To: Land of the Irish; GatorGirl; maryz; *Catholic_list; afraidfortherepublic; Antoninus; Aquinasfan; ..
The article is a tad confusing, but Rome does not look good here.
3 posted on
07/31/2003 8:30:48 PM PDT by
narses
("The do-it-yourself Mass is ended. Go in peace" Francis Carindal Arinze of Nigeria)
To: narses; NYer; Chancellor Palpatine; ninenot; BlackElk
``They're giving the priest the responsibility to tell his victim that the victim has to turn the priest in to the bishop within 30 days. If not, the victim is automatically excommunicated,'' he said, citing another passage. Further evidence that the cover-up of sexual abuse goes back before Vatican II. It's a shame that this is John XXIII devising this kind of hideous practice.
Can you imagine, excommunicating a victim because they don't come forward with a claim of sexual abuse by a priest within 30 days?
If this is true, popes and bishops have much to answer for.
How many precious souls have been condemned to suffering in this life because of the callousness of popes and bishops?
One turns one's eyes away from such coldness.
Millstones, aplenty.
5 posted on
07/31/2003 8:51:56 PM PDT by
sinkspur
("Boy, watch that knife!'" Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton in "The Searchers")
To: narses
See 'Land of Irish's post 271 with a link to the actual document under discussion and my subsequent replies.
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