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The insipid organization known as the Catholic Church continues to fumble along now begging forgiveness for violating children and destroying their lives.

“Pope Benedict XVI has begged forgiveness from clerical abuse victims and promised to “do everything possible” to ensure priests don’t rape and molest children ever again.”

Well that is nice, but as the CBC reports it is too little, a lot too late.

“Benedict made the pledge during a Mass Friday in St. Peter’s Square, marking the end of the Vatican’s Year of the Priest, a celebration of the priesthood that has been marred by revelations of hundreds of new cases of clerical abuse, coverup and Vatican inaction to root out pedophiles.”

I’m sure that now, he means business.

“On Thursday, Benedict strongly defended celibacy for priests as a sign of faith in an increasingly secular world, insisting on a church tradition that has come under scrutiny amid the clerical sex abuse scandal.”

Well, it would seem there is a correlation of sorts between sex starved priests and the innocent children they systematically and repeatedly target.  One might, if possessing even a moderate grasp of reality, ascertain that the policy of Celibacy for priests is not working very well.   Will the pious make a decision based in the real world?  Wait for it.

“The pope called it “a great sign of faith, of the presence of God in the world.”

The Vatican has long denied that its celibacy requirement was the root cause of priests who rape and sodomize children.”

OH SNAP! Celibacy is the presence of GOD in the world let the rape-train continue full steam ahead!

When people talk to me of religion and morality they wonder why I look at them funny.