Pope Frances made the comments on Thursday during an interview that ran today.
The BBC is reporting that Pope Francis has told a reporter that “about 2%” of his priests are child molesters. What’s truly astounding is not the number, but that Francis seems to be the first Pope willing to confront the problem head on through transparency.
Pope Frances conducted the interview last Thursday with La Repubblica which has published it today. Reports the BBC:
In the interview, Pope Francis was quoted as saying that the 2% estimate came from advisers. It would represent around 8,000 priests out of a global number of about 414,000.
The interview was conducted by reporter Eugenio Scalfari who did not record it.
According to the BBC, Pope Frances also opened the door to ending rules regarding celibacy. Pope Frances noted that the Vatican ordered Priests to be celibate 900 years after the death of Jesus Christ. Some think the Pope was suggesting there is nothing in the bible commanding priests and nuns to be celibate.
Responding to the 2% figure in the article, a Vatican spokesman insisted there were no Cardinals who were child molesters.
You’d think Congress could pass a bill that makes them immune from all those unnecessary environmental regulations that slow down the business of slowing down congress.
Who knows? Maybe Congressman Graves thinks somebody should inspect the air for asbestos. Maybe there should be some kind of federal agency for that kind of stuff? Nah.
Joan Rivers is not a nice a person according to a spokesperson for the Writers Guild of America. Melodie Shaw, field representative and organizer for The Writers Guild of America West, said that Rivers verbally abused the writers on E’s Fashion Police after they approached her about joining a union. Shaw said this during an interview airing Friday on Pacifica Radio’s David Feldman Show.
Shaw said the Fashion Police writers were earning $610 a week without health insurance. In 2013 they decided it was time to go union after two other E comedy programs, hosted by Chelsea Handler and Joel McHale, joined the WGA (Writers Guild of America). Shaw said those two programs went union, “in no small measure due to Handler and McHale supporting their writers every step of the way.”
Shaw said Rivers, a member of the WGA for several decades, “turned on her writers” during a meeting “hurling expletives” and then storming out when they told her they couldn’t live on $610 a week without health insurance.
In response to Rivers’ failure to assist them in joining the WGA, Fashion Police writers approached the union on their own, and then staged a walkout. Shaw said Rivers, a WGA member, continued to work despite the walkout which is a violation of union rules. This prompted the WGA to schedule a disciplinary hearing to determine whether they would revoke Rivers’ union membership. In October of 2013, right before her hearing was to be held, an apologetic Rivers contacted the WGA and promised she would support her writers and help them get a union contract. Shaw said that based on those assurances the WGA immediately cancelled Rivers’ disciplinary hearing.
Fashion Police writers voted unanimously to join the union in December of 2013. Under federal law Fashion Police was then required to negotiate with the WGA. Shaw said since that vote Rivers has not negotiated in good faith, rarely returning calls from the union and offering her writers a contract way below union standards. Shaw said Rivers even went so low as to tell the press that her writers were “schmucks” and “idiots” for organizing.
When asked if Rivers had been kicked out of the Writers Guild, Shaw said not yet because the WGA is still hoping they can cut a deal with E’s Fashion Police.
Shaw was a guest on the David Feldman Show broadcast nationwide on Pacifica Radio and available as a podcast on iTunes. Feldman said he invited Shaw on his program after watching Rivers grow hostile and storm off the set during a CNN interview earlier in the week after the host asked if she was “mean.”
“It seems to me,” said Feldman, “that how you treat your employees is a pretty good barometer of whether or not you’re cruel. $610 a week with no health insurance? That seems pretty cruel to me.”
Feldman began the interview by asking Shaw if Joan Rivers was mean. Shaw responded, “Yes.”
I hear everyone recently got canned from ‘The View’, maybe a show like that needs a punch of reality and a voice of reason from America’s heartland to knock some humble sense into their scripts. You know, someone willing to go rogue.
“Scripts?” Sarah, just because you’re told what to say doesn’t mean everybody else’s opinions are scripted.
Then Sarah got distracted and decided President Obama should be impeached. Seriously. I can only imagine Palin having to stand on her own two feet outside the Fox bubble.
Me: Governor on what grounds should our president be impeached?
Sarah: How the hell should I know? I’m not a constitutional scholar.
Me: Oh, sorry, I always confuse you with Laurence Tribe.
Pay attention to the dumbest people on the right because even though they’re not thinking, they do reveal what their paymasters are thinking. While watching this video your first reaction is how irresponsible John McCain was in believing Sarah Palin was up for the job of Vice President. But then as the conversation peels back you realize that Sarah Palin, like Reagan, like George W. Bush, was another empty vessel that could be told what to say. You know, like scripted.
Her latest script sounds insane. But Speaker John Boehner is planning to file a lawsuit against our president for a string of executive orders that are well within Obama’s constitutional authority. We’re just beginning to get a glimpse of the what the next two years would look like should Democrats lose the senate. From the impeachment of Bill Clinton to the invasion of Iraq all the way up to going off the “Fiscal Cliff” the GOP consistently demonstrates that just because something is insane it doesn’t mean they won’t go through with it.
Sarah Palin is dumb, she is scripted, she is irresponsible. She is the GOP.
Watching the World Cup one often thinks, “Sure it’s an interesting sport, but how interesting is it really? I mean would it still be an interesting game if a turtle was playing it?” The answer turns out surprisingly to be yes. In fact it’s even more interesting. An Italian soccer fan captured this rough and tumble scrimmage between a turtle and a dog. If you think turtles don’t play soccer you’re wrong. Some are, hard to believe but true, even better at it than dogs. Quite frankly this turtle’s ball handling is nothing short of incredible:
Montgomery Township, Philadelphia police made public today dash cam video of a drunk driver smashing into a cop car stopped at a light. Nobody was injured on June 17, 2014 when Phillip Marress from Tennessee plowed headlong into a police cruiser and three other cars before his vehicle came to a complete stop on its side. Marress was arrested after allegedly telling police he had mixed beer with two shots and a Percoset. Montgomery Township Police Chief Scott Bendig said today that Marress never hit his brakes and seemed unperturbed while officers rescued him from his overturned car.
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