Will The Pope Resign?

[Conan71]

Nice rim-shot, Hoss.

Of course I'm sure that's what a few of the priests were thinking too...

[rwarn17588]

On a serious note, somebody's gonna have to start asking hard questions about the pope and the Vatican higher-ups.

Eventually, some prosecutor somewhere is going to take a look at possible cases of criminal neglect and/or conspiracy of silence and start issuing indictments. And then we're going to have to ask whether the Vatican is harboring fugitives from justice.

Look at the facts: The current pope has been accused of ignoring hundreds of cases of child rape and molestation. This may be the most serious scandal to hit the Catholic Church in centuries.

[Hoss]

Nice rim-shot, Hoss.

Of course I'm sure that's what a few of the priests were thinking too...

No, I think that would be a rim ....never mind.

[Hoss]

On a serious note, somebody's gonna have to start asking hard questions about the pope and the Vatican higher-ups.

Eventually, some prosecutor somewhere is going to take a look at possible cases of criminal neglect and/or conspiracy of silence and start issuing indictments. And then we're going to have to ask whether the Vatican is harboring fugitives from justice.

Look at the facts: The current pope has been accused of ignoring hundreds of cases of child rape and molestation. This may be the most serious scandal to hit the Catholic Church in centuries.

Should  I comment.  I'm biting my keyboard tongue...or whatever.

[Townsend]

On a serious note, somebody's gonna have to start asking hard questions about the pope and the Vatican higher-ups.

Eventually, some prosecutor somewhere is going to take a look at possible cases of criminal neglect and/or conspiracy of silence and start issuing indictments. And then we're going to have to ask whether the Vatican is harboring fugitives from justice.

Look at the facts: The current pope has been accused of ignoring hundreds of cases of child rape and molestation. This may be the most serious scandal to hit the Catholic Church in centuries.

My money's on this will slowly sink into the nothingness that is our memory and nothing will come of it.

[sauerkraut]

Naw~ The Pope is picked for life. He has no duty to resign.

[fotd]

Now, here's a real as$fu@ker !!!!! King Henry did right.

Pope's preacher: Abuse critique like anti-Semitism



"It is repulsive, obscene and most of all offensive toward all abuse victims as well as to all the victims of the Holocaust," Kramer said. "So far I haven't seen St. Peter burning, nor were there outbursts of violence against Catholic priests. I'm without words. The Vatican is now trying to turn the perpetrators into victims."



http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100402/ap_on_re_eu/eu_church_abuse

[Breadburner]

What ever happend to this Rab-bi-guy........

[fotd]

BB, did some chief Rabbi (?) cover up for this schmoe.

Not apples to apples comparison. Not even a nice try.

[bugo]

Missed by a mile on this one.  I'm not Catholic, never was, and I don't participate in organized religion anymore. 

I'm a practicing non-Catholic.

[Hoss]

I'm a practicing non-Catholic.

My religion is beer.

[fotd]

"It is no great accomplishment to hear a voice in the head. The accomplishment is to make sure that it is telling you the truth." –Terrence McKenna

[bugo]

My religion is beer.

That's a religion I can believe in!

[Hoss]

That's a religion I can believe in!

My favorite religious term:

"Habemus hops"...

[fotd]

Richard Dawkins: Arrest The Pope During UK Visit


"Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, two of the world's most prominent atheist intellectuals, are seeking means to try the pope for crimes against humanity, their lawyers confirmed at the weekend.

The pair are said to be working with British lawyers to see if the pope can be arrested for his part in the alleged cover-up of widespread sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, during a visit to the United Kingdom in September

The Vatican has suggested that the pope is immune to prosecution as he is a head of state - Dawkins and Hitchens suggest that he is not immune as the Vatican is not represented at the United Nations.

"I'm convinced we can get over the threshold of immunity," their lawyer Mark Stephens told The Guardian. "The Vatican is not recognized as a state in international law. People assume that it has existed for time immemorial but it was a construct of Mussolini, and when the Vatican first applied to become a member of the UN, the US said no. So as a sop they were given the status of permanent observers rather than full members."

Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, has confirmed he is seeking the pope's arrest, although he later denied reports he was planning to perform the arrest personally.

Last month Dawkins wrote a scathing article for the Washington Post in which he called the pope:

A leering old villain in a frock, who spent decades conspiring behind closed doors for the position he now holds; a man who believes he is infallible and acts the part; a man whose preaching of scientific falsehood is responsible for the deaths of countless AIDS victims in Africa; a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence.
Hitchens told the Sunday Times of London: "This man is not above or outside the law. The institutionalized concealment of child rape is a crime under any law and demands not private ceremonies of repentance or church-funded payoffs, but justice and punishment."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/12/richard-dawkins-arrest-th_n_533837.html




The pope should be arrested. He participated in a conspiracy to cover up child sexual abuse. If you or I did that, we would be arrested and put on trial. Why is the pope any different. He's not.