[quote=“ChocolateMice, post: 739764, member: 168”]Another day, another church scandal…
It seems the Pope stepped down due to uncovering a gay plot from within the vatican… It seems many of his cardinals are planning on going against the churces stance on homosexuality and the ex nazi could not abide by this.[/quote]
ex Nazi?
Can you not leave the Nazi party?
He doesn’t give the impression of someone who has left Nazism behind.
The Catholic church in Germany refused a member of their congregation who was raped the morning after pill… They changed their stance when the government threatened to state subsidiaries from them.
What a sick shower of cunts.
Who raped her?
One of gods children…
When will these wankers learn to shut the fuck up??
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/28/cardinal_abortion_is_worse_scandal_than_priest_abuse/
[SIZE=6]Cardinal: Abortion is bigger sin than priest abuse [/SIZE]
George Pell says, “I have always been on the side of the victims.” But the archbishop of Sydney has a funny way of expressing his support.
During an inquiry this week into what the Herald Sun describes as “rampant” child sexual abuse by priests going back decades, Pell admitted, “We’ve been slow to address the anguish of the victims and dealt with it very imperfectly.” He acknowledged that his predecessor, Sir Frank Little, “did cover up” sex abuse and that former Ballarat Bishop Ronald Mulkearns knew of accusations and destroyed documents and moved suspects to other parishes, actions that were “followed by disastrous consequences.”[/URL] The Victorian parliament has already assessed that roughly 620 children were sexually abused by clergy in Australia from the 1930s to the present. It was abuse that was not just perpetrated but concealed by the nation’s hierarchy. “The primary motivation would have been to respect the reputation of the church,” Pell admitted. [URL=‘http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/27/cardinal-george-pell-abuse-cover-up_n_3341302.html?utm_hp_ref=religion’]“There was a fear of scandal.”
In his remarks, Pell was apologetic and specific in his acknowledgment of wrongdoing. “I don’t think many, if any, persons in the leadership of the Catholic Church knew what a horrendous widespread mess we were sitting on. There’s no doubt about it that lives have been blighted,” he said. “There’s no doubt about it that these crimes have contributed to too many suicides.”
But though Pell says he never directly covered up abuse and that he is “committed to working to make improvements,” Pell’s track record tells a different story. Twenty years ago, Pell appeared in court with his colleague Father Gerald Francis Ridsdale[/URL] while Ridsdale was on trial for sexual abuse. Ridsdale was eventually convicted of molesting and [URL=‘http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=4288’]raping 40 children[/URL] over a 26-year period. At the inquiry this week, Cardinal Pell defended his support for Ridsdale, saying, “At that stage nobody knew — well, I certainly didn’t — what proved to be the full extent of his infamous career. I did know that there was a very significant number of charges but I had no idea about all the other things that would unfold.” During the same period, Pell continued to authorize payment of [URL=‘http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/28/george-pell-cardinal-abuse-inquiry’]a “frugal” allowance to Father Ronald Pickering after Pickering fled to England in the wake of sex abuse allegations and refused to cooperate with authorities. It was Pell’s successor who stopped the payments and launched an investigation.
That’s not where Pell’s ignorance ends, though. Eleven years ago, Pell told a group of World Youth Day delegates that “abortion is a worse moral scandal than priests sexually abusing young people” because abortion “is always a destruction of human life.”
And although, when he spoke on Monday, Pell said, “I am fully apologetic and absolutely sorry,” his degree of not-getting-it is still pretty staggering. Pell insisted, “I don’t believe we have a moral obligation” to increase the settlement amounts for sex abuse victims. And in an epic case of poor timing, he railed against “25 years of hostility from the press” and noted that the Australian government “was not active earlier” in pursuing sexual abuse cases. He also, outrageously, declared, ”I’ve sometimes said, if we’d been gossips – which we weren’t – and we had talked to one another about the problems that were there we would have realised earlier just how widespread this awful business was.”
Here’s a hint: When you’re talking about systematic coverups of child rape, it’s best to stick with apologizing. It’s good to remember that you can admit you’ve made mistakes without making the ludicrous, easily refuted claim that you’ve always been on the side of the victims, or humble bragging that the real problem is that you weren’t “gossips.” Doing the morally and legally responsible thing of acting when someone is abusing children is not, by the way, “gossip.” And you want to consider, while you’re explaining yourself to the world, that you still have much soul searching yet to do. Because right now, Pell remains a harrowing example of the evil of complacency.
Perhaps the most telling moment of Pell’s appearance wasn’t anything he said about the crimes on his colleagues or the litigation of victims. Instead it was when, on Monday, the deputy chairman of the committee, Frank McGuire, asked Pell point-blank, “Were you guilty of willful blindness?” And the man of God answered him confidently, “I certainly wasn’t.”
When that cunt Jesus stops talking to them in their sleep.
What an utter spastic.
Pell is an utter utter cunt of the highest order and will hopefully be going to prison for a long time soon.
I went for a run this morning about 5.45am, pitch dark, passed this woman on the way, scared the shit out of her. At the top of a hill I started walking for a while and she caught up with me, indicates she wants to talk with me, so I took off the earphones. “I have an important message for you” says she. “Mkae it quick, Its fucking freezing” thinks I. “Er, yes?” I said. “Jesus died for your sins and will save you”. Oh For fucks sake.
