The pope blames god for being a sleep while all this sexual abuse went on.

Shooting the messenger again as usual. There was a discussion about this on talk back radio between Tom Elliot and a Catholic priest and yes that is exactly what the pope said so shut the bugger up and accept reality for a change !!

"The Lord gave us days of sun and of light breeze, days in which the fishing was good. There were also moments when there were stormy waters and headwinds... as if God was sleeping,"

"But I always knew that God was in that boat and I always knew that the boat of the Church is not mine, is not ours, but is his and he will not let it sink,"

"I never felt alone"

Sir lastnail wrote on Feb 28^th, 2013 at 3:21pm:


When questioned your reply was;

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What the pope actually said;

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I can't stand the pope. I hate what the position stands for and I think the idea of them is a disgrace. I wouldn't be surprised if this pope has actively covered up for pedophiles and wouldn't be shocked if he was one himself. But you nail are a BS artist, looking to troll this forum. Of course your only defense will be to accuse me of protecting the pope and covering for pedophiles, so let me repeat my position one more time;

I can't stand the pope. I hate what the position stands for and I think the idea of them is a disgrace. I wouldn't be surprised if this pope has actively covered up for pedophiles and wouldn't be shocked if he was one himself.

by Mick Krever, CNN

Homosexuality is “the ticking time bomb in the Catholic Church,” a former Dominican friar told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Monday.

Mark Dowd, who is himself openly gay, spoke to Amanpour as a blitz of new scandals hit the Catholic Church, just days before Pope Benedict XVI is set to step down from the papacy.

The Vatican announced on Monday that the archbishop of Scotland is resigning, a day after British newspapers published accusations of decades-long sexual misconduct with other priests. An American Cardinal is facing fresh allegations of covering up abuse. And Italian newspapers over the weekend published sordid accounts of homosexuality and blackmail within the Church hierarchy.

That last allegation, of a secret “cabal” of gay priests, has been dubbed the “Vati-leaks” scandal.

“When you have this culture of secrecy and guilt and repression,” Dowd said, “you have conditions which foster the potential for blackmail and for manipulation.”

Dowd, who is now a journalist, said that gay men are “massively over-represented” within the Church.

“About half,” he said, “if not more, of all the people attracted into seminaries in the priesthood are gay themselves.”