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1 posted on 03/15/2013 2:28:16 PM PDT by Hilda
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To: Hilda

He, and his cohorts, need to be in prison not vacationing in the lap of luxury....


2 posted on 03/15/2013 2:30:07 PM PDT by vet7279 (Those of you who think you know it all are very annoying to those of us who do!)
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“Cloistered” accommodations? OMG!

He’ll never see the light of day again.


3 posted on 03/15/2013 2:30:40 PM PDT by goldi
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4 posted on 03/15/2013 2:32:27 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Hilda

Sounds like Law is about to be broken :-)


5 posted on 03/15/2013 2:32:41 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Qui me amat, amat et canem meum.)
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To: Hilda

I am REALLY liking Francis I!

The more I hear, the more I like!


6 posted on 03/15/2013 2:34:09 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Establishment Republicans don't like that totalitarian thing unless it is THEIR totalitarian thing!)
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I have been waiting for a Pope that would take this child molesting scandal head on ...sounds like the Pope Francis might just be the man.


7 posted on 03/15/2013 2:35:11 PM PDT by RummyChick
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It’s very good news.


8 posted on 03/15/2013 2:36:26 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Hilda

A discreet peak.


9 posted on 03/15/2013 2:37:36 PM PDT by firebrand
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UPDATE: The exact opposite report has surfaced and those groups that commented in the first article and [sic] now commenting that the Pope did indeed meet with Cardinal Law. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/the-pope/9933874/Pope-Francis-meets-US-Cardinal-who-quit-over-abuse-cover-up-claims.html
11 posted on 03/15/2013 2:40:29 PM PDT by mlizzy (If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic adoration, abortion would be ended. --Mother Teresa)
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To: Hilda

A commendable move. Hats off to the padre on this one.


12 posted on 03/15/2013 2:41:05 PM PDT by Boogieman
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Let us hope Cardinal Mahony of LA is in line for similar treatment...


13 posted on 03/15/2013 2:41:55 PM PDT by rottndog ('Live Free Or Die' Ain't just words on a bumber sticker...or a tagline.)
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Too bad that the Vatican doesn’t excommunicate suborners of child sodomy like they did back in the Middle Ages.


18 posted on 03/15/2013 2:54:01 PM PDT by The KG9 Kid (Demand Common Sense Nut Control.)
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One of the new Pope’s first acts will be to arrange new ‘cloistered’ accommodation for the disgraced cardinal

Why isn't he just fired and told to move on, kicked out of the church's big boys, and sent back to regular American living as an ordinary person?

20 posted on 03/15/2013 2:55:50 PM PDT by ansel12 ( August 29,2008 A Natural Born Reformer inadvertently unleashed within palace walls, change ensues.)
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Vatican City is recognized,under international law,as a sovereign nation and one would think that the Pope is the Prime Minister,Justice Minister,etc.So could the Pope actually *expel* him from Vatican City,thus opening him up to possible extradition? Hmmm....


26 posted on 03/15/2013 3:04:38 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative ("Progressives" toss the word "racist" around like chimps toss their feces)
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“Cardinal Bernard Law resigned as Archbishop of Boston in 2002, after being accused of actively covering up for a litany of paedophile priests.’

Despite the scandal which exploded to engulf the entire church, he was given an honorary position at the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome. “

Tells you exactly what is wrong. I hope the new guy can fix it, being as drastic as necessary to restore the church to a position of credibility.


29 posted on 03/15/2013 3:06:41 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Gone rogue, gone Galt, gone international, gone independent. Gone.)
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To: Hilda

VERY good news!


35 posted on 03/15/2013 3:16:10 PM PDT by Andy'smom
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Despite the scandal which exploded to engulf the entire church, he was given an honorary position at the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore, in Rome.

Every Cardinal has a Rome-diocese church at which he conducts services when that Cardinal is in Rome, or so I understand.

So by barring Law from one of the perks of Law's cardinalate, Francis is rather forcefully inviting Law to disappear. (I don't know whether a pope can dismiss a cardinal. I tend to doubt it, particularly where the cardinal at issue was given that office by a prior pope. Anyone know?)

38 posted on 03/15/2013 3:19:39 PM PDT by pogo101
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God Bless Pope Francis!

If this is true, good job your holiness.


46 posted on 03/15/2013 3:27:43 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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Hope it holds true, it’ll put the ‘fear of God’ into the rest of the guilty!


47 posted on 03/15/2013 3:28:01 PM PDT by potlatch (~be content with small victories and simple pleasures~)
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If Pope Francis doesn’t excommunicate Law, maybe he will force him to be cloistered and Law will leave on his own.


70 posted on 03/15/2013 4:14:21 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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