If there’s any organization in the world who should never be allowed to comment on a crime bill, or anything really, it’s the Catholic Church. Particularly the Boston Archdiocese. And I say this as a catholic. Yet that’s exactly what they did yesterday with a press release in favor of the “police reform” bill that will strip cops of qualified immunity, make it almost impossible for them to do their jobs, and in turns make out communities less safe. Here’s the press release.
The sin of racism and struggle for racial justice has been part of our nation’s history for centuries. Awareness of both has never been absent, but too often both themes have been marginalized. Periodically, they are brought to the forefront of common discourse, most often triggered by aggressive, violent, or horrific acts perpetrated on members of our African American, Latino, and other minority communities. As a result, serious discussions regarding how society acts and reacts to alter the culture of discrimination, violence, ignorance and indifference often occur and appear to gain momentum. Meaningful debate raises expectations that society will finally emerge from the culture of racism. However, as history has shown, those discussions ultimately fade into the background as time elapses and other seemingly pressing issues make any change less urgent and somehow less important.
That collective mindset and cycle of inaction must end now. The time is upon us as a society to take responsibility for our actions. Racial injustice, bigotry, scorn and intolerance against individuals based upon their religion, ancestry, ethnicity or skin color must end now. Excuses for hate-filled behavior can no longer be tolerated. We are all created equal in the eyes of God and all human lives are to be valued and protected. It is upon us to make that human equality the norm – not the exception.
As the four Roman Catholic Bishops of Massachusetts, we pledge our full support to the cultural shift towards meaningful reforms in the area of racial injustice. As a country and a commonwealth of immigrants from all regions of the world, we must join together as one race – the human race. We must learn from our mistakes. We must learn from our passive acceptance of inaction and not let this opportunity fade into the background. Today and every day until reforms are implemented, this must be the pressing issue of the day. We must seize this opportunity with energy, determination and vigor. We must act now – it is our collective responsibility.
The underlying racial injustice and inequality issues we face are countless. They include, but are not limited to, education, housing, employment, law enforcement, the judiciary and many more. As Bishops, we take this opportunity to specifically voice our support of the efforts of Governor Baker and the legislature as they craft a bill to enact meaningful police reform.
It goes on and on and on. I can’t even tell you the amount of anger seeping through my pores as I read this. These monsters moved around kiddie rapist priests from church to church for decades, destroyed the lives of kids who were specifically targeted from singe parent homes, and only got caught because the Boston Globe used to be a real newspaper at the time they were doing this. They’d probably be able to get away with it today because the Spotlight team would focusing on some rando using the n word in Lynnfield.
This part made my head wanna explode.
We acknowledge the vast majority of the police officers in the state of Massachusetts are capable and honorable public servants who serve and protect all residents with distinction. We also acknowledge that racial biases have infiltrated the mindsets and actions of some police officers. Those are the individuals targeted by the legislation currently being debated by our lawmakers. That legislation is a step in the direction of meaningful change and is the reason we support our elected officials in their efforts to address these systematic problems.
Fuck. Off. You’re the catholic church. You invented systemic problems. By not allowing priests to get married you’re basically ringing the cowbell for weirdos and perverts to apply for a job.
This legislation won’t do anything to deter bad cops with “biases” either. All it will do is make the vast majority of cops unable to perform their duties because they can no longer shoot at fleeing vehicles or take proper action to restrain violent criminals.
As Catholic Bishops we do not pretend to know the business of policing. However, recent violent police actions from across the country inform us that methods, tactics, training, attitudes and biases must be addressed to bring about better policing. These fundamental changes must be done with the expertise, input, and cooperation from as many resources as possible – especially those who have experienced racial injustice firsthand.
Here’s an idea – shut the fuck up about things you know nothing about. You have zero background in police training and tactics. You’re knowledge of police violence comes from clips you saw on CNN of cops dispersing looters and rioters. You want input from people with expertise? Cool. Try talking to a cop. Oh wait, the state legislature cancelled the public hearing on this so we’ll be ignoring the people who probably should be heard from more than anyone. Meanwhile, your job is to shut your mouth, deliver a homily once a week, give me communion, and magically wipe my sins clean once every few years when I’m feeling guilty.
The Catholic Church also pays a grand total of $0 in taxes. I don’t wanna hear another word from them on public policy until they do.
One of the 4 cosigners was the “Most Reverend Robert J. McManus, Bishop of Worcester.” The same Bishop who in 2013 was arrested for drinking and driving after smashing into another car, fleeing the scene, and getting caught after the other driver tracked him down.
Under his command the church refused to sell a property they owned to a gay couple because the catholic church actively discriminates against homosexuals, despite harboring thousands of closeted gay men as priests. But yea, they’re in a fine position to lecture everyone else about tolerance.
