Anthea Butler Responds to Pope's Statement re: Clergy Sex Crimes: "Stop Passing the Buck Onto the People of God Instead of the Catholic Hierarchy"

That's not the issue. The issue is, the cycles of revelation of the malfeasance of the church and the hierarchy in protecting their own at the expense of children and families is hypocritical in light of the theology of the body and sexuality.

— ProfB (@AntheaButler) August 20, 2018

Religious studies professor Anthea Butler responds to the latest papal statement about the abuse horror show, and, as ever tells the God's truth:

Telling parishioners not to have sex before marriage, homosexuality is deviant, and life begins at conception without addressing the rape and defilement of children in a system that currently allows for perpetrators to bypass legal action by prayer and isolation...

— ProfB (@AntheaButler) August 20, 2018

It is a cop out. So fasting and prayer, which is the general punishment in the grand jury report for raping a child, seems like a weak solution and a massive cop out. Stop passing the buck onto the people of God instead of the Catholic hierarchy.

— ProfB (@AntheaButler) August 20, 2018

By the way, to see how the armchair-cowboy big boys who are bound and determined to pin the abuse situation on gay priests are responding to Marie Collins, check out the threads at this RNS article about the papal statement.

Marie Collins was raped by a priest when she was 13 years old. She has sat on the papal abuse advisory board. Yet the homophobic armchair cowboys, including one who was haunting threads here just a few days ago and another who is reincarnated from National Catholic Reporter threads, where he constantly sought to pour poison into discussion threads there (on behalf of Opus Dei, to which he's connected): they know better. They know better than Marie Collins.

It's all about gay priests.

Talk about chutzpah. Talk about hubris. Talk about don't have a leg to stand on, or, in your whole hulking, gormless body not as much integrity and moral courage as Marie Collins has in the fingernail of her little finger: these folks are the scourge of contemporary Catholicism, and, in any saner culture, there would be some quite searching questions about their unrelenting obssession with what they imagine (other?) gay men do in their bedrooms.