Today’s “The Guardian” (Sunday, June 5) carries the story of Pope Francis’ long-awaited promise to fire Bishops who cover-up their priests’ pedophilia. It ends with the statement that legal settlements in the States have already cost $3,000,000,000. That’s money Catholics gave the Church, which the courts forced to pay some of the victims of the priest-predators.
Something is rotten in the State of the Vatican and the branches of the world’s largest multinational. Australia’s Cardinal Pell, himself accused of episcopal cover-up, is the current cardinal in charge of Church finances. Plenty more where that came from. My bet is that the Pope, though he refuses to fire Cardinal Barbarin in Lyons, will accept Pell’s resignation and retirement on his upcoming 75th birthday, and let him face the music Down Under. But it will not be a Requiem for a Church with egg on its face and sperm on its priests’ penises. For Catholics will continue to pick up the tab for the criminals among the clergy. Like the brook, the Church will go on forever. Credulity and hypocrisy have no limits.
D E L E N D A R E L I G I O
Blind Faith: Blind Folly 
Now if only the sheeple would stop joining their businesses.
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You say it will go on for ever. But surely there must come a tipping point, where members of the church will have had enough.
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To speed up the destruction and demise of the Church, let’s do a Novena, all together, to Our Lady of Fatima. If she could stop the Sun in its tracks (?), surely she could destroy the Church of which she would be ashamed if she were not herself dead and gone, reduced to dust and never, ever, assumed into Heaven.
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Oh dear, and here was poor innocent me assuming that she had been assumed into Heaven where she would have joined Elijah and Elias and would also eventually be joined by the Prophet Mohammed and his horse. Quite a party – along with the three that are one.
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