When I heard this, I wanted to find the closest, most Roman Catholic (RC), church, so to slap some sense in to the heads of the purveyors of non-sensible gibberish & archaic behaviour.

What exactly am I rambling about? THIS

a cardinal threatened doctors (with excommunication) who performed an abortion ... on an 11-year old girl allegedly raped by her stepfather.

WOW, they (RC) are now in the blackmail business? What am I saying, of course they are. This is not the first time they've forced their ways upon others and threatening those that do not succumb, 100% [period].

WOW! So the church would have a child give birth to a child, adding stress to her life forcing her to live a life of sin (child out of wedlock) merely to save their "code" or way of doing things, rather than allowing others to remove the by-product of a sinful act, so to help the child to MAYBE return to living a life of a child.

Wait - they are breaking one rule, to enforce another.

It is clear the institute cares not for their flock!
It is very clear that they care about enforcing their “rules”, more than the well being of their sheep.

I am still lost as to how so many people still follow, blindly, these ancient and obsolete "ways". Do they need to grasp so tightly to a concept created by sinners that they’d willing give-up their rights, or worse … their lives.

Ah, what the hell am I saying - I am sure none of the children that they (dealers of that drug called "god") impregnated, while they raped them, have had the demon seed aborted. NO. These bastards most likely have a litter of bastard-children under their frock.

Sorry for the troll’ish rant, but it sickens me to see how so many moths (those that only care about reaching the light) will allow lying murdering raping thieving cheating bastards to control them! Guess they believe in the churches "ways" so much, they have denied evolution and have placed the reins, to their lives, in the hands of these oh so "good" messengers of "god". How else does one explain it?

And people freaked out over Vernon Howell (aka D.Koresh) and that raping moron Warren Jeffs.
I see no difference, really.

How can the people of the world allow such a bad institute to control it (the world)?
Do people so badly need to believe in a lie that they'd risk another person's, or worse … a child’s, life?
Sad?
NOPE – pathetic!

I’d like to say I too lost some wait, but imaginary figures (“god”) do not weigh-in!