Friday, July 22, 2011

Rigali Retires: Protecting Child Rapists Is Hard

Cardinal Justin Rigali, the leader of the Philadelphia Roman Catholic archdiocese, which has been under fire, and under the microscope during a continuing scandal over sexual misconduct by priests--which is a polite way of calling them child rapists--has decided to retire.

Protecting and transferring pedophiles is hard work and he's done tuckered out.

See, Rigali's archdiocese, which is the sixth largest in the United States, home to some 1.5 million Catholics, has been accused of concealing the sexual abuse, molestation and rape, of children, in order to avoid a costly scandal.

The key word there is costly. Not the cost of a child's childhood, not the cost of a child's dignity, or trust or faith, but cost as in money that the church would have had to pay out.

They aren't about children, they're about money. The Pope needs more red Prada slip-ons.

Rigali, archbishop in Philadelphia since 2003, has been struggling to contain the pedophilia scandal in the aftermath of a grand jury report issued at the beginning of this year, after which three priests, a monsignor and a church teacher were indicted as a result of the report.

The grand jury report concluded: "We would have assumed, by the year 2011, after all the revelations both here and around the world, that the church would not risk its youth by leaving them in the presence of priests subject to substantial evidence of abuse. That is not the case." The grand jury found 37 such priests who have been kept in assignments that exposed them to children.


Thirty-seven abusers, molesters and rapists kept in their jobs, working with children so the Catholic Church could avoid a "costly scandal". I guess it doesn't matter to Rigali and the Catholic Church and the Pope how much this scandal has cost the children.

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2 comments:

  1. That's just Piety in the Sky,
    To think that these men actually care about the people that they are supposably serving.

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  2. Unfortunately, the Church always thinks that they can "pray away" those urges. If they slap a priest's hands and move him (notice how here, the "/her" isn't even necessary to be equitable, which is another joke for another day!) to another parish where he'll be able to resist Satan's grasp until the next deliciously young boy knocks on the door! And then, it's back on the merry-go-round, and off to another unsuspecting parish.
    I wonder if that's why the Church is against abortion. They want to keep the supply of young boys available for their priests!
    I shouldn't have said that. That was nasty! Sorry, I had my "Ms Thang" in high gear and just cot carried away.

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