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Pope condemns pedophilia as details of girl's death shock Italy
reuters ^ | 5/2/16

Posted on 05/02/2016 2:47:05 PM PDT by StCloudMoose

SHOCKER STATEMENT COMING FROM A CHURCH THAT HAS HAD PROBLEMS WITH ABUSE: "Pope Francis called for "severe punishment" for pedophiles" Pope Francis called for "severe punishment" for pedophiles on Sunday after new details emerged in Italy of the 2014 death of a six-year-old girl who is alleged to have been thrown from an eighth-storey balcony by her abuser. "This is a tragedy. We should not tolerate the abuse of minors," Francis said, departing from prepared remarks at his weekly Sunday message and blessing to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter's Square. "We must protect minors and severely punish abusers," he said. Though the Catholic Church itself has been rocked by its own abuse scandals, he did not mention them on Sunday as he has in the past. Italians have been shocked as details emerged in the case of six-year-old Fortuna who died in June 2014 after a fall from an eighth-storey balcony in Naples. After re-opening the case, police charged a 43-year-old man with having thrown the girl to her death in a housing block in a rough area of the city after raping her. Police said they suspected he killed her so she would not talk. The man, who has also been accused of molesting other children and is now in prison in Rome, has denied the charges. On Saturday Italian President Sergio Mattarella called for an "ample, rapid and severe" judicial process concerning the case, which has dominated newspapers' front pages for days.

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1 posted on 05/02/2016 2:47:05 PM PDT by StCloudMoose
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Odd. I would have expected a celebration of pedophilia, from THIS pope.


2 posted on 05/02/2016 2:47:58 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Trump is great. Just great. He's going to do great things and America will be great and spectacular.)
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To: StCloudMoose

I think a tragedy is when a meteor streaks down and hits someone on the head, i.e., no one is to blame.


3 posted on 05/02/2016 2:50:42 PM PDT by gaijin
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In this golden age of sexual perversion, I expect pedophiles to become the next protected minority along with the precious transgenders.

"Don't judge me, it's how I was born."

*SPIT*

4 posted on 05/02/2016 2:55:53 PM PDT by PROCON
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"...and severely punish abusers," he said.

How about killing them?

Stupid Pope.

5 posted on 05/02/2016 2:59:08 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: StCloudMoose

I’m gonna give Papa a break on this one. “Severe punishment”, he called it right this time. No one but another pedophile would want this murdering pedophile to get off easy.


6 posted on 05/02/2016 3:01:16 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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SHOCKER STATEMENT COMING FROM A CHURCH THAT HAS HAD PROBLEMS WITH ABUSE:

asinine statement...pedophilia was not the churches problem, homosexuality was...the errant priests were after young boys old enough to engage in pleasurable sex, not raping little kids.

7 posted on 05/02/2016 3:04:01 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVER ALL)
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[ Odd. I would have expected a celebration of pedophilia, from THIS pope. ]

There has been a lot of rumbling about how the Pedophile contingent in the Vatican was who ushered in the Socialist Jesuit Pope.


8 posted on 05/02/2016 3:04:23 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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[ SHOCKER STATEMENT COMING FROM A CHURCH THAT HAS HAD PROBLEMS WITH ABUSE:

asinine statement...pedophilia was not the churches problem, homosexuality was...the errant priests were after young boys old enough to engage in pleasurable sex, not raping little kids. ]

Well I guess according to your own statement as long as “the boys enjoyed it” then all is well, right?????

WRONG! It is WRONG, I don’t care if the Priests are consenting Adults boinking each other in the “rectory”, IT IS STILL WRONG!

It is wrong even if the Boys are older as well, ANY UNDERAGE SEX INVOLVING A PRIEST IS WRONG, and the PRIEST SHOULD BE EXCOMUNICATED/EXECUTED.

If you want you priests to engage in consensual “Temple Secks” why don’t you become a member of one of those Buddhist sects that does just that!


9 posted on 05/02/2016 3:08:58 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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I’m gonna give Papa a break on this one. “Severe punishment”, he called it right this time. No one but another pedophile would want this murdering pedophile to get off easy.

If I interpret your statement correctly, and I hope I didn't, it was one of the most asinine, vicious, arrogant, misguided, filthy, condecending, whatever other bad things that I can think of....statements that have ever appeared on this site.

10 posted on 05/02/2016 3:09:38 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVER ALL)
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So when is pope asshat going to condemn mohamhead?


11 posted on 05/02/2016 3:10:31 PM PDT by Sirius Lee (Crump or Lose 2016)
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I thought he would have told him to say a couple Hail Marys.


12 posted on 05/02/2016 3:10:40 PM PDT by petenmi
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To: GraceG
Well I guess according to your own statement as long as “the boys enjoyed it” then all is well, right?????

is that your interpretation??? Certainly is not mine, I merely pointed out the difference between pedophilia and homosexuality....I justified neither.

13 posted on 05/02/2016 3:12:46 PM PDT by terycarl (COMMON SENSE PREVAILS OVER ALL)
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[ Well I guess according to your own statement as long as “the boys enjoyed it” then all is well, right?????

is that your interpretation??? Certainly is not mine, I merely pointed out the difference between pedophilia and homosexuality....I justified neither. ]

Well, thank you for your clarification.


14 posted on 05/02/2016 3:18:31 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)
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To: StCloudMoose

The Lavendar Mafia is going to let him live a little longer since he didn’t attack the sodomite pedophiles that run the Catholic Church.


15 posted on 05/02/2016 3:24:32 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Before Bruce Jenner there was Mike Penner)
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To: StCloudMoose

The Catholic Church has had problems, but to suggest that it’s “shocking” that the Pope is opposed to sexual abuse is anti-Catholic bigotry.


16 posted on 05/02/2016 3:26:36 PM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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Paragraphs help!

Pope Francis called for “severe punishment” for pedophiles on Sunday after new details emerged in Italy of the 2014 death of a six-year-old girl who is alleged to have been thrown from an eighth-storey balcony by her abuser.

“This is a tragedy. We should not tolerate the abuse of minors,” Francis said, departing from prepared remarks at his weekly Sunday message and blessing to tens of thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square.

“We must protect minors and severely punish abusers,” he said.

Though the Catholic Church itself has been rocked by its own abuse scandals, he did not mention them on Sunday as he has in the past.

Italians have been shocked as details emerged in the case of six-year-old Fortuna who died in June 2014 after a fall from an eighth-storey balcony in Naples.

After re-opening the case, police charged a 43-year-old man with having thrown the girl to her death in a housing block in a rough area of the city after raping her. Police said they suspected he killed her so she would not talk.

The man, who has also been accused of molesting other children and is now in prison in Rome, has denied the charges.

On Saturday Italian President Sergio Mattarella called for an “ample, rapid and severe” judicial process concerning the case, which has dominated newspapers’ front pages for days.


17 posted on 05/02/2016 3:30:16 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Shooting them right between the eyes works for me. I don’t care about torturing them. Just dispatch them to hell as quickly as possible.


18 posted on 05/02/2016 3:40:20 PM PDT by Rollee
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Uh-oh, the Pope just pissed off his new best friends, the muzz.


19 posted on 05/02/2016 3:45:48 PM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: StCloudMoose

i thought he was preaching that if it feels good, do it just a week or so ago.


20 posted on 05/02/2016 4:10:20 PM PDT by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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