I am going to get more into this "controversy" later on as well as SNAP's ( Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests,) increasing role as sadly becoming part of the problem.
I saw on a internet board a few days ago something entitled POPE SCANDAL. It referenced remarks that Pope Benedict made in his "State of the Church" address to the Curia as to sexual child abuse by clergy. I could not imagine what was controversial about it since I read the whole thing. Read it all here
However some people were offended
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I am going to get more into what the Pope said and where I agree and perhaps disagree a tad. I also plan to do a rather painful piece on SNAP and talk about some things that need to be said.
However lets me stay on topic. The Pope, that has seen a lot of History , is not just making stuff up.
See David Quinn: Pope is right on views of paedophilia in 1970s
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Your headline was provocative enough to get me to click on this even though I have little interest in Catholicism.
Quite an education to learn that the real victims are not the molested children, but the poor pitiful Priests who had no better place to get their values and beliefs in the 1970's than such "mainstream" organizations as the North American Man-Boy Love Association.
Those Priests were not the real victims and the Pope did not say that. IN fact he spend a good bit of time saying THAT the opposite!!
What I think he is saying is that the Church does not exactly operate in an alternative Universe. It's Priests and religious do come from the world that is affected by this. You can't just deal iwht the problem as a whole by looking at one facts.
Now that does not accuse the Bishops who operated in a negligent of indeed criminal manner in some cases either
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