• stepanzak@iusearchlinux.fyi
    784·
    7 months ago

    Please provide a source for posts like this. Not that I don’t believe it is probably true, but there’s lots of similar fake stuff on the internet and nobody should believe that somebody said something just because it was written on an image.

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        671·
        7 months ago

        From the snopes, he defended/explained it:

        I … mentioned that the church is being attacked for [sex abuse] sometimes by elements that are a bit anti-Christian … I said there are other scandals, such as abortion which are under-reported and because abortion destroys innocent life you could say it’s a worse scandal.

        Fuck me, doesn’t he see that abusing children absolutely destroys that child’s life, too? And that scripture recognizes him as … human… where scripture doesn’t recognize a fetus as such?

        Like, that’s even worse a thing to say…

      • Certified Asshole@sh.itjust.works
        11·
        7 months ago

        Pell made the infamous statement during a World Youth Day event in July 2002, in reply to an American youth minister’s asking him how Catholics should respond to questions regarding the findings of systematic sexual abuse committed by church officials. When asked to explain his rationale, Pell (who at the time was the Archbishop of Sydney) said, “Because [abortion] is always a destruction of human life.”

        Yeah, switching topics here is how you guarantee you aren’t a pedophile, right. It’s so obvious he covers himself or someone he knows. They all are sick, and sick with power.

        Thanks for referencing to a fact-checking article.

    • The Barto@sh.itjust.works
      61·
      7 months ago

      Oh it’s true and it’s probably censored a bit as well, he was a vile fucking man and I danced a jig of joy the day that pedophile died.

  • Deceptichum@kbin.social
    161·
    7 months ago

    Rest in Piss Pell, you were such a scum bag you fled our shores to hide in the Vatican until your end.

    • vivadanang@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      fuck the morality scale. let’s deal with real world ratings. for a satisfaction scale, it rates around a 2.72; you’d get a much better satisfaction score with fire ants (8.1), rabid weasels (7.8), or starving wharf rats (7.65).

      all of which of course pale compared to the satisfaction scored by ‘beaten to death by his victims, slowly’.

      Life’s funny like that.

  • moistclump@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 months ago

    Another example of the difference between pro life and pro birth. This mindset on cares about the fact you’ve pushed them out of your body, after that they just don’t seem to care. Poverty, abuse, health issues. It stops being their issue. Then it’s individualism, which amounts to abandonment.

  • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 months ago

    Swiss Guards with the funny hats, take that man away! Throw him in the dungeon with all those dark age scientists that we killed.

  • BolexForSoup@kbin.social
    2·
    7 months ago

    What on god’s green earth could’ve possessed him to make such an absolutely bonkers statement? Why would he voluntarily say those words? I can’t even wrap my head around this decision.