After receiving a complaint from a visitor (e.g. about Cardinal Sodano's comments referring to "petty gossip"), we wanted to clarify our thoughts regarding the abuse scandals in the Church. To put it succinctly, our position is as follows...
We think those who are guilty of abusing children have no business being priests - they should be defrocked and subjected to appropriate criminal penalties.
Please note that this page covers 'newsworthy items'. We do NOT necessarily agree with everything that is reported here - if we reported only items we agreed with, we couldn't rightly call this a news page. The fact that we report something here only means we think it is newsworthy - not that we necessarily agree with it.
"News of any event, even if nothing but the bare fact is related, has yet an aspect of its own which concerns morality in some way. 'This aspect, affecting human morals, must never be neglected; for news of any kind provokes a mental judgment and influences the will. The news-reader who worthily fulfils his task, should crush no one by his words, but try rather to understand and explain as best he can, the disasters reported and the crimes committed. To explain is not necessarily to excuse; but it is to suggest the beginning of a remedy, and consequently, to perform a task at once positive and constructive'." (Pope Pius XII, "Miranda Prorsus", 1957)
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