She proceeded to bang on about jesus and god and shit for a minute or two, in the fucking dark, freezing cold, to a complete stranger wearing dark clothing, bigger and fitter than her, who could easily have killed her right there without anyone ever finding out. But because I’m from Wexford, I politely listened and make several indications that I wanted to run as far away as possible. Eventually I got away having said thank you (“Thank you?” I thought to myself “you fucking said thank you?”). Confirmation, if it were needed, that these people are complete loopers.
Note to God: Listen pal, if you’re going to try to convert me, don’t send a fat, frumpy dwarf with bad hair. Send a statuesque blond with big tits and protruding nipples in lycra. I might take notice then.
[quote=“Fitzy, post: 794789, member: 236”]I went for a run this morning about 5.45am, pitch dark, passed this woman on the way, scared the shit out of her. At the top of a hill I started walking for a while and she caught up with me, indicates she wants to talk with me, so I took off the earphones. “I have an important message for you” says she. “Mkae it quick, Its fucking freezing” thinks I. “Er, yes?” I said. “Jesus died for your sins and will save you”. Oh For fucks sake.
She proceeded to bang on about jesus and god and shit for a minute or two, in the fucking dark, freezing cold, to a complete stranger wearing dark clothing, bigger and fitter than her, who could easily have killed her right there without anyone ever finding out. But because I’m from Wexford, I politely listened and make several indications that I wanted to run as far away as possible. Eventually I got away having said thank you (“Thank you?” I thought to myself “you fucking said thank you?”). Confirmation, if it were needed, that these people are complete loopers.
Note to God: Listen pal, if you’re going to try to convert me, don’t send a fat, frumpy dwarf with bad hair. Send a statuesque blond with big tits and protruding nipples in lycra. I might take notice then.[/quote]
can this tard be banned?
You ran past a fat frumpy dwarf, up a hill. On your training run. And she still caught up with you?
If you read it you would have seen the part where I stopped running at the top of the hill and walked for a while.
so you started walking and she started running after you?
Yes
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/nuns-say-they-will-not-pay-magdalene-compensation-1.1464737
Nuns won’t contribute to compensation fund. I find this sickening. They should be cleaned out for every bit of cash and land they possess in the state.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/26/atheism-to-be-taught-irish-schoolchildren
[SIZE=6]Atheism to be taught to Irish schoolchildren[/SIZE]
Up to 16,000 primary school pupils in non-denominational sector will get tuition in atheism, while the rest will be offered courses on the internet and on smartphone apps.
In a historic move that will cheer Richard Dawkins, atheists in Ireland have secured the right to teach the republic’s primary schoolchildren that God doesn’t exist.
The first ever atheist curriculum for thousands of primary school pupils in Ireland has been drawn up by Atheist Ireland in an education system that the Catholic church hierarchy has traditionally dominated.
The class of September 2014 will be reading texts such as Dawkins’ The Magic of Reality, his book aimed at children, as well as other material at four different primary levels, according to Atheist Ireland.
Up to 16,000 primary schoolchildren who attend the fast growing non-denominational Irish school sector will receive direct tuition on atheism as part of their basic introduction course to ethics and belief systems.
But Atheist Ireland’s co-founder Michael Nugent stressed that all primary school pupils, including the 93% of the population who attend schools run by the Catholic church, can access their atheism course on the internet and by downloading an app on smartphones. He said these will be advertised and offered to all parents with children at primary schools in the state.
“There will be a module of 10 classes of between 30 to 40 minutes from the ages of four upwards. It is necessary because the Irish education system has for too long been totally biased in favour of religious indoctrination. And if parents whose kids are in schools under church control want to opt their kids out of learning religion (as is their right these days) then they can use our course as an alternative for their children to study,” he said.
Nugent added: “Religion isn’t even taught properly as an objective subject with various religions and their origins examined and explained. The teaching is to create faith formation first, not objective education. We see our course as a chance for young Irish children to get an alternative view on how the world works.”
Jane Donnelly, a member of Atheist Ireland and a parent with two children in an Irish secondary school, welcomed the creation of an atheism alternative for Irish pupils.
“I opted my two girls out of religious education classes and they were told to go to the library and find a philosophy book to read during RE instead. The range of philosophy books was very limited so I sent them into school each day with a copy of Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion for them to read.”
[SIZE=5]Religion, education and the Irish Republic[/SIZE]
• God is omnipresent in the 1937 Irish constitution, with article 6.1 stating: “All powers of government, legislative, executive and judicial, derive, under God, from the people”; and article 44.1 noting: “The State acknowledges that the homage of public worship is due to Almighty God. It shall hold His Name in reverence, and shall respect and honour religion.”
• Since the foundation of the republic, the Catholic church controls up to 93% of the state’s 3,200 primary schools.
• The Catholic church’s near monopoly of influence in education means that the ultimate power in each school is the local Catholic bishop.
• In Dublin the city’s archbishop, Diarmuid Martin, is patron of about 470 primary schools. He is responsible for the management of the ethos of those schools, for senior appointments and is the one who can be sued when legal action takes place.
• The Irish taxpayer and not the church pays the bills for all the schools the hierarchy controls.
• The current Irish education minister, Ruairi Quinn, has promised “the most radical change in primary education in Ireland since the state was founded in the 1920s” by taking the power of the church from running almost all schools in the state and into the hands of elected governors. So far his reforms have not begun in earnest.