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Mercury Retrograde by Eleana Winter-Irving 2013-03-23 10:42:13 |
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I was just listening to James Blake singing his latest hit Retrograde and I realised that the previous Pope abdicated during Mercury Retrograde. Now many of you may think this is of no consequence, or you know nothing about retrograde planets. I am not here to teach about such things, I’ll just say this, that Mercury Retrograde has affected my life in the past and has also affected my children’s lives. This last retrograde that ended on 17th March, my daughter’s washing machine broke down and my car blew a radiator. Now of course these things happen at any time, not just when Mercury is retrograde; however I am always careful not to sign any contracts or start a new venture during that time. I did once sign a contract to sell my house and the contract fell over.
Now if Pope Benedict knew anything about retrograde planets, he may well have especially chosen this time with the knowledge that things could go awry with the new Pope. I’m not suggesting that he did, just saying that it is a possibility; in which case Francis may have a lot to deal with concerning the goings on in his last country of residence and the issue of paedophile priests.
I have noted that one of the Cardinals who helped in choosing a new Pope says that paedophilia is not a crime but a disease and should be treated as such. Now let’s pretend that he is right. I wonder how he would feel about that if he had been continually raped as a child. And does this line of reasoning excuse the moving on of priests to other diocese to offend again?
Now as far as I know, only one priest has been jailed in Australia for paedophilia and that is Father F. I call him Father FUCK, because that is what he did to so many people. He fucked their bodies and their lives. I apologise for being so course, but this priest’s actions were coarse and so I have to be coarse in writing about him. In Ireland after 9 years of investigation by the Ryan Enquiry only a very few priests has been convicted/jailed, so it almost looks like the Cardinal is right. Also there were several other enquiries such as the Dublin Enquiry, lasting years where hundreds if not thousands of priest were investigated. Perhaps paedophilia is not a crime when committed by a Catholic priest. But why is that? Why is it not even frowned upon or dealt with in the same manner as John Doe or Joe Blow? As I see things a priest should be more aware of wrong doing than Joe Blow would be. Joe Blow may be a lowly spiritually evolved soil, but a priest is setting himself up in high esteem and beyond reproach. He is taking the moral high ground, just by becoming a priest. What has Christianity taught him? What has the bible taught him? What has life taught him and what has the Law taught him? Nothing as it seems. Therefore he is not in a position to dictate to his parishioners what is right and what is wrong. ovi+society Ovi+culture Ovi |
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