Acicluna Lays Down The Law
I have to admit, it’s been too long since I laughed with tears, but this has done it.
The Vatican official in charge of catching paedophile priests has said their punishment in hell would be worse than receiving the death penalty on earth.
Well that’s clarified Hell then. A fleeting second of death is not as bad as eternity in perfect agony. Apparently.
Scicluna added that those who hurt children should be thrown into the sea with a millstone around their neck.
This killed me. Even discounting the fact that this is not a reasoned, considered response to paedophilia, where are they going to find a millstone in 2010? I’m being silly of course. Cutting a millstone in four would easily leave you able to drown a man with each quarter.
In his sermon, he also suggested that priests who covered up abuse committed by colleagues would also face the fires of hell.
And sobriety sets in. Pope Ratzinger must have frozen in his seat when this was said.
“Monsignor Scicluna? Can I have a word? That was all excellent. Excellent. But that last thing? Yes, the fires of Hell thing. I’m infallible, right?”.