Pope to United States: Priests' Molesting Children is All Your Fault

"Holy Father," indeed:

In a speech delivered after evening prayer, the pontiff berated the bishops for their poor handling of a scandal surrounding sexual abuse of children in the church.

But he urged efforts "to address the sin of abuse within the wider context of sexual mores" as well as a reassessment of "the values underpinning society."

"What does it mean to speak of child protection when pornography and violence can be viewed in so many homes through media widely available today?" the pontiff said on the first full day of his US visit.

What? 

I like adult women - a lot.  My female friends and gay male friends like adult men - a lot.  What in the Hell does that have to do with molesting children?  I guess, to the Pope, all sex is vile?  Go to the strip club today, molest 5-year-olds tomorrow?

More importantly, priests were able to continually molest children because, instead of the Church holding the exposed pedophiles accountable, the Church transferred them to other parishes where no one knew of their misdeeds.

What does sex and violence on TV, or Internet porn, have to do with covering up child molestation?

Nothing, that's what.

Rather than accepting responsibility for causing molestation, the Pope blamed you and me.  That's strike two for the Catholic Church.

Comments

[Jonathan]

What the Pope was trying to say, and may have said (I do not see a link to the full text of the speech) was that the original abuse of children was a sexual sin, but that we should not focus on that sin alone, but as well on other sins like sex outside of marriage. And yes, strip clubs fall under the "other sexual sins" category.

[Windypundit]

That's because pornography and homosexuality are perversions of nature, whereas celibacy is perfectly natural. Surely this is obvious.

[Alec]

Windypundit: Hilarious.

This is pretty typical of the RCC. First deny, deny, deny (accounts of the victims), then fight, fight, fight (lawsuits), then blame, blame, blame (gays, American culture, mysterious anti-Catholic "forces," etc.). Everything, of course, except those who made this national tragedy possible: the church leaders who covered for child molestors.

Very few people are fighting strong sexual urges to molest prepubescent children and teenagers. Those who do often feel compelled to join the priesthood, apparently.