common sense or non sense

Common sense or nonsense, sometimes I wonder how we categorize the commentary we provide, receive and request.

Seems the rules of the game are established, until new rules are needed due to a disagreement or discrepancy of the original rules. Then all that was written in stone begins to crumble and collapse, and a brand new, written in granite, rule book is established.

The convenience of change always seems to dominate the discussion when the dialogue diverts from honest to less than honorable.

The Catholic Church is once again caught up in Priestly acts of molestation. It is the European continent who now has to acknowledge its Bishops and Cardinals covered up the abuse of children by Priests who while providing religious education included their own form of sex education. And once again in hindsight, the powers that be admit that had they to do the cover up over again, most of the covered parts would have been visible.

We hear the same old stories of how the molestation was church business, and how the church was supposed to have dealt with these crimes. Roman Catholic, Cardinal Sean Brady said he would not resign, (unless Pope Benedict XVI asked him to) despite admitting he helped the church collect evidence against a child-molesting priest-and never told the police about the crimes. He went on to say the church did not inform the police because of “a culture of silence about this, a culture of secrecy.”

But the same church felt it needed to go public in Washington DC (no code of silence here) when that city passed a law acknowledging gay marriage. The church was so loud that it stopped funding dollars to its Catholic Charities for fear that some gay families might want to adopt homeless, unloved kids. The church felt it needed no “culture of secrecy” to stop a process of helping kids find love, but remained silent when its priest were making some kind of twisted love to kids.

The Pope was loud and clear as to his disapproval of the gay marriages, gay adoptions and his public stance on the immorality of those two pieces of cultural life. He has over and over made his position on that very clear. But the pontiff has yet to accept the 3-month old resignation offers of three other Irish bishops who have been implicated in Catholic abuse cover-ups in Dublin. Instead the Pope is expected to publish a pastoral letter soon to the Irish people. A spokesperson said that when that paper is published the Pope would speak with a “clear and decisive voice”.

A crisis of immoral behavior as seen from the church’s eyes, yet the consensus on gays who want to adopt kids, have a family is clearly wrong, immediately stated as wrong and priests molesting children requires more time to consider the facts.

Is this okay because it’s the Pope? Is this okay because it’s church business? Is it common sense or nonsense? Is it a change in rules because the rules were broken by the people who created them? Is it honest or honorable or deplorable?

Makes you wonder.