Required reading:

The Catholic leadership has long been a fan of “do as I say, not as I do” morality. It’s okay for them to do every “sin,” but for you, not so much. And they’ll even go so far as to cover up the sin, claim they did nothing wrong—and then blame the victims, as Ratzinger himself did as a cardinal, as did another church leader—when it’s one of their own, as we’ve learned time and again with the church’s pedophilia scandal.

Remember, this is a church that once castrated young boys who came forward to accuse church officials of raping them as children. It’s a church that lamented the imprisonment of pedophiles. And it’s a church that gladly gave a full church funeral to a man who raped over 150 kids.

The Catholic Church’s moral hypocrisy appears to know no bounds. I can’t think of any organization, other than the Boy Scouts, that has had such a problem with pedophiles as the Catholic Church. And both, interestingly, are guilty of such moral hubris. This should be the final nail in the coffin of the Catholic Church’s moral authority, but it won’t be. These are men who rape children and routinely cover it up, while then aiding and abetting the rape of even more children, and who have yet to admit full responsibility for their crimes. In that kind of perverted world, what’s one guy who sexually harassed an 18-year-old?

Hell, eighteen is practically geriatric for this crowd.