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"the pedos who took over Vatican City are NOT Catholic" Sympathy cratering...

• Macha 4y ago
  A broken clock being right twice a day and all that. Prior to becoming Pope, Benedict did lead the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which was responsible for covering up the child sex abuse scandals of the Catholic Church in Ireland. In addition, while he was Pope, someone high up in the church instructed the Irish part of the church to stymie the government's efforts to investigate said child abuse scandals which resulted in threatened expulsion of the vatican ambassador[1] (recalled by the vatican before it came to that), the closure of the Irish embassy to the Vatican[2] and a public condemnation by the Irish government[3]. What is much less up for debate is that Benedict and his sucessor Francis (who to be fair, has not had the same pre-papal track record as his predecessor) were fairly elected leaders of the catholic church by its own mechanisms. Also don't take this as approval or support for the guy's reactionary views of what he thinks catholicism should be. [1]: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14281441 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-14281441 [2]: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ireland-closes-embassy-to-vatican_n_1076528 https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ireland-closes-embassy-to-vat... [3]: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/kenny-condemns-vatican-response-to-allegations-1.880058 https://www.irishtimes.com/news/kenny-condemns-vatican-respo...
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