The
Catholic Church has not exactly done a stellar job when it comes to
preventing sexual abuse of children by priests, as the numerous and
horrifying scandals of past years have demonstrated. Now the
Archdiocese of New York is using a new method to show they won't
tolerate pedophile priests--they are, um, sending out coloring books to kids.
Excuse me? As Amy, our resident practicing Catholic said, "A coloring
book? Instead of, oh, STOP ORDAINING PEDOPHILES?" Or transferring them
to different churches when they get caught, or sending them to unproven
treatment programs and then releasing them back to lead a new flock,
or...yeah, I'm a little skeptical on this one.
But I was
actually really surprised to see what the coloring books say...
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