NY Archbishop compares Pope in pedophile scandal cover up to Jesus

[RainDog]

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view/20100328ny_archbishop_defends_pope_against_sex_abuse_furor/

The standing-room-only crowd at St. Patrick’s Cathedral applauded for 20 seconds after Dolan read a statement calling the pope the "leader in purification, reform and renewal that the church so very much needs."

Still, Dolan said reports of abuse of minors by some priests in Ireland and Germany and the retelling of the abuse of children by a priest in Wisconsin had intensified the somberness of Holy Week.

The leader of the nation’s second-largest diocese urged his congregation to pray for the pope, saying he was suffering some of the same unjust accusations once faced by Jesus.

Leader in purification? :rofl:

And this man has the NERVE to compare a man who spent decades shielding pedophiles to Jesus?

Another example, apparently, of just how fucked up the catholic hierarchy is. It is an unjust accusation to note that this pope is the man who wrote the book on how to cover up the abuse?

But, as the recent editorial in the Boston Herald noted,

This hierarchy’s continual half-baked repentance - apology followed by inaction - bodes worse for bishops: They appear increasingly ridiculous and irrelevant, issuing moral directives when so morally compromised themselves.

Recall last week when the bishops opposed the health-care bill to cover 30-plus million uninsured Americans. Even typically obedient Catholic nuns raced in to point out the hypocrisy: the bishops’ ever more shrill crusade for unborn children vs. their campaigning against the health needs of children already born. And then, of course, came the inevitable juxtaposition of their failure to protect those children tormented by priests bishops knew to be monsters.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/view/20100327why_pope_benedicts_got_to_go/srvc=home&position=0

[sui generis]

1. well I guess sucking up comes with the territory, so to speak.

ba dum tish.

[roguevalley]

20. blasphemy is a sin.

[SpiralHawk]

2. "and xCommander AWOL Bush was like Archangel Michael" - Archie Bishop (R)

"Who among us can ever forget the positively angelic way (smirk) George Bush avoided Vietnam and deserted his National Guard unit to go sniff cocaine, while with equal angelic grace, the kindly xVP Dickie Cheney (R) slickly finagled FIVE freaking military deferments. Now that's impressive, even for republicons.

"So yes, I must confess that it's true. As Republicon Chickenhawk War Profiteers are like angels, so is Pope Ratzinger (R) like unto Jeebus himself. He's right up there on the Republicon Family Values Pantheon of Glory alongside our beloved Rev. Second-Coming-of-Christ Moon (R). Smirk."

- Archie Bishop (R)

[Cirque du So-What]

3. Shove over, Jesus!

Gonna get a bit crowded up on that cross.

[madrchsod]

4. that`s really offensive but....

what should i expect from a bunch of child molsters

[myrna minx]

5. Oh puke.

:puke:

[mike_c]

6. WWJA....

Who would jesus abuse? :rofl:

[fascisthunter]

7. sycophant or a pedophile himself

either way, people like him are destroying their own church around the World.

[get the red out]

8. Shouldn't they just shut up?

Do these guys have no PR help available to them? Every time one of them opens his mouth what comes out just sounds worse. These guys are completely out of touch with reality, they've got no clue how bad these revelations even are, I guess they just see hiding pedophiles as the cost of doing business and can't for the life of them wonder what all the fuss is about.

[Walk away]

9. I just posted this but you can't post it to often in my opinion!

These monsters have been so protected and coddled for two thousand years that they just don't get it.

And may I add.....This happening just before Easter is great because they cannot hide. They have to come out of their castles and show themselves all over the world and when they do the press is all over them.

Tear this Pope down!

[RainDog]

14. sorry. I didn't see your post.

yeah, easter, health care bill... it's almost enough to make you believe in karma.

it's time to get beyond the medieval trappings.

[Walk away]

19. And let's not forget the Christian Militia.

I don't blame Christians for them but it makes the Fundies look pretty bad.

[SidDithers]

10. "unjust accusations"? Holy fuck...

he's the head of an organization that covered up the wide-spread and ongoing sexual abuse of children for decades!

There's nothing unjust about the accusations against the Catholic Church.

Shut 'em down.

Sid

[Soylent Brice]

11. by his logic, Jesus tried to hide his apostle's pedophilia.

:crazy:

okely dokely.

[RainDog]

15. which means he's saying Peter...

nah, don't wanna go there.

it's time for the right wing religious to be knocked off their high horses.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

12. putrefication, not purification.

You bet he's just like jesus. Can't you see him chasing out the money lenders from the Vatican? Ha. Heh heh. HEE HEE HEE! The day that the Vatican rejects a profitable enterprise will be the day that they honestly deal with their huge sex scandal.

[piratefish08]

13. catholic defenders have gone into hiding over THIS fucking mess.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

16. some of them need to go to jail.

This is little more than a criminal organization.

[yourout]

17. The priest we had growing up gave me the creeps. He was later caught in bed with a guy by....

the guys wife.

[arcane1]

18. I hope I live long enough to see the day....

when this vile institution is completely dismantled, their obscene riches given to the poor, and their seat at the UN vacated.