Irony overload

20 November 2007

Thrawn has recently received a letter from a catholic looking for a handout. That’s not where the irony lies though. I’ll let a few select quotes from the letter speak for itself.

My name is Sister Patricia Cruise and I run a place called Covenant House – an emergency crisis shelter for abused, abandoned and homeless youth.

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Our â€œcovenantâ€, our promise to the kids, is that our doors are always open, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Any kid – of any faith – is welcome to safety, hot meals, a warm bed and lots of love.

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So often they need counselling to help them handle the physical and emotional abuse they have survived.

Many, many kids have been molested by relatives and other adults they loved and trusted.

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But, when these kid flee to the streets… [t]hey find pimps, drug pushers and con artists.

These predators take innocent, scared, hungry kids, and lure them with food and shelter into doing things the kids will regret forever.

Simply amazing. I can only presume that the catholic parish-hopping paedophile priests are not only hidden from the general public, but from those already deeply entrenched in the catholic system too.

Either that, or this woman is seriously deluded.

No, wait a minute…

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Tags: abuse, Canada, catholicism, hypocrisy, kids, letters, The Stupid It Burns

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Karen on November 20th, 2007 4:21 am

Nuns are rarely pedophiles, and nowadays they do tend to run their charitable operations somewhat independently of the church. I’m a recovered ex-Catholic, and attended Catholic schools through 12th grade. I had and still have a lot of respect for the nuns who taught me. They were very strongly oriented toward doing charitable deeds simply because, to them, those *needed* doing. That’s an attitude this atheist can appreciate.
salient on November 20th, 2007 4:55 am

Covenant House is a genuine charitable organization in Toronto (and other Canadian cities?).

They do good work, but seem to spend an inordinate percentage of donations on attempting to solicit more funds, though. Having given them one donation, they sent me quarterly begging letters even though I wrote and said that if they continued to waste postage pestering me, I would donate to one of many other worthy charities instead. (I always donate annually rather than monthly) They continued to pester me, and I never sent them any more money even though I did approve of their work. There simply are too many competing charities to give money to guilt-tripping pests who do not read.

Statistically, most kids are abused at home by relatives. Egregious though molestation by priests undoubtedly is, the impact of abuse in the home has much more serious impacts.