This article by Andrew Sullivan of the Daily Dish is a few weeks old, but as I'm creating this blog by adding things that I found interesting from todays news, I figured I'd add a few things I've found interesting recently as well.
It explains why the media, and anyone with an ounce of compassion paying attention, was so angry at the Catholic Pope recently.
In fairness to his holiness it was not he who tied up and sodomized innocent children, it was a priest in America called Father Kiesle.
However, when Bishop Cummins who was in charge of this particularly nasty piece of work started to get complaints about this asshole, he wrote a letter to Cardinal Ratzinger (who later became Pope Benedict) asking for guidance and permission to defrock this poor imitation of a man.
"It is my conviction that there would be no scandal if this petition were granted and that as a matter of fact, given the nature of the case, there might be greater scandal to the community if Father Kiesle were allowed to return to the active ministry," Cummins wrote in 1982.
Instead Cardinal Ratzinger concluded that removing this child molester from his position, even if it was temporarily for investigation, not as important the good of the universal church, which is bad enough but when added that this was the case because he didn't see the potential threat it could case particularly regarding of the age of the petitioner (sodomized child) it makes you sick.
This court, although it regards the arguments presented in favor of removal in this case to be of grave significance, nevertheless deems it necessary to consider the good of the Universal Church together with that of the petitioner, and it is also unable to make light of the detriment that granting the dispensation can provoke with the community of Christ's faithful, particularly regarding the young age of the petitioner.
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