The Achilles Heel in the papal foot of Benedict XVI is rotting with Devil’s Bowels inspite of his red shoe that covers it up and its live proof is Bishop Finn, the new Opus Dei Bishop of Kansas City-St. Joseph who was indicted by a grand jury on October 6, 2011, for covering-up a pedophile priest who possessed hundreds of photos of child-pornography -- right under the Holy See watch of Benedict XVI. May the secular justice legal system in Kansas City give Bishop Finn the maximum sentence in jail - if it is one year – so be it, let him rot in jail for one year and taste what prison life is all about so he can help atone for the JP2 Army the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army also known as Benedict XVI Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/.
The indictment against Bishop Finn — was issued October 6 - while we were writing our recent article about the powerlessness of the Rosary that could not defeat the JP2 Army in the 20th Century…unlike the Battle of Lepanto in the 16th Century read it here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/10/rosary-could-not-defeat-jp2-army-john_06.html
The indictment against Bishop Finn — was unsealed on October 14 - while we were writing
Occupy the Vatican... like Occupy Wall Street
the October 15, Global Day of Change
read it here http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/10/ows-otv-occupy-wall-street-occupy.html
Bishop Finn –as an Opus Dei priest - prays the Rosary everyday – he actually has proved us right – that his daily Rosary could not defeat the pedophile lust of Fr. Ratigan and he has also proved us right that the Rosary could not prevent him - as Bishop - from being a complicit of a pedophile priest …just like the Rosary could not defeat Cardinal Bernard Law track record for aiding and abetting 80 pedophile priests in Boston.
So while Benedict XVI was speaking with crocodile tears in Germany about how sorry he is for victims of pedophile priest, Bishop Finn was busy covering up those same evil priest, read our related article Benedict used Hitler as mask in German Parliament. Nazis and Vatican are a “band of robbers” http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/benedict-xvi-uses-hitler-to-divert.html
Bishop Finn Chaplain to John Paul II in 2003
Note -- only a year after priest pedophilia has erupted in Boston
Bishop Finn was personally named by Blessed Pope John Paul II as Chaplain to His Holiness in August 2003, upon the recommendation of the then-Archbishop of St. Louis, Justin Francis Rigali (later Cardinal and Archbishop of Philadelphia), who had named him to the posts he was then exercising (the honor was bestowed while he was still serving as CFP Director and editor of the St. Louis Review; Father Finn received the title of Reverend Monsignor). Monsignor Finn served in several other capacities including Chairman of the Archdiocesan Committee on the Diaconate. Read about the cover-up of Cardinal Regali of 37 rapists-priests in our related article here http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/03/philadelphias-37-rapists-priests-under.html
Therefore, Bishop Finn was groomed by John Paul II and Cardinal Regali to cover-up pedophile priests.
Opus Dei and Bishop Finn
Fr. Finn applied for membership in Opus Dei in January 2004, Monsignor Finn was named two months later as coadjutor bishop (with right of succession) of the diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph. Monsignor Finn was consecrated to the episcopate on May 3, 2004, at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Kansas City. He is also now a Fourth Degree member of the Knights of Columbus. On May 24, 2005, the Vatican accepted Bishop Boland's request for retirement. As Coadjutor, Bishop Finn automatically succeeded him as sixth bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph.
In April 2005, Bishop Finn became a member of Priestly Society of the Holy Cross, which is the exclusive elite priesthood of the Catholic personal prelature Opus Dei. In an interview with the Catholic Key, Bishop Finn told of how Opus Dei had helped open his heart to the work of the Holy Spirit. Bishop Finn is not technically a member of the Opus Dei prelature, as he is a diocesan priest, but he is able to receive spiritual formation from the prelature in a similar way as its members do.
Bishop Finn is technically or officially called an "associate" member of Opus Dei.
Note the timing of Bishop Finn's appointment by John Paul II was in August 2003, that is one year after the vision of Paris Arrow on the horrific death of John Paul II his last World Youth Day in Toronto, read the vision here The 9/11 Decade and the JP2 Millstone 9th anniversary of Paris Arrow's vision of the death of John Paul II at the World Youth Day http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/09/911-decade-and-jp2-millstones-9th.html
Four months later Fr. Finn formally applied to be a member of Opus Dei in January 2004. A year later -- soon as he becomes an official member of Opus Dei in April 2005 -- he is named as coadjutor bishop (with right of succession)of Kansas City-St. Joseph. This proves the appointment of Opus Dei members only to the Colelge of Cardinal and Bishops Conferences worldwide.
