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(46,327 posts)
Fri Aug 31, 2018, 06:49 PM Aug 2018

Bill Donohue, the heart and stupidity of the Catholic League, is still at it...

Now he says about the pervert priests, "Da devil made dem do it..."

Catholic League: Satan Molested All Those Kids in Pennsylvania
By Hemant Mehta
August 31, 2018

The Catholic League’s Bill Donohue has been on a tear lately trying to discredit the Pennsylvania grand jury’s report documenting hundreds of examples of Catholic Church leaders sexually abusing children.

He’s argued a lot of it shouldn’t even count since some victims weren’t penetrated and many weren’t even pre-pubescent. He’s said sexual abuse occurs elsewhere, so the Church’s scandals aren’t really that big a deal. He said most of the abuses didn’t occur in the past few years, so everyone needs to lay off. He said Church leaders deserve credit for all the children who weren’t molested.

And since none of that is working, he’s trying once again. This time, he’s blaming Satan for making the pedophile priests do all those horrible things.

http://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2018/08/31/catholic-league-satan-molested-all-those-kids-in-pennsylvania/

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Bill Donohue, the heart and stupidity of the Catholic League, is still at it... (Original Post) Archae Aug 2018 OP
Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh Diocese placed 3 more priests on leave. Today. blue neen Aug 2018 #1
Did Satan make the church cover it up? gibraltar72 Aug 2018 #2
I don't know any Catholic anywhere who gives a damn about this person. No family, friends or mulsh Aug 2018 #3
Christy Moore had a song about the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland OnDoutside Aug 2018 #4

mulsh

(2,959 posts)
3. I don't know any Catholic anywhere who gives a damn about this person. No family, friends or
Fri Aug 31, 2018, 07:11 PM
Aug 2018

neighbors. Even the two priests I'm friends with tell people to ignore this "gobshite" and neither of those priests are Irish.

OnDoutside

(19,956 posts)
4. Christy Moore had a song about the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland
Fri Aug 31, 2018, 07:20 PM
Aug 2018
https://www.christymoore.com/lyrics/magdalene-launderies/

From Christy :

"

I sing this song to honour all the forgotten Innocents. I grew up and into a society that was riddled with the concept of sin and shame.We hung our heads in silence, ignorant in our adherence to the corrupt church that wielded such fearful power over us. I was terrified of them for a while.

That Joni Mitchell could write such a beautiful song about such tragedy and cruelty is, in itself,truly a wonder."



Magdalene Launderies
Joni Mitchell

Joanie was an unmarried girl just turned twenty-seven

when they sent her to the sisters because of the way men looked at her.

Branded as a jezebel she knew she was not bound for heaven,

she had been cast in shame into the Magdalen launderies.



Most girls went there pregnant some by their own fathers.

Bridget got her belly from the Parish Priest.

They’re trying to wash things as white as snow,all of those woe-begotten daughters

in the steaming stains of the Magdalen launderies.



Prostitutes and destitutes and temptresses like Joanie.

Fallen women sentenced into dreamless drudgery.

Why do the call this place Our Lady Of Charity?

Of Charity?



These bloodless brides of Jesus if they could just once glimpse their groom.

They’d drop the stones concealed behind their rosaries.

They wilt the grass they walk upon they leech the light out of a room.

They’d like to wash those girls down the drains of The Magdalene Launderies.



Peg O’Connell died today.She was a cheeky girl,they stuffed her in a hole.

Surely to God you’d think at least some bells should ring.

Joanie thinks she’ll die there too and that they’ll tramp her in the dirt,

like some lame bulb that never will bloom when the springtime comes.

when the springtime comes.
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