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To: RummyChick
I would consider him an outsider. That is what they need.

They certainly need to weed out all these gay priests once and for all. Putting the homosexual clergy out to pasture will go a long, long way to ending future abuse.

Still, as someone who is not a Catholic, I am far more concerned with the economic influence the Pope may have than I am the inner workings of the organization. When I hear that this Pope's claim to fame is "social justice", I worry - a lot. The Catholic church is not terribly friendly to free market, capitalist thinking. Far too many of their clergy, especially the Jesuits (and this Pope is/was a Jesuit), were way far left in their economic views.

39 posted on 03/13/2013 4:36:50 PM PDT by Longbow1969
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To: Longbow1969

“Putting the homosexual clergy out to pasture will go a long, long way to ending future abuse.”

I would say that it has to go further than that. The clergy that have been using their station to serve their predatory proclivities rather than serving the Church need to be defrocked and turned over to civil authorities.


46 posted on 03/13/2013 5:23:34 PM PDT by Fred Hayek (The Democratic Party is now the operational arm of the CPUSA)
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