John Paul should have eviscerated the priests who committed these abuses.
Despite this idiocy, I still regard him as a manifestly saintly man. Saints are not necessarily perfect. In his case, I see no evidence that he tried to present himself as perfect, and he seemed to be a humble soul. Maharishi, in stark contrast, has wasted incredible reputational capital by insisting that everyone see him as perfect and relatively infallible. That thirst for staged and conspicuous sainthood is the essential reason that Maharishi is so far from full realization of it. This has never been more obvious to me than it is now. --- In [email protected], tazarmfune <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], "markmeredith2002" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This Pope also presided over the church's unethical handling of the > > priest-molestation crisis, which put avoiding bad PR way ahead of > > dealing with the problem and protecting children. I can accept the > > Pope's unyielding conservatism on dogma as something I don't agree > > with but can understand as a part of the historical church, but I see > > no good excuse for his behavior in this issue -- action was finally > > taken only when it began to impact sunday donations at mass. > > And what action did he take? > > In the case of a massive coverup in the Boston archdiocese, the pope > PROMOTED the offending archbishop (Bernard Law) to a Vatican post. > > Law should have been defrocked, persecuted, and thrown in jail. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
