Church Sex Abuse

Shit.

''Last century we tried godlessness on a grand scale and the effects were devastating,'' [Archbishop Anthony Fisher] said.

''Nazism, Stalinism, Pol-Pottery, mass murder and broken relationships: all promoted by state-imposed atheism or culture-insinuated secularism.''

First of all,

“I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator. By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord's work. We were convinced that the people needs and requires this faith. We have therefore undertaken the fight against the atheistic movement, and that not merely with a few theoretical declarations: we have stamped it out.”
-Adolf Hitler

And second, it doesn't matter what religion these people were/weren't. Countless political factors were responsible for what these men did, and dumbing it down into "they just hated god" makes us forget why these atrocities actually happened, and increases the risk of us repeating them. Why does he assume these men did these things in the name of atheism? Nobody thinks Catholic priests have been raping children in the name of Jesus.

Before World Youth Day in Sydney in 2008, Bishop Fisher was castigated for remarks he made about the case of a priest who raped two girls. He told a news conference he wished people would focus on the positivity of World Youth Day ''rather than dwelling crankily, as a few people are doing, on old wounds''.

poor catholic church, why is everybody picking on them :*(

I like how these fucktards are doing the exact opposite of what they should be doing, in regards to the sexual abuse scandal. Is the media being responsible by reporting what has happened? Nope. Actually, the media is literally Satan.

Noted Italian exorcist Father Gabriele Amorth, commented this week that the recent defamatory reporting on Pope Benedict XVI, especially by the New York Times, was “prompted by the devil.”

Speaking to News Mediaset in Italy, the 85-year-old exorcist noted that the devil is behind “the recent attacks on Pope Benedict XVI regarding some pedophilia cases.”

“There is no doubt about it. Because he is a marvelous Pope and worthy successor to John Paul II, it is clear that the devil wants to ‘grab hold’ of him.”

And of course, all this criticism is just like anti-semitism.

Pope Benedict XVI's personal preacher is likening accusations against the pope and the church in the sex abuse scandal to "collective violence" suffered by the Jews.

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The “coincidence” that Passover falls in the same week as Easter celebrations, said Cantalamessa, a Franciscan who offers reflections at Vatican Easter and Advent services, prompted him to think about Jews.

“They know from experience what it means to be victims of collective violence and also because of this they are quick to recognize the recurring symptoms,” the preacher said.

Poor Vatican :*(

Thank God the Pope has immunity in all this, because the Pope says so. It's good to see the Pope looking out for the Pope for a change. If he had to answer questions about anything, people might think he did something wrong! Continuing the deafening silence that led to this in the first place is the way to go.

Pope Benedict, accused by victims' lawyers of being ultimately responsible for an alleged cover-up of sexual abuse of children by priests, cannot be called to testify at any trial because he has immunity as a head of state, a top Vatican legal official said on Thursday.

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"The pope is certainly a head of state, who has the same juridical status as all heads of state," he said, arguing he therefore had immunity from foreign courts.
Lawyers representing victims of sexual abuse by priests in several cases in the United States have said they would want the pope to testify in an attempt to try to prove the Vatican was negligent.

But the pope is protected by diplomatic immunity because more than 170 countries, including the United States, have diplomatic relations with the Vatican. They recognize it as a sovereign state and the pope as its sovereign head.

This will be extremely difficult to read, but every person should be required to do so just to get an idea of how horrifyingly evil these people are. A man who was brutally raped as a child, repeatedly over a period of six months, speaks out about what happened to him.

After it was done, the priest made the Sign of the Cross and recited a blessing of forgiveness for the student—as if it was the child who was guilty of sin.