Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
Child abuse is illegal as hell.

I still want the Pope to state that child abuse gives you a one-way ticket to hell(or something along those lines).
The Holy Father's immediate predecessor made such a statement.

The Church is, however, a church founded upon the idea of redemption. The only one-way ticket is one you sell to yourself be rejecting repentance.

I do admit that I am personally in favor of priests who abuse others this way being ordered to a life of monastic asceticism and prayer -- redemption is best, but it can only atone for and not obviate a crime of this kind.