Really, you can’t make this stuff up sometimes.
Pope Benedict XVI told Irish Catholics on Sunday it is a “mystery” why priests and other church officials abused children entrusted in their care, undermining faith in the church “in an appalling way.”
By describing the decades of child abuse in Catholic parishes, schools and church-run institutions in Ireland as a mystery, the pontiff could further anger rank-and-file faithful in Ireland.
It is not a mystery. Those poor priests grow-up hearing, from infancy, that sexual desire is a manifestation of Original Sin; that sex is dirty; that only whores enjoy sex … on and on. Why should anybody be surprised when desire is suppressed as a sign of individual evil and then expressed in unwholesome and destructive ways — particularly when we understand that the chief criteria governing evolution of the human organism is self-perpetuation? That efficient reproduction is the sine qua non of the species?
The church created its freaks, and it will continue to create them until it revises its teachings.
