The Vatican isn’t going to let well enough alone. I thought they’d had their say about the Belgian police raids and investigation, but, no…they continue to press the issue and whine like the privileged bitches they are.

The words being bandied about now by the Catholics are “serious and unbelievable” and “astonishment”. In my post yesterday, I pointed out the discrepancy between the Vatican reaction to untold thousands (maybe millions) of children being raped and a few priests being inconvenienced for a few hours.

Today, I’m looking at one comment made by the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.

If that name doesn’t sound familiar to you, let me refresh your memory. He’s the Catholic cleric who recently claimed that gays were to blame for pedophilia:

“…that there is a relation between homosexuality and pedophilia. That is true! That is the problem.”

Yes, this is THAT Cardinal Bertone.

In regards to the recent anti-boy-buggery campaign in Belgium, Bertone states, “there are no precedents, not even under the old communist regimes”.

I haven’t been doing a lot of digging in regards to media reaction to this comment, but there’s bound to be others like myself who read that remark and just laughed.

Bertone is either stupid or he’s lying and I’m inclined to think it’s the latter. History has given me every reason to believe that the good Cardinal – like so many others from his clique – is intimately familiar with the Catholic variation of Hitler’s “Big Lie” strategy  and that this is just another implementation of it. Those with an education in, or understanding of the history of the Soviet Empire need to expose the Cardinals comment for what it is: complete and utter bullshit.

Under the Soviet boot, oppression permeated every aspect of clerical life, especially countries like East Germany, but to varying degrees, difficulty was part of every  Christian cleric’s lives throughout the Soviet bloc. In general, unless you cooperated with the secret police organs, Soviet bloc countries were not good places to be a Christian cleric, so… cooperate the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches did. For the most part, they served as organs of the State and depending on the country, were employed to some degree or another by the State, either officially or unofficially. Promotions and assignments depended quite frequently on a cleric’s willingness to cooperate with the regime and inform on others.

Of course police raids and detentions were not a part of everyday life for the cleric living under Soviet rule. They did happen, but for the most part, they occurred as the communists were consolidating their power after WW II. Once their hold on power was absolute, there was no need for raids or detentions on a regular basis because the clergy were already under communist control.

For Bertone to cast the legally and morally justified acts of the Belgian police in a negative light as compared to the pervasive subjugation under the communists of the last century is absurd and is a strawman argument of the highest order.

What does a distortion of this magnitude say about the Catholic Church? It shows that they will say and do anything in order to keep their hold on power.

They will not go quietly into the night. When backed into a corner, just like Islam, Catholicism relies on the old standby, the “persecuted victim defense” in order to gain influence amongst those who have a predilection for supporting the underdog.

The Catholics are no underdogs, and rewriting history won’t erase their crimes.