In Catholic Church politics, he was the middle-of-the-road candidate.
On the one side, he protected priests who sexually abused children.
But on the other side, he was never caught diddling kids himself.
A true moderate.I hate that this sounds a little sarcastic but it’s absolutely true.
Couldn’t you make this article no matter who they picked?
The previous pope didn’t have this problem.
Hmm. Maybe never was too strong a word.
Pretty sure he did…
That’s a feature, not a bug.
I thought it was called a job requirement.
Right? Find me a single priest who isn’t a kiddy diddler or who hasn’t protected one. I’ll wait.
In other words: he’s fit for the job
He’s also threatening to excommunicate any priest who follows Washington’s mandatory reporting law.
Which shows where their priorities are.
Not in the greater good.
Not even in the common good.
Their priorities are, as always, been in protecting, defending, and hiding pedophiles… especially pedophile priests and other officials.
Doctors, Teachers, Therapists, Etc all have a moral and legal imperative to protect children from harm and abusers. Why is it the catholic church fights so hard to argue it doesnt?
He’s a corporativist
No more tax exemption. Even better, ban them.
Thus answering the question “Is the Pope Catholic?”
I mean, you don’t make it to the top of the mafia without being a gangster
So… Business as usual, I suppose?
Isn’t that what you do when you’re a member of a pedophile ring?
Peruvian non practicing Catholic here; from what I can gather, both mainstream and alternative (meaning independent, not meaning alternative-facts) in Peru have been afire over this. Afaik the accusations seems to be a revenge hit-job done by a cult/faction (the sodalites/los sodalicios) that just recently were disbanded by pope Francis itself, with some even being excommunicated. This sect is/was rolling in money, so bad that they even have companies in the caiman islands; they ofc seem to have also corrupted judges, other non cult priests and politicians and that explains the failure of secular justice.
Was there a cardinal who wouldn’t do this?
I expected nothing more from Christians.
He’s just a priest, nothing really can come of him
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The environment - so trusting of Trump, so distrustful of clergy - is so charged that one needs only say that priest did something and it takes on a life of its own.
I don’t know this priest. I didn’t know the last Pope.
But I bet a real investigation will show what happened more than rumours planted on Facebook while a despot needs a diversion and a villain.
If you’d read the article you will see that this is a report from a network of church abuse survivors and the person speaking has first hand evidence from speaking to Prevost. If you discount them, you are basically saying that witness statements count for nothing. You are silencing the victims.
You will also know that Prevost blocked the ‘real investigation’ you claim you want and this is core to the point of the article.
The environment isn’t trusting .
The media is amplifying all FUD from anyone except Trump.
