tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post253663427211535509..comments2024-03-27T17:15:37.606-04:00Comments on Triablogue: Dereliction of dutyRyanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17809283662428917799noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-37670383921084188612019-04-11T20:24:18.548-04:002019-04-11T20:24:18.548-04:00Does Ratzinger think we all came down in the last ...Does Ratzinger think we all came down in the last shower? Does he blame the Borgia pope and his ilk on the 60s sexual revolution as well.<br /><br />I liked the line in the book "the dark side of the papacy" - whenever the Catholic church had a council it had to be in a big city on a lake. Big so it could accommodate all the prostitutes and on a lake to dispose of all the dead bodies when the fighting broke out.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01320569420417469805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-80201813079444166432019-04-11T19:22:37.344-04:002019-04-11T19:22:37.344-04:00Interesting post, from a Catholic --
http://www.p...Interesting post, from a Catholic --<br /><br />http://www.podles.org/dialogue/pope-benedict-on-the-causes-of-the-sexual-abuse-crisis-7534.htmsteve jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07536102007821807299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6789188.post-44473919944203128692019-04-11T19:14:38.095-04:002019-04-11T19:14:38.095-04:00Ratzinger is an intellectual, and like many intell...Ratzinger is an intellectual, and like many intellectuals he exaggerates the importance of ideas. Sure the sexual revoluation and all that didn't help, but ultimately it was a failure of the church to take the problem seriously.<br /><br />As you know, Ratzinger was JP2's right hand man. While I don't think he was responsible for the cult of personality around JP2, I don't think he did anything to stop it. When JP2 allowed Bernard Law to resign and get a plum job in the Vatican, Ratzinger was silent. When he become pope, he didn't discipline Law. steve jacksonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07536102007821807299noreply@blogger.com