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So in your opinion the church has addressed the issue fully?
Oh, yes. I think so. We do a study every year, and we make it public. If there's any new accusation, it's usually about a case from 20 to 30 years ago.

Your schedule is packed, but you are known to be a sportsman. We've read that you swim at least 50 laps a day.
I used to. I don't really have access to a pool like I used to.

If you're tapped for further promotion—as has traditionally happened with your position—you could become a cardinal. Then you won't swim at all.
Well, you can't have everything in life.

Of course, that would put you in line for a potential papal election, too.
Well, I don't want to look that far down the road. I have enough trouble just balancing tomorrow's schedule.

You pointed out this ivory crucifix on your wall. What is its history?
This is probably an 18th-century ivory crucifix, and I found it in a flea market in Rome. I needed something to put it on and they had just finished redoing all the papal apartments in the Vatican. This was the damask that had hung on the walls in the study under John XXIII and Pius XII. So I asked if I could have a piece, and that's the background. It has been with me ever since.

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  • Posted By: dchappy@hotmail.com @ 04/19/2008 2:39:06 PM

    AFTER ALL A COWARD HAS COME OUT OF THE LUXURIOUS CAVE WITH A COSTLY SUN GLASS AND A COSTLY ROB BEING WELCOMED BY A WOLF WHOSE WHOLE CABNET WAS AND IS FULL OF HOMOSEXUALS IN CLUDING ALL THE BISHOPS AND CARDINAL AND MINISTERS AND ALL CHURCH PEOPLE. THIS COWARD IF KNEW HIS JOB AS TO WHAT POPE MEANS SHOULD HAVE KICKED SOME BASTARD BISHOPS RIGHT ON THE SPOT THOISE AT FAULT AND SHOULD HAVE GIVEN A TIGHT SLAP ON THE PRESIDENT TO HAVE KEPT THE GAYS AND LEISBIANS IN THE CABINATE. IF HE COULD NOT DO THAT THEN SHOULD HAVE HAVE SAID WHAT CHRISTNITY THE RELIGION MEANS AND ASKED ALL CHRISTIAN TO KICK OUT THESE BLOODY INCESTERS OUT OF AMERICA AND GO TO THEIR COUNTRY IF AT ALL THEY HAVE ANY. IOT IS A SAME THAT THE MIGHTY LEADER ADOLF HILTLER OF HIS COUNTRY GOT THESE SWINES (THE SON HAVING SEX WITH MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WITH FATHER AND BROTHER WITH OWN SISTER ) OUT OF HIS COUNTRY AND THIS FOOL COULD NOT WARN THE CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES TO REFRAIN FROM MIXING WITH THIS DECEASED CRIMALS OF THE LOWEST ORIGINAL OF SO CALLED HUMAN BUT INFACT ANIMALS. ISN' IT A SHAME FOR A POPE WHO EVEN CAN N'T SPEAK THE TRUTH ON THE FACE OF THE CULPRITS. IS HE THE SAME WHO DEFAMED A PROPHET AND THEN SEEKS TO BE PARDONED. HELL WITH THIS RELIGION WITH GAY LEISBIANS AND POPE WITH ALL BISHOPS AND CHURCH PEOPLE WITH SEX SCANDLE ALL OVER THE WORLD THAT PROPHETJESUS(PEACE BE UPON HIS SOUL) WOULD HAVE WOULD HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE AND WOULD HAVE PRAYED TO GOD TO ELLIMINATE THE FOLLOWERS FROM THE EARTH, WHICH I AM SURE HIS SOUL MUST BE NOW PRAYING.

    MR. EDITOR NEWS WEEK TRY AND BLCKOUT MY COMMENT AS YOU NORMALLY DO TO MY COMMENTS IF YOU DON'T KEEP IT THE WHY YOU ASK FOR IT. YOU EXPECT ME TO KISS YOU AND WRITE GOOD THINGS ABOUT A GROSSLY WRONG THING. FORGET IT, YOU TAKE TO BLACK OUT AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT I WRITE ABOUT YOU AND YOU NACKED WIFE THAT YOU KEEP IN YOUR HOUSE.. D C HAPPY



