Pope Benedict accused of ignoring abuse allegations against Hullerman

Times Online ^ | March 21st 2010 | John Follain and Bojan Pancevski

[Cardhu]

In Austria, a poll last week indicated that almost one million Catholics were considering leaving the church because of its handling of the allegations.

[frogjerk]

They have already left and been gone for some time.

[icwhatudo]

These sick evil homosexual child molesting monsters deserve the death penalty...not forgiveness.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

In Austria, a poll last week indicated that almost one million Catholics were considering leaving the church because of its handling of the allegations.

That's very encouraging news.

After darkness, light.

[Campion]

LOL. Trust me, they aren't going to become fundamentalist Presbyterians.

I suppose it's objectively better to be a secular humanist hedonist ex-Catholic, than to be a secular humanist hedonist who claims to be a Catholic. It avoids adding hypocrisy to the charges against one.

[frogjerk]

These are the same cafeteria Catholics who make the same old complaints about any Church issue (priestly celibacy, wymen’s ordination, contraception, etc...) so that they can justify doing doing what they want like taking the pill, procuring abortions, not Sunday Mass attendance, etc... They haven’t been in communion with the Church for some time so there’s not much to see here.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

But your church will still count them as members.

[Cardhu]

Trust me, they aren't going to become fundamentalist Presbyterians.

I agree the Europeans have discarded the religious cults by the millions in the last decades. I have lived in "Catholic Spain" for fifteen years and I do know a single person who goes to church.

Births, marriages and deaths with 50 cents or nothing in the collection plate. I was shocked at a wedding how many refused to put even a single cent in the plate about 95%

Religion has died in Spain, since the death of Franco they are paying the price of abandoning the people.

[Campion]

Why don't we all count them as members? Then we can all be happy. They can be Mormopresbycatholicfundabaptipenticostaladventists.

I'm sorry, I really don't have the stomach for this tonight. The death of my country has a prior claim on my attention.

[BlueDragon]

You picked the wrong way to spell your freep name. It should start with the “jerk” part.

[Campion]

Franco may be the excuse in Spain. Given that the same thing is happening from Quebec, to Norway, to Latin America, I think loose sex and a Darwinistic outlook has more to do with it.

[frogjerk]

how original

[Dajjal]

Pope John Paul II refused and Pope Benedict XVI refuses to admit that the true scandal is not that there were some individual sinful priests -- the true scandal is that there was the collaborative coverup and the reassignment of those priests by the bishops!

[Dr. Eckleburg]

No. when a person leaves the Presbyterian church the membership roles reflect that change. Unlike in the RCC where ex-RCs are still counted as members like my husband who left the RCC for the Presbyterian church 25 years ago and is still considered a member of the RCC.

I share your malaise. This is terribly depressing. God willing, they'll all be voted out of office in November. They are all liars and thieves.

[Cardhu]

Franco may be the excuse in Spain. Given that the same thing is happening from Quebec, to Norway, to Latin America, I think loose sex and a Darwinistic outlook has more to do with it.

No the reason is the casting off of infantilism - with better education and a knowledge of history.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

I understand your logic, but the crime itself is worse than the cover-up. The foul cover-up is illegal. The despicable crime is immoral.

[Cardhu]

Exactly and Ratzinger is apologizing for his bishops and Cardinals who were only carrying out his instructions. I have never know anyone who has blamed others for his own sins as Ratzinger, he is beyond contempt.

His second in command in Munich, fell upon his sword to protect him - there is not a bishop that does not know what is going on with his priests and were they are.

[Campion]

No the reason is the casting off of infantilism

LOL. Right. It didn't work for Lenin and the USSR and it won't work for you, either.

And the atheist apologetic (of, e.g., Dawkins) is pretty much the epitome of infantilism.

[Campion]

God willing, they'll all be voted out of office in November. They are all liars and thieves.

It may be too late. The time for mercy and forbearance may be over; justice has arrived. We're reliving Jeremiah chapter 52.

[Norman Bates]

You are beyond contempt.