New Church Rules on Pedophile Priests are

[Minimalist]

suspiciously like the old rules.

I vonder vhy, Herr Von Popenfuhrer?


http://apnews.excite.com/article/2010071...I7BG0.html

VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican issued a revised set of in-house rules Thursday to respond to clerical sex abuse, targeting priests who molest the mentally disabled as well as children and priests who use child pornography, but making few substantive changes to existing practice.

The new rules make no mention of the need for bishops to report clerical sex abuse to police, provide no canonical sanctions for bishops who cover up for abusers and do not include any "one-strike and you're out" policy for pedophile priests as demanded by some victims.

As a result, they failed to satisfy victims' advocates, who said the revised rules amounted to little more than "administrative housekeeping" of existing practice when what was needed were bold new rules threatening bishops who fail to report molester priests.

Looks as if you need a crowbar to separate the men from the boys in the Vatican!

[Autumnlicious]

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

[Shell B]

Why do they even bother 'changing' the rules? It's like they think a bunch of people will applaud them blindly for their efforts without bothering to look at what they didn't do. Wait a minute. . .

[Minimalist]

You know catholics, Shel.

[Zen Badger]

So Cathaholics are at their best when served with mint sauce?

[chasm]

You know catholics, Shel.

Those animals look too intelligent to be Catholics... are you sure you have the right picture?

[LastPoet]

My grandfather's brother has a flock of these noble animals, none of these resemble any catholics I've met. And I live in a catholic country. These noble animals at least give us milk, wool, and even their meat as sustenance. I see no resemblance to Catholicism.

[Minimalist]

It was that or this....

[Shell B]

I liked the sheep better and, you know, Catholics could provide us with milk and meat, if we rounded them up like livestock. Just saying.

[Minimalist]

White wine or red with that, Shel?