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Pope does not mention rebuke to Irish bishops
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| March 21, 2010
Posted on 03/21/2010 6:45:05 AM PDT by JoeProBono
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI is urging Catholics to be intransigent toward sin but not to judge the sinner.
The pontiff addressed pilgrims in St. Peter's Square on Sunday but didn't mention his rebuke to Irish bishops a day earlier for their handling of decades of clergy sexual abuse of minors. He told English-speaking pilgrims they should humbly beg forgiveness for their own failings.
Benedict read the Gospel passage about Jesus' inviting those without sin to cast the first stone toward an adulterer.
In his letter made public Saturday by the Vatican, Benedict said Irish bishops made grave errors of judgment during the sex abuse scandal. But he didn't blame Vatican policies of keeping abuse secret as part of the problem, as victims have demanded.
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TOPICS: History; Religion
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To: JoeProBono
If the bishops had any true remorse they would resign and spend at least some time in a monastery or doing some other penance to get right with God.
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posted on
03/21/2010 7:01:48 AM PDT
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The Great RJ
("The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money." M. Thatcher)
To: JoeProBono
The AP and WaPo are useless - this isn't "Breaking News" concerning the abuse story.
Pope Benedict talked about that reading because it is the Gospel reading for this Sunday in Lent - and it had no direct connection to the situation in Ireland or anywhere else.
I was in the Square, so I heard the whole Angelus message - the message in Italian and French (the other two languages that the Pope spoke in that I can at least somewhat understand) was more or less the same. The message was a general one to the pilgrims in the Square about the Gospel.
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posted on
03/21/2010 7:02:36 AM PDT
by
GCC Catholic
(0bama, what are you hiding? Just show us the birth certificate...)
To: GCC Catholic
>this isn't "Breaking News"
Nope it's just General/Chat
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posted on
03/21/2010 7:06:28 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: The Great RJ
Bishop of Elphin Christopher Jones (left), Bishop of Waterford and Lismore William Lee (centre) and Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin Jim Moriarty leaving a meeting of the standing committee of the Irish Bishops
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posted on
03/21/2010 7:11:23 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: All
Yesterday On CNN:Wal-Mart Intercom Joke And Pope Story More Important Than Health-Care Rally
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posted on
03/21/2010 7:14:41 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
>this isn't "Breaking News"
Nope it's just General/Chat I wasn't referring to how it's listed here... rather to how it was billed in the original article - it's listed as a "Breaking News" update on an article about the German abuse cases.
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03/21/2010 7:19:03 AM PDT
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GCC Catholic
(0bama, what are you hiding? Just show us the birth certificate...)
To: GCC Catholic
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posted on
03/21/2010 7:27:31 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
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posted on
03/21/2010 7:29:32 AM PDT
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GCC Catholic
(0bama, what are you hiding? Just show us the birth certificate...)
To: GCC Catholic
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posted on
03/21/2010 7:31:54 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: All
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posted on
03/21/2010 7:40:36 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
Yup. Yup to what? You're not making any sense.
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posted on
03/21/2010 7:58:27 AM PDT
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GCC Catholic
(0bama, what are you hiding? Just show us the birth certificate...)
To: GCC Catholic
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posted on
03/21/2010 8:02:20 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
That hardly helps... what is the point that you were trying to make... or don’t you actually have one?
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03/21/2010 8:04:59 AM PDT
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GCC Catholic
(0bama, what are you hiding? Just show us the birth certificate...)
To: GCC Catholic
Pope does not mention rebuke to Irish bishops
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posted on
03/21/2010 8:11:42 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: GCC Catholic
Pope does not mention rebuke to Irish bishops
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posted on
03/21/2010 8:11:42 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: JoeProBono
And that is the whole point of what I was saying... the Sunday Angelus is not necessarily a time to voice issues of Church politics - it is normally a time for talking about the Sunday's Gospel reading, a time for teaching the Faith, and a time for greeting the Pilgrims. Sometimes particular prayer requests are mentioned, sometimes they aren't.
The lack of a statement in this case is not news - breaking or otherwise.
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posted on
03/21/2010 8:15:28 AM PDT
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GCC Catholic
(0bama, what are you hiding? Just show us the birth certificate...)
To: GCC Catholic
LOL, new to JoeProBono?
Read his tagline:
“A closed mouth gathers no feet.”
To: James C. Bennett; GCC Catholic
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03/21/2010 8:25:29 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: James C. Bennett; GCC Catholic
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03/21/2010 8:25:29 AM PDT
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JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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