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To: TSgt; RnMomof7; Alex Murphy; HarleyD; wmfights; Forest Keeper; the_conscience; Dutchboy88; ...
They just don't seem to get it, do they?

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.

2 posted on 06/16/2011 5:45:39 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Why do we need these rules? We have recently been assured by several FRoman Catholics that priests raping children is is all ancient history.


3 posted on 06/16/2011 5:47:41 PM PDT by Gamecock (It's not eat drink and be merry because tommow we die, but rather because yesterday we were dead.)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

What about all the protestant ministers who sexually abuse children? Why don’t you ever post articles about them?


4 posted on 06/16/2011 5:55:35 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Hmm

Sigh.


8 posted on 06/16/2011 6:18:28 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg

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.


17 posted on 06/16/2011 8:05:51 PM PDT by lastchance ("Nisi credideritis, non intelligetis" St. Augustine)
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