Month: November 2009

The Catholic Church’s Guide To Raping Kids Without Raping Them

(image by Leo Reynolds, used under a Creative Commons license) In light of the latest report into the cover-up of child-abuse by the Catholic Church in Ireland (and the inevitable national bout of impotent shaking rage, ringing Joe Duffy's phone off the hook and screaming until your face explodes) Blather.net found itself fascinated by the notion which the clergy have been throwing around as an excuse for buggering kids - the idea of 'mental reservation' and how this facilitates a condition of 'lying without lying'. Yes, you read that right. Determined to get to the bottom of this latest linguistic curveball, we'd like to suggest a short list of the likely forthcoming exercises in sprain-inducing mental gymnastics which the men of the cloth will be engaging in for 2010. 1. 'Raping Kids without raping them' Had the nagging suspicion that a Catholic priest had his bell-end shoved up yer hole?...