Bishop Finn and the JP2 Army - John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army
Bishop Finn was part and parcel to the JP2 Army - John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army and the proof is that he too covered-up pedophile priest Ratigan just like Cardinal Bernard Law covered-up more than 80 pedophile priests in Boston. Bishop Finn lived up to the Opus Dei's callousness towards victims of the JP2 Army of Pedophile Priests read Opus Dei's reasons why here Why John Paul II is Opus Dei's Patron Saint: analysis of conference at Holy Cross Pontifical University in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.html
Bishop Finn parrot of John Paul II
Bishop Finn constantly preached about "openness to children" in his homilies but did nothing to protect them, read our related article on the beatification of John Paul II -- Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html
As a new coadjutor bishop, Finn made a round of visitations to the diocese’s five regions. In homilies he spoke of what he thought was important.
“In this increasingly secular society, a contraceptive/abortion culture has led to the sad deterioration of families. We as Catholics must focus on keeping married love together, with openness to children. This openness to children is an antidote to societal poisons,” he told a gathering at the St. Joseph co-cathedral, according to reporting in The Catholic Key.
Catholic education should be thoroughly and unashamedly Catholic, he said. Catholic schools should teach that salvation is achieved only through Jesus. Whether students are Catholic or not, the schools must teach Catholic doctrine and promote the rosary, the Stations of the Cross, the veneration of the saints and the use of sacramentals, such as, wearing religious medals, he said.
Families should attend Mass together regularly and make frequent confession. The themes would be repeated again and again.
“I love the Novus Ordo Mass [the post-Vatican II rite] as a priest,” The Catholic Key quoted him as saying. “I love the church, and I love the [Second Vatican] Council. But I also have a love and a respect for the Tridentine rite,” he said. “This also has a special place.”
Bishop Finn's credentials mean nothing to protecting children against JP2 Army
Bishop Finn's holy credentials are impressive but he has a callous heart towards the victims of Fr. Ratigan's hundreds of child porn photos which he knew and covered up:
Bishop Finn currently serves on the Administrative and the Priorities and Plans Committees for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is Chairman of the Bishop's Task Force on the Life and Dignity of the Human Person. So where was the dignity of the hundreds of children with their porn photos in Fr. Ratigan's laptop -- which Bishop Finn condoned and covered-up??
The Board of Directors of the Institute on Religious Life (IRL) at their September annual meeting elected the Most Rev. Robert W. Finn, Bishop of Kansas City–St. Joseph as the organization’s new president. Bishop Finn succeeds the Most Rev. Thomas G. Doran, Bishop of Rockford, who served as IRL president since 1998. (information in italics from Wikipedia)
Coincidence or God-incidence
From Holy Father John Paul II to Holy Father Benedict XVI to His Eminence Cardinal Bernard Law and to His Excellency Bishop Finn -- these Opus Dei “holy priests” are all rotten to the core of their hearts with the Devil’s Bowels just as we revealed for the first time last Christmas, the Devil’s Bowels smell like roses at the Vatican http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/12/devils-bowels-smell-like-roses-in.html and The Nazis and the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army were both an inherently evil all-male elite hierarchy born from the Devil's bowels
http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/01/nazis-and-john-paul-ii-pedophiles.html
This October 6 timing or coincidence (God-incidence) reminds us of the timing of our article on May 1 beatification of John Paul II that coincided with the death of Osama bin Laden and Adolf Hitler and how we tied these three evil leaders of the 20th Century together, read our article
Read also our article on how Benedict used Hitler as mask in his speech in German Parliament. Nazis and Vatican are a “band of robbers” http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/benedict-xvi-uses-hitler-to-divert.html
Biggest joke
The biggest joke of course is that should Bishop Finn go to jail – he will continue to perform the sorcery of the Eucharist and reincarnate the Almighty God into his sinful hands in jail – as a secular criminal, read our related article on Benedict XVI’s homily blaming the Devil before 15,000 priests for priest pedophilia --Eve and Benedict XVI blame the Devil. Analysis of Pope’s homily in Year for Priests -sorcerers of Christ’s flesh and blood http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/06/eve-and-benedict-xvi-blame-devil.html
Imagine that, a criminal-Bishop, like criminal-Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, can command God the Holy of Holies to become -- a little flesh in his criminal hands -- for him to eat and then defecate it. Read why the Eucharist is magic and sorcery under than hands of powerless men who can neither create things or reincarnate dead dogs but can reincarnate the Creator of the Universe, read about the Sorcery of the Eucharist here http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html
Tridentine Mass -- Latin numbs the conscience and hearts of Bishops and Popes
In August 2005, Bishop Finn encouraged use of the traditional Tridentine Mass in his diocese in accord with Indult provisions established during Pope John Paul II's tenure, and welcomed the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest to the diocese to celebrate Mass at St. Patrick's Oratory, the city's oldest church.
