Is the Pope the visible head of the biggest paedophile
ring?
Francisco
has disappointed me. Pope Francis looks more and more like Obama. When the
African American became President I became very happy, even without knowing
anything about him. When I heard him speak, I was sure that many things would
change for the better, but...
The
Argentinian caused me the same sensation. His first statements were the
foreshadowing that he would follow a revolutionary path within the Catholic
Church, but...
Fortunately,
Ireland has changed for the better. Some decades ago nobody would have thought
about the profound changes that have taken place (divorce, marriage between
people of the same sex, greater independence of the people with respect to the
patriarchy of the church ...), so, as a well-known Irish journalist says - based on
the words of the Franciscan of Assisi - Pope Francis went to Ireland to repair
the house of the Lord which “is falling into ruins”.
«
The wounds are still open and there is much to be done
to bring justice, truth and cure to the victims and survivor. Holy Father, I
ask you to use your ministry and influence to ensure that this is done here in
Ireland and around the world. We must ensure that words are moved to action. »
These
were the words with which the Irish Prime Minister received Mr. Bergoglio to
which he responded at a press conference admitting the serious scandal of abuse
of young people perpetrated in Ireland by members of the church.
I
like a sentence that you can read in the Fintan O´Toole´s article: Popes didn´t visit Ireland because they
didn´t have to. You cannot say more with less word.
Mr.
O'Toole is an expert in Irish society (he is Irish himself) so I believe what
he says when he analyzes the relationship between the Irish and the church in
the last thirty or forty years:
«
But the decline is still stark: from a weekly mass
attendance of over 80% in 1979, when John Paul II made the only previous papal
visit, to about 35% now. And with it has come a loss of political power
crystallised in the overwhelming vote in May to remove the constitutional ban
on abortion. »
Tuam
is a beautiful and tiny city settled in the road from Sligo to Galway. It´s a
mass grave containing the remains of hundreds of babies in a Catholic Institution
also. For the nuns of Bon Secours, obedient to the Irish Catholic Church, one
of the more serious sins was to be single mother, so the new child had to be
quickly invisible for the society. They died or they were given in adoption.
All this is well worth a mass.
On
the other hand, the laundries of Magdalene —houses for “fallen women”— that the
Prime Minister reproached the Holy Father reminded me a bit of the Borstal.
Don´t get me wrong. I am not going to compare the penitentiary regime suffered
by those unfortunate women with the punishment imposed on us by those assholes:
you were left without breakfast if you spent two minutes more of the time you
had to run.
Is
the Pope really the visible head of the largest band of paedophiles as you
could read on some banners?
As
for Fintan O'Toole, for many people “This was a global cover up directed from
the Vatican”. “Shame and remorse”, “sense of betrayal”… After he denied at the beginning,
Pope Francis says now what his predecessor said eight years ago. This is not
enough and he is between the devil and the deep blue sea.
Here
some things that His Holiness could do and thus meet again with his flock:
First.
Help bring together the families of approximately 100,000 mothers who were
separated from their children only in Ireland.
Second.
Create a true commission against the paedophile, not as the current (public
relations), but composed of a majority of victims of abuse and with real power
of action.
Third.
Judgment for the bishops who hid these crimes.
Fourth.
Declare voluntary celibacy. Given that priests who commit these crimes do not
adequately digest their sexuality.
Fifth.
Resign. If the boss, with his Board of Directors, fails to get the business
afloat, it is not valid and has to be replaced by another.
From
my Borstal.
LDR
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