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Worst case scenario, he will be deposed and there will be a new one. Looking back into history many Popes have been worse. There are two characters in the 1100s, the pornocracy era, two popes were grandfather and grandson in a span of 100 years
It's too too huge to go away. They still exercise control on many governments, even the American one It's just not in the news.
The abuse continues to spread in Europe. Today Switzerland announced the investigation into abuse in Catholic schools, and Germany continues to fill every German paper with what is now estimated at 200 abuse cases during the time when the pope was the Archbishop in Germany. The pope remains quite on the German abuse issue.
Switzerland hit by Catholic Churchsex abuse scandal
By Tony Paterson Tuesday, 16 March 2010
The church sex abuse scandal unraveling at Roman Catholic-run schools and institutions across Europe has reached Switzerland, where senior clergy admitted yesterday that 60 cases were under investigation.
Abbot Martin Werlen, of the Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln, said reports of abuse had been submitted to the Swiss church authorities in the wake of the disclosures in Ireland, Germany, Austria, Poland and Holland.
The abuse continues to spread in Europe. Today Switzerland announced the investigation into abuse in Catholic schools, and Germany continues to fill every German paper with what is now estimated at 200 abuse cases during the time when the pope was the Archbishop in Germany. The pope remains quite on the German abuse issue.
Switzerland hit by Catholic Churchsex abuse scandal
By Tony Paterson Tuesday, 16 March 2010
The church sex abuse scandal unraveling at Roman Catholic-run schools and institutions across Europe has reached Switzerland, where senior clergy admitted yesterday that 60 cases were under investigation.
Abbot Martin Werlen, of the Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln, said reports of abuse had been submitted to the Swiss church authorities in the wake of the disclosures in Ireland, Germany, Austria, Poland and Holland.
Racer, this is getting old. You should take a break, amigo
Just out of curiosity, do you google for this kind of news every day? Your perseverance is impressive. I'm wowed.
Racer, this is getting old. You should take a break, amigo
Just out of curiosity, do you google for this kind of news every day? Your perseverance is impressive. I'm wowed.
No, don’t need to use Google much for this sort of news, and you are right it is getting old when every day the European papers are filled with abuse charges. Today I had my choice of seven or eight papers from Germany, Switzerland, France, Ireland and even Spain.
I read the papers from Europe and Asia more than the US papers. They seem to still have some truth rather than just trying to sell papers, and manipulate the masses..
Today there were 17 new articles on Catholic sex abuse in European papers. I think two related to the new investigations of Catholic church abuse of children in Brazil which started this week. The level of abuse being discussed still seems to be a non new issue in the US.
Vatican Official Says Rising Number of Sexual Abuse Cases Could Overload Staff
ROME — As hundreds of new allegations of sexual abuse surface in the German church alone, a top Vatican official acknowledged Tuesday that, with only 10 people handling such cases, his office might not be adequate for the task.
Today there are fourteen articles relating to the expanding sex abuse cases in Europe. One from the Boston Globe is the first I have seen in US papers this month. The rest cover Europe from Germany to Italy with my personal favorite coming from England. The question which seems to be repeated is how the Catholic Church can survive when there are already over 15,000 abuse cases being reported and more areas to investigate. I find an irony that children may be the stone which brings down histories greatest tyrant, while the deaths of hundreds of million were not sufficient to do the job. Sounds almost like the myth of David and the Giant.
Merkel: Sex abuse scandal major challenge
(AP) — BERLIN - Chancellor Angela Merkel called the Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal rocking the homeland of Pope Benedict XVI a major challenge to German society and warned the only way to come to terms with it was to "find out everything that has happened."
As the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church captured headlines throughout 2002 and into 2003, many within the Church and outside of it tried to understand how it all had happened. Perhaps understandably, there was a temptation to keep it simple, to find one or two identifiable, easily grasped causes for the crisis. Despite the allure of simple answers, however, it must be recognized that the root causes of the crisis are embedded in an intricate matrix of power relationships, traditions, and teachings that, in combination, rendered the abuse scandal almost inevitable. Further, every constituency within the Church-bishops, abusing priests, rank-and-file priests, and the laity, as well as the Vatican and Pope John Paul II-share varying degrees of accountability for tolerating decades, if not centuries, of sexual abuse of the Church's young.
This article introduces a comprehensive view of the underpinnings of the scandal.
Tonight the US finally said something on the Nightly News about the abuse problems in Europe. ABC News discussed the ties of the pope to the abuse issue, and gave the number of abused children at 500,000. I don’t see how any organization can be connected to these crimes, and in a legal view be accomplices to the crimes yet still survive as anything but a bad memory.
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It's just not in the news.
