Wow! No really, wow! Just when you think the Church of Rome has reached the outer limits of its pompous wrongheadedness (blessing Nazi troops, promoting abusing clerics, welcoming Anglican homophobes and misogynists) it scores a double first for sheer out-of-touch, insulting, breathtaking inhumanity. On Thursday 15th July 2010, the Vatican decreed the "attempted ordination" of women to be a "crime" against the sacrament of the Eucharist. So? So, this puts this sinful "crime" in the same category as the sexual abuse of minors by priests. Categorising sins is a favourite activity of the Unholy Roman Church. When I was a kid being brought up in the faith (Faith - there was only one), I was taught that there were two types of sin - venial sins and mortal sins. The former were relatively minor, the later, as their name implies, were deadly. Examples of mortal sin would include murder, the extermination of Jews in concentration camps and missing mass on a Sunday. Each carried the ultimate tariff - eternity in Hell. But there was a redemption clause - if the mortal sin was confessed in the confessional or on the deathbed to a priest, the slate was wiped clean. In other words a sincere final confession by Hitler could have saved him from the eternal flames whereas the schoolboy who deliberately missed a Sunday or Holy Day mass and failed to get to confession before being fatally injured in a road accident would find himself condemned to an afterlife of limitless heat in the company of Satan and all the other sinners. Really.
I am not making this up.
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