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serynI saw that there was a ceremony to gild the former pope toward sainthood. It's completely incomprehensible to me that someone whose regime not only permitted, but smoothed over blatant sexual abuse of minors would be considered saintly.
Admittedly that wasn't a dude boning 8 year olds. But seriously, they took priests accused of raping second graders and sent them to other parishes (without any disclosure or investigation) where the priests defiled more children and were then sent to other parishes to defile yet more children.... and this was the policy from on high in Rome.
I could see the new pope absolving the old one for being an incompetent buffoon who wasn't focused on these issues, but I don't see how any organization where abuse is so pervasive that it is impossible to stop can laud someone who let it continue.
If that's saintly behavior, then Catholicism should be anathema to all thinking people in the world and it should be illegal with all the church properties and assets seized by the local governments immediately.
Admittedly that wasn't a dude boning 8 year olds. But seriously, they took priests accused of raping second graders and sent them to other parishes (without any disclosure or investigation) where the priests defiled more children and were then sent to other parishes to defile yet more children.... and this was the policy from on high in Rome.
I could see the new pope absolving the old one for being an incompetent buffoon who wasn't focused on these issues, but I don't see how any organization where abuse is so pervasive that it is impossible to stop can laud someone who let it continue.
If that's saintly behavior, then Catholicism should be anathema to all thinking people in the world and it should be illegal with all the church properties and assets seized by the local governments immediately.
