Outsourced Memory and Topical Fulminations for the Money-Got Mechanic Age
Well the Catholic Church is certainly showing just how sincerely contrite it is for its systemic failure to report child molesters and child rapists in its ranks.
Not content to compare the criticism the Church has faced to anti-Semitism and the persecution of the Jews (a claim most eloquently shot out of the water by the [...]
What’s that about an act of contrition only counting of the sinner is genuinely remorseful?
The Irish Times:
In a meeting yesterday morning, Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, one of Pope Benedict’s top aides, denounced a “conspiracy” against the church. Reuters news agency quoted Cardinal Martins saying that he favoured zero tolerance now, but that, “we should not [...]
Remember how the Infallible Ratzo gave this dressing down to the Irish bishops in his recent pastoral letter?
It cannot be denied that some of you and your predecessors failed, at times grievously, to apply the long-established norms of canon law to the crime of child abuse. Serious mistakes were made in responding to [...]
From the same institution that brought you magic biscuit worship as a solution to systemic child abuse by its members.
The Sydney Morning Herald:
Exorcism is no fantasy according to the church, with the Sydney archdiocese last month appointing an as-yet unnamed priest, suitably ”endowed with piety, knowledge, prudence and integrity of life” to [...]
One of the funny things about the Brady scandal – if you can find anything funny in the systematic and systemic cover up of child rape – is watching the Catholic Church fling away the values its professed to hold sacred, leaving it revealed as the rotten feudal hangover that it is.
For as long as [...]
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