Roman Catholic Church = Epic Fail

I'm kind of tired of picking on the Roman Catholic Church, but they are so incredibly incompetent that it is really unavoidable.

Last week, the RCC issued some revised rules on abuse.  Epic Fail.  The changes include the following:

• Speeding up the process of "laicization," or formal removal from the priesthood;

This is good.  What now takes an eternity will only take a lifetime.

• Allowing laity to serve as judges and lawyers on church tribunals in sex abuse cases, and waiving the requirement of a doctorate in canon law;

Church tribunals?  What about Courts of Law?  Why don't you turn these bastards into the proper authorities?

• Extending the statute of limitations for sex abuse cases from ten to twenty years, with the possibility still in force to waive it altogether on a case-by-case basis;

Um, big deal.  What is 10 or 20 years when you ignore it altogether to begin with.

• Adding the acquisition, possession or distribution of child pornography as a "grave crime" under church law;

Wow!  Welcome to the 20th Century RCC.

• Specifying that the same penalties for the sexual abuse of minors also apply to developmentally disabled adults;

 But abusing adults is OK?

• Clarifying that even "cardinals, patriarchs, legates of the Apostolic See and bishops" are subject to the jurisdiction of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's doctrinal office, on matters related to sexual abuse.

Yes, so we can be sure and sweep your crimes under the carpet as well.

What a pile of warm steaming bullshit that was.

They're not done.  They decided to add one more turd on the pile.

Unrelated to the sexual abuse crisis, the revisions also add several other offenses to the list of "grave crimes" subject to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (and thus to the expedited penalties the congregation can hand out). They include crimes against the faith, such as heresy, apostasy and schism; recording or broadcast of the sacrament of confession; and the attempted ordination of women.

Yes.  To attempt to ordain women is just as grave a crime as the sexual abuse of a minor.

I sincerely hope that I will see the day that the RCC fails as an institution.  They certainly fail on morality.