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From BBC news website today:

Retired Pope Benedict XVI has published a letter which blames clerical sex abuse on the "all-out sexual freedom" of the 1960s.

The former pontiff said the sexual revolution had led to homosexuality in Catholic establishments.

He said paedophilia did not become "acute" until the late 1980s and was caused by "absence of God".

The only solution was "obedience and love for our Lord Jesus Christ," the former Pope said.

I say: BS! Take responsibility for your actions. Homosexuality has been around in and outside of the religion for ages. As for the said cause and solution of paedophilia I am lost for words.

Sandster 7 Apr 11
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I suspect that Catholic abuses have gone on for ages and ages, long before the changes in attitudes from the 1960s, only now they are coming out.

This is an old theme from reactionaries, blaming the 1960s, from the religious and political right. It's pathetic.

Doesn't this old boy have a boyfriend, some priest "assistant" at the place in Rome? I read that somewhere.

These Catholics are such hypocrites.

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The nazi Pope can go eat a bag of adult dicks.

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A criminal will deny by appealing to the most basic of responses.

The result is always to attract those of us too quick to accept the thoughts of those we have become accustom to thinking they know more than we. And we are increasingly not in agreement.

Some of us have already lived long enough to truly understand what depth of thought is meant by "a sense of history."

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To Benedict XVI and every other Pope, aka Protector Of Paedophile Employees I say utter Bullshit, Drivel and religious Twaddle in extremis.
Abuse, child abuse in particular has been running rampant through Catholicism since it earliest days and has been neatly swept under the Canonic carpets.
Maybe Pope Dicky Boy XVI has conveniently forgotten about the Castrati practice used for CENTURIES where boys in Church choirs were CASTRATED summarily before reaching puberty simple to 'preserve' for the Choir their High 'Angelic/Cherubic' voices BEFORE the surge of Testosterone started to change them?
Has Pope Dicky Boy XVI also conveniently forgotten that both the Popes and the Cardinals in the Vatican have and still do OWN, Operate AND frequent Brothels throughout Rome?

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For sure this is a bunch of shit,

So HUGE a pile of SHIT that you'd a whole team of Caterpillar D9's to even make a dent in it I'd reckon.

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Well, they were on acid. That makes it ok then...

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But the sexual freedom of the 60 was not for them!!! 😛 That is no excuse. They are men with strong values, aren't they?

Errr, according to them that is.

@Triphid Yes, I know that. But it isn't becaus they choosed not not live that aspect of their lfes.

@margarida Do NOT Catholic Priests actual swear an OATH to their 'God" to remain Celibate?

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Did he deliberately forget the years of abuse before the 60s.

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You mean RATzinger. The usual excuse of blame and obfuscation. Priests were molesting kids from day one and gays are not made gay they are born that way. Problem is there are too many that listen to him or want to listen.

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Benedict XVI had his head up his butt to make comment like that. Too be so smart he was so dumb. First the Catholic Church is an Evil Empire only concerned with their own interests, God is a means to an ends, the world will be better off when it finally implodes and in time it will, always blaming somebody or something for their faults. One Third of the axis or Evil....

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THe 60's caused the exodus of people from the clergy-that is still plaguing the church to this day. The church is desperate with this regard-and since it will never change-it will continue to have this problem. The hard right of catholicism is advocating either expulsion of Gays or celibacy. Quite unhealthy thinking.
Regarding timeline - the gays were also part of the Holocaust - where the pink triangle originated. The US government purged gays in the 50's with flourish part of the lavender scare. UK chemically castrated the man who was involved in breaking Nazi ciphers as homosexuality was against the law. But fortunately, their GOD brought AIDS to purge the gays in the 1980's. But, I'm told that things are better now.........

Records from WWII show very clearly that the Vatican operated Escape Routes for High Ranking Nazis right from the last year or so of the war.
They LITERALLY made a HUGE fortune from doing it.

@Triphid The Vatican signed The Reichskonkordat in 1933 with the Nazis giving credibility to the party and allowing for German Catholic involvement with the Nazi party. Hitler himself was a Catholic.

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Idiot, he obviously has no clue at all. This has been going on for centuries its not like it is something new.

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Benedict is a knowing liar. He was always an ultraconservative fraud.

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Bloody Hell. The old fool is only making matters worse for them. So anyone abused over the age of 30 was imagining it. And this the guy who was head of the equivalent office to The Inquisition. Wouldn’t he have loved torturing individuals into giving up their ‘evil’ non catholic ways. What a prick!

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It's those bloody hippies. They're to blame.

I know! Bastards. How dare they attempt to lead the world out of institutional warfare and torture. That’ll teach them, being ticked off by Mr ex-Pope no less. We also need to bear in mind that much of it was going on under his watch. No god indeed. I thought he was god while he was in the Big Chair!

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Which is why I won’t even look at my family members who are practicing Catholics.

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