UNITED KINGDOM
National Secular Society
Posted: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:11 by Terry Sanderson
Did you know that the Pope “sneaks out” of the Vatican at night dressed as an ordinary priest so that he can minister to the homeless and destitute on the streets of Rome?
Isn’t it marvellous?
Did you know that Pope Francis once worked as a bouncer at a nightclub?
How wonderful – he’s just like one of us – a working man.
As the propaganda piles up, Pope Francis basks in the adulation of the uncritical masses.
But wait. What’s this? The sex abuse scandal that so tormented his predecessor seems to be emerging again after being swept under the rug during Francis’s honeymoon period.
The Holy See (the political wing of the Vatican) has at last responded to questions put to it by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child about the global issue of child rape by priests.
Or, more accurately, it has not responded. It says that it has nothing to do with what goes on in the dioceses and parishes of its churches. Therefore it cannot be held responsible in any way for the unspeakable things that some of its priests do to defenceless children.
And just when the Vatican thought it had distracted us from the horrors that thousands of its priests have perpetrated, it all starts slithering back again.
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