he would allow priests to be married.

he would immediately defrock all homosexual priests and nuns.

he would immediately remove all bishops involved with the homosexual scandels from positions of power transfering them all into simple parish priests.

but he won't because he is a confidence artist. con men don't do what they should they do what it takes to con you.

got it roman catholics the pope is conning you.

Benedict had a successful PR visit. it was quite impressive that he spoke to the pain of the sex abuse scandal; however, to put some action behind those words, he should throw Cardinal Bernard Law in prison.

In the grander scheme, The Church is about reconciliation and forgiveness. So..for the Pope to start throwing people under civil and legal buses, would be contrary to his"mission".

More to the specific legal point though, these men of the cloth have been accused of very serious felony charges. There's little doubt that there's a mountain of "guilt" going on there. But...given The Church's tepid legal defense of its people, in terms of specific charges, AND their deep pockets, it's also reasonable to assume that a siginifcant number of these charges are bogus. For many reasons in keeping with its "mission", The Church has decided to accept for itself, a sort of "universal guilt" - sparing the individual victims and non-victims, from having to make their cases in courts of law.

But...having chosen to do that, they've precluded themselves from subjecting their own, to specific legal charges. As a matter of our legal system, if not fundamental ethics and morality, an individual charged with a serious felony and facing criminal sanctions, MUST be allowed to defend himself to the fullest extent of the law. And again....the Church has decided (correctly in my opinion), not to subject the victims and non-victims to this process.

i would go for making law a parish priest in cap cod, a highly homosexual parish, for the rest of his life.

yes it was a pr extravaganza.

but that isn't the point for the future of the church. cleaning out the cess pool is.

when you have a festering abcess you cut it out, completely.

the church has to punish on a civil basis the individuals that participated in the indoctrination of young men into homosexuality, that is for openers.

the church has to base its priests and nuns on orders that understand sexuality, it has to remove celibacy from the fatherhood and sisterhood; it has no place now nor it did before. the whole concept of celibacy is derived from the homosexual priesthood. if not eliminated it will fester again and again.

at your own spiritual leader.

i am a failed catholic.

i learned enough with them to realize the whole jewish, christian, muslim, mormon religion is a fraud. that god never ever existed.

but if catholics are going to be viable in the future they had best correct their errors.

Julie, how did your post on Michelle Obama make any sense?

Fourteen centuries ago, that pope tried to enforce zero tolerance, which, despite synod after synod and decree after decree, could never be done. Moreover, the very document establishing the policy was sabotaged by a cleric some two hundred years later to make it look like the attempt had never even been made...Today's pope is relegated to wearing his miter sideways, like some rally cap.