Comments on: Stepfather Rapes Nine-Year-Old Girl Who Then Had Abortion — Vatican Excommunicates the Girl and Her Doctors

By: olivia

olivia — Wed, 25 May 2011 01:14:04 +0000

poor little girl i feel so sorry for her

By: Nita

Nita — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:58:56 +0000

LET’S GET THIS RIGHT: 9 YEAR OLD HAS AN ABORTION YOU GET KICKED OUT OF CHURCH. RAPE A 9 YEAR OLD GO TO THE FRONT OF THE PEW. WHAT IS THIS? RIGHT NOW I AM GLAD I AM A BAPTIST

By: Brandy

Brandy — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 02:41:39 +0000

To hell with those catholics. they think they are so above everyone else.

By: SamanthaB

SamanthaB — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:49:16 +0000

This is infuriating. “Protecting life”? What about the life of the 9 year old raped girl? I fail to see how saving the life of a rape victim is worse than the rape itself. This is sickening. I hope somebody strings that guy up by his balls.

By: Bree

Bree — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 03:58:45 +0000

This would be why I am NOT Catholic. The step-father SHOULD be RAPED & MURDERED!!! The hell with the “Catholic” ppl. They ALWAYS cover-up their priests’ crimes, that of molesting INOCENT children. I saw the documentary of that on the NEWS!!! I would drag HIS name thru the mud befor I worry about “religion” or “Catholic” for that matter!!!!!!!!!!!

By: coco

coco — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:14:55 +0000

I don’t know how the Pope and all his outdated cronies can be so inhumane towards this poor child and her family. Who gave the Pope the right and authority to decide that those concerned with her termination were no longer worthy of God surely only God himself can judge a person and another little thing… didn’t Jesus preach forgiveness to all mankind and his sins or am I missing something here? It should be the Pope and all his perverted clan that should be cast into the fires of hell along with the step father.

I am a Christian but thank the Lord I am not a catholic, it seems to me that the Vatican are the patron saint of paedophiles. Lets face it the Roman Catholic church has repressed and down-trodden it’s followers for centuries.

This girl and her family deserve much better than that and I am sure that God will support the family and the doctor concerned and lead them to the path of true Christian values as those poor people are worth more than what the catholic church has done to them. God bless that little girl and her family.

By: Nulono

Nulono — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:13:14 +0000

If it threatened her life, I’m all in favor. Self-defense.

The girl wasn’t excommunicated, though.

By: adamsmith1922

adamsmith1922 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:12:40 +0000

http://adamsmith.wordpress.com/2009/03/30/may-you-rot-in-hell/

Why should we be surprised

By: Mark Reneau

Mark Reneau — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:28:23 +0000

More insanity committed in the name of God.If we thought John Paul II was a Neanderthal, and he was, this Prada-wearing pontiff is a throwback to the Dark Ages.Before he became pope he proudly silenced some of the most progressive thinkers in the RCC.His assault on all compassionate and rational people shows no sign of abating in the near future.

By: Buddha Is Laughing

Buddha Is Laughing — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:20:39 +0000

And by “this” I mean the strategy of dogma over the will of the people.

By: Buddha Is Laughing

Buddha Is Laughing — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:18:51 +0000

If it’s any consolation, this has really backfired for the Pope.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29645316/

By: Theresa

Theresa — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:11:37 +0000

The girl went through a horrible thing not only with her step-father but also going through the abortion, who cares what the church is saying or doing, I use to be a Catholic but I left that behind me a long time ago, just because of the way they see things. The girl has only to worry about God he is the one and only that can judge her not the church and believe me after what she has gone through, I asure you the lord has forgiven her. The church has never had the right to judge anyone, only God.

By: Katie

Katie — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 19:43:47 +0000

Anyone who places more value on the spawn of a rapist over the safety and wellbeing of the nine-year-old victim of said rapist is as big, if not bigger, a monster than the rapist.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:24:51 +0000

To be fair, the church doesn’t always discriminate against women. They are just as supportive of little boys being raped as they are of girls being raped.

