Go here to read about him in 2015. I am beginning to think that being an alleged sexual predator is a job requirement in today’s Vatican. Go here to read the story. The Catholic laity understand that not all clergy are saints, but is it too much to ask that they not be worse sinners than almost all of us are?
Remember Father Rosica?
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
He (PF) has an uncanny knack of picking abusers.
You can almost tell people to stay away from his men – to be safe
As a lawyer you probably got a kick out of his defense: “Rosica asked the court to dismiss the case against him, arguing that “this matter is governed by the Codes of Canon Law,” and should be adjudicated in a canonical context.”
Back to the church courts and the worst abuses of the pre-Reformation church!
Bob – can you explain what you are referring to in pre Reformation Church? If you are referring to the Inquisition may I humbly suggest you read William Thomas Walsh’s Characters of Inquisition. It will set the record straight on much of the misinformation that is spread about the Church.
I am referring to the jurisdiction of courts of the church over offences committed by clergy and religious (and to some extent over laymen with respect to alleged offenses against clergy), to the exclusion of the civil courts. This long predates the Inquisition and is entirely different. Example: the Hunne case in 1514; you need to read up on your ecclesiastical history.