RE: Damned Pervert Priests - and other assorted Holy Scumbags
January 20, 2022 at 1:07 pm
(This post was last modified: January 20, 2022 at 1:08 pm by Fake Messiah.)
Is the regime in Germany becoming communist when they are persecuting the Pope because the pope can not be anything else but innocent? Is this what they think of a man who was anointed by God and chosen by the Holy Ghost through not-so-ordinary-humans Cardinals in a spiritually elevated place like Sistine Chapel?
Quote:Pope Benedict XVI failed to stop sex abuse when he was an archbishop, law firm says
A German law firm investigating the Catholic Church's handling of child sexual abuse cases says former Pope Benedict XVI failed to take action in four instances — including two that resulted in legal charges — while he was the archbishop of Munich and Freising.
"In a total of four cases, we reached a consensus there was a failure to act," said attorney Martin Pusch of the law firm Westphal Spilker Wastl, according to news site Deutsche Welle. Despite reports of abuse, Pusch said, the church allowed priests to continue working without restrictions.
The report, presented by Pusch and others at a lengthy news conference Thursday, contradicts Benedict's long-running denial that he covered up or ignored abuse. For much of the time in question, he was known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger. He served in the Munich post from 1977 to 1982.
"Two of the cases involved two perpetrators who committed the abuse while Ratzinger was in office," NPR's Rob Schmitz reports from Berlin. "The two were kept in pastoral work after being punished by the judicial system."
"A third case involved a cleric who had been convicted by a court outside Germany and was put back into service in the Munich archdiocese despite evidence showing Ratzinger knew of the man's past."
During the news conference, lawyer Ulrich Wastl pointed to records of a meeting in which Munich church leaders agreed to accept the transfer of an abusive priest in early 1980. Benedict denied being present at the meeting — but the minutes of the session show he was, Wastl said.
https://www.npr.org/2022/01/20/107435545...use-report
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"
