Pecan and Bakes, with all due respect, the Catholic Church has endorsed pedophilia for many centuries as well as homosexuality within monasteries.
The Pope himself send edicts to cover up, as well as his high ranking Cardinals, not jes Bishops.
I doh know anyone more Catholic than the Pope.
"endorsed pedophilia" yuh say? Okay.
Got proof? Links? Anything?
Not that yuh have to convince me, I have no dog in this fight... but I prefer hard evidence to word of mouth or speculation, especially when it concerns claims as damning as this.
Bakes when you allow admitted pedophiles to hide in the Vatican, when you allow the wholesale protection of those who engaged of pedophilia...come on man.
I don't give too much credence to this book, book it alludes to as much: "Windswept House: A Vatican Novel". By a well renowned renown Jesuit Priest Malachi Martin.
The Church goes as far as excommunicating priests who ordain women yet allow those who rape children to remain in?
You stated that the Bishops were responsible for keeping the offending pedophiles in the Proesthood, but who do those self same Bishops get their orders from? Are they not subordinate to the cardianls in Rome and the Pope?
If they are the ones responsiblke for keeping the raping priests in the church, why aren't those Bishops reprimanded and Punished? In fact these same Bishops are later promoted to cardinal!
The talk has been for decades that the Catholic Church is NOT in a position to do anything meaningful about the homosexuals and pedophiles i the church simple because MANY of those making the decisions are homos and pedos. The church would then do irreparable damage to itself.
Priests are often sent for "spiritual therapy" after being found to be pedophiles and MOST face no legal charges. Families are then paid off to keep quiet. These men are directed by the Vatican!
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Religion/?id=3.0.3976881520The Vatican in issued statements stated that pedophile priests were ONLY a problem in the US....! Well at least we does prosecute them here..maybe why they could make such a staement.
Look at this:
http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_News/2009/09 This was in Octobe eh..../30/Vatican__Ephebophilia,_Not_Pedophilia/
Vatican: Ephebophilia, Not Pedophilia
By Julie Bolcer
Vatican X390 (Getty) | Advocate.com
The Vatican has suggested that instances of sexual abuse of minors by Catholic priests would be more accurately described as ephebophilia -- attraction to mid to late adolescents -- rather than pedophilia.
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the United Nations, argued for the change in terminology in a statement following a meeting of the U.N. human rights council in Geneva.
"Of all priests involved in the abuses, 80 to 90 percent belong to this sexual orientation minority which is sexually engaged with adolescent boys between the ages of 11 and 17,” said Tomasi, according to London's The Guardian newspaper.
In the statement, Tomasi also attempted to deflect criticism of the Vatican’s handling of sexual abuse scandals by pointing a finger at other church bodies, reported The Guardian.
Tomasi cited statistics to argue that no more than 5% of Catholic clergy were involved in sexual abuse, claiming that the majority of American churches struggling with abuse allegations were Protestant.
FinallyZ:
From the old Pope to the new Pope:
http://www.skeptictank.org/gen4/gen02339.htm The Vatican has come up with new guidelines for the Roman Catholic Church to handle pedophilia accusations against priests, ordering church officials worldwide to inform it swiftly of such cases and declaring them subject to secrecy.
Promoted by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the rules were approved by Pope John Paul II, who in the past has expressed solidarity with the victims of sexual abuse by clergy.
The guidelines, which are apparently aimed at centralizing Vatican control over such cases, are intended for use by Catholic dioceses and religious institutions and do not apply to government inquiries or prosecutions.
Written in Latin and prepared several months ago, the church rules were quietly published in the Holy See's official gazette. They surfaced Tuesday in the newly printed 2001 yearbook of Vatican documents.
Pedophilia cases have been a major headache for the Catholic church. Besides the sting of moral scandal, dioceses in the United States and other countries have had to deal with expensive claims for financial damages.
The new guidelines came as a letter by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, a close aide of John Paul and the guardian of doctrinal orthodoxy. Ent this is de new Pope now?
He wrote that pedophile cases were subject to pontifical secrecy. Only priests should handle such cases, including those serving as judges, prosecutor or defense advocate in church tribunals. Keep it house man!
http://www.teachthefacts.org/2009/10/vatican-wants-to-stop-calling-it.html