Catholic Bosses Still Covering Up Rampant Pedophilia
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Pedophilia is a culture within the Catholic church. Priests have been molesting young, unsuspecting boys for centuries, and for centuries the Catholic hierarchy has been covering it up.
The “all-boys” club that makes up the rank and file clergy of the Church of Rome is an “all welcome” invitation to pedophiles and other perverts. Not only do they get a free education, a life time job with all expenses paid, they get to satisfy their twisted passions with relative impunity.
Sexual attacks on little boys is so common in the church it is almost an accepted part of the religious culture, with jokes circulating about the commonality of it.
The Archdiocese of Los Angeles went to great lengths to cover up decades of child abuse among its priests, and details are emerging in extensive confidential records. Despite Cardinal Roger Mahony’s private concerns about the problem, he avoided making it public and sometimes took years to defrock priests involved. In a statement yesterday, Mahony apologized, saying he prays regularly for the victims. Some 20 years earlier, he was offering moral support to the accused, the AP notes.
Alleged abusers were directed to get treatment out of state, where their therapists weren’t required to tell police about the offenses, an archdiocese lawyer says. In one case, a molesting priest warned the children of illegal immigrants to stay silent or he’d have them deported; in another, church leadership didn’t report an abuser for days, giving him time to get out of the country, according to court documents. The files are part of a lawsuit being settled for $660 million; the settlement will publicize some 30,000 pages of similar documents.
One has to wonder when this will all end, or if it ever will. Getting rid of the antiquated and foolish celibacy rule might do much to stop the incidents of pedophilia, but the church doing that is less likely than the U.S. Government repealing the Second Amendment. Both are mired in ancient nonsense that has no relevance to our world today.
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Religion is the scourge of society.
Succinctly put. I expound a bit on that.
Most of the problems of the world have been caused by religion. Think of the crusades, the inquisition, the dark ages, the witch burnings, the restrictions on learning, free speech, instilling guilt and shame into children, and the wars fought in the name of religion.
More recently, think of family planning clinic bombings, oppression of gays and non-believers, murders of doctors and homosexuals, imposition of religious beliefs by force of law, and illegal use of public funds to promote particular religions.
Mankind will never truly be free until the black yoke of religion is lifted by the clear light of truth and rational thinking.
Men abused, men covered up.
Allowing women to have equal say in church affairs would get rid of this problem pronto.
Interesting thought. How will it solve the problem? It might drive it a little more under cover, but how it will get rid of it, I don’t see.
My brother was a priest until he decided that the whole thing was a huge scam and decided to quit. He’s now a counselor for the local prison. He says that’s far more rewarding and he never mentions God when talking to inmates.
The whole premise of life as a priest flies in the face of nature. Celibacy? Self-denial? Not allowed to have personal wealth? Just wrong.
Priests are not required to pledge to poverty unless they are members of a cloistered order – i.e. monks. Nuns must also vow to penury, and both groups are required to forfeit any or all possessions at the demand, request or whim of a superior.
I had an uncle who was a Catholic priest. His living quarters and all expenses were provided by his parish, while the archdiocese paid his salary, almost 100% of which was disposable income. He had a new car, also provided by the parish, every two years – usually a Lincoln or Cadillac. He vacationed every year, with trips to places like Tahiti, Japan and Europe (if a European trip included a visit at the Vatican, the church frequently picked up the tab). Of course all of this was tax-exempt, both income and purchases. When he got together with his fellow priests, they played poker with twenties and fifties on the table instead of nickels and dimes.
When he retired, he moved in with his three sisters, my maiden aunts, where he again paid no rent and was waited on hand and foot by three old maids who thought he was their ticket to heaven. His only contribution to the household was the use of his tax-exempt status. He died of liver cancer aggravated by a lifetime of overindulging in church wine, and served as a partial inspiration for my being an ex-Catholic.
Not long ago, I received a letter asking me, as the relative of a dead priest, to donate to a fund to finance prayer services for the souls of deceased clergy. I returned the envelope with a letter of my own, in which I made the following points:
If he was a priest, a servant of the deity presumably with an inside edge for getting to heaven, why should he need to be prayed for?
If he was in need of prayers, I’d expect a personal message, not from the church, but from the not-so-dear departed himself, special delivery from the Great Beyond.
If I wanted to make an offering for the soul of my uncle, couldn’t I do just as much by purchasing a mass at a local parish? I didn’t even like the man, and have no concern for the welfare of his nonexistent soul.
I closed by saying that instead of donating to help dead priests, I would donate to a fund to help the living victims of perverts wearing vestments.
Wow. Extraordinary comment. Thanks for sharing Anonymous. Wanna write for us?
The Church of Rome is built on a lie, and therefore the fruit of this tree was long ago poisoned.
It sounds more like access to molesting children is regarded more as a job benefit than a crime.
Exactly my point James. Hard to believe sometimes.