Okay, this one takes the cake

[kierthos]

Many of us have read the stories about how the Pope, back before he was Pope, stalled at least a couple cases of the Catholic church dealing with paedophiles within their ranks.

Here's another one: A California priest who was convicted of child molestation and asked for his own defrocking remained a priest for five and a half years afterwards.

But remember, this is all petty gossip trying to bring down the church, and such allegations are analogous to anti-Semitism.

Comments

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

and don't forget, it's taken out of context too.

Thank fuck i am not Catholic. I'm too old to be going through the sort of crisis of conscience those poor dupes must be experiencing with all of this.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Because, you know, there is a context, somewhere, somehow, for shuffling paedophile priests from church to church, or not assisting in throwing their asses in prison.

[mithras.livejournal.com]

I'm sure it's in Romans somewhere.

[ed-dirt.livejournal.com]

Actually I think what they did was misinterpret the "Suffer" part of "Suffer the children..."