The Catholic Church is the world’s largest pedophile organization, (NAMBLA comes in second).

The mother did the right thing, having the baby would have killed the already born child.

They should consider themselves lucky to be out of the clutches of the Catholic Church who after excommunicating them, probably had themselves an orgy with kindergarten boys.

By: Gnostic

Gnostic — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:31:04 +0000

The ranks of former Catholics are increasing all the time.

A Pew survey showed that their church had lost 30 million members in the last half century. Thirty million!

(Absolute numbers have not decreased only because of the infux of first generation immigrants. Experience shows that the second and third generations will fall away also).

One in ten Americans is in the category variously described as ex-catholic, fallen-away catholic, grateful recovering catholic, or rational human being. This is one of the largest religious bodies in the country.

The Protestant and other churches are teeming with former Catholics who are seeking religion that is not nonsensical.

By: Buddha Is Laughing

Buddha Is Laughing — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:26:39 +0000

Well the good news is . . .

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29585222/

By: sauer kraut

sauer kraut — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:08:14 +0000

Meanwhile, Catholics in Connecticut are distracted from important matters such as this because a priest within their own parishes are convicted of financial misdeeds which include buying a swanky seafront condo in which to entertain his boyfriend.

And people wonder why protestant congregations are attracting so many disaffected Catholics.

By: rafflaw

rafflaw — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:49:16 +0000

Former Fed,
Well said. The girl will not only be a pariah, she had to go the sequence of being villified by the church due to the fact that her mother was excommunicated for protecting her child. And Dpeifer, you have forgotten that the rapist was not excommunicated.

By: Buddha Is Laughing

Buddha Is Laughing — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:41:38 +0000

Holy crap, look at this . . .

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03092009/news/columnists/perv_group_puts_10g_hit_on_andy_158663.htm

Why isn’t NAMBLA under surveillance?

By: Sammy

Sammy — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:53:14 +0000

IMHO, there is not much difference between Cardinal Giovanni Battista and the reich-wing so-called religious leaders in this country, including the republican politicians who use their so-called religious base for exploitation.

By: Former Federal LEO

Former Federal LEO — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:43:20 +0000

However, although not excommunicated, the young girl will be a social and religious pariah if she remains associated with Catholicism.

By: Dpeifer

Dpeifer — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:34:33 +0000

First, so no one thinks that I am in anyway supporting the Catholic Church, I think the whole case is appalling, and the archbishop should be put in jail with the rapist.

That said, I do need to point out that the nine year-old girl was not excommunicated, only her mother and the doctors.

By: Mike Appleton

Mike Appleton — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 20:02:32 +0000

This decision is a moral, theological and human outrage. The Church seems hell-bent on stemming the inroads of the Protestant evangelical movement in South America and elsewhere by adopting the most extreme views of so-called “right to life” doctrinaires. Eventually we may see a de facto merger between fundamentalist Christianity and fundamentalist Islam-victims of rape will be required to bear the products of rape, and will then be stoned for adultery.

By: seamus

seamus — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:40:43 +0000

This is a good thing not a bad thing. It helps illustrate how ridiculous church is. This type of act should be applauded and encouraged and bit by bit the church will fade away……

On second thought, burning people at the stake for centuries and facilitating whole-sale pedophilia hasn’t turned too many people off so this must really be the TRUE religeon; sign me up.

By: Buddha Is Laughing

Buddha Is Laughing — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:01:35 +0000

This is every bit as appalling has playing “Hide the Child Molester”. At least they’re consistent.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:52:18 +0000

I agree with sally, this man should not be alive. I wish we could give child molesters and rapists the death penalty.

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 14:01:58 +0000

That is true, Rcampbell!!

By: Mike Spindell

Mike Spindell — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:40:43 +0000

This insane decision by the Catholic church is no more nor less misogynistic than the stoning of adulterous women in Islam. It might actually be even more reprehensible though, because the decision here was a strictly political one. I state this because it was made to protect the CC’s abortion stance. They have made it so absolute, that even in a case like this to condone it would give lie to the thrust of their anti-abortion arguments. The Archbishop has shown he is neither a pious man, nor one who has the compassion demanded by his religious beliefs. He is either a fanatic, bureaucrat/politician and/or both.

