Ratzinger's Endless Hypocrisy: Mexico
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
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More shit you couldn't make up, Ratzinger of all people!
I wish to lift up my voice, inviting everyone to protect and to care for children, so that nothing may extinguish their smile, but that they may live in peace and look to the future with confidence.
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All is not well with the Pope first visit to Spanish-speaking Latin America. In Mexico City, according to this report, gay rights and women’s rights groups gathered this week to demonstrate at the capital’s Independence Monument and said that they were not impressed by the Pope’s message of peace. One of the demonstrators told Reuters:
For 2,000 years, the Catholic Church has been persecuting, killing, imposing fines and criminalising us … We’ve had it with nuns, priests and all churches when they act against human rights and against Jesus’ word.
Despite the country having the second highest Catholic population in the world Mexico City recognises gay marriage and has abortion available on demand – and the Catholic Church is less than happy about it,
This is probably why Ratzinger gave Mexico City a wide berth, and travelled instead to Guanajuato, where he referred to the mistreatment of children, without specifically mentioning Catholic paedophilia scandals of recent decades.
I wish to lift up my voice, inviting everyone to protect and to care for children, so that nothing may extinguish their smile, but that they may live in peace and look to the future with confidence.
The Pope has met with abuse victims in many foreign countries but, much to the annoyance of abuse victims in Mexico, pointedly avoided addressing the issue in that country.
One of the women’s rights protesters in Mexico City, where a Fuck the Pope … but Use a Condom banner was prominently displayed, said:
They accuse women who have abortions but they tolerate priests who rape and commit acts of paedophilia. In reality, they are very hypocritical …
Shortly before a meeting between Ratzinger and President Felipe Calderon, victims of sexual abuse accused the Vatican of protecting a notorious Mexican priest for decades, and expressed frustration that Pope Benedict XVI would not meet them in Mexico. More Freethinker
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