Thread: Pope Benedict decries Belgian raid

Originally Posted by MattInFla

Blow it our your pointy hat, your Holiness.

What the rest of the world finds deplorable is the ongoing criminal conspiracy within the Catholic church to shelter pedophile clergymen from justice. Enough is enough. The Church is no longer a law unto itself, and since the Church refuses to either step up and deal with the problem or step aside and let the authorities handle it, it's time for the local authorities to get serious.

Get used to it, Pope Benedict. This is likely just the start.

Matt

And about bloody time they started getting tough on the Church... apparently, the Pope still feels that raping young boys and girls are no big deal, as long as it's just priests doing it...

Good on Belgium.

I'd like to see the Church's tax exempt status revoked in this country.

They can have it back when they start playing by the rules of the 20th century (to say nothing of the 21st).

It is really getting to the point that listening to the Pope on the subject of child abuse is just a total waste of time. He is going a long way to show his clear interest is (with plenty of historical support on this) protection for all his various clergymen who like to play with little boys and girls. I agree, it is time for law enforcement to get tough on the Church and its clear intention to protect pedophiles.

Just tear it down. Or turn the whole thing into a museum. There's been enough supervillainry coming from that part over the centuries.

Originally Posted by Aarstad

Just tear it down. Or turn the whole thing into a museum. There's been enough supervillainry coming from that part over the centuries.

Yeah, but if we did that we'd have to do the same thing to Mecca.

Originally Posted by Aarstad

Just tear it down. Or turn the whole thing into a museum. There's been enough supervillainry coming from that part over the centuries.

Won't we feel like suckers when it's turned into a Childrens Museum.

Originally Posted by Speakeasy

Won't we feel like suckers when it's turned into a Childrens Museum.

LOL

Just. Wrong...

I don't see what they have to gain by protecting these perverts.

Originally Posted by Commodore

I don't see what they have to gain by protecting these perverts.

It's what Barbara Tuchman calls "wooden headedness" in The March of Folly This is the kind of corruption that caused the Protestant Reformation, right out in the open and acknowledged by everybody but the ones doing it.

What I find amazing is it's taken so long for these raids and related actions to happen.
Shipping off the family pervert to the church is nothing new in western society.
The church has been covering up who is among them for a very long time.

Not to disrupt the lynch mob, but the raid included drilling into coffins with bodies of deceased cardinals in them. I don't know why they did that, but I think most can understand how something like that would offend the sensibilities of Catholic clergy, not to mention your average American.

OK, carry on ...