Not to excuse the Catholic Church, but it believes in redemption. And it seems that pedophilia is not something that you can just stop doing, no matter how much you pray. While I have pity for the tormented souls of the perpetrators, they should abolutely not have been placed in a position to harm any other children.
My .02
Dana
>Interesting and conspicuous by its absence, the Mass Attorney General has been
>very active in filing criminal charges and pursuing them against corporate
>miscreants, however there are a complete absence of prosecutions for the
>cover-ups (Not just Mass, this is a nationwide problem)
>
>The second item also absent, is a revocation of passports of the miscreant
>priests, etc. most of whom are not US citizens.
>
>Here is SA just today there is a report of a priest being removed from a parish
>and placed into "treatment" by the local Archbishop, however they sat of the
>report for a year before acting on it.
>
>In this case, the offense is too old to prosecute, as the local DA is anxious to
>go after prosecutable cases.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Jerry Johnson
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:40 AM
> Subject: Re: Final thoughts on Gibson
>
>
> Getting in here late, but...
>
> Have you been following the Catholic Priest Abuse issue? From here in Boston,
>it is pretty clear Cardinal Law was acting directly under the Pope's orders.
>
> That is pretty evil all by itself.
>
> Jerry Johnson
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 02/23/04 04:31PM >>>
> You're talking hundreds of years ago. I think it's wrong to label the current
>Catholic Church as evil.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Heald, Tim
> To: CF-Community
> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 4:10 PM
> Subject: RE: Final thoughts on Gibson
>
> Funny huh?
>
> Have you read any of the history of Christianity? Now I know that evil can
> pervert good blah blah blah, but seriously what other religion other than
> Islam has been at fault for more unjust deaths than Christ based religions?
> I can't think of any. Hell even Islam probably has only caught up in the
> last century or so.
>
> The Roman Catholic Church is as evil as it comes IMHO.
>
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