[NYer]

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[GrannyAnn]

What!?! Time Magazine lying, distorting, misrepresenting, falsifying, omitting, etc.? No! Can't be true.

[13Sisters76]

So the lamestream media continues its pattern of ineptitude as it chokes in its death throes...ok, nothing more to see here!

I would venture to say that the percentage of pedophile priests is no larger than their representation in the rest of society. Molesters are another cancer in humankind and likely to pop up anywhere. Too bad they aren’t eligible for the death penalty.

[Cicero]

I guess I missed that one. Absolutely typical--and typically disgusting.

[ALPAPilot]

a) The Pope goes to confession WEEKLY and begs forgiveness for his sins

b) By the time information of abuse gets to the Prefect for the CDF, is there anyone who doesn’t know of it?

The culprit for the cover-up are those who failed to investigate and prosecute when information came to light. In many of those case that is the liberal democrat inner city political machine: legislators (funded by the defense bar) who oppose tough sentences on pedaphiles, Democrat prosecutors who looked the other way and liberal Judges who let them walk out with a slap on the wrist. Political Correctness protects those homosexuals.

Please present a case where Cardinal Ratzinger knew before the local authorities.

[Patriotic1]

Weigel is an awesome writer, and speaks Truth to the “power”.

[SuziQ]

Maybe Time magazine is trying to lay the groundwork for an attempt to declare the Pope legally responsible for what happens in individual Dioceses. This would increase the possibility of folks filing suit against the Pope for monetary damages the priest abuse cases.

[SuziQ]

Oh, and does anyone know how to pronounce George’s last name? Does it sound like WYgul, or WEEgul?

[betty boop]

“For, according to the teaching of Vatican II, bishops are not simply branch managers of Catholic Church, Inc. Rather, they are the heads of local churches with both the authority and the responsibility to govern them,” he noted. “Far more damage has been done to the Catholic Church in recent decades by irresponsible local bishops than by allegedly autocratic popes.”

I certainly agree with THAT statement! FWIW....