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Post by geode on Aug 23, 2019 10:13:47 GMT
Neither you nor I have the right to tell the Catholic Church what to do with their own members. As I have already posted I think they are going through the motions of a process where they think they are protecting the rights of their own. If Pell had been a Mormon leader he would not only have been removed from his position upon conviction in a civil court, he would have been automatically excommunicated by a church court. Some innocent people have been thrown out of the church this way. I think the Catholics are superior to the Mormons in this regard. Pell should be given what amounts to better ''due process" and not just suffer religious ramificationd by them just accepting civil authority being correct when it comes to conducting internal church affairs.Are you serious? He is a convicted criminal!!! FFS!!!! Of course I am serious. If you actually read all that I wrote you seem to have not understood what I have been saying. Why do you continue to not understand what I and others have posted about church courts? You keep attempting to make them equivalent to civil courts, when they are not. My guess is that you lack the knowledge that comes either through academic study or actual experience with a church organization. You seem to be mired in the 12th Century when there was a real debate in England over jurisdiction to try criminal offences by clerics. Henry II and Becket are long gone, and this is no longer a debate.
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