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Entry: The Addams Family Chapel Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/the_addams_family_chapel#11047 Post contents: If I've ever read any more bickering over semantics in my life, I'm not sure. Is Original Sin "inherited" or "propagated" (via some "force", as Mr Cundiff stated)? In all honesty, it doesn't matter. The FACT of the matter is (as long as we agree on this fact): Original Sin exists, and everyone is stained with it, whether it be inherited or propagated really doesn't matter; baptism (in the Name of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit) is necessary in order to bring a human being into the Grace of God and His Church. What happens before and after that baptism is a mystery: whether or not a baby is conceived with Original Sin in his mother's womb or it was propagated into his nature at his conception is unknown, a mystery, even unnecessary knowledge - it does not affect the nature of the Faith any way at all. I don't know for a fact, but I doubt very seriously that any pope for 2,000 years ever got around to debating such an argument; it really is not worth debating. HOWEVER, what is worth debating is the ephebophilia of Catholic priests. Having been around Catholic priests for the better part of 30+ years, I can tell you that I have never, nor has anyone I've ever known, been approached by a Catholic priest for any sexual causes, even while being a rather "hunky" (if I may say so myself) teenager. The only people I personally know of that were victims of sexual abuse were abused by their stepfathers, uncles, and acquaintances. Those people never went to the "authorities", and I believe one reason is that there was nothing to be gained, and everything to be lost. If I were a disgruntled Catholic, and had been abused by a Catholic priest, it would only be natural to try and bring that priest, a symbol of the Church, down by filing complaints, no matter how spurious (and I do believe that a rather large bulk of abuse complaints are spurious, but the Church, for whatever reason, pays them off - a mistake in my opinion). The anti-Catholic/pedophilia priest scandal seems a lot like, to me, a modern day "witch-hunt", once again being pursued by the anti-Catholic/Protestants, with no real rational thought involved. Sent at: 2008 09 05