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Pope Francis: 'About 2%' of Catholic clergy paedophiles
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| 07/14/2014
Posted on 07/14/2014 10:37:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: marshmallow
Here's the missing word that neither +Francis (if this report is accurate), nor the media can bring themselves to say; homosexual. Well, we wouldn't want to judge them. ;-0
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posted on
07/14/2014 1:33:43 PM PDT
by
piusv
To: SeekAndFind
Hopefully this Pope will do what has to be done to end it and end the denials and willful blind eyes to this evil in the RCC.
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posted on
07/14/2014 2:53:17 PM PDT
by
free_life
(If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
To: massgopguy
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posted on
07/15/2014 2:06:19 AM PDT
by
jacknhoo
(Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
To: SeekAndFind
The BBC's David Willey in Rome....That figures.
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posted on
07/15/2014 8:12:52 AM PDT
by
onedoug
To: SeekAndFind
Pope Francis has been quoted as saying that reliable data indicates that "about 2%" of clergy in the Catholic Church are paedophiles. The Pope said that abuse of children was like "leprosy" infecting the Church, according to the Italian La Repubblica newspaper. He vowed to "confront it with the severity it demands". But a Vatican spokesman said the quotes in the newspaper did not correspond to Pope Francis's exact words. The BBC's David Willey in Rome says there is often a studied ambiguity in Pope Francis' off-the-cuff statements. PFL
To be sure, the contents of the letter to Ryan werent just a product of Dolans need to appease both sides in the intra-Church struggle. It was also a classic example of a style of ecclesiastical document that the Vatican employs in complicated situations....This style of writing aims at studied ambiguity, a Vatican diplomat explained to me, noting that the people who write such letters are trained to think in terms of centuries, not sound bites. So you always need to be able to say fifty years on, Well, of course we never meant that, the diplomat said.
-- from the thread Mixed Blessing: The Ryan budget and the raging battle within the U.S. Catholic Church
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posted on
07/15/2014 8:36:07 AM PDT
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Alex Murphy
("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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