Ubi Caritas, Ctd.

Sometimes you just get the feeling the Vatican clerics have never even read the Gospels. A nine-year old is repeatedly abused, beaten and raped by her step-father, who also is suspected of sexually abusing her disabled sister. But the mother who helped the nine-year-old get an emergency abortion of twins is excommunicated. The rapist? Nah:

Doctors performed the abortion Wednesday, saying they feared the pregnancy could kill her because of her slim frame. Upon learning of the abortion, the regional archbishop excommunicated the doctors, as well as the girl's mother. He did not excommunicate the step-father, saying the crime he is alleged to have committed, although deplorable, was not as bad as ending a fetus's life.

I guess the Vatican is used to finding ways to see the lesser evil of raping and molesting children.