I’ll always be a catholic because its my faith. But this is exactly why I never put money in the basket. This is a multi-million dollar criminal enterprise that just added shitting on police to their stellar resume of shitty behavior.
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78 Comment(s)
I’m Catholic, conservative and proud of my faith, as well as a regular turtle rider. Fuck all of you. There are priests I know who are good men, who speak out against the leftist bull shit and encourage people to live lives of moral responsibility. This article pisses me off. Liberals and the victim-card playing LGBT crowd infiltrated the Church and brought the scandalous behavior with them. It’s true – read “Goodbye Good Men”.
Take a look at psychological journals back in the 80s. The left was supportive of pedophilia until they could bash the church for it.
The scandal was a disgrace. Anyone who abuses kids deserves full punishment under the law. The Church’s leaders did a shit job, but there have been reforms.
I guess you guys are all fucking naive enough to think that kids are somehow safer in the leftist-saturated education system, with its LGBT alphabet soup, then they are in the church?
Fuck Turtleboy for this nativist anti-Catholic shit, and fuck all of you. And I say that as someone who reads this thing regularly. The TRUE Catholicism, not watered down by Jesuits but practiced AS THE CATECHISM teaches, is one of the last bastions of moral order and sanity in this perverted and sickening world.
Even with so many tremendous previous articles this may be the best ever
The leftists marched through the Catholic institution just like they did with all the others. If the diddling was happening pre ~1950’s, certainly somebody would’ve heard about it. Obama cut off the SWIFT funding to the Vatican to force Benedict out, now we’re stuck with AOC’s ideological twin brother. Scum, all!
Fuck Aaron Judge
With my club, I’d turn your head into cherry colored Jello and the chicklets would rain on Salem for weeks
A long legacy of despicable behaviors include. 1.Indulgences – the act of turning over your property on your death bed to the church in exchange for ” guaranteed eternal life” This left families destitute. 2. Chopping block for the Veinna boys choir, it’s a fact, can’t let their voices change w puberty, barbaric.
3. Support of totalitarian tyrants whose Catholic subjects are maintained in fear & poverty. S. America & Cuba perfect examples. They also celebrate a mass at the vatican to a certain “angel of light!” They are truly the wolves in sheep’s clothing. May their coming judgement be swift and horrible.
and ‘Catholic Charities’ is the #1 importer of Somalis to Maine and Minnesota. Great spot for desert dwellers!! Like another commenter said, it’s all about the benjamins!
You’re a historically illiterate moron. The banana republic communists hate the church. The Vienna thing while repulsive is a historical footnote and not indicative of any broader Catholic trend. And your definition of an indulgence is pure fiction. Did you even bother Googling? Do some homework you stupid fuck.
So you claim to be a Catholic? Does that mean you go to confession? Somehow I cant picture that. You would have to be in that confessional for hours!
It was a religion for soldiers. The high priest was the commanding officer.
It must be awesome to conquer and kill without moral doubts or questions.
Almost like being an Aztec
Catholic church lost my money in the basket the day I got told I couldn’t go to communion because I remarried after getting divorced. They lost my butt in the seats forever the kiddie diddling priests being protected and hidden in the parish I grew up in to molest kids I was friends with and destroy their lives. Before lecturing ANYONE about ANYTHING the church needs to get its’ own house in order – plenty there to keep every one of them busy for a long time. Including the freaking pope who shouldn’t be commenting on squat until the church has atoned for the damage it’s caused to every molested child.
To be fair, divorce is strongly condemned in the bible. Deal with it.
So isn’t murder, when you’re married to the useless blob of shit I was it was either divorce the twunt or kill it, divorce was the lesser of the two. Read your bible, it’s the remarried part they had the problem with. Priests can molest kids like it’s their national pastime, but you better not marry anybody else without getting your marriage annulled (and “donating” 300 bucks to the church for them to tell you that the first marriage was invalid). Nice racket they got going.
God Bless Turtleboy for being another Catholic who refuses to put his hard earned peanut$ in the basket. These goons are the reason for the past decade, until the COVID shutdowns, I attended the Tridentine Mass. I would never still consider myself a Catholic if it weren’t for Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre heroically founding the Society of St. Pius X, and consecrating bishops in defiance of the Pope in order to save the Faith. (It’s unfortunate one of them became an anti-Semite who acts like Farrakhan in a mitre, and got the boot from the order, but that’s another discussion for another day.)
The institutionalized Catholic Church is no more. It’s not orthodox. It hasn’t been since Vatican II. People are right to be upset. The infiltration of the Catholic Church (the first organization to be hijacked) started in the 1920s and ’30s….(see the Bella Dodd Congressional Testimonies and the 2019 Book Infiltration by Dr. Taylor Marshall)
Thanks to V2, I’m the only living Catholic remaining in my family.
