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Sex Abuse Critic to Pope: Swap White Cassock for Black, Lose the Red Shoes

Before this year, when Pope Benedict XVI became best-known for his questionable record in dealing with the sexual abuse of children by priests, the pontiff often made headlines for his fastidious attention to high-end clerical fashion

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[mosinging1986]

Ain't it?

I don't make any excuses for the abuses that have happened. I'm not even Catholic. But at least they are doing what they can to deal with this situation. The constant harping on it by the MSM is tiresome.

And yes, especially in comparison to their glaring silence on things like Scientology and Islam.

[polaris93]

The MSM are out to destroy Christianity if they can. And their hatred of Judaism and Jews is unmistakable. Both Judaism and Christianity teach strong moral codes that keep believing and practicing Christians and Jews from doing a lot of things that would otherwise play into the hands of the Left and the liberal establishment. But the MSM also keep getting caught at truly stupid things, such as, for example, bitching about the Pope wearing vestments that have been kept by the Church for decades for ceremonial use, things of great historical value that any decent museum would be proud to take custody of, which also have real spiritual meaning, because "they're trimmed with ermine." Oh, gee, wow, how terrible! We should all cater to those nice "animal-rights" people who have now tasked themselves with making honeybees extinct and thus crashing the biosphere! Yeah, right. The Web and the Blogosphere are turning out to be the Archangel Mikhael's very own weapons against evil -- and to make it even more delicious, they do their best

[brezhnev]

Huge bureaucracy or otherwise, they should have done something about this a long time ago. If they'd rather do nothing, watch their reputation get destroyed, and face huge lawsuits, it's up to them.

[polaris93]

There was a long-term disconnect in the Church between middle management and the top-level personnel that kept the Vatican from learning what was going on. I have a friend who was raised a Roman Catholic, though has been somewhat lapsed since youth, who is also very learned in history, both that of the Church and otherwise, who researched the details of the horror. What he found out was that back in the 1960s, the Church was bleeding priests. So orders came down from the Vatican to the bishops that if there was any way they could keep priests in the Church, to do so. The implicit message was "by whatever lawful and decent means possible," but for some reason some bishops didn't get that part, or decided not to pay attention to it. It was an "at your discretion" sort of thing. Whoever was archbishop in this country interpreted that to include transferring priests about whom parishioners were complaining of child molestation and other things to other parishes, to keep moving them around the country from parish to parish, to get

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When the Vatican finally learned what had been happening, then-Pope John Paul II was outraged, but by then the shit had hit the fan for fair and they had to ride it out. By then the Pope was far enough up in years that failing health prevented his doing anything much about it; a moot point, because the Church hierarchy was having to deal with those lawsuits, which brought it all out into the open, and all by itself that stopped the tide of child-molestations and the shuffling around of priests guilty of it. The current Pope, Benefict, has been working with canon lawyers to reinstitute the old system by which priests guilty of such things are never again allowed to serve as priests, but with tighter restrictions to make sure that this never, ever happens again. This is, I realize, locking the barn door years after all the horses have been stolen, but it will prevent future recurrences of the horror. The mainstream media are not reporting any of this, and the non-Catholic public and even many