Pope Benedict XVI Sued for Covering up Church Sex Abuse

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The document directs "that it be stored in the secret archives of each diocese, that it not be published or even commented upon." http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/

The document directs "that it be stored in the secret archives of each diocese, that it not be published or even commented upon." http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/

just about everyone is burned out on reading about the Pope.

is that not obstruction of justice?

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That is obstruction of justice, and I hope that everyone involved in this coverup is eventually BROUGHT to justice!

One of the other cardinals was a communist spy. An active spy, who was spying on Pope John Paul. I'll see if I can find a link to the story I read about it.

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The reason a 41-year old internal church protocol is getting U.S. media attention today is that it dealt with establishing a canonical procedure for cases in which priests were accused of abusing the sacrament of penance to sexually proposition penitents -- hence the title, which translates as "The Crime of Solicitation." But what's also feeding the media's interest is the fact that Crimen Sollicitationis deals with yet another arcane church practice: "the pontifical secret." And in the climate generated by the clergy sex abuse crisis, where top church leaders have been accused of cover-ups, it's no wonder that anything having to do with secrets, pontifical or otherwise, makes the media salivate.

The bishop duly impressed on me the seriousness of the situation: By violating this secret, by telling even one other single soul, I would incur excommunication. http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/

The "pontifical secret" is no more a coverup than anything else... As a matter of fact, you ought to see the measures that the church takes with regards to pedophile priests... Basically the priest gets to go to Rome, where the head of the office of inquisitions absolves them from their sin, and basically they get to go back to doing their priestly duties... Its a joke...

Aside from condom-use, I have one other complaint about the Catholic faith and that is their annoying ability to 'absolve' themselves of any sin imaginable.

Are there any unforgivable sins?

Everything of what the Catholic church is about is all a lie. The bishops of all dioceses have what is called "Secret archives" They are instructed to hide any case of sexual abuse. They lock up all documents regarding sexual abuses and pedophile priests and are not to divulge any of this info on pain of excommunication. Then Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the office of the inquisitions wrote a letter in terms of what to do in cases of sexual abuses to JP2 and the letter has all sorts of crazy things in it.

For example the pedophile priest has to go to this secret meeting with some cardinal and they do these rites to absolve them of any sexual sin... Not shortly after this, they are set free to perform their priestly duties once again... The whole church is a lie and the letter proves it...