Aug
6

Maybe I’m Just Cranky, Maybe We’re All Just Cranky

filed under international, sexual assault

World Youth Day held in Sydney, Australia from July 15-20, is a Catholic event that brought hundreds of thousands of people together. Now since we know right off the bat that religion is involved, although you wouldn’t be able to notice immediately that it is a Catholic event by looking at their website because they like to be discreet like that, we know that something bad is going to do down because there is nothing more corrupt than the Catholic church, besides the government which feeds off the Catholic church and so on.

Around the same time as World Youth Day, there was an airing on Lateline that was speaking about a family whose two daughters were raped by Father Kevin O’Donnell. Because of the rape, one daughter had committed suicide and the other was very ill because of the abuse. The family wouldn’t accept a Papal apology (because really, who would? I certainly wouldn’t!) that wasn’t backed up by positive action. Oh there people go again asking for the church to actually do something and they won’t have any of that positive action stuff going on. Come on, just look at the Catholic church’s history, they have a list longer than The Great Wall that they should be apologizing for and backing up with a lifetime of positive action.

It was the airing of Lateline, that made Bishop Anthony Fisher say the following statement:

“Happily, I think most of Australia was enjoying and delighting in the beauty and goodness of these young people, and the hope for us doing these sorts of things better in the future, as we saw last night, rather than dwelling crankily, as a few people are doing, on old wounds.” [audio here]

Dwelling crankily? Old wounds? I’m sorry, but when you lose your child to suicide because they were raped at a small age by someone they are taught they can trust, you are not dwelling, they are not to be considered old wounds and there is nothing cranky about it.

In the audio, the Bishop also goes on to say that they are trying to create better processes to make sure acts like this never happen again and then ask for constructive advice from people who believe they have the answer to prohibit clergy sex abuse from happening. I have a phenomenal idea! How about you stop protecting clergy sex offenders? Isn’t that a hell of a thought? How about when news comes out that one of the clergy members is a pedophile, you don’t simply relocate him to another church in another area so he can go on to do it again? Try that, asshole.

Apparently Bishop Anthony Fisher believes that any survivor of sexual assault who talks about what happened to them are just cranky. Maybe we all just need to get over it.

More and more suicides occur every year because of sexual assault, because people are told that they shouldn’t talk about it, because people are told that they are the ones who are tainted and disgusting and should be ashamed when really, the sex offenders themselves should be ashamed and not only that, but they should be locked up so they can never, ever, ever do it again.

Via Hoyden About Town.

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