A SHABBY LOT!

What a contrast was there between all those singing, happy, fervent kids and the shabby lot of clerics led by Cardinal Pell going through the motions of faith in God while transparently conniving to sweep under the red carpet the sexual scandals presently emerging in the church.
Nobody would have been fooled by the private sunrise Mass in which the Pope met four anonymous stooges selected by the church hierarchy but ignored the hundreds of others wanting to tell him of their ordeals, people like the unfortunate parents, two of whose daughters had been repeatedly raped by their parish priest, one having subsequently committed suicide.
However, unremarkably, the four chosen ones had been moved by the Pope’s compassion and he was moved by their ordeal. A moving moment all round.
” It was a small gathering which we hope will send out a message of the genuine sorrow of the Pope and the Australia bishops. Many, many hundreds of people have contacted me wanting to meet the Pope. I wasn’t able to accommodate all of them.” Just four of them, your Cardinalship? FOUR????!!!
Asked why the church had not selected victims who would be prepared to share their encounter with others, Cardinal Pell said that other victims and their families could share in his description of the event.
Now there’s a prize example of Papal Bull! One wonders if the Cardinal thinks we are all congenital idiots. I doubt if anyone would believe anything the Cardinal said after that effort.
Of course, that wasn’t his only blooper. Speaking to the multitudes, he pronounced that at this meeting their were some hundred thousand pilgrims, sundry thousand priest, twenty something Cardinals, and one Pope!
One was minded to wonder where all the thousands of nuns got to?! Or don’t women rate a mention in Cardinal Pell’s little world?
One can’t help wondering if this is the clue to the churches’ problem. Maybe if priests were allowed to lead a normal sex life with wives and children, they mightn’t be tempted by altar boys and little girls.