Earlier this year, I published a controversial op-ed, “Exit, Don’t Enable the Roman Catholic Church.” Boy, was I right in my assessment that liberal and
moderate Catholics should get out and find a more tolerant church as quickly as possible. Last week, the Pope delivered a bigoted Christmas address dedicated to attacking loving LGBT families. Now, we have an Italian priest who wrote in his Christmas bulletin that women are to blame for domestic violence because they wear tight clothing.
According to the note:
Father Piero Corsi also attacked women for not cleaning their houses and serving fast food, and called on women to engage in ‘healthy self criticism’ over femicide – men murdering women.
In an astonishing message, he attacked pornography but said women shared the blame for ‘provoking the worst instincts which then turn into violence and sexual abuse’.
Father Corsi’s letter, pinned to the door of the church in the northern village of San Terenzo di Lerici, said: ‘Let’s ask ourselves. Is it possible that men have all gone mad at one stroke? We don’t think so.
‘The core of the problem is in the fact that women are more and more provocative, they yield to arrogance, they believe they can do everything themselves and they end up exacerbating tensions,’ it said.
‘How often do we see girls and even mature women walking on the streets in provocative and tight clothing?
‘Babies left to themselves, dirty houses, cold meals and fast food at home, soiled clothes.
What next, will they blame the mass rape of boys on their cute little choir outfits? This church in its current incarnation has serious issues that aren’t easily fixed. It may be too late the change the direction of the Roman Catholic Church. The best reform, as I mentioned in my controversial op-ed, may be fed up parishioners voting with their feet.
Are people of good conscience who don’t leave this institution Cathoholics — they know they need to quit but can’t abandon the harmful habit?
That priest is enabling abusers.
That’s what the RCC does best.
The Pope has the gay corner now an Italian priest is taking on women. I suppose they didn’t just all want to resign at once and make destroying the church look too easy.
Double butter on that popcorn please.
Ahhhh! The Ecumenical Catholic Communion! What a wonderful way to be Catholic! http://ecumenical-catholic-communion.org
heresy. burn them!
Too late:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/31/nyregion/in-interview-the-rev-benedict-groeschel-says-abuse-victims-can-be-seducers.html?_r=0
“Suppose you have a man having a nervous breakdown, and a youngster comes after him. A lot of the cases, the youngster — 14, 16, 18 — is the seducer.”
Ah, beat me to it.
When I hear disgusting stories like this, I am SO relieved that I submitted that declaration of defection years ago. I don’t want to be part of homophobic, misogynist, abusive church.
Roman catholics seem to be significantly less able than their protestant counterparts to leave their churches. Most protestants change churches if something doesn’t sit well, but moderate and progressive catholics seem unable to part with their institution, even with its egregious political history and current anti-women bias. The reformation started 500 + years ago because some people demanded change and would no longer go along with the status quo. It won’t happen again (IMHO) until their is a mass exodus (excuse the pun).
That’s because there are literally thousands of Protestant sects, many of them indistinguishable from each other, but only one Catholic Church.
And for lay people, the control the CC asserts is also far lower than in many Protestant churches. Unless they work for the church they can freely ignore whatever their priests commands, while in a Protestant church (which are often run like cults) they can be severely punished.
I think Kooky Corsi needs to convert to fundamentalist Islam and move to Afghanistan or Saudi Arabia.
This revolting diatribe coming from a member of a Church that hides the sexual abuse of children in their care. Do 5 and 6 year olds go walking around the church in provocative clothing to entertain the likes of priests. He should shut his mouth before some filth about him comes to light.
Honestly, from my experience, I bet most women are hearing this misognist message in some way everyday…you particularly see it in the policing of women’s sexuality (everything can get a girl labeled trashy) and the way women are socialized to be hypervigilant against predators as a matter of daily life..
And while we’re about it, try this one over on your bazooka:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/popersquos-child-porn-normal-claim-sparks-outrage-among-victims-15035449.html
Most of the churches of the ecumenical catholic communion do NOT allow the sacrament of marriage for gay couples although they claim to be inclusive. What’s up with that?