The Catholic Church has a definite problem with science and medicine, both of which advance at much too fast a pace for the glacial speed with which religious doctrine changes. Their other major problem, as ever, is sex.

Issues like IVF, contraception, condoms and HIV, and the basis of sexual preference, all of which incorporate both sex AND science/medicine, cause total intellectual and doctrinal overload. It is like asking an old computer the square root of minus one.

Anyway, doesn’t the Catholic Church run the illuminati and hence the mass media?

Dr* T what percentage of priests abuse? Nobody knows, has anyone collected figures. I have some sympathy with the Church on this point although their shameless denials and inadequacies in dealing with it are despicable.

However, I am slightly disappointed you didn’t blog another huge gaffe on the part of el papa:

“He also named abortion and paedophilia as two of the greatest sins of our times. The archbishop brushed off cases of sexual violence against minors committed by priests as “exaggerations by the mass media aimed at discrediting the Church”

Sure. Mass media nonsense. It was only a handful of bishops. And the kids were annoying probably protestants who were asking for it.

It makes me seeeeeeeeeethe.

The new mortal sins were listed by Archbishop Gianfranco Girotti at the end of a week-long training seminar in Rome for priests, aimed at encouraging a revival of the practice of confession - or the Sacrament of Penance in Church jargon. According to a survey carried out here 10 years ago by the Catholic University, 60% of Italians have stopped going to confession altogether. The situation has certainly not improved during the past decade.

In other words, Italians aren’t coming to us for confession because they aren’t sinning enough so let’s make up some new bullshit sins so that we don’t increasingly seem like an irrelevance in the modern world.