But the men of Sodom were wicked and sinners before the LORD exceedingly.
Genesis 13:13
Uhmmm....IS FRANCIS SERIOUS?....He hasn't Learned His Lesson!!!!...This is unbelievable....hiding behind "mercy" so as to reduce "sanctions" against pedophiles ...Genesis 13:13
Maybe francis should read 1 Corinthians 5 (all Scripture inspired by the Holy Spirit) and see if a light goes on in his head over this stuff....
"Pope Francis has quietly reduced sanctions against a handful of pedophile priests, applying his vision of a merciful Church even to its worst offenders in ways that survivors of abuse and the Pope’s own advisers question.
One case has come back to haunt him: An Italian priest who received the Pope’s clemency was later convicted by an Italian criminal court for his sex crimes against children as young as 12. Fr Mauro Inzoli is now facing a second church trial after new
evidence emerged against him, The Associated Press has learned.
The Inzoli case is one of several in which Francis overruled the advice of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) and reduced a sentence that called for the priest to be laicised, two canon lawyers and a Church official told AP."
CatholicHerald
laicize
(ˈleɪɪˌsaɪz) orlaicise
vb
(Ecclesiastical Terms) (tr) to withdraw clerical or ecclesiastical character or status from (an institution, building, etc)
***IF SEXUALLY ABUSING 12 YEAR OLDS DOESN'T GET YOU laicized BY FRANCIS, WHAT DOES???????