erring on the side of re-assigning priests accused of pedophilia to
assignments that did not involve unsupervised contact with children.
Library research for instance.
The Catholic Church could have denounced the massacres in Rwanda in no
uncertain terms. I don't believe it did, and granted that the church
has little enforcement authority this still would have carried
considerable moral weight in a country that is almost half catholic
http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/country/spcrw1.html
The Church has similarly been accused of failing to do all that it
could to speak out against the Holocaust, though a fast Google
indicates that this accusation is perhaps not totally based in fact.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/a/ww2jews.html
is what I am looking at if anyone is interested.
Dana
----- Original Message -----
From: Angel Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:32:20 -0400
Subject: RE: Senate rejects move to ban same-sex marriage
To: CF-Community <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fair enough.
Although I still fail to understand how the Catholic church was supposed
to stop these atrocities.
Are you advocating that the Catholic church begin to amass a modern army
to enforce it's will?
-Gel
-----Original Message-----
From: dana tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
The largest religous organization in the world has failed to stop a
number of atrocities that were arguably within its power to or at
least impede. In addition to the above I would mention the poor
handling of pedophiles in the priesthood.
Add to that a lot of disagreement on individual issues and I'd say
religion is not the best way to argue a moral question.
Dana________________________________
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