Top Catholic Official compares Vatican to a trucking company

[Brettongarcia]

11. Rug for once is seemingly relevant

The Vatican is trying to assert that the Vatican, the Pope, were not responsible for the actions of their priests. Their argument is that the Church is NOT a top-down organization; amazingly, they are now saying that the Vatican and Pope don't tell priests what to do, and do not manage them.

That argument of course is absurd and perverse, to the point of being laughable. The Church has for centuries, emphasized the authority and centrality of the Pope. As in fact, its central, main, core principle. As the very thing that distinguishes itself from say, Protestantism. The Pope, in other words, is an important authority in Catholicism. Obviously. For the Church to now repudiate the central authority of the Pope, is an obvious, laughable reversal of everything it ever stood for, and for its formerly "eternal" doctrines.

To be sure though, in more recent years the Church had been giving SOME greater authority to local, national organizations, and bishops. And on the basis of this, the Church is trying to say that the Pope was not responsible for child molesting priests. Because the Pope was not overseeing them, and had no authority over them.

And therefore? It is now argued that we cannot sue the Vatican. Or the Pope.

Of course, the Church's current argument is as hypocritical, false, and laughable as any argument we have heard in decades. The Church is now saying that the Catholic Churches don't and shouldn't try to follow the Pope.

Is the Pope head of the Church? (Or from the other way around: is the Pope Catholic?) No, says the Church today.

Now the Church is clearly in the realm of flip flopping, slapstick comedy.

Here we see the Church at its most hilarious (and tragic) hypocrisy and inconsistency.

The Bible warned that our highest holy men, even the "host of heaven" (Isa. 34.4, 51.6?) were horrible deceivers. But it told us that one "day" we are supposed to see that.

And now we are seeing it. We see priests molesting children; then we see the whitewashing cover-up. Starting from the very top.