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If you or someone you loved had been harmed in the child abuse scandals, would this apology be enough for you to forgive?
Not me.
The Church needs to open all its records. Cooperate totally with law enforcement. Pay restitution to the victims and their families. Defrock all clergy who are guilty. End the practice of canonical trials for crimes forever.
And Ratzinger needs to resign.
If all that happned, I think mebbe I could forgive.
If you or someone you loved had been harmed in the child abuse scandals, would this apology be enough for you to forgive?
Not me.
The Church needs to open all its records. Cooperate totally with law enforcement. Pay restitution to the victims and their families. Defrock all clergy who are guilty. End the practice of canonical trials for crimes forever.
And Ratzinger needs to resign.
If all that happned, I think mebbe I could forgive.
Unless you're Catholic, I don't see why it's your business, and I fail to see why YOUR forgiveness is of any import to the Catholic Church.
The only people whose forgiveness the Church should be concerned with is that of the actual victims. Those people, the Church should move Heaven and earth to help. The 'forgiveness' of anyone else is of absolutely no relevance.
If you or someone you loved had been harmed in the child abuse scandals, would this apology be enough for you to forgive?
Not me.
The Church needs to open all its records. Cooperate totally with law enforcement. Pay restitution to the victims and their families. Defrock all clergy who are guilty. End the practice of canonical trials for crimes forever.
And Ratzinger needs to resign.
If all that happned, I think mebbe I could forgive.
Unless you're Catholic, I don't see why it's your business, and I fail to see why YOUR forgiveness is of any import to the Catholic Church.
The only people whose forgiveness the Church should be concerned with is that of the actual victims. Those people, the Church should move Heaven and earth to help. The 'forgiveness' of anyone else is of absolutely no relevance.
Hister, what purpose do you imagine your posts on this thread serve? If you'd like to insult me, I'm on plenty of other threads I don't care about quite as much as this one. If you'd like to ridicule religion, there are better threads for that purpose.
If you have nothing to say on-topic, I am asking you politely to please stop posting here.
What nation would prosecute the Pope, The Light? Lawyers for plaintiffs here and elsewhere are having huge difficulty just forcing the Vatican to open its records.
I have no idea why Islam developed as it did, but I hardly think it was some sort of conspiracy to avoid detection.
As for the Ground Zero mosque, nobody gets a tax exemption from the IRS without a Private Letter Ruing, at least not on an enterprise this big. I am sure if there is a question about funding, the guys from the IRS are more'n competent to track it down.
The Light wrote in part:
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. -1 Corinthians 4:5
The Light wrote in part:
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. -1 Corinthians 4:5
Surely you don't mean that any seeking after Justice is in error?
No easy answers here for sure.
One answer would be to allow priests to marry. The present policy guarantees that a certain percentage of priests will fall into undesirable categories. Open up the pool of applicants and that percentage should lower dramatically.
Could Ratzinger aka Pope Benedict XVI ever apologize enough?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/world/europe/19pope.html?_r=1&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1284836570-H7H/snXSmFbdWYl7BZfy8Q
The Light wrote in part:
Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord come, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts: and then shall every man have praise of God. -1 Corinthians 4:5
Surely you don't mean that any seeking after Justice is in error?