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- Fri Apr 02, 2010 2:46 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
Maureen Dowd continues the pile-on Now we learn the sickening news that Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, nicknamed “God’s Rottweiler” when he was the church’s enforcer on matters of faith and sin, ignored repeated warnings and looked away in the case of the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy, a Wisconsin priest who ...
- Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:22 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Blood libel
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22959
- Thu Apr 01, 2010 5:20 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
He wasn't being subjected to interrogation. He was asked to help out with information on a sexual abuse case and refused. That's not how I would characterize a demand that he appear before a House investigations committee. If the Parliament wanted information from the Irish Church, they should have...
- Thu Apr 01, 2010 3:25 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Blood libel
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22959
- Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:40 am
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
A Nuncio is a diplomat: he's the Vatican ambassador. It is a grievous breach of protocol for a government to subject an ambassador to interrogation, and the Irish parliament was way, way out of line. If they wanted to, they could have subpoenaed, say, the Archbishop of Dublin, who is an Irishman; bu...
- Thu Apr 01, 2010 4:38 am
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Blood libel
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22959
- Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:11 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
What I was suggesting was that all institutions are necessarily prone to some degree of corruption, venality and vice; and therefore any institution which even attempts to provide guidance is going to be guilty of a measure of hypocrisy. It's the way of the fallen world. Congress still has the power...
- Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:05 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
Weakland's reasoning (which I disagree with) was that proceedings should be put on hold because Murphy was a dying man. This happens in the criminal courts, too, if a defendant becomes too ill to participate effectively in his own defense. However, the case was brought *specifically* because his vic...
- Wed Mar 31, 2010 6:47 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
- Wed Mar 31, 2010 4:13 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: Blood libel
- Replies: 21
- Views: 22959
Wonderful.. Now the UN's Orwellian-named "Human Rights" Council is spreading the blood libel:
UN propagates Israeli organ theft allegation
UN propagates Israeli organ theft allegation
- Wed Mar 31, 2010 3:47 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
And there, in a nutshell, is the problem people are having with the Catholic apparatus. This was an internal trial. Nothing was handed over to the police. That is simply untrue. Why didn't the Church go to the police in 1974? THEY DID. The police, however, chose not to believe the children, as woul...
- Wed Mar 31, 2010 2:34 am
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
- Wed Mar 31, 2010 2:04 am
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
- Wed Mar 31, 2010 12:43 am
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
- Tue Mar 30, 2010 11:42 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
Rectangular building things: Setting the record straight in the case of abusive Milwaukee priest Father Lawrence Murphy Then-presiding judge for the Archdiocese of Milwaukee gives first-person account of church trial By Fr. THOMAS BRUNDAGE, JCL (and of course a media feeding frenzy. No demonization?)
- Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:24 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
- Tue Mar 30, 2010 4:22 pm
- Forum: Tolkien Movies: The Road Goes Ever On
- Topic: General Hobbit Movie Info (AVOID IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS)
- Replies: 2780
- Views: 790797
‘The Hobbit’ Delayed by MGM Financial Woes Digital Spy spoke to Any Serkis, the actor who provided the motion-capture performance that brought Gollum to such vivid life in the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In that discussion, Serkis dropped the news that The Hobbit would not be underway until the end ...
- Tue Mar 30, 2010 2:48 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
However, you can't overlook the concerted effort on the part of some to dredge up something, anything to hang on Josef Ratzinger personally , no matter how tenuous. When he was first elected there was a drive, if you recall, to paint him as a 'Nazi.' (This can't be urelated to the massive, longstand...
- Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:54 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
- Mon Mar 29, 2010 7:32 pm
- Forum: Tol Eressëa
- Topic: The Pope's Apology. Does it go far enough?
- Replies: 282
- Views: 127196
And a counter-view: This Pope has done more than any other churchman to address the issue of priestly child abuse. He has stopped the practice of turning over priests accused of abuse to therapists, as we now know that therapy seldom helps a paedophile. He has fast-tracked the defrocking of priests ...