Catholicism is just fine...

Father Ricardo Seppia, yet another priest sent up for child abuse.

Pictured: Proof Religion is good.

I'm really not sure how much more of this shit will be put up with. It outrages everyone who hears it, it hurts and scars countless children, it destroys lives, minds and bodies. And that's just from the outside perspective. What must the church be doing to counteract this? It keeps happening over and over, it's been highly publicized and yet these cretinous monsters continue in their abuse. They claim to be a guiding light and then act like horrible human beings. It's almost like there is no real weight to any of their claims of supernatural guidance and power....

Here's an excerpt:

 Father Riccardo Seppia, a 51-year-old parish priest in the village of Sastri Ponente, near Genoa, was arrested last Friday, May 13, on pedophilia and drug charges. Investigators say that in tapped mobile-phone conversations, Seppia asked a Moroccan drug dealer to arrange sexual encounters with young and vulnerable boys. "I do not want 16-year-old boys but younger. Fourteen-year-olds are O.K. Look for needy boys who have family issues," he allegedly said.

 Now, I wouldn't presume to be so general as to say all Catholics are evil or all priests are child molesters, but clearly there are a lot of them and they continue getting away with it. It would be naive to assume that this was the last one and now it's all stopped and everything is fixed.

Ironically, the Vatican picked the very week of this story to send a letter to all bishops with advice on reducing child molestation among clergy. They sent a letter. That's the huge fucking child saving step they are taking. A sternly worded memo. How about background checks to start? Maybe follow that up with another level of authority that monitors Priests day to day activities? A little check and balance, you know? If the abuse primarily happens in the church, then how about removing all the doors from the buildings. Make rules that prohibit unsupervised contact between a Priest and anyone. Are these too extreme for you? Maybe infringing too much on the rights of the innocent priest's who have done nothing? Maybe we should just continue to wait for the bad ones to get caught before we put extreme measures into effect at their location. These may not stop it all, but at least make it harder for these sons of bitches.

What about closing down a church where an offender worked. Oh no, how could the locals possible get by without their weekly dose of myth?

Can you think of any other organization at the world that would be allowed to continue with business as usual after even just one count of paedophilia? Why is the Catholic church given immunity from outside interference?