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| What Lurks Beneath: Francois Houtart |
They were lobbying to nominate a child sex abuser for a Nobel Peace Prize.
No one bothered to check exactly what peace he was after.
From the Huffington Post:
A Belgian priest has confessed to a child sex-abuse accusation that came to light during a campaign to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work fighting globalization's impact on developing countries.
The confession was published in a Belgian newspaper Wednesday and confirmed by the organization the priest founded, deepening a sex-abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church in the country. After a spate of accusations this year, the church in September published the harrowing accounts of more than 100 victims of clerical sex abuse, some as young as two when they were assaulted.
In October, after supporters of 85-year-old Francois Houtart began working to nominate him for the Nobel, a woman contacted the nonprofit organization he founded and said the priest had abused her brother 40 years ago, according to its director, Bernard Duterme.
Why hasn't Catholicism been abolished? Where's the American movement to destroy Catholicism, or is destruction only reserved for Islam?
What's confounding is the assertion from apologists who continue to use proportionality as a justification for Catholicism: "These priests make up such a SMALL number of all clergymen that you really can't condemn the entire religion for the actions of a few."
A couple of things wrong with that mindset.
1. It ignores the Catholic Church's: cover-up and denial of said crimes; protection of guilty priests from secular law enforcement; and ongoing complicity by paying for the silence of victims.
2. Thousands of children and adults suffered at the hands of these "small number of clergymen." Also, this small number gets larger by the day as degenerate priests are being exposed left and right. Methinks the only small number to be discussed here is the relatively small number of priests who have confessed or been caught or exposed.
Tip meet iceberg.
As far as I'm concerned, the Catholic Church has no moral authority whatsoever.