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Pope quietly trims sanctions for sex abusers seeking mercy
« on: February 26, 2017, 01:14:26 am »
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has quietly reduced sanctions against a handful of pedophile priests, applying his vision of a merciful church even to its worst offenders in ways that survivors of abuse and the pope's own advisers question.

One case has come back to haunt him: An Italian priest who received the pope's clemency was later convicted by an Italian criminal court for his sex crimes against children as young as 12. The Rev. Mauro Inzoli is now facing a second church trial after new evidence emerged against him, The Associated Press has learned.

The Inzoli case is one of several in which Francis overruled the advice of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and reduced a sentence that called for the priest to be defrocked, two canon lawyers and a church official told AP. Instead, the priests were sentenced to penalties including a lifetime of penance and prayer and removal from public ministry.

In some cases, the priests or their high-ranking friends appealed to Francis for clemency by citing the pope's own words about mercy in their petitions, the church official said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the proceedings are confidential.

"With all this emphasis on mercy ... he is creating the environment for such initiatives," the church official said, adding that clemency petitions were rarely granted by Pope Benedict XVI, who launched a tough crackdown during his 2005-2013 papacy and defrocked some 800 priests who raped and molested children.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/64e1fc2312764a24bf1b2d6ec3bf4caf/pope-quietly-trims-sanctions-sex-abusers-seeking-mercy

You harm a child like this you ain't getting no forgiveness on my planet. You ain't getting a long life none either.

You kicked the big aww shit bucket here pope. My approval rating is in negative numbers.

She asked me name my foe then. I said the need within some men to fight and kill their brothers without thought of Love or God. Ken Hensley

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Re: Pope quietly trims sanctions for sex abusers seeking mercy
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2017, 01:20:53 am »
He's a liberal. Of course he'd do this.

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Re: Pope quietly trims sanctions for sex abusers seeking mercy
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2017, 01:24:38 am »
He's a liberal. Of course he'd do this.

Is it me? Yeah, it is me. You harm a kid you die a slow agonizing death.
She asked me name my foe then. I said the need within some men to fight and kill their brothers without thought of Love or God. Ken Hensley

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Re: Pope quietly trims sanctions for sex abusers seeking mercy
« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2017, 02:06:09 am »
Is it me? Yeah, it is me. You harm a kid you die a slow agonizing death.

In a just world. Yes. In this one? Not so much unfortunately.