Herr Bischof, the tan suits you and I love the brooch
A really nice touch – it’s not just that Bishop Walter Mixa has now admitted that he used to beat the children in a Bavarian orphanage –
Accusations have also surfaced of financial irregularities at the orphanage’s foundation.
A lawyer hired by the foundation has raised questions about thousands of dollars spent on wine, art, jewelry and even a tanning bed while Bishop Mixa was chairman of the foundation’s board, from 1975 to 1996, while he was a priest in the town of Schrobenhausen.
Isn’t that just typical. The Irish Catholic church sent a lot of the money the government gave it for the care of children in its prisons to Rome while the children slept in the cold and wore rags and ate crap and got next to no schooling. It’s interesting to see that the Bavarian Catholic church apparently used its money-intended-for-child-prisoners on luxury items for itself – at least one supposes it wasn’t hanging the art in the children’s dormitories and giving them pretty bracelets for their birthdays and serving them wine at dinner and letting them use the tanning bed when they were looking a little pallid.
Unclosed emphasis tag there somewhere.
There’s even more to that. Apparently, one of the paintings Mixa bought was a bad forgery which he bought from a friend, for an inflated price (since it’s fake) and with money from the Church.
Also, Mixa said, “Yes, I beat children once or twice, but that was twenty to thirty years ago, when that was normal. Also, I was glad when they finally got rid of that kind of punishment.”
Until someone pointed out that of course, in the 1980s, it was decidedly *not* normal for German school children to be punished physically. The 80s weren’t the fifties.
Mixa is, anyway, an all-around ass. Germany has Mixa, Müller and Meisner for the Catholics and, sadly, Huber for the Protestants as the most prominent church bulldogs. I say sadly because Huber has no M in front. Meisner is the one a famous comedian called “hate preacher” (just like the hateful imams) – Meisner threatened to sue if the comedian didn’t stop calling him that, which led to this moment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYBsh4uJ6JU
The second comedian – and yes, that’s what German political satirists look like – says, “I’ve heard you had some problems with Cardinal Meisner? You aren’t allowed to call him a hate preacher anymore?”
– “correct.”
“You’d have to pay 250,000 Euros if you called him a hate preacher?”
– “up to.”
“Maybe we should all chip in so you can say it again?”
Just in case anyone’s forgotten exactly who Mixa is, he’s the one who made headlines a year ago when he linked atheism with Nazi crimes. You don’t even need to google it, the links come up on B&W if you search for him. A comeuppance thoroughly deserved.
Oh so they do – how clever of me to have him. You probably told me about him, right, Stewart?
It’s great having global informants!
I can’t swear it was me, though I can’t rule it out, either. B&W is a non-negligible resource. You’ve added something almost every day since it began; use a calculator to figure out how many days that is. Anyway, I was pleasantly (but not really) surprised to be reminded that you hadn’t missed Mixa’s silly outburst.
– – but his admission of slapping children after weeks of denials prompted calls for him to quit. ”
Survivors of Goldenbridge had always claimed that if the head honcho of Goldenbridge – at the outset, had come clean about flogging children, they would have accepted her failings and even seen her in a more positive and humbling light. But – as with Mixa – De Nile was not in Egypt when it came to her (and him) and those of her Mercy religious order – who have protected and sided with her to the last.
It never fails to stun me when thinking about these religious people, who gave up their whole earthly lives, to live such principled, scrupulous, spiritual; moral and holy lives – that they are in actuality — so really at odds with the truth and grassroots of their calling.
Mixa also faces allegations of financial misconduct.
Stewart, oh I don’t need a calculator, I’m well aware that almost every day for 7.5 years, adding usually at least 5 news items every day and at least one N&C and averaging well over one article a week…I’m well aware that’s a lot of stuff!
Be reasonable, OB. If senior clergy are not draped in bling how would we know how holy they are?
I do not wish to diminish the outrageous behaviour of so many in the Catholic Church – I am a Catholic, and a theist (I presume that is the correct term – I believe in God). But I just hope that once the Catholic Church has been purged, punished and renewed that you will direct your gaze towards what goes on in the muslim world. You think what you have seen in Christianity is bad – man, you need to probe deeper into the world of religion. The muslims are orders of magnitude worse. And please, I don’t use this to diminish what has happened in my faith. I just want you to shine the same light on other so called religions. But then, fatwas might prevent you from being so brave,eh?
You have got to be kidding. You have got to be kidding. Have you read anything on this site at all? You must have, because I know you’ve commented before.
There are, in fact, one or two items critical of Islam here. Possibly even three or four.
Reminds me of the outraged Catholics after Crackergate who kept on saying PZ wouldn’t dare to annoy the Muslims, completely ignoring the page from the Koran he threw in the trash with the wafer.
Listen, Mr in cheshire, here’s a suggestion – just type “islam” into the search box at the top of the page. You’ll get enough stuff to choke a horse just dating from the last ten days – and the site goes back more than seven years.
You could have just looked at the front page. Or the News page. Or the Articles page. Or Flashback. Or the Books page. You could have done something – as opposed to doing nothing at all other than jumping to an idiotic conclusion.