[Notwithstanding]

As the article and document point out, the pope did not order or suggest the tranfer of a pedophile priest - he ordered the priest defrocked and within that very order of defrocking he suggested the man make a fresh start elswhere for his own good and the good of those (individuals and the parish) whom he injured. He merely added that if those whom he injured would not be scandalized, then the man need not be sent elsewhere to begin his new life as a defrocked priest.

Nothing new or notable here, move along.

[sailor4321]

Couldn't agree more. The headline is very, very misleading...

[Jael]

Question. It seems that the Pope has made a decree regarding the pedophile. What control does the Pope have over someone who is kicked out of the priesthood? Do they still support those pedophile priest with the thithes of the layity?

[Illbay]

Um, what, exactly, does the "life of a defrocked priest" entail?

[Zviadist]

he ordered the priest defrocked and within that very order of defrocking he suggested the man make a fresh start elswhere for his own good and the good of those (individuals and the parish) whom he injured. He merely added that if those whom he injured would not be scandalized, then the man need not be sent elsewhere to begin his new life as a defrocked priest.

See Maximum Leader's post above for an answer to this. At the very least, it is preventing justice from being done. You don't expect more from the pope himself???

Nothing new or notable here, move along.

Spoken just like a Clintonite when scandal breaks.

[Aquinasfan]

Nothing new or notable here, move along.

Why pull the plug on the hysteria so soon? ;-)