Cardinal involved in sex abuse scandal is uninvited.

[Walk away]

A former top Vatican cardinal who planned to lead a Latin Mass in honor of Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday at the Basilica in Washington has been disinvited by the conservative Catholic group organizing the event because of fresh controversy over the cardinal’s role in the sexual abuse scandal.

Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, a Colombian who formerly headed the Vatican’s Congregation for the Clergy, came under fire last week when a Web site posted a letter he wrote in 2001 praising a French bishop for refusing to hand over to the police a priest who had raped children.

“I congratulate you for not denouncing a priest to the civil administration,” Cardinal Castrillón wrote to Bishop Pierre Pican, who was convicted in France for failing to report sex crimes against children. “You have acted well, and I am pleased to have a colleague in the episcopate who, in the eyes of history and of all other bishops in the world, preferred prison to denouncing his son and priest.”

<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/us/22priest.html>

[KansDem]

1. Why not invite him into a prison cell?

I just can't fathom how these criminals are still walking free...

[Rex]

2. Well, we let our political crimials go on Dancing With the Stars

why not let our religous criminals walk free as well?

[WeDidIt]

5. Don't forget Celebrity Apprentice, too

It seems political criminality is a stepping stone into the entertainment industry.

But we already knew that. Look at G. Gordon Liddy.

[FiveGoodMen]

7. And while we're on that... Why hasn't that fuckhead been brought to trial yet?

You'd think our justice system was rigged!

[Rex]

8. Right!? Or Why wasn't Rush brought up on drug charges

or Joe "My intern fell down" Scarborough? Dems get the hot poker, Repukes just get to keep stealing/killing/buying illegal drugs.

[FiveGoodMen]

9. Two more good examples

In Dead-Intern-Joe's case, at least they got a discredited coroner to lie for them.

With Rush and Tom, they haven't even bothered to with the window dressing.

[ShortnFiery]

3. Darn, I thought this was addressing The Baseball Team.

:silly: I'm in a sports frame of mind.

[foxfeet]

6. Except in these instances the players are Padres, not Cardinals.

Edit: spelling. Duh.

[ShortnFiery]

10. Arrrgh!

How droll. ;)

[Raschel]

4. They shouldn't be honoring the pope anyway.