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1
Nobody could have seen that coming.
2
This merits another posting of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHRDfut2V…

Catchiest tune of the year.
3
Just imagine how many children were raped and beaten by the Catholic Church in the 1950's and earlier. Those were the days of Catholic morality codes. Fucking evil church!
4
These fuckers don't get to be a moral authority on anything, ever again.

Fuck the motherfucking pope and all his papist rapists.
5
Every time a priest's penis slides into a boy's butt, an angel gets its wings.
6
The Church, in fact Xianity altogether, is dying. As it should. Religions come and go over the long haul. This one, I'm so thankful to God, is coming to an end.

A tiny refined version of genuine souls might survive. Otherwise, kaput! Il Popo Pedophilephile has said as much; even he knows it. (If I can find the quote, I'll bring it here.)
7
Here's the thing: if your innate sense of honor (assuming you still have one after decades of judging people) impels you to offer your resignation for poor performance, especially a scandal, and the boss doesn't want to accept it, YOU FUCKING QUIT ANYWAY.

If you have any sense of honor, that is. Otherwise the whole dance of resignation/refusal/carrying on, is revealed for the pre-arranged charade it is.
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@7,

Devil's advocate: the Church, like the military, is innately hierarchical, so just as a military officer must accept orders from higher that he disagrees with, so too must bishops and cardinals obey orders from their superiors. But while military officers may (and must) disobey orders that are blatantly illegal or immoral, the Catholic hierarchy is indoctrinated with the idea that their supervisors' sense of honor is superior to their own. I don't agree with this point of view, but I could imagine a bishop whose innate sense of honor compels him to offer his resignation and step down, who is then told by a superior that he believes is the moral authority that the greater good will be served by suffering through his guilt and continuing in his job.

I personally think nothing good ever comes of subordinating one's own innate sense of honor, but I don't think it's necessary the dog-and-pony show you make it out to be.
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Nicely argued, @8, but I would respond that the primacy of conscience trumps the Pope. This is why the many gays who, despite all, still feel an affinity for the Catholic church, can enter into loving, sexual, same-sex relationships and take communion without theoretical consequence.
...This teaching that personal conscience is the ultimate guide in all our moral activity was clearly taught by St. Thomas Aquinas, probably the greatest Catholic theologian, in the 13th century. Aquinas held that an erroneous conscience was morally binding and that one is without moral fault in following it provided one has already made every reasonable effort to form a right moral judgment.
And John Paul II:
People are obliged to follow their conscience in all circumstances and cannot be forced to act against it.
And Papa Rat hisself (as a priest in 1968):
"Above the pope as an expression of the binding claim of church authority,” writes Ratzinger, “stands one’s own conscience, which has to be obeyed first of all, if need be against the demands of church authority."

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