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Related: About this forumPope’s sex abuse panel tells survivor to take a leave
VATICAN CITY Pope Francis sex abuse advisory committee voted Saturday to sideline one of its members, a high-profile abuse survivor who had clashed with the commission over its mission.
Peter Saunders, a British advocate for victims, had been highly critical of the Vaticans slow progress in taking measures to protect children and punish bishops who covered up for pedophile priests. He also wanted the commission to intervene immediately in individual cases, rather than just craft long-term policies to fight abuse.
During a commission meeting Saturday, it was decided that Mr. Peter Saunders would take a leave of absence from his membership to consider how he might best support the commissions work, the Vatican said.
The decision is a blow to Francis efforts to show that he is tough on abuse, since the presence of Saunders and another abuse survivor, Marie Collins, had given the commission credibility.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2016/02/06/pope-sex-abuse-panel-tells-abuse-survivor-take-leave/0ddrtlZpZIMfINQPRruFSN/story.html
Went to see Spotlight last night and then this morning this article showed up in the Sunday Globe. Nothing much has changed.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Priorities man, priorities.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Children should be protected by adults they trust.
So wrong to be violated and victimized all over again.
Cartoonist
(7,321 posts)Mr. Peter Saunders would take a leave of absence from his membership to consider how he might best support the commissions work.
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Stall, stall, ignore, stall, hide, stall some more, transfer, stall, stall, cover up, then stall some more.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Start off inclusive, then when the victims start to push for action, boot them out.
The Vatican is the one who should be kicked off the commission.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)Somehow it'll be spun as atheist 'bigotry against catholics' for... paying attention to what is happening or something.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)since this news broke.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)"Shyster is derived from the German term scheisser, meaning literally one who defecates, from the verb scheissen, to defecate, with the English suffix -ster, one who does, substituted for the German suffix -er, meaning the same thing. "
What do you call someone who posts on the internet and is "untrustworthy and full of crap"?
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Right on cue. I need to be more patient.
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)shows up much sooner. How anyone can defend yet another pathetic failure to engage in meaningful reform of an institution that has a now clearly documented decades long history protecting pederast priests escapes me, but there it is, Defense by Deflection. Every goddamn time.
rug
(82,333 posts)You would be complicit otherwise.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)I'd ask the poster but its lent.
rug
(82,333 posts)rarely from anyone calculating Social Security benefits.
rug
(82,333 posts)It couldn't be that you were calling me a shyster, could it?
Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)And it ain't Clinton.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)Understandably.