this from the man who was given the task to protect child molesters before he became pope, has he repented?
2006-10-29 00:12:17 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
marysia............. only found out when the abused where grown and ready to talk, even with the threat of excomunication if they ever said a word about it!
2006-10-29 00:32:15 · update #1
cathy... a document was leaked by someone at the vatacan.
2006-10-29 00:39:34 · update #2
Yeah. Morals
2006-10-29 00:17:51 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Your question confuses me.
He was giving the task to protect child molester before he became pope.? How was this.? Tech. being a Priest is it his job to protect everyone regardless of what that person did. He is not there to judge them but to help them repent with god.
Not that I am agreeing with anything a molester does
by any means.
I think it is a good thing that the pope has said out loud to everyone that there are child molesters. For a long time even past popes would not say things like that to everyone.
2006-10-29 00:33:39 · answer #2 · answered by LadyCatherine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dec 22, 2005 Reported by Reuters and Associated Press but not by Newspapers & TV Newscasts. "Pope dismissed from sexual abuse case" A US judge dismissed Pope Benedict from a lawsuit lodged against him & other Catholic Church officials that accused them of covering up sexual abuse of under age seminary students, Judge Lee Rosenthal agreed with a motion filed by the Vatican that the Pope be given "head of state immunity". The Pope & church officials ignored pleas to investigate Fr. Juan Carlos Patino-Arango who was accused of sexually abusing young seminary students and they helped him leave the country (so now he's somewhere else abusing more children.) Was Saddam give "head of state immunity"? Does Pope Benedict believe that there's a man living in a cloud watching everything that you do? Yea, Right. The believers are always having the wool pulled over their eyes. The Pope is a great actor, he should be on the stage. Maybe the next one out of town.
2006-10-29 00:53:49 · answer #3 · answered by The professor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What people in Church or Government (oops, sorry, dunno why they deserved capital letters, they don't, do they?) say in public, and what they actually do are more often than not two entirely different things. I'm not sure why the catholic church has so many incidents of child abuse connected with it, but it does. I mistrust religion at the best of times, even good well meaning ones like Buddhism (which probably does just about deserve a capital letter!) but I really feel that catholicism is one evil the world can do without. I won't bore you with why, I'm sure you all know, but I wouldn't trust the pope as far as I could throw him, he's lying, and I doubt he'd be able to repent if his sorry twisted soul depended on it. Although he probably sold it a long time ago. Oh, and I don't hate catholics, just their religion. However, start going on at me about your religion and I might start to hate you a little bit. F*ck religion, find your own relationship with whatever god you perceive there to be. If people learned to listen to their conscience, most of these problems would never happen.
2006-10-29 00:25:21 · answer #4 · answered by punkrockdreadlock 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
This is a statement designed to protect the vast fortune of the Roman Catholic Church from litigation against it and its priests. It allows lawyers defending the Church to say that the priests acted on their own in their paedophilia, reducing or eliminating Church responsibility.
The RC Church has clearly demonstrated that it cares more about protecting its pedophilic priests than the children of its parishioners.
2006-10-29 00:52:36 · answer #5 · answered by dwbehrens1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'd say what a hypocrite. and now, he comes out and publicly denounces child abuse, when in truth some of the priests of whom he has a strong alliance towards have committed lewd acts with children? why does the pope feel the need to be ashamed by the recent news events of these alleged abuse cases, when he probably knew they were carrying out such offences- and yet refused to acknowledge that it was all apparent and true and why did he admit this now?
2006-10-29 00:29:57 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
At last, at last! you have taken your mask off and spoken for God!
Child abuse is evil, and should be denounced at all times, Priest's committing this foul act should be cast out of God's sight. It gives great substance to the truth that the Roman Catholic Church is not following the true Path.
Thank you Gladis! Bess you
2006-10-29 01:58:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that's the right position to take. He could have remained silent. If he's saying that all cases should be reported, that's a step in the right direction.
2006-10-29 00:57:36 · answer #8 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are trying to protect their image, power and wealth, they could care less what there priest did in the past concerning this matter, and the reason they are so willing to pay settlements is to help pass the gay marriage right.
2006-10-29 00:23:44 · answer #9 · answered by man of ape 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
what do you mean - NOW be reported - are you on glue?! they have been being reported and brought to light for quite some years now. he's more than likely sick of the idiots not understand so he's had to spell it out - it's about the victims, their healing and growing after the pain causes, about reparations & repentence. man, listen to the whole thing and understand. don't just pigeon hole your own wants/needs/twisted understanding to what you want to hear.
2006-10-29 00:27:09 · answer #10 · answered by Marysia 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