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What I don't get is this:

- The Pope claims to be the vicar of Christ on earth, the "holy father" (which is a name that scripture warns not call him), and the absolute head of the Catholic church in all authority

- The Pope even places himself and the church between God, holy scripture, and man. The Pope even made a recent speech about how individual passages of scripture cannot be expected to have meaning on their own, but have to be taken as part of a "greater" view of holistic meaning with.........the Catholic church as the middle man of what is truth

It is possible to perceive the Sacred Scriptures as the word of God" only by looking at the Bible as a whole, "a totality in which the individual elements enlighten each other and open the way to understanding," the pope wrote in a message to the Pontifical Biblical Commission. "It is not possible to apply the criterion of inspiration or of absolute truth in a mechanical way, extrapolating a single phrase or expression," the pope wrote in the message released May 5 at the Vatican.

- And after ALL of that, this "CEO" of the Catholic church cannot seem be able to muster either the authority, or the will....to fire and defrock homosexual priests?!!!!!?????!!!!!

What the heck is going on?

As I said, my suspicion is that there are so many homosexuals in the priesthood, that they cannot get rid of them all and still have many priests left. Moreover, I believe high ranking members of the Catholic church are, themselves, homosexual.

The Pope might be the vicar of Christ on Earth, but he isn't Head of Human Resources for every Diocese. Each Bishop is responsible for the priests, and their activities, in his Diocese. It is the Bishop who would make the decision to de-frock any priest.

Sadly, in Europe, as in some American Dioceses, some of the Bishops who were young priests in the 60s and early 70s had been infected with the virus of liberalism and feminism, and made horrible decisions regarding their priests. Thankfully, near the end of his Papacy, Pope John Paul II appointed some younger Bishops who were not liberals like their older 'brothers'. And Pope Benedict seems to be following that trend.

It is possible to perceive the Sacred Scriptures as the word of God" only by looking at the Bible as a whole, "a totality in which the individual elements enlighten each other and open the way to understanding," the pope wrote in a message to the Pontifical Biblical Commission. "It is not possible to apply the criterion of inspiration or of absolute truth in a mechanical way, extrapolating a single phrase or expression," the pope wrote in the message released May 5 at the Vatican.

HaHaHa...So the pope says you can't pick out individual scriptures that condemn him and his religion...

It's not so shocking that their pope would say this, but that intelligent people who can read actually fall for this...

I think it’s sick that you appear to rejoice in cases of pedophilia or pederasty for use in your bigoted campaign against the Catholic Church.