originally posted in:Secular Sevens
I don't understand why he needed to be Pope to speak out against this?
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As leader of the entire Catholic Church, he's the one with the most amount of power.
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I understand that. But why did he have to wait til he became Pope? Why didn't be speak out more widely about it before? Clearly he was well-respected if he eventually became Pope. It's not like Bishops have no word in what goes on.
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I'm sure he was for adopting a harsher stance against child abuse before becoming Pope.
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We can guess that he changed his mind. I suppose.