Taking down the Catholic mafia

In that den of sin, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles (AKA L.A. Child Sex Ring), corrective action has been taken. Hopefully this is the beginning of a process that will result in the jailing of multiple priests.

Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, who retired less than two years ago as the leader of the nation’s largest Roman Catholic archdiocese, was removed from all public duties by his successor, Archbishop José H. Gomez, as the church complied with a court order to release thousands of pages of internal documents that show how the cardinal shielded priests who sexually abused children.  

He's not in jail yet but he soon will be if the authorities do their job. The church also took down his capo, Bishop Curry. I especially liked this bit:

Both Cardinal Mahony and Bishop Curry...have said that they were naïve at the time about the...impact on victims. 

Could the fact that they were "naive" about the "impact" on children who were raped by priests have something to do with the total absence of moral values in Catholicism? Ya think?

It's good to see one or two priests get sacked and/or jailed. But the number should be in the thousands. And these two should be jailed immediately.

Another Christian leader hides child abuse

This time the news is out of Chattanooga. But it's the same old thing: a Christian in a position of power tried to hide an employee's child abuse.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) — The head of a Tennessee college has apologized for trying to suppress a student newspaper story about a professor arrested on child sex charges. 

Yup, that was the action taken by Bryan College President Stephen Livesay. Bryan College is, of course, a Christian school. When a Christian leader hears about an employee abusing children, he does what they all do: tries to sweep the issue under the rug. After all, it was only children who were harmed. But a student at Bryan College wouldn't go along with the president's edict.

Editor Alex Green decided to distribute the story himself, placing flyers across campus Monday. It reported the resignation of Biblical studies professor David Morgan after he was arrested during an FBI child molestation sting in Georgia.

Livesay said that in hindsight, killing the newspaper story "might have been a mistake." He said he had originally hoped to protect the professor's privacy. 

That's always the excuse. They were just trying to protect the adult predator because of "privacy" issues. Didn't work out too well for Livesay. His school is now the object of national derision. And that tepid excuse is all he can come up with, even now! That perhaps "in hindsight" it "might have been a mistake." He still doesn't know that he did something that was immoral. Sounds just like Christians to me.

Morality and Christianity have nothing in common. Morals exist out here in the world. You won't find them in some dusty old book.