I differentiate this from the adulterous stoning in that those are cases of pure misogyny, that see all women as evil temptresses. This is no less an insane belief but my sense is it was made due to impassioned stupidity. In the Brazilian
Catholic bureaucracy I’m sure this was a decision discussed and made from a PR (a bad one of course)perspective.

I’m not a believer in heaven or hell and I’ll reserve any afterlife judgment for when I get there. If I’m wrong though and heaven and hell exist, the Archbishop’s soul, as well of those of his Islamic counterparts are going to find their eternal judgments to be quite uncomfortable.

By: rcampbell

rcampbell — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:38:22 +0000

Sally

Your birth control likely also prevented putting on an additional 30-40 pounds for several months before losing that weight but keeping the enclosed 8lb 4oz bundle for 21 years.

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:52:39 +0000

rcampbell….

I’d give thanks for a dishwasher….

All my birth control did for me was put on 5 extra unwanted pounds

By: rcampbell

rcampbell — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:46:58 +0000

In support of Sally’s claim of religious, or at least Catholic, misogyny, this is the opening paragraph of an article from The Independent I found at Huffington Post:

By Miranda Bryant
Sunday, 8 March 2009

As International Women’s Day is celebrated, the Vatican had a novel message for the women of the world: give thanks for the washing machine. This humble domestic appliance had done more for the women’s liberation movement than the contraceptive pill or working outside the home, said the the official Vatican newspaper, Osservatore Romano……

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:39:40 +0000

Mespo…

You don’t understand that an abortion is physically destructive on a child’s body?

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:33:43 +0000

Sally:

I am mentally editing your comment down to the first and last sentences. Everything in the middle makes no sense or is an appeal to vigilante justice which I am certain would inflict even more harm on this child by having her mother kill her abuser and then being carted off to jail.

By: Bron98

Bron98 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:20:25 +0000

Raf:

they arent anti-woman they are against humanity. If that story is true that is pure evil on so many levels.

By: mespo727272

mespo727272 — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:07:51 +0000

One has to wonder what the child’s “crime” consisted of under these circumstances. Since excommunication means eternal damnation to the faithful, one must also wonder why the well-being of her soul is of such little interest to the church fathers like Bishop Battista Re, who are divinely charged with protecting these “little ones” from those who would “offend” them. (Matt. 18:6-KJV) The decision to maintain the membership of the step-father with full rights and privileges seems perfectly in keeping with the Church’s predisposition to forgive rapers of children but not their victims. Like being drummed out of the Waffen-SS for conduct unbecoming, one has to wonder if the onus attendant to this pronouncement is on the individual or the organization.

By: doglover

doglover — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:55:13 +0000

Another example of the Catholic Church’s twisted and sick policies designed to preserve patriarchal power and oppress the powerless.

Note: A blastocyst is worth more than a girl’s life. A man’s need to procreate is sacred and always to be defended even in matters of rape and Priests’ “misguided” sexual perversions. A girl’s life is worthless to the church, thus, a mother’s defense of her child is also worthless.

By: rafflaw

rafflaw — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:25:27 +0000

This is just one more sad case of the Catholic Church like many of the major religions, being a Boy’s club where only the boys get to make the rules. Here the Archbishipo excommunicates a 9 year old girl for the sin of being raped and being too young to deliver the babies. This is almost as sick as the Iranian law of stoning a woman to death for adultery but only giving 15 years for killing someone. These religions are biased against women and people need to call it what it is.

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 11:06:42 +0000

This is such a sad story.

That poor child was forced to put her body through an abortion, something which is mentally and physically damaging on a child.(and I don’t mean by fault of her mother or doctors, I mean it’s her stepfather’s fault).

I would have given him the death penalty. Give the mother a gun and let her shoot him. That would be fair

No child should EVER be put through such a horrid situation.