News, Richard Dawkins: I will arrest Pope Benedict XVI.
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If this didn't have the underpinnings of the "I despise religion and don't believe in God" movement, then I may support something like this. But since its coming from an Atheist, I see no reason to believe that its anything more than an "us vs. them" argument. Atheists attempting to wear a righteous hat all of a sudden is quite funny.
I am not religious. My wife is and we have many religious friends. I can't imagine that any of the religious people I know would be so casual about the molestation of their children.
Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit.
Arthur Budzinski, at a cemetery behind St. John's School for the Deaf, says he was first molested in 1960 when he went to Father Murphy for confession.
The internal correspondence from bishops in Wisconsin directly to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope, shows that while church officials tussled over whether the priest should be dismissed, their highest priority was protecting the church from scandal.
The documents emerge as Pope Benedict is facing other accusations that he and direct subordinates often did not alert civilian authorities or discipline priests involved in sexual abuse when he served as an archbishop in Germany and as the Vatican’s chief doctrinal enforcer.
The state needs to be notifed that a crime took place by parents. They often times also need the parents co-operation during the investigation and if the support is withdrawn because the parents get paid off, there isnt much the state can do..
We're not talking about what the state did wrong and what should happen to it, we are talking about what the pope did wrong and what should happen to him. What do your comments have to do with the thread at hand again?
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