THOUSANDS FLOCK TO VATICAN TO BACK POPE OVER ABUSE
That headline and picture made the airwaves today and I bet there were many who scratched their heads in puzzlement.
Thousands of ITALIANS (150,000) crammed St. Peter’s Square to cheer the Pope on with signs like “Together with the Pope” or “Don’t be afraid, Jesus won out over evil”. OK what does all that mean?
The Pope has admitted that the Church has been infected with sin from the inside and must be purified. OK what does that mean?
One pro-Vatican official at the demonstration said that “We want to show our solidarity to the Pope and transmit the message that single individuals make mistakes but institutions, faith and religion cannot be questioned”. What?
Obviously, the official does not understand that the Church as an institution is made up of individuals and if the individuals are rotten than so is the institution and if the individuals have been rotten for a very long time than so has the institution and to purify this mess may involve outsiders who have not been contaminated; I don’t believe the Vatican can purify itself from the inside.
On another note, a priest in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts is calling for the pope to resign. Father Jim Scahill (priest for 36 years) has exposed one sexually abusive priest in the area (Richard Lavigne) and his enabler Bishop Dupre who was also an abuser.
Now that is the kind of person that can purify the Church if it’s not too late.
As far as faith and religion is concerned, yes it can be questioned and should be because what kind of God allows his representatives on earth to molest innocent children and then cover the crimes up? What kind of religion allows that?
The 150,000 people cheering the Pope must be mindless of the fact that the Pope, the Church, the religion and their faith, failed to protect thousands of innocent children from the officials running the Church. In that manner, the people cheering the Pope are also responsible for the crimes committed by their Church.
That headline and picture made the airwaves today and I bet there were many who scratched their heads in puzzlement.
Thousands of ITALIANS (150,000) crammed St. Peter’s Square to cheer the Pope on with signs like “Together with the Pope” or “Don’t be afraid, Jesus won out over evil”. OK what does all that mean?
The Pope has admitted that the Church has been infected with sin from the inside and must be purified. OK what does that mean?
One pro-Vatican official at the demonstration said that “We want to show our solidarity to the Pope and transmit the message that single individuals make mistakes but institutions, faith and religion cannot be questioned”. What?
Obviously, the official does not understand that the Church as an institution is made up of individuals and if the individuals are rotten than so is the institution and if the individuals have been rotten for a very long time than so has the institution and to purify this mess may involve outsiders who have not been contaminated; I don’t believe the Vatican can purify itself from the inside.
On another note, a priest in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts is calling for the pope to resign. Father Jim Scahill (priest for 36 years) has exposed one sexually abusive priest in the area (Richard Lavigne) and his enabler Bishop Dupre who was also an abuser.
Now that is the kind of person that can purify the Church if it’s not too late.
As far as faith and religion is concerned, yes it can be questioned and should be because what kind of God allows his representatives on earth to molest innocent children and then cover the crimes up? What kind of religion allows that?
The 150,000 people cheering the Pope must be mindless of the fact that the Pope, the Church, the religion and their faith, failed to protect thousands of innocent children from the officials running the Church. In that manner, the people cheering the Pope are also responsible for the crimes committed by their Church.
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