Posted on 06/16/2011 5:41:56 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
To give the charter teeth, the bishops arranged for the Vatican to give its rules the force of canon law.
But, it contains no penalty for bishops who failed to remove abusers or to follow the charter.
Under canon law, only the pope can discipline a bishop.
"We don't have any ability or authority to sanction anyone," said Bishop Blase Cupich, chairman of the Bishops' Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People...
What a surprise.../not.
Why do we need these rules? We have recently been assured by several FRoman Catholics that priests raping children is is all ancient history.
What about all the protestant ministers who sexually abuse children? Why don’t you ever post articles about them?
Protestant ministers generally do not abuse children. Their infractions pertain to having relations with women who are not their wives in their congregations.
Even still, if a Protestant minister were to have been accused of sexually abusing a child, the church would not hide nor protect him, as Roman Catholic churches do. They would turn him over to the police.
Rome just doesn’t get it.
Semantics. What some people call “ancient,” others call “yesterday.”
These clowns are still in cover-up mode. The bishops and complicit media are still denying that it is a homosexual problem.
Hmm
Sigh.
Sexual Abuse of Children by Protestant Ministers
Report: Protestant Church Insurers Handle 260 Sex Abuse Cases a Year
Abuse by Protestant Ministers of Every Denomination
ALL Protestant denominations - 838 Ministers
147 Baptist Ministers
251 "Bible" Church Ministers (fundamentalist/evangelical)
140 Anglican/Episcopalian Ministers
38 Lutheran Ministers
46 Methodist Ministers
19 Presbyterian Ministers
197 various Church Ministers
‘Semantics. What some people call “ancient,” others call “yesterday.”’
The problem may have diminished but there are still gay-controlled seminaries recruiting fags and screening out the straits.
And these are old numbers.
forgot to ping you to post #13. very strange this obsession, very strange indeed.
If that is true, it simply means the RC church is led by a bunch of ineffectual, misguided bishops.
And these are the guys you look to for Scriptural understanding?
Even your own statistics back up what I said. The numbers included in these infractions by Protestants are committed by not only ministers but office workers, members of the congregation, and volunteers. And most infractions are heterosexual between consenting adults.
Whereas in the RCC, the infractions are with underage, non-compliant children (usually boys) and the acts are of a homosexual nature — i.e. rape.
That’s because that authority lies with the Vatican. It does not mean they can not be removed just that there is a method for the removal that must be followed.
Because all Protestant ministers are holy men above reproach.
Once again your crude comment was zapped by the RM.
Why not try reading the article and discussing what it says?
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