Vatican/Cardinals: Did the Pope Give Secret Order to Help Prosecutors Against Priest Molesters?

[xzins]

Was an order -- kept secret from the media -- given by the Pope to release all non-confessional files, data, information, etc? Did the order include releasing all formerly abused church members from "gag order" style confidentiality agreements?

The pope said that the civil authorities were correct in considering these CRIMINAL cases. That would assume that the church would cooperate with the civil authorities.

[xzins]

Lots of action against criminal priests going on.

[Sir Gawain]

[Arthur McGowan]

I assume you are joking.

[xzins]

Many claim that nothing happened at the Vatican meeting. However, the Cardinals get back and all of a sudden there's activity all over the place. Do you think the Pope told the leaders to drop the hammer on the bad guys?

[xzins]

Are you opposed to all religion or just the catholic variety?

Assuming there are good people who truly wish to bless children, like Jesus did, how would they manage to do that today and receive the benefit of the doubt?

[SuziQ]

Do you think the Pope told the leaders to drop the hammer on the bad guys?

I reckon the Pope told them they'd better get their acts together and start acting like TRUE CHRISTIANS and have compassion for the victims, not just their priests!

[xzins]

Do you think he told them to drop the dime, give the goods to the police, on any wayward priests? The rumor mill says nothing happened at the cardinal meeting....the actions since then have priests in the news suddenly being charge. You wonder if they weren't given additional info to make that happen.

[Victoria Delsoul]

That's not the case, and you know it. :-)

[Sir Gawain]

;-D

[Saundra Duffy]

Dreamer.

[pgkdan]

Not even mildly amusing.

[Dajjal]

But according to George Weigel the crisis is over! Everything is okay now!

"It is no accident that the bulk of the abuse cases recently reported took place between the mid-1960s and the late 1980s, a period in which a culture of dissent took root in American seminaries, theology faculties and church bureaucracies and in which clerical discipline broke down.
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"By the same token, it is no accident that there have been few cases of clerical sexual abuse reported from the 1990s, when the reform of the seminaries that was demanded by Pope John Paul II began to take hold and when most bishops in the United States adopted stringent policies for dealing with abusers."