Posted on 11/21/2018 6:33:20 PM PST by marshmallow
YAOUNDÉ, Cameroon - An archbishop in South Africa has suggested the Church’s law system should be amended to mandate the excommunication of priests who commit sexual abuse.
Archbishop Buti Tlhagale of Johannesburg made his comments during an ordination mass for four new priests.
“Perhaps the abuse of minors by a priest, considering its moral gravity … ought to be considered as an automatic excommunication. In other words, when a priest is found to have abused a child, that should be included in the list of those acts that bring about automatic excommunication,” he said Oct. 27.
Currently, there are several offenses which lead to an automatic excommunication for a priest, including breaking the seal of confession and soliciting sexual favors during the sacrament of reconciliation.
Tlhagale’s suggestion came against the backdrop of the trial in Port Elizabeth of a Nigerian tele-evangelist, 58-year-old Timothy Omotoso, who was accused of raping a woman and kidnapping over 30 girls.
“This case brings to the fore the raw feelings of anger, of outrage, of bitterness, of frustration, of hatred, even of self-hatred; feelings, desires of retaliation, of betrayal, of disloyalty, of unfaithfulness, of cover-ups, of a sinister abuse of power and of deception,” the archbishop said.
Tlhagale said the argument put up by some that child abuse isn’t peculiar to the Catholic Church was no consolation, insisting that “child abuse should simply not happen.”
“We restore the Church’s good name by our own lifestyle, by our own fidelity and simple honesty,” he said.
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Gee, ya think?
“Gee, ya think?”
Not excommunicated, executed....
The $64,000 question is: would this excommunicate the Pope?
Ex-communicated of ex-ecuted.
Either one works for me.
About time. Revive the old bell book and candle ritual of excommunication and have Mc Carrick be the first to be cast out. The Church’s problem is that it has for years pandered to homosexuals and filled its seminaries with gays.
On freaking believable. What are these child pervert gay child molesters in federal prison with life sentences?! I am so fucking sick of the Catholic Church.
About Time for what?! that they be excommunicated? That’s their sentence?! They should be thrown in federal prison and then killed By the inmates With a tire filled with gasoline around their necks and lit on fire
Excommunicated?! Give me a goddamn break already!
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