Just When you Thought the Waters Were Safe

Two things happened you barely noticed:



The Ninth Circuit ruling on Vatican liability for sexual misdeeds of priests was let lie as the final ruling by the Supreme Court denying cert. apparently (so no potential for overruling it thus the pope is on the hook if priests can be considered employees ultimately of the vatican- and of course they are because they are bound by all the rules of the priesthood, hence thousands of them converging on the Vatican for the year of the priest ) and The Washington, DC Catholic Standard reported it.



Because the 'command and control' center of the church, the one church , proclaims everywhere that it is under the authority of the one papal authority and office, of course priests are all 'employees' of the vatican- thus the pope, while a head of state cannot deem or presume himself immune from all employee laws while operating a business in the US under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. He is the head of a corporation essentially as well as the head of state. It has more assets than most Fortune 500 corporations.



Thus "matrimonial discrimination" is against our US Constitution, marriage being a right of everyone, the Pope cannot fire a priest who marries- neither can he take any constitutional rights away from any priest without incuring some liability- like payment of his salary for life in one lump sum.

A priest saying that because they consecrate the eucharist they are not able to marry is like your mother saying that because she makes you dinner she cannot now sew any more clothes because that distracts her from making dinner. Because she makes dinner forget about her tucking you in at night because she has to supervise doing the dishes. Because she makes you dinner she cannot go to your little leage game, she cannot watch your ballet, she cannot drive you to your piano lesson, and she certainly cannot read you bedtime stories. The gestault of making, preparing and serving dinner and clean up is too all consumming and that is all that family life is about.

Of course making a rule that priests could optionally marry and rearrage priorities would not make a run on marriage- everyone would not want to. most would not want to. most would want to remain pampered without immediate family responsibility or hardship with everything paid for and having no real responsibilty over ones own family reciting a litany of saints. Most of them are not casting out demons in exorcisms and drained of energy to do anything but the Good of the Lord. Some of them couldn't survive without the adultation
of sheepish masses.

But a few good honorable ones would marry - real women. They would understand that persecution of Love in the name of the Lord who is Love is oxymoronic. But yes, a few are moronic. Goes with the territory.

Postscript:
Yes, there is something called a Curia. It's curiasly cracked, but it's central command and control. Yes, there is something called an office of propagation of the faith- there is something that used to be an inquisition office that in the middle ages invented torture. It's doctrinally in control of everything and Dominicans have too much authority doctrinally over all of it. There is something called Canon Law which is supposed to be the rule of law governing the whole joint -all billion plus of us, and there is something called the "catechism" meaning the creed for everyone- some billion plus of all- all under the command and control and authority of the one pope. It is the central defining difference between protestants and catholics, this centralized religion that was once even called a "holy roman empire" while it was mostly neither holy nor roman then- and a huge stumbling block for those who think this particular pope in particular is a bit too daft to be at the helm, notwithstanding the pretty red shoes and does rather insane things through his minions.

Insane. Yes, totally insane. Unjustified, hurtful, hateful, insane. Don't get me started. You know who you are.
Should the Vatican be on the hook when everything is centralized like this. Haaaiiieeeelll Yeah. Sick B-stards. I am going to throw up. Did I say misogynist? Can you spell Misogynist boys and girls? Can you spell GROW THE F UP already.