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	And the Meek Shall Inherit By John Roach Channel 3000 July 9, 2009 http://www.channel3000.com/news/19994621/detail.html It is difficult to be a Catholic these days. The sickening revelations of child abuse cases continue. Just last week the Irish government released a study identifying nearly four decades of systematic sexual, physical and emotional tortures of children at the hands of the ill-named Christian Brothers and Sisters of Mercy. In Wisconsin, child rights activists renewed their condemnations of former Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert Weakland and his actions after the rape of young boys at the St. John School for the Deaf by a priest in the '60s and '70s. Weakland's letters from that time show his concern for preserving the priest's "good name." A priest rapes deaf boys and church management works to preserve his good name! Perfect. (If priests were allowed to marry and father children of their own, these moral issues would be much clearer to them.) This is the same tortured Archbishop Weakland who later spent $450,000 of church money to buy the silence of his male lover. Non-Catholics have come to expect these stories and have no problem chiding their Catholic friends about our unrelentingly dysfunctional religion. Former altar boys have to constantly answer their buddies on the golf course when queried if they were buggered. Yup. It is tough being Catholic. Especially here in Godless Madison.
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