I'd like to think they're smart enough to not elect a guy who could hold "office" for 40 years, but I'm guessing it's more about making sure the guy they elect is completely under control and not some hip-shooting cowboy that might go all whacky-crazy and say something like: "Condoms are actually very smart things for people to use when they have sex."
I'm going by the track record of past Popes who have known full well about the problem and have pretended it didn't exist. I see no reason to think this guy will be any different. I hope you're right though, although being right will entirely destroy the church financially, although I think that's already a foregone conclusion.
How do you know the previous popes knew about the Gay Pedophile priests?
How do you know the previous popes knew about the Gay Pedophile priests?
How do you know the previous popes knew about the Gay Pedophile priests?
I thought some pedophiles were gay while some were straight.
How do you know the previous popes knew about the Gay Pedophile priests?
What I think is that you have very little understanding of the purpose, the process, or the point.
Why? Is this your denomination's preference?
Are you saying murder could possibly be good, and charity could be evil?
Of those with a defined sexuality beyond being attracted to young children, > 90 % are straight.
So you are saying the Popes came up through the system never hearing a word about child molesting priests and once in the Vatican were kept in Ivory Towers?
You also think that when USofA Catholic Church fought the charges, hid priests and then declared bankruptcy it did that all WITHOUT Papal Approval?
Are you saying murder could possibly be good, and charity could be evil?