You are here: Home » Commentary » Pope Benedict Deplores Methods Used By Belgian Police, What About The Victims Who Suffer Every Day?
Pope Benedict Deplores Methods Used By Belgian Police, What About The Victims Who Suffer Every Day?
Posted by: Bridgette P. LaVictoire on June 27, 2010. 06/27/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
Pope Benedict, it has become clear that the Vatican is more interested in protecting you and your power than in answering for the crimes that priests, bishops, archbishops, and cardinals have committed and tried to cover up as the Church has for almost two thousand years. The raids that you decry in Belgium come as the Church drags its heels with regards to helping local police forces. These are police that you promised to help, and yet you continue to obstruct justice that is, sometimes, decades too late.
Your Holiness, there are hundreds and thousands of rape victims who have been first violated by the very men they have been trained by your Church to obey and then by the Church itself as those priests were not punished but moved and their pleas for help ignored by the very men who are more loyal to the head of this corrupt patriarchal religion than they are to the women, men, girls and boys that are brought up to believe in Father Church and God the Father.
The violation of a couple of tombs hardly matches the violation of even one girl or boy by a priest who is sworn to protect them. It is not as if the police ripped open these tombs and desecrated the bodies of these two prelates. They shoved a camera into their tombs the way we do with so many archaeological sights, including many that belong to the Church. Of course, who can forget the desecration carried out under Vatican orders to remove- against the will of the very saint whose tomb you ordered desecrated- the male lover of a man who lived and died centuries ago and left a will explicitly stating that these two men were to spend eternity in the same crypt. You desecrated the written will of a saint in order to ensure that your Church can maintain its patriarchal supremacy over the very notion that homosexuality was once condoned and even accepted within your Church. So, do not talk to us about desecration and violation.
Your lawyers are busy arguing that, as a sovereign nation, the agents of the Vatican are not subject to local police interrogation, and neither are you. Meanwhile, you make lovely speeches to hold off the masses of people who will turn away from Catholicism as they look upon the scandals of the Church and wonder just who to trust in this corrupted edifice of patriarchal power.
I am not a Biblical scholar, that honor on this site goes to Dr. Paula Brooks. I am just a survivor of molestation. The man who molested me was not some priest, but a school guidance councilor. He was eventually arrested. He served a long time in jail, Your Holiness, as should every single priest, archbishop, bishop, cardinal and Pope who has helped to protect those men who prey upon children. Even in the course of my reporting on this, I have had times when even what was done to me haunts me. I report on this because I do not want other girls and boys to suffer the lifetime of pain that I suffer.
The effects of that single act of molestation linger. I have been sentenced to a lifetime of memories of the horrors of that incident. Every child who is molested undergoes that.
Your Holiness, you wrote to Brussels Archbishop Andre Joseph Leonard these words:
“I want to express, dear brother in the Episcopate, as well as to all the Bishops of Belgium, my closeness and solidarity in this moment of sadness, in which, with certain surprising and deplorable methods, searches were carried out.”
“I hope that justice will follow its course while guaranteeing the rights of individuals and institutions, respecting the rights of victims, (and) acknowledging those who undertake to collaborate with it.”
Yes, because you would rather that the police come, hat in hand, and beg for scraps from your priests and permission to look only where they are allowed. It does not work that way. These ‘deplorable’ methods are far, far from the ‘deplorable’ way in which girls, boys, young women and men have been treated by the priests that you seem Hell bent on protecting. If you truly worried about the rights of the victims, perhaps you would have handed over every single bit of evidence that you had long before it became a matter of a police raid.
No, Your Holiness, you and your Church are not about respecting the rights of the victims, only the rights of the criminals who perpetrate heinous crimes upon the bodies, souls and minds of little girls and boys.