Benedict XVI preparing for his own canonization
Benedict XVI must be busy preparing all the documents necessary for his own speedy beatification just like his predecessor John Paul II did. The next possible pope is likely the Polish Opus Dei member Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz of Krakow, who began serving as Pope John Paul's secretary in 1966, when the late pontiff was archbishop of Krakow. Cardinal Dziwisz will surely maintain the perpetual continuation of all the policies and Opus Dei World Domination Agenda of John Paul II and Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity.
We’ll see how the 1.2 billion Catholics will go on with the last-standing absolute monarch on the planet, the pope, and if they will continue on with their blind idolatry of John Paul II after all these revelations on how rotten and evil were his two Achilles Heels, Cardinal Bernard Law and the late Fr. Marcial Maciel.
Benedict XVI is the clone of John Paul II…at last his Opus Dei Achilles Heel Bishop Finn has been revealed …just like we have revealed Cardinal Bernard Law who is the live Achilles Heel of John Paul II -- as we have explained in our recent article, the Rosary could not defeat the JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the 20th Century…unlike the Battle of Lepanto in the 16th Century http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/10/rosary-could-not-defeat-jp2-army-john_06.html
Heil Satanas John Paul II & Heil Satanas Benedict XVI & Heil General of the Third Reich of the BXVI Army, Bishop Finn!
Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html
WYD & America, wake up and see the Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders
Pearl Harbor - 3,000 victims - 170 planes - Admiral Yamamoto
WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden
JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity
Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html
The 15,736 victims is from the recent report of the US Catholic Bishops Conference harmed by almost 6,000 pedophile priests. Note that the victims of the JP2 Army are 5 times those of Osama bin Laden's 9-11, read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html
Read our related articles:
Fr. Murphy in the Evil Eyes of Benedict XVI On 'Today' Show: Religious Leader Tells Americans To 'Continue The Faith In Christ' http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/06/fr-murphy-in-evil-eyes-of-benedict-xvi.html
Amnesty International names Vatican in 2011 report on human rights violations - it's time the UN end the Vatican status as a "secular" state http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/05/amnesty-international-names-vatican-in.html
Bishop Robert Finn and the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. J
KANSAS CITY (MO)
Pitch
Posted by Justin Kendall on Fri, Oct 14, 2011
A Jackson County grand jury has indicted Bishop Robert Finn and the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph for allegedly failing to report suspected child sexual abuse in the Father Shawn Ratigan child pornography case.
The indictment — issued October 6 — was unsealed today. The actual charges are listed as a misdemeanor count of failure of mandated reporter to report. So Finn and the diocese are accused of failing to act as mandatory reporters.
The indictment alleges that between December 16, 2010, and May 11, 2011, Finn and the diocese had reasonable cause to suspect that a child may have been the victim of abuse "due to previous knowledge of concerns regarding Father Ratigan and children; the discovery of hundreds of photographs of children on Father Ratigan’s laptop, including a child’s naked vagina, upskirt images and other images focused on the crotch; and violations of restrictions placed on Father Ratigan."
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Prosecutor explains decision to charge Finn
MISSOURI
Examiner
By Jeff Martin - jeff.martin@examiner.net
Submitted to The Examiner
Posted Oct 20, 2011
Independence, MO —
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker called the decision to file charges against the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic Diocese and Bishop Robert Finn a difficult one.
