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Shez wrote:
> Unfortunalty while the catholic church shelters and hides priests who
> abuse children.... it will be tarred with the same brush as the
> pedophiles, It is after all supporting their abuse. Instead of
getting
> rid of them sacking them and defrocking them so they are no longer
> priests, and handing them over to the police, they have paid off
> families and put these priests into positions where they can carry on
> abusing.
What should really have happened is when a priest was found to have
abused a kid Bernard Law should have immediately removed them from
their job and turned them over to the police for prosecution.
What you don't do in a situation like this is shuffle them off to a new
church, tell them nothing about the allegations and give the priest new
kids to diddle. But that is exactly what Law did.
> This to me at least shows that the rot goes up to the top. Because
those
> at the top the cardinals and the pope, could have and should have
> stopped this years ago. Instead they pretended it didnt happen, and
said
> that the priests must be forgiven and given another chance, If a
priest
> murdered someone they wouldnt give him another chance. They would
give
> him over to the police. How is this different.
The cardinals including Law knew it was going on. Their solution was
to shuffle the priests around.
Did the pope know anything about it? I'm not sure. In his last few
years you could be standing next to the pope and I don't think he knew
you
were there or where he was or who he was.
All in all the whole scandal was botched from top to
bottom. How far up the top of the food chain we
may never know. The cardinals certainly knew about
it but whether the pope really did.
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