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I hope this is in the right place. Since it’s in the news I thought it would be. I saw the advertisement and found this link about it. Just wanted to let everyone know CNN is airing this Sat and Sun Sept 25 and 26 at 8 pm ET and PT a special entitled, What Did the Pope Know? About what he knew of the sex scandals and cover-ups which have rocked our Church over the yrs. I know I’ll be watching. And thought it might be “must see TV” for all of us if nothing else but to keep tabs on what the media is reporting. God bless and peace.

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CMatt25 said:
I hope this is in the right place. Since it’s in the news I thought it would be. I saw the advertisement and found this link about it. Just wanted to let everyone know CNN is airing this Sat and Sun Sept 25 and 26 at 8 pm ET and PT a special entitled, What Did the Pope Know? About what he knew of the sex scandals and cover-ups which have rocked our Church over the yrs. I know I’ll be watching. And thought it might be “must see TV” for all of us if nothing else but to keep tabs on what the media is reporting. God bless and peace.

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I’m sure that if this is a CNN documentary, it will be negative, so this is one person who won’t be watching.
 
utah_rose said:
I’m sure that if this is a CNN documentary, it will be negative, so this is one person who won’t be watching.
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That is some good gut-checking right there; don’t let CNN confuse you with its so called “facts.” You already know in your heart they’re not what you want to hear, so why listen?
 
Hate to pre-judge but we have seen so many reports from so many sources that are mostly half-truths.

To report “so and so said” is NOT THE SAME as reporting what so and so said is indeed the truth. And to report what two or twenty said is still not the same as reporting what they said is indeed the truth.

The problem with half truth reports of personal behavior is the legal requirement to keep things confidential at least until there is hard active evidence.

Pope Benedict XVI has admitted more than once that the Church was slow to respond. But respond it did and the Church has done much to make amends and new, tighter rules have been adopted.

Let’s hope that CNN will ALSO acknowledge the efforts to correct, albeit somewhat too slow for too long.
 
Watching might not be much fun but I think it helps if you’ve seen it. Someone hostile to the church is sure to come up to me and start ragging on the Church again. I can’t dismiss the show for the piece of nonsence it’s sure to be unless I’ve watched it.

Sometimes my best occasions for evangelization have been triggered by a TV show or news article like this. An aquaintence or even a stranger comes up to me all mad wanting to talk about it and leaves thoughtful.

So, you can watch or not. I likely will.
 
TheTrueCentrist said:
That is some good gut-checking right there; don’t let CNN confuse you with its so called “facts.” You already know in your heart they’re not what you want to hear, so why listen?
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And I guess you’ve already decided it’s going to be “true,” right?
 
JoanREDirector said:
Watching might not be much fun but I think it helps if you’ve seen it. Someone hostile to the church is sure to come up to me and start ragging on the Church again. I can’t dismiss the show for the piece of nonsence it’s sure to be unless I’ve watched it.

**Sometimes my best occasions for evangelization have been triggered by a TV show or news article like this. ** An aquaintence or even a stranger comes up to me all mad wanting to talk about it and leaves thoughtful.

So, you can watch or not. I likely will.
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Great response! I would also add that often my own understanding of the Church has been deepened by hearing the critics, and then dissecting the truth from the fiction. Indeed, the Church herself has often responded to criticism this way.

Anyway, the title is provocative, but don’t prejudge the show - it might end up being balanced and informative. Remember that the media always assign titles to grab viewers.

I wish that I could watch this myself, but I don’t have CNN (cable TV is not as widely used in Australia as in north America).
 
Actually… I feel safer “pre-judging” the issue. I see the very fact that they went to all the trouble to produce a “news show” on the subject that focuses on the Catholic Church as being little more than another attack on the Church.

It would be different if they titled it differently and gave all denominations “equal time”. But alas, that’s not going to happen…

Granted, the entire situation should have been handled entirely different…but given the changes that have been made…I see little justification for continued and repetitively redundant rehashing of the subject.
 
CNN has been little more than rubbish for so long, and the media in general anti-catholic, why would anyone waste time watching this.
 