“That was a very tough decision to have to make,” Baker said Wednesday at the regular luncheon of the Independence Chamber of Commerce. “When you’re a prosecutor, you don’t get to pick your cases.”
Even before she accepted questions following her presentation, Baker broached the subject, eliciting some chuckles from the crowd. After the luncheon, Baker acknowledged the significance of the misdemeanor charge of failing to report suspected child abuse. A spokesperson for her office said that there has been much nationwide interest following the announcement.
“Some people felt that we should have filed felony charges,” Baker said, but added that the misdemeanor charge was significant and would carry weight.The charge, filed last week, is the first time in the nation that a Catholic bishop will face criminal prosecution in a child sexual abuse case. Overall, Baker said, people agree with the charge.
Bishop Finn and the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph acknowledged the misdemeanor charge last week, according to a spokesperson for the church. Counsel for the diocese pleaded not guilty for the diocese, and counsel for Bishop Finn also entered a plea of not guilty, according to the church.
In a statement issued last week, Finn said: “Months ago after the arrest of Shawn Ratigan, I pledged the complete cooperation of the diocese and accountability to law enforcement. We have carried this out faithfully. Diocesan staff and I have given hours of testimony before grand juries, delivered documents and answered questions fully.
The charges stem from an investigation into Shawn Ratigan, who faces a civil lawsuit, a 13-county federal indictment and three state charges involving child pornography.
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Wineke: Catholic Church Undercuts Its Efforts To Promote Reverence For Eucharist
UNITED STATES
Channel 3000
By Bill Wineke
Special To Channel 3000
As if today's headlines weren't depressing enough, Catholic bishops seem to have returned to the front pages.
Locally, Bishop Robert Morlino has requested -- but not ordered -- his priests to refrain from offering parishioners wine during most celebrations of the Eucharist.
He is the second bishop in the country to do so. The reason, he explained, is to promote reverence for the Eucharist. ...
I was mulling all that over when I read a second headline: The bishop of Kansas City, Missouri has been indicted on charges of covering up the use of kiddie porn by one of his priests and, thus, endangering the safety of children.
Bishop Robert Finn knew the priest, the Rev. Shawn Rattigan, had hundreds of suggestive photos of small children on his personal computer, but failed to inform authorities, the indictment charges. Instead, it handed the computer over to Rattigan's family, who destroyed it. It ordered Rattigan to move to a convent but -- and this is truly unbelievable -- allowed him continued contact with children.
These charges don't stem from something that happened 10 years ago or, even, one year ago. They are current.
And it's not as if the diocese is ill informed. It recently paid a $10 million judgment to victims of priest sex abuse. It has procedures in place to avert future problems; it even has a review board that includes a police captain.
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Opus Dei-Affiliated Bishop Indicted For Failure To Report Suspected Child Abuse
KANSAS CITY (MO)
Gothamist
A U.S. bishop and a Catholic diocese in Kansas City have been indicted for failing to report suspected child abuse allegedly committed by a priest. Bishop Robert Finn and the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph were charged, and both entered not guilty pleas. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said, "This is a significant charge. To my knowledge, a charge like this has not been leveled before," and the NY Times reports, "The indictment is the first ever of a Catholic bishop in the 25 years since the scandal over sexual abuse by priests first became public in the United States."
Earlier this year, Finn admitted he mishandled the situation with Father Shawn Ratigan, who was accused of taking, possessing and distributing child pornography—photographs of a young female parishioner. The Kansas City Star says, "In 2008, the lawsuit alleges, Ratigan took photographs and visual images of the girl in her bathing suit, focusing on her vaginal area and buttocks. Around 2009, Ratigan photographed the girl while she was sleeping and fully clothed, the lawsuit says.
Those photos indicate Ratigan moved the girl in order to pose her in a sexually suggestive manner, the lawsuit alleges. Ratigan then uploaded the sexually explict photos to his computer and sent them out over the Internet, according to the lawsuit." Numerous images of the girl and other young girls were found on a parish computer as well as "on compact discs found during a search of Ratigan family members’ homes after his arrest in May, the lawsuit says."
