Pope Benedict XVI Doesn't Want To Talk About Molestation Comitted By Priests Recently
 

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So why aren't we firing these guys left and right? Where normal child molesters are found out, go to jail and talk about how being a person of authority or a person who society trusts helped them to have sex with young children, priests get found out and... the Pope covers for them?

Is this what's going on?

Gotta know when to hold em and when to fold em, I'd remain silent too if I thought that failing my diplomacy OR bluff check would result in global uproar.

We can't fire them. God hired them.

Actually, yes, a priest CAN be fired, in a manner of speaking. It's just generally not done because of the utter dearth of them and the process is rather complicated.

EDIT: To put it this way, there is nothing in the system capable of managing the kind of mass issues going on right now.

Also, you know, like 99.9999999% of priests don't ever do anything wrong, just like 99.9999999% of all ships and planes passing through the Bermuda Triangle make it just fine. It's just the tiny percentage of the ones that do shit that you always hear about.

Yeah, but when the current Pope turns out to have helped these people stay in positions of power and went out of his way to make sure these things stayed hidden from the public, because he didn't want the church to look bad, I think the actual percentage stops mattering. Pope Sidious, please retire and/or die. Thank you.

Do I hear people questioning the infallibility of the pope? I think I do. Don't you know the guy's infallible? There is clearly some faulty logic in your reasoning that the pope covering up molestation is wrong. Firstly , it's based on the assumption that the pope can do something wrong. That is your first mistake. Secondly.

So as you can see, this is all part of God's plan for his servants.

Amen.

It's all a plot by Benedict to draw out the Rebels.

Once they are out in the open, he will show them the true power of a fully functional Death Basilica!

All joking about the Pope and Palpatine being seperated at birth aside, he seriously does look evil. I mean, damn. How he got Popified, I'll never know.

I'm afraid the Deathstar will be quite opperational when your friends arrive, mwahahaha!

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The obvious answer is that being a diabolical machiavellian schemer isn't quite a disadvantage in the Vatican.