Think the bishops and archbishops are more to blame than
the priests with basically a mental illness, since the
supervisors let the harm continue for so long.
-Ben
> 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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