Can sinners be forgiven?
I am in complete agreement. I cringed when I saw him on TV today- and wondered if he's truly grasped the significance of his actions (and lack of).
Thus, no sensitivity to those who were hurt, exalting someone of this calibre, leaves room for questions to the legitimacy of the understanding how DEEP this will affect those who had hoped for some truth and justice.
I agree.
The fact that Law is being allowed to pick the new Pope is unseemly.
It does give the appearance that the Church doesn't care one bit about this issue...unless it affects them economically.
Though Cardinal Law was never accused of sex abuse himself, his action bring disrepute to the Church just as much.
Don't flame me here, but my first thought when I read the article was that he would name Michael Jackson, Pope!!!
Sorry, I know that is in bad taste, but so is having Law help name the next Pope!
The burial of Pius XII was to be the symbol for the begin of of satan's rule over the catholic church.
Some American Catholics feel this privilege represents the Vatican's lack of recognition of the abuse scandal that rocked the U.S. Catholic Church.
Cardinal Law resigned from his Boston post in 2002, when it became known that his archdiocese simply transferred priests who had been accused of abuse to other parishes.
Last year, Cardinal Law was granted a post at one of the main basilicas in Rome.
It is through this position that he was given a role in the Pope's funeral masses.
He will have also have a say in the selection of the next pope.
Could it be said that these decisions warrant a second look at many other actions in which the church circumvented the Word of God by interpretiing the Word to fit Catholic Dogma?
This guy is worse than the pederasts, if that's possible. The pederasts, say what you will, are diseased. That doesn't mean I don't hold them responsible for their acts, but they're basically carnal, notwithstanding all that disorders them. Law allowed the pederasts to continue to abuse kids, to perpetuate and increase the number of victims. He calculated, he premeditated the moves from one Parish to another.
It's not about forgivenss, it's about calling this guy to account for his deeds, not rewarding him with a vote on who the next Pope will be. For the third time, absolutely, positively DISGRACEFUL, and really, really embarassing.
The greatest failing of John Paul II was his lack of compassion for the little boys abused by priests with the tacit permission of the Catholic hierarchy and no action on his part.
The Pope just "swept under the rug" Cardinal Law's permissive handling of the pedophiles who were priests. Sort of makes you wonder if Law is a pedophile himself and just protecting his own.
http://www.foxnews.com/
There's Cardinal Law. Saying mass in Rome.
This makes me sick.
Well, he's a Cardinal. That's what they do.