Laboro ergo cum?
So this is how the Catholic Church shows compassion to the victims of the child abuse it facilitated
And they get to wear fancy dress!
Is Bricker busy this morning?
It’s worse than communism!
It’s like they have a mad-lib generator. It’s <fill in the blank comparison> <fill in the blank oppression> that requires us to <fill in the blank weasel words> despite our <fill in the blank pleasant noun>. It’s <just like> <the Holocaust> that requires us to <halt the investigation> despite our <deep concern>. It’s <worse than> <communism> that requires us to <throw up roadblocks> despite our <love of the LORD>.
It’s communionism!
Oh, bra-vo.
Only if you ask for permission first!
I’m not sure you can actually blame the Church for this one (er, other than the actual abuse bit). The family has filed a suit, and if the Church doesn’t mount a vigorous legal defense there’s every chance the jury will award the victim eleventy billion dollars. Not that the jury shouldn’t, but it should be obvious that even the most compassionate religious institution isn’t going to be keen on giving away all its assets.
In any case, anyone who thought the Pope meant “give them lots of money” when he talked about compassion probably wants their head examined.
In this particular case, there are probably very few legal defenses the Church can raise beyond, “well, the family is partly responsible.”
It’s been drilled into people’s young soft heads for generations that they are God’s representatives on Earth.
There’s very little they won’t be able to get away with until people realize what a sham it is.
OK, but we didn’t think it could square with, “be uber-assholes to them to prevent them from getting lots of money from us.”
As Jesus said, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich Church to enter the kingdom of God.
Maybe the Church should sell everything it has, give the money to its victims, and follow Christ. That would be more consistent with the Gospel teachings than what it’s doing now.
Unless it is not a sham, and God really is a child buggerer.
Uh… no. He’s not.
Hmm… how old was Mary when God shoved a dove up her hoo-haw?
Old enough to know better.
“A police officer who tried to bring one of Newfoundland and Labrador’s most infamous scandals to light has died. Art Pike, 69, was a Royal Newfoundland Constabulary officer who gained notoriety — and a demotion — in the late 1970s when he leaked a police report regarding a fire at the Elizabeth Towers apartment of cabinet minister Tom Farrell.”
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2007/09/19/pike-obit.html#ixzz0sCp0ZYb9
Tried.
Pike died in 2007
Well, you have to understand-he tried it once with an adult woman, and look at the fiasco that turned into.
In the US, I would have to specifically get my client’s permission in writing to avoid pleading the defense of “failure to mitigate damages”, which is a pretty standard defense in a civil case. Granted, I would also want to get in writing my client’s permission to plead it in this kind of case. It is a necessary defense and a formal matter cannot be pleaded later if it is not pleaded now.
I think that the RCC has been despicable in their conduct around molestation and covering it up. But the pleading of this affirmative defense is has nothing to do with the despicable part.
Much more of this and Fred Phelps is gonna have a point.
Ask Bricker.