With a bit of luck and the application of the law, cardinal Pell will be in a cell tonight. There might be a God after all! One wonders how this will be faced by this man who for years denied justice to those child victims subjected to terrible abuse. I never like the man. Each time he was on TV I could not help but feel he was a man devoid of feeling. The Pope has now been given a list of 6000 paedophile priests. Those priests are still alive. The Pope in his celestial wisdom announced they were ‘The Tools of Satan’. Even now, he is not willing to face the terrible truth that each of those abusers should have been dealt with by the law. The Catholic church still prefers to hide the fact that for decades the only thing the church was interested in was to hide the truth of rampant paedophilia. The victims were secondary in this whole debacle.
Cardinal Pell was the third highest in the hierarchy of the catholic Church. Almost a Pope. The Catholic church now has a crisis on its hands. It can no longer persists in one of its strongest dogmas of its insistence on celibacy. People have sex. The denial of that is just plain stupid. Of course, abuse of children is not just concentrated by the catholic church. It happens everywhere but, the catholic church is the one religion which stands out above all the others in its treatment of the victims. The hiding and moving paedophile priests to other parishes was a matter of routine. It seems unbelievable that that was the norm. Pell seemed to blame the victims of abuse. A callous man devoid of compassion and empathy.
It is now seen as an institution run by feeble old men run for feeble old men. You look at those images of all those old purple clad men huddling together eager to kiss the withered hand of a shaky mitered Pope in Rome. Where are the women in all this? There needs to be a revolution by the catholic church.
In any case, Pell will be locked up tonight. One can only wonder what he will be thinking. Is there going to be a moment, just a split second, whereby he will acknowledge within his frosty heart, the terrible deeds he now has been found guilty of?
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February 26, 2019 at 10:54 pm |
Amen to that, Gez. Ahem 😊
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February 27, 2019 at 4:19 am |
Justice done, Therese.
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February 27, 2019 at 12:01 am |
Well said, Gerard, especially the part about celibacy. It is lunacy!
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February 27, 2019 at 4:22 am |
As a fourteen year old, I was told that sex was a mortal sin deserving eternal hell. I could not run away fast enough. Instead of a word of encouragement or love by the church I was threatened by fire. Give me sex over hell anytime.
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February 27, 2019 at 8:33 pm
And after all that marvelous sex, I bet there’s not a single hair on the palm of your hands. 🙂
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February 27, 2019 at 9:51 pm
I was told that keeping hands above the blankets was the best way in avoiding mortal sinning. The priest also thought that laying the table and washing up the dishes might be helpful.
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February 27, 2019 at 2:20 am |
Of course here, in the Hunter Valley, the Catholic Church is paedo Central, with known paedophile priests being protected by the clergy as well as Catholics high up in the police. The current Australian cardinal talks about the church rebuilding trust. I know card carrying Catholics who refuse to go to church, thanks to decades of being ignored.
I hope the cardinal meets a nice boyfriend in jail, well hung!
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February 27, 2019 at 3:53 am |
What hope when the legal system protects other nonces. I heard Kristina Keneally, who has a Bachelor of Theology, this morning, at a loss what to do. Apparently its Holy Week in the Catholic church (whatever that is in catholic dogma), she won’t be attending church.
Yet there are those who don’t believe it to be true.
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February 27, 2019 at 4:34 am
I noticed that our former PM John Howard gave a character refence to Pell.
I wonder too about those with fervently held opinions that refugees should remain locked up indefinitely. There is something terribly evil going on there as well.
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February 27, 2019 at 4:38 am
And visit him Gaol too. Power corrupts power. I see that skidmark Bolt and that moron Divine both think he’s innocent, akin to the Lindy Chamberlain dingo trial.
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February 27, 2019 at 5:42 am
One would think that Devine and Bolt were in the sacristy of Melbourne Cathedral on the day.
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February 27, 2019 at 4:30 am |
It’s all coming unstuck now, Big M. Right now he (Pell) is being led to the cell below the courts.
It’s funny how those forever banging on about the evils of homosexuality, same sex marriage, birth control, abortions, single mothers and more…end up being so sneaky, abusing children.
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February 27, 2019 at 3:48 am |
That’s it Gez, Cardinal Rock Spider could have been Pope going onto protect fellow Rock Spiders around the world.
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February 27, 2019 at 4:37 am |
I am sure Pell thought he could make it to the Pope. ‘Pope Pell’ has a sinister ring to it.
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February 27, 2019 at 4:38 am
Horrid thought, protecting the nonces of the world.
