Officer, Arrest That Pope!

Just discovered the "should the pope resign" thread.

Oh well.

S'okay. Resigning and being arrested aren't the same thing.

Ya know, to be fair, I understand that this pope's done better than any of his predecessors on this issue.

As I understand it, it's not actually Pope's Benedict XVI's behaviour that's the issue here, but rather the actions of Cardinal Joe Ratzinger under the previous one.

Yes...I get that.. I dunno...I just hate lynch mobs, I guess.

I think a few of these guys get caught with the parcel, after centuries of "pass the parcel" and I kind of feel for them.

And, the current boy HAS tried to do SOMETHING.

All who were involved in the cover up should face court and be dealt with honestly same as you or I would be. And the Roman Catholic church should have only woman priests, then the children would be protected . or perhaps give em a sex change... they sure don't need their odd and ends in the doing of their job do they. ( says he with a giggle )

Or just remove their "odds", then they lose interest in their "ends" anyway!

Yeah. (sigh). I know you're right, but these pitchforks are cool ! Check em out!

It was started by an Australian retired judge. Dawkins jumped on the band wagon being the media tart he is but couldnt take the flak.

You cant arrest the head of a state..it would mean war.

what state? the one Mussolini made up? the one the United Nations refused to have as a member on the grounds of not being a state?

It's a VERY small state. I reckon the UK could lick it.

Thing is, does the UK have that kind of legal agreement with the Vatican? I'd think the pope would have diplomatic immunity even so.

Really?

It is recognised by many countries. It is just as much a state as any Theocracy.

Yep. Mussolini made the Vatican State out of Italian turf. Many strongly religious nations object to the Vatican/Catholic Religion having the diplomatic status of an independant state.

It is worth a second thought.

If a teacher, social worker or any other official knew of abuse and did not report it or take action to see that it was reported to authrorities, they would be charged. This is a bigger coverup than the Toyota fiasco.

The Vatican is an entity into itself. They saw this as an internal issue and just moved staff around to positions where they supposedly did the least harm.
Appearances was everything.

This should be very interesting to see how it's going to be received in the US churches.

Sue (I left the Church 20 years ago because of the elevated position of the priest in the parish and lack women's rights) Sullyfish

The strange thing is that as late as in the 1980 even very good psychologists and psycharatists believed that pedophiles and sexual abuser of young people could be cured by good therapy.
That is probably why some were moved to a place with good therapy.
Unfortunately they were all wrong in what they thought.
Also people were ashamed of telling openly what had happened to them. Luckily it has changed - now we can talk about it.
It is not many years ago when a woman was raped that even a judge would kind of hint ....it is probably her own fault. It certainly is not.

So, how many divisions does the Pope have?

I think it was Stalin who asked first, but still waiting on the answer.

Technically speaking, I don't believe the Pope is the Vatican's head of state. I think this is a common misconception.

T
K
O