Gnads wrote on Apr 13
th, 2020 at 7:08pm:
cods wrote on Apr 12
th, 2020 at 6:53pm:
Gnads wrote on Apr 12
th, 2020 at 4:39pm:
Yadda wrote on Apr 12
th, 2020 at 12:22pm:
It has been advertised on Sky News today, on WIN, that Pell will appear on The Bolt Report,
this coming Tuesday night.
An interview with Andrew Bolt.
I'm going to watch.
I don't have much respect for the Catholic Church.
But i'm interested in
this particular issue. ......the Pell conviction, on the [solitary] 'evidence', of the accusation of one accuser.
Yadda said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1586218255/25#25 [quote]
There wasn't enough evidence for the jury [the '12 people good and true'], to come to any reasonable and safe decision to convict.
The judge was
a complete goose imo, to allow the jury to proceed to any legal 'determination'.
I'm certainly not going to watch Pell making excuses to his sycophant Bolt.His conviction was squashed it does not mean he's innocent of all misdoings.
Aiding & abetting paedophiles in continuing their criminal sexual abuse of children is also a criminal act IMHO.
an interesting comment gnads...
no offense but you directed me to watch Revelations more than once......
why do you suppose you did that???>>was that to see this case from another point of view....

yet here you are refusing to do the same thing because it wont follow your
dogma I do hope you can see the hypocrisy....
you claim I am supporting him..

because I dont fall into line with your concept....
now it looks like you are doing the same thing only accusing him..
Bolt is a Pell supporter.. maybe he is the only one who will give Pell his moment to speak freely...

where else can he go?..
To give you some idea & look into the background of what has been going on for decades unchecked & swept under the carpet by senior Catholics here & around the globe.
Pells own case of his alleged sexual abuse is a small piece of his time in the Church & there's the other goings on ......
he was in Ballarat when one of the most notorious offenders Gerald Risdale who was convicted between 1993 and 2017 of a large number of child sexual abuse and indecent assault charges [highlight]against 65 children aged as young as four years. [/highlight]
Honestly I can't believe your not outraged & baying for the blood of these supposed protectors of children who were initially shielded by their superiors. [/quote]
he hasnt been tried for those cases though....that is the point...I am only looking at this case the one bought by a faceless nameless persons.......and I thought the trial was flawed.....and it appears 7 appeal judges thought likewise...
I am not protecting him or the Church...its not my place to do that.....but if I believe something is wrong I say so..
and his trial was flawed.....
mate he admits what happened back then 30 years ago was evil....it dont we all see things more clearly in hindsight???.....he did the wrong thing back then he doesnt deny it....protecting the priests and the church what it was all about back then he admits that was wrong.wrong wrong...but nothing can undo it...most of those who lived were dealt with and jailed...others are dead and past punishment.......but why should pell pay the price for all their badness ....
a lot of things were covered up back then.... take a look at the NSW and Vic police force.....god knows what they got away with....but it was the times as much as anything....would you ask one copper to pay the price for all the bad deeds other coppers did?????>..
to claim I am not outraged is stooopid....I cant stand paedophiles and the Royal Commission brought an awful lot out and it wasnt just the Catholic Church either...
why are you not condemning all the other religions that also seems ed to turn a blind eye?....
maybe they are not such tall poppies..
Oh FFS we've been through that case that is the point. It's done.
His exoneration in that case does not apply to letting him off the hook for his complicity in knowing about other abusing priests & knowingly being part of covering up their crimes & shifting them about & in affect allow them to abuse more & more children.
His recent trials & appeals do not clear him of his part in that.
BTW ... I condemn all Institutions & the institutional child sexual abuse that occurred in them. State or Church run.
The recent Melbourne Private School St. Kevins
(catholic) expose for example.
schools, special schools, Orphanages, reform schools,Missions etc.
You will find that many of those had the presence of representatives of & were run by the Catholic Church.