/>\npedophilia. This is not a Catholic problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">A study of American priests showed<br \/>\nthat most are happy in the priesthood and find it even better than they had<br \/>\nexpected, and that most, if given the choice, would choose to be priests again<br \/>\nin face of all this obnoxious PR the church has been receiving.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">The Catholic<br \/>\nChurch is bleeding from self-inflicted wounds. The agony that Catholics have<br \/>\nfelt and suffered is not necessarily the fault of the Church. You have been<br \/>\nhurt by a small number of wayward priests that have probably been totally<br \/>\nweeded out by now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Garamond;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US\">Walk with your shoulders high and you head higher. Be a<br \/>\nproud member of the most important non-governmental agency in the&nbsp;United<br \/>\nStates. Then remember what Jeremiah said: &#8216;Stand by the roads, and look and ask<br \/>\nfor the ancient paths, where the good way is and walk in it, and find rest for<br \/>\nyour souls&#8217;. Be proud to speak up for your faith with pride and reverence<br \/>\nand learn what your Church does for all other religions.&nbsp;Be proud that you&#8217;re a<br \/>\nCatholic.&#8221; &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having another perspective is always helpful. Excerpts of an article written by non-Catholic Sam Miller &#8211;&nbsp;a prominent&nbsp;Cleveland&nbsp;Jewish businessman: &#8220;Why would newspapers carry on a vendetta on one of the most important institutions that we have today in the&nbsp;United States, namely the Catholic Church? Do you know &#8211; the Catholic Church educates 2.6 million students everyday &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2010\/04\/catholicism-from-a-jewish-view\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Catholicism from a Jewish viewpoint<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1982,1778,1973],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25490"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}