The Pope, should have handled the molestation fiasco with more authority than he did. He, in some ways , protected these vile animals that abused innocent children, by allowing them too be sent too other Parishes without telling anyone what they had done. This is unbearable, and I will never back down on this issue. I do understand also that we all sin and do wrong, so I am no better than anyone else. I must therefore forgive the Pope for his inactions and I never wished him any malice, he did a great many things. Be well Your Holiness, may your soul find rest in the next realm of life.
Jeff
I haven't seen an article on this, but did anyone see Fonda on Larry King last night where she said that the first thing Ted Turner told her on the first date they went on was that he had lots of friends that were communists, that he was a supporter of Castro and visited Cuba several times and she said she found it so endearing?
I mean come on, how is this not front page news?
Pedastery cases shrank more than 90% between 1981 and 1994, before the press even got wind of the problem. The incidence rate was lower in 1994 than in the 1950s -- and that 1950s rate is probably only as low as it was because most of those pederasts are dead now, so there is no-one to accuse.
What you perceive of as inaction was apparently very effective subtlety. But there was nothing subtle about his condemnation of such abuses when he came to America in 1996 and publicly eviscerated the American episcopacy for tolerating abuse.
How big of you to forgive the pope and who may I ask forgives you?
Unless you have some direct connection to the Lord it is not up to you to forgive someone else's sins that are not related to you.
I can forgive a debt that is owed to me by you.I can't forgive a debt that is owed by you to someone else.