Holy god, holy mighty, holy immortal, have mercy

[theatokos]

This article on the Vatican, excommunication and 9 yr old pregnant girls is devastating. Were I not fighting dizzy to function at work today I would write something articulate and scathing.

Pope Ratzinger/Benedict is a horrible man for sticking by policy. Black and white rules do not help those in grey situations.

I would rant but really I want to weep for the child. Not the children terminated, they never knew what hit them, and it's doubtful at four months that they even had consciousness. I mourn for the girl, who lives in a world where for choosing her own health, mental and physical, she is excommunicated from her faith community, where her rapist is still allowed to be a communing member of her faith community, where those in power think her life and body are merely vessels and contain no worth in and of itself, where rape at all exists.

This world is fucked up beyond measure. The Vatican is morally corrupt.

It is heartbreaking. I'm too tired to rail today, so instead I mourn.

Comments

[honeyrider.livejournal.com]

the levels of fucked up -- the rape, the girl's age, the church's reaction -- are too much.

"the twins were two innocent persons who had the right to live", but you know, the 9 year old, she neither has the right not to give birth to these twins who were conceived through a horrible violent act, nor does she have a right to terminate a pregnancy that might take her own life. her only right is to carry to term the "innocent persons" inside her. it makes me fucking sick to my stomach.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

The 9 year old's life was never taken into consideration. The Vatican's policy on women is abysmal.