The Catholic Church hasn’t cared about “the little ones” or anyone else for over 2,000 years. This is nothing more than a weak attempt at rebranding.
While the Pope provides lip-service other arms of the Church are vigorously fighting statute-of-limitations legislation in a host of states and countries, spending millions in the process, often with the former Jorge Mario Bergoglio leading the charge.
If the Catholic Church cared about anything other than its institutional survival it would immediately hold a massive Going Out Of Business Sale, turn the proceeds over to its legions of victims and then, mercifully, disappear from the face of the earth.
IOW Shut the fuck up, Frank!
I read an article on the Catholic churches first Sunday post report. They interviewed a woman who basically said that the Church has survived 2000 amidst turmoil and has always come through. Nothing about the victims, nothing about how long this had been going on, and in so many places.
I’m betting she voted for Trump, just a feeling.
This little discussion comes along every so often, blows over, and repeats. Some of the victims go on to seminaries and priesthood looking to cleanse the sin they blame themselves for. So it gets baked in.
Two priests were talking in a bar. “Do you thing the Church will ever allow priests to get married?”
“Not in our life times, but maybe our children’s’.”
This is highly reminiscent of Capt. Renault’s shock at discovering that there was gambling going on in Rick’s. Didn’t the organization that this guy is the head of know all of these details the whole time? If so, this sort of passionate denunciation would have rung a lot less hollow if it had been made before the truth started coming out. Given the temporal proximity to the Pennsylvania grand jury report, this comes off as “I’m so, so, very crushingly devastatingly sorry that we got caught.”
Sorry, Pope Francis, but your response is too little, too late. Some Catholics left the church when the reports about sex abuse came out years ago but others stayed thinking that the exposure would result in real changes. Well, clearly that didn’t happen, and admitting that crimes were committed without concrete plans to remove the statute of limitations and prosecute the accused isn’t acceptable. Expect a further (and sharp) decline in church attendance and financial support. Those Catholics I know who stayed tell me that, despite liking some of this pope’s attitudes. their association with the church is over.