To: unkus
He saw the abuse of children going on in Irish Catholic orphanages, and publicly called the ecclesiastic hierarchy on it ( to their consternation). Had they listened the Catholic Church would be in a very different position on the world stage today.
This man was orders of magnitude more worthy than JPII.
12 posted on
02/26/2012 12:25:50 PM PST by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: MrEdd
He saw the abuse of children going on in Irish Catholic orphanages, and publicly called the ecclesiastic hierarchy on it ( to their consternation). Had they listened the Catholic Church would be in a very different position on the world stage today.
Agreed.
13 posted on
02/26/2012 12:48:13 PM PST by
unkus
(Silence Is Consent)
To: MrEdd
What is sad is that Boys town had horrible abuse problems in the 80’s.
It was one of the first of such scandals to hit the news (at least locally). To their credit, once it was found out (or at least made public), they took steps to clean it up very quickly.
14 posted on
02/26/2012 12:57:37 PM PST by
redgolum
("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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