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Jon Stewart took to The Daily Show last night (11/10/11) to talk about the Penn State child sexual abuse scandal, and gave a serious commentary about how people knew of Sandusky’s abuse and didn’t do anything, as well as the recent student rioting over the firing of coach Joe Paterno.
The very end of this is worth heeding for Penn State fans: “And just like with the Catholic Church, no one is trying to take away your religion, in this case, football. They’re just trying to bring some accountability to a “Pope” and some of his “Cardinals” who fucked up. So don’t worry, on Saturday, you’ll still get to go to ‘services’ against Nebraska. No one’s going to take that away. Because, obviously, you’re young. And that would be a traumatic experience. And we wouldn’t want that memory to scar you for life.”
Once again, Stewart delivers a first-class shaming to people with their heads so far up their asses they can’t think critically.
I’ve struck through what appears immediately above because I think Stewart’s wit stands on its own merits without embellishment.
(Source: the-mtblog)
I don’t practice as a Catholic anymore. It’s so hard to reconcile what the men at the top do with what Jesus preached.
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—Marie Collins, a 64-year-old Dubliner who was abused by a hospital chaplain, Rev. Paul McGennis, when she was 13, as quoted in The New York Times Magazine article “The Irish Affliction.”
Two decades later, she confided in another parish priest about what happened. He suggested it was her fault because she may have tempted McGennis, but that he would forgive her. And then ten years later, she wrote to the archbishop of Dublin, now a cardinal in the Vatican, who told her McGennis was a good priest and she should not “ruin his life.”
by Nancy Rosenbaum, producer
(via beingblog)
Has the Catholic church become irreparably harmed by the concentration of power at the top of its organizational structure? When redress of grievances is precluded by said structure, it would appear so. More importantly, this inability to redress grievances is a further victimization of those who have suffered childhood sexual abuse. The organization compounds the suffering and complicates the healing.
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