Pope Fester met with a delegation of Canadian aboriginals at the Vatican. He apologized to them for an entire century, during which young children were ripped from their homes and families and forced into Catholic Church run boarding institutions, far away. There they were held in bondage, against their will, commonly for over a decade, raised coldly and impersonally under the direction of priests and nuns, subjected to harsh physical and psychological punishments over extended periods of time, for offenses they didn't even understand they had committed, sodomized and otherwise repeatedly sexually abused, at the hands of perverted and opportunistic staff. When they complained or rebelled against the treatment they recieved, their lives were made even worse or terminated. The grounds of these children's boarding institutions are littered with unmarked graves, though the children that filled them were unusually resilient, stoic and hardy.
This resulted in a native culture that was and still is rife with isolation, distrust of authority, mental illness, domestic violence, criminality, substance abuse and suicide.
He wants everyone to know, he couldn't be sorrier.
To paraphrase Madeline Kahn, in Blazing Saddles. " What a nice guy !"
Most of these institutions were closed in the 1970s. Even after they closed, one of the favorite strategies of the Church in dealing with documented pedophile priests was to transfer them to the ministry of remote, Canadian aboriginal communities, where complaints were rarely lodged. In these communities the sexual abuse of children by priests was so commonplace it was regarded as part of White culture that must be accepted. It's not uncommon to find whole regions of remote native communities, where every single child, over multiple generations, has been the victim of priestly sexual abuse.
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Rome is about to fall, pedophile priests and all!
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Well I'm not really sure you can say the pope apologized.
What he WAS 'sorry' for was "his sorrow at the anguish caused by the deplorable conduct of some members of the Church and he offered his sympathy and prayerful solidarity."
So, ya, we're hurting and he's sorry we're hurting. Huh? And anguish? Puh-leeze. I've had anguish over waiting in line at the grocery store, for a bathroom or at the local Tim's when I really needed my coffee fix...
Being sexually abused by a priest as a little girl caused me more than anguish!
See? He still don't get it!
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