Catholics & Catholicism

Question:

– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – <snip Sure. He gets a fabulous apartment and $12,000 a month spending money. Obviously, the pope has a special fondness for the protector of pedophiles. Forgive the world for not catering to your sensibilities.. You mean the sensibilities that thinks it’s wrong to hide and protect those that rape kids? Yeah, obviously the catholic church doesn’t cater to those sensibilities. Obviously, they think this behavior is commendable, since they reward it. They have him in a box… you think of it as a reward because you don’t understand the history and operations of the heirarchy. Oh, I understand it all too well. Being a member of the catholic hierarchy means never having to take responsibility for your actions. But you think that law is being punished. Let’s see, he gets to keep his red hat and vote in the next circle jerk, which should be very soon. He gets a really fine apartment, servants, $12,000 a month in spending money. This is punishment for running a sex abuse ring? I guess I don’t understand that. It must be one of those peculiar catholic definitions that you can’t understand without a magic papal decoding ring.

Ouch.  ;-) t only looks like a reward in the real world, but in catholicism, this is called punishment. I guess this is like jesuits who claim they live a life of poverty.

Punishment in the Church is banishment.  Banishment to some backwoods church that has few parishoners and can never meet the assessments devised by the diocese.  My friend Tom (RIP) was punished this way. This in a diocese that merely transferred pedophile priests from one large parish to another.  Tom’s crime?  He was an Irish priest who took a liking to the Mexican community and ministered to them a little too much, according to his white parishoners who complained to the bishop.  So he was sent where there were no Mexicans. Law wasn’t punished, he was rewarded.

Response:

Sure. He gets a fabulous apartment and $12,000 a month spending money. You have a source for this information, or are you just shooting your mouth off?  Vatican apartments are typically not "fabulous" and your 12 grand a month figure seems a "bit" high.  Where did you come up with this tidbit?