re: #131 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Dark stuff. This is a very long Buzzfeed article about the dark past of St. Joseph’s in Burlington, Vermont.
We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage

This reminds me of a question I had about a different part of the world. I was a student at Cornell when I first studied the Spanish Civil War in any depth. I remember being puzzled at the savagery of the attacks on the Catholic Church. I could understand the rage against brutal bosses and arrogant aristocrats, but priests and nuns? I had never had much contact with the Catholic Church, though I did know enough to scoff when my goober relatives attacked them as heathen papists. Then the pedophile scandals started. That was decades ago now, but the revelations just keep coming. How much worse is it going to get? How far does it go?
I really suspect that many other churches, especially Evangelicals, are no better. They are just smaller and lack a unified global presence. There is more of a tendency to see each episode of brutality and abuse as an isolated incident, yet we see one such incident after another.

They say it’s about the money. But when the money is not “it” it’s about the raw power of authority. Over others fates. Therein lies the power that corrupts absolutely.