Posted on 02/24/2019 6:46:44 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion
A top Catholic cardinal admitted on Saturday that Church files on priests who sexually abused children were destroyed or never even drawn up, a move which allowed paedophiles to prey on others.
"Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed, or not even created," German Cardinal Reinhard Marx said in a speech to a landmark Vatican summit on tackling paedophilia in the clergy.
"Instead of the perpetrators, the victims were regulated and silence imposed on them. The stipulated procedures and processes for the prosecution of offences were deliberately not complied with, but instead cancelled or overridden," he said.
If you read history you will see that the Church, just like the Israelites before Her, periodically departs from the straight and narrow path. Like Israel, God calls the Church back usually by raising up a few great Saints to rally the people to Himself. A few hundred years ago people in the Italian city-states did not like the laxity in the Church and they rioted, they got the change they sought. In the current situation, change and a return to holiness will be brought about by prayer and fasting. God always wins.
So you admit change cannot happen from within and external riots must occur, by design? To be fair, Martin Luther saw a number of endemic issues and broke away.
No, I was not suggesting rioting must occur, I was merely showing one example of how it pleases God to affect change. Usually a great saint preaches with words and examples and the Holy Spirit changes hearts and minds.
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