He has declared that sexual abuse by Catholic clergy did not exist before the “all-out sexual freedom” of the 1960s.
Sexual abuse of kids is ancient and still pervasive today. The Catholic Church has no monopoly on it, either. One of the bonuses of living in the most cosmopolitan city in the world where more than half the population was born outside Canada, is seeing how no ethnic/religious/cultural group has a monopoly on anything. There’s abuse by Imans, Rabbis, Pastors, you name it.
But Ben makes it seem so simple and so blamable on others.
He’s a leader of the catholic church, what would we expect? The average person in the street has a far better moral compass than anyone occupying such a position.
Wow, sexual freedom not only forced priests to rape kids, it also forced their superiors to cover it up.
If only Nixon had thought to blame Watergate on hippies.
Well, this bunch were only fisher-ring-kissing, ass-licking good Catholics fucking a bit around. It all started exactly in 1968, with those Rock’n’Roll a-hearing and a-shaking, pinky-commie-peace-loving unwashed heathen hippies. Especially the German ones, they dared to be intellectual and question the authorities. And had the better arguments, derived from history and not from a twisted view of millennials old scripture and hundreds of years of mental masturbation called “theology”.
ETA: I didn’t want to single out the German part of the cultural revolution of those years, but of course Benni still holds a grudge especially against the German left after all those years, Hey, take a look at the numbers: around 50 % percent of the population was Catholic in the 60s. And today? Around 28 % percent I guess, and falling, and not recovering. Heh!
Technically, no, as it’s part of “an independent city-state enclaved within Rome, Italy. Established with the Lateran Treaty (1929), it is distinct from yet under ‘full ownership, exclusive dominion, and sovereign authority and jurisdiction’ of the Holy See.” -Wikipedia
Maybe they can build a wall around VC and then jam the cell towers and cut off internet and other communications. And then put a plastic bubble over the whole thing. To replicate the virtual bubble that’s already there.