The Pope and his Naughty Priests

Once again the Catholic Church is embroiled in scandal, this time across Europe, just as I predicted a few years ago when things broke loose on this side of the pond.

“I bet this is nothing compared to what's going on in Ireland.  It’s a Catholic country. Can you imagine what those sickoes are doing over there?”

Jeez, I had completely forgotten all about Germany, Belgium, Italy, and everywhere else.

To date 500,000 victims have come forward complaining of sexual abuse from church officials.  That’s a half a million people, folks, making the problem huge, and making the Catholic Church the largest pedophiliac organization known in the world today.

But then I don't know any other.  Do you?

Pope Benedict’s originally from Germany, and Munich’s in an uproar, not only because of the wide spread abuse—it’s everywhere—but because the then Cardinal Ratziner covered up for one of the child rapists.  To avoid any breath of embarrassment, Ratzinger allowed the criminal to flee behind his parish walls and enter into “therapy.” 

A few years later the pig was somehow deemed reformed and was sent to another church where he initiated his hideous acts upon another group of kids.

Ironic isn’t it that the cardinal later served as the pope’s chief investigator for the next 23 years…
Guess the Holy See suffered a severe case of glaucoma.

So what's the church doing about these seemingly endless crimes?

Instead of fixing the source of the problem, they’re fixated on the aftermath.

I agree with zero tolerance—fire the bastards and settle with the victims, but why don’t they get rid of the dogs at the onset?

How come they keep recruiting the same inexperienced men, many of whom have no idea which sex they prefer.  These half formed nut cases are suddenly inducted into a strictly disciplined testosterone-only culture of heavy studying, laborious duties, devotion, but no sex.

Nada.  Not a word or even a message.

And this oasis of denial transfers into a whole lot of trouble for hundreds of thousands of innocent kids.

How about allowing priests to marry while also bringing women into the priesthood?  It works for every other religion, and Catholics are starved for new blood.

But that means change, and change is abhorred behind those thick Catholic walls and within those heavy guarded corridors.

Take Galileo (picture above left), for instance.

He got in a fight with the church around 1610 because he agreed with Copernicus that the sun was the center of the universe and not the earth.

Well the church wasn’t having any of that heretical nonsense and excommunicated the scientist, the worst possible punishment it could ever exact on a man.

Galileo died in disgrace, until the church finally forgave him.

In 1992 to be exact.

Only 382 years later, the church “vindicated” Galileo’s soul.

Turns out the guy was right after all!

It’s just that the pope and his buddies got a little backlogged with paperwork—about 400 years behind.

But they corrected it, so there’s hope for the future—as long as we’re shooting for 2392.

Our ancestors, bless them, will be singing halleluiah.