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    Quote Originally Posted by aggressivesecularist View Post
    I agree that CS is a red herring. It's just a written expression of an already well-defined policy of cover-up, composed for the particular circumstances of cases of priests abusing confession to molest.


    The actual cover-ups are far more important and far more damning.
    I totally agree. The RCC don't seem to realise that the fallout from covering up paedophilia is much worse than admitting that you have a small number of paedophiles in the ranks and doing something about the problem immediately.

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    Thanks very interesting that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Catalpa View Post
    Thanks very interesting that.

    Can we send him into Leinster House to smoke out the demons within?
    I don't think it unfair to suggest he'd want to attend to his own house first.....

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    Chris sent me these links.

    Thanks Chris!

    Scandal Widens: Pope Remains Silent as Abuse Allegations Hit Close to Home - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

    Scandal Widens: Pope Remains Silent as Abuse Allegations Hit Close to Home - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International -- Part II

    The second link features a senior Church figure resorting to the crudest Godwinism against Der Spiegel magazine. Comparing anyone to a Nazi is utterly taboo in German public life. It leads to immediate resignation in most cases.

    The Church in Germany is imploding to the same extent it is in Ireland. Josef's brother George's penchant for uncontrolled and severe (and apparently illegal) corporal punishment is set to make things even hotter over the next few days.

    Ratzinger's long-time running of the Congregation for the Faith, which was the sole congegration (ministry) responsible for dealing with sexual abuse allegations, has the potential to eventually hang him (by which I mean either precipitate his resignation or comprehensively disgrace him).

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    Quote Originally Posted by aggressivesecularist View Post
    Chris sent me these links.

    Thanks Chris!

    Scandal Widens: Pope Remains Silent as Abuse Allegations Hit Close to Home - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

    Scandal Widens: Pope Remains Silent as Abuse Allegations Hit Close to Home - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International -- Part II

    The second link features a senior Church figure resorting to the crudest Godwinism against Der Spiegel magazine. Comparing anyone to a Nazi is utterly taboo in German public life. It leads to immediate resignation in most cases.

    The Church in Germany is imploding to the same extent it is in Ireland. Josef's brother George's penchant for uncontrolled and severe (and apparently illegal) corporal punishment is set to make things even hotter over the next few days.

    Ratzinger's long-time running of the Congregation for the Faith, which was the sole congegration (ministry) responsible for dealing with sexual abuse allegations, has the potential to eventually hang him (by which I mean either precipitate his resignation or comprehensively disgrace him).

    I wonder how long it took to get those published. Can we use them as one of your KPIs?

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    Read 'em. You might learn something Robbie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aggressivesecularist View Post
    Read 'em. You might learn something Robbie.
    Were they published in under the mandatory eighteen hours which is so important for you?

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    Infallibility seems to be nearing an end. Is Ratzinger the fabled 'black pope' that would bring down the catholic church? Ironically it was an Irish prophet, St. Malachy that seems to have predicted it. Unfortunately end of days is meant to follow. Hopefully only for the catholic church though!

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    Patsy McGarry reckons the Irish church is irredeemably damaged on the one hand, and that, on the other, the story emanating from Munich (that the pope was overruled by an underling when the latter decided to put a paedophile priest to work in a parish) was utterly unbelievable to anyone who knew how the then Archbishop and present pope did his work.

    Sensible man Patsy!

    http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...266350973.html

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