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Easter Homily – Vatican Compares Outing its Sex Abuse Scandal to …
Apr 4th
As reported in the Guardian and the New York Times, the Holy Mother Church thinks that exposing and criticizing the church’s cover up of decades of predatory sexual abuse by priests – involving the rape and abuse of children, men and women – is comparable to the Holocaust. That’s the comparison made in a Good Friday sermon by the pope’s personal preacher. the church later denied that his views were “official”, but then published them in the official Vatican newspaper.
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Happy Good Friday!
Apr 3rd
K: happy Good Friday, Tony
Me: what?
K: I said happy Good Friday
Me: Dude, Good Friday is not happy Good Friday
K: but it’s good, right?
Me: Ya, Jesus saved us from sin so it was kinda good for the world. but he was crucified too, remember?
K: but you call it Good Friday. And confuse the heck out of people
Me: Well, it’s good because Christians believe Jesus died for people’s sins. And when we remember his death more than 2000 years ago, we are inspired to lead better, sin-free lives
K: but he still died. That’s a sad thing, isn’t it?
Me: Ya, but sometimes good stuff can come from sad things
K: So why isn’t Good Friday happy too?
Me: Are you ever happy when people die? The fact that Jesus died is sad but then Christians believe that good came out of it. but people are happy on Easter, when Jesus rose from the dead
K: So you are saying I can wish you happy Easter but not happy Good Friday
Me: Exactly
K: does it offend Christians if I wish them happy Good Friday
Me: Not really. it sounds weird though. but I guess you took the trouble to remember it’s an important day for us, so I should be happy
K: So you can be happy on Good Friday?
Me: Well, not really. I am fasting today and you are eating icecream. how can that make me happy?