“I say this as a Catholic.”
No you’re not, you’re faithless modernist who refuses to fulfill his obligations or frequent the sacraments, and supports queers and state oppression of the Church. You and the pedos belong on the “excommunicate first” list together.
That’ll be the day when I go to talk about my sins with or be lectured by a man who probably has committed more than me. The Church does serve some good for children by teaching them the 10 Commandments and how to love one another. Just cant ever leave them alone with these guys, for obvious reasons…
Cops should be allowed to kill blacks for literally any reason they feel like.
My greatest hope is to live to see the end of the Catholic Church
Hey you fucking cardinals why don’t you get your own house in order
You preside over a gang of queer pedophiles
Your pope is a senile old cocksucker who has protected his pedophile friends for years and is a child molester himself
I was pleased to see St-Mary’s school in Wormtown was closing . The days of the Catholic priest being treated with respect are over . No longer are they driving big Cadillac’s and getting stuff for free . They either participated in the abuse or knew and turned a blind eye to it . Great story turtle . Hope they rot in hell .
I was pleased to see St-Mary’s school in Wormtown was closing . The days of the Catholic priest being treated with respect are over . No longer are they driving big Cadillac’s and getting stuff for free . They either participated in the abuse or knew and turned a blind eye to it . Great story turtle . Hope they rot in hell .
Keep on with the fun stuff dont stop till you get enough
Prayer and faith are good and righteous things. These motherfuckers sold out for thirty pieces of silver and a rim job. Another institution that sees the normies as just something to feed off of.
Figured they might make a fuss about not letting any of us go to mass…nope. They got paid off.
Criminals…that’s why I ain’t sharing my dildo
Sausage fest @ Shanleys
how dare you
Due to synonyms and sexual oppression… “Forgive Me Father For I Have Sinned”… has become “Sorry Daddy I’ve Been Naughty” at my church.
Father McManus loves the title of “bishop”. It reminds him of the shape of boy’s private parts. Cumstain McManus is going to hell.
Convicted drunk driver in RI.
You never put money in the basket? Shocker.
He puts the lotion in the basket.
LOL! Thanks for the good laugh Geisha
The Chink Flu will do more to punish the Catholic Church in the United States than all the diddling priests. It’s all about the Benjamin’s. The weekly collections are now below 50% pre Chink Flu. That money is not coming back. Some of the faithful might, but envelopes for March, April, May, June won’t see the collection basket.
The odds for the Capital Campaign begun last year were always long for meeting the goal. Now it will be lucky to make half of the 32 million dollar goal.
Talk all you want about justice bishops, just remember much of the unequal results are self inflicted. Commit a crime, resist, aid and abed, I didn’t du nuffin is no way to go through life.
Interesting take.
I’m not Catholic so I can’t speak to the parishes in my area. However I did find out that one Merrimack Valley church is well above the average numbers for donations during the quarantine, even with the building closed and no services.
Perhaps a ‘salvation in exchange for reparation’ mentality?
All they have to do is change racism to rape in the first sentence, and they’d be talking about the Catholic Church.
The greatest trick of the devil was to disguise himself as Catholic priests
Catholic Church in the USA absolutely should have been hit with the RICO act. I’m was raised a Catholic and have lost faith in this organization. Cardinal Bernard Law and others should have been extradited from Rome and brought to trial. Rome would not have turned them over so they would of been tried without being there. Fuck these PEDO scumbags, keep your mouths shut. Nobody cares what these lowlife Pedos think.
More pandering
Over heard at convent”lights out at 10,candles by 11
Nuns can wax eloquently
I am 0-2 for sexual abuse oppotunities. Was in the boy scouts and nobody touched me so I quit and became an altar boy. Guess what? Not one finger was laid on my little pinchable keister. This is reverse racism and I DEMAND PAYMENT!
The next law they should pass is one that strips qualified immunity from priest hearing confession. I wonder if the church would come out in favor of that?
I did not leave the Catholic Church, the Catholic Church left me.
What’s the only meat a priest will eat on Friday? Nun.
TB – its actually pretty easy.
12 years catholic school > dumped the church decades ago buh bye.
3 years ago > dumped the John Henry Sox.
Fuck em.
Next up on the choppin block > beer.
Hahahahahahaha . . .
Kidding – beer’s goin no where,
cept in my belly.
The Catholic church should be celebrated for diversity.tolerance and multiculturalism.
They were accepting of homosexuals when society wasnt. Hell, during the Stonewall riots as gays were being beaten
The catholic church accepted them and happily allowed them to anally asssult young boys
I have a theory on why leftists attacked the church very hard on the GAY priest scandal (it wasn’t a pedo scandal) they were jealous of the GAY priests.
