Juan Barros case: Chile sex abuse letter contradicts Pope over 'cover-up'

[BlackFriar]

Please, non Catholics are moral people too.
You seem to have your own narrative that its all about lobbying if other grave evils like SS relationships have been normalised.

The problem is that normalisation of SS relationsips is not a big deal. You think it is.

The issue rather seems to be you may have very poor tools for truly understanding what makes grave disorders grave if you believe lobbying could legitimate pedarasty.

 

[JanSobieskiIII]

Did I say they weren’t?

 

[JanSobieskiIII]

And once again you seem to think I have some huge issue with SS relationships. I don’t.

Grave evils are pushed into acceptance by society at large at a fairly regular rate, even completely ignoring SS relationships.

I’d argue that you are lacking tools to truly understand the impact media has on the population, because you seem to operate under the delusion that people as a whole are generally free thinkers. They’re not. Media in the United States controls the direction of it’s morality.

 

[fin]

Juan Carlos Cruz was interviewed on EWTN Worls Over. He did send a letter over to the Pope, but the Vatican claimed the victims did not offer any proof, engaging in victim blaming.

 

[fin]

Understood. But a lot in the meToo movement do not have evidence as well, just word of mouth, including incidents that happened decades ago. Granted, a lot of those women probably jumped onto the bandwagon, never having been harassed. Why are those supposed victims believe then, but not those by Barros?

 

[CRM_Brother]

I am not saying that those involved in the case by Barros should not be believed. I am not even saying that Pope Francis doesn’t believe them. I am saying that his statement was specifically directed to evidence which could be used in a canonical or legal trial against Barros. If he had come out aligned with the victims without the ability to back up his stance with canonical or legal action, it would severely damage the trust between the Holy See and the individual Bishops. Most of the laity take for granted the cooperation between the various bishops, the laity and Holy See in the modern era. It is, at times, a fragile balancing act which the modern popes have desperately attempted to maintain. I think the Holy Father was simply trying to impress that any ruling of wrongdoing must be made through the proper channels, either canonically or civilly, and not through a trial by the media.