The BBC informs us:
"In the letter, Cardinal Ratzinger - who was at the time the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which has responsibility for tackling abuse by clerics - said the "good of the universal Church" needed to be considered in any defrocking, AP reported."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/mobile/world/europe/8612787.stm
The hostility needed to turn this non-event into a story attacking the Holy Fsther is staggering. So he WAS head of the CDF, which IS responsible for the cases - and became responsible 6 years after this letter was written!
So he wrote a letter pointing out the good of the Church must be considered? If this were a smoking gun then they might have quoted it, but but they don't even link to it. Does that constitute 'resisting' the de-frocking, which happened a couple of years later, in a wrongful way? Hardly.
The BBC is paid for by British license-fee payers. Not by me - I haven't had a telly for several years now. It's time more people realised how aggressively anti-Catholic the BBC has become.
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Yep I think people need to be very aware of the BBC, it has become very biased in all sorts of areas, but particularly in Catholic Church matters. It really is wicked.
ReplyDeleteI too got rid of my TV a few years ago because I resented being forced to pay £146 per annum to such a biased organisation. Paying the TV licence was like being forced to buy the Guardian every day.
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