In what I can only describe as a sale to rival any BOGOF, the Vatican has made a deal with God for some very special limited offers to be made available for the Catholic Church’s World Youth Day in Madrid.
Offer 1Having an abortion is such a heinous crime that it usually warrants excommunication but God has allowed all the priests taking confession at the event the power to lift such an excommunication and the post sinners will be welcomed back into the church.
So if you have had the misfortune to have had an abortion at any time get yourself down to World Youth Day and tell all to one of the blocks in a frock and an eternal life in heaven that you though was lost to you forever can still be yours.
Offer 2
A Plenary Indulgence allowing you to spend less time in purgatory. These used to be only available by paying out your hard earned cash but you can now get one free with every confession.
Why not try confessing several times this day, you may miss out on your stay in purgatory all together, just remember not to enjoy the sinning required before each subsequent confession too much.
Two for the Price of One.
Of course confessing to an abortion means you qualify for both these fantastic offers, a true and divine BOGOF.
So why not make you way down to the massive Catholic Church’s World Youth Day in Madrid event and grab yourself a bargain of an eternal lifetime!
Child abuse in churches (and some other organisations)is a terrible problem. The Catholic Church isn't alone in it but it looks to be more institutionalised and covered up than most anywhere else.
ReplyDeleteOne of the worst reports I have seen was only the yesterday;
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/18/dublin-catholics-levy-church-bankruptcy?INTCMP=SRCH
The Catholic Church in Ireland is almost bankrupt through paying compensation for child abuse and are considering a "parish-based levy on Catholic families living in Dublin" whatever that will involve.
But the shocking thing is that the money paid out in compensation was given to it by the very families and communities that the abuse was going in in. In a perverse way they have unknowingly paid for priests to sexually abuse their children and are now being asked to pay for compensating the victims.