The current outrage at revelations about the deep hypocrisy in the Roman Catholic Church worldwide has triggered an apparent meltdown in the Vatican. Self delusion, as a defense against acknowledging one's hypocrisy, becomes addictive. The more the defense is eroded, the crazier the addict becomes, a withdrawal of sorts.
"No, I am not a hypocritical, repressed, homophobic gay man!" These words are chanted by exposed closet cases worldwide on a regular basis. However, when the closet cases run a potent global institution with wealth and influence, many with fortunes and lifestyles associated with the business of being Catholic will run to their defense. In my opinion, this makes the whole process one to be celebrated by human beings in favor of human liberation from psychological and political tyranny, like the toppling of the giant statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in 2003.
Over the centuries, the Roman Catholic Church has built billions of psychological Berlin Walls, with bricks of rigid, antiquated dogma and self-loathing for having normal human needs, in the minds of impressionable children, while simultaneously exploiting those same children for the psychological and sexual needs of its mentally ill clergy. It is time, Herr Ratzinger, to tear down those walls.
