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…