The catholic church is a pimp
The pope says oh yes it’s true that priests have been abusing nuns since always, we know all about it, we make sure to keep the nuns powerless so that they won’t kill us, would you like a biscuit?
Nuns have suffered and are still suffering sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests and bishops, and have even been held as sexual slaves, Pope Francis confirmed on Tuesday. The abuse was so severe in one case that an entire congregation of nuns was dissolved by former Pope Benedict.
The scope of the abuse of nuns by clergy members first came to light with the publication at the beginning of February of the monthly Vatican magazine “Women Church World.” The edition included Francis’ own take on the scandal — long known about by the Vatican but virtually never discussed — in which he blamed the unchecked power wielded by priests and higher clergy across the Catholic Church for such crimes.
Why yes, duh: the fact that the priesthood adamantly excludes women of course makes the priests feel both entitled and free to abuse nuns in any old way they feel like, so how about doing something about it, you galactic shit? Open the priesthood to women or get out of the church, either one, but don’t stay in it with the grotesque inequality intact and shrug your shoulders at the abuse. The two are inextricably entwined.
A journalist asked the pope if he was doing anything about it and he said blah blah blah process blah blah action needed blah.
“It’s a path that we’ve been on. Pope Benedict had the courage to dissolve a female congregation which was at a certain level, because this slavery of women had entered it — slavery, even to the point of sexual slavery — on the part of clerics or the founder,” the pope conceded.
No, you corrupt sack of shit, that’s not what you do; you dissolve the male congregations that are doing the abusing. “We’ve tried really hard, we’ve punished the powerless victims.”
Francis told reporters on his flight that the Catholic Church,” shouldn’t be scandalized by this,” adding that “there are steps in a process,” and “we are working on it.”
No, they’re not, they’re working on getting away with it. The only solution, making the church a non-patriarchal institution, is beyond them, because they think god is a boy just as they are boys, and that boys have to be on top, ad maiorem dei gloriam.
The Vatican’s new openness in discussing the abuse of nuns comes after years of revelations about clergy abusing children, mostly boys, in their congregations across the globe, and senior clergy members covering up those crimes.
They’ll talk about it, they just won’t do anything about it.
They dissolve the group of women, because the women might form a support group for each other, might find strength in each other, and that would be bad. Because then they might actually have strength to say something or do something, and that would be bad. Bad for the men.
Fraternities raping women? Well, just go back to only males in the colleges. Bosses abusing employees? That’s simple. Get rid of the female employees. Scientists in labs using women as their own personal sex toys? That’s easy. Tell the women to quit. Husbands hitting wives, raping wives, abusing wives? That’s easy. Tell the wives they are tied to their husbands forever and ever and ever and ever, amen, and probably in heaven, too, which is, of course, every woman’s dream, to be abused forever. Because, good wives put up with it.
His Holy Corrupt Sack of Shittiness…?
His Corrupt Sack of Shithouse Holiness? Better…
His Holy Galactic Shittiness? Somehow, it does not have the right ring to it.
His Holy Shithouse Galacticality? No. Over too many heads.
It looks like we’ll have to settle for something like His Holy Sewerage. Till something better comes along.
Well, you know, they like to have a nice variety of descriptors, so I’m sure they could make use of all of those.
It is a ‘funny’ thing that there is almost no mention of girls getting raped by priests isn’t it. Either all the bad priests happen to be closeted homosexuals, or maybe the church was just happier about throwing them to the wolves than the ones that raped girls.
Maybe he thinks priests raping women is an improvement over priests raping boys.
YNnB, close enough. I call snap.
“See, there is no homosexuality within the Catholic clergy. It’s the nuns they wanted, the boys were just a substitute when nuns weren’t available. It’s like this; if, to allow Catholics to eat meat on Fridays against Catholic law, a beaver is a fish because it swims, then to circumvent our anti-homosexuality rules a boy is a woman if his voice hasn’t broke and he sounds female.
“What? Celibate priesthood? Errm, mumble mumble, oooh, is that the time? Must dash.”
@Omar
Assholy?
Maybe his assholiness?
It seems to me that the fundamental problem is a disgraceful refusal to recognise the evil of what is being done, and that this derives from the Catholic belief that priests, by virtue of being ordained, possess miraculous powers granted from Heaven that allow them, at every Mass, to change bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ, as well as to remit sins that are admitted to in the confessional, to intercede, by administering the Last Rites, so that a sinner may at least not go to Hell, and so to ‘save souls’, which, as Chesterton certainly thought, is in the power of the Catholic priest, and is a divine power that sets him above any mere secular power, and, I should add, any merely secular morality, which is in the end contemptible in terms of the greater picture. It results in what seems to me to be a sort of antinomianism: possessing such powers, priests are released from observing secular morality, and the religious and institutional virtue of the status of priest, as possessor of divinely granted powers and miracle worker, is more important and of greater value, in the eyes of the Catholic Church, than any moral failings, however serious, that individual priests may have. Naturally, therefore, the Catholic Church thinks first of protecting this institutional status, and has small concern about those who are harmed in consequence.
