Der Popenfuhrur blames the 70's for pedophile priests.

[Archae]

:eyes:

There must be something very wrong at the Vatican. The Pope's new scapegoat for the Church's sex abuse scandal is the 1970s.

Belfast Telegraph:

Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict's claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn't considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society. “In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said.

“It was maintained — even within the realm of Catholic theology — that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a ‘better than' and a ‘worse than'. Nothing is good or bad in itself.”

The Pope said abuse revelations in 2010 reached “an unimaginable dimension” which brought “humiliation” on the Church..

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/pope-benedict-declares-pedophilia-was-n

[fadedrose]

1. I'm sure the Pope made a mistake...

He meant to say that it was okay to smoke in the 70's, but not now. He's old and confused.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Jeez, Pope Ratzinger has got wicked bad case of Republicon Family Values

Bastardly wide-stance, diaper-fancying hypocritical bugger.

[valerief]

3. Before the 70s, back when I hit puberty in the 60s, we all knew

priests 'diddled' boys. We weren't sure how they did the diddling, but it was common knowledge that they molested boys in poor urban Catholic neighborhoods like mine. It was as common as us saying that nuns liked to diddle each other.

[Odin2005]

4. I believe Polanski used the same excuse.

"Everyone was fucking kids" :eyes:

[Buns_of_Fire]

5. The Church was 'humiliated'... it was all considered 'normal'...

In other words, "We screwed up. It's your fault."

[walldude]

6. Fuck that Nazi fuck.

That statement sounded to me like he was saying that it wasn't wrong to molest children, it's wrong to think there is something wrong with it. I mean what the fuck does this mean:

“In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,”

[DCKit]

7. Ratzo must've been a VIP at 54 back in the day. nt

[Lionel Mandrake]

8. What the Pope said, and what it means ...

What the Pope said is: "Abuse revelations in 2010 reached an unimaginable dimension which brought humiliation on the Church."

The Pope is unhappy about the "revelations" and the "humiliation", not the "abuse".

What bothers the Pope is not that priests were raping children, but that everybody now knows about it.

[undeterred]

9. What about the 60s?

Wow, I'd think the 60s would be the more obvious choice.

[awoke_in_2003]

10. a big "fuck you" to you, Hitler Youth member. nt

[madrchsod]

11. "sooner or later god gon`a strike you down".....

[lunasun]

12. Where ?

In the vatican????>..."“In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children"

"Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society." = his society, in the vatican!

wtf is up with this creep?

[NuttyFluffers]

13. translation: "Shame on you in the '70s for expecting consenting adults..."

"We used to exploit children before and no one cared! Why did you have to change your morals on me?"

well, that's a new low for the RCC...

[Warren DeMontague]

14. It was the tobasco sauce!

That, and Ozzy Osbourne.

[DaveinJapan]

15. Humiliation is FAR too soft a term for those fucks.

SHAME is the more proper term.

They should be ashamed, but instead they only feel humiliated.

Well, some kids they raped felt humiliated AND ashamed, though they did nothing wrong and thus didn't deserve to have to cope with the latter (it just goes with the territory, for those poor kids!). The ones who deserve to feel shame, deny it. Like this Pope and his minions. Fuck them, and if there really was a hell they belong there bigtime!

Maybe they could understand the difference between humiliation and shame if they were forced to do a perp walk like they deserve (the humiliation is involuntary, the shame is for the deed).

Fuck the Catholic Church, I am so fired up disgusted towards the higher ups of that organization I just can't put it into words. As a recovered Catholic, I'm tempted often to go find a local Bishop and take a consecrated Jebus out of my pocket and spit on it and throw it down and crush it underfoot, in order to get excommunicated in grand fashion.

The only problem with that plan is that I still think Jesus was an okay guy. HE'S not the representation I'd like to spit on. Is it possible to piss on a statue of Pope Palpatine and get excommunicated for it? THAT'S what I'd like to do!

UGH!