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Saturday, 13 March, 2010
Pope Under Fire
(with comments)
This could be good: Pope under fire for transfer, letter on sex abuse.
Germany's sex abuse scandal has now reached Pope Benedict XVI: His former archdiocese acknowledged it transferred a suspected pedophile priest while Benedict was in charge and criticism is mounting over a 2001 Vatican directive he penned instructing bishops to keep abuse cases secret.
The revelations have put the spotlight on Benedict's handling of abuse claims both when he was archbishop of Munich from 1977-1982 and then the prefect of the Vatican office that deals with such crimes - a position he held until his 2005 election as pope.
The pope, meanwhile, continues to be under fire for a 2001 Vatican letter he sent to all bishops advising them that all cases of sexual abuse of minors must be forwarded to his then-office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and that the cases were to be subject to pontifical secret.
Germany's justice minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, has cited the document as evidence that the Vatican created a "wall of silence" around abuse cases that prevented prosecution.
Ratzo doesn't care. He can just claim diplomatic immunity.
- By Mean Jean. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @09:31am:For years advocates for the abused children have said that the burden of culpability goes straight to the top of the chain of command. Pope Ratso is holding a smoking gun.
- By Bisbonian. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @09:35am:Yup, this might just get interesting.
I'm still offering that post-apocalyptic pet service (pre-paid), by the way.... - By Daniel FR, Germany. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @09:43am:If someone would be so nice and stick a fuse up his blessed cavity, I'd gladly light it.
- By His Holiness, Admiral Tinfoilhat, ret.. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @09:47am:Dream on, seekers of justice! The Church really got smacked down for The Inquisition, didn't it?
- By Doug. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @10:11am:The Pope is infallible. Like Maradona he is guided by The Hand of God.
- By J-Walk. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @10:28am:
- By Doug. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @10:37am:That's better odds than Orly's run for California Secretary of State.
- By Dave Lartigue. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @12:12pm:Remember when we all made fun of Sinead O'Connor for tearing up a photo of the Pope on SNL in protest of the abuse of children by the Catholic Church?
Huh. Turns out she was right. - By Inti. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @01:57pm:The Pope? Resign? Nah, they'll just transfer him... to another room in the Vatican.
- By Daniel FR, Germany. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @02:20pm:@Dave Lartigue: Who do you mean, "we all"?
- By Shel-tone. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @02:48pm:Ruh Ro Ratzo...
- By Candidus. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @03:15pm:What, no love for the concept of professional courtesy?
- By Wotlja. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @03:24pm:Why anyone is still a Catholic after all is is beyond me.
All this does is get out the open what we all know already: It goes right to the top, and always has. - By Barbwire. Comment posted 13-Mar-2010 @06:22pm:Isn't the cover-up of the child abuse basically bearing flase witness? And isn't that some kind of religious er, what's the word? Commandment?
- By just me. Comment posted 14-Mar-2010 @01:16pm:So? The only ones NOT seeing the coming demise of the HRCC are the Church themselves!
- By Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Comment posted 14-Mar-2010 @06:24pm:These people are doing the work of god. It is hard work. Why not let them have fun every once in a while. You liberals are such whiners.