Posted on 08/12/2018 6:25:54 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
Do you think it is time to listen to the Doctors of the Church and use harsher penalties to address sexual abuse in the clergy? Share your comments below!
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We used to hang pedophiles and kick out illegals
Will the Catholic Church ever return to its roots?
I think part of the reason for the harsh punishment was hopefully to return the person to the straight and narrow path. Maybe even to save their soul.
Good post. These type rules also protect the good priests which are rarely heard from these days.
I can’t imagine why any Bishop would hide or cover-up for a pedophile, unless they were supreme cowards, or involved themselves.
They should be outed publicly, and the Church itself should call the public authorities.
The pederasts and pedophiles need to be exposed and shaken so badly so they will all flee the Church.
Doesn’t seem barbaric to me at all...
Hanging them by the neck until dead sounds about right to me.
L
Good thing the death penalty is inadmissible now. /s
Cannot imagine how it would feel to be one of the good priests in today’s world. I was watching that old movie The Fighting Sullivans a few weeks ago. The church priest has a large important role in the story. Rock Solid role model and good citizen. Same in the Protestant church, but it made me wonder where guys like that went.
How to handle these sodomite perverts? Burn them at the stake.
When they hang from a gibbet for the sport of their own crows . . . we shall have peace.
**“Any cleric or monk who seduces young men or boys, or who is apprehended in kissing or in any shameful situation, shall be publicly flogged and shall lose his clerical tonsure. Thus shorn, he shall be disgraced by spitting in his face, bound in iron chains, wasted by six months of close confinement, and for three days each week put on barley bread given him toward evening.
“Following this period, he shall spend a further six months living in a small segregated courtyard in custody of a spiritual elder, kept busy with manual labor and prayer, subjected to vigils and prayers, forced to walk at all times in the company of two spiritual brothers, never again allowed to associate with young men.”**
I like this. Can we implement as lay Catholics?
Makes me wonder what they called the priest abusers.
Barbarians?
“When they hang from a gibbet for the sport of their own crows . . . we shall have peace.”
You said it better than I. Child abusers should be killed, quickly and without mercy immediately upon conviction. It should be done publicly with great fanfare.
Fair trial with all their Constitutional protections scrupulously observed.
Upon conviction, death.
L
Read Ann’s article and Sipes’ letter ....if you can stomach it.
Burn them at the stake...publicly
Not mine. I borrowed it from J. R.R. Tolkein. LOTR.
Gee! I don’t know which is worse, the torture or the sex abuse.
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