Readers' Blog: Pope Francis blaming the Devil isn’t credible
In recent days the Pope has been suggesting that Catholics pray for the whole month of October to tackle Satan, who his holiness thinks is responsible for the scourge of child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. Just to make things a little more interesting, Bishop Cullinane of Waterford and Lismore is reportedly planning an exorcism response to reiki and everyday evil in his diocese — it must be nearly Halloween.
I’m perplexed. What next? Ghostbuster units to be set up across the country to tackle such things. Let me say this to Bishop Cullinane and Pope Francis — the evidence is crystal clear the only people responsible for the cancer of child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church are the clerical/religious perpetrators of such heinous abuse and the members of the church hierarchy who were and are complicit in the facilitation of such atrocious abuse and its concealment!
The suggestion that Satan is responsible and that exorcisms need to occur to rid the church of the wickedness of child abuse is an outrageous act of desperation by church leaders running scared and out of ideas in the 21st century where people are better educated and can think for themselves without fear of rancour from the church! The Devil isn’t responsible for clerical child abuse. Wicked evil clerics are. Satan didn’t do any of this and neither did he request that it happen. In fairness Pope Francis, blaming the Devil isn’t credible. I can’t see that defence of Stan was responsible for all this working out too well in the clerical abuse legal cases before the courts in countless jurisdictions.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I get excommunicated for expressing such blasphemies so close to the blasphemy referendum on October 26. Next they’ll be bringing back the inquisition and witch hunting and all this so close to Halloween — this is beyond ironic!
