The Catholic Church so feared women and has such warped senses of morality and sexuality that, to comply with Paul’s order for women to be silent in church,22 it castrated young boys. In 1589, Pope Sixtus V issued a papal bull, Cum pro nostro pastorali munere, which enrolled castrati in the choir of Saint Peter’s.23 Castrati, young boys whose testicles were removed or destroyed (by severing the testicles from the spermatic cord)24 were needed because women could not be a part of the liturgy. Since some songs in the liturgy required high voices and women were to remain silent, the religious
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Fuck the Catholic Church!
