Catholic League: Satan Molested All Those Kids in Pennsylvania

[phands]

Bill Donohue is an utter, vile excresence...and a true xtian...

The Catholic League’s Bill Donohue has been on a tear lately trying to discredit the Pennsylvania grand jury’s report documenting hundreds of examples of Catholic Church leaders sexually abusing children.
He’s argued a lot of it shouldn’t even count since some victims weren’t penetrated and many weren’t even pre-pubescent. He’s said sexual abuse occurs elsewhere, so the Church’s scandals aren’t really that big a deal. He said most of the abuses didn’t occur in the past few years, so everyone needs to lay off. He said Church leaders deserve credit for all the children who weren’t molested.
And since none of that is working, he’s trying once again. This time, he’s blaming Satan for making the pedophile priests do all those horrible things.

When we read that a cardinal asked young seminarians to sleep with him, thus corrupting them before they became ordained, and when we read that a few Pennsylvania priests used sacred objects like the crucifix to molest their victims, we cannot plausibly say that this is simply the work of men gone bad. No, it is the work of the devil. What other source would provoke such monstrosities?
…If Satan tempted our Lord in the desert, he is surely capable of tempting the clergy, and sometimes winning. Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen put it well when he said, “Satan stations more devils on monastery walls than in dens of iniquity, for the latter offer no resistance.”
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This is how Donohue operates. It’s the No True Scotsman fallacy all the time. The moment a Catholic priest crosses the line, he must not have been truly Catholic. In this case, he was under the spell of the devil. There’s never any acknowledgment that the priests were just flat-out monsters and that the Church itself, through its policies and secrecy and hierarchy, allowed this abuse to continue for decades.
At some point, he’ll get around to blaming the kids for seducing the priests, or feminists for making the priests feel inadequate, or Democrats for not doing enough to protect victims of abuse in all circumstances… Given all the places he’s pointing his finger, you’d think he’d eventually end up pointing in the right direction.
Hasn’t happened yet.

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[steve_bank]

The RCC on camera tries to be smiley faced rational genteel rational clerics. In reality they are just as wacky as any other sect.

Holy water, cures at Lourdes, exorcism being possessed evil spirits. Who knows what rituals and things go on behind the Vatican walls.

 

[ideologyhunter]

Ah, Bill Donohue, the doughy-faced symbol of rage-filled Christers. It's really too bad they aren't sending Crusaders to Palestine anymore. At least, not with battle-axes. Also, any truth to the rumor that Bill Donohue and Karl Rove are one and the same?

 

[Rhea]

Well at least we know where Lion IRC gets his “it’s not our fault!” Talking points.

I lost my tux at the cleaners! I locked my keys in the car! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD

 

[abaddon]

Well at least we know where Lion IRC gets his “it’s not our fault!” Talking points.

I lost my tux at the cleaners! I locked my keys in the car! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD

Oh it's worse than that. It's all YOUR fault. Atheists infiltrated the Church. Atheist "polemicists" railed against the Church instead of doing anything about it.

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Some of the fudging-about effort is, in effect, "You shouldn't criticize The Church because it spreads so much solace so to criticize it is more harm than help". And of course "you're not supposed to question that which is holy". It can look like defensiveness due to embarrassment but, I think, to them it might be trying to stave off something they perceive to be worse than children getting raped: atheism, materialism, societal chaos, anything-goes hedonism and liberalism.

 

[Lion IRC]

Well at least we know where Lion IRC gets his “it’s not our fault!” Talking points.

I lost my tux at the cleaners! I locked my keys in the car! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD

I don't talk in terms of "our fault". The guilty individuals have to take responsibility for their own fault. When Church leaders apologise for cover ups saying "we have" or "we are" they don't speak for me.

I'm glad the Church is being purged of these scum. I'm glad a huge light is being shined on things done in darkness.

"And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that their deeds will be exposed."

Certain "teachers of the law" apparently forgot this.

 

[Rhea]

I don't talk in terms of "our fault".

Of course you don’t. The responsibility you have for continuing to attend a church and give it money and tell people that thyey are holy - which contributes to the coverups and funds the payoffs and silences the victims is somethign youd like to avoid.

The guilty individuals have to take responsibility for their own fault.

Yup, they do. The people of the church, who did not DEMAND a thorough public accounting after the Boston scandal are all guilty of accepting the coverup, pretending it only happened i Boston and giving the church permission to continue to cover up, harm children and continue to blame victims.

They could not have done it without your help. They are forever in your debt.

When Church leaders apologise for cover ups saying "we have" or "we are" they don't speak for me.

Because you don’t share in wanting to stop the problem.

I'm glad the Church is being purged of these scum. I'm glad a huge light is being shined on things done in darkness.

It’s not a huge light. They haven’t released any names. 9 out of ten of the perps only have to “pray” instead of be actually kept away from children.

"And this is the verdict: The Light has come into the world, but men loved the darkness rather than the Light, because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the Light, and does not come into the Light for fear that their deeds will be exposed."

Certain "teachers of the law" apparently forgot this.

So did all the parishioners. You hate the light. You don’t want to think about your complicity in continuing to support the institution that WE KNEW was doing this 40 years ago. The parishioners who did NOT call for church wide transparency and investigation. The parishioners who kept giving money, and going to mass and “praying” that it would all stop being so uncomfortable for everyone except the victims - you were okay with their discomfort and pain.

The issue of child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests was first publicized in 1985 when a Louisiana priest pled guilty to 11 counts of molestation of boys.[1] It was again brought to national attention when a number of books on the topic were published in the 1990s,[2] and again in 2002 following a series of publications by the Boston Globe.

 

[Lion IRC]

I don't accuse you of supporting pedophilia.
Don't do it to me.

 

[Rhea]

I don't accuse you of supporting pedophilia.
Don't do it to me.

Do you support the Roman Chtholic Church, who covered up pedophilia and rape and hid it from the public behind a curtain of piety and institutionalism that claimed to be beyond reproach? All the while allowing it to go on and more people to be molested and victims to be told to stay quiet - FOR FORTY YEARS after the first evidennce that there was rot in your naves?

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

I don't accuse you of supporting pedophilia.
Don't do it to me.

The RCC proper likes having the Catholic League fight disclosure of these crimes in courts, and the CL has been doing that for decades. An individual diocese just declares bankruptcy so it can limit the amount of money it loses to victims, but the League goes on forever. Certainly that good ole whipping boy, Magic Satan is funding their efforts. Always nice to have a bogeyman like Jews, Satan, Pagans, atheism, secularism, etc. on which to pin your own crimes.