Benedict should spend as much effort cleaning up the pedophile priest scandal—including the Church’s complicity—as he does denouncing military and political actions. As an alumnus of the Hitler Youth, he should know a just fight against tyranny when he sees it. And he should render to Ceasar what is his. It’s hard to remain a practicing Catholic with this kind of nonsense coming from the top.
Well, keep practicing because you suck at it.
I think you hit every bigoted two knuckle deep nose picking anti Catholic sentiment there is.
What pedophile priest scandal? I am aware of a homosexual priest scandal, but other than liberals spewing false charges of pedophile priests, I have never seen claims of or any priest charged with any wrongdoing associated with pre-pubescent children (that is what pedophilia is). Is there a pedophilia scandal in the public schools? Interesting that with all the abuse of teenagers going on there you never see it described as pedophilia...why?
Are you trying to advance the homosexual agenda by diverting attention from the immorality and destructiveness of homosexuality or are you just a useful idiot for the liberal agenda to do the same?
I think that is fair criticism. He has never dealt with this issue head on, although, he is much more conservative and direct on the issue than was John Paul II - who simply ignored it for years and years - even when it became a tidal wave.
As an alumnus of the Hitler Youth, he should know a just fight against tyranny when he sees it.
In fairness to him - he didn't joining voluntarily, and he left that group. Moreover, every youth in Deutschland in the 1930's (girls included) were required to join a Hitler cult organization.
And he should render to Ceasar what is his. It’s hard to remain a practicing Catholic with this kind of nonsense coming from the top.
The words of Christ are amazing, are they not? No doubt that the Pharisee who tried to trick Christ into either supporting taxes or Rome was probably saying "How did this uneducated rube from backwater Galilee come up with that response so quickly and turn the tables on me?"
As I said previously on this thread, the Pope should concentrate on winning souls for Jesus Christ. Declaring and End to Evil and "Enough" is not his call. It is God's.
Losers who post knee-jerk observations about pedophila to every thread involving the Pope should at least try to make themselves credible by identifing their own faith, which is, of course, without sin. You’re a “practicing Catholic” the same way I started for the Giants in the Super Bowl. No Catholic who was paying even the slighted bit of attention would have accused the Pope of being a participating member of the Hitler Youth.
As a devout Catholic, I see nothing wrong with what he has said. Perhaps a bias against B16 is at play here?