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Tyler2012 • 8 years ago

While Francis is blasting corruption in Mexico his lieutenants at the Holy See are allowing convicted clerical sex abusers back into ministry!! What Hypocrisy!!

Church lifts ban of Indian priest convicted of sex assault

NEW DELHI (AP) — The Roman Catholic church in southern India has lifted the suspension of a priest convicted last year of sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in the United States more than a decade ago, a spokesman said Saturday.

The suspension of the Rev. Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul was lifted last month after the bishop of the Ootacamund Diocese in India's Tamil Nadu state consulted with church authorities at the Vatican, said the Rev. Sebastian Selvanathan, a spokesman for the diocese.

Bishop Arulappan Amalraj of Ootacamund had referred Jeyapaul's case to the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the suspension was lifted on the church body's advice, Selvanathan said.
There's more if you read the whole article. Outrageous!

Betty Clermont • 8 years ago

The Los Angeles Times noted: "The hashtag #YoNoQuieroQueVengaElPapa (“I don't want the Pope to come”) has been showing up on Mexican Twitter accounts.Critics of the trip wanted to know: Why won’t Pope Francis be meeting with victims of sexual abuse by clergy? Will the visit draw much-needed attention to the country's problems, or is it just a diversion from poverty and other problems?"

BG60093 • 8 years ago

How many migrants does Mexico have? That's not counting the ones just passing through to the USA.

bkc81 • 8 years ago

Thank God the pope was not accompanied by the infamous criminal Marcial Maciel, L. C., founder of the Legion of Christ (sic) as was a previous pontiff. His death was a blessing for the church. I hope Papa Francisco will meet with some of the victims of Maciel and his Legionaries.

JohnMcCormack • 8 years ago

He refused to have anything to do with it

chrisinva • 8 years ago

Pope Francis is right on target: Mexico's bishops have repeatedly joined the corruptos in their government to blame all Mexico's problems on the United States - and the tens of millions of Mexicans in the United States are indeed in exile, and still consider Mexico their home (which is why they can vote in Mexican elections, at consulates throughout the US, even if they are US citizens as well).

Unfortunately the US government's bipartisan establishment has played along, sending Mexico's government billions in aid (both money and equipment and food) to placate American suppliers and farmers, who in turn profit from the cheap labor supplied by the Mexicans in exile here.

And unfortunately so does the US Church establishment, receiving tens of millions for its NGO's caring for Latino "refugees." Our bishops must think that the Hispanic exiles will fill the pews emptied by thirty million American Catholics in the past forty years.

JohnMcCormack • 8 years ago

Typical Pope Francis Hypocrisy: “we seek the path of privileges or benefits for a few to the detriment of the good of all,”

And Pope Francis lives in his $14 billion Vatican, and Cardinal Dolan lives in his $30 million mansion, and Cardinal Weurl lives in his $43 million home, and….