re: #138 Cato the Elder

The entire Church condones pedophilia?

Institutions have a reflexive need to circle the wagons when attacked. This does not make it right. I suggest you read what Benedict XVI has had to say about this matter.

How can you continue to belong to a country that by all appearances condones torture?

Correct me if I’m wrong, but the Catholic church is very much about hierarchy, and dogma is passed down from that authority. The Pope could mandate that the church open their doors to a full investigation and accounting for behavior by the civil authorities, but he does not make this call. Despite his statements to the contrary, lack of action on that front amounts to condoning the stonewalling and covering up.