UNITED STATES
Wonkette
by Kaili Joy Gray
Feb 09
Sure, maybe the Catholic Church used to have a teeny tiny little problem — that covered the globe and cost a few billion dollars — of covering up the epidemic of clergy raping kids all the time. But that’s all behind us now. The church is officially against that; it has made statements and printed “Don’t Rape Kids, M’kay?” pamphlets and everything.
Plus, ever since Pope Benedict XVI (yeah, the Hitler youth one) retired to spend more time not doing a goddamned thing about it, things have really changed at the Vatican. Pope Francis has indicated that in addition to feeding the hungry and caring for the poor and other weird commie Jesus crap like that, he’s a definitive “no” vote on whether it is OK for the church to cover up all that kid-raping.
And we should see some action on that any century now. From the Don’t Rush Into Anything files:
A commission advising Pope Francis on how to tackle clerical sex abuse of minors has completed its first full meeting at the Vatican. The commission — which has been criticized for its slow start — says it’s now drawing up recommended sanctions against bishops who have covered up cases of abuse.
On the one hand, um, it’s better that the big fat Do Nothing Whatsoever policy previously practiced by the Vatican. On the other hand, sweet Jesus, how long does it really take a 17-person commission of clergy and lay folks, headed by Boston’s Cardinal Sean O’Malley, to meet and decide that the punishment for bishops who have protected child molesters should be ALL THE WORST THINGS?
But, the Catholic Church being the Catholic Church, it has taken this long for the commission to meet, and it’s going to take a while longer to finish jotting up some notes to pass on to the pope, who can then either nod his papal head in agreement or say, “I don’t know, this seems a bit much. Spend a few more years back at the drawing board.”
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