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| In this Nov. 30, 2004 file photo, Pope John Paul II gives his blessing to late father Marcial Maciel, founder of Christ's Legionaries Source |
Associated Press
Excerpt:
"Pope John Paul II is rightly credited with having helped bring down communism, of inspiring a new generation of Catholics with a globe-trotting papacy and of explaining church teaching on a range of hot-button issues as Christianity entered its third millennium.
John Paul and his top advisers failed to grasp the
severity of the abuse problem until very late in his 26-year papacy, even
though U.S. bishops had been petitioning the Holy See since the late-1980s for
a faster way to defrock pedophile priests.
The experience of John Paul in Poland under communist and
Nazi rule, where innocent priests were often discredited by trumped-up
accusations, is believed to have influenced his general defensiveness of the
clergy. The exodus of clergy after the turbulent 1960s similarly made him want
to hold onto the priests he still had.
Pope Francis has inherited John Paul's most notorious
failure on the sex abuse front — the Legion of Christ order, which John Paul
and his top advisers held up as a model. Francis, who will canonize John Paul
on Sunday, must decide whether to sign off on the Vatican's three-year reform
project, imposed after the Legion admitted that its late founder sexually
abused his seminarians and fathered three children.
Yet the Legion's 2009 admission about the Rev. Marcial
Maciel's double life was by no means news to the Vatican.
Documents from the archives of the Vatican's then-Sacred
Congregation for Religious show how a succession of papacies — including that
of John XXIII, also to be canonized Sunday — simply turned a blind eye to
credible reports that Maciel was a con artist, drug addict, pedophile and
religious fraud."
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This sex abuse scandal exists, but is way overblown. The media, most of whom are secularists that are anti-Christian to varying degrees, just love stories that make Christians look bad. It helps them feel better about their own licentiousness.
ReplyDeleteAll this is nothing new. It is a recycling of old Nazi propaganda against the Catholic Church. For more on this, please click on my name in this specific posting.
Jan, I often disagree with your posts. Sometimes I say so and sometimes I don't.
DeleteI disagree with your most recent post and I am saying so.
And, no, I will not debate this with you here, so please don't post a follow up message arguing the point further; I won't devote time to that.
The sex abuse scandal is not overblown, it is not propaganda by licentious Christophobes, and the facts speak for themselves.
This is not a crisis of "pedophile" priests - this is a crisis of homosexual priests - something that the liberal media will never admit. The faceless AP article - they all are - attacks the Pope, now at his ascention. To do so is to reveal oneself as an implaccable hater of the Catholic Church - this is not Nazi propaganda. The Nazis never treated the Church this poorly - this is straight out of the Red Book of the Communists and the Alinskys.
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