(February 2, 2016 at 11:56 am)Minimalist Wrote: They are so short of assholes to be priests that they'll take anyone.
Well you have to be an assholes to be priest so I gather it's hard to find out whose assholism is against the law.
in the meantime....
Pope Francis broke my heart, says sex abuse victim sidelined by Vatican
Saunders, the head of Britain’s National Association for People Abused in Childhood, was personally asked to join the panel by Pope Francis.
But Saunders now says he realises the commission was always going to be about “smoke and mirrors” and that he is convinced the Church will never act alone to cure the “cancer” in its midst.
“It is also at the heart of why abuse within the Church is still so rampant and widespread.”
– ‘Secrecy and darkness’ –
He added: “It is because everything has to exist under conditions of secrecy and darkness and I am not prepared to work like that and I am not prepared to be silenced on an issue as important as child protection.”
“Some of the work they we are doing is very valuable, but it ain’t stopping kids being raped now.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/pope-fra...y-vatican/
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"