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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
I'm on board in spirit, but I do think there is such a thing as repetance and forgiveness. But, of course, I wouldn't leave a bunch of unrepentant Cardinals milling about in charge of things, and for many like Cardinal Law, I think the proper penance would be a life of solitude and repentance in a monastery.
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I'm on board with that too. In fact, put them on the list of people to be shot, even before other lawbreakers like the ones we talked about last week. I am seriously and fundamentally in favor of shooting sexual predators in a society where we shoot anyone (insert "execute" for shoot" where appropriate). And those who covered this from the civil authorities should certainly be in for long prison sentences too.
Its amazing how this pendulum has swung. I suspect that the abuse of trust first came about by people having that "faith" in a person (e.g., a priest) by virtue of his position and how they were indoctrinated. At its peak, sexual predators were drawn to such positions, knowing the abuse they could inflict onto children. Nowadays, people (any Catholic parent with half a brain) starts having the conversations about inappropriate contact when the kids are 4 or 5. Sad, really.
In any case, as non-infallible matters, I look forward to the day when women can be priests and priests can be married. I have simply never seen a great argument to explain why this shouldn't be. In the meantime, its not that the Catholic church teaches or taught child-molestation, its more that Catholic would-be child molestors used the Catholic chuch. Its one of the Church's great modern shames that it allowed itself, and still continues to in some ways, to be used in this way.
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