house of lepers

The pope has called pedophile priests lepers -- what does that mean?

Francis -- good of heart
and pure,
dragging mother church
kicking and screaming
into our new century,
he bathes the feet of women
as Jesus once did.

I was proud of you
till you called
pedophile priests
leprosy in the house
of God.

leprosy is a bacteria
curable with antibiotics.

the only cure to a kiddie
diddler is a bullet to the head.

Author's Note

Do not mistake this poem for Catholic bashing. I love my church, but I am deeply ashamed by the protection of pedophile priests, even in the guise of condemning them. Defrocked and thrown in jail, the only just punishment. And settling with the victims without quibbling.

Reviews

[willweb]

Your poem KLGoode is great and the message needs to be heard...it just sickens me that a message like this needs to heard.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes thank you. Catholics most of all must stand up

[The Rock And Roll Cowbo..]

Well I must say you gave it to us with both barrels a blazing… now aim it at all those sickos heads, we will line em up for you.

[Lyn Anderson]

Yeah let the claws and fangs out on this one

[Edward Lancheister]

i like the theme and message from the words of your poem.

when plaque enter the place holliness. thanks for share. inpirational

[Lyn Anderson]

Yes, thank you, I was rattled by this today.

[h d e rushin]

exact and to the point /
it has become the greatest stain on the church and by church I mean the officialdom of religious
believers. Now the task is to convence the world that organized religion is nothing more than
failed, churchy ceremony. It is, and will remain, a daunting endeavor.

always remember, due process.
due-process, due process.

Stalin shot people in the head for believing in God during the so called cultural revolution,
not for not believing in him. God is the ultimated judge..

dana

[Lyn Anderson]

thanks for the considered review.

[Matching Socks]

Why they hide it, and don't fry the MF's I don't know...

[Lyn Anderson]

The new policy is to retire them quietly, and thankfully not to send them to different parishes, but they need full and final defrocking -- an all out excommunication.

[Matching Socks]

I don't get why they are above the f'ing law.
I can feel my rage about to boil over.
I hope someone has a list and offs them one by one.
That'd make a good movie actually...
The Bucket List

[NoelHC]

I believe Francis may have been thinking leprosy in a more archaic sense, with banishment, certain death, long, lingering and hideous.
I expect you are correct, in many ways his hands are tied, coverups, quiet transfers to a new parish, only to prey on children there, the parents unsuspecting.
A good write here. I can't say I enjoyed it, due to the subject it covers, but I respect it.

[Lyn Anderson]

I know. I will accept no retiring of pedophiles into quiet sanctuaries. They used to shuffle them, which was worse, but nothing short of complete banishment as in defrocking and jail is suitable. Nothing.

[NoelHC]

They may face a sterner judgement than that after death.

[Baby Ricochet]

The pedophile thing with the priests is pretty weird. Protecting them is even worse. Good poem KL

[Lyn Anderson]

Thanks so much, I appreciate the review.

[J. K. Beach]

Hmmm... I hope the pope can rise again in your eyes... maybe he wishes for diddleracide too (sure would aleviate a lot of his headaches)... and he just used a really bad analogy. I think... no... I know he has not your way with words.

[Lyn Anderson]

It needs to be looked upon first and foremost as a crime. Give them all the prayers they want when they are behind bars, and stop stalling on compensating victims.

[Frieda P]

This makes my blood boil, I can't even get started on this subject, thanks for bringing this subject to light, they protect the b******s, and usually they merely get relegated to a different church where they find new fresh blood, a bullet is too easy a way to go....

[Lyn Anderson]

It affected me deeply, calling them lepers. Just made me think, here we go again, pretending it's somehow curable ...

[Frieda P]

They can spin it any way they want, you know people will drink the kool-aid...