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

[amyura.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Had I not already left the church I would have done so over this. I cried a little when I read that story yesterday. Also, I believe that HER DOCTORS (you know, the ones with medical degrees, unlike the bishops) had determined that she would likely have died had she been forced to carry the pregnancy to term.

[ewigweibliche.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and they were excommunicated too. It's just too horrible.