have a slice of this delicious schadenfreude pie!
It's a shitty day for institutional Catholicism, all the way around. Where to start, hmmmmm...
Catholic Church shamed by Irish Abuse Report
Highlights:
...The Catholic religious orders that ran more than 50 workhouse-style reform schools from the late 19th century until the mid-1990s offered public words of apology, shame and regret Wednesday. But when questioned, their leaders indicated they would continue to protect the identities of clergy accused of abuse - men and women who were never reported to police, and were instead permitted to change jobs and keep harming children...
My contempt knows no bounds.
But wait! There's more:
Weakland says he didn't know priests' abuse was crime
Highlights:
"We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature," Weakland says in the book, "A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church," due out in June.
Weakland said he initially "accepted naively the common view that it was not necessary to worry about the effects on the youngsters: either they would not remember or they would 'grow out of it.'... "
Breathtaking, isn't it?!
Catholic Church shamed by Irish Abuse Report
Highlights:
...The Catholic religious orders that ran more than 50 workhouse-style reform schools from the late 19th century until the mid-1990s offered public words of apology, shame and regret Wednesday. But when questioned, their leaders indicated they would continue to protect the identities of clergy accused of abuse - men and women who were never reported to police, and were instead permitted to change jobs and keep harming children...
My contempt knows no bounds.
But wait! There's more:
Weakland says he didn't know priests' abuse was crime
Highlights:
"We all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had no understanding of its criminal nature," Weakland says in the book, "A Pilgrim in a Pilgrim Church," due out in June.
Weakland said he initially "accepted naively the common view that it was not necessary to worry about the effects on the youngsters: either they would not remember or they would 'grow out of it.'... "
Breathtaking, isn't it?!