Of course he won't.
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A while back at a Father's Retreat we were talking with our priest about the issue of abuse in the church and how it has acted. He felt there was a side of the story that was not being communicated. In most cases, the main evidence [rather than allegation or rumour] came from the priests themselves through confession. At this point there was an argument that as it was confession it should not be taken any further. To my knowledge, this way of thinking is gone. If a priest hears a crime through confession they may not reveal it; that is part of Canon Law. What they can, and do, do is to encourage the person to confess outside of the sanctity of the seal. That then allows them to openly work and report it. If there is any knowledge outside of confession that a crime has been committed, the current thinking is that the Church should not act upon it on there own, but must report it and request permission to act in place of the police / prosecutors.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote:
To my knowledge, this way of thinking is gone. If a priest hears a crime through confession they may not reveal it; that is part of Canon Law. What they can, and do, do is to encourage the person to confess outside of the sanctity of the seal. That then allows them to openly work and report it. If there is any knowledge outside of confession that a crime has been committed, the current thinking is that the Church should not act upon it on there own, but must report it and request permission to act in place of the police / prosecutors.
So you have a theory...so at the next meeting... Why did the Church move the priests around? (How did they know to move them?) Why does "Servants of the Paraclete" exist? Why was it being discussed in the catholic hierarchy? Why have there been investigations of sexual abuse conducted by the Church? Why given that in the non-priest population that a significant number of pedophiles do not think that they are doing anything wrong while engaged in the activity would priests be different and thus would confess it in the first place? Or only be discovered when they do confess?
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Is this any different from Blair sending hundreds of young men to their deaths in an illegal occupation of a (or maybe two) foreign country(ies), and refusing to apologise for it?
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Is this any different from Blair sending hundreds of young men to their deaths in an illegal occupation of a (or maybe two) foreign country(ies), and refusing to apologise for it?
Binding 100,000 items to a list box can be just silly regardless of what pattern you are following. Jeremy Likness
Richard MacCutchan wrote:
Is this any different from Blair sending hundreds of young men to their deaths in an illegal occupation of a (or maybe two) foreign country(ies), and refusing to apologise for it?
Young men join the armed forces with an expectation they may be called on to risk their lives. Young(er) men don't become alter boys with an expectation of being fucked in the arse by a dirty old man who claims to be celibate.
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Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
Yeah, I've heard a lot of 'open talking' about how it isn't really abuse once the child above a certain age, how it's just a smear manufactured by Liberals and atheists, how they're not 'real' Catholics, etc.
Well, that's a surprise to me. I've never heard this argument used. Where have you heard this?
Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
I'm guessing the subtext of this question is that you think I'm not good enough to criticise the Church.
Nope, that wasn't it at all. The subtext, above text, whatever you want to call the damn thing is that the vast majority of Christians give money to support good causes. I'm delighted that you've done the same, but the point being made was that they are giving the money for the causes - it just happens that the organisation in place to spend the money is the church. If other organisations were present and willing to do the same in place of the church, then I've no doubt that they'd be happy to give their money to those organisations instead. I believe one of the core tenets of the Christian faith is to support those less fortunate, and that seems to be what these people are trying to do. Is that such a bad thing?
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Well, that's a surprise to me. I've never heard this argument used. Where have you heard this?
Church officials, and people echoing those officials.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
I believe one of the core tenets of the Christian faith is to support those less fortunate, and that seems to be what these people are trying to do. Is that such a bad thing?
The Catholic Church is an immensely wealthy organisation. They did not accumulate this unfathomable wealth by being any more charitable than the absolute minimum, and I'm fairly certain they keep the lion's share of any donations made through them.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
Well, that's a surprise to me. I've never heard this argument used. Where have you heard this?
Church officials, and people echoing those officials.
Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
I believe one of the core tenets of the Christian faith is to support those less fortunate, and that seems to be what these people are trying to do. Is that such a bad thing?
The Catholic Church is an immensely wealthy organisation. They did not accumulate this unfathomable wealth by being any more charitable than the absolute minimum, and I'm fairly certain they keep the lion's share of any donations made through them.
Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
Church officials, and people echoing those officials.
Citation please. As I've said, I've not heard this so perhaps I've just been reading the wrong things.
Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
The Catholic Church is an immensely wealthy organisation. They did not accumulate this unfathomable wealth by being any more charitable than the absolute minimum, and I'm fairly certain they keep the lion's share of any donations made through them.
