Why isn’t this bastard being charged?

Arthur Budzinski was a shy boy of 12 when he was first molested by a priest during confession, while away from home at a school for the deaf.  Now, Budzinski's story is part of the latest sex scandal to plague the Vatican, as documents have surfaced that show the priest accused of molesting Budzinski and as many as 200 other deaf boys was protected from being defrocked in the mid-1990s by the office of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who is now Pope Benedict XVI.

Really.  With stories coming out nearly on a daily basis, surely there's enough for one of a number of countries to launch and investigation.  Not some bull-shit thing, but a criminal investigation.

"I think someone should be punished for this," his daughter Gigi Budzinski said. "His innocence was stolen from him."
 
No kidding.  Had it been some regular dude covering up for a buddy, justice would have been dealt out long ago, and the son-of-a-bitch wouldn't have had several more decades to cover up more crimes.

A big part of moving on after being molested is hearing the molester acknowledge guilt.  Without this, the victim carries the guilt and shame.  Victims need to know the wrong was done to them, and charging the molester then having a court say that what he did was criminal goes a long way in helping the victim heal.

It also lets people know that no one, under any circumstances, is allowed to molest a child.

But Ratzinger is sending the opposite message.  So are all of those justice systems to timid to charge him.

Some priest apparently would like to see some measure of justice taken, although I doubt what they request would go very far:

According to Church and Vatican documents obtained by The New York Times, two Wisconsin bishops urged the Vatican office of Ratzinger in the 1990s to let them hold a Church trial against Murphy.
 
But at the time, Ratzinger's deputy decided that the abuse happened too long ago for a church trial. Instead, it was recommended that Murphy, who was then ailing and elderly, should repent and be restricted from celebrating mass outside of his diocese, according to the documents.
 
And the child rapist?

On Thursday, the Vatican defended its decision not to defrock Murphy, who died of natural causes in 1998.

Safely tucked away in heaven, the Church must think, since they didn't even defrock him.

Well, 900, chill out.  It's only rape.  Not at all serious like using condoms.

Fuck the Catholic Church.  These were their crimes, this agony was brought on children by them, and they do less than nothing to stop it from continuing.

I'm not including decent Catholics in this, but if they really believe in the good things Jesus taught, they should really demand that the Church clean house.  Or find another way of practicing their spirituality.  Silence does give consent.