New Deadly Sins

Please be advised that the article linked to below has set me off:

CNN Wayoflife

This here quote has me off for starters. "Girotti said the Catholic Church continued to be concerned by other sinful acts, including abortion and pedophilia.

He said Church authorities had reacted with rigorous measures to child abuse scandals within the clergy, but

he also claimed that the issue had been excessively emphasized by the media.

Emphasis mine.

Over the past 50 odd years 14,000 people filed complaints that they were abused by clergy and abuse related costs reached $2.3 billion. ( Clergy Sex Abuse Payouts Nearly Double). So it seems to me that the issue was inadequately emphasized by the media. One assumes the dollar amount quoted above is simply quantifying the amount paid to defend these claims and the attempts to pay damages to the victims. There is no earthly way to compute a dollar value on the kind of damage done to these victims.

Here's what I think, hell is going to have reserved seating, next to the furnace for the perpetrators and enablers of this abuse. If 14,000 people have filed claims then at least 140,000 people were abused by these holier than thou pedophile scum sucking, god licking whorebot priests and those unconscionable cowardly cretins that looked the other way, ignored the complaints, transferred the priest to an unsuspecting parish without warning them about the rumors, turned its back on the poor abused kid.

So this has bankrupted some dioceses - good, it's about damned time. I hope it bankrupts the Vatican. For this overblown overeducated sparrow fart of a Pope to accuse the media of having made too much of this travesty of church enabled abuse is indicative of the ongoing cluelessness of the Catholic Church and just how extinct it needs to be.

Having completed the vast majority of my formal education at Catholic Schools I believe I'm uniquely qualified to type this quote yet again: IF God is so smart, why doesn't he hire better help?

I found this bit of info fascinating as well.

A recent survey said that 60 percent of Italian Catholics do not go to confession.

Traditionally the Catholic church has had a list of seven deadly sins, that of lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride established by Pope Gregory the Great in the 6th century.

The terms entered the popular vocabulary after the publication of Dante's "Divine Comedy."

The deadly sins are in contrast with venial sins - relatively minor sins that can be forgiven.

A person that commits a mortal sin risks burning in hell unless absolved through confession and penitence.

Now the Vatican says it is time to modernize the list to fit a global world.

I've got a news flash for them, as bad as it is to commit these sins that affect a global community, pedophilia transcends that because it puts the victim into a hell from which death is the only escape.