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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPope 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 Irelands largest sports stadium. Irelands 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
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)do not want to deal with it.
Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)No one will ever know what causes it, or why electrical currents move from outlet to outlet after repeatedly shocking young children
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)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.
liberalnationalist
(170 posts)Pope = Catholic Bishops = NAMBLA = candidacy of Raw Money
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)They moved the child molesters from one church to another. Nothing mysterious about that.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)about it. The mystery is why nothing was done about it.
byeya
(2,842 posts)And since we do, why aren't RC priests and bishops required to register as agents of a foreign country?
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)liberalnationalist
(170 posts)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)non-national corps when they get big and influential enough?
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)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)Don't have any accountability and these things are bound to happen. No mystery at all.
ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)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.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)ChairmanAgnostic
(28,017 posts)I completely agree with you.
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)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.
meeksgeek
(1,214 posts)global1
(25,247 posts)Catholic Church.
rurallib
(62,415 posts)and dealt with just as well.
Avoidance of responsibility - the new religion.
Why did I leave that church again?
Evasporque
(2,133 posts)like poo....
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)At least they were honest about their corruption.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Stargazer09
(2,132 posts)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.