UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
The double standard applied worldwide to prominent Catholic leaders and to prominent Jewish rabbis is difficult to explain without noting their different positions of local power and wealth. For example, less than 1% of Australians are Jewish, while an estimated quarter of Australians are Catholic. Another prominent rabbi has resigned after testifying about child abuse, this time Australia’s most senior rabbi, who has stepped down just days after he admitted, to the Royal Commission (RC) investigating institutional child abuse, to sending text messages about intimidating and vilifying victims of child sexual abuse. In contrast, Cardinal George Pell, found by the RC to have done no less at least, if not more, is promoted by Pope Francis and celebrated by the pope’s media shills. The pope himself will be feted, as next year’s US presidential election already looms on politicians’ and plutocrats’ horizons, in a matter of months by the powerful US Congress and likely the UN as well. Please see “Australia’s top rabbi resigns after revelations at royal commission” here,
and my “Cardinal Up/ Rabbi Down–Catholics / Jews On Abuse” here,
And if mixed messages on child abuse and other serious scandals can lead to resignations, please note some of the latest Papal Wizard’s misleading meanderings down the Yellow Brick Road (in bold italics):
Don’t breed like rabbits, just don’t use the Pill or, God forbid, plastic surgery.
It is selfish not to have children, and more are surely better.
Help the poor, but honor, like he (the pope) seems to do, the crony capitalist billionaires from Wall Street, Big Oil and Big Media who help keep the poor, well poor, and the Catholic Church’s leaders rich.
Protect children, but don’t report priest child abuse to the police unless legally obligated to do so, unless you are a bishop like Finn, then you do not even have to obey the law, or a cardinal like Pell, then you can almost crush victims of priest child sex abuse.
Say loudly that bishops should be held accountable, then study how to do so forever.
Slap your kids, but do so respectfully.
Protect women, but keep them barefoot & pregnant and oppose treaties that actually seek to protect women.
Be nice to abuse survivors, but go bankrupt to avoid compensating them justly, or if you are in a hierarchical position like Pell was, then grind the victims mercilessly into unconditional surrender.
Don’t judge gay folks, just ostracize them from Catholic Church institutions, as Archbishop Cordileone is now doing in San Francisco, as he prepares to attend Francis’ “womenless” and absurd Final Family Synod in less than eight months.
Jesus was Jewish rabbi (teacher}, not a Catholic pope (monarch). He said child abuse was a serious evil that should be punished severely. After Roman Emperor Constantine and his Fourth Century successors began the transformation of the Catholic Church into a “top down absolute monarchy”, too many popes, up to and including Pope Francis, lost their way on following Jesus’ Jewish mandate to protect children.
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