While Ratigan was arrested in May, Finn admitted knew about the disturbing images back in December 2010 but didn't turn them over until the arrest. Also, a teacher had complained about Ratigan's behavior in May 2010, but nothing was done. Finn and the diocese had promised to report any suspected child abuse as part of a 2008 settlement with 47 victims of sexual abuse.
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Grand jury indicts Bishop Finn, diocese
KANSAS CITY (MO)
The Kansas City Star
By JUDY L. THOMAS, MARK MORRIS and GLENN E. RICE
The Kansas City Star
Bishop Robert Finn on Friday became the highest-ranking Catholic official in the nation to face criminal prosecution in the decades-old child sexual abuse scandal — an action that stunned many inside and outside the church.
A Jackson County grand jury on Oct. 6 secretly indicted both Finn and the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph on misdemeanor charges of failure to report child abuse in a case involving a priest facing child pornography charges.
As Finn and the diocese denied wrongdoing Friday after appearing in court, news of the charges roiled the nation and the Catholic world.
“This is historic,” said the Rev. Thomas J. Reese, author of “Inside the Vatican: The Politics and Organization of the Catholic Church.”
“In terms of the Catholic Church, this is an extraordinary move which is going to signal that the times have changed,” said Reese, a senior fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center at Georgetown University. “Neither people nor government are going to put up with any kind of activity that looks like a coverup.” ...
“This is monumental, there’s no question about it,” said A.W. Richard Sipe, a former priest and mental health counselor in California who has studied priest sexual abuse issues for decades.
“This is a huge step that breaks the barrier of bishops being protected. This shows that bishops no longer are above the law.”
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Bishop indicted in Catholic sex abuse scandal: It's about time
UNITED STATES
The Star-Ledger
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board
For the first time since the Catholic sex abuse scandal broke in the United States 25 years ago, a bishop has been indicted for allegedly covering up for a sexually abusive priest.
Our first reaction: It’s about time.
Our next reaction: It’s outrageous that — after settlements with roughly 6,000 abuse victims, more than 15,000 allegations and $3 billion in payments, according to bishop-accountability.org — a Catholic church official is suspected of facilitating and hiding more despicable behavior.
The courts will decide whether Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn hid abuse that occurred as recently as last year, but there was enough evidence for a grand jury to hand up charges of failure to report suspected child abuse, and that’s a start.
Bishop waited five months to report suspected abuse
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UNITED STATES
New Zealand Herald
A bishop has become the highest-ranking US Catholic official indicted on a charge of failing to protect children after he and his diocese waited five months to tell police about hundreds of images of child pornography discovered on a priest's computer, officials said Friday.
Bishop Robert Finn, the first US bishop criminally charged with sheltering an abusive clergyman, and the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic Diocese have pleaded not guilty on one count each of failing to report suspected child abuse.
Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said Finn and the diocese were required under state law to report the discovery to police because the images gave them reason to believe a child had been abused.
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Jackson County grand jury indicts Catholic Diocese, Bishop Finn
KANSAS CITY (MO)
KCTV
[with video]
By DeAnn Smith, Digital Content Manager
KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -
The Kansas City area Catholic Diocese and Bishop Robert Finn face misdemeanor charges for the handling of a priest accused of possessing child pornography.
This is the first time a bishop in the United States has faced charges for allegedly protecting an abusive priest.
A Jackson County grand jury cited the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph and Finn each with one count of failing to report suspected child abuse. The grand jurors said diocese officials and Finn had reasonable cause to believe that Father Shawn Ratigan was taking sexually explicit pictures of children.
Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said Friday afternoon that even though they were Class A misdemeanors charges that should not diminish the significance of the allegations.
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U.S. Catholic bishop charged in alleged porn cover-up
KANSAS CITY (MO)
Reuters
By Kevin Murphy
KANSAS CITY | Sat Oct 15, 2011
(Reuters) - Kansas City's Roman Catholic bishop has become the highest-ranking church official charged in the United States in the long-running clergy sexual abuse scandal, accused of failing to report suspected child abuse involving a priest's photographs of young naked girls.
Prosecutors in Jackson County, Missouri, said on Friday that Bishop Robert Finn, 58, became aware of child pornography images on the laptop computer of Reverend Shawn Ratigan in December 2010 but failed to appropriately notify police or state child abuse authorities for five months.
