Posted on 08/27/2018 11:25:36 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
More than 500,000 tickets for the papal Mass in Dublin's Phoenix Park on Sunday were handed out, but apparently, only about 130,000 people showed up.
Over half a million tickets were snapped up for the event, but it is thought that just 130,000 people turned out.
Well wishers waved flags, cheered and reached out to touch the pontiff as he passed on his way to a stage, where he then conducted the religious service for the faithful.
During the mass, which was aired live on TV, the Pope asked for forgiveness for the clerical and institutional abuse in Ireland.
On Saturday, the Pope had an emotional meeting with eight survivors of abuse.
During the meeting the eight survivors spoke at length with the Pontiff about their experiences.
As mass took place, thousands of people descended on the city centre for the Stand 4 Truth protest.
When popes say public Masses, it is generally in front of hundreds of thousands of the faithful, rain or shine. This paltry turnout in Ireland, formerly one of the most Catholic countries in Europe, speaks volumes about how far the Church has fallen from grace in that country.
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But you need your Pope to step up... or step down. Time to be open about this. Shine the light on it and the crimes and sins will not be able to survive.
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Oh, I totally agree. Shine the light and clean up the mess. Getting Francis the Fraud to step down will be a big part of the reform.
I thought Francis’ eschewing the trappings of the office was nothing but hubris on his part. There was nothing humble about it. He is a vile man who knew about the deep homosexual and pedophilia vein in the CC and did nothing about it.
No, not *much* worse.
Worse, maybe in a few isolated situations, but the homosexual problem in Roman Catholicism has been going on for over 1,000 years, and who knows how long the abuse of boys has been part of that.
And the cover up is beyond excuse or being excusable.
Roman Catholicism doesn’t deserve to survive this and they have forfeited the right to call themselves the body of Christ with the kind of sordid, corrupt, immoral history it has to show for itself.
The bigger tragedy is the spiritual damage done to people by priests all in the name of Christ, men who claim to have the power to send people to heaven or hell, and claim to represent Christ here on earth.
Pope St. John Paul II drew a crowd of 1.25 million in this very same location in 1979.
I think it was more than just the weather.
In 2002, the homoclerical demonocracy that currently runs the institutions of the Church cleaned up some of the most vile symptoms of the problem. They basically said, “Move your preferred victim target range of 13 - 17 year-old boys to 18 - 22 year-old young men. The sex isn’t quite as great for us, but it’ll keep us all out of prison.”
And then there was the Church’s support for the murderous Ustashe in Croatia during WWII.
Probably what remaining faithful Catholics there are in Ireland remember that Rome said absolutely nothing during the Irish abortion debate.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/cardinal-burke-irish-catholics-did-not-receive-support-from-rome-in-abortio
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