Whites built the church but they know the demographic change will mean 60 percent of Americans will be hispanic soon.
I never left the Catholic church. The church left me and is moving farther away every day.
The leadership of the Catholic Church certainly made sure my lustful homosexual tendencies were met and I applaud them.
Holy Cummunion time was fun.
When Christians go jewish lol. The real Christians in syria,Iraq,Egypt and Palestine are persecuted by Jewish America and kike Israel.
I hear that slope, Crusty Teigan, is looking into becoming a catholic priest.
Another reason why I’ll never, ever step foot in another Roman Catholic Church, unless it’s for a funeral or wedding. And even then, I’ll cringe.
They lost this ex- Catholic years ago with their kiddie diddling cover-ups.
Dont send your children to schools. Statistically speaking there are wsy more pedophile teachers than pedophile priests.
Same here. Last time I went to a mainstream post-V2 Mass was for Worc. School Committee man Brian O’Connell’s funeral, a Catholic politician who actually deserved ecclesiastical burial. (I knew him.) One of two pro-life elected Worcester Democrats at the time of his death (Mr. Monfredo is the other). Only was a Democrat because he supported union labor, the only prerequisite in the good ‘ole days. (Supported allowing teachers to concealed carry if they chose to.) I hope he wasn’t Vince Fostered….Requesicat in Pace.
This organization AS A WHOLE terrorized and violated generations of children. They reached into the pockets of the people who enabled their existence and then victimized them repeatedly before removing their wallets. They have not 1 thing to listen to unless it’s an apology and the disbanding their cult.
All religions are cult.
All.
Organized religion yes, but the truth of Christ is not a cult just the truth
Muslims are death cults
Muhammad consummated one of his multiple marriages when she was 9 years old
Life expectancy was short back then, Muhammad had to get moving!
Mohommed was in his 50s dumb fuck.
Frank stop it with the revisionist history. Aeisha was 6. Remember muslim nambla rules. Sex before 8 or its too late.
I got a shitty deal. Was told by the priest to show up Sunday morning dressed for a good meal. I put 10 bucks in the tip jar. All I got was a sip of wine and a stale wafer. I want a refund. PS the hour long speech sucked.
The Catholic Church priests will massage little boys. They refuse to massage adults. Age discrimination!
“I’ll always be a catholic because its my faith.”
Grow up and do some critical thinking. You’ll always be catholic because you were indoctrinated and brainwashed.
You could use some critical thinking as well. The Church’s mortal enemy controls 99% of the media.
Face it. The church is a business. The product the church sells is bullshit. Aka snake oil. Tax the church. Catholic Church is a money laundering scam that the politicians let have tax exempt status.
The best is when they shoot through the windshield while driving. Or when they kill someone in a blue tundra because one of there own got fired. Oopsa daisy.
Dats what chicago n*ggers do
Here’s what’s wrong with the church and making declarations about matters that they aren’t involved in. They have no ability to effect out comes of events covered by settled law. The courts have the responsibility to openly, fairly and without prejudice decide guilt or innocence. I’m going out on a limb and question if priest, rabbis and ministers are exempt from serving on juries.
Today’s Catholic Church is a PR disaster and could screw up a wet dream
Catholicism is pure, sorcerous voodoo in a pasty-white outer shell. Completely un-scriptural, pagan propaganda. Her priests owe a heavy debt of blood for all the lives they’ve taken and ruined. This couldn’t be a more blatant act of self-preservation for them, not some kind of virtuous re-alignment to help wronged people.
LOL @ these fuckers defending a worldwide government of pedophilia and murder. Not sure why you’re getting downvoted dude. If anybody actually read the bible, they’d see that literally NO catholic doctrine is contained in it. It’s all to scare people and make them pay the church.
Now I remember why I left that religion run by globalists.
Nothing says helping the poor quite like receiving 3.5 billion in PPE loans. Taking a page out of Monica’s book.
The left wants to normalize pedophilia. It’s no surprise the Catholic Church has switched allegiance. Good riddance. They’re your problem now, leftists.
Catholic church has been alienating me for 30+ years. They’re just not trying to bullshit anyone anymore is all.
The Catholic Church has spent centuries as a discriminatory organization, they can suck my ass if I’m not too old for them.
Wait what was that? Your beautiful ass is available for sucking on. Is it also available for hours of licking and tongue fucking? You might not think you want your prostate milked by a strong penis but you will toodaloo honey!
The Catholic Church is evil and always has been, how can you say you follow Christ while wearing diamond crosses behind massive walls in the Vatican mansion, while protecting child rapists. The church is the god in Catholicism not Christ
I am not surprised even a little
I will say that anything to get the blame off of them is probably what they’re thinking