The quote below, from Pope Francis speaking to the Curia, is taken from an article by Joshua McElwee, Vatican correspondent of the National Catholic Reporter. In it Francis is clearly having a go at Cardinal Muller, former head of the CDF. Muller being the man who sidelined myself, and who later, when he was let go by Francis, complained bitterly that he wasn’t given proper procedures. Which, of course, I found particularly ironic!
My thoughts on the report of the Australian Royal Commission on sexual abuse of minors, and its call for the Catholic Church to discontinue compulsory celibacy for priests.
The Australian Royal Commission, set up to investigate child sexual abuse in institutions, has made its report. It has focused a great deal on sexual abuse of children in the Catholic Church, and its findings are, to say the least, disturbing, and challenging for the Church. We have had a number of state sponsored investigations in this country, but none of them has gone so deeply into the causes of abuse.
A spiritual writer in the U.S. sent me this.
I did not kill Jesus;
please stop blaming me for his death.
And Jesus did not die on my behalf,
He was mailed to the cross
by the hierarchy of his day
because He was a threat to them.
If everyone followed Jesus’ teachings
the hierarchs would lose control.
My concept of God
is not one that required the death of someone
to love us again.
The notion of Jesus sacrificed
to appease a god
is primitive
and barbaric.
