The long awaited Papal letter to the Irish about their devastating priestly pedophile scandal has finally arrived.
Yes, he apologized but the letter did not contain the words that were expected and I, for one, knew that the Pope and the Vatican would just gloss over the fundamental problem that is the Church itself.
One thing he wrote I know will tick many people off. He implied that Ireland brought this on itself by becoming more secular and abandoning their old-school Catholicism. Here is where an important Irish person (maybe the president?) needs to tell the Pope to eat shit.
The Pope and the Vatican cannot be allowed to make imbecilic statements like that and get away with it. Intelligent people from around the world need to stand up and condemn the Dark Age superstitious mentality that can no longer be tolerated in our day and age.
The Pope went on to blame the Irish Bishops for the whole problem. He did not call for the removal of said bishops or their prosecution by criminal authorities. He did not blame the Vatican or the Church for anything and he made it seem like this was an Irish problem, skipping over the scandal in the U.S. and the recent discoveries of priestly child sexual abuse in his homeland of Germany where he is personally involved together with ongoing investigations in the Netherlands, Austria and Brazil.
He did not announce that from now on, all cases of priestly sex abuse will be turned over to the local police. One has to assume that the cover-ups that have been going on for ages will continue.
In other words, I did not here anything of substance from the Pope. I heard more of the same spin that has been coming out of the Vatican for a long time now. The Church just does not get it; the Vatican is still in denial, unwilling to admit that the Church is the problem and not a lack of prayer and devotion.
Yes, he apologized but the letter did not contain the words that were expected and I, for one, knew that the Pope and the Vatican would just gloss over the fundamental problem that is the Church itself.
One thing he wrote I know will tick many people off. He implied that Ireland brought this on itself by becoming more secular and abandoning their old-school Catholicism. Here is where an important Irish person (maybe the president?) needs to tell the Pope to eat shit.
The Pope and the Vatican cannot be allowed to make imbecilic statements like that and get away with it. Intelligent people from around the world need to stand up and condemn the Dark Age superstitious mentality that can no longer be tolerated in our day and age.
The Pope went on to blame the Irish Bishops for the whole problem. He did not call for the removal of said bishops or their prosecution by criminal authorities. He did not blame the Vatican or the Church for anything and he made it seem like this was an Irish problem, skipping over the scandal in the U.S. and the recent discoveries of priestly child sexual abuse in his homeland of Germany where he is personally involved together with ongoing investigations in the Netherlands, Austria and Brazil.
He did not announce that from now on, all cases of priestly sex abuse will be turned over to the local police. One has to assume that the cover-ups that have been going on for ages will continue.
In other words, I did not here anything of substance from the Pope. I heard more of the same spin that has been coming out of the Vatican for a long time now. The Church just does not get it; the Vatican is still in denial, unwilling to admit that the Church is the problem and not a lack of prayer and devotion.
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