Comments on: Pope Apologises To Australians For Clerical Sexual Abuse But Still Fucks Up

By: kitban

kitban — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:38:24 +0000

Have a listen to Dan le Sac and Scroobius Pip Letter from God

By: Bock

Bock — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:46:28 +0000

ProblemSam —

Exactly. Precisely.

“If anyone was hurt”

“If somebody was raped”

Like they’re talking about an unexpected shower of rain. Nobody did it. It just happened.

By: problemchildbride

problemchildbride — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:23:15 +0000

Whenever anybody apologises using the passive as opposed to the active voice, you can reasonably suppose that they have not fully absorbed the responsibility for what they’re apologising for. Politicians use the passive voice all the time to deflect blame for their decisions. I think they learnt it from the church.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:46:59 +0000

I know infallibility is only assumed on matters of dogma, but its assumption in any circumstances does suggest a certain mindset.

Here he was at a world youth celebration with media from all around the world, the smart thing to do would have been to have held his hands up and said “I’m sorry, we got things seriously wrong.” John XXIII would have fully apologized, as would John Paul I.

I know good and faithful Catholic priests who have given their lives serving other people. They have been betrayed by the paedophiles and betrayed by a hierarchy that protected those paedophiles. For Benedict to have publicly acknowledged that the church was complicit with evil doing would have been to recognize that abuse was the antithesis of the work of the faithful clergy.

By: John

John — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:33:06 +0000

He is a critic of homosexuality, same-sex marriage, euthanasia, and abortion and he served Adolf Hitler as a soldier for 2 years, what more can you say?.
He does not give a Feck for the abused but only for the money that the Catholic church has to pay out. Bet his lawyers worked on the so called apology

By: Bock

Bock — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:05:02 +0000

None of them are able to talk straight. They always start off with “if anyone was hurt …”

By the way, that infallibility doctrine is widely misunderstood.

While it’s certainly bollocks anyway, they don’t say he’s always infallible. Only when he’s pronouncing on matters of faith and morals. There’s no point asking him who’s going to win the 3.30.

By: Ian

Ian — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:58:11 +0000

Bock,

Why can’t he ever apologize for the institutional cover up that has characterized church responses to these issues? Only a tiny minority believe in infallibility these days, but he continues as though living in some medieval age when to say that the church got things wrong was some kind of heresy

By: Bock

Bock — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:11:52 +0000

That’s because the site traffic is so busy I exceeded my bandwidth allocation. It should be all right now.

By: Rahood

Rahood — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:25:58 +0000

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By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:48:48 +0000

All Tommy Cooper needed to do his stand-up routine was a fez cap. The only laughs this Ratzinger will get from abuse survivors is laughs of derision.