“Who am I to judge” Francis is unable/unwilling to provide the change needed. He has protected the guilty with plum jobs in Rome, promoted known sinners and their defenders and denied obvious truths when placed before him.
Not even the detailed and damning report of the DA from Pennsylvania could elicit more than the now familiar and trite claims of "embarrassment" and "sorrow" and "pain" at the suffering of those who have fallen prey to men they trusted and the Church they loved.
The Pope should dismiss the College of Cardinals and then resign. Benedict will assume the Papacy, request that all Bishops submit their resignations and begin anew to reconstitute the Church.
Every State DA should follow PA's lead, track down the guilty (and their accomplices) and remand all to the court system. All homosexual and/or pederast priests must be drummed out of the Church and/or the seminaries where they hide.
Count me in! Purge the Church of these hideous enablers, who have perpetuated the rape of babies. I don’t like to be too graphic, but imagine a big, drunken priest’s penis penetrating the anus of a six-year-old first grade boy! It really happened, in Massachusetts, in the 90’s. Read the trial transcripts, if you don’t believe me. The other priest in that rectory went in to use the shower. It was covered in blood. He never reported this criminal act.
Every bishop resigning and PF naming their replacements? Not a good idea!
With that said, the bishops who have been in schism for decades and never did listen to JPII or Benedict should just leave, but they won't.
And what if Benedict is guilty also?
Francis should be part of the resignation-group. He really doesn’t care if homosexuals and pedophiles are in the priesthood as long as they are “celibate”. This’ll be swept under the rug...again.
What good will that do? Bergoglio will only appoint worse bishops. The only way to correct the Church’s problems is to STOP FEEDING THE BEAST. No money for anything until they get their act cleaned up.
The Pope should do mass excommunications of offending bishops and priests and for the guilty Cardinals call them to Rome, strip them of their badges of office and publically excommunicate them with the old bell, book and candle ritual televised for the world to see. There also needs to be a new papal encyclical reiterating the Church’s condemnation of homosexuality.
I talked to a Catholic guy friend from Pittsburgh who said he doesn’t believe this latest news and he thinks it’s a setup by lawyers getting rich and people wanting to take down the Catholic church, that he never saw evidence of all this supposed abuse and bad behavior while growing up in a western Pennsylvania parish as a young boy and he refuses to watch the news anymore because of it. Food for thought. The local leftie Pittsburgh paper for my area has headlines today, Catholics enraged. Stoking the fires. Just saying. I personally am afraid to say what I really feel even in this public forum because of the pressure to condemn and group think.
Britain has Muslim “grooming gangs” that carry out organized child rape.
Our grooming gang is the RC Church.