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In article <tpn5t11eopg538pqd69n559m9fmasjnjc8@4ax.com>,
prochoice@here.now <Attila> wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:35:47 GMT, "Andrealphus"
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In News ya6dnRvCtKSZNEzeRVn-hQ@giganews.com,, J Young at
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Even non-Catholics have to admire the pontiff for addressing
each of the Church's issues. The Vatican has stepped-up to
the challenge.

No yet they haven't.

And no they don't.

** But there's hope for change because they did admit that
Copernicus and DaVinci were right after only 400-years.

LOL! True. Change does come slow to the RCC, doesn't it?

€€ like molassas in January at Point Barrow, Alaska.

I wonder how
many centuries it will take them to admit that they were wrong
about protecting pedophile priest and actually apologizing for
their part in it?

€€ That seems unlikely due to the nature of the crime. Another
sticky wicket is papal infallibility since some would be sure to
ask: If the pope is infallible, why didn't he take action to
ameliorate the nasty problem two decades ago when altar-boy
buggery was first reported in major U. S. newspapers?

True.

€€ But with the priest shortage, His Holibess was caught in the
jaws of a dilemma.

Yes, in fact a Catholic friend of mine was mentioning that just the
other day. With the Pope banning openly gay men, coupled with
their current inability to attract men to the priesthood, they are
facing some severe priest shortages. I remember when I was growing
up during the 1950's parents would be proud to have at least one of
their sons become a priest, now I don't know any parent that would
wish that upon them.

€€ Indeed. By letting the pedophilia infection fester and burst, the
church discredited itself far better than any outsider could have. .

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In article <tpn5t11eopg538pqd69n559m9fmasjnjc8@4ax.com>,
prochoice@here.now <Attila> wrote:

On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 03:35:47 GMT, "Andrealphus"
<NOREALEMAIL11@THISADDRESS.FOAD> in alt.abortion with
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<n_hAf.10694$ZA2.1420@newsread1.news.atl.earthlink.net> wrote:

In News ya6dnRvCtKSZNEzeRVn-hQ@giganews.com,, J Young at
youngopinions@aol.com, typed this:

Even non-Catholics have to admire the pontiff for addressing
each of the Church's issues. The Vatican has stepped-up to
the challenge.

No yet they haven't.

And no they don't.

** But there's hope for change because they did admit that
Copernicus and DaVinci were right after only 400-years.

LOL! True. Change does come slow to the RCC, doesn't it? I
wonder how many centuries it will take them to admit that they
were wrong about protecting pedophile priest and actually
apologizing for their part in it?

Well, they burned Joan of Arc at the stake in 1431, and the church
forgave her finally by canonizing her in 1924.
1924 minus 1431 = 493 years difference, so we can expect an
apology from the RCC sometime in the year 2499. Or they'll
canonize Fathers Shanley and Geoghan for being "martyrs." Depends
on which queen in a bad dress is running the show.

LOL! True. They made a nazi the pope so anything is possible.

Ya know -- right after Queen Benedict was appointed ***** for Life
of Vatican City, I would read the "He's a Nazi" claims, and I would
actually say, "But he was 15 when he joined the Hitlerjugend. How
culpable could he have been at 15?"

Toward the end of WWII, the Nazis were conscripting children as
young as 10 and putting uniforms on them. At the time Ratzinger
became a Hitler Youth, it was voluntary, and you had to meet certain
physical requirements (The Aryan Look, as they called it.), and you
had to take a specific oath to the Nazi Party and its ideals.

I knew t6hat, too, which makes my previous defense of Queen Benedict
even worse.

But ya know what? ***** that *****.
If Queen Benedict was so damn holy and pure, then why weren't his
personal religious convictions strong enough to inform his
conscience that abetting evil (specifically the Hitler regime, by
joining up) was wrong?
She's got the same problem 60 years later, too, with the sex abuse
scandal and the new Vatican Bank scandal.

You'd think that an omniscient, omnipotent being would be able to
select a better spokesmodel, too. But that's a different topic.

Well, you know what they say about omnipotent beings, they are as we
create them.

How true.
But it's the 21st century -- you'd think by now humanity would create
an omniscient, omnipotent being with a brain, a conscience, and some
good old-fashioned common sense.