Mexican Cardinal: Pedophile Priests’ Victims Should Think About Their Own Flaws

[phands]

Unbelievable....victim-shaming kids molested by true xtian scumbags....

Given the magnitude of the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal, you’d think Church leaders would be better at responding to the outrage. Say you’re sorry, say you’re working to make the Church more transparent, say that you’ll cooperate with law enforcement whenever there’s an accusation of wrongdoing in the future, etc.
Mexican Cardinal Sergio Obeso Rivera didn’t get that memo because his reaction was to blame the victims for speaking out.

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[Lion IRC]

The Catholic Church can't "cooperate" with law enforcement if law enforcement has exactly the same lack of witnesses willing to testify as the Church.

Hello! Earth to victims. Go directly to the police. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200 Do not stop in for a chat and a cuppa tea with the Bishop. Do not phone in to your local talk-back radio station. If you have been raped - go to the POLICE!!!

Earth to parents and relatives of victims. WTF is wrong with you! Why did you wait 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years to speak up about the rape of your CHILD!!! You fucking gutless wonders! You belatedly beat your breast and tear your garments about mandatory reporting of child sex abuse and you did NOTHING!

 

[Keith&Co.]

I dunno if it's blamingbthe victim as much as 'How dare you claim a position of moral superiority over the Holy Mother Church. Who madee you a perfect moral authority, huh? You sin, so stifle it.'

 

[Tom Sawyer]

The Catholic Church can't "cooperate" with law enforcement if law enforcement has exactly the same lack of witnesses willing to testify as the Church.

Hello! Earth to victims. Go directly to the police. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200 Do not stop in for a chat and a cuppa tea with the Bishop. Do not phone in to your local talk-back radio station. If you have been raped - go to the POLICE!!!

Earth to parents and relatives of victims. WTF is wrong with you! Why did you wait 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years to speak up about the rape of your CHILD!!! You fucking gutless wonders! You belatedly beat your breast and tear your garments about mandatory reporting of child sex abuse and you did NOTHING!

Ya, fucking rape victims. Those people are morons.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

The Catholic Church can't "cooperate" with law enforcement if law enforcement has exactly the same lack of witnesses willing to testify as the Church.

Hello! Earth to victims. Go directly to the police. Do not pass Go. Do not collect $200 Do not stop in for a chat and a cuppa tea with the Bishop. Do not phone in to your local talk-back radio station. If you have been raped - go to the POLICE!!!

Earth to parents and relatives of victims. WTF is wrong with you! Why did you wait 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 years to speak up about the rape of your CHILD!!! You fucking gutless wonders! You belatedly beat your breast and tear your garments about mandatory reporting of child sex abuse and you did NOTHING!

Fortunately that is changing in a big way as more and more people do not see religious behavior as being something to which one should aspire because it is supposed to be morally superior. More people are learning that a spade is always a spade and that going to church is no different than going to a movie.

In short more people are learning that you shouldn't trust a religious person anymore than you would trust a non religious person. And that is a very very very good thing.

 

[Lion IRC]

Ya, fucking rape victims. Those people are morons.

Why do you say that?

 

[phands]

Wow...that response was unhinged, even for LIRC.

 

[J842P]

I dunno if it's blamingbthe victim as much as 'How dare you claim a position of moral superiority over the Holy Mother Church. Who madee you a perfect moral authority, huh? You sin, so stifle it.'

Yeah, it's pretty clearly a translation and even includes a transliterated idiom. It may be referring to people who are casting aspersions towards the church in general, and not the actual victims reporting the crime. There's no context here, and it isn't clear. It would be helpful to hear the original in context.