Not to diminish the incredible horror of the story, but people in the US generally don’t pay attention to anything that happens in other countries. Even the response to overseas natural disasters can be muted.
Economic news is an exception, but that generally affects us directly.
The Irish Times was never in step with the Catholic Church going back. In fact it still carries a semblance of its former existence as the mouthpiece of protestant Ireland. Anyway, criticism of the church has been increasingly commonplace in the media. Clerical sex abuse scandals and other chicanery and hypocrisy on the part of the church of Rome have put a severe dent in the church’s standing in Ireland. If it wasn’t basically the established churched it would have even less standing currently imho. (And good riddance too.)
The castration-as-punishment-for-telling-on-sexual-abuse was big news in the US a month ago and that happened in the same institution around the same time.
Well, they weren’t providing the abortions. I think it’s more accurate to say that their protectionist policies prop up a sanguinary black market than that they’re slaughtering wholesale.
But that was a long time a go, like the last century! And they apologized, what more do you want?! And they meant well! And it was a few bad apples!
Yeah.
Sorry, between the scandal about the 16 yo pregnant girl that had to wait weeks to see if she would be allowed to get chemo, due to the Catholic-pushed total abortion ban, and the priest recently caught abusing a 15 yo girl (whose family he tried to bribe to drop the charges), I don’t feel very charitable towards the RCC these days.
Here’s how the punishment should go down-determine what the penalty is for kidnapping a single child is in each country, multiply it by the number of children kidnapped, and make the Catholic Church hand over enough officials to serve that many years with perhaps a maximum of 60 years per kidnapper. How many people would the Church have to hand over, do you suppose?
It does appear that the RCC believes that Christ died for our sins. THEIR sins, on the other hand, cannot be scoured away by the sacrifice of one holy man.
Not to excuse anything but even “normal” people put into impossible situations and losing battles can start to do hideous things.
Hell in the criminally underfunded local public hospital among patients in coma unlikely to recover bed sores are used as a way to clear up beds, assuming that doesn’t work I’ve heard more than one case of accidental insulin overdose given to non-diabetic patients. They sent my brother in laws family out to buy band aids and saran wrap when he went in with third degree burns, no supplies.