In what I can only describe as a disgusting display of misogyny, a Catholic archbishop in Spain implied during a sermon that domestic violence is usually the woman's fault.
Archbishop Braulio Rodriguez Plaza of Toledo explained to his congregation on Dec. 27 that domestic violence is a "macho response" that mainly occurs when a woman asks a man for a divorce.
He further spread the wisdom pulled straight from his ass by informing his congregation that the majority of domestic violence deaths occur when a man "doesn't accept" his partner. Those murdered women really just needed to try harder to gain their husband's acceptance, am I right?
Plaza's attack on women didn't end there. He characterized the "serious problem" with domestic violence as a failure by the couples to have "a true marriage" and attacked the politicians who support what he termed "quickie divorces" (you know, the ones that save battered women's lives).
Not surprisingly, Plaza's sermon created a whole lot of controversy. However, Plaza, the archdiocese, and the Vatican all declined The Huffington Post's request for comment.
One man's words might be an aberration but a failure to condemn them by the Church itself lends them a legitimacy that has no place in 1620, much less 2016.
