I am in Ireland for a few days and the news here is covered by the scandals of the way the Church treated kids in their care, throughout the 40s, 50s and 60s mainly. Now, you have a situation where the Bishops are telling the different congregations to provide more money to the children that were abused in so many ways. They are very wealthy organisations and they have been shifting assets from one company to another to avoid paying out.

As far as I can make out, the *total* of the Catholic Church should have *all* of their assets confiscated and the proceeds of the sale of such assets should be divided between those unfortunate people who were abused.

The Catholic Church should also be labeled an illegal organisation, and it should be an offence to be found to be a member or to support such an organisation.  I accept that there are some good priests etc., but if they had any respect for themselves they would resign and create some new mechanism for moving forward, and I still don’t believe that even the *good* ones didn’t know what was going on and are guilty by not coming forward.

Can you imagine what would happen if these kinds of activities were found in some kind of cult religion (and what is or isn’t a cult religion)?  As far as I’m concerned, the Catholic religion is as much a cult religion as any, and maybe more so, the way they kept denying, hiding, telling lies and playing a hand to try to hang on to what they could.

They are LIARS, RAPISTS, ABUSERS AND COVER-UP MERCHANTS of an organisation that should be banned from operating in Ireland, and at least the victims would feel that they got juctice.