More of the same: Vatican orders US bishops to delay taking action on sexual abuse crisis

[True Dough]

PATHETIC!

Baltimore (CNN)The Vatican has told the US Conference of Catholic Bishops to delay voting on measures to hold bishops accountable for failing to protect children from sexual abuse, the president of the conference said in a surprise announcement Monday morning.

In his announcement, Cardinal Daniel DiNardo said he was "disappointed" by the Vatican's decision, which he said he learned of on Sunday afternoon. Pope Francis met with his ambassador to the United States, Archbishop Christophe Pierre, on Saturday, according to the pope's public schedule.

Pierre is in Baltimore and addressed the body of bishops on Monday morning, though he did not mention the Vatican's insistence that the US bishops delay their vote. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops gathers about 200 bishops from around the country twice a year to debate and adopt new policies.

A Vatican spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Pope Francis will convene a meeting of bishops from around the world in February to address the sexual abuse crisis, which has roiled the church on several continents, including North America, South America and Australia.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/12/us/conference-of-catholic-bishops-vatican/index.html

[MineralMan]

1. "Not so fast, boys." the Pope says.

"We're still working on our policy for minimizing the damage of our heinous behavior. We haven't gotten it fine-tuned just yet."

[Permanut]

2. Probably waiting for guidance from above, so to speak..

And probably not sure what Jesus would do. These things take time to discern.

Oh, wait, no they don't.

Proverbs 22:6

Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Psalm 127:3-5
Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, So are the children of one's youth.

1 Timothy 5:8
Verse Concepts
But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.

Read your own book, jackasses.

[True Dough]

5. Indeed, what would Jesus do?

If only there were some holy scripture to consult, LIKE THE VERSES YOU POSTED, for example!

[Major Nikon]

6. The same book includes instructions on how to enslave and rape children

Exodus 21: 7-8 New International Version (NIV)

7 “If a man sells his daughter as a servant, she is not to go free as male servants do. 8 If she does not please the master who has selected her for himself,[a] he must let her be redeemed. He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

Numbers 31:17-18 New International Version (NIV)

17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man.

Deuteronomy 22:28-29 New International Version (NIV)

28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[a] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives.

[Permanut]

7. No wonder they can't decide. nt

[The Genealogist]

3. From the article: "what one cardinal called the church's 'summer of hell.'"

You'll excuse my failure to shed a tear for their "summer of hell." I'm more concerned with the LIFETIME of hell the victims of pedophile priests have to live.

[True Dough]

4. Well said! n/t