I vehemently agree.
"All they had to do is get out the word, they chose to stay quiet both Ratzinger and Pope John Paul II, They chose poorly!"
"Get out the word?" Without the specifics, what good would that do? It would just be a libel on priests in general. The people with the specifics were the bishops. More than half of them shielded abusers and discreetly paid off victims, instead of bringing criminal charges against known offenders. That was the really sickening part.
Pope John Paul II came out of the era when the bishops of Poland, individually and as national conference, showed themselves fully competent to resist the Communists. I think he expected strong bishops as a matter of course. He almost "couldn't believe it" when bishops were cowardly, devious, and negligent.
Entrusting the enforcement to the bishops, and giving them almost unlimited time and leeway to "do the right thing," was a major ongoing weakness in John Paul's otherwise brilliant pontificate. But that doesn't deprive him or his successor of the right to be called "Holy Father" --- and Holy Father Benedict is in the process of naming replacements for bishops.
That's why I say "We shall see." And that's why I say, "Pray for him."
Have you ever read the Peterson report done at the request of the USCCB, specifically "cardinal Law" outlining the crimes that were being perpetrated by the criminal priests.
A great many of these priests were being"Treated" at the expense of the faithful and without their knowledge.
The Bishops promptly attacked the messenger, Fr. T. Doyle and kept the report secret.This was 1985 and everything was layed out as to how the Church was to respond to this crisis, These malformed Hierarchal cretins refused to deal with reality and chose to leave the victims swinging in the wind.
"The people with the specifics were the bishops. More than half of them shielded abusers and discreetly paid off victims, instead of bringing criminal charges against known offenders."
You can bet the Pope and Ratzinger plus half of all the priests in the U.S.A. had knowledge of the actions of the Barbarian Priests and chose to do nothing.
They were not leaders and don't deserve to be addressed as "Holy" even if only in a titular sense.
It appears as in all crimes the victims are too often forgotten, and the cowards rewarded.
Another good reference was "Lead us not into Temptation" bu Jason Berry, and his most recent Book "Vows of Silence"
which implicates the vatican up to the Pope, JPII.
There was and is plenty of specifics, read Fr. Cozzens,"the Changing Face of the Priesthood and Michael Rose "GoodBye Good Men.
"The Changing Face of the Priesthood could not be more timely as we enter the new millennium in ... Father Cozzens is highly qualified to write this book." ...
GOODBYE, GOOD MEN
How Liberals Brought Corruption
Into the Catholic Church
by Michael S. Rose
Cover story: What they knew in 1985... Fr. Michael Peterson, Dominican Fr. Thomas Doyle and Ray Mouton, are likely to haunt ... “I told Bernie, ‘This is our report,’ ” Doyle told Lombardi. ...