Via_Dolorosa said:
I think the millions of victims might want to have a look. Wouldn’t you if you were they?

huffingtonpost.com/sinead-oconnor/an-open-letter-to-the-pop_b_732307.html
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Sure, but even I know of some victims who might not want to see a one-sided documentary that paints The Pope Our Beloved Pontiff as engaging in a criminal cover-up of horrendous sexual and physical abuse of children at the hands of a miniscule amount of clergymen.
Particularly when there is no hard evidence that that happened.
Particulalry when the overwhelming instances of those horrendous abuses occurred way before Benedict XVI ever became pontiff. And the documentary is basically about
Him.
And JP 2 as well.
 
OrdinaryMelkite said:
Sure, but even I know of some victims who might not want to see a one-sided documentary that paints The Pope Our Beloved Pontiff as engaging in a criminal cover-up of horrendous sexual and physical abuse of children at the hands of a miniscule amount of clergymen.
Particularly when there is no hard evidence that that happened.
particulalry when the overwhelming instances of those horrendous abuses occurred way before Benedict XVI ever became pontiff. And the documentary is basically about
Him.
And JP 2 as well.
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boo-hoo. You don’t want to hear about it anymore. The victims are still stuggling with being raped and degraded. It is a life long struggle. No B16 was not the pope. He was the person in charge of the problem at the time it was finally being reported. I would say he has some explaining to do.
I don’t know how CNN will portray him, but I have done a heck of a lot of reading on the subject rather than putting my head in the sand. this problem won’t go away until the truth is totally out. It has been seeping out for the last ten years.
 
Via_Dolorosa said:
boo-hoo. You don’t want to hear about it anymore. The victims are still stuggling with being raped and degraded. It is a life long struggle. No B16 was not the pope. He was the person in charge of the problem at the time it was finally being reported.
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Actually, the CDF did not become “in charge” until 2001 (I believe). Before that, canonically it belonged to the local dioceses, so there was nothing then-Cardinal Ratzinger could have done about it.
 
curlycool89 said:
Actually, the CDF did not become “in charge” until 2001 (I believe). Before that, canonically it belonged to the local dioceses, so there was nothing then-Cardinal Ratzinger could have done about it.
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Wrong.
 
Via_Dolorosa said:
boo-hoo. You don’t want to hear about it anymore. The victims are still stuggling with being raped and degraded. It is a life long struggle. No B16 was not the pope. He was the person in charge of the problem at the time it was finally being reported. I would say he has some explaining to do.
I don’t know how CNN will portray him, but I have done a heck of a lot of reading on the subject rather than putting my head in the sand. this problem won’t go away until the truth is totally out. It has been seeping out for the last ten years.
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You know what? Most of the abuse happened in a time when everyone covered it up. It wasn’t just the Catholic Church. Even when I was growing up in the 90’s, there wasn’t the same stigma that there is now with a child molester or someone who has a “relationship” with a teenager. That stigma has been attached very recently. Should the Church have acted differently? Sure, but that is what was done at the time in most circumstances. Where is the outcry for everyone else? When my mom was in high school in the late '70’s, a teacher got a cheerleader pregnant. They later married, and he still taught at that school when my older sister went there in the '90’s. Where is the outcry from the public in regards to public schools covering things up? What about the Orthodox Jews who have a problem as well. What about Protestant denominations? Why is it only Catholics who are horrible child molesters?
 
psr13 said:
You know what? Most of the abuse happened in a time when everyone covered it up. It wasn’t just the Catholic Church. Even when I was growing up in the 90’s, there wasn’t the same stigma that there is now with a child molester or someone who has a “relationship” with a teenager. That stigma has been attached very recently. Should the Church have acted differently? Sure, but that is what was done at the time in most circumstances. Where is the outcry for everyone else? When my mom was in high school in the late '70’s, a teacher got a cheerleader pregnant. They later married, and he still taught at that school when my older sister went there in the '90’s. Where is the outcry from the public in regards to public schools covering things up? What about the Orthodox Jews who have a problem as well. What about Protestant denominations? Why is it only Catholics who are horrible child molesters?
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And why, I wonder, does ViaDolorosa continue to insist Benedict XVI did nothing about the abuse when he became pontiff?

What does she want the Pope to do that he has not already done?

She claims to have read up on the subject and not “buried her head in the sand,” but from my perspective she definitely HAS engaged in some “head-burying” of the reality of the situation that has happened these past few years. 😊
 
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