Rising Hegemon
I know as a non-religious type (I'm agnostic because I just don't care) I would be expected to feel some schadenfreude in the troubles of the Catholic Church. But the stories are too disturbing for that.
The ultra-conservative clergy of the Church, epitomized by the current Pope have completely brought it on themselves.
And like Church apologist and professional angry person Bill Donohue, this same Clergyman, Walter Mixa, said all the Church's problems were about the "sexual revolution" (i.e. divorces and "the gay").The child abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church widened yesterday as a leading German bishop personally appointed by Pope Benedict was accused of ritually beating and punching children at a church-run home during the late 1970s and early 1980s.
But actually, as is usually the case, it's about the power:
Of course they were."The children whose parents never visited the home were the ones who were beaten most," said one former resident
[Cross-posted at Firedoglake]
4 comments:
I imagine that the parents who were the most devout, the ones who would never hear a word against The Church were up at the top of the list for the beatings as well.
-muddy
i was pleased to catch the end of south park where jesus asian stared the pope in 1/2 & he was replaced with a rabbit. i may have to watch the whole episode now.
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