How dare you, Joseph Ratzinger. How dare you belittle the sexual atrocities of your organized child rape racket in the country that bore that abuse. How dare you sermonize about our country’s moral depravity when agents of your own corrupt God brothel were the ones stuffing their hands down our children’s pants to satisfy their own repressed lust. How dare you even set foot in this country.

As 45,000 of my doe-eyed patriotic brethren pack into a baseball stadium to hear Ratzinger drone this morning, I know with certainty that they will not press him for answers. These are the very people whose families were bludgeoned and children’s development was stunted by the sanctioned buggery of the Catholic Church under the auspices of this pope’s predecessors. Ratzinger should have thrown himself on the ground upon arrival and demanded forgiveness for the deplorable actions committed by his subordinates. Instead, we got this. In a speech on Wednesday following an opening prayer in Washington, D.C., Ratzinger urged efforts to “address the sin of abuse within the wider context of sexual mores,” and to reassess the “values underpinning society.”

Maybe I’m not the typical American, but I take offense to an octogenarian former Hitler-youth member lumping me in with child molesters and taking issue with my sexuality. I watch porn, I go to sex stores, I talk openly about sex, and I fuck on the first date, but I don’t molest children, thank you very much. To suggest that a lack of adherence to the Vatican’s medieval view of sexuality is the driving reason behind the explosion of sexual abuse cases stemming from Catholic churches is not only insulting, it’s wrong in every sense.

By using the argument that the abuse occurred because of American’s “moral breakdown,” Ratzinger is either blaming the child victims of the abuse for being brought up in an increasingly-sexualized society or he’s tacitly absolving the frock-wearing molesters for falling under the same spell. This should not only be insulting to the children whose lives will be forever scarred by this abomination, but to any self-respecting human being living in America amidst the scandal. The main reason that there was such a wide horizon of sexual abuse in Catholic churches (aside from its willful harboring of known pedophiles) is because of the stubborn refusal of the Church leadership to allow marriage and normal sexual relationships within its ranks. If Catholic priests were officially licensed decades ago to marry, love, and have sex without fear of recrimination, do you honestly think that such an alarming number of abuse and rape allegations would have surfaced in the past five years?

Furthermore, Ratzinger’s claim that a sexualized culture has fueled the abuse is contingent on the idea that sexual abuse committed by the clergy is a new phenomenon. I loathe to think of how many children through the generations have borne scars of abuse and kept silent about it when pre-digital society was able to more easily sweep this under the carpet. And that’s something that Ratzinger did not address. It’s something that our complacent, fawning media has passed over during this entire week of pontiff-mania, when just five years ago, they were up in arms against it. The Church knowingly protected priests who were accused of abuse. In 2002, when the archbishop of Boston, Bernard Law, admitted to protecting a priest who he knew had sexually abused members of his church, it was just one instance in a parade of sex offender insulation in the name of God.

If Ratzinger’s words aren’t a textbook example of passing the buck when Eliot Ness busts down the door, then I don’t know what is. “What does it mean to speak of child protection,” Ratzinger went on, “when pornography and violence can be viewed in so many homes through media widely available today?” So, he’s arguing that since a kid can conceivably watch Aurora Snow licking Jenna Haze’s box on the family computer, that somehow it’s wholly impossible to protect those children from the groping hands of sexually-repressed men abusing their purported moral authority? Is he arguing that since children dress more provocatively now and talk more openly about sex, pedophiles are powerless to stop their disgusting hands? For the icing on the rotten cupcake of this whole charade, Ratzinger then went on to state that pedophilia is “not only in your dioceses, but in every sector of society.” Ask yourself, if a criminal argues the case that his murder was just a part of the larger problem of crime in America, would the argument hold up in a court of law? It seems only a pajama-clad medieval charlatan is afforded license to spew such contemptible nonsense in the country.

“Children deserve to grow up with a healthy understanding of sexuality and its proper place in human relationships,” continued Ratzinger. “They should be spared the degrading manifestations and crude manipulation of sexuality today.” He’s absolutely correct, but the Catholic Church has long since lost its moral authority (if indeed it ever had any) to lecture Americans on sexuality. Until I see sweeping change attacking the root of the problem; the Vatican’s antiquated muzzling of natural human emotions and sexual relations, then I will just offer these words. Fuck you, Joseph Ratzinger.