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Related: About this forumVatican panel kicks off meeting on sexual abuse by watching 'Spotlight'
A Vatican commission on clerical sex abuse gathered Thursday for a private screening of Spotlight, the Oscar-nominated film about abuse by Boston priests, even as Pope Francis came under fire for failing to act on the crisis.
The extraordinary screening was held on the eve of a three-day meeting by the commission, and was shown in the same church residence in central Rome where Francis then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio stayed before his election as pope in 2013.
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Francis has said phenomenally damaging and painful things about survivors, said Saunders. People in Chile now see the commission as a laughingstock, and I cannot pretend the commission means anything unless he sacks Barros.
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The last meeting in October was a non-event. I was told that Rome was not built in a day, but the problem is that it takes seconds to rape a child, he said.
The extraordinary screening was held on the eve of a three-day meeting by the commission, and was shown in the same church residence in central Rome where Francis then Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio stayed before his election as pope in 2013.
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Francis has said phenomenally damaging and painful things about survivors, said Saunders. People in Chile now see the commission as a laughingstock, and I cannot pretend the commission means anything unless he sacks Barros.
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The last meeting in October was a non-event. I was told that Rome was not built in a day, but the problem is that it takes seconds to rape a child, he said.
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-italy-vatican-spotlight-20160204-story.html
The Vatican is not showing that it's serious about this matter, like everything else it's words sound sweet, until you realize they are just sitting on their throne of gold.
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Vatican panel kicks off meeting on sexual abuse by watching 'Spotlight' (Original Post)
Lordquinton
Feb 2016
OP
Why do I get the sense that there will be a few shrugged shoulders and a couple of ...
NeoGreen
Feb 2016
#1
Careful, someone will come stomping in here in an indignant huff, ignore all the material
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2016
#6
NeoGreen
(4,031 posts)1. Why do I get the sense that there will be a few shrugged shoulders and a couple of ...
..."who knew"s at the screening.
Plus a few taking furious notes on where the leaks occurred.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)2. Seen several articles about this topic
Hopefully the trend will continue.
mr blur
(7,753 posts)3. So which one of them turned to Cardinal Law and whispered,
"Hey, I can see your house from here!"?
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)4. There's a reason I keep reading this stupid group...
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)5. There's always a gem here and there
this group has some divine comedy from time to time.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)6. Careful, someone will come stomping in here in an indignant huff, ignore all the material
aspects of this issue, and try and make you the bad guy for gallows humor.
Rob H.
(5,352 posts)7. What aspects of gallows do you find funny?
Did I do that right? Pretty sure I did that right.
AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)8. Looks about right.
cleanhippie
(19,705 posts)9. Exactly right.