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trotsky

(49,533 posts)

3. Give me a fucking break.

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Feb 18, 2019, 11:47 AM

Feb 2019

...He will no longer be permitted to act as a cleric, and is forbidden to celebrate the sacraments except to grant absolution for sins to a person close to death. Only excommunication is a more severe punishment.

He's 88 years old. NEITHER of these is a punishment of any kind.

He deserves prison. This is a joke.

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Pope defrocks ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick over abuse claims [View all] Eugene Feb 2019 OP

So said the WAPO alert on my cell phone--at 3 o'clock this morning. hlthe2b Feb 2019 #1

Looks like he was defrocked for making the pope look bad Lordquinton Feb 2019 #2

Give me a fucking break. trotsky Feb 2019 #3