Serial Molester Sentenced To More Than One Thousand Years

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[jimkress]

Reassignment to another parish or another country. Refusal to provide records of ongoing or previous incidents of abuse. Refusal to report accusations to the local authorities.

There's three - all of which the church has actually done and the Pope has refused to reverse.

[Arthur McGowan]

Those are not actions of the Pope. Those are actions taken by bishops.

I don't hold the Pope blameless, but the Church's government is not nearly so centralized as you imagine. The Pope does not have an army of investigators who can monitor this kind of thing and send reports to Rome.

I fault the Pope for paying little or no attention to the process of appointing bishops, and allowing the Old Boys' Network to operate unchecked. There HAVE been changes made, btw. I have direct knowledge that the Cardinals in this country are no longer listened to when they recommend candidates for bishop, and that a network of laity has more influence than in the past.

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

Save us the cost - it is called D-E-A-T-H peanlty

[jimkress]

There's three - all of which the church has actually done and the Pope has refused to reverse.

[JusPasenThru]

If he were white he wouldn't have been sentenced at all.

[Arthur McGowan]

You're not making sense. That kind of behavior, on the part of bishops, is precisely what is now forbidden.

The Church's record on covering up and shuffling abusers around is no worse than the record of the Boy Scouts and the government schools and many other institutions. It took decades for many institutions AND FOR PARENTS to grasp what was happening. There are plenty of stories of parents who refused to believe their children, or who thought that warning a priest or Scout master would put a stop to the abuse.

The Church's record is lousy, but it has nothing to do with the fact that the Church is Catholic, everything to do with the fact that the Church is a human society with human beings in it.