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Priest Pricks Children
No, this isn’t another case of church sex abuse, but it is rather ridiculous:
The Catholic Diocese of Austin is investigating after a priest called about 15 children to come forward during evening Mass so he could prick them with an unsterilized pin to demonstrate the pain Jesus suffered during crucifixion.
“What I was trying to teach them is that suffering is a part of life,” said the Rev. Arthur Michalka, 78, on Friday.
Call me crazy, but I think kids are aware of that without a demented priest jamming them with a needle during mass. I mean, just sitting through mass can be punishment enough. Evidently, the kids are being looked over by county health workers to check for communicable diseases. No word on whether the priest is being reprimanded for this little stunt.
September 19th, 2005 at 8:01 pm
Pah. Mass isn’t torture if it’s done right.
Now guitar masses on the other hand…
Somehow I don’t think children need object lessons in pain these days… there’s enough of it to go around.
September 20th, 2005 at 10:34 pm
I disagree, Justin. I think plenty of parents who SHOULD be beating the shit out of their kids just aren’t. I heard a thirteen year old boy call his mom a “dumb slut” in a grocery store. Kids like that need some pain in their lives or else they grow up to be criminals, or even what we call “assholes.”
Anyhow, it’s easier for me to blame this fiasco on Texas than anything else. When I was in Texas a few years ago the San Antonio city bank had over forty dead animals on the wall. That experience has soiled my view of that ridiculous state forever. It doesn’t surprise me one bit that the Priests there are stabbing children with needles.
And I mean forty BIG ASS animals. Longhorn steer. Deer. Bears. Scary.
On the subject of kids, some Animaniacs wisdom:
Robbers: “We’s robbin dis bank”
Mindy: “Why?”
R: “Because we’s bank robbers.”
M: “Why?”
R: “Because maybe our moms didn’t hug us when we was kids!”