News The Pope Has Resigned. What Do You Think?

[ms spock]

I found this article interesting.

[DLMURL]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/11/pope-complicit-child-abuse-say-victims[/DLMURL]

I, myself, am bitter at the lack of action of the outgoing pope on the child sexual abuse by the clergy. I feel that he missed a tremendous opportunity to tell the truth. I find it most disturbing.

Personally I am glad that he resigned. I wish it could have been in shame for his ongoing role before he became the pope. I cannot abide the cover ups and the lies.

In the circles I move in the details in the below article have been throughly discussed.

[DLMURL]http://www.watoday.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/ratzinger-was-behind-great-catholic-coverup-20130212-2e9jb.html#ixzz2Kevl9T4r[/DLMURL]

There are many, many survivors of child sexual abuse by the clergy in Australia. It is quite appalling.

 

[NarcSis]

Just watched an Italian movie the other day entitled, We Have A Pope....odd how this happened like the movie.

 

[Privateer]

Blimey. Well, if old St. Malachy is right, the next one is the last...

 

[p-no]

I used to work for the Jesuits. Some of what I saw was terrible. There were Fathers who stopped working the instant it was 4 pm, no matter if "a troubled soul" was begging and pleading for help. Of course, at 4 pm there was coffee-time and he couldn't be bothered, he wanted his coffee and cake.

The worst thing though was a younger Father who later became the head of the department I'm talking about. He watched porn on the computer in his office. It was normal in the office that doors were open and you knocked and then entered. Unfortunately, that one time, he wasn't fast enough to close the webpage. He tried, but swivelled his mouse around and didn't seem to hit the "x" properly. I saw the whole thing. He also gave away several times (seemingly without realising doing so) how he enjoyed South-American young sexy girls...

The (catholic) church has a share in my abuse. I have never seen people with more denial and more inner urge to control. What's that got to do with the question is that I think that popehood should be abolisehd.

 

[HOME ALONE]

Jean Paul is an impossible act to follow. I did not feel any connection to the last Pope. In fact I found him pretty spooky.

 

[p-no]

a younger Father

I just checked. He still is the boss.

 

[HOME ALONE]

I just checked. He still is the boss.

Only until the end of the month.

 

[HëllaBubz]

Huh. Would appear that 'God' has a use-by date.

Or it's just another man running away from having to deal with the fact that everyone worldwide is starting to crack the shits at the abuse that has occurred.

 

[p-no]

Many years ago, somewhere in the US, as far as I remember, a priest abused children and was then sent away to work in a kindergarten of another parish! It made me so mad! People in the US, too, and so they found out that there were quite a few priests who abused children. Sorry, I can't quote any article or so, that was so long ago. But that was the reason I left the church.

 

[Red Feather]

My grandmothers brother was a catholic priest and tried to rape my mother as well as her sisters. The catholic heritage is not pretty. I think it is one of the strongest force causing pain and suffering in this world. In my opinion such a global trauma in many ways.

 

[Privateer]

With the stories coming out of Ireland, Belgium, France and the US (and pretty much everywhere it is present) it does seem that the Catholic clergy has become little more than a hiding place for paedophiles and other criminals.

 

[safenow]

Please remember, they are going to pay a much higher price because they did what they did in the name of God. He doesn't approve of what they did.