Finn's lawyer entered a plea of not guilty in court on Friday and the bishop issued a statement saying he would fight the misdemeanor charge -- which carries a penalty of up to one year in jail and a $1,000 fine -- "with a steady resolve and a vigorous defense."
Previously, no American Roman Catholic bishop had been charged with covering up such crimes.
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The hypocrisy of John Paul II and the Vatican
Jon Sobrino describes John Paul II's manipulation of the poor of South America. In El Salvador, John Paul II suppressed the poor Crucified Peoples and the Jesuits Martyrs who were working for social justice - whose anniversary is November 16.
Below is an excerpt from Jon Sobrino's book that speaks of John Paul II's un-realistic papal attitudes and ignorant perception towards the poor. These are the paragraphs that made Benedict XVI issued the "Notification" and the Opus Dei Bishop of El Salvador "silence" Sobrino, meaning he can no longer teach or preach and help the poor to whom he has given all his life in service.
Witnesses to the Kingdom: The Martyrs of El Salvador and the Crucified Peoples
Page 141. Important ecclesial events, like a papal visit, are often organized in such a way that they too produce a feeling of unreality. In the Pope’s 1996 visit to El Salvador, it is true that most of the people who attended were poor. But all one could see of their reality was their religious enthusiasm, more or less effectively organized. One didn’t see their poverty, their fears, their discouragement and helplessness, not even their true faith and hope; one didn’t see their reality. As the event was organized, the poor served more as a backdrop than as the reality of the country; in the foreground were minorities that do not represent the reality: the government, legislators and politicians, the rich and powerful, and the Church beside them. The Pope’s visit neither reflected reality nor, to judge from the consequences, had any important effect on it.
On page 140. This applies to the allocutions and homilies of the Pope to the Congregation when he was an "adult-pope’. And that is still a serious problem: humanistas without sarx, factuality without reality (in the world of the poor). To give a few examples: one often gets a feeling of unreality from homilies, documents and messages that do not make central - although they may mention it - the poverty of reality, the injustice and corruption that cause it, and the cover-up that accompanies it. The feeling of unreality comes especially from the lack of commitment to get involved in the conflict, to struggle against injustice and to suffer the consequences. Words, words, words, as J. Comblin calls such messages in the article mentioned above. At another level, one gets the same feeling of unreality from a seminary formation that protects the seminarian from reality; or from the spiritualities and pastoral practices promoted or tolerated by movements that lead the human being into an a-historical transcendence with infantilizing consequences. (From Martyrs of El Salvador. By Jon Sobrino)
Links: Benedict XVI and Jon Sobrino
Benedict XVI-God's Rottweiler voracious appetite for the Jesuits
New Pope Benedict XVI's first bite: the Jesuits
So here we show in pictures how John Paul II contrast with Mary who like Rachel weeps for her thousands of little boys (and girls) who were sodomized by the «John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army see our sister weblog http://jp2army.blogspot.com/
This is the image of the woman as the sun Our Lady of Guadalupe defending and protecting children and holding a child up high away from the snares and snatches of the Serpent while John Paul II gave countless thousands of little boys to the Serpent of Sodomy to be sodomized and raped by his John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army for over 26 years during his glorious papacy as John Paul II the Great
The Danish cartoonist of the prophet Mohammed portrayed John Paul II as the Pope of Pedophilia with the inscription "I am not for homosexuality but for pedophilia".
John Paul II is the Sun as the Infallible Most Powerful Pope of the Catholics with seven rays of the 7 Sacraments, he is in his white papal uniform and his two papal hands pulls up the children`s robes because he enabled and allowed thousands of pedophiles rapists-priests to go on freely sodomizing and raping little boys (and girls) during his longest reigning papacy of 26 years, together with Cardinal Josef Ratzinger his right-hand man as Head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007/10/john-paul-ii-portrait-by-danish-artist.html.
Saint Michael the Archangel tied a giant millstone to John Paul II's neck at the last World Youth Day speech of JP2 see John Paul II the Pope of Sodomy: Vision of St. Michael the Archangel tying a giant millstone to John Paul II at World Youth Day in 2002 http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html
A picture speaks a thousand words and so here we show