Most organized religion is 'superstition got lucky'.

But it's not just the institution which is so corrupt that it beggars belief, its Bank "...the world’s leading metaphor for corruption under guise of sanctity" but it's also the pyramid of pious hypocritical enablers who must also bear the brunt of blame for the Catholic Church's centuries long descent into murderous madness.

For instance...NewFoundland's Mount Cashel Boys Home Scandal (disclosed in 1989,) was the template for the Catholic Church's response to allegations of sexual malefesance.

But it wasn't just the Vatican which tried to as Clem points out obfuscate.

It was the Chief of Police. The Department of Social Services and the whole friggin' Government (Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949) which had for a century buried the Church's dirty linen along with the hundreds of men who anthesized their sexual degradation with drugs and alcohol to an early grave.

Indeed, when a lowly janitor tried to get something done about the abuse, he was fired for his efforts.

When it came to financial restitution, the Christian Brotherhood tried to limit its payments. Indeed, Vancouver College, a private Catholic Boys School owned by The Christian Brotherhood was going to be sold in order to pay for the restitution.

Somehow that didn't happen. Lucky parents and students.

However, the point is that the Catholic Church doesn't want to atone let alone pay for its systemic abuse.

That's why the apologies have been long in the coming. Mustn't take ownership and therefore liability...why the Church may find itself short on money for the candles or their Cardinals' $35,000 ruby rings.

Better to let the victims own their role in bringing about God's condemnation. Maybe they didn't pray hard and long enough and succumbed to the temptations of the flesh, earning themselves a hell on earth.

Why, poor priests, they were just vehicles of the Lord and his mysterious ways.

Thanks for a much needed article.