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Richard Owen: Pope calls for continuous prayer to rid priesthood of paedophilia [LINK-ZUM]

Pope Benedict XVI has instructed Roman Catholics to pray "in perpetuity" to cleanse the Church of paedophile clergy. All dioceses, parishes, monasteries, convents and seminaries will be expected to organise continuous daily prayers to express penitence and to purify the clergy. Vatican officials said that every parish or institution should designate a person or group each day to conduct continuous prayers for the Church to rid itself of the scandal of sexual abuse by clergy. Alternatively, churches in the same diocese could share the duty. Prayer would take place in one parish for 24 hours, then move to another. Vatican watchers said that there was no known precedent for global prayer on a specific issue of this kind. There are about one billion Roman Catholics worldwide.

[Article continues at link. I commend Pope Benedict for trying to cleanse the Church of paedophile clergy. However, I have a suggestion for a more effective way of doing so. Denounce the Crimine Solicitaciones. The Crimine Solicitaciones states that clergy accused of child abuse should be moved to another parish and that the crime should be kept secret. The Crimine Solicitaciones was approved by Pope John XXIII on 16 March 1962. It was addressed to "all patriarchs, archbishops, bishops and other diocesan ordinaries." That is, it was sent to the majority of Roman Catholic leaders around the world. The Crimine Solicitaciones is still the official policy of the Roman Catholic Church, as confirmed as recently as 2001 by former Cardinal Jozeph Ratzinger. Cardinal Ratzinger is now known as His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop of Rome, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church and Vatican City. Denouncing the Crimine Solicitaciones would do something in the real world to cleanse the Church of paedophile clergy. Prayer, as always, will do nothing. Sadly, Pope Benedict is trapped by papal infallibility in moral matters. To denounce the Crimine Solicitaciones would be admitting that he and a previous Pope were in moral error, which was declared impossible by the First Vatican Council of 1870. Perhaps this is why the Pope is advocating prayer rather than action. The Pope is willing to sacrifice children to paedophile priests in order to preserve his magical link to an invisible monster that lives in the sky. - Trevor Blake]

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