To Those in the Know

[suave_thomas]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090527/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ireland_catholic_abuse

This really pisses me off. Really, really. Poverty my ARSE. The Catholic Church has more than enough to give back to the people they've taken so much from. It's

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[whichdoctor]

My goodness. Reading that left quite a vile taste in my mouth. It's mind-bendingly disgusting how many poor children have been made to suffer by the very people who were supposed to protect them from the evils of the world. I hope the government is able to stand its ground. It's time people stopped being intimidated and victimised by the Church.

[suave_thomas]

It really is, David. Hear hear.

And, to put a different spin on it, it's time for the Church to change, to screen who it allows into positions like that, and to get it's head out of it's arse. I did good work. Peter did good work. Stuart did good work and so did Robert. Why that can't be the way it always goes...it confounds me.

[whichdoctor]

Absolutely. A Church made up of men and women like you would be a Church to be proud of. It's unfortunate indeed that sinister people are taking advantage of an obviously lax system. If the Church put as much effort into policing its clergy as it does into attempting to police the masses, I'm sure much of this could be avoided.

[suave_thomas]

It really could. People like Abbot Brunhardt wouldn't have been given chance to do the fucking disgusting things he did. All of them. All of them shouldn't have been given that chance.

If this is such a problem, I don't understand why the church just don't allow the clergy to marry. For fuck's sake, I have never felt a more spiritual connection than I do to my spouses.

[whichdoctor]

I suppose with all the other Christian orders that have sprung up over the years, the Catholic Church feels it has to struggle even harder to maintain its own identity - which unfortunately means not growing and developing, but getting mired down in stagnation and corruption instead. They need a leader who can see that.

It's beautiful, what you have with Mary and Spectre. It always makes me happy to see that Mary, and all of you, have something so wonderful.

[suave_thomas]

PETER FOR POPE!!! Wouldn't he be thrilled?!

It makes me happy to give that to the both of them.

[father_peter]

Can the Antichrist be His Holiness?

[suave_thomas]

How would that be worse than Ratty?

[whichdoctor]

And let's be honest here, Peter would look quite smashing in those shoes.

[suave_thomas]

Damn right! Those little ruby pope shoes? They're Peter all over.

[father_peter]

Why must you mock my manly exterior?

[whichdoctor]

We're not mocking it, we're enhancing it.

[suave_thomas]

That's our job as best friends.

You think the pointy hat should go, David? I think Peter's hair would look incredible sticking out from under it.

[whichdoctor]

I think we could make it work, but we might have to add a chin strap to make sure it doesn't bounce off.

[suave_thomas]

I just snorted so hardcore...

[whichdoctor]

Excellent!