Posted on 11/23/2014 2:06:15 PM PST by cleghornboy
As reported in The Boston Globe:
"What in God’s name is Pope Francis, a Jesuit, doing? Does he understand the outrage of parents worldwide at rampant priest child abuse? Pressures beyond Vatican control, as I discuss in detail below, can be expected soon to compel much more severe changes if Francis fails to act now effectively and transparently both to curtail child abuse and to make the hierarchy, including himself, accountable to independent Catholic oversight.
This governmental pressure has already begun to be applied with respect to Vatican finances, as a result of the continuing European investigations of multiple misdeeds involving both the Vatican Bank and the Vatican’s own significant portfolio assets, as well as with respect to the investigation of the child abuse scandal by the remarkable Australian Royal Commission investing child abuse in organizations, including the Catholic Church.
Prospects worldwide for criminal prosecutions of Catholic Church officials have seemingly caused the Vatican to focus on overdue reforms in ways that earlier financial penalties and even shameful publicity had rarely done, but has Pope Francis and his advisers yet gotten enough of the message? One must be skeptical here.
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Post #29: kinda think that God didn't write anything....He did His writing through the efforts of man (excluding the ten commandments and the stone placques given to Moses of course). He used the Catholic Church as His medium of communication to mankind...everyone knows that.
They may have written the "new testament" (chas vechalilah!) but they most assuredly did not write the Hebrew Bible. The Hebrew Bible was written before there was a Catholic (or any kind of chrstian) in the world.
The larger contradiction was that of making the NT the church of Rome.
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