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To: stevem
Did you read the link?

How about this one? Does it count as "guilt" if priests quit and apologize for their wrong-doing?

IRISH CATHOLICS CALL FOR CARDINAL LAW'S RESIGNATION, FOLLOWING CLERGY ABUSE REPORT

"Ireland’s clergy sex abuse scandal erupted last year after two government-ordered reports documented decades of clergy child abuse and a church cover up of the abuse. Four Irish bishops said they’ll resign for not reporting the abuse...

The article goes on to say this about Law...

"Cardinal Law came to personify the clergy abuse crisis. He was the first member of the Catholic hierarchy shown to have actively covered up clergy abuse. Immediately after the Boston Globe broke the abuse story in 2002, Law refused to step down. But 11 months later, when priests’ records were released by court order showing that Law took elaborate steps to cover for abusers, he stepped down."

I guess those four priests resigned and Cardinal Law stepped down because they wanted to spend more time with their families.

Oh, wait, they don't have any family, do they?

Just lots of young children who were profoundly damaged while in their care.

308 posted on 03/26/2011 9:28:23 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
“You’ll notice when the pope came to Boston last year, all these American Cardinals from Rome came with the Pope on the plane — but not Cardinal Law,” said Father Walter Cuenin, who was among the group of Boston area priests who first called on Law to step down in response to the clergy abuse crisis. “He could not have been on that plane. So in some ways I think even in Rome they recognize it’s a delicate situation.”

Law should not be a cardinal. He should spend what remains of his useless life in prison. This fate is reasonable for anyone who did what he did.

351 posted on 03/27/2011 12:53:42 AM PDT by stevem
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