What Can We Learn From Catholic Teachings That WIll Make America Safer?

I'm still offended by having watched the small noisy handful of pompous assholes at Notre Dame whining hypocritically about the President of the United States being unworthy of a degree from their Catholic football school because his policies fly in the face of "Catholic teachings." They may never understand how lucky their corrupt religion is that the U.S. is so scrupulous about separation of Church and State. If it wasn't, their vile and contemptible church would have been run out of town on a rail long ago. And Catholic teachings-- the ones with the most impact on people's real lives-- would have been banned and punished appropriately. Catholic teachings indeed:

A fiercely debated, nine-year investigation into Ireland's Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades-- and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation. [Of course, being Catholic priests they left the girls alone and mostly raped the young boys, following the most sacred of all Catholic teachings.]

High Court Justice Sean Ryan on Wednesday unveiled the 2,600-page final report of Ireland's Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse, which is based on testimony from thousands of former students and officials from more than 250 church-run institutions... The report found that molestation and rape were "endemic" in boys' facilities, chiefly run by the Christian Brothers order, and supervisors pursued policies that increased the danger. Girls supervised by orders of nuns, chiefly the Sisters of Mercy, suffered much less sexual abuse but frequent assaults and humiliation designed to make them feel worthless.

...The commission dismissed as implausible a central defense of the religious orders-- that, in bygone days, people did not recognize the sexual abuse of a child as a criminal offense, but rather as a sin that required repentance.

In their testimony, religious orders typically cited this opinion as the principal reason why sex-predator priests and brothers were sheltered within the system and moved to new posts where they could still maintain daily contact with children.

But the commission said its fact-finding-- which included unearthing decades-old church files, chiefly stored in the Vatican, on scores of unreported abuse cases from Ireland's industrial schools-- demonstrated that officials understood exactly what was at stake: their own reputations.

It cited numerous examples where school managers told police about child abusers who were not church officials-- but never did this when one of their own had committed the crime.

"Contrary to the congregations' claims that the recidivist nature of sexual offending was not understood, it is clear from the documented cases that they were aware of the propensity for abusers to re-abuse," it said.

Religious orders were chiefly concerned about preventing scandal, not the danger to children, it said.

No wonder Newt Gingrich, impressed with Catholic teachings, just converted. He spits on America to protect his perverted GOP. As Amato pointed out yesterday, Pottle, meet kettle.

A man who has been totally disgraced for his past behavior, including ethics violations, as Speaker of the House now is constantly being given a platform to slime and smear any victim of his choosing freely. Nancy Pelosi is his newest target and he's been vicious in his attacks on her.