True. It is immensely wealthy, but that wealth has been built up over 2000 years or so. A lot of it is in land, and stored treasures. That doesn't affect people giving donations now does it? I get it - you don't like the Catholic church. Fair enough. A lot of people do though, so perhaps it's reasonable to take the moral high ground here and just let them get on with it, or are you going to descend to the same petty levels as those who want to impose their views on you. Try the high ground. The view's lovely up here.
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Problem is you remove the confidence of confession then people stop confessing. The idea at the moment is that if you can at least get them to confess to a priest then the priest can try to persuade them to confess to the law. If you put them off the first step of that process then the rest doesn't happen.
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I think even the believers can have fun with religion. Two words: Dave Allen. Go and look him up. He was a stone cold comic genius.
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The primate of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Brady, has said he isn't going to resign over revelations he had details of abuse victims, and didn't pass them on to the police. Clickety[^] Why should he resign? After all, it's not as though he was guilty of not forwarding this information; of keeping quiet about it and being complicit in moving priests between parishes to keep them ahead of the allegations. I haven't started this off with the intention of knocking the catholic church. This is about personal responsibility - regardless of his feelings regarding the chain of command inside the church, he had a moral and legal duty to report the crimes. Even when he was a note taker, he was as responsible for reporting the acts as the person he reported to.
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On a serious note, why should he resign? If he has done wrong (and he has) then the law should take its course. It is hit the job of any employer to act as vigilante.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
I think even the believers can have fun with religion
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Rage wrote:
I am the greatest fan of the Life of Bryan.
I preferred his brother Brian.
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On a serious note, why should he resign? If he has done wrong (and he has) then the law should take its course. It is hit the job of any employer to act as vigilante.
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
It is hit the job of any employer to act as vigilante.
Wrong. The church is specifically espousing a morality as a fundamental precept of the organization itself. It is similar to claiming that a medical doctor should be free to hire witch doctors to staff the hospital.
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Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
Church officials, and people echoing those officials.
Citation please. As I've said, I've not heard this so perhaps I've just been reading the wrong things.
Ravel H. Joyce wrote:
The Catholic Church is an immensely wealthy organisation. They did not accumulate this unfathomable wealth by being any more charitable than the absolute minimum, and I'm fairly certain they keep the lion's share of any donations made through them.
True. It is immensely wealthy, but that wealth has been built up over 2000 years or so. A lot of it is in land, and stored treasures. That doesn't affect people giving donations now does it? I get it - you don't like the Catholic church. Fair enough. A lot of people do though, so perhaps it's reasonable to take the moral high ground here and just let them get on with it, or are you going to descend to the same petty levels as those who want to impose their views on you. Try the high ground. The view's lovely up here.
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote:
True. It is immensely wealthy, but that wealth has been built up over 2000 years or so.
Pretty sure that the actual accumulation didn't span 2000 years. Also pretty sure that at least some of that wealth was accumulated in ways that, one might suppose, that many current members would object to. So hypothetically one might suppose that a moral and apologitic way to deal with that now would be to sell it and use the proceeds to to help others. Versus the current policy which I suspect is that current tithes are being used to buy more even if it is some small percentage. Presuming it is small, say less than 1%. But I suspect it is larger than that.
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
It is hit the job of any employer to act as vigilante.
Wrong. The church is specifically espousing a morality as a fundamental precept of the organization itself. It is similar to claiming that a medical doctor should be free to hire witch doctors to staff the hospital.
And are they not to respect the 'innocent until proven guilty' paradigm on which the law is based?
jschell wrote:
It is similar to claiming that a medical doctor should be free to hire witch doctors to staff the hospital.
No, no it's not. Not remotely similar. it is more like saying a hospital shouldn't be allowed to sack a doctor because he goes dogging on the weekend.
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And are they not to respect the 'innocent until proven guilty' paradigm on which the law is based?
jschell wrote:
It is similar to claiming that a medical doctor should be free to hire witch doctors to staff the hospital.
No, no it's not. Not remotely similar. it is more like saying a hospital shouldn't be allowed to sack a doctor because he goes dogging on the weekend.
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_Maxxx_ wrote:
And are they not to respect the 'innocent until proven guilty' paradigm on which the law is based?
Completely specious. First you are referring to an aspect of law and actually the law of a very limited (if not only one) number of countries. And that has nothing to do with the fundamental aspect of the church itself. Second if that concept is relevant in any way then why were they moving priests around?
_Maxxx_ wrote:
it is more like saying a hospital shouldn't be allowed to sack a doctor because he goes dogging on the weekend.
Again morality is a fundamental precept of the religion. So your analogy is not apt because it ignores the connection between the specific nature of the religion and the act. For your analogy to be apt the priests would have needed to have been engaging in ponzi schemes.