Sadly enough, the fact that the current Pope and the legal offices of the Vatican have done so much to try and hide the true facts means that there are actually MANY MORE cases that we’ll never know about.
What do you mean here? Pope Benedict has spoken out against this.
Sources please! And then I’ll find mine.
Sources? Can you prove your comment that “the FACT that the pope & Vatican legal......”.? Pretty strong accusation. Back it up, please
It is a very sad state of affairs.
The Pope is still sheltering Cardinal Law in Italy. Law beat it out of Boston when the State Troopers tried to serve him with papers. He has a new job in Rome now selecting the new bishops. He won’t come back to Boston because he’s afraid to face the charges.
The damage done by these men cannot be measured.
Earlier posters said that even one abused child is too many. Having known one of the kids who was abused I would have to agree. They preyed upon him the year after his father died. They should burn for what they did to him.
with your logic, it also means that since most men like to look at pretty women they obviously are also adulterers and rapists...
that is not true. The present Pope is the one who arranged for the Vatican office to take over these cases because too many bishops were covering them up.
The cases he was accused of “ignoring” are like that one in Wisconsin, where the diocese did nothing for 25 years, and then decided to defrock him when the guy was dying. The Pope pointed out they needed to do their paperwork to defrock him (legally true) and they hadn’t bothered to do it.
You have to realize that the press hates this pope, because for years his job was to check on bad theology (not bad behavior) and they hate the church’s theology. It wasn’t until the 1990’s that he took over the “abuse” stuff and then had to fight the bureaucracy to change things.
There are a billion Catholics, and pointing the finger to the guy in charge is like blaming Obama for a fight at the local bar. And although one abuse case is too many, child abuse is so common that the uproar against the Catholic church, and only the Catholic church, seems a bit absurd.
” the fact that the current Pope and the legal offices of the Vatican have done so much to try and hide the true facts”
False witness is false witness, even if you don’t like the Catholic Church.