Comments on: Vatican reaches new level of crazy

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:49:27 +0000

I too was sickened and angered by this story. i only hope that there is a groundswell of support for the mother and daughter and that support infrastructure grows for them and for anyone who suffers in that way. Theres so many reasons to be vehemently frustrated to the point of spitting by this story.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:57:48 +0000

Is anyone suprised that the Catholic Church is siding with the Pedophile? Haven\’t they been doing that for years now? Luckily this child\’s mother had the sense to get her help – I hope she also had the sense to get her family away from the rapist. Oh wait – the Church frowns on divorce, too……………

By: Berber Anna

Berber Anna — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:50:47 +0000

LAB: He has been arrested and charged. Luckily, while the Catholic church may be acting like a bunch of arseholes, the Brazilian authorities are not.

By: ReliegiousMarie

ReliegiousMarie — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:27:23 +0000

@flapjack…south africa would be the place to look for heated hippo´s!

@Rick…glad everyone is talking about it and coming to that conclusion…

By: LAB

LAB — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:19:14 +0000

This is above and beyond for the Catholic Church. I have long ago broken away and something like this reinforces my doctrinal differences with the Catholic Church. Back in the day, if a delivery was going badly, it was save the child, let the mother die. Today, it’s save the innocent babies when the mother is an innocent baby herself. That the child was repeatedly raped for the past three years by a stepfather seems not to be a crime is ludicrous. The child was not his “property.” Will this poor excuse for a man be prosecuted? Probably not.

By: Rick Thibau

Rick Thibau — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:04:29 +0000

Yeah, here in Brazil everyone is talking about that, at last a national discussion about (bad) religion.
About 80% of population are catholic.

By: Flapjack

Flapjack — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:02:09 +0000

Ron – if that’s how you feel, vote with your feet! I won’t stop you!

By: ron

ron — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:02:03 +0000

the church should be ashamed of itself — I can’t believe it — I am ready to denounce my catholic religion as a result of this, and I bet a hell of a lot of other people feel the same way — I hope they put the step father away for a very long time (like life) and he finds out frequently what rape is all about — church is so screwed up in this case it is unbelievable

By: Tash

Tash — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:01:25 +0000

I agree too – i’m tired of ranting – we all know the church screwed up again.

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:54:44 +0000

The Vatican may have reached a new level of crazy but with this post Phillis you have sent us commentors to a new height of perfectly justified crazy.

Poor child, it is just so sad.