I did a double–take when I saw the headline on the BBC news website; “Pope admits clerical abuse of nuns including sexual slavery.” The Pope’s done WHAT?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/world-europe-47134033
I have thought a lot about that. I have several hypotheses about why.
(1) Girls matter less than boys.
(2) Rape of girls is seen as a normal part of life.
(3) Rape of girls is a validation of their womanhood, but rape of boys is a violation of their manhood
(4) The rape of boys by men is more titillating, and hence more interesting to people.
(5) The church thinks it can blame the problem on tolerance of gays, giving them cause to be even less tolerant
My conclusion is that it is probably a combination of all of the above, plus probably some I haven’t thought of yet.
How long before the trans- activists present “evidence” to show that trans-people are the group most abused by Catholic priests? Cue the countdown…
How exactly, I wonder, do they teach that skill in seminary? Is it all in the wrists? The fervent furrowing of the brow? Perhaps a particularly pious and beatific countenance? Maybe it’s the uniform? It’s not exactly like machine shop, home-ec, or even knot-tying, at the end of which there’s at least a tangible product available for evaluation. Do they have a taste-tester present who, knowing his Aristotle forwards and backwards, can somehow discern the real presence of the Real Presence in the final exam wafers and wine? Is it an all or nothing thing or can there be degrees of success? “You’ve got the Blood down fine; your Body needs some work.” Does God get to look over the work and see that it’s up to snuff? Standards must be maintained, after all. It wouldn’t do for parishioners to say, “When I was young, the Host was so much more Jesusy than what they make today. They must be using a cheaper flour.” After a couple of millenia, one must be careful to uphold the Original Recipe.
And how is it that child-raping and nun-raping priests can still wield this power? How can someone so evil still perform the transfomation of the bread and wine? Can Jesus withhold his Presence, or is He compelled to show up for work (Jeez, it’s Sunday, you’d think He’d get the day off…) whenever somebody says the Magic Word? What kind of Supreme Being is that? It’s almost as bad as being stuck in an old lamp, waiting for someone to give it a rub before you can manifest.
Patriarchy without celibate clergy doesn’t seem like much of an improvement. Mormons, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Haredis, inbred Imams in store-front madrassas, ‘god-men’ swarming over India. All covers for massive sexual abuse of all sorts of victims.
I suppose the priest/boy association is stronger among Catholics because of the exclusion of girls and women. Only nuns, and perhaps ‘house servants’ being put in the path of abuse.
Kingship was supposed to work the same way – magic powers etc etc. It’s not in the wrists or the training or anything like that, it’s magic.
Yeah, but how do they know a prosective candidate has the right stuff? I mean at least they have exams and everything at Hogwarts.
YNNB, they ask the wafer how it identifies. If it identifies as a really real body of Jesus, it worked.
DING!DING!DING!DING!DING! We have a winner!
OB @ #15,
No, no, no. Magic gets you burned at the stake. It’s mystery.
Yes ‘Mystery’ with a capital ‘M’ — that is the end of almost every Catholic argument I have heard.
Mystery? They haven’t a fuckin’ clue.
Yes, and that’s the point.
Pity would be no more,
If we did not make somebody Poor:
And Mercy no more could be,
If all were as happy as we;
And mutual fear brings peace;
Till the selfish loves increase.
Then Cruelty knits a snare,
And spreads his baits with care.
He sits down with holy fears,
And waters the ground with tears:
Then Humility takes its root
Underneath his foot.
Soon spreads the dismal shade
Of Mystery over his head;
And the Catterpillar and Fly,
Feed on the Mystery.
And it bears the fruit of Deceit,
Ruddy and sweet to eat;
And the Raven his nest has made
In its thickest shade.
The Gods of the earth and sea
Sought thro’ Nature to find this Tree
But their search was all in vain:
There grows one in the Human Brain.
(William Blake: The Human Abstract)
Tim Harris @20:
And “grace” — don’t forget grace!
But hey, what’s a little abuse of women, when the Church is so good on the most important issue of all, LIFE! Why, some dioceses have even denied communion to pro-choice politicians, that’s how strongly they feel about the sin of abortion.
Wait, what’s this?
Well, as long as the woman was punished.