Thus Spake the LARD

No priestesses for you!

It was meant to be the document that put a lid on the clerical sex abuse scandals that have swept the Roman Catholic world. But instead of quelling fury from within and without the church, the Vatican stoked the anger of liberal Catholics and women's groups by including a provision in its revised decree that made the "attempted ordination" of women one of the gravest crimes in ecclesiastical law.

The change put the "offence" on a par with the sex abuse of minors.

Seeing as how the priests of Cathol are world-renowned expert practitioners of child sexual abuse, I guess they'd know.

"Paedophilia [is] deemed to be one of the 'gravest offences a priest can commit.'"

Really? Judging by the frequency of the act and the near complete lack of censure for it, I'd formed the impression there was a sort of ongoing ladder tournament among the white-collared buggerers.

Data from countries in which church membership is officially registered suggest tens of thousands of Catholics, perhaps hundreds of thousands, have abandoned their faith in disgust.

I can understand that; I've never been a member of the silly cult and I'm utterly disgusted by it.

Lombardi said the Vatican was working on further instructions "so that the directives it issues on the subject of sexual abuse of minors, either by the clergy or institutions connected with the church, may be increasingly rigorous, coherent and effective".

Here, let me help: "DON'T STICK YOUR DICK IN CHILDREN."

Now, which part of that do you need assistance in understanding?