[sinkspur]

The Pope has been speaking out against sexual sins of Priests for the past decade.

Can you find any specific references JP II has made to this scandal over the last decade?

Somebody said yesterday that he has been taking the American Church to task since 1983, but I don't remember him saying anything before last month.

One of the lone voices in the wilderness in the '80s was Andrew Greeley, who said on a Donahue show back then that priestly pederasty would become the "biggest scandal in Church history."

[AmishDude]

Question for Catholic freepers: When the Cardinals meet (this would refer more to, say, the meeting that will announce the next pope rather than this one) what language do they speak in? Latin? English? Italian?

[Gophack]

Somebody said yesterday that he has been taking the American Church to task since 1983, but I don't remember him saying anything before last month.

I believe is was 1993 and he was in America or the Americas when he condemned sexual sins in the priesthood. I can't remember where I read it, but it was here on FR. Someone posted an article from the time the Pope spoke up in reply to that he "just broke his silence" on this scandal.

Tonight I'll do a little research and see if I can find it. Maybe someone else has it handy.