Christopher Hitchens talks on Fox about Pope Scandal

[Autumnlicious]

If fr0d0 doesn't want to get it, he won't.

Selective belief FTW.

[fr0d0]

I already got it... you guys seem to bang on about it even if the other guy agrees with you... *incredibulz*

[tavarish]

I already got it... you guys seem to bang on about it even if the other guy agrees with you... *incredibulz*

So you agree that the Pope is directly responsible for the rape and torture of children?

[fr0d0]

LOL

*sighs*

[Minimalist]

More and more the evidence points to Herr Von Popenfuhrer being up to his Nazi eyebrows in it!


http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/arti...gD9ERKK901

The abuse cases of two priests in Arizona have cast further doubt on the Catholic church's insistence that Pope Benedict XVI played no role in shielding pedophiles before he became pope.

Documents reviewed by The Associated Press show that as a Vatican cardinal, the future pope took over the abuse case of the Rev. Michael Teta of Tucson, Ariz., then let it languish at the Vatican for years despite repeated pleas from the bishop for the man to be removed from the priesthood.

In another Tucson case, that of Msgr. Robert Trupia, the bishop wrote to then-Cardinal Ratzinger, who would become pope in 2005. Bishop Manuel Moreno called Trupia "a major risk factor to the children, adolescents and adults that he many have contact with." There is no indication in the case files that Ratzinger responded.

The details of the two cases come as other allegations emerge that Benedict — as a Vatican cardinal — was part of a culture of cover-up and confidentiality.

"There's no doubt that Ratzinger delayed the defrocking process of dangerous priests who were deemed 'satanic' by their own bishop," Lynne Cadigan, an attorney who represented two of Teta's victims, said Friday.

[Minimalist]

More evidence against Herr Von Popenfuhrer!


http://apnews.excite.com/article/2010040...M3TO0.html

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Church files show that before becoming pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger resisted defrocking a California priest who molested children.

A 1985 letter signed by Ratzinger cited concerns about the effect that removing the priest would have on "the good of the universal church."