Catholic hypocrisy at its worst

[LilOlLady]

Catholic hypocrisy at its worst
Bishops condone much more direct contradictions of church dogma. The birth control uproar is a cynical power play
By Gene Lyons
A university chaplain, he no doubt understood how the combination of Rome’s authoritarianism and theological nit-picking tended to drive educated young people from the church. Anyway, everybody knows how that worked out. Next came Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul VI’s 1968 doubling down on the church’s blanket condemnation of artificial means of birth control — a blast from the medieval past as most American Catholics now see it.
Catholic hypocrisy at its worst - Birth Control - Salon.com

More about Obama than actual birth control.

Buried Memories in the Convent on the Hill

Dead Babies, Childhood Images that I had no words for, memories that I dared not talk about have lain in my unconscious for 40 years providing a root of fear
every time I dare step outside the mould.​

Footnote: There were recently Police Investigations of infant skeletons found during renovations to this convent and a number of others. It would seem that the images that came to me as a child in that building did have a factual base to them .
Images that have no words: Dead Babies, Buried Memories and the Convent on the Hill

 

[California Girl]

Obama won the Catholic vote in '08. Idiot.

 

[LilOlLady]

Obama won the Catholic vote in '08. Idiot.

Now you want to blame Obama for the catholic chruch atrocities?

 

[LilOlLady]

"Memories of Stone"


The walls held memories

We got the story out .. eventually .. in amongst some gut-wrenching sobs .. an image of sodomy .. an image of the rape of a child - many children. The pain and anguish of the raped and the energy of priestly pedophilia were impregnated into the 200 year old stone walls of the room.

How long they had been there was hard to say, but we did get some very clear interpretations of colors, artifacts and clothing which enabled us to place an approximate date on the events that took place in that room. How could I explain this to a "church official" who was guardian of these "hallowed halls".
Unseen Influences and Memories of Trauma: A Child's Religious Images from the Stones

 

[California Girl]

Obama won the Catholic vote in '08. Idiot.

Now you want to blame Obama for the catholic chruch atrocities?

No.... just pointing out how ridiculous it is to claim that the current backlash is about Obama, not birth control. It's about birth control, you halfwitted freak.

 

[usmcstinger]

Government has no business telling religions anything and Religion has no business telling government how it should be run.