Yep...We couldn't believe it either ! The auld git was straight out of the Old Testament...fire and brimstone, ya know ? (He was old enough to have actually have been involved too!
Seriously? did he actually say those words?
We went to see the boss of the local monastery and were told that we were 'no better than the savages in Africa' if we didn't get married in an RC church and have any future sprogs christened.
Mrs Beaky and I have often discussed the merits of Quakerism and have come to the conclusion that if we do decide to practice anything, it will be that. Happy enough at the moment being nothing. Both born as Catholics but I stopped going to church in 1966 (a kinda daring at the time, and she, in the early 70s.It gets better and better.
So, any takers?
To what extent society was a reflection of the Church or the Church a reflection of society is a more complex debate but blaming the RC Church for the evils of society in general is just deflected guilt and allows us to avoid the necessary broader introspection that it required.
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I think the Garda Commissioner should ask the Church for all it's files where people have signed documents to hide a crime and who had no legal representation when they signed them.
It is interesting that one clergy member has thought fit to point out that if one is a paedophile than the level of culpability in committing the crime is less and so the punishment should be less.
They just don't get it do they? Cardinal Brady's is basically saying "it wasn't my job to report Brendan Smyth to the Gardaí so why should I resign".
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0315/abuse.html
Their only obedience seems to be to Canon Law and as has been pointed out here by somone (I can't remember who) they are like a fifth column with allegiance to Rome and Canon Law above all else. How the Cardinal can insist it isn't a resigning matter is beyond belief (pun intended).
Added to this the Pope assisting in moving/hiding a paedophile, why would anyone remain a member of this Church?
They just don't get it do they? Cardinal Brady's is basically saying "it wasn't my job to report Brendan Smyth to the Gardaí so why should I resign".
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0315/abuse.html
They just don't get it do they? Cardinal Brady's is basically saying "it wasn't my job to report Brendan Smyth to the Gardaí so why should I resign".
http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0315/abuse.html
Sometimes Godwins law prevents the rational mind from drawing obvious parallels...
The phrase "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing ", has never been more appropriate in my opinion.
+1coward, the taoiseach is a coward. It is utterly indefensibly.
My prediction: Brady will not resign. The churches leaders do not bow to the opinion of us mortals. What should be done is that every church-goer who believes Brady should resign should stop going to mass until he does. But that won't happen. Because we are a nation of cowards. We have a hugely incompetent government still in power after bring the country to its knees. What did we do about it? Nothing. And we will do nothing about this too.
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