As the celebratory “Year of the Priest” draws to a close, the pope had this to say last Friday, June 11 :
“It was to be expected that this new radiance of the priesthood would not be pleasing to the ‘enemy,’” Benedict XVI said. “He would have rather preferred to see it disappear, so that God would ultimately be driven out of the world.”
The term “the enemy” is a traditional Catholic way of referring to the Devil. [From AP newswire.]
Translated from the traditional gobbledygook, the pope is saying the devil made the pedophile priests do it so people would turn their backs on God, who is represented on earth by the one, holy and apostolic Catholic Church.
If anyone knows about pedophiles in the church, it is Joseph Ratzinger (his real name, or just-plain-Bennie), himself. From 1981 until his coronation in 2005, he was the Prefect of of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The Congregation is a direct descendant of the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition, formed in 1542. [From Wikipedia]
Yes, that Inquisition, still alive and well today, rooting out evil and heresy wherever it is found. To believe that Bennie didn’t know about the thousands of pervo peds within his ranks for twenty-one years is a crock of pope poop. German hardliner that he is, it was his job as the Inquisitor to defrock these sickos—not play 52 card shuffle with them. But that, of course, would have tarnished the church’s impeccable image and cost a lot of silver coin.
Understandably, the thousands of victims of pedophile priests aren’t very happy. Ruined lives, theft of innocence, and betrayal by a trusted adult cannot be dismissed and forgotten by such an idiotic inference by Commander-in-Chief Ratzinger.
But still, people flock to his church like sheep.
I’m not one of them.
Posted from Chandler, Arizona June 13, 2010.
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What! “devil made the pedophile priests do it” yeah right, how come they always have to blame something like that, it wasn’t the devil, it was the fact that they are sick individuals that need to be castrated and, well I’m not going to go on, otherwise, this comment will end up looking like a blog post 😉
I think if he had any decency he’d resign – not sure if popes do that, but he could be the first. Of course he won’t. He prefers to make pathetic excuses for people he should have handed over to the police, and accuse people who criticise church policy on paedophile priests of ant-Catholic rhetoric.
The continuing waves of accumulating scandal shaking the ramparts of the roman catholic church will look a mere trifle compared to the perfect storm that is shortly coming. For these growing, worldwide sexual scandals, exposing the endemic institutional corruption of this tradition, while betraying thousands of children and the faithful, only reflect a far greater betrayal and crime against humanity itself and is setting the stage for the ‘churches’ worst nightmare: the questioning of it’s very origins! And that has already started on the web. But not by any atheist ravings. We may very well come to remember the church as two thousands years of accumulated hubris and theological self deception, retailing a counterfeit copy of revealed truth. http://www.energon.org.uk
What the heck is in Bennie’s mouth?? It looks like an eyeball! I am tempted to say, “Here’s looking at you kid” but Boagie he isn’t. More like the boogie-man to little kids…
Not surprised people still flock to his side. People are still lining up at the BP gas pumps. Talk about ignorant sheeple…
Sandra – I was wondering about whatever is in his mouth too lol No idea what it is but it looks very odd.
Nice post Charlie! Just sorry it took me so long to get over here. Yeah…what is that in Bennie’s mouth?