About what we expect anymore
A nice juicy Catholic Church scandal: Priest Sex-Abuse Case in Archdiocese of Benedict's Adviser.
The latest sex-abuse case to rock the Catholic Church is unfolding in the archdiocese of an influential Italian Cardinal who has been working with Pope Benedict XVI on reforms to respond to prior scandals of pedophile priests.
Father Riccardo Seppia, a 51-year-old parish priest in the village of Sastri Ponente, near Genoa, was arrested last Friday, May 13, on pedophilia and drug charges. Investigators say that in tapped mobile-phone conversations, Seppia asked a Moroccan drug dealer to arrange sexual encounters with young and vulnerable boys.
"I do not want 16-year-old boys but younger. Fourteen-year-olds are O.K. Look for needy boys who have family issues," he allegedly said. Genoa Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, who is the head of the Italian Bishops Conference, had been working with Benedict to establish a tough new worldwide policy, released this week, on how bishops should handle accusations of priestly sex abuse.
C'mon, Catholics. Just walk away. Sure, the Catholics have nice ceremonies, but the organization is run by a bunch of criminal thugs. We all make mistakes. And yours was choosing the same religion as your parents because you didn't even think about it. Nobody in their right mind would actually decide to be a Catholic. People are Catholic by default.
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