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February 27, 2019 at 4:18 am |
Breaking news
Cardinal George Pell has had his bail revoked in the County Court in Melbourne. He has been remanded in custody
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February 27, 2019 at 5:46 am |
When we were holidaying in Rome, we were chatting to a retired Australian priest. He reckoned that the current Pope had a South American Cardinal locked up in the Vatican prison who had committed around ten thousand acts of paedophilia. Of course he will never be tried by a secular judge, and who knows what the Vatican prison is like. It could be a grand hotel.
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February 27, 2019 at 5:57 am |
I heard along the grapevine that The Vatican still gives wine to those locked up to help atone for their sins.
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February 27, 2019 at 6:07 am |
I sure hope so! And I hope it rocks him to his core!
I agree with everything you’ve said/shared here, Gerard. This is a powerful and important post. Thank you!
Such things have touched my own family and it has been devastating, sad, impossible to put aside, etc. 😦
A movie that shares about this subject and the Catholic church in America is “Spotlight”. If you get a chance to watch this movie, please do.
Thank you, again.
And (((HUGS)))
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February 27, 2019 at 7:10 am |
Give a thought for those who go through live firmly believing in the sanctity of the church. It has given them strength and a reason to accept the good and the bad that most lives entail. And now, all over the world thousands upon thousands of priests sexual abusing the most vulnerable, our children.
The worst part surely is the dogged determination to keep covering it up, even today.
Surely, proof of this, is the letter of reference and good character by our own ex-Prime minister, John Howard AFTER Pell had already been found guilty. He seems to still be defending Pell.
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February 27, 2019 at 6:57 am |
This is what Jesus said:
“Be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees — I mean their hypocrisy. Whatever is covered up will be uncovered and every secret will be made known. So then, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the broad daylight. Luke 12:1”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-27/george-pells-conviction-opportunity-australian-catholic-church/10852688
“Jesus warned against men like Cardinal Pell. His message could save the Church”
By Robert Gascoigne
“In so many ways, Pell was the archetypal Pharisee, strictly observing and parroting dogmas while luxuriating in his superior sanctity, indifferent to the human toll. . . .”
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February 27, 2019 at 9:59 pm |
Jesus could have done a bit more than just warning us about the Pharisees, Uta.
He could have insisted the church change its dogma about celibacy by including marriage and more women, lots of them, within the hierarchy of the church.
With the damage caused to the lives of innocent children by the church I would not be surprised that people will take a big detour around any church.
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February 28, 2019 at 4:44 am
As far as I know, Gerard, that church was not established yet while Jesus was still alive. Was he as dogmatic and did he want to exclude women? I don’t think so.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/feb/28/the-kid-and-the-choirboy-the-harrowing-story-of-george-pells-victims
George Pell’s victims: This is a truly harrowing story!
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February 28, 2019 at 5:48 am
I am no expert on religious matters, Uta. But I thought that the church represented Jesus on earth. Isn’t the pope God’s representative?
My agnosticism is getting stronger by the day, the more I hear about religion and churches.
I actually respect the Lutheran church. None of that pomp, glitter and ceremony. Their main credo is to be responsible and lead good lives by example. None of that sinning and then going to confession to start sinning all over again.
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February 27, 2019 at 8:53 am |
Today’s defense, ‘It’s just a plain vanilla sexual penetration case.’ Are there other flavours? I saw that a bloke in Darwin had raped a woman with a beer bottle. In his defense, he claimed to have seen worse than that. It’s either India Pale Ale, or chocolate with hazelnuts, so it seems.
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February 27, 2019 at 10:03 pm |
A dreadful defence by Pell’s defence lawyer, Big M.
How do the parents feel about the belittling of sexual assault on their children?
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February 27, 2019 at 5:47 pm |
Finally, a bit of justice. The very tip of a huge iceberg. –Curt
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February 27, 2019 at 10:09 pm |
Yes, I was surprised the extent of paedophile priests in the US too, Curt. It has been happening for as long as the churches have existed. The insistence by the Catholic church of celibacy and that this is actually possible to achieve, would have to be the biggest lie of them all. Of course the priests have sex, either with themselves, with each other, with boys and girls or whatever they can find and make available.
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February 28, 2019 at 1:07 am
Pretty hard to ignore the sex drive, since it guarantees our continued existence. Or as St. Augustine was reputed to have said, “Lord give me chastity, but not yet.”
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March 2, 2019 at 12:23 am |
The people who are declaring he is innocent appear to all beCatholics or lapsed Catholics who do not want to believe a priest could do this. They need to face up to reality and not question the jury on what they heard. A bitter pill for then to swallow but what if he gets off on a technicality in an appeal? They will be cheering for him. With that many paedo priests, it is clear if he was innocent, he was still complicit. Awful.
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