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AngryOldDem

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23. We're talking legal accountability here.

Reply to ChairmanAgnostic (Reply #12)

Tue Jun 19, 2012, 11:04 AM

Jun 2012

We're talking about bishops who knew for years that there were priests in their dioceses who were abusing kids. All they did was play Priest Roulette and shuffle these priests from parish to parish, or from diocese to diocese, while the list of victims grew. In any other universe, this would be aiding and abetting a felony, and these men would find themselves behind bars.

Is it any coincidence that Bernard Law is now safely ensconsed at the Vatican for life? They protect their own.

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Pope tells 75,000 at Dublin stadium Mass that child abuse by priests ‘remains a mystery’ [View all] marmar Jun 2012 OP

Silly Pope, it only remains a mystery since they nadinbrzezinski Jun 2012 #1

It's like electricity Capt. Obvious Jun 2012 #2

Jesus, Sir, He Puts It Right Up There With The Trinity, Does He? The Magistrate Jun 2012 #3

No great mystery to me. AngryOldDem Jun 2012 #4

Pope liberalnationalist Jun 2012 #15

They did more than do nothing about it. UnrepentantLiberal Jun 2012 #24

It's not a mystery when everybody knows sufrommich Jun 2012 #5

Tell me again: Why do we have diplomatic relations with the Vatican? byeya Jun 2012 #6

Was it Nixon who did that? Or Carter? ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2012 #10

why liberalnationalist Jun 2012 #16

Does this mean we'll have diplomatic relations with BP and other byeya Jun 2012 #20

A Sorrowful Mystery, indeed. Brickbat Jun 2012 #7

yeah. gravity is a mystery too - but there is great gravity in his use of this term. NRaleighLiberal Jun 2012 #8

The mystery's why those kids kept sexually attacking those innocent priests, right, Rat? ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2012 #9

Actually Benny it is no mystery at all. It is well understood. yellowcanine Jun 2012 #11

there's plenty of accountability. Just ask the nuns trying to ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2012 #12

Not when it comes to Bishops and pedophile priests. yellowcanine Jun 2012 #14

I was trying to tone down my snark-o-meter ChairmanAgnostic Jun 2012 #27

We're talking legal accountability here. AngryOldDem Jun 2012 #23

George Carlin - Heavy Mysteries meeksgeek Jun 2012 #13

I Guess We'll Just Have To Take It On Faith Like Many Of The Other Unexplained Things In The...... global1 Jun 2012 #17

As much of a mystery as the 2008 financial crisis rurallib Jun 2012 #18

He still cannot understand why his finger smells.... Evasporque Jun 2012 #19

Pope Ratzi makes one long for the Borgia popes. hifiguy Jun 2012 #21

2,000 years and they haven't learned shit. May be time to pack it in. CBGLuthier Jun 2012 #22

Sure thing, Pope--Myth and superstition have always been "a mystery." KansDem Jun 2012 #25

The mystery is why it still happens Stargazer09 Jun 2012 #26