Which is exactly why the Catholic church needs to reevaluate its *Once a priest, always a priest* mentality and defrock those who are convicted of abuse or who admit it.
The church's handling of known cases of abuse is inexcusable at the most basic level and their failure to act on it only allowed it to continue.
By defrocking those who are known abusers, especially those who went into the priesthood under false pretenses in order to have access to children, it will eliminate that element from the priesthood.
If a marriage can be annulled because one of the parties went into it with false intent, thereby making it not a legitimate marriage as defined by the church, then how can the ordination of a pedophile who went into the priesthood under false pretenses be valid and how can the sacraments said deceiver administered be valid?
The mental gymnastics Catholics go through to justify this situation is unbelievable.
By defrocking those who are known abusers, especially those who went into the priesthood under false pretenses in order to have access to children, it will eliminate that element from the priesthood.That is what is done. Did you not know that? Hiding under a rock maybe?
Pope defrocks 400 priests in 2 years
VATICAN CITY – A document obtained by The Associated Press shows Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests over just two years for molesting children.
That’s a fact! I watch as they applaud the fact that “only half are true”. Can you imagine? Then they somehow think that by pointing to other organizations or groups doing the same it lessons the fact that there is something terribly wrong with who they follow. If I knew of an organization that I belonged to had done even one tenth of what the RCC has done in this regard I wouldn’t have anything to do with them.
“The mental gymnastics Catholics go through to justify this situation is unbelievable”.
Want me to list just a few of the million dollar PROTESTANT shyster “pastors” that have been charged with sex crimes, most of them being homosexual in nature. Most are still preaching and trying to pick up young boys.
The church's handling of known cases of abuse is inexcusable at the most basic level and their failure to act on it only allowed it to continue.
By defrocking those who are known abusers, especially those who went into the priesthood under false pretenses in order to have access to children, it will eliminate that element from the priesthood.
If a marriage can be annulled because one of the parties went into it with false intent, thereby making it not a legitimate marriage as defined by the church, then how can the ordination of a pedophile who went into the priesthood under false pretenses be valid and how can the sacraments said deceiver administered be valid?
Thank you for proving that you had either poor or no catechesis. I am still praying that Jesus will come into your heart.