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Vatican Defrocks Boston Monsignor and 6 Priests
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| March 17, 2006
Posted on 03/18/2006 5:38:42 AM PST by NYer
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posted on
03/18/2006 5:38:44 AM PST
by
NYer
To: american colleen; Lady In Blue; Salvation; narses; SMEDLEYBUTLER; redhead; Notwithstanding; ...
The Vatican must be working overtime. This is the 2nd announcement this week.
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posted on
03/18/2006 5:40:13 AM PST
by
NYer
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To: NYer
Excellent. Glad to see Pope B is doing some much over due housecleaning.
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posted on
03/18/2006 5:43:47 AM PST
by
mtbopfuyn
(Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
To: NYer
Isn't Cardinal Law working at the Vatican now? I think I remember seeing him at Pope John II's funeral.
Nice to see the Pope doing something about those who molest children.
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posted on
03/18/2006 5:45:15 AM PST
by
Brytani
(Democrats - destroying America since 1868)
To: NYer
The German Shepardis cleaning up the flock. Long over due I say.
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posted on
03/18/2006 5:47:23 AM PST
by
TXBSAFH
(Proud Dad of Twins, What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger!!!!!!)
To: Brytani
Isn't Cardinal Law working at the Vatican now? He is in Rome and has been assigned to (I'm not positive) Santa Maria Maggiore.
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posted on
03/18/2006 5:59:50 AM PST
by
NYer
(Discover the beauty of the Eastern Catholic Churches - freepmail me for more information.)
To: NYer
He needs to be removed from the Church IMO. Let's hope Pope Benedict see's to it.
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posted on
03/18/2006 6:10:29 AM PST
by
Brytani
(Democrats - destroying America since 1868)
To: NYer
Bernard Law is a criminal. He fled to the Vatican, and he needs to be extradited back to Boston to face charges. Only then will this collective nightmare begin to heal. Justice is the right of all good Catholics. Bernard Law is going to rot in hell anyway, but I'd like to see him get Geoghan's old bunk in the state prison, and his old cell mate.
So I'm not really being Christian here, but I'm sick unto death of seeing the Roman Catholic Church disgraced by the homosexual/pedophiles who flooded it after Vatican II.
To: NYer
The Vatican must be working overtime. This is the 2nd announcement this week.***********
It should have been done long ago. Pope Benedict is more than I had prayed for. May God bless him for the important work he is doing for the Church.
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posted on
03/18/2006 6:25:26 AM PST
by
trisham
(Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
To: ishabibble
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posted on
03/18/2006 6:48:13 AM PST
by
BlackElk
(Dean of Discipline of the Tomas de Torquemada Gentlemen's Club)
To: TXBSAFH
The German Shepard is cleaning up the flock. Long over due I say.Bump for the PanzerPope.
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posted on
03/18/2006 7:22:27 AM PST
by
starfish923
(Socrates: It's never right to do wrong.)
To: NYer
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posted on
03/18/2006 7:23:28 AM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: ishabibble
I believe Law was CALLED to the Vatican. He didn't flee there.
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posted on
03/18/2006 7:24:56 AM PST
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: NYer
The difference between child molesting Catholic priests and child-molesting Baptist ministers is that the Baptists are arrested, tried and thrown in jail. The priests get "defrocked" and sent to some administrative job because the church pays off the child's parents...sort of like a awarding a damage claim in a car wreck. That is not equal justice in America and smacks of Mafia tactics.
To: ishabibble
Dear ishabibble,
Cardinal Law "fled" to southern Maryland after resigning in Boston. Here for a year or so, he didn't leave the United States for his appointment in Rome until after the authorities in Boston decided they couldn't charge him with any actual crimes.
Thus, it will be difficult to extradite him to face charges with which he will never be charged.
"Bernard Law is going to rot in hell anyway,..."
Oh, excuse me. I was unaware that I was in the presence of the Judge, Lord Jesus Christ. /sarcasm
Cardinal Law has much for which to answer at his particular judgment. He was an awful prelate, incompetent, bumbling, boobish. However, he isn't beyond forgiveness and repentance, and I pray that he will find mercy and salvation at his death, although perhaps with an extended stay in Purgatory attached thereto.
sitetest
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posted on
03/18/2006 7:31:02 AM PST
by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
To: sitetest
You have a strong opinion on this subject. So do I.
It has been many years since I studied the catechism in preparation for the Sacraments, so I forget exactly how many years B. Law will be cooling his heels in Purgatory for being a lying, cheating, thieving sack o' s###.
Of course, since he knowingly and deliberately let homosexual/pedophile perverts continue to hunt their prey without stopping them, I say that when the reckoning comes, fat feckless Bernie will be toasty warm with rest of his buggerer pals. Not soon enough for me. I honestly can't think of another human being that I loathe more than that worthless scum, B. Law.
To: ishabibble
Have you asked Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly why he couldn't get the grand jury to indict Law? Have you lobbied the Massachusetts legislature to send a bill to Romney that would make it possible to hold people like Law, public school superintendents, etc., criminally liable?
Got anything to say about these protestants?
To: NYer
wasn't defrocking their initial downfall?
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posted on
03/18/2006 8:27:17 AM PST
by
NonValueAdded
("If I were a Cuban, I'd certainly be on a raft," Isane Aparicio Busto)
To: NYer
Pope Benedict is great! This is wonderful news, and it's about time. I wonder if Roger is getting a little nervous???
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posted on
03/18/2006 8:29:40 AM PST
by
TheSpottedOwl
("Life is a box of chocolates. Eat them before they eat you ".---me.)
To: ishabibble
Dear ishabibble,
Opinion isn't at issue, here.
It isn't my opinion that Cardinal Law didn't flee to Rome. It is a fact that he initially retired to southern Maryland.
It isn't my opinion that the Boston area authorities could come up with nothing for which to indict Cardinal Law. They said so publicly.
It isn't my opinion that he can't be extradited. A person must be charged to be extradited, and the authorities have already decided that Cardinal Law will not be charged.
It isn't my opinion that Cardinal Law may yet be saved. That is the teaching of the Church, even if, as you believe, in your opinion, that he knowingly and deliberately let the abusers abuse their victims. Even if that is so, it is not necessarily so that "fat feckless Bernie will be toasty warm with the rest of his buggerer pals."
In that you seem to take delight in that prospect, you would do well to guard your own soul. To wish for the damnation of another sinner is to fail in charity. And that's not an opinion, either.
sitetest
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posted on
03/18/2006 8:56:33 AM PST
by
sitetest
(If Roe is not overturned, no unborn child will ever be protected in law.)
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