Sex abuse in church

**wombat2u2004** · 04-07-2010, 05:41 PM

An interesting clause...........
"Across three decades, Ratzinger was key to the appointment of bishops whose overriding commitment was the protection of pope-centered clerical authority. Terrified of acting on their own, they had one eye eternally on Rome. “Scandal’’ was their nightmare. Between an abused child and a predator priest, their choice was always simple: protecting the power structure meant protecting the priest."

**kokopup** · 04-07-2010, 06:30 PM

"Across three decades, Ratzinger was key to the appointment of bishops whose overriding commitment was the protection of pope-centered clerical authority. Terrified of acting on their own, they had one eye eternally on Rome. “Scandal’’ was their nightmare. Between an abused child and a predator priest, their choice was always simple: protecting the power structure meant protecting the priest.

If you read the link that I put in Post 101 it details how Ratzinger used "Vatican 2" to create the culture of secrecy that has spawned the churches present problems. While his intention may have been good the end results have turned into a disaster that even he, based on his recent declarations, must realize was a mistake. It is time for Vatican 3 to undo the Problems created by the Vatican 2 fundamentalist. The man now going by "Pope Benedict the 16th" was the leader of that group. He just about has to step aside for the present problems to be resolved.

http://www.weirdload.com/ratzi-responsible.pdf

**wombat2u2004** · 04-08-2010, 06:13 AM

Originally Posted by kokopup

The man now going by "Pope Benedict the 16th" was the leader of that group. He just about has to step aside for the present problems to be resolved.

Good. The guilty and their protectors must be punished by law. (And I don't mean Canon Law)

**RICHARD** · 04-08-2010, 06:29 AM

Originally Posted by wombat2u2004

Good. The guilty and their protectors must be punished by law. (And I don't mean Canon Law)

Hows about CANNON law, You know, like the guy at the circus, with out the net?

**wombat2u2004** · 04-08-2010, 06:30 AM

Originally Posted by RICHARD

Hows about CANNON law, You know, like the guy at the circus, with out the net?

Awwww sorry mate....I'm just a poor old uneducated protestant

**RICHARD** · 04-08-2010, 07:15 AM

Originally Posted by wombat2u2004

Awwww sorry mate....I'm just a poor old uneducated protestant

We all pray to the same 'god' when we get into trouble.

**Marigold2** · 04-08-2010, 08:24 AM

Well most of us pray to the same God Richard, not all.
Having grown up Lutheran, (German Luthean) service was in German I was taught to believe that only God can forgive a sin.
Not a priest or a pope, but God.
So the whole Catholic confession thing is confusing and upsetting to me.
I did not understand how one can murder, rape and do other horrible sins, confess to a priest and be forgiven. How does this priest whom you might not even know, see into your heart? How can he know that you are truly sorry? Will the $500.00 you slip him make it easier to cheat on your wife next time and be forgiven once again? Priests are after all just men who went to school to study a certain line of thought and now as a job they wear a robe and pray, do weddings and funerals for a living. It is a job after all like being a nurse or judge, they too wear a uniform and deal with life and death. And even though the nurses see a human at their most frail, naked and frighened they do not tell them they can save their soul,
nor do Dr's or judges.
I believe only God can forgive, since only he holds the keys to heaven. Or does the priest e-mail his requests for souls before hand to let into the pearly gates? Do they send a permisson slip with that?