Diddums
Really. Really. There is a limit.
After meeting Ireland’s most senior Catholic clerics in Rome, Pope Benedict said he shared the outrage, betrayal and shame felt by so many of the faithful in the country.
Don’t insult us. Don’t insult everyone over the age of two. Don’t insult the victims of your horrible tyrannical authoritarian unaccountable church. Don’t talk self-serving self-flattering nonsense. Don’t pretend you’re all shocked and upset and distraught now when this crap has been going on for decades upon decades! Don’t pretend you’ve only just found out about it. Come on, Ben – you know we know that’s ridiculous – so don’t insult us.
The Vatican said ‘the Holy Father was deeply disturbed and distressed.’ Well poor baby, but why was he not deeply disturbed and distressed before? Why did he not give a rat’s ass while the report was in progress and the Vatican ignored all its questions? To say nothing of while the abuse and the cover-up of the abuse and the perpetuation of the abuse via refusal to do anything about it, were going on? Why is his distress so god damn late? Why is he bothering to do a Bernie Madoff, pretending to be all sorry and repentant after it is no longer possible to conceal and deny and hide?
”He wishes once more to express his profound regret at the actions of some members of the clergy who have betrayed their solemn promises to God, as well as the trust placed in them by the victims and their families, and by society at large.” The Vatican said the Holy Father shared the outrage, betrayal and shame felt by so many of the faithful in Ireland, and that he was united with them in prayer at this difficult time in the life of the Church.
No he doesn’t! [jumps up and down in fury until the windows rattle] He doesn’t, he doesn’t, he doesn’t! It’s all soothing oil, it’s all sleazy self-exculpation. He does not share the outrage, betrayal and shame felt by so many of the faithful in Ireland because he and his Vatican are what the outrage, betrayal and shame are all about. He doesn’t get to make himself another subject; he’s the object. He’s not one of the victims, he’s the top perpetrator. He has an unbelievable gall claiming to feel all this sorrowful emotion when he is the head of an institution that did everything it could to protect itself and did nothing to protect children who were assaulted by its priests. He shouldn’t be talking eyewash about his emotions, he should be saying the Vatican behaved like a criminal organization. He should resign. They should all resign. They should fold up their tents and go do something useful.
And knock off the ‘Holy Father’ crap, too. With a father like that, who needs enemies?
“and plans to write a letter to the Catholics of Ireland.”
Aye, and the letter will undoubtedly be read out by the clergy before Christmas, and immediately afterwards, it will be back to Xmas church business as per usual. It will not allow child abuse of children by its members to take precedence.
You can bet your bottom dollar that the letter from the Vatican will be put in such a way that it will have Irish Roman Catholics’ eating out of its hands, before you can say: Father Xmas.
“The Vatican said ‘the Holy Father was deeply disturbed and distressed.”
Pull the other one!
… it has bells on it!
… CHIMING everywhere!
Okay, I’ll bet my bottom dollar, because I don’t believe it. I can’t believe it.
If Joey goes to Dublin I doubt he’ll have a good experience.
I love it when you get mad OB – (tears hair and rends garments to keep the rest of you company).
The Australian Liberal Party (current opposition and alternative government of this country) has just elected as leader a Catholic extremist and all-round nasty piece of work – Tony Abbott. “Faith” is intruding into Australian politics in a manner not seen for decades, and both Anglican and Catholic prelates are rabid conservatives.
This I think has something to do with the general collapse of the “left/progressive” spectrum into half baked libertarianism, and with a whole generation or two grown up without the bitter scourge of “faith” around it’s shoulders the public now has too rosy a view of the churches and their supposed “values”. We who were raised with the Church of Rome (for one) know better.
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Dang! Dennis is onto us… and he has time on his hands.
The catholic church here in Maine spends most of its time and money to engage in homophobic ad campaigns
http://achinhead.blogspot.com/
Seeing that spam made me think: how would I feel if I were a spammer? And I realized, I’d feel like a moron for messing people around like that. And imagine having so little to do.
(It’s also why I don’t put my email address in B&W, there are too many nutters out there!)
A curious thing about the Yes-Hole (Holy See) that I came across by chance.
It has the highest wine consumption per capita in the whole world. This may explain a few things!
Source:
http://www.wineinstitute.org/files/PerCapitaWineConsumptionCountries.pdf
(Of course the real explanation is likely to be that it’s communion wine for pilgrims.)
It is a well known that many priests’ drink problems are further exacerbated by their daily ritual of wine consumption; during which time, when plain wine is hoisted up on high in chalices’ by them, and suddenly turned into God’s precious blood.
Sounds really ludicrous!
The grape growers have every good reason to worship God – as s/he surely gives them a good living.