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think- ago

Pope John Paul II was certainly not a good person. He didn't do anything about the sexual abuse in the RCC. He was one of those who did the cover-up. Don't know why people glorify him.

4warned ago

Fake news

think- ago

No. I know someone who at the time wrote to John Paul II and told him he had been abused by a priest.

The Pope's answer was: I will pray for you. He didn't do anything about the abuse allegations. In fact, priests who abused kids merely were assigned to a new parish when people found out. Abusers didn't face any punishments, the abuse was simply covered up.

I deeply respect anyone who believes in Christ, but the Popes - maybe with the exemption of John XXIII - have all been implicated.

So pizzagate is now cheering 'Q' for placing hints about John Paul II's sermons? Oh my.

Random101 ago

The pictures are open to interpretation - the inverted cross and tau cross lead to some interesting places IMO.

4warned ago

I am sorry this happened to your friend. It is awful. However, The Pope took actions to protect the children and further abuses that you are not aware of. The VIRTUS program was imstituted. Many safety precautions that both religious and lay people had to abide by we’re started. All are expected to take classes in awareness of pedophilia and child abuse. Did you know most pedophilia is committed by family members? And women are offenders almost as much as men? Anyone who works with children in the Catholic Church now has to be trained in recognizing pedophiles behavior. The Church has done a lot to change and protect children. Granted this should never happen to begin with.

Gilderoy ago

I don't agree with all of his actions, but I do believe he was a man of intense prayer and had tremendous theological/spiritual insight. His encyclicals are a beautiful synthesis of traditional Catholic doctrine and contemporary thought. He was able to capture Biblical truths and present them in a dynamic way.

There is certainly abundant proof that he personally led a life of heroic virtue, but he made some terrible episcopal appointments and did not apparently root out the pedophiles as he should. Some have postulated that he did not believe all of the accusations and thought it was a plot by the Church's enemies to smear the clergy because he was accustomed to the Nazis and Communists using such tactics when he was a bishop and cardinal in Poland.

Vindicator ago

Indeed. Not to mention the fact that -- as many on this board know -- it is often hard for people who are genuinely good to comprehend the depths of depravity people who seem similar to themselves can fall to.