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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Sean O'Conaill

    #19 I read Kevin differently, Jim. In #10 he repeated the distinction I have made in #4 - between Pope Francis believing Bishop Barros to be innocent on the one hand, and insisting he remain in offic

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  • Pope apologises to victims of abuse for words used in defence of Bishop Barros

    January 22 2018
    iggy o'donovan

    I am happy to accept Francis' explanation that when commenting initially he got the terminology wrong and had inflicted pain by appearing to doubt the truthfulness of survivors. Cardinal O'Malley I be

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Kevin Walters

    Jim Egan@19 Thank you Jim for your comment "If innocence until proven guilty is done away with the rule of law is gone and we truly are at the mercy of mob rule, lynch law, and ‘group think’"

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Jim Egan

    Kevin, I have no great desire to get into a ping pong exchange on this issue. If innocence until proven guilty is done away with the rule of law is gone and we truly are at the mercy of mob rule, lync

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Kevin Walters

    Jim Egan @ Thank you Jim for your comment and giving me the opportunity to respond. The appointment to the position of Bishop by Pope Francis of Fr. Barros was an act of confrontation, as it confront

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Jim Egan

    Kevin, Instead of decrying "Pope Francis' dictatorial stance " (from what quarters do we usually hear that language?) maybe you could also consider the dictatorship of the mob who act as judge, jury a

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Kevin Walters

    Padraig McCarthy @ 12 Thank you for your comment Padraig To your point at 2 I did not write “There is fairly substantial evidence, even …etc” it was a quote, as it is clearly shown, t

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  • Pope apologises to victims of abuse for words used in defence of Bishop Barros

    January 22 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    Yes, EVIDENCE, not necessarily PROOF. An apology more in the mode we have come to expect from Francis. Does the similarity between the case of Luis Fernando Figari's Sodalitium Christianae Vitae and

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  • Pope apologises to victims of abuse for words used in defence of Bishop Barros

    January 22 2018
    Pádraig McCarthy

    See also: a longer report: https://cruxnow.com/pope-in-chile-and-peru/2018/01/22/pope-regrets-word-choice-abuse-chile-stands-contested-bishop/ Also: https://www.ncronline.org/news/accountability/franc

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  • Bishop Barros controversy in Chile

    January 20 2018
    Eddie Finnegan

    Paddy@9: "Great man though Francis is, it seems even he, like other good men who contribute to this site, once this issue arises, simply cannot prise the clericalist log from the retina." Ouch! but t

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