Brody's Scribbles... Are We Getting Abuse Fatigue With These Damned Roman Catholic Priests?

By Tim Trent (Devon, UK) Mar 25 | It's getting hard to be horrified yet again at yet another damned Roman Catholic Priest abusing yet another set of kids and hearing that none of those kids were believed and that the damned priest was just moved to a new parish to abuse more kids. The evil Father Lawrence Murphy abused kids at a school for the deaf in Wisconsin, but was allowed to get away with harming these kids. he didn't even get a slap on the wrist. Me? I'd have defrocked him and tarred and feathered him. That plus excommunication.

The entire management of that church is wholly wrong. It seems to have formed the view that it is above the law of any land because The Pope, whoever inhabits the overcoat, is God's Vicar on Earth, and has, presumably, a hotline to the red telephone on God's desk. But it does nothing.

This leads me to wonder whether the church thinks that God wants kids to be abused. After all, they do nothing and they send the abuser to a new crop of kids. And they almost always seem to abuse boys, something that gives homosexuals a bad name. Maybe it's because it's so hard to get a boy pregnant, so there will be no little kids all looking like Father Lawrence Murphy.

He chose well, too, didn't he. he chose defenceless kids who were deaf. That means, of course, that in his view they were imperfect and thus not properly human. Grist to his abuse mill. Dehumanise someone and you can do what you like to him. And, being deaf, communication is harder, so they wouldn't be believed, would they?  And so it proved.

But all this has to come back up the management hierarchy all the way to the CEO. Everyone in the chain of command is equally culpable, every one of then is an accessory to the crime, and every last one has washes his "celibate" little hands of the problem. We have loads of papal apologies, more than you can shake a rosary at, but no substantive action. No defrockings, no excommunications, no police prosecutions, just a prayer or two. Amazing, isn't it, the power of a couple of Hail Marys?

"Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. I attempted to bugger the entire Vienna Boys Choir"

"Three Hail Marys and go in peace, my son."

There are a load of paedophiles correctly in jail right now that must wish they'd become Roman Catholic priests!

What gets me is the angles some folk have when they write their mainstream media stories. In Damian Thompson's "The Pope and the Wisconsin sex abuse scandal: I smell a stitch-up" article I see the weirdest. All the furor seems to be about toppling the current bloke in the papal overcoat, according to him.

That ain't gonna happen, Damian. The guy in the embroidered frock is there until he snuffs it. However many enemies he has, however much he fouls up, probably even if he were personally proved to have abused the entire under twelve population of Italy one by one, he would stay in office. No-one topples a pope, however culpable. And no-one prosecutes a head of state.

That just isn't what it's about, Damian, and you should know it. This is about taking the same fire hose to the Roman Catholic Church that The Telegraph took to the House of Commons over MPs' expenses. And your take on it distracts us from the total culpability of the entire hierarchy of that unpleasant and controlling religion. I know what you wanted to do, but I think you missed the target by a country mile.

I said at the start that it was hard to be horrified yet again at yet another damned Roman Catholic Priest abusing yet another set of kids and hearing that none of those kids were believed and that the damned priest was just moved to a new parish to abuse more kids.

It may be hard, but I'm still horrified.