When Murderers Are More Important Than The Victims
Yet another justice-challenged, weak-kneed bishop
WARNING! Harsh language alert

Bishop Samuel Aquila of North Dakota sounds as if he's been spending just a little too much time with 12 year olds. No... I don't mean that. I'll explain at the end of this post.

The good bishop is coming out against the upcoming execution of a certain piece of shit named Alfonso Rodriguez Jr. who kidnapped, raped, tortured, and then slashed the throat of University of North Dakota student, Dru Sjodin (pronounced Shu-deen), 22.

Said piece of shit, Rodriguez had been released from jail in May of 2003 after completing a 23-year prison term for stabbing and trying to kidnap a woman. Rodriguez had also previously pleaded guilty to raping another woman.

Sjodin's body was found partially nude and face down in a ravine. Her hands were tied behind her back and she had been beaten, stabbed, sexually assaulted, and had several lacerations including a five and a half inch cut on her neck. A rope was also tied around her neck and remnants of a shopping bag were found under the rope suggesting that a bag had been placed on her head. The medical examiner concluded that she had either died as a result of the major neck wound, from suffocation, or from exposure to the elements.

And what does Bishop Aquila have to say about all this? Get ready for a trip back to Grade School....

"According to some of the testimony heard, Mr. Rodriguez experienced violence as a child. He later inflicted violence as an adult".

Who gives a shit!!?? This Rodriguez ass-hole had a tough life, huh? Too damn bad. Lots of us had it tough as kids. None of us kidnap, rape, torture and then murder.

You know what Bishop Aquila, you need to start acting more like a Catholic bishop, and less like the overprotective mommy of that sack of shit.

As I've pointed out many a time on this blog, the OFFICIAL Teaching of the Church is that the death penalty is authorized in cases of extreme gravity. If this isn't a case of extreme gravity, I don't know what is.

Along the lines of Aquila conducting himself like a Catholic bishop... how come I haven't read a damn thing about him saying or doing ANYTHING for Dru or the Sjodin family? No Rosaries, no Novenas, no Masses said for her soul or for the comfort of the family? Oh, but he'll piss all over himself defending that son of a bitch scum-bag Rodriguez, right? This really pisses me off.

Bishop Aquila also went on with this little gem "Violence only promotes violence and is not the way of Jesus Christ". Now that wasn't very well thought through. Under Aqulia's rationale, all those Marines, sailors, soldiers and Coast Guardsmen who had the bad manners to shoot back at Peal Harbor failed to "follow the way of Jesus Christ". Who screwed-up and authorized this moron to be consecrated a bishop?

I look at pictures of that poor girl, and then I think of the pure horror of her last few hours left on earth. That honestly quickly fills my heart with tears. Then I read about that idiot bishop in Fargo, and heart is slowly but surely filled with anger.

Maybe we should all remember Dru and her family tomorrow at Mass. Obviously, Bishop Aquila won't.