Crying
It hasn’t been the best of weeks for the Catholic bishops, on either side of the pond. First, Thomas Tobin, a jumped-up man-in-a-frock tried to blackmail Congressman Patrick Kennedy, by threatening to withdraw the taking of Holy Communion. Mr Tobin is now doing the rounds of the cable TV shows, trying to rationalise his point of view.
Now there comes the release of the long-awaited report into the Irish Catholic child-abuse scandal, reporting on over thirty years worth of crimes against children by those who should have been most supportive of them. Plus the continuing cover-up by their so-called Archbishops, who have their own agenda which does not include the welfare of the child.
And this report follows the one in May, detailing decades of abuse in Irish schools, orphanages and workhouses, run by many orders of nuns, priests and brothers.
Gloating
The Daily Moaner, for once, finds absolutely no humour in this subject.
It seems there is a human equivalent of Gresham’s Law, which states that bad money drives out good. Good people, likewise, can be driven from an organisation, until all you have left are the bad. Especially organisations which are limited to one sex only. One un-natural set of circumstances leads to another.
And the cover-up is always a mistake, for it begs the question: what does the person covering-up have himself to cover up? And even if there is nothing, after covering-up once, he is now vulnerable himself to blackmail, for having covered up the first time. And he must now cover up a second time. And so it goes… and so it goes…
The “mistakes” at Dublin were systemic, and widespread. They obviously did not begin at the earliest point covered by the investigation. They are also obviously not limited to the area covered. You can read Reuter’s run-down on various Catholic sex-scandals within the last few years, by clicking here.
Abuse has become ingrained in the very fabric of the Catholic Church, protected and sustained at the highest of levels. It seems to the Daily Moaner that all churches which practice “celibacy” stand in danger of corrupting themselves.
