Said1
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Mariner said:not have known what was going on? The Bishops were busily transferring priests from parish to parish as scandals arose, settling cases out of court, and referring them for treatment quietly without informing the parishioners. With thousands of priests involved it's impossible to imagine the Pope not knowing, particularly as payments were being made, which would have to attract his attention.
My statement wasn't a denial. Perhaps I should have worded it differently, leaving what I said closed to mis-interpretation, even though I did say more in my original post, aside from the first sentance - or was it the last in the first paragraph?
Anyway, the point at which the Pope found out about the sitution is a mystery. The fact that there was massive cover up within the Vatican doesn't suprise me, although I also have no idea as to the extent of which the Pope may or may not be isolated from such things or informed, by whom and when. I also have no doubt that there is a large amount of heirarchy within the Vatican (I doubt the Pope did a lot of micro-managing) and again, as I've stated (just so we're clear), I have no idea what the Pope knew and when, prior to the massive media coverage, settlements and further accusations, but feel he was involved in it at some point in time.
My point, in response to Powerman was that no one on this board EXCUSED the Pope, if he did in fact know what was going on from the very beginning or his involvement in keeping things hidden (better?). What I did not address specificlly, were his comments about pedophillia or homosexuality, only saying he was way off base - as is also evident in my response and will assume the comments below are simply an "aside" in response to other posts not made by myself.
Blaming adult homosexuality for same-sex pedophilia is the same as blaming adult heterosexuality for opposite-sex pedophilia. It doesn't make sense.
Mariner.