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Originally Posted by hi_im_god
if you liked that, you'll love this utterly tone deaf vatican response:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/...3A4PAD9ER3GTO0
VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI's personal preacher on Friday likened accusations against the pope and the Catholic church in the sex abuse scandal to "collective violence" suffered by the Jews. |
i just finished reading about that on msnbc. outrageous and completely out of touch with what the real issue is here.
'While Cantalamessa delivered his ringing defense of the pontiff, the church in Benedict's native Germany made the unusually frank admission that it failed to help victims of clerical abuse because it wanted to protect its reputation.
Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, head of the German bishops' conference, said clerics neglected helping victims because of a "wrongly intended desire to protect the church's reputation." '
the church sticks its head in the sand, pretends everything is hunky dory, and hopes it'll all just go away. well, everything but the money.
i think the desire to protect the church's image is what contributed, and continues to contribute to how these abuse cases are handled-which is very, very poorly.
but for that guy to compare this to the holocaust-gimme a break.