Pope Forgives Molested Children

[daithimac]

You know, Liam, I know some Irish Catholics who feel that's exactly what they've been doing, for a long time... when they gave money to the Church.

Since it seems to be in vogue

+1

[Dr Pat]

+1

Thank you.

[cyberianpan]

I think it's ok to crack jokes about just about anything, don't you?

I found the Onion's effort here quite funny. Didn't you?

It's not about the subject matter. It's about the quality of the joke.

This one was a good one, imo.

Indeed - and here it is again as "Dr" Pat, the ultra wight ring,religious anti-immigrant extremist is running interference again

I'm not sure, whilst this is a progressive step a simple blanket absolution of all these naughty children may not be the best way forward.

Pope Forgives Molested Children

VATICAN CITY—Calling forgiveness "one of the highest virtues taught to us by Jesus," Pope Benedict issued a papal decree Saturday absolving priest-molested children of all sin.

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"As Jesus said, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone,'" the pope continued. "We must send a clear message to these hundreds—perhaps thousands—of children whose sinful ways have tempted so many of the church's servants into lustful violation of their holy vows of celibacy. The church forgives them for their transgressions and looks upon them not with intolerance, but compassion."
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Margaret Leahy, 39, a Somerville, MA, homemaker and mother of one of the alleged seducers, expressed relief over the pope's announcement.

"For months, I feared that my boy—and the dozens of others who committed sinful acts with Father Halloran before he was moved to the safety of another parish to protect him from further temptation at their pre-pubescent hands—was going to Hell for what he'd done,"...
However, not everyone within the Catholic church is so supportive of the pope's actions.

"What kind of a message is the pope sending today's children? That it's okay to seduce priests?" said one concerned Baltimore priest who asked to remain anonymous due to a pending court case.

cYp

[Almanac]

Cyberianpan, you have stated that you consider sexual interactions to be just another form of physical interaction and that they lack any intrinsic significance in themselves.

So why are you outraged?

For you sexual abuse must be no more significant than plain physical abuse or corporal punishment, which after all was legal up to the eighties.

[cyberianpan]

Cyberianpan, you have stated that you consider sexual interactions to be just another form of physical interaction and that they lack any intrinsic significance in themselves.

So why are you outraged?

For you sexual abuse must be no more significant than plain physical abuse or corporal punishment, which after all was legal up to the eighties.

I personally see little difference in sexual abuse and other forms of physical abuse, both are very wrong imo, however society (wrongly) imo attaches a higher stigma to sexual abuse - thus that is an aggravating factor.

Also yes the coverup and justifications, rather than the abuse, annoy me more. The denial of justice allowed a vastly greater quantum of abuse than would otherwise have happened.

cYp

[Oppenheimer]

OP is in poor taste, its a US news site and we all know the quality of US news media. Here is one closer to home so a little more tasteful.... The Daily Mash - LOGIC ABUSE RIFE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

[Mitsui2]

The Daily Mash - LOGIC ABUSE RIFE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS

The report states: "Typically the children would be woken up at 7am by one of the teachers screaming about how fossils were nothing more than Satan's place mats.

The report also revealed how the maltreatment of logic reached the highest echelons of the Church, with the Pope himself teaching children they would roast in the 'Bad Fire' if they touched themselves in the 'whore-equipment'.

One victim, who refused to be named, said: "Father Mackie called me into his office, sat me on his knee and forced me to believe in the indivisible nature of the Trinity against my will.

"I kept telling him that the idea of a patriarchal creator was inherently self- contradictory and with no basis in rational thought, but he wouldn't stop.... he wouldn't stop."

The report has proposed a series of reforms including Ireland finally dragging itself out of the 14th century...

But seriously....

[Fantasia]

Satire - are you serious? Humour - it is not in the least funny.

I take it you are a Doctor of Divinity, Pat.

[Dr Pat]

Indeed - and here it is again as "Dr" Pat, the ultra wight ring,religious anti-immigrant extremist is running interference again

cYp

My, how you quick you are to label people so as to demean them. "Ultra right wing, religious, and anti-immigrant" plus an "extremist" supposedly "running interference". Anything else? I must really be a bete noire because I do not subscribe to your view that your op is the height of "satire" and join you and likeminded posters in the general hilarity but instead find it tasteless and insensitive to victims of clerical abuse.

Methinks, judging by this response you are quite sensitive and rather thin-skinned yourself. I stand by my posts on this.

[Dr Pat]

I take it you are a Doctor of Divinity, Pat.

And you are a Master of Fantasy, no doubt!