The non-punitive heirarchy since Vatican II is directly connected with the pederasty scandal. They say Cardinal Mahony has been facing some 500 cases, but none of them have gone to court, nor is he being called to task by the Vatican for this looming catastrophy. For the Inquisition to be resumed, the principle of penalty for behavior opposed to the Faith of Catholics would have to be restored, first. As it is, from the very top on down the only penalties has been for those who behave IN ACCORD with the Faith of Catholics, inasmuch as they have refused to follow the deconstruction demanded of them from authority (and rightly so, because the demand was unjust). The problem is at the top. Corruptio optima pessima est (The corruption of the best is the worst). And the fish rots from the head. Mahony has been making homosexuality a PREREQUISITE for continuing in his seminaries, and any seminarian discovered to be morally opposed to homos are expelled (ostensibly for some other reason, of course). This has been going on for years, and the Vatican has done nothing to stop it. An official prohibition against admitting any candidate with homosexual tendencies to any seminary in the world was issued by Pope John XXIII in 1961, but it was ignored by almost all the bishops. Now we pay the price. Oh, the new answer to the recent public emergence of this long forgotten official directive is to - guess what? - put teeth in the offense? Noooo! They (Ratzinger or Hoyos or one of those guys) is going to issue a NEW directive that eliminates the prohibition! If that's not D2, I don't know what is. Sister Lucy warned us there would be trouble if the Pope and bishops ignored the command of heaven, and now we know...
Oh, by the way, Sister Lucy of Fatima has passed away. May God have mercy on her soul, and may her soul and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
I know. We are in for very trying times.
God bless Sister Lucia.