Quote:Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Donald Wuerl, the archbishop of Washington, making the US cardinal the most recent senior figure to step down in the wake of a global abuse scandal that has shaken the Catholic Church.
Resign? But how can he resign from a sacrament? Isn't that for life?
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"