Raped by the Vatican

Joseph Ratzinger. With an erstwhile rodentish name like that, Pope Benedict XVI sure has holes in the past he would like to see filled up, covered and forgotten. Before being elevated to papacy, his holiness (holiness! hahaha! definitely pun intended) used to be in charge of something called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a modern day avatar of what was the Inquisition. And for the all the controversy the man may have birthed while being pope by, for instance, talking against condom usage to prevent AIDS in Africa, his time as the 'chief inquisitor' seems to me far more scandalous.

His office oversaw, among other things, cases of sexual abuse by the clergy. And there seems to be quite a storm of these cases suddenly brewing in many countries across the world, made stormier not by the fact that there are so fucking many of them, but more because Ratzinger, or his office, back in the day apparently not just encouraged covering up these cases, but also did little to nothing to remove the abusing priests from contact with potential victims.

Of course, generous and bountiful like the love of god, these priests seem to spare no one. 200 deaf kids fucked by one priest alone? And then, there was a Vatican investigation going on against him at the insistence of his local parish, but it was halted after the poor old paedophile wrote to Ratzinger's office, saying he had repented for his past transgressions and that he simply wanted to live out the rest of his life in the dignity of his priesthood. Wow, this guy had some serious issues with the meaning of the word 'dignity', I am guessing. And yes, obviously, repenting returned to those kids all their collective ass cherries that he popped with all due priestly dignity.

Ratzinger has also been busy issuing letters of apology to the Irish public, saying sorry for all the cover-up activity his office indulged in when it came to the numerous sexual violations by members of the clergy in Ireland. And he has yet to talk about matters much closer home, matters from Munich where he spent considerable time before he went on to the Holy Office, matters that once more dealt with holes best not interfered with, especially if you are a follower of a religious creed that denounces homosexuality as a cardinal sin. Or hang on... cardinal sin... a sin fit for a cardinal? Maybe that's why all these priests love to bum-fuck so many kids?!

To read an account of such things, one wouldn't be blamed for mistaking it for the works of Marquis de Sade, who at least to his credit, was bluntly honest about it. Imagining a black mass from one of his works, complete with the naked underage virgin boys and girls and the dirty old priests salivating and drooling, not just from their mouths, is not that difficult to set under the dome of the Vatican suddenly.