Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Color Me Not Surprised But Still Disgusted

Y'all know how I feel about the Catholic Church. They paint being gay as being the biggest sin, the most disgusting sin, while they have spent decades--and I think it's longer--protecting child rapists, moving them from parish to parish, promoting them, protecting them, hiding them.
And now this.
In a new documentary, a letter from the Vatican is discovered, and it's contents shared: the Vatican--and by Vatican I mean the Pope, and by the Pope I mean co-conspirator--stopped attempts by Irish bishops to defrock abuser priests.
Yes, the Vatican asked that child rapists be protected. the Vatican which paints itself as the protector of children, protected rapists of children.
It all started because, just last month, a High Court order finally allowed the full publication of a previously censored chapter in the Murphy Report on the Dublin Archdiocese. And that report revealed that when bishops made moves to dismiss paedophile priest Tony Walsh, the Vatican instead wanted Walsh sent to a monastery.
The documentary, Unspeakable Crimes, shows how Walsh then went on to abuse another child after the Vatican asked to protect him. The mother of that child, who wishes to keep her name private, points her finger at the Vatican for the abuse of her son.
While the priest was never prosecuted--a sin unto itself--the Irish archbishop, through the Church tribunal, recommended that Walsh be dismissed from the clerical state. But then the Vatican stepped in and overturned the decision of the tribunal, and sent Walsh to a monastery where he raped another child.
But, hey, at least the Church looked good, even if another child's life was destroyed, and, after all, isn't that the important thing?

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1 comment:

  1. How can anyone with a conscience still remain a member of the catholic church?

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