Catholic Church claims it is above the law

sbsquarepants wrote: »

The "rules" are made up by a consistently self serving and corrupt organisation. They are subject to the laws of the land just like googles' or facebooks' or any other world wide multi billion business that operates here. Just cos the ceo wears a funny frock and claims to talk to god doesn't make any difference. If Zuckerberg suddenly turned tranny and claimed to speak to Jesus, he wouldn't be legally entitled to cover up rapes and murders, why should anyone else?

Aah...well, now SB, don't you realise that Ireland has a 'special relationship', some might say incestuous, with the Roman Catholic Church. The historical relaity is that the Church of Rome sold Ireland to the king of England of the time. Henry II, the King of England, invaded Ireland in 1171 with a Papal Bull, "Laudabiliter," from Adrian IV, the only English Pope. The Bull authorized the invasion to reform the Irish Church and to collect what was to become known as 'Peter's Pence' on the citizenry, as a tax, and send it to Rome in exchange for access to Ireland as a slave nation. The Archbishops of Tuam and Cashel and the Kings of Waterford and Dublin met at the Synod of Cashel in late 1171. There it was decreed to submit to the tithe and to conform to the customs of the continental Church. It also recognized Henry as the King of Ireland, thus submitting the Irish citizens to the rule of England, which set the scene for the next 700 years. It was the Pope who sold us off, but of course it suited the clergy, who just collected the taxes on behalf of the English king, and the priests have had free reign and access to children since. It's a fact, but if you wish to think otherwise, and 'believe' as we were brainwashed into doing in school, that we were a race of semi-mythical heroes, then that's what most want to hear, as we don't like facts when our blind 'faith' is in danger of being questioned, as we don't get the irony of why exactly it is called 'blind'.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Cashel


This is all the more ironic when you think of how the Queen Elizabeth II just this year visited Cashel as part of her tour, following in the steps of her predecessors, and in the wake of the IMF 'bailout', which is funded by monies mainly owned by the various monarchies and elite families of Europe, including the House of Windsor, as always. We are suckers for the sleight of hand tricks, and then think we are clever when we think that we are the cute hoors.
But of course we, the soft old Irish, never see the wood for the trees and are so delighted to roll over and have our bellies scratched like a bunch of grateful corgis. As my grandmother used to say about the poverty she saw in Ireland when she was a girl, "We had the priest to keep us ignorant and the landlord to keep us poor". Some things never change...but sure aren't we proud to be Irish, and to offer up our children to Mammon and to the God of Rome.