AOL conducting a poll regarding suing the Pope

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Should the Pope be immune from a trial alleging sex-abuse and a subsequent cover-up?

No**64%Yes28%Unsure8%**Total Votes: 25,876

These are this morning’s results regarding a poll that AOL has started after a judge ruled that because the Pope is the head of a state, he can not be named in civil suits regarding the coverup of sexual abuse in the seminarians…I can’t believe anyone would even consider going that far, but I guess all things are possible in this litiginous society that we live in. What do you think? Do you believe the results?
 
Can you provide a link, or is it for AOL members only?

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WanderAimlessly:
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Never mind. Found the link.

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Never mind. Found the link.

As for the results, I would not put too much into them, AOL has always seems to be to the left and anti-Christianity in its membership. That is one of the reasons I dropped them as a provider years ago.

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I wouldn’t recommend reading the user comments…
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Unfortunately, I did. I do not know which is worse, them or Yahoo. Both of them have the average mentality of a 15 year old with an extreme attitude problem.

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stbruno:
Should the Pope be immune from a trial alleging sex-abuse and a subsequent cover-up?

No**64%Yes28%Unsure8%**Total Votes: 25,876

These are this morning’s results regarding a poll that AOL has started after a judge ruled that because the Pope is the head of a state, he can not be named in civil suits regarding the coverup of sexual abuse in the seminarians…I can’t believe anyone would even consider going that far, but I guess all things are possible in this litiginous society that we live in. What do you think? Do you believe the results?
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Well, the poll results don’t bother me, because I know they’re not representative of the general population, or even of the AOL subscriber base.

Most news readers, particularly on the web, don’t even have the patience to read the whole article through. It’s the first thing journalists for newspapers and websites keep in mind when writing articles.

It’s just my assumption that if most people don’t even have the time to read a whole article, they won’t have the time to vote in insignificant polls or message boards about the topic, either. So the majority of the poll results or topic comments on aol are probably the result of bored 14-year olds, and people looking for a reaction.

Of course, I could be wrong, though.
 
I do not believe in “diplomatic immunity” To me it says certain people are above society’s law on the simple basis of their stature in society. That is wrong and criminal and I disagree with that judge.

I dont care if someone is a leader, a diplomat or even a religious.//even POPE. If it can be proven they have had direct knowledge in illegalities, coverups, etc, they should be held accountable. If the Pope fits that, then so be it. I do not know if he is (I wouldnt think so and hope not) and am not presuming anything of guilt or innocence. I simply apply my beliefs of how a just law should work no matter who it implicates.
 
The Pope had nothing to do with this. He did nothing wrong. The facts are simply misrepresented. If these people have issues with the holy father that’s their business. What do you do when bishops do not obey? George Wiegel points out in “Courage to be Catholic” states, that many bishops were not communicating to Rome the problems they were having and in many cases neglected to say anything. Another part was Rome’s approach to news. In Europe, apparently sex abuse to them is not a story. And it largely goes unreported over there. The Roman Curia’s approach was “it doesn’t matter what they say as long as we can go what we want”. Which is the incorrect way to do this. Pope John Paul II was well aware of the effects the mainstream media can have on people and tried to reverse this and Navarro-Valls did as well. Unfortunately, the curia didn’t like the idea and didn’t do it. Which could explain why he got blindsided when the sex abuse scandals came out in 2002. And why people have accused John Paul II of turning a blind eye during the sex abuse scandal.
 
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