(May 23, 2017 at 4:41 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:(May 23, 2017 at 4:33 pm)Tizheruk Wrote: Id say covering it up for decades. And holding priests immune to secular law and not kicking them out. Just to maintain the churches image is religiously motivated
Don't forget that the church identifies priests as adhering to and representing a higher moral standard.
Yup a lack of condemnation of an act at the time of the act and a attempt cover up the crime .Is a damning as if the pope himself had approval of the act carved into Vatican walls itself
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