[Aussie Dasher]

Fair dinkum! The bloody US Bishops are as bad as most of ours!

[Juana la Loca]

If only more of your bishops were like Pell, and more of ours were like Chaput....

[Antoninus]

He said the bishops were concerned that the document would be released during the official visits of US bishops with the Pope over the issue of sexual abuse in seminaries, and thus would ignite the sensitivities of homosexuals activists. Explained George: "We said, 'If you do this, it will be taken as a commentary on the visitations and we'll get into this whole business that the gay community is so sensitive to of, 'You're blaming us for the pedophilia.'"

Gee, when 80-90% of the sex abuse cases involved young men between the ages of 12 and 18, who the heck is supposed to get the blame? Maybe that's the message the Vatican was trying to send, Cardinal George.

The AmChurch bishops shouldn't be giving advice to anyone on how to run the Church. They've fouled their own nests and many of them should be wearing sack-cloth and ashes for the way they've acted--accusing the innocent and defending the wicked.

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The document entitled, "Instruction Concerning the Criteria for the Discernment of Vocations with regard to Persons with Pedophilial Tendencies in view of their Admission to the Office of Public School Teacher, Bus Driver, Coach, or Administrator", reinforced the NEA's teaching barring union members "who practise pedophilia, present deep-seated student-sex tendencies or support the so-called 'liberal sexualization of children'", from becoming associated with the NEA.

Of course, when public school teachers do it, it's an isolated incident.

[Cicero]

Cardinal George IS one of the good guys.

I suspect either that his remarks were taken out of context, or he was giving an honest estimate of what the US bishops' response would be, or he was giving prudential advice on the best way to handle the problem.

Which is not to say that Pope Benedict wasn't right to go ahead, and the hell with the traitors in the US Bishop's Conference and too many of our American seminaries.

[ZULU]

I wish this great, good and holy Pope wholehearted success in rooting out homosexuals from the Catholic Church.

Living a life of chastity as a sacrifice to God was never intended to create a playground for sodomites.

Apparently the good Bishops of the U.S., who worked hand in glove with paedophilic priests in the past, are unwilling to secure the reputations of the majority of clergymen under them who were damaged by these scandals by participating in a vigorous campaign against these perverts. These Bishops should be defrocked and replaced with more orthodox clergymen loyal to the Holy Father and his wishes.

Democracy and a Republic are nice, but God never called for a vote on the Ten Commandments.

[Incorrigible]

Putting the smackdown on heresy!