“The only thing offered from FRoman Catholics on this thread is personal criticisms and whining about the NYT.”
This is just wrong. Anyone can just read the thread and see that description of this thread is wrong.
“This is a GREAT article and should be read and bookmarked by anyone who cares about the truth.”
I think it is funny on a conservative website that such praise is heaped on an article that contains such liberal gems as:
” Cardinal Ratzinger was publicly disciplining priests in Brazil and Peru for preaching that the church should work to empower the poor and oppressed, which the cardinal saw as a Marxist-inspired distortion of church doctrine. Later, he also reined in a Dutch theologian who thought lay people should be able to perform priestly functions, and an American who taught that Catholics could dissent from church teachings about abortion, birth control, divorce and homosexuality.”
Mean ol’ Ratzinger fighting socialism and homosexualists...
It is not an evenhanded article, it doesn’t even mention the John Jay report or why the steep decrease in instances of abuse coincide with then Cardinal Ratzinger’s heading of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. In fact, it gives the opposite impression, that only after the public scandal did anything start to get done to combat the scandal. That doesn’t seem too evenhanded to me, to not even address that point.
Freegards
Did you read the entire article? The NYT spoke with Catholic priests/cardinals who stated even they had trouble communicating with the Vatican in attempts to resolve differing issues, includidng the sexual abuse stuff.
He's an effective bureaucrat, as as a disciple of Christ, he fails.
Nearly one billion dollars paid out on ONE DAY in 2006 and ONE DAY in 2007 by the RCC to redress multiple sexual crimes of criminal priests in ONE CITY, Los Angeles.