Excommunicate the Pope
Archbishop Jose Cordoso Sobrinho of Brazil recently excommunicated ‘everyone involved’ in helping a 9 year old girl obtain an abortion. Apparently, abortion is a much worse sin than the rape this girl endured at the hands of her step-father, who was not excommunicated for his sin.
It was people like Archibishop Jose here who convinced me that Catholicism was definitely not a religion for any self-respecting woman. Any religion that has such little regard for females cannot possibly serve my spiritual needs. Hello. Why would I want to worship the woman-hating god these people espouse?
Catholic Brazilians have responded by demanding that they be excommunicated as well. Apparently, they don’t want to belong to a church that would punish a 9 year old girl, a rape victim who was pregnant with twins and likely to suffer lasting harm to her small body (if not die herself) trying to carry this pregnancy to term. Frankly, that Archbishop has no business presiding over the spirituality of any community. While I appreciate the people asking to be excommunicated in solidarity (and would do so myself if I knew how to say it in Portuguese!), a much more effective strategy would be to petition to have the Archbishop himself at least removed from his office, if not excommunicated himself. Any spiritual leader who would publicly condemn a 9 year old girl, who was the victim of several years of sexual abuse, and not have at least that much condemnation for her abuser, has violated every code of decency that I can think of. To say that abortion is a greater sin than rape because the ‘victim’ in abortion is undoubtedly ‘innocent’ while a rape victim may or may not be innocent… it just makes my blood boil.
Truly, if there is a shred of decency left in the Vatican, this man will be removed from his position and cloistered in a monastary for the rest of his life. Because he has clearly lost all touch with reality.