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Charge the Pope with Crimes Against Humanity?

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sf49erfan

Posted: Apr 26 2010, 01:05 PM

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Should the Pope and the entire Catholic Church face criminal charges for the child rape scandal?

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attorney general of Massachusetts, Thomas Reilly, had termed a massive cover-up by the church of crimes against children by more than a thousand priests. I asked, why is the man who is prima facie responsible, Cardinal Bernard Law, not being questioned by the forces of law and order? Why is the church allowed to be judge in its own case and enabled in effect to run private courts where gross and evil offenders end up being "forgiven"? This point must have hung in the air a bit, and perhaps lodged in Cardinal Law's own mind, because in December of that year he left Boston just hours before state troopers arrived with a subpoena seeking his grand-jury testimony. Where did he go? To Rome, where he later voted in the election of Pope Benedict XVI and now presides over the beautiful church of Santa Maria Maggiore, as well as several Vatican subcommittees.

...the current scandal passed the point of no return when the Vatican officially became a hideout for a man who was little better than a fugitive from justice. By sheltering such a salient offender at its very heart, the Vatican had invited the metastasis of the horror into its bosom and thence to its very head. It is obvious that Cardinal Law could not have made his escape or been given asylum without the approval of the then pontiff and of his most trusted deputy in the matter of child-rape damage control, then cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/236934

Addicted2~Jesus	Posted: Apr 26 2010, 07:27 PM
fishie Group: Theology Posts: 3,229 Member No.: 39 Joined: 20-December 05	no if it were to be so each an ever dern one of us better submit an be held in jail for our own crimes which are nuthin more then sin. I am not defendin the catholic church er the like, but makin a show of it? Stupid...

Stringaling	Posted: Apr 27 2010, 08:40 AM
Sleep Deprived Group: Theology Posts: 7,361 Member No.: 33 Joined: 9-December 05	I think the rapists should be charged, but not the entire church, because it is not the entire church committing the crimes against children...If it were possible to find and hold the guilty men responsible for their actions, they should do that. Those covering for them should also feel the sting... But, as louis said, we are all sinners. I do think, however, when crimes against the innocent are committed, there should be earthly consequences--in addition to those we have to address in the afterlife..

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