Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco need not worry. The mindless faithful to the Catholic Church will continue to trust this corrupt institution no matter how many more children are raped, physically abused and/or otherwise sodomized by its priests. After all, this is what faith is all about isn’t it? Belief without evidence, which can easily be reversed and applied to this situation; non-belief with evidence. Those who still support the Catholic Church just want to get on with it and are basically not really accepting (in their feeble little minds) that all of these accusations are true. Like most religious people, they are like ostriches that bury their heads in the sand. They would rather not know the truth as it makes them doubt, and doubt takes them out of their comfort zone.
What little has come forward in terms of this sex abuse scandal is just the tip of the iceberg. This abuse on children has been on-going in the Church for centuries, it is nothing new. It is probably safe to say that as you read this there is a child somewhere in the world being molested by a Catholic clergyman. With over 400,000 priests worldwide, and the fact that many of these are misfits, the likelihood that a handful of children are abused each day is not far-fetched.
But as long as the ignorant faithful continue to support the church by giving them their hard-earned money all is well at the Vatican. These people can continue living as kings, as they have for nearly a thousand years, at the expense of others. As the late George Carlin said:
“In the bullshit department, a businessman can’t hold a candle to a clergyman. “Cause I gotta tell you the truth folks, when it comes to bullshit, big-time major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims: religion. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the highest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ‘til the end of time! But He loves you. He loves you, and he needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, all-wise, but somehow just can’t handle money! Religions take in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy shit!”
As stated dozens of times before on this Blog, the Catholic Church is one of the most corrupt organizations on the planet. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
ROME – The head of Italy’s bishops’ conference asked families to trust the Catholic Church despite the clerical abuse scandal, insisting Monday that it had never intended to underestimate the problem.
Cardinal Angelo Bagnasco dedicated more than half of his speech to the bishops’ annual general assembly to the scandal, repeating the pope’s recent comments that forgiveness of a priest’s sins can never take the place of justice for his crimes.
Bagnasco’s comments came as more cases are coming to light in the Vatican’s backyard: Just Monday a priest in Savona went on trial for alleged sexual violence against a 12-year-old girl, the ANSA news agency reported.
And last week, a Rome bishop testified in the case of another accused priest that he knew about rumors of abuse two years before the priest was arrested yet didn’t alert police or the Vatican as called for by Vatican norms.
The Vatican’s sex crimes prosecutor, Monsignor Charles Scicluna, has said there was a widespread “culture of silence” about clerical abuse in Italy. That silence may explain both the Rome bishops’ actions and why so few cases have emerged in this overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country.
Bagnasco’s comments appeared designed to at least give the impression that the Italian bishops were confronting the problem. But he offered few details of concrete measures, saying only that Italian bishops had intensified education efforts for seminarians, focusing on prevention and formation efforts for priests. He said victims were the church’s primary concern, yet offered no evidence of any pastoral outreach or protection measures.
“Public opinion, like families, must know that we as the Church will do everything to always merit the trust that generally is given to us, even by non-believers among parents,” Bagnasco said.
He said pedophile priests need justice, treatment — and grace, as well.
“These facts are today fruit of a deeper understanding of the drama of pedophilia, which the Church regardless has at no time ever intended to underestimate,” he said.
