Monday, August 2, 2010

Anne Rice gives up on the Church

Anne Rice wrote about Vampires, you probably wouldn't approve. But she came back to the Church and to God and then she wrote a fictionalized account of your life. Now she has left the Church...again.

Yes, but you are missing the point.

The point?

Anne is still committed to me and to God. And she is committed to justice. Anne recognises that when it uses its resources within the civil arena to fight against justice the Catholic Church has lost its way.

I guess what you are referring to is the fact that Catholic bishops in the US have financed lobbying against the civil union of same sex couples, something that would provide them with civil rights not sacramental unions. And the fact that Catholic bishops have lobbied against extending the statute of limitations for child sexual abuse cases that would allow the prosecution of "credibly accused," even admitted, priest sex offenders.

The current statutes of limitations has created a situation where hundreds of these known and admitted offenders are being housed and supported by the Church, and many are still holding jobs in which they have the freedom to continue their pursuit of child victims. Yet the church is sending lawyers to lobby against the extension of the statutes of limitations whenever they are being challenged in the courts. I can understand Anne’s disillusionment.

Yes, that is indeed understandable. The behavior of the Catholic bishops, on the other hand, is not.