[Trigger warning for clergy abuse and rape apologia.]
"These revelations were for me a shock and a great sadness. It is difficult to understand how this perversion of the priestly ministry was possible. … It is also a great sadness that the authorities of the church were not sufficiently vigilant and insufficiently quick and decisive in taking the necessary measures."—Pope Benedict XVI, expressing his alleged shock and sadness about the recent spate of reported clergy abuse—which might be more meaningful if it weren't for this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and this and about ten billion other posts to which I could link undermining the Pope's claims to shock and sadness.
Joelle Casteix of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, responded to the Pope's quote thus: "It's disingenuous to say church officials have been slow and insufficiently vigilant in dealing with clergy sex crimes and cover ups. On the contrary, they've been prompt and vigilant, but in concealing, not preventing, these horrors." Ouch.
It's bad enough when the Pope just runs his usual defend and deflect routine, but this feigning innocence shtick is intolerable.
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