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Originally Posted by Villages PL

Based on what I have read in previous posts, it seems we must have had a lot of dumb Popes over the past 600 years if they didn't realize their limitations in old age and retire. And, essentially, what everyone is saying is: Screw tradition! But how many traditions can you throw overboard before there's nothing left to call a religion? So there's more to it than just devaluing old age.

About the sex scandal: I haven't kept up with the news but I don't think the Pope was responsible for it, was he?

Some have compared being Pope to being a CEO of a corporation. I don't get that. Do we need a board of directors to throw the Pope out if he doesn't perform up to expectations?

I think I may have been misunderstood when I compared marriage to being Pope: A church marriage represents a commitment before God and I assume that becoming a Pope is a commitment before God too. What do they say when they become Pope? Don't they make a commitment of some sort?

On a lighter note: Over the weekend I heard a comedian say that it's rediculous for a Pope to retire because of old age, because one of a Pope's most important duties is to be old.

The Sins of the Father: Pope Benedict’s Pedophile Protection Racket | The Skeptical Libertarian

The HBO documentary covered quite a bit of the cover up, stating what Benedict knew and did nothing about, after being appointed by Pope John Paul when Joseph Ratzinger was still a cardinal....to look at every case (which came to his desk) of every incident of pedophile priests from all over the world.........and he and the Pope met once a week.

We read all of the BOSTON GLOBE'S expose articles years ago which exposed what was going on in the Boston area......plus dozens of books written by priests themselves who had left the priesthood out of disgust of what was going on........

Coast to coast, victims have come forward and the church has paid out millions upon millions, selling off their churches and properties to pay the victims for their suffering..........

Click hyperlink above and read all the way to the bottom......read it in its entirety. Also, if you can, watch the HBO documentary..........which I mentioned in earlier post.

It's a rough outline , or condensation, of what you will read in all the older books, newspaper articles of who knew what and when they knew it. Again, that HBO documentary was very informational about the deaf children who were abused......

Priests were part of those explaining the problem on that documentary........explaining that this has been going on much longer than the most recent scandals...........and the two most recent Popes knew about it, as did the Cardinals and the Bishops.

They just swept it all under the rug until it was too late to hide it any longer. Most Catholics we know "do not have their heads in the sand" and know what went on. Again, it is sad. I feel for all those children. It happened in orphanages as well......and among the Lakota Sioux Indians who were taught by priests and brothers.

Again, it was pervasive.............

We were raised Roman Catholic and we raised our children Roman Catholic. Our kids are not raising theirs in the same faith, but in another faith. There is only ONE GOD.