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To: mockingbyrd
I know that you have an ax to grind with the Catholic Church

That is mind-reading and against the rules of the FR RF.

As for "intellectual honesty," I'd settle for some plain old honesty from Roman Catholic apologists who defend the indefensible.

I have a hard time believing that you have read your links. Because I don’t see how you infer what you do from the text.

And I likewise have a hard time believing you have read any of those links. I prefer to believe that, however, than to think there are Roman Catholic apologists on this forum who are so dense they cannot understand a few simple sentences.

Of course, it would help to read the original latin not some translation from who knows where.

Of course. When all else fails, blame the translation. The last time this excuse was suggested was when we read the translation of Ratzinger's "global authority" encyclical. Until, of course, it was shown that the translation was straight from the Vatican.

And yet even then that didn't stop some who still blamed the language barrier. lol. Anything to take the heat off Rome.

52 posted on 04/12/2010 10:48:13 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

First of all, we aren’t on the Religion Forum.

Second of all, this doesn’t have anything to do with an encyclical.

Third of all, nothing changes the fact that your misunderstanding of both canon law and Crimen Sollicitationis has no bearing on this particular case, or cases. Those apply only to solicitation in the confessional, and therefore has no bearing on what happened at the school.

So, your reason for the failure of previous students, or teachers, at the school to blow the whistle on abuses occurring is bogus, since even if your understand was accurate, it still wouldn’t apply it these cases.


56 posted on 04/12/2010 10:57:11 PM PDT by mockingbyrd (Remember in November.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

It is NOT mind reading. You shown in writing repeatedly that you have an axe to grind. This is a documented fact.


75 posted on 04/13/2010 6:33:34 AM PDT by Houghton M.
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