Possible Serial Killer Caught Boarding Plane for Israel
Susan G. Komen Charity Apologizes, Funds Planned Parenthood Again
82 Annual Academy Award Winner Run-Down
JC Penney's Hangs Up On One Million Moms
Ellen Degeneres As JC Penney's Spokeswoman Has Hate Group Furious
Author Of New Mexico DOMA Has History Of Domestic Abuse
GOP Beware, Four Times More Jobs Added Last Month Than Expected
Violent, Anti-Gay Comments About Adam Lambert Spark Yahoo Action
Scott Brown Veering Left To Save Job
Komen Founder Speaks Out, Vows To Not Bow To Political Pressure
You are here: Home » Commentary » Pope Benedict Deplores Methods Used By Belgian Police, What About The Victims Who Suffer Every Day?
Pope Benedict Deplores Methods Used By Belgian Police, What About The Victims Who Suffer Every Day?
06/27/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
Pope Benedict, it has become clear that the Vatican is more interested in protecting you and your power than in answering for the crimes that priests, bishops, archbishops, and cardinals have committed and tried to cover up as the Church has for almost two thousand years. The raids that you decry in Belgium come as the Church drags its heels with regards to helping local police forces. These are police that you promised to help, and yet you continue to obstruct justice that is, sometimes, decades too late.
Your Holiness, there are hundreds and thousands of rape victims who have been first violated by the very men they have been trained by your Church to obey and then by the Church itself as those priests were not punished but moved and their pleas for help ignored by the very men who are more loyal to the head of this corrupt patriarchal religion than they are to the women, men, girls and boys that are brought up to believe in Father Church and God the Father.
The violation of a couple of tombs hardly matches the violation of even one girl or boy by a priest who is sworn to protect them. It is not as if the police ripped open these tombs and desecrated the bodies of these two prelates. They shoved a camera into their tombs the way we do with so many archaeological sights, including many that belong to the Church. Of course, who can forget the desecration carried out under Vatican orders to remove- against the will of the very saint whose tomb you ordered desecrated- the male lover of a man who lived and died centuries ago and left a will explicitly stating that these two men were to spend eternity in the same crypt. You desecrated the written will of a saint in order to ensure that your Church can maintain its patriarchal supremacy over the very notion that homosexuality was once condoned and even accepted within your Church. So, do not talk to us about desecration and violation.
Your lawyers are busy arguing that, as a sovereign nation, the agents of the Vatican are not subject to local police interrogation, and neither are you. Meanwhile, you make lovely speeches to hold off the masses of people who will turn away from Catholicism as they look upon the scandals of the Church and wonder just who to trust in this corrupted edifice of patriarchal power.
I am not a Biblical scholar, that honor on this site goes to Dr. Paula Brooks. I am just a survivor of molestation. The man who molested me was not some priest, but a school guidance councilor. He was eventually arrested. He served a long time in jail, Your Holiness, as should every single priest, archbishop, bishop, cardinal and Pope who has helped to protect those men who prey upon children. Even in the course of my reporting on this, I have had times when even what was done to me haunts me. I report on this because I do not want other girls and boys to suffer the lifetime of pain that I suffer.
The effects of that single act of molestation linger. I have been sentenced to a lifetime of memories of the horrors of that incident. Every child who is molested undergoes that.
Your Holiness, you wrote to Brussels Archbishop Andre Joseph Leonard these words:
“I want to express, dear brother in the Episcopate, as well as to all the Bishops of Belgium, my closeness and solidarity in this moment of sadness, in which, with certain surprising and deplorable methods, searches were carried out.”
“I hope that justice will follow its course while guaranteeing the rights of individuals and institutions, respecting the rights of victims, (and) acknowledging those who undertake to collaborate with it.”
Yes, because you would rather that the police come, hat in hand, and beg for scraps from your priests and permission to look only where they are allowed. It does not work that way. These ‘deplorable’ methods are far, far from the ‘deplorable’ way in which girls, boys, young women and men have been treated by the priests that you seem Hell bent on protecting. If you truly worried about the rights of the victims, perhaps you would have handed over every single bit of evidence that you had long before it became a matter of a police raid.
No, Your Holiness, you and your Church are not about respecting the rights of the victims, only the rights of the criminals who perpetrate heinous crimes upon the bodies, souls and minds of little girls and boys.
Related articles by Zemanta
Share This Post
Tweet