Conrad at the Gweilo Diaries despairs at the current state of the Catholic church in the wake of new child porn scandals.
Perhaps prosecutors are afraid of a Roman Catholic backlash should they prosecute a few Church fathers. I doubt I’m alone among the faithful in saying ‘go and get the bastards responsible’. Maybe the prospect of having a few bishops sodomized in prison is what it will take to spare future alter boys suffering that indignity in the rectory.
He also goes on to address the issue of celibacy among the clergy during an excellent and lengthy post.
I’m another practicing Catholic on the same page.
In fact in our parish we have a priest who was once Anglican but ‘crossed the floor’ when his church started ordaining women. The Catholic church allowed him to keep his wife and hence the obligation to have sex and children. I couldn’t help but ask “What the fuck?!” Either celibacy is absolutely necessary for the life of a clergyman or it isn’t, there isn’t any middle ground on nearly every other Catholic issue so I don’t see how there ought to be any here.
As for the child porn. Get the assholes. I have no problem seeing how God could forgive them (duh, Christ didn’t sit around flipping through Cosmo during his life) but it doesn’t mean society would be so lenient.
Apart from being considered some sort of worrying affliction by much of the outside world, Catholicism now apparently stands for absolute acceptance of paedophilia as long as it’s committed by one of our holy men. Fuck that.
Later
John
Posted by John Swaine at July 13, 2004 03:51 PM | TrackBack