I have in front of me a "Working with Children Check Application Guide and Form"....
Once this is processed I get back a card that certifies I have been subject to police check and that I am not a sex offender and have no criminal record.
The application form is 6 pages long.
After I have completed this and I get my card, it will be okay for me to assist in coaching children's football on a public oval in broad daylight, with all their parents and guardians standing around watching, and in the company of about 20 other adults - parents all - who are doing the same thing, and have the same card....
At no point during the kids football training does anyone even go indoors to a locker room.
Now...
When a psychiatrist warned that a priest may have had a sex-thing for kids... I really don't think it was too much to ask of the future Pope Benedict XVI to have taken it a little more seriously.
Even if it was the 1980s.
Still... he hasn't started another Crusade yet.
Kind of like that other Pope denied the extermination of the Jews?
ReplyDeleteThe problem here is that another crusade wouldn't kill Muslims but would bring the Church's real colors to bear.
ReplyDeleteHere's my advice for the current Pope: Resign. You are a humiliation to your religion. No one can possibly take seriously anything you tell them. Your church is in enough trouble already over the consequences of its irrational celibacy policy; for God's sake, the scandal doesn't need to extend right to the top.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it does need to extend right to the top.
ReplyDeleteI know it's just an expression.... but why do something 'for God's sake'? I'd assume he can take care of himself