Glyn MoodyPriests claim sexual abuse charges violate their religious freedom - https://boingboing.net/2026/03/25/priests-claim-sexual-abuse-charges-violate-their-religious-freedom.html "Their lawyer is claiming, in effect, that being a priest should exempt them from rules that apply to everyone else in similar roles."
Janet@glynmoody Well that’s a very standard medieval argument - the efficacy of the sacrament does not rely on the ethical probity of the priest. Emphasis here on *medieval* cf Thomas Aquinas utterly redundant scholastic thinking.
@Janet_52square no surprise there
@glynmoody in my younger life I did a PhD on early modern Dominicans. Doesn’t mean I don’t live in 2026… so why can they even begin to think of defending the indefensible using crud-logic like this?
@Janet_52square unwilling to give up their millennial privileges, I suppose
@glynmoody but which millenium?? 😡