Christmas Hypocrisy from the Vatican

Ever the disingenuous hypocrite, God's Rottweiler a/k/a Benedict XVI gave his Christmas message at the Vatican last night and among other things appealed for an end to child abuse in all its forms. Among his remarks, Benedict XVI said:

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"Let us think of those children who are victims of the industry of pornography and every other appalling form of abuse, and thus are traumatised to the depths of their soul." Benedict said Catholics had to "do everything in our power to put an end to the suffering of these children."

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With Benedict, of course, talk is cheap and he continues to fail to take any action against bishops and cardinals who enabled and/or covered up for predator priests. Cardinal Law, for instance left the sex abuse scandal plagued archdiocese of Boston to take up a position living like a prince of old at the Vatican. Meanwhile some of Law's former lieutenants such as Cardinal Egan of New York continue to have their wide, falsely pious, corrupt asses kissed by delusional Catholics. Given the foul conduct these supposed "men of God" I personally can only wonder why anyone gives them the time of day. They belong behind bars not on an altar sermonizing to others about proper conduct.

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Meanwhile, Andrew Sullivan has some good points on Benedict's slanderous comments on LGBT individuals which reflect a mindset stuck in the Middle Ages. Here are highlights:

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[Benedict] essentially argues that the forms of male and female as created by God can know of no complexity or variance. The fact of same-sex sexual and emotional orientation - displayed throughout nature and expressed by human beings since the beginning of time - is, in the Pope's view, a divine error. The entire universe must fit into the binary Thomist vision, or we are allegedly divorcing humankind from our own nature. And nature must be divorced from all new knowledge of the human and animal sciences. Well: at least the knowledge we have gained since the Middle Ages.

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What I found telling is how this Pope, in his summary of the recent history of the Church, simply erases the Second Council from reality - just as he erases homosexual orientation from the arena of open inquiry or meditation.