  • Posted By: dchappy@hotmail.com @ 04/19/2008 2:38:49 PM

    AFTER ALL A COWARD HAS COME OUT OF THE LUXURIOUS CAVE WITH A COSTLY SUN GLASS AND A COSTLY ROB BEING WELCOMED BY A WOLF WHOSE WHOLE CABNET WAS AND IS FULL OF HOMOSEXUALS IN CLUDING ALL THE BISHOPS AND CARDINAL AND MINISTERS AND ALL CHURCH PEOPLE. THIS COWARD IF KNEW HIS JOB AS TO WHAT POPE MEANS SHOULD HAVE KICKED SOME BASTARD BISHOPS RIGHT ON THE SPOT THOISE AT FAULT AND SHOULD HAVE GIVEN A TIGHT SLAP ON THE PRESIDENT TO HAVE KEPT THE GAYS AND LEISBIANS IN THE CABINATE. IF HE COULD NOT DO THAT THEN SHOULD HAVE HAVE SAID WHAT CHRISTNITY THE RELIGION MEANS AND ASKED ALL CHRISTIAN TO KICK OUT THESE BLOODY INCESTERS OUT OF AMERICA AND GO TO THEIR COUNTRY IF AT ALL THEY HAVE ANY. IOT IS A SAME THAT THE MIGHTY LEADER ADOLF HILTLER OF HIS COUNTRY GOT THESE SWINES (THE SON HAVING SEX WITH MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WITH FATHER AND BROTHER WITH OWN SISTER ) OUT OF HIS COUNTRY AND THIS FOOL COULD NOT WARN THE CHRISTIAN COUNTRIES TO REFRAIN FROM MIXING WITH THIS DECEASED CRIMALS OF THE LOWEST ORIGINAL OF SO CALLED HUMAN BUT INFACT ANIMALS. ISN' IT A SHAME FOR A POPE WHO EVEN CAN N'T SPEAK THE TRUTH ON THE FACE OF THE CULPRITS. IS HE THE SAME WHO DEFAMED A PROPHET AND THEN SEEKS TO BE PARDONED. HELL WITH THIS RELIGION WITH GAY LEISBIANS AND POPE WITH ALL BISHOPS AND CHURCH PEOPLE WITH SEX SCANDLE ALL OVER THE WORLD THAT PROPHETJESUS(PEACE BE UPON HIS SOUL) WOULD HAVE WOULD HAVE COMMITTED SUICIDE AND WOULD HAVE PRAYED TO GOD TO ELLIMINATE THE FOLLOWERS FROM THE EARTH, WHICH I AM SURE HIS SOUL MUST BE NOW PRAYING.

    MR. EDITOR NEWS WEEK TRY AND BLCKOUT MY COMMENT AS YOU NORMALLY DO TO MY COMMENTS IF YOU DON'T KEEP IT THE WHY YOU ASK FOR IT. YOU EXPECT ME TO KISS YOU AND WRITE GOOD THINGS ABOUT A GROSSLY WRONG THING. FORGET IT, YOU TAKE TO BLACK OUT AND YOU WILL SEE WHAT I WRITE ABOUT YOU AND YOU NACKED WIFE THAT YOU KEEP IN YOUR HOUSE.. D C HAPPY



  • Posted By: paulte @ 04/17/2008 3:06:42 PM

    Wuerl is a good example of the poor quality of bishops in the USA and why the Church had such a bad problem with sex abuse by the clergy. I'm no Catholic basher but I do believe that the Church does deserve one big black eye for the sex abuse scandal. The reason being that the bishops allowed homosexuals to flow into the clergy. It was widely known that many seminaries were termed "lavender" with rampant sexual misbehavior. Should it be any surprise then that sexually sick priests would prey on the young?

    The Church clearly lost her way after the Second Vatican Council. You cannot have a celibate clergy without strict rules in place. If one examines the history of the abuse scandal, one will see a rather small problem of sex abuse among the clergy before the Council but after 1970 when the decay set into the seminaries, the problem escalated. It actually declined somewhat after the papacy of JPII who tried to restore some order and appoint conservative bishops. But the rogues were already in the priesthood.

    At least under Benedict something is being done about homosexuals in the clergy. The real reason for the problem in the Church is clear, homosexuality. 85% of the abuse victims were maleand most were teenagers, a favorite of active homosexuals.

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