Punishment for Pedophile Priests

New Jersey Herald
April 9, 2019

https://www.njherald.com/20190409/punishment-for-pedophile-priests

Editor:

The Roman Catholic Church has been a tremendous force for good in the past and present. The good they have done outweighs the bad. They have a problem with pedophile priests because they are following Church tradition rather than the Bible. They believe "once a priest, always a priest."

The qualifications for church leaders are listed in I Timothy 3:1--13 and Titus 1:5--9.

Guilty pedophile priests should be defrocked and excommunicated. They should be arrested, given a fair trial, and then executed by the government.

Life imprisonment would be acceptable, but any lesser punishment would be showing compassion to the criminal instead of the victim.

What if a guilty pedophile priest repents? He should still be defrocked, but not excommunicated. Repentance will not affect his government trial. He must still pay for his crimes against children.

Dave Salmon

Sparta