No more excuses, Pope Ratzi

Hereby guilty …

After months and years of being rocked by an ever-increasing clerical child sex abuse scandal with continuing revelations that thousands of incidents were kept under tight wraps and child-molesting priests were protected and moved around from parish to parish, all that the Roman Catholic Church has had to say in response is that all the blame being aimed at them (at long last) is nothing more than “petty gossip” that rivals “the most shameful aspects of antisemitism”, amongst other lies and distortions of the damning evidence against them.

Well, it may be time for them to start praying – for their own fates. We finally have it: concrete evidence revealing how Pope Ratzi, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, deliberately “resisted” the defrocking of a priest who was known to have molested children, via a 1985 letter signed by Ratzi himself.

Associated Press said it had obtained the letter, signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, resisting the defrocking of offending US priest Stephen Kiesle.

The Vatican says he was exercising due caution before sacking the priest.

Cardinal Ratzinger - who was at the time the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - said the "good of the universal Church" needed to be considered in any defrocking, AP reported.

Let’s see how the Vatican plans to weasel its way out of this one. Because it’s as certain as rain, taxes and death that they will. After all, the “good of the universal Church” – ie. covering the Church’s ass – is so much more important than the good of the innocent children affected by these horrible acts.

(via Pharyngula)