Child Molesting Priest Leads to 'Shattered' Faith - William Lobdell

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/25/Losing_Religion_William_Lobdell

Former L.A. Times journalist William Lobdell recalls reporting on members of a Catholic church who rallied to support a child molesting priest. The incident "shattered" Lobdell's faith, causing him to reconsider his conversion to Catholicism.

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William Lobdell's journey of faith -- and doubt -- may be the most compelling spiritual memoir of our time. Lobdell became a born-again Christian in his late 20s when personal problems drove him to his knees in prayer.

As a newly minted evangelical, Lobdell -- a veteran journalist -- noticed that religion wasn't covered well in the mainstream media, and he prayed for the Lord to put him on the religion beat at a major newspaper. In 1998, his prayers were answered when the Los Angeles Times asked him to write about faith.

Yet what happened over the next eight years was a roller-coaster of inspiration, confusion, doubt, and soul-searching as his reporting and experiences slowly chipped away at his faith. He explored every doubt, every question -- until, finally, his faith collapsed. - Kepler's Books

William Lobdell has been a journalist for 25 years, winning scores of state and national awards. In 1998, he was assigned to the religion beat for the Los Angeles Times. During his eight years covering faith, he was a finalist for national religion writer of the year in 2002, 2003 and 2004. He left the religion beat when he lost his faith, in 2007.

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[mavaddat]

"Civilization will not attain perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest." — Émile Zola

[iannixxx]

fuck Catholicism.

I'd burn the vatican to the ground if I could.

[kandahar0]

and they talk about women right in islamic countries hypocrist at its best

[Charlz850]

i never trust faith with my trust funds

[SteveCarras]

Note at 0:38 that it's spoken at Menlo Park, CA near the San Fransisco bay Area, infamous for gays [not slamming it.]

[justinkrasowski1234]

Former journalist? Well, suspicions confirmed, they talk and write just to talk and write! Gotta make that money deadline. I can't believe the journalists let the wealthy take over the USA with no murmur.

[ROMANxxEMPIRE]

Sick child molesting white trash crackers need to die!!!

[ShellyDZ99]

@ladygaganumber1fan1 I understand your point about how hard it is not to have sex, but molesting a child is an act of violence, not sex.

[salehs313]

@fudgedogbannana and they said the prophet mohammed is a molester and they say arabs are terrorist look at that women who killed caylee anthoney everytime you people make lies about us you live it

[ivlfounder]

@steelyglenn

A post worth pondering.

[TheGraceofChrist]

So sad and disturbing that they still supported the perp.

[steelyglenn]

@known12 I agree with you, but the question is, which came first? The Gayness

or the pedophilia? I think these priests are mostly misguided guys trying to live

a sexless life which is unnatural. I think they just might be turning into gay peds

because there's only Altar Boys around, and not "Altar Girls". It's a crime of

opportunism... Hell, apparently you can stick a guy in the Mountains with no

human contact and they start looking at Goats and Chickens to have sex with!