Another very interesting candidate is Oscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga from the Honduras. According to the ADL's web site:
"The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed outrage at comments made by a Honduran Catholic Cardinal that implied an alleged Jewish manipulation of the American media. Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, in a May interview with the Italian-Catholic publication 30 Giorni, claimed Jews influenced the media to exploit the current controversy regarding sexual abuse by Catholic priests in order to divert attention from the Israeli-Palestinian crisis."
More on him from The Panama News.
Is he good for the Jews? I think not. (He's also bad for the children.)
b/t/w Bernard Francis Cardinal Law, former Archbishop of the Boston Archdiocese (former, because he wasn't good for the children either), is eligible to vote in the papal elections. But, he is not considered to be in the running because he is an American.
I read the report written by the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. It is a scathing report of a horrifying set of events.
To boil it all down, the document says that the law makers did not have the forsight to make certain acts of depravity illegal. For this reason they could not prosecute the hierarchy that enabled the molesters, only the individual molesters.
I guess taking down the church on RICO charges would have been too much to contemplate.
The fact that JPII defended that evil fuck Cardinal Law deeply stains JPII's entire legacy from my perspective.
(I've written elsewhere about the pastor of my old parish, who had a thing for little girls. They made him leave the parish, and made him a Monsignor. When the second allegation came forth, he was forced to retire. Upon learning of the third allegation, he was told he couldn't wear the priestly get-up. Thanks JPII, that'll show him!)
I always wondered about Cardinal Law's legal status. I assumed that he was recalled to the Vatican because the church wanted to avoid the spectacle of a powerful member of the hierarchy being served with an arrest warrant. I didn't realize that prosecutors didn't have any options (I do remember reading the speculation about RICO charges)
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Another very interesting candidate is Oscar Andrés Cardinal Rodríguez Maradiaga from the Honduras. According to the ADL's web site:
"The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today expressed outrage at comments made by a Honduran Catholic Cardinal that implied an alleged Jewish manipulation of the American media. Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, in a May interview with the Italian-Catholic publication 30 Giorni, claimed Jews influenced the media to exploit the current controversy regarding sexual abuse by Catholic priests in order to divert attention from the Israeli-Palestinian crisis."
More on him from The Panama News.
Is he good for the Jews? I think not. (He's also bad for the children.)
b/t/w Bernard Francis Cardinal Law, former Archbishop of the Boston Archdiocese (former, because he wasn't good for the children either), is eligible to vote in the papal elections. But, he is not considered to be in the running because he is an American.
- L.M. 4-05-2005 7:27 am
I read the report written by the Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on the sexual abuse within the Catholic Church. It is a scathing report of a horrifying set of events.
To boil it all down, the document says that the law makers did not have the forsight to make certain acts of depravity illegal. For this reason they could not prosecute the hierarchy that enabled the molesters, only the individual molesters.
I guess taking down the church on RICO charges would have been too much to contemplate.
The fact that JPII defended that evil fuck Cardinal Law deeply stains JPII's entire legacy from my perspective.
(I've written elsewhere about the pastor of my old parish, who had a thing for little girls. They made him leave the parish, and made him a Monsignor. When the second allegation came forth, he was forced to retire. Upon learning of the third allegation, he was told he couldn't wear the priestly get-up. Thanks JPII, that'll show him!)
- mark 4-05-2005 8:06 am
I always wondered about Cardinal Law's legal status. I assumed that he was recalled to the Vatican because the church wanted to avoid the spectacle of a powerful member of the hierarchy being served with an arrest warrant. I didn't realize that prosecutors didn't have any options (I do remember reading the speculation about RICO charges)
- L.M. 4-05-2005 7:16 pm