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It repeated the rule that any Catholic who failed for over a month to denounce a priest who had made such advances in connection with confession was automatically excommunicated and could be absolved only after actually denouncing the priest or at least promising seriously to do so

Thanks for the info, Mark. There's a whole lot of [excommmunicated] FReeper Catholics out there who'd rather denounce me than denounce their own priests, based on their own posting history.

There's a whole lot of FReeper Catholics out there who'd rather denounce me than denounce their own priests, based on their own posting history.

I've been personally involved in getting several ephebophile priests removed from my own diocese, and therefore feel qualified to denounce you, Alex.

Also, you fall right in with the homosexuals and liberals in continuing the slander against the Church that it has or had a pedophilia problem. It does not. It relaxed its prohibitions on admitting homosexuals to the priesthood, and a cohort of homosexuals have passed through its ranks over the past 4 decades, and the homosexuals did what homosexuals are wont to do.

So in Christian charity, I strongly suggest you cease this grave sin of detraction and slander, and stop implying the Church has a pedophile problem. It does not. It has a homosexual priest problem, and ephebophilia is endemic to the homosexual subculture.

Thanks for the info, Mark. There's a whole lot of [excommmunicated] FReeper Catholics out there who'd rather denounce me than denounce their own priests, based on their own posting history.

There are a bunch of people either within or on the fringes of the Church who are heinous sinners and have done great harm to others. I've never denied that, and neither have the serious Catholics.