So Catholic priests neglect their children and are deemed to have dysfunctional families, but have a nerve to tell people if they can be proper parents
Quote:Calling on the Irish government to respond to the needs of children of priests
United Nations children’s rights committee document calls upon the Irish State to respond to the needs of children of priests. Section 33 and 34 of the 2016 UN document states in part that the committee is concerned about the “lack of measures to ensure that children fathered by Catholic priests are able to access information on the identity of their fathers” and is encouraging the state “ensure measures to assist children fathered by Catholic priests in upholding their right to know and be cared for by their fathers, as appropriate, and ensure that they receive the necessary psychological treatment.”
There is no impediment in Irish law or policy to prevent Catholic priests who father children caring for their children. However, the state has no power to compel any person to care for a child. In 2017, the Irish Episcopal Conference approved the principles of responsibility regarding priests who father children while in ministry, stating that if a priest fathers a child, the well-being of his child should be his first consideration. The document states that priests in this situation need to discharge their responsibilities and give due consideration to the best interests of the child, civil and canon law, and the views of the mother. Access to psychological support is through the HSE primary care services and community mental health teams. There is limited free-at-point-of-service psychological support available in Ireland, including a national childhood abuse or neglect service for adults.”
Accessing the national public health system is problematic for two reasons; firstly, why should the taxpayer pay for mental health provisions for clerical abuse victims? A child neglected or emotionally abused is a victim of abuse, in this context, clerical abuse.
The phenomenon of children of priests is characterised by secrecy, imposed secrecy that denatures the natural organic processes that develop within a family, fostering anxiety and depression in most instances.
All of this effectively means that the Irish state has, in part, contravened the convention on the rights of the child. Of course, the interesting part is, they are not alone.
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/blogs/1/2028...of-priests
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"