Recently in Britain one of the Cardinals, Keith O’ Brien has been accused of having sexual relations with three other priests, starting back in the early 1980s. This was released the week before the pope resigned, did this help in his decision to resign? In the past eight years that Benedict has been pope there have been many accusations of sexual abuse, the pope’s brother was even accused of committing sexual assault on a young boys choir, and somehow that one just slid by with little to no investigation on the popes brother. These accusations have gotten so bad that it is truly starting to make me angry. It’s the fact that these accusations are almost never followed up on! These people are supposed to be the closest messengers we have to God, so why have there been so much talk of sexual assault on children and with each other? This makes the religion look bad and all of the people who believe in the faith look bad. They are supposed to be some of the best and most religious people on earth so why are they being accused of these horrible things? I don’t think during Pope John Paul II papacy they had this many or any accusations. Is the Vatican really getting that scandalous or is the pope not being able to handle his people and not knowing what kind of people he should be letting become priests and cardinals, especially the ones in the Vatican. Whoever the new Pope is should get the Vatican under control and actually investigate what is going one between other priests and what is going on between priests and the young children that attend, these kinds of accusations should never be made, especially against these people, these guys are the ones that everyone is supposed to trust with their deepest sins, so they better no be being accused of horrible sexual acts. (320)
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