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Topic History of: George Pell - appeal
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JK2006 |
"To defend the indefensible" I'm afraid you clearly have more info than I do but I bet you that many considered Carl Beech's claims to be "indefensible" by those vile perverts he accused. Likewise dozens, hundreds, thousands more - like George Pell; and you'd be right; in most cases they cannot be defended and thus are indefensible. And if you assume all allegations are true, I'm 100% with you Barney. |
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Barney |
Undoubtedly, many priests have been wrongly accused, and gullt - by association - assumed.
But the fault lies firmly with the church (not Francis who came clean) - who repeatedly denied that abuse was happening.
It's worth googling Fr Sean Fortune in Wexford, Ireland - as an example of how the church went to great lengths to defend the indefensible.
As for George Pell - a new prison is likely; he's now been in solitary confinement for 176 days.
Legal experts in Australia don't hold out much hope for a petition to the High Court in Canberra - in the light of today's appeal court verdict.
Then an eclesiastical court hearing looms at the Vatican; although few precedents exist for such cases - involving this high level of accused.
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JK2006 |
And as usual in this mind boggling superficial century, it has to be one extreme or the other. Somewhere in the middle between everyone being an abuser and everyone being a CarlBeech there's the reality; many false allegations, many concealed victims, many exaggerations, many trivialisations, many claims wrongly ignored, many false claims wrongly believed. |
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Barney |
Barney wrote:
The Washington Post has said that Pell personifies the church's institutional indifference to the welfare of boys and girls who were abused by its clergy.
Inevitably, someone had to carry the can - for this worldwide phenomenon.
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Barney |
Fine...and finally.
Essentially, there are three types of laws.
That of your religion (if you have one), your country - and your own moral law.
Of the three, your own code - the latter - is the most important (except for the clinically insane etc.); the laws of the other two are very often wrong.
Frequently contradicting themselves.
Just one example - the Catholic church is against synthetic birth control, abortion and divorce.
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