Do they really think that they can get Pope Bananadick?
Quote:Leaked church report accuses Pope Benedict of clerical abuse cover-up
The 94-year-old former pontiff will be named later this month in a long-awaited report into clerical sexual abuse in the Bavarian archdiocese of Munich and Freising. A key case in the investigation involves an abusing priest who was moved to the southern archdiocese in 1980 when Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict, served there as archbishop.
More than two dozen men are on record as saying they were sexually abused as teenagers by the priest, identified only as Peter H, often after he gave them alcohol and showed them pornography.
“The then archbishop, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, and his ordinariate council were, knowing the facts, ready to take on priest H,” notes the report, adding that they “consciously waived a sanctioning of criminal act” and “ignored” a 1962 obligation to report the priest to Rome.
The priest has admitted abusing young men and now lives in western Germany, where he is forbidden from acting as a priest and is obliged to undergo regular therapy.
After a 1986 conviction for sexually abusing 11 youths aged between 13 and 16, a note was left in his personnel file: “Use in another position not to be completely ruled out so long as there is no particular publicity.”
After several psychological assessments and therapy spells he was moved around in several parish jobs until his abuse once again became public in 2010 and Munich’s archbishop, Cardinal Reinhard Marx, began a final push to remove him from the priesthood.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/eu...-1.4769611
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"
