Posted on 12/15/2002 8:34:40 PM PST by Notwithstanding
Their so-called smoking gun theory boils down to this: the pope in 1999 recommended that a defrocked priest ought not return to the area where he committed his offenses. They take this eminently sensible advice and use it as a hammer to bludgeon the pope. Just so everyone understands what’s going on here, what the pope did was to say that a former priest—someone who had been returned to the status of a layman—ought to start a new life in a new location. Isn’t this what parole boards recommend to released inmates—that they not return to the neighborhood that nurtured their maladies? Shame on Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly and others for disseminating this mindless charge.
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Nowhere in the article does it state that. How would anyone know unless they were familiar with the facts of the case? (Which I wasn't.) I asked if the priest had served jail time. I then said that child molesters (not just the one in question) should be jailed.
I'm glad that you're up on the details of the case. I'm also glad that the child-molester/priest went to jail. He also needs to register in his new location as a sex offender (if he hasn't already).
Do you have any other details of the case that you can provide? Or a link to the details?
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