Pat Regan: Catholic Confessional Farce: 1.2 billion happy to protect vile child abusers UPDATED

Pope Francis has said he is ashamed of the Catholic Church's failure to adequately address the "repellent crimes" of sex abuse by clergy. The Irish prime minister earlier delivered a strong warning to the Pope to take action against clergy involved in child abuse and keeping it secret.

It all sounds fine and dandy but in affect it’s simply more ‘Damage Limitation’ by a struggling branch of religious Christian Fundamentalism. Let’s get one thing straight; any papal apology is utter rubbish. Why is that you may rightly ask. Well the answer is to be found within the Church’s own mandate and the deeply entrenched and oh so well indoctrinated attitudes of the ‘Faithful ones,’ who blindly support this corrupt and dangerous religious regime.

The Doctrinal Evil that protects child abusers within the Church

Abusive priests will still be protected from prosecution on many occasions due to Church teachings on confession. These out-moded fundamentalist rules make a mockery of law and give vile child abusers shelter.

Ok, let's suppose that one child abusive priest decides to ask for forgiveness. He’s perhaps been abusing little kids placed in his care for many years and has now grown too old to actually bother doing it any longer. He goes to the confessional box and seeks forgiveness. His pal in the dog collar on the other side of the grill makes all the right noises and gives the child abuser a few dozen Hail Marys and Our Fathers to get his salvation.

Later on, the police ask the priest to give evidence against the ecclesiastical abuser. Now we see the big rub. The priest WILL NOT break the confessional code of silence, thus the child abuser is most likely moved to another parish, without punishment. Yes, it all gets swept under the carpet!

Q. What sort of god protects child abusers?

A. The one that resides with the priest in the confessional box!

Below is one small example of the dangerous mind control at work within this church that helps clerical abusers of children escape justice, time and time again. For this Catholic writer, Joanna Moorhead, the confidentiality of the confessional box (which she calls "sacrosanct") apparently supersedes child safety.

Denis Hart, the Archbishop of Melbourne, previously said that the sacredness of the confessional was above the law, and that he would rather go to jail than report any sin he heard during the sacrament of penance.

This of course means that if a vile child abuser visits him, or other so-called spiritual representatives of God, in a confessional box the crimes will remain secret.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/16/child-abusers-confessional-sacrosanct-catholic-royal-commission-australia

Hart's callous attitude was furthermore supported by the Catholic writer of the article in question. Millions of ordinary Catholics either support this principle or simply remain silent. So where exactly does this Dark Age, doctrinal, nonsense leave millions of abused kids does today, regardless of the Pope’s latest damage limitation exercise?

Catholic Church and the danger to children in brief...

Clergy abuse of children is not limited to Catholicism and numerous examples exist in other Christian denominations. However, Catholic priests believe they have a sacred responsibility to their devout pledges of concealment in their own circles. This they believe supersedes their legal responsibility under the law of the land.

They are prepared to go to prison to defend this belief. One example may be reiterated with Denis Hart, the Archbishop of Melbourne, previously stating that the sacredness of the confessional was above the law and that he would rather go to jail than report any sin he heard during the sacrament of penance.

In the eyes of the clergy, the confidentiality of the confessional automatically produces forgiveness. This they believe grants even the vilest child abuser of children spiritual clemency. Of course, the result is that they remain hidden within the safety of their church and the situation continues with more child victims. In a nutshell, the pervert clergyman has a convenient ‘get out’ clause, which enables any depraved priest to escape full accountability providing he can keep his crimes in the dark for long enough.

This appalling situation is fully supported by every ordinary Catholic, because the Church hierarchy (that cannot be disobeyed) decrees the confessional clause to be the Law of God!

Whilst this confessional silence policy stands priestly perverts will remain safe. It is up to the billions who actually believe in all of this fundamentalist dogma to demand that the policy is changed.

Can 1.2 billion people be wrong?

There are an estimated 1.2 billion Roman Catholics in the world, according to Vatican figures. Can they be wrong? Well when it comes to protecting odious child abusers within their confessional box the answer must be YES!

Surely the children must take priority over man-made Catholic diktat, which places itself above the law and is happily perverting the course of justice?

If this bogus faith system cannot wake up and change its evil ways if must go the way of the dinosaur. Children's safety MUST come before absurd and perilous teachings that fly in the face of common sense laws against filthy child abusers in dog collars....

NO CHILD WILL EVER BE SAFE IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, whilst this ancient confessional (cop out) clause stands.

Considering all of the above, the Pope’s recent comments change nothing. His half-hearted apologies stand for little more than hollow lip-service to an appalling situation that should have been addressed decades ago.

Catholicism: driving itself into extinction…

If this religious system cannot govern its actions against millions of innocent children properly (which it cannot) then it’s high time that the rest of society demanded its removal. No one or no organisation should be above the law!

Pat Regan ©

http://pat-regan.blogspot.com/

Addendum...

Vatican confessional defence is false

The defence that the Vatican has been using about confessional confidentiality is FALSE. In 1962 it was ruled permissible for abuse by Catholic priests confessed to other priests in their regular confessionals to be REPORTABLE.

It's all outlined in Canon Crimen Solicitationis. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimen_sollicitationis

Thus, bishops and the Catholic hierarchy are LYING about confessional confidentiality in order to cover-up and whitewash priests who abuse children. They are pretending not to know or observe their own clearly stated rules.

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-45276831

http://saff.nfshost.com/ryanmurphy.htm

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/08/24/us/catholic-clergy-sex-abuse-state-investigations/index.html

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