Dutch Catholic Church issues

Jmondi · #1 Mar 20, '12, 10:25 am

Today on AOL news someone wrote an article about Dutch Catholic Churches Castrating young boys in the 1950s. Of course the only time anyone seems to talk about us Catholics is when something bad happens.. What is your opinion on the matter?

Cristiano · #2 Mar 20, '12, 11:22 am

My opinion does not really matter; however, I cannot stop seeing that now governments want the Church to kill children by providing financial support for ABC and abortion. That also includes the targeted killing of children with down syndrome after prenatal screening.

Allegra · #3 Mar 20, '12, 11:39 am

I read a couple of articles and found that the story was hard to follow. In some versions, these castrations took place in a bording school. In others, a mental institution for children. In one part of the article, the boys were casterated as some sort of misguided treatment for homosexuality. Later, it says that it was done as punishment for complaining about priests and monks molesting them. I don't think the information is clear enough for me to have any opinon other than castration is not a reasonable treatment for non-violent sexual perversions.

Jmondi · #4 Mar 20, '12, 11:42 am

I just find it to be a shame that people can only talk about Catholics when it's negative...

freerf · #5 Mar 20, '12, 8:11 pm

It's a bigger shame there is soo much negative to report.

freerf · #6 Mar 20, '12, 8:13 pm

There was a lot of disgusting medical practices going around in those days. Look at what the medical professionals did to test syphilis, mental retardation, etc.

Those were barbaric days, all around.