The Pope is supposed to be God’s representative on Earth -- what a Laugh!
by zed Thursday, Feb 23 2017, 6:04am
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Initial findings of Australian royal commission into Institutionalised child Abuse

That is if you are a clearly deluded Roman Catholic, and I do not exclude other Christian faiths, as the same could be said about them. Isn’t it about time brainwashed Christian imbeciles (and Muslims) realised that ALL religions are man made FAKE representations of reality. Religions are nothing more than ideological prisons where believers are led by the nose to serve the interests and bank accounts of church leaders.

This picture is worth a million words

The Australian Royal Commission into child sexual abuse in the Catholic church has exposed a festering sore that has existed in repressive religious organisations since the were founded [on lies].

Of course, this INSTITUTIONALISED abuse has been going on for centuries and the stinking Vatican has done everything in its power to cover it up, but nothing in its power to eliminate the problem, as clearly, enforced celibacy creates all manner of sexual deviation and perversions, which express themselves most frequently as abusing the defenseless innocent, in order to satisfy the aberrant sexual expression of mentally repressed perverts. Yes, attack the very young and DEFENSELESS, as the church would always be able to neutralise these complaints from kids, you despicable and culpable Catholic clergy -- essentially they should all be shot for such heinous crimes against innocent children; are you reading this former NSW premier, ‘deluded and passively complicit’ Kristina Keneally.

Every Catholic is responsible for not reining in the obvious problem that has stared the religion in its face for centuries. Indeed, we are ALL responsible for tolerating ideological fictions which harm societies throughout the world. But as the Jesuits said, get ‘em young and they will be ours for life, now think of the mindset that expressed those sentiments! For mine, nuking the Vatican would be a good idea, as society has enough problems without tolerating an easily curable religious disease.

Religionists are responsible for spilling more innocent blood and ruining more lives than any other factor/cause in the entire social historical record, YET we tolerate these bent, violent perverts and ideological slave drivers. The sooner we are rid of the social disease of RELIGION, the sooner society would be able to heal itself and take full responsibility for all its actions.

I leave you with a report on the disgusting machinations of the Catholic church, from the SMH, which piece is an exercise in apologetics only. Read it and when your gut ceases turning -- DO SOMETHING ABOUT RELIGION, once and for all -- God’s representatives, my arse.

Catholic leaders speak of church's 'catastrophic failure' in past approach to child abuse
by Rachel Browne

Australia's most senior Catholic leaders delivered a scathing assessment of their church's past approach to victims of child sexual abuse, telling a royal commission it was "criminal negligence" and "a catastrophic failure".

Five metropolitan archbishops appeared before a packed hearing room at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, which is examining Catholic church authorities in a three-week inquiry.

Sydney archbishop Anthony Fisher described the church's response to victims as "criminal negligence".

"There were people who were just like rabbits in the headlights, they had no idea what to do and their performance was appalling," he said.

Melbourne archbishop Denis Hart told the inquiry past approaches were "totally, totally inadequate. Just totally wrong."

Perth archbishop Timothy Costelloe said: "It is a catastrophic failure in many respects but primarily leadership."

All five archbishops indicated to the royal commission that the church had improved its acknowledgement of the harm inflicted on thousands of people who were allegedly abused as children over decades.

Archbishop Fisher told the commission he has made repeated apologies to victims and their families.

"No excuses, no cover-ups, no paedophiles ever again near our churches and schools," he said.

When asked by counsel assisting the commission Gail Furness SC about the factors which led to the widespread abuse, Archbishop of Adelaide Philip Wilson said ignorance played a part.

"They didn't really understand the nature of sexual abuse of children and the effect it had on the children," he said.

Archbishop Wilson has been charged with concealing child sexual abuse. The abuse was alleged to have been carried out by Father Jim Fletcher during the 1970s in the Maitland-Newcastle Catholic Diocese, where Archbishop Wilson was a parish priest. Archbishop Wilson is contesting the charge.

Archbishop Fisher told the inquiry allegations were covered up in the past to protect the church's reputation.

"There was a lack of empathy," he said. "You didn't want scandal, you didn't want causes for people to think less of the clergy or the bishops or the institutions. Things were staring us in the face but ... people wouldn't see it."

Archbishop Hart said bishops "just floated above it ... the awful reality of these crimes didn't make contact with them."

The five archbishops comprised the most senior panel to appear before the inquiry into the high rate of alleged child sexual abuse in the Catholic church. Almost 40 per cent of people attending the commission's private sessions reported sexual abuse in a Catholic institution.

Eileen Piper, a 92-year-old Melbourne woman who has been battling the Catholic church for more than two decades, flew up to the Sydney hearing to speak to Archbishop Hart.

Mrs Piper's daughter Stephanie took her own life in 1994, a year after reporting alleged abuse at the hands of her parish priest when she was a teenager in the 1970s.

Police went on to lay charges against the priest but the case involving Stephanie was dropped after her death. The priest was later convicted of of abusing two of Stephanie's friends.

The Catholic church has refused to accept Stephanie was abused by the priest, with Mrs Piper expressing her anguish outside the commission.

"It's something a mother doesn't recover from when her daughter suicides," she said.

Archbishop Hart sat down with Mrs Piper in a private meeting after the hearing adjourned for the day.

After the meeting, Mrs Piper said: "I am sorry to say that nothing has changed. It isn't over."

The inquiry heard an expert child protection body established by Pope Francis was under-resourced and struggling to work effectively.

Australian member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors Kathleen McCormack told the inquiry the body lacked financial support.

"Our budget would be what you would do in a diocese but we're dealing with the whole world," she said.

New Zealand member Bill Kilgallon told the inquiry: "The way the commission has been structured in terms of the support staff is inadequate."

UK member Baroness Sheila Hollins said the group would raise the issue of under-resourcing with the Pope.

The hearing, before Justice Peter McClellan, continues.

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