The whole purpose, aim and intention of the Roman Catholic Church is injustice and control, all the while pretending that it is about justice. But it is unyielding in its effort to maintain its control over law and the freedom of citizens. It’s main aim is to control the weakest and the most vulnerable members of society, and it is completely ruthless and conscienceless in its efforts to maintain this control. Wherever the Roman Catholic Church is found, this relentless drive to exert and maintain control will be found. What makes it so dangerous is that the more strenuously it seeks to establish its control, the more it speaks the language of love and justice. We should not be deceived.
The first thing we need to be clear about is that Roman Catholic ethics has no foundation. It speaks of the moral law, of natural law ethics, of God’s will and purpose; it speaks of love, compassion and justice; but it serves its own purposes, and has no intention of upholding values of love and compassion; its fundamental purpose is to maintain its control over people. Let there be no misunderstanding here. The ethics of the Roman Catholic Church is bankrupt and without foundation. Its continued failure to deal with the sexual abuse scandal appropriately should be a clear enough indication of that. Even now, years after the scandal broke like a tidal wave over the church, the failure of the church to deal with its multiple failures to protect children is plain for all to see. A Belgian bishop within the last few weeks spoke publicly about the sexual abuse of his nephews without being either disciplined in a significant measure, excommunicated, or defrocked. In what way is this an appropriate response to the admission of repeated sexual abuse of small boys?
Yet it is this organisation that dares to instruct the world about morality. The present pope is ready to beatify John Paul II, and yet it is now well known that this pope, for all his apparent righteousness, protected from attack a sexual predator, the Mexican priest Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legion of Christ and Regnum Christi. Not only did he abuse young men in his charge, he fathered children with numerous women and sexually abused his children as well. And yet John Paul II continued to give him support and protect him from his detractors. The present pope, Benedict XVI, was involved, as Prefect (or head) of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, in a massive cover up of sexual abuse by priests, who were only removed from positions where they could carry on their abuse with great reluctance, and often after more damage was done to children. To suppose, for one moment, that this corrupt organisation has the right to teach morals to the nations is ludicrous and presumptuous.
And yet that is precisely what it does. It’s main emphasis lies in what it calls the sanctity of life. In an article dealing with the churches’ voices in the current Canadian election campaign, the Roman Catholic voice has this to say:
The church election guides don’t explicitly name issues in order of importance. The CCCB guide “Making our Voices Heard” (available at www.cccb.ca), comes closest, reminding Catholics that the right to life from conception to natural death is a precondition for any just political order.
This is preposterous nonsense! It is, in fact, a recipe for injustice, massive injustice against women and against those who suffer, and yet the ridiculous claim is being made that this comes closest to expressing the order of importance of moral and justice issues facing Canada today! The absurdity of the suggestion is simply mind-boggling!
How could any organisation have thought that these are the justice issues of most importance before the Canadian electorate?! Only an organisation that has lost its soul, and seeks to maintain its control over people despite the erosion of faith, could make such a claim. People are increasingly of the view that the dying or those suffering from debilitating degenerative conditions should have the right to assistance in bringing their lives to a close should they so choose. And wherever laws are in place which make abortion illegal, women are victimized again and again. There are such places, and a brief look at how women fare in these places, forced to bear children of rape and incest, forced to bear children despite illness and danger of health to the woman, will convince any sane person that such laws are contrary to the interests of women and their health and well-being. And yet the church continues to spread its poisonous message under the banner of “pro-life” and supposed justice. It is not pro-life. It is pro-religious theocracy, and it is time that the media began to identify it as such, instead of playing along with the pope and his minions.
The Roman Catholic Church, more than any other religious organisation in the world, aside from the multiple expressions of Islamic radicalism, is a sick religion, and it is determined to spread its sickness throughout the world by means of the ballot box, ignoring the foundational principles of democracy, that no law should be enforced which cannot be accepted by those with other religious beliefs or none. The Roman Catholic Church continues its insistence that its “pro-life” agenda is merely a matter of universal morals. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is a continued attack by the church on the weak and the vulnerable, and especially an attack on women, and it is time that we told the church to pack up its pretended universals and began to know its place, as a fringe fanatic movement of no more interest to humanity than the Jehovah’s Witnesses.
