Yes, I’m Catholic. And you don’t have kids right? Because if you do, then boy do YOU need prayers.
I love how TWICE I have mentioned that poor boy in NYC who was just murdered and found hacked up on trash bags and it didn’t elicit even he slightest response from anyone. How telling.
This man was an Orthodox Jew, and the community was aware that he was a pedophile. Being a tight-knit religious community, they never went to the cops about it. Now a boy is dead because a known pedophile was allowed to roam the streets. This is what happens.
What if he had been Catholic? What if he had gone to confession and confessed that he had this boy tied up in his house while he went to work that day and then been sent on his way by the priest only to murder this boy that evening?
And you would honestly say that he priest in this scenario would have no culpability? And the Orthodox Jews in the neighborhood who knew this man was a pedophile but preferred to handle it in their own way according to their religious community’s traditions? They are all innocent too no doubt.
And any Muslim mother who knows that her son is planning a terrorist attack to kill thousands of people but prefers to handle it according to Muslim laws and norms as opposed to going to the authorities. I suppose she’s not culpable at all either.
Sometimes I think God must just shrug His shoulders and wonder what the hell people are thinking, as if Jesus would have sat back and let an 8 year old get raped and murdered to protect the seal of confession. Common sense people.
Personally, since pedophelia is a KNOWN mental illness for which there is NO CURE, and nearly ALL pedophiles have more than one victim, I think that not being willing to either turn oneself in or check into a mental health facility on the spot should automatically be seen as a lack of contrition on the part of the penitent, and absolution should be denied at the very least.
