From the National Catholic Distorter: Feast of the Innocents by Gerelyn Hollingsworth
It is a fitting day to mourn the Innocents who were kicked, beaten, stripped, starved, tortured, raped, worked to death, and buried in unmarked graves by bishops, priests, brothers, nuns, sisters.
A day to bewail the Innocents sentenced to the Magdalen laundries and industrial schools of Ireland, and for the Indian children confined in boarding schools in North America.
A day to lament the parochial school children molested in sacristies and in confessionals and in rectories and in lake cabins and in cars and on picnics and in their parents' houses.
Some varying perspectives may be found in Sin Against the Innocents: Sexual Abuse by Priests and the Role of the Catholic Church, edited by Thomas G. Plante, Ph.D., published by Praeger in 2004.On the day the Church has set aside to recall that King Herod ordered the brutal murder of all children under the age of 2 in order to kill Jesus Christ, Ms. Hollingsworth uses the occasion to bash the Church.
She doesn't lament the fact that the government permits, and perhaps even encourages, over 1,000,000 American children each year to be lawfully murdered via abortion. She doesn't bewail the 4,000+ American children aborted today, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents. She doesn't admonish the parents who procure them, or who use abortifacient contraceptives. Nor does she mention that children are employed as suicide bombers by some Islamic terrorists. These are the evil things being done to children right now, and yet...
...none of that. Because she doesn't care. Her readers don't care - they only desire to see the hierarchy of the Church attacked and brought down, to be reassembled into their view of how the Church ought to be.
And they're using innocent children to do it. Shameless.
