Pope admits clerical abuse of nuns including sexual slavery

What do you feel when you read a headline like this? Is it disgust? Shame? (Catholics) Envy? (priests) Or just ‘same shit different day’? I thought nuns and priests was just for certain particular porn-sites but heh, in art as in life. What gets me most though is that no-one, not even the Pope, actually ‘gets it’. Or if they do they won’t admit it because of the immense repercussions for the Church. That forced celibacy simply doesn’t work. The idea is noble, if a bit stupid and, as would appear, unrealistic, Celibacy actually originates as ‘unmarried’ and as IN THEORY sex is only allowed after marriage, that kind’a precludes anyone ordained to the Catholic church. Furthermore, even those few priests who are married are expected to be sex-free because it ‘compromises your love for God’. Or some such bullshit. Ironically God’s name is called out passionately more than any other during orgasm, (Last Tango in Paris, et al, 1974). Because its safer than calling your partner’s name in case you get the wrong one.

So to clarify, we have sexual abuse of priests of choirboys, orphans, the underprivileged, anyone they can get hold of. We now have nuns as sex slaves. Of course the church normally just hushes up this kind of thing, because its not new. Odd that the Catholic church is opposed to gay marriage on the grounds that its ‘unnatural’. Yet tries to enforce celibacy which, as would certainly seem the case, is unnatural verging on outright impossible, leading to abuse and disgrace. I’m never going to church again.

Meanwhile, back in the (safe, nice, decent) world of football, we seem to be at a precipice. Of sorts. Lofty Liverpool looked about 400 million pounds off the mark on Monday night at West Ham. That’s a conservative estimate based on the Conway formula (cost price of the under-performing players, plus a week’s wasted wages multiplied by the number of Bentleys in the car park). They were shit. They scored the season’s most offside goal and then did nothing. West Ham should have won.

Manchester City had had a terrible run (by their standards) before beating Arsenal on Sunday. But beating ‘mid-table’ teams has never been an indication of potential success. Particularly mid-table teams who are unable to defend and, on Sunday, attack either. Tonight City go to Everton, possibly the most under-performing team of the last 10 years, and if they lose Guardiola may explode.

But third in the league is the other contender. Not the bookie’s favourite but my favourite. Sitting pretty, resting their players, getting fit again for Leicester on Sunday. Harry Kane was fit enough to go to the Superbowl, he must be getting ‘close’. I’m almost starting to believe again.

Happy Wednesday

A xxxx