A Hypocritical Church's Sex Lessons

[Ian David]

A Hypocritical Church's Sex Lessons
robertscheer.com

May 24, 2005 ­ One of the most sexually repressed institutions in human
history has been caught with its pants down yet again but still insists on
wagging its disapproving finger at the rest of us.

Last week, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange released more than 10,000
pages of letters, handwritten notes and other documents from the personnel
files of 15 priests and teachers as part of its $100-million settlement of
another in a numbing series of class-action sexual abuse lawsuits against
the Catholic Church.

Despite the horrific drumbeat of child molestation revelations, however,
sensible Catholics hoping for a more transparent and less sexually repressed
church shouldn't hold their breath. The new pope is not only a longtime
leader of vicious church attacks on "evil" gays, he also has shamefully
blamed the molestation scandal on the media.

"In the church, priests also are sinners. But I am personally convinced that
the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests,
especially in the United States, is a planned campaign, as the percentage of
these offenses among priests is not higher than in other categories, and
perhaps it is even lower," said Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ­ now Pope
Benedict XVI ­ in 2002 when he was the head man of the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith.

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