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marmar

(77,080 posts)
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 09:32 AM Jun 2012

Pope tells 75,000 at Dublin stadium Mass that child abuse by priests ‘remains a mystery’


VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI told Irish Catholics on Sunday it is a mystery why priests and other church officials abused children entrusted in their care, undermining faith in the church “in an appalling way.”

By describing the decades of child abuse in Catholic parishes, schools and church-run institutions and parishes in Ireland as a “mystery,” the pontiff could further anger rank-and-file faithful in Ireland.

Benedict commented on the scandals of sexual abuse and cover-ups by church hierarchy in a pre-recorded video message for an outdoor Mass attended by 75,000 Catholics, many from overseas, in Ireland’s largest sports stadium. Ireland’s prime minister and president attended the Mass, the final event of a Eucharistic Congress aimed at shoring up flagging faith.

The weeklong Eucharistic Congress, held by the Vatican every four years in a different part of the world, took place against a backdrop of deep anger over child abuse cover-ups and surveys showing declining weekly Mass attendance in Ireland, where church and state were once tightly entwined. ..................(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-faith/pope-to-irish-child-abuse-by-clergy-shook-catholic-faith-calls-motive-a-mystery/2012/06/17/gJQANxbOjV_story.html



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Pope tells 75,000 at Dublin stadium Mass that child abuse by priests ‘remains a mystery’ (Original Post) marmar Jun 2012 OP
Silly Pope, it only remains a mystery since they nadinbrzezinski Jun 2012 #1
It's like electricity Capt. Obvious Jun 2012 #2
Jesus, Sir, He Puts It Right Up There With The Trinity, Does He? The Magistrate Jun 2012 #3
No great mystery to me. AngryOldDem Jun 2012 #4
Pope liberalnationalist Jun 2012 #15
They did more than do nothing about it. UnrepentantLiberal Jun 2012 #24
It's not a mystery when everybody knows sufrommich Jun 2012 #5
Tell me again: Why do we have diplomatic relations with the Vatican? byeya Jun 2012 #6
Was it Nixon who did that? Or Carter? ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2012 #10
why liberalnationalist Jun 2012 #16
Does this mean we'll have diplomatic relations with BP and other byeya Jun 2012 #20
A Sorrowful Mystery, indeed. Brickbat Jun 2012 #7
yeah. gravity is a mystery too - but there is great gravity in his use of this term. NRaleighLiberal Jun 2012 #8
The mystery's why those kids kept sexually attacking those innocent priests, right, Rat? ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2012 #9
Actually Benny it is no mystery at all. It is well understood. yellowcanine Jun 2012 #11
there's plenty of accountability. Just ask the nuns trying to ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2012 #12
Not when it comes to Bishops and pedophile priests. yellowcanine Jun 2012 #14
I was trying to tone down my snark-o-meter ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2012 #27
We're talking legal accountability here. AngryOldDem Jun 2012 #23
George Carlin - Heavy Mysteries meeksgeek Jun 2012 #13
I Guess We'll Just Have To Take It On Faith Like Many Of The Other Unexplained Things In The...... global1 Jun 2012 #17
As much of a mystery as the 2008 financial crisis rurallib Jun 2012 #18
He still cannot understand why his finger smells.... Evasporque Jun 2012 #19
Pope Ratzi makes one long for the Borgia popes. hifiguy Jun 2012 #21
2,000 years and they haven't learned shit. May be time to pack it in. CBGLuthier Jun 2012 #22
Sure thing, Pope--Myth and superstition have always been "a mystery." KansDem Jun 2012 #25
The mystery is why it still happens Stargazer09 Jun 2012 #26

Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
2. It's like electricity
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 09:34 AM
Jun 2012

No one will ever know what causes it, or why electrical currents move from outlet to outlet after repeatedly shocking young children

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
4. No great mystery to me.
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 09:35 AM
Jun 2012

The institution has had a lot of sick fucks going around and molesting kids, and a lot of other sick fucks in higher places who have aided and abetted it by doing nothing about it.

This is so full of bullshit that Benny should be ashamed of himself. He can do better than this in his latest attempt to justify crime.

 

UnrepentantLiberal

(11,700 posts)
24. They did more than do nothing about it.
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 11:34 AM
Jun 2012

They moved the child molesters from one church to another. Nothing mysterious about that.

 

byeya

(2,842 posts)
6. Tell me again: Why do we have diplomatic relations with the Vatican?
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 09:39 AM
Jun 2012

And since we do, why aren't RC priests and bishops required to register as agents of a foreign country?

 

liberalnationalist

(170 posts)
16. why
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 10:19 AM
Jun 2012

because the Catholic church has lots of control over our government...it was Ronald Reagan who sent the first official Vatican ambassador to appease the religious rightwing including the NAMBLA Catholic Bishops

 

byeya

(2,842 posts)
20. Does this mean we'll have diplomatic relations with BP and other
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 10:41 AM
Jun 2012

non-national corps when they get big and influential enough?

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)
9. The mystery's why those kids kept sexually attacking those innocent priests, right, Rat?
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 09:47 AM
Jun 2012

Who was in charge of the cover-ups when he ran the modern version of the Inquisition office? Who ordered priests transfered, litigation stonewalled, documents hidden and cardinals and bishops to lie thru their teeth?

The pope and his many rat fuckers should be prosecuted under RICO.

yellowcanine

(35,699 posts)
11. Actually Benny it is no mystery at all. It is well understood.
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 09:49 AM
Jun 2012

Don't have any accountability and these things are bound to happen. No mystery at all.

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)
12. there's plenty of accountability. Just ask the nuns trying to
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 09:56 AM
Jun 2012

serve the poor and aged, or medically trained nuns suggesting that a life saving abortion was necessary.
They get a lot of attention and attacks from the Rat.

AngryOldDem

(14,061 posts)
23. We're talking legal accountability here.
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 11:04 AM
Jun 2012

We're talking about bishops who knew for years that there were priests in their dioceses who were abusing kids. All they did was play Priest Roulette and shuffle these priests from parish to parish, or from diocese to diocese, while the list of victims grew. In any other universe, this would be aiding and abetting a felony, and these men would find themselves behind bars.

Is it any coincidence that Bernard Law is now safely ensconsed at the Vatican for life? They protect their own.

global1

(25,247 posts)
17. I Guess We'll Just Have To Take It On Faith Like Many Of The Other Unexplained Things In The......
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 10:23 AM
Jun 2012

Catholic Church.

rurallib

(62,415 posts)
18. As much of a mystery as the 2008 financial crisis
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 10:25 AM
Jun 2012

and dealt with just as well.
Avoidance of responsibility - the new religion.
Why did I leave that church again?

 

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)
21. Pope Ratzi makes one long for the Borgia popes.
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 10:54 AM
Jun 2012

At least they were honest about their corruption.

Stargazer09

(2,132 posts)
26. The mystery is why it still happens
Tue Jun 19, 2012, 11:46 AM
Jun 2012

By now, just about everyone knows that abusive priests are out there. Who really cares WHY they do it?

What are church leaders doing to stop it? When are they going to stop covering up the abuse?

As long as they refuse to crack down on the problem, they are allowing it to continue. And countless more kids are going to be abused while the church all but encourages it to happen.

Sickening.

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