Cliffy, the Pope has never tried to cover anything up. He was instrumental in developing and implementing the one strike rule, by where one substantiated charge of child abuse will lead to the defrocking of any priest, all allegations are reported to local police for investigation and civil prosecution, any cover ups by supervisors or bishops will lead to dismissal from their posts.
Current news reports, police documents and even the reports from the church would state otherwise.
The one strike rule is nice and fancy, so long as the church doesn't keep it covered up, transfer the priest in question to another church, and continually denies everything to the bitter end until they have no other choice but to finally admit what happened.... AND THEN ask for forgiveness from the people they told to trust them.... ie: all of us.
The feeding frenzy we see now in search of culpability of an honourable man like Pope Benedict is a sign of just how hysterical and divorced from reason our society has become.
Seems to be the other way around in my view, but to each their own.
If i were a lawyer of a guilty client,....
Wait.... you already assume your client is guilty? I'd hate to have you as my lawyer.
cliffy, i would certainly want you on the jury.. since you obviously let whatever faddish modern moral paradigms exist, dictate your opinions.. hence it would be easy to use sophistry and demagoguery to turn Truth into fiction in your eyes.![]()
And your statement above just proves you already have your mind set to one solid path, regardless of any evidence or information presented in the future...... since you know.... you claim your client is already guilty. :lol: