Why I am no longer a Roman Catholic

Well I see that the good Pope Benedict has got himself in to a spot of difficulty. And I see that he is trying to extricate himself with a certain amount of Roman deftness and misdirection by issuing an apology not for what he said but that some people objected to what he said. Of course that's an old trick and most folks are quick enough to see it theses days. But he will slide out from underneath because he is good at misdirection. Look at the way he handled the child sex abuse scandals in the Roman Church.

Remember he was Pope John's enforcer and very little went on in the world wide church that he did not know about (especially if it were scandalous). In America we had numerous priests being moved from one parish to another and even from one diocese to another because their sexual activities with little boys had become known. Imagine that … Essentially the Roman Church was playing “hide the pea” to protect its own pedophile priests!? It takes a big conspiracy to do something like that, because a lot of people know what is going on. The victim and his parents know; the other priests in the Parish know; the parish secretary knows; the Bishop knows; his assistant knows; the Bishop’s secretary knows; The Archbishop and or the Cardinal knows and their assistants and secretaries know; the chief administrative priest of the receiving parish knows; All of the legal staffs at the various administrative levels know and some of their clerical staff knows; the Pope and his intimates know; Of course the Enforcer (now known as Pope Benedict) would know; and with all of this “knowing” going on it is impossible that significant parts of the Roman Curia (all priests themselves) would not know.

What all of this means is that for a large number of years, certainly most of Pope John’s reign, the Roman Catholic Church from top to bottom knew that many priests (world wide) were orally and anally raping little boys, and not one of these hundreds of “men of God” not one of these leaders stood up to put a stop to it.

And it is still going on. Oh, not so much in the Western Democracies but in third world countries. Little black boys, and little brown boys, and little yellow boys are still receiving the “special” attention of their parish priests. And if it becomes a local scandal, why the priests are just moved to a different country. More “hiding the pea.”

One wonders if Benedict’s rush to canonize John XXIII is because he really believes that John is worthy (perhaps John could be the patron saint of hopeless pedophiles) or because Benedict thinks that making John a saint will short circuit future investigations.

In any event, it hardly seems that the Roman part of the catholic church can hold itself out as the ‘one true church’ since the gates of hell have very apparently prevailed against it.