No kidding. Two thousand years of killing people and pillaging the world, forced conversions, raping children, covering up the rape of children, murdering children, covering up the murder of children, anti gay agendas, anti Semitic agendas… The list goes on and on. God forbid someone should make a joke about them. How unfair!
What is disgusting is the implication that the child consented. “Getting laid” implies a consensual act when what occurred was child rape. Normalizing sick behavior in this manner is not okay–make any joke you like about the Catholic church but FFS do NOT use language that implies that rape victims are complicit in their own abuse. That’s shitty, is what that is.
Oh please, there was no such implication, we all know at whose expense the joke was. Insulting the Catholic church is not normalizing the very sins they’re being insulted for.
It was a one line joke, you’re placing too much meaning into the phrasing while completely ignoring the point. The joke was not about the victims, it was about the priests.
Could he have phrased it better? Sure, but I’m pretty sure the vast majority of people understood his point because people understand having sex with children is not consensual. Over analyzing throwaway jokes never works out. Do you really think that he thought the sex was consensual?
ETA: curses for making my post too wordy so RickJay slipped in there. I’m going to leave it anyway.
Distraction tactic when you can’t defend the indefensible: pick at nits.
The Pope should just put this on blast and get himself a good lap dog.
This article claims ten percent of pet owners are delaying kids due to expenses.
Like the Rita Rudner joke. “We wanted to hear the putter patter of little feet around the house. So we bought a dog. Well it’s cheaper. And you get more feet.”
He’ll want someone else’s children to do it, KWIM?
Me? If I need assistance in my later years, I’ll take the money I would have spent on those kids, which is currently in an IRA, and hire people to do this for me. I wouldn’t want my children, if I had them, to destroy their own health, marriages, and careers on account of me.
sure, which is perfect evidence that the catholic church as an organisation is morally bankrupt.
The comments regarding people who only have one child pissed me off more than the comments about pets. My parents (Dad in particular) wanted more than one child, but Mom developed severe health issues after she had me. Attempting to carry another pregnancy to term would more than likely have killed her, so she and Dad stopped trying. Neither was interested in adoption (and, to be honest, I’m not sure they could have afforded it at that point – we had a comfortable house, and each parent had a good car, but they were also really careful with their spending). So would the Pope have expected my mom to risk her life for more kids, or would he have expected them to take on a disruptive amount of debt? Once I was old enough, they did get a dog. Also, as their financial situation became more comfortable, they gave back plenty; one big project I remember was them helping my school acquire air conditioning. Neither of my parents ever expressed regret about having only one child though. As my mom later told me, in their eyes there was no other option; that’s just how the situation was, and they accepted it.
Also, I’ll stop using the phrase “fur babies” once child-havers stop referring to their offspring as “littles.” 
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Ask yourself! You made the “funny” a little priestly zinger about children getting laid, just popped it out like a stale fart. If you are really so outraged about the disgusting RCC watch your mouth.
Cool, victims are just collateral damage for the purposes of making a joke that wasn’t supposed to be about them? Just a little confessional exercising by a priest, bless me father for I have lain with children yuk it up dopers!
The Pope could always say that the Landlord gave him a Holy Exception to the anti-pet rule.
He’s infallible, so who could question it?
Congratulations! Your gold star for showing the most fake outrage on the internet is on it’s way. It comes with a book explaining the concept of humor and a free year of counseling on overreacting to jokes you don’t understand.
He’s more interested in the prizes he’s getting from the Church for detailing this pitting.
It is kind of curious, that of all that has been going on about with the Church, it would be this that snaps Francis’ liberal sympathyzers out of it…
tbf, I would not say “fake” outrage. I believe this may be a case of sincere “OMG there’s things YOU JUST SHOULD NEVER JOKE ABOUT!!!1!11!”
OK, opinion duly noted.
Could be worse. From Kathleen Parker’s attempt to spin the Papal foot clear of the Papal mouth:
In my experience, very few first-time parents have any idea how much they’re going to love their little peanut.
Furbots?
It’s not fucking funny, you cuntbag, and that’s the point. To the people it’s happened to it’s absolutely not fucking funny and all those fucking “jokes” people make about child rape makes the world feel like an even more fucked up place than it is, where people yuk it up over kids getting raped and implying they were willing participants. So how about you take a five foot barbed wire dildo up your ass at 50mph and 7500 rpm then get back to me how funny you think it is when everyone laughs at the TikTok video of it happening to you. After you get out of the hospital, of course. Shithead.