Friday, November 27, 2009

Anti-abortion, celibacy and child molestation

Interesting combination of words but sometimes correlations just come to you. Today was such a day.

I was reading the Sun's article by Tribune Newspapers' Janet Stobart entitled Abuse cover-up detailed. The opening line says it all:

"LONDON - Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Dublin engaged in a wide spread cover-up of abuses by clergy members for decades, a "scandal on an astonishing scale..." Further in the article, "Justice Minister Dermot Ahern spoke of his revulsion on reading the findings and called them a "scandal on an astonishing scale."" And later in the article, "This is not meant to be the full picture...102 priests is the number that we have settled on even though there are allegations against 172... this is only a representative sample," said Andrew Madden, a member of One in Four, a nonprofit group for sexual abuse victims that campaigned for the inquiry.

So, what is the correlation? Well, an obvious, self-serving one appears to me:
Celibacy causes sexual needs. These needs are satisfied through child molestation. Molestation requires a supply of children. Anti-abortion (as well as banning birth control) helps maintain this supply. (Not too modest a proposal I would think.)

I suspect that the "Church" will do in Dublin what was done in Delaware earlier this year -declare bankruptcy, thus leaving nothing to the victims. (I wonder if the non-taxed assets are divided among the creditors and/or the victims? Or, do they return in some predetermined way to the broader Roman Catholic Church?) Seems odd for such a good organization. Or, is it more indicative of that organization?

1 comment:

  1. An excellent and highly recommended source that discusses some of these problems from an informed perspective is Richard Sipe's web-page.

    http://www.richardsipe.com/

    My late wife, Jean Peters Pilch, and I were close friends with his brother, John, a sales representative with Sadlier Publishing Company (New York City). Richard lived for a long time in Ruxton before relocating out West.

    Happy reading!

    John

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