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To: dubyaismypresident

Yes I know (now) that I misspelled in my previous post.


2 posted on 06/20/2004 7:51:27 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (rest in peace President Reagan, you will be missed and remembered forever)
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To: sinkspur
One landmark document, published by Pope Benedict XIV in 1741, made it easier to punish priests who solicited sex during confession in exchange for absolution, notes the newspaper. The tone of the document showed "significant sensitivity to the spiritual damage done to solicited penitents," the authors wrote.

The study, authored by a North Carolina priest and two former monks who live in Southern California, says that to guarantee that Church legislation was widely known, the Pope went so far as to order it posted on the doors of churches in Rome -- including St. Peter's Basilica. It was even in the city's market.

Of course there have always been problems, that is the result of our wounded nature but atleast there were better ways of dealing it pre-62

3 posted on 06/20/2004 7:58:38 PM PDT by NeoCaveman (rest in peace President Reagan, you will be missed and remembered forever)
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