Wednesday, March 06, 2002

All of a Sudden Rome Cares About Children

Catholic media is helping the American Catholic Church in diverting attention away from the heinous acts of paedophile priests in the USA, as new Roman smokescreens were sent out last week. The pope of course would prefer endless conferences and dialogue on child prostitution in Bangkok, instead of disciplining American priests in Boston who enjoy sex with children.

The 'Catholic News Service' reported on March 1 the publication of a book titled, "The Archipelago of Shame: Sexual Tourism and Pedophilia," by a Msgr. Piero Monni, the Vatican's permanent observer at the World Tourism Organization. To quote the 'Catholic News Service,' this book, "draw(s) attention to the great numbers of minors who are exploited for sexual or pornographic ends, and bartered or sold as slaves on every continent."

It's kind of funny that all of a sudden, for some reason the Catholic Church now claims to be interested in sexually exploited children "on every continent." I wonder why?

In a similar vein, the American ambassador to the Vatican, James Nicholson, is organizing an international congress to be held in May at the Gregorian University in Rome. The subject will be world slavery - and the forced labour and prostitution it leads to. This was reported March 1 by the Catholic 'Zenit News Agency.'

In addition, the 'Zenit News Agency' on February 28 reported that "nearly 70 individuals" in the West African nations of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea, who are "local members" (i.e., local Africans) of international humanitarian agencies have been demanding "sex from refugees in exchange for food." This seems to fit well into a Catholic strategy of not doing anything about their paedophile priests, but instead providing it's priests and "lay" supporters with stories of abuse from all over the world, even to the jungles of Africa, in order to help Catholics say, "doesn't everybody do it," when the issue of American priestly child molesters arises.

I pray the Lord comforts, heals, and grants abundant salvation to those molested by Roman priests. I also pray the Lord uses these revelations of Catholic child abuse to open people's eyes to the wicked nature of the Roman priesthood.