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| A Few Novel Excuses for Priestly Child Abuse By PZ Myers Pharyngula February 17, 2010 http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/02/a_few_novel_excuses_for_priest.php The Catholic Church is getting desperate. All this evidence is turning up of priests physically and sexually abusing young people in their care, and of the church administration being more concerned with protecting pedophile priests and the reputation of their organization than protecting children, so someone has to be blamed. How about the damn dirty hippies and those pesky reporters? "The so-called sexual revolution, in which some especially progressive moral critics supported the legalisation of sexual contact between adults and children, is certainly not innocent," he said, adding that the media was also at fault.That was the excuse of a Catholic bishop to the ongoing discovery of a history of child abuse in Germany. The similar pattern of child abuse in Ireland prompted the Pope to dig up some excuses…in this case, because priests weren't devout enough. The pontiff also noted "the more general crisis of faith affecting the Church," the statement said, adding Pope Benedict "also pointed to the more general crisis of faith affecting the Church and he linked that to the lack of respect for the human person and how the weakening of faith has been a significant contributing factor in the phenomenon of the sexual abuse of minors".Who knew the whole Catholic church was infested with free-lovin' hippies and godless agnostics and atheists? The way he'll fix the problem is by calling for "a deeper theological reflection" on child buggery. I really don't think it takes much deep thought to see that causing harm to children trusted to your care is a bad idea. By the way, in an interesting side issue, the papal nuncio was asked to appear before an Irish committee on foreign affairs to talk about this problem. He haughtily replied that it was "not the practice of the Holy See that Apostolic Nuncios appear before Parliamentary Commissions", which is rather interesting. The Vatican has a rather interesting status as a sovereign, independent state with membership in the UN, and pretends to be a participating nation in the world community of states. But apparently they also feel that they are not bound by secular obligations. |
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