RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 24, 2015 at 7:52 pm
(August 24, 2015 at 6:58 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:Wow and all that is intended to make the church look better?(August 24, 2015 at 6:27 pm)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: You lauigh but yes you are. You know pope Benedict was shown to be shuffling and protecting molesters as the bishop of munich.
You agree that the Huffington Post is not known for its conservatism, correct?
Quote:Pope Benedict On Child Abuse: 'I Never Tried To Cover These Things Up'
By NICOLE WINFIELD
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/24...82941.html
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As prefect, Ratzinger in 2001 compelled bishops around the world to send all credible cases of abuse to his office for review. He took the move because it had become clear to him that bishops were merely shuffling abusive priests around, rather than subjecting them to church trials.
Ratzinger actually tried in 1988 to get around the cumbersome church trials, asking the Vatican's legal office for quicker ways to permanently remove priests who raped and molested children. But he was rebuffed, with the legal office saying that doing so would compromise the priests' ability to defend themselves.
Ratzinger was hamstrung by Pope John Paul II's unspoken policy against letting young men leave the priesthood and his overriding concern with preserving the rights of accused clerics, often at the expense of victims – a concern formed in part by his experiences in communist-controlled Poland, where priests were often accused of trumped-up charges.
Eventually, a year after the abuse scandal exploded in the U.S., Ratzinger pushed through administrative changes in 2003 and 2004 that enabled his office to permanently remove abusers without going through a church trial. But that decision came decades after his office began receiving a steady stream of documentation about the scale of abuse in the U.S. – far too late, according to victims.
So, John Paul II was skeptical of the allegations because he had seen priests victimized by false accusations of the communists in Poland. But Ratzinger moved as quickly as he could to remove the priests - defrocking hundreds of them in the process.
Get your facts straight.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
