ContraRarian

Oct 10

Pope Benedict = Epic Bent Pedo

Sep 24

Dan Bull - Dear Benny [an open letter to the Pope]

Great rap - thanks Dan!

monstrinho do biscoito @ b3ta.com

Aug 11

Godfellas (via pz)

Jul 16

Fearlesswriter

fearlesswriter:

Then you are not relying on the source you judge. Please read the letter in its entirety.

Friend, I am not going to read “in its entirety” a 20 page letter on Canon Law. How about I stick with the Catholic Herald. It’s reasonable to summarise the new rules issued by the Vatican as placing child abuse in as grave a category of sin as ordinating women priests.

It is a common tactic for people to portray the worst members of the Catholic Church as being representative of the Church as a whole; I “pretend” nothing, but I defend and promote the truth of innocence and actual, proper response to child abuse instead of a bitter war of words which solves nothing in the situation.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m concerned with the leaders of the Catholic Church, who systematically and institutionally covered up for child abuse for decades (at the very, very least) and then when they had a chance to condemn and correct their past behaviour, couldn’t stop themselves from hefting a kick at the idea of women priests in a way that has managed to offend and annoy millions of Catholics, never mind me or anyone else.

Thank you for your clarifications. Appreciated!

My pleasure and thanks for the links and interesting posts :)

Sin

fearlesswriter:

contrararian:

Severity of sin according to the Catholic Church

Can you cite current, official Catholic teachings/laws (Catechism of the Catholic Church, Compendium of the Catholic Church, Code of Canon Law, etc.) to support this “comparison of severity of sin” bar graph?

I edited this post to include canon law, the oldest legal system in the world, and links to aforementioned sources.

Erm, dude, I was kind of relying on every newspaper in the feckin’ world. If you know the rules of the Catholic Church better, please do tell us all.

Canon law, ”the oldest legal system in the world”!?!?

Really you know I studied law and I’ve never heard that one before. Oldest continually functioning, perhaps.

But then I’m not the one trying to pretend that a bunch of dress-wearing “celibate” apologists for child molestation have a direct line to “god”.

Sorry if I missed your point… Good luck with the doctorin’.

Jul 12

Vatican Rules: Ordaining Women Priests a Crime Like Sex Abuse of Children

hedwyg:

New rules the Vatican is expected to issue soon on penalties for priests who sexually abuse children will also put the ordaining of women in the same category of the most serious crimes under church law.

Church sources told Catholic News Service that the new “norms,” as the policies are called, will include the “attempted ordination of women” among the list of most serious crimes, or what are known as “delicta graviora.” …

Word that the Vatican will also use this opportunity to codify the attempted ordination of a woman as among the “delicta graviora” is a surprise, however, and is not likely to please either victims advocates — who have been pushing for much more stringent and universal church policies against abusers — or those who favor a greater role for women in the church.

“Quite frankly, it is an outrage to pair the two, a complete injustice to connect the aspirations of some women among the baptized to ordained ministry with what are some of the worst crimes that can be committed against the least of Christ’s members,” U.S. Catholic editor Bryan Cones wrote at the monthly magazine’s web site in a blast that appears to echo the views of many.

“This decision boggles the mind: The faithful have been justly demanding for nearly a decade clear guidelines for dealing with the sexual abuse of children, along with just punishments for both offenders and bishops who have abetted these crimes. What we have gotten is half of what we have been asking for (still no sanctions for bishops), along with a completely unconnected and unnecessary condemnation of the ordination of women.” …

Undercover Nun weeps for the children of God who have been abused by those in spiritual authority over them.

And Undercover Nun weeps for faithful, committed Christian women everywhere who are denied the ability to exercise their God-given vocations because of the lack of a penis.

This Pope must go… Or the Catholic church is doomed…