Write Lightning is a blog from writer Deb Thompson.
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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Mon, Mar 09 2009
9-year-old girl not being excommunicated is merely technicality?
It's been very difficult for me to read about the pregnant 9-year-old girl in Brazil. Everyone in this child's life seems to have failed to be able to protect her. I'm not even speaking to the Roman Catholic Church's position on abortion. I'm just very concerned that no one seems to be standing up for this little child who has been abused and thrown into a world she is not equipped to navigate. The Church authorities have plenty to say now, but where were they when this child was in need of protection? The Belfast Telegraph reported that the stepfather, who is accused of raping the little girl, has not been formally accused by Catholic Church authorities and that the only reason the little girl has escaped excommunication (which was dealt out to her mother and to the doctors who performed the abortion) is that she is still considered a child herself. Then will no one in the Catholic Church step up and be her advocate, finally? I hope they will. They owe her that much and a whole lot more.
posted at: 10:14 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
It's been very difficult for me to read about the pregnant 9-year-old girl in Brazil. Everyone in this child's life seems to have failed to be able to protect her. I'm not even speaking to the Roman Catholic Church's position on abortion. I'm just very concerned that no one seems to be standing up for this little child who has been abused and thrown into a world she is not equipped to navigate. The Church authorities have plenty to say now, but where were they when this child was in need of protection? The Belfast Telegraph reported that the stepfather, who is accused of raping the little girl, has not been formally accused by Catholic Church authorities and that the only reason the little girl has escaped excommunication (which was dealt out to her mother and to the doctors who performed the abortion) is that she is still considered a child herself. Then will no one in the Catholic Church step up and be her advocate, finally? I hope they will. They owe her that much and a whole lot more.
posted at: 10:14 | category: /Religious and Spiritual | link to this entry
