As unspeakable as a pope ignoring complaints of sexual abuse by a priest? Gross.
It will help if you do some reading up before rushing off to judgment. It is left to the local Bishop to discipline the offending priest. Even the NYTimes doesn’t some close to saying that the Pope “ignored complaints” but rather delayed the process for defrocking until matters were first resolved at the local level. The Congregation for Doctrine of Faith doesn’t act like some 5-star general.
http://spectator.org/archives/2010/04/08/the-end-of-history-and-the-las
You are clearly as grossly ignorant of the facts as a single-celled animal is of intelligent life.
Nothing Ratzinger did endangered any child. The priest was out of active ministry already. The only Ratzinger was holding up was a dispensation from the obligation of celibacy.
This was for Weakland to address.
Another aspect not mentioned is that Cardianl Ratzinger during that time period was in the Congregation of the Faith. The responsibility for priests (unless it involved false teaching) is the duty of the Congregation of the Priest.
It was not until Weakland claimed that the priest in question had broken the secrecy of the confessional, which would fall into the Congregation of the Faith.
It is too bad that Bishops can not be defrocked. Weakland is deserving of it, during this whole affair, he was having his own homosexual affair, stealing thousand of dollars in church funds to pay off his lover.
It's as unspeakable as lying about the Pope ignoring complaints of sexual abuse by a priest
“As unspeakable as a pope ignoring complaints of sexual abuse by a priest? Gross.”
There’s lots of blame to go around here. After the spate of American diocesan incidents with preverted priests being ‘transferred’ around to terrorize another set of children elsewhere, if the Roman Catholic hierarchy hasn’t learned its lesson yet, this will surely teach them.
That said, the moronic Dawkins and Hitchens would do well to police their own atheistic ranks for child molesters and I’ll bet you a dime to a dollar that there are hundreds if not thousands of cases around the world of public school teacher atheists who have molested children in the past 100 years or so.
I call for the arrest of Dawkins and Hitchens for covering that up - and for crimes against humanity!
It’s gross how the clueless can’t understand how atheist Dawkins doesn’t give a rip about any, supposed or otherwise, victim of homosexuality and they are being played. Oh well, he needs suckers to survive.
You are also an idiot, and obvously ignorant about how the Catholic Church is structured.
It would be like arresting and trying the U.S. president for accessory to murder, for playing politics with the lives of U.S. Soldiers by effectively tying both hands behind their backs with the official (and mandatory) R.O.E.s
You do not have the full story, I seriously doubt it is what you proclaim...
“As unspeakable as a pope ignoring complaints of sexual abuse by a priest?”
It wasn’t the Pope, it was the bishops.