Vatican Weighs Reports for Abuse Rules

Most people have probably forgotten about the huge kerfuffle over Catholic priests putting "The Spirit of the Lord" into their charges in an improper manner. And the coverups by the church and shuffling around of these naughty priests to different parishes that had only one real effect and that was to keep them supplied with fresh targets.

Well the Church has not forgotten about it. In fact, they commissioned several reports from external agencies to analyze the problem and suggest solutions. These don't agree on much except that the policy of the US Church to defrock priests who have sodomized children is wrong.

Yah, that's right. They think that it's wrong to defrock a priest just because they buggered an altar boy. Seems that might send a bad message that the Church thinks said individual can't be rehabilitated. And firing them might just lead to more assaults because the individual isn't under supervision.

Hello? Vatican? Get your heads out of your asses (or your prepubescent toys' asses as the case may be). If a priest fucks a kid that should most definitely be a "Go directly to layman. Do not pass the altar, do not collect ablutions". What parishoner is EVER going to trust a priest who nailed a kid? And why should they? Or are you planning to quietly move the kid fuckers around to other parishes like you were doing before all of this blew up in your faces?

Defrocking the priest says nothing about the person not being capable of rehabilitation. It means they defied the laws of God, Church and Man and have lost any claim to the cloth. It might lead to other assaults? Only if you protect the bastard. The courts take a dim view of adults who screw kids and they are set up to "rehabilitate" these worthless pieces of shit.

When Jesus said turn the other cheek he wasn't talking about our kids' rear ends.