John Paul II enabled abuse, should not be canonized

USA Today | April 21, 2014 | Brett M. Decker

[TigerTown]

Link only included due to copyright restrictions:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2014/04/21/pope-saint-johnpaulii-easter-sex-abuse-column/7980347/

[Sacajaweau]

No one should be canonized. Miracles can’t be proven.

[PittsburghAfterDark]

I’ll take anything in the USA Today at face value when they oh wait... nothing they can say means anything beyond the reporting of sports scores and stock prices.

Even then they’d doctor it if they could.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Breaking?

[wideawake]

You literally do not have the first clue about the topic upon which you presume to pronounce.

[xzins]

They can be proven if you’re on the receiving end.

And they can be proven within by the weight of evidence.

[Jeff Chandler]

I wonder what Brett M. Decker’s views are on homosexual Scout leaders, or homosexuals adopting children?

[I cannot think of a name]

Well, if you jailhouse lawyer things as the article does, it is probably correct. He was the head of the church at the time, and it did happen, so he gets the blame. But I think the truth be known, it was really the Bishops, mainly American Bishops, who conducted the cover up. I'm not sure how much of the truth every made it to the top.

There was a lawsuit filed down here in San Antonio and the Bishop was finally made to sit for disposition. Then the lawyers for the church made some kind of motion which accidently allowed the disposition to become public. Boy, what an embarrassment! He wasn't the one that committed the sexual assaults, but his answers deserved a horse whipping.

[Monkey Face]

...Miracles can’t be proven.

So if I have an ugly case of psoriasis all over my body, and I go to Lourdes, France, bathe in the water, and emerge without a spot, is that not proof of a "miracle?"

Just curious as to what it would take to convince you...(and you don't have to be Catholic to believe in Miracles!)

[FoxInSocks]

I don’t think canonization is handled in quite the same way as, say, a historically significant MTV award or Daytime Emmy award, where indignation and pressure might be used to get your way.

[ifinnegan]

A smear against of of the most important conservatives f the 20th century and you say it is breaking news.

[GalaxieFiveHundred]

Reported in USA TODAY? Can't be true unless they back it up with a cheery Snapshots' graph...

[for-q-clinton]

This is one of the major issues I have with the catholic church...make that two.

1) They have sainthood...which is just crazy hogwash. And creates a false idol type of mentality with people worshiping the saints.

2) They covered up the abuse of pedophile homosexual priests.

No amount of spin can fix these two issues.

[cardinal4]

No one should be canonized. Miracles can’t be proven.

I haven't had a drink in 17 years this month, which I can assure you is a provable miracle..

[for-q-clinton]

By which saint? Or would that be through Christ?

I think that’s his point.

[for-q-clinton]

And who do you attribute this miracle to? Christ or a saint?

[wonkowasright]

In 1981 His Holiness John Paul II appointed Cardinal Ratzinger [ now Pope Benedict XVI ] to head the Council on Doctrine Faith. It was under Ratzinger that the problem was clearly reversed starting in 1981, the reforms were instituted.

Now instead of attacking pray as Christ did that "all may be one".

[wonkowasright]

Its not an or question. The saint prayed, just as you dad, brother, friend prays for you, and God performed the miracle.

[cardinal4]

What difference does it make?

[Sooth2222]

I don’t think canonization is handled in quite the same way as, say, a historically significant MTV award or Daytime Emmy award, where indignation and pressure might be used to get your way.

It's been a few decades since I finished with my Catholic education, but IIRC the Catholic Church is not a democracy. USA Today might as well print an opinion column telling the Catholic Church to approve of abortions and to allow women to become priests.