The betrayal of generations by the Immoral Minority.
In October 2003 former Catholic priest Michael Joseph McArdle was jailed for 6 years for
the systematic sexual abuse of 14 young boys and 2 girls over a 22 year period in
Queensland. Had this happened to only one child it would by no means be any less a
disgusting and abhorrent crime. The fact that McArdle was a Catholic priest at the time,
hypocritically preaching the word of The Lord, forgiving the sins of others and handing
out penance and advice when required and/or asked for is almost beyond belief. The
final blow to these betrayed young people is to find out that in a signed affidavit
McArdle admits to confessing his sins of sexual abuse no less than 1,500 times over a 25
year period.
ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED TIMES,
he allegedly sat face to face with another
priest of the Catholic church and admitted to being a monster who derived sexual
gratification from young people who probably looked up to him as a trusted father figure.
And just what did the church do every time they found out? They moved McArdle to
another church. This so called benevolent religion, arguably the most followed
and populous on the Earth, turned a blind eye, stuck its head into the sand like
an Ostrich and allowed this indescribably foul crime spree to continue unabated.
30 priests, all with the same deified authority and charged with the same
responsibility to care for "Gods Creatures and Children", listened to this poor
excuse of a man’s sins, absolved him and then
conspired to hide the truth.
This
just shows how out of touch the Catholic church is in this modern day. The
Catholic church to this day adheres to it’s doctrine of a confession being sacred
and for the ears only of God, the priest receiving the confession and the
confessor. A man, any man, can walk into a church, confess his sins to a priest
and receive a penance which would be considered manifestly inappropriate in all
courts of law in just about any country on the planet. Yet two Hail Mary’s and
three Lords Prayers are supposed to be adequate enough to salve the soul of the
abuser and ensure that God no longer looks upon him with eyes slitted and mouth
turned down at the corners.
Let’s not be mistaken here – this pathetic act is not in any way entirely
constrained within the borders of Australia. Last year in the United States a
similar story emerged. The callous, calculated degradation of young people by
those held in high esteem - with a mutual element of trust and a common belief
in The Lord seemingly swept under the rug when it was considered too difficult
to face up to or too easy to ignore. The church is as much to blame as the people
who are perpetrating this heinous crime against humanity. Yet the church denies it
is responsible. Instead it cries foul, citing that the Australian children were in
fact wards of the state, and therefore it falls onto the shoulders of the
Government to make restitution. It does not admit to any liability. It will not
accept that at any time it did not have its employees under total control. It
cannot bring itself to acknowledge that its doctrines and views are outdated. It
continues to act more like a secretive pseudo-religious sect than a bona-fide
religion with the best interests of its billions of members at heart. The untold
riches in The Vatican’s vast coffers would never be enough to wipe the slate clean.
The countless others, and there must be many thousands in total, who do not come
forward for one reason or another, can and will, never know justice. The church
opening its wallet and handing out dollars to the tune of 1.5 million per person,
as was alluded to late last year when a congregation of American bishops and
priests returned from a so-called crisis meeting in the Vatican concerning this
very subject, is so pathetically disgusting it almost makes your stomach churn.
Pay them money, shut them up, deny all responsibility, say it was done on the
premise of being charitable so they may get on with their lives with an amount of
closure and hope it goes away.
Yet this crime against our young people, worldwide, goes on and on. How many
brilliant minds have been taken from us? How many innocent souls were destroyed
before being given the chance to flower in Gods garden?
Much has been said lately of the Catholic church’s stance on AIDS in,
particularly, small third world African nations. Once again, the church is so out
of touch with this modern world it almost beggars belief. This religious behemoth
has such a hold on these nations, both financially and spiritually, that it
virtually holds to ransom the people it is supposed to be helping and guiding.
Pamphlets produced and paid for at the behest of the church, alluding to the fact
that condoms are porous and will cause you to contract AIDS and are therefore not
worth using, is nothing short of a callous disregard for life that in any civilized
country would bring down a jail sentence on any individual person or group. Botswana
is a very small nation. It has a total estimated population of 1,573,267, of which
over 39% are estimated to be HIV positive. Its population growth has been measured
at
MINUS
0.55% (25.5 births/1,000 population as opposed to 31 deaths/1,000 population
{2003 est.}). In 10 years time we could see this small, landlocked country emptied of
everything except maybe a few Wildebeest and the odd Lion here and there. Yet this
relic of a time long past still holds true to its belief that contraception is wrong
and against the will of God.
In times gone by, Kings, Queens and Princes lived their lives and ran their countries
at the whim of the church. They willingly went on Crusades to placate the Pontiff, to
curry favor with the church. The church even deigned to call a war between Kings or
countries “Holy” and threw in their lot with the favored one. They were, at that time,
nothing more than warmongers themselves. The planet was essentially ruled by the church
and the doctrine of its God (simplistic, but true). Those days are long gone. The church
cannot be allowed to dictate to the worldwide population of humanity, because in the end
there will be no-one to dictate to. Ultimately, the church must be made to pay for its continued, total and complete, disregard the effect its so called teachings have on the
people of this planet.
It won’t happen overnight, but I pray to any God listening that it does happen.
P.S I was raised a Catholic, but decided to revise my opinions one Sunday morning at
mass when the priest giving the sermon (name withheld) started preaching about giving
all your worldly goods up for the sake of God. At the end of mass, he detailed how his
dishwasher had broken down, his car was out of action and he was going to advertise for
a new housekeeper as the previous one had left his employ. To say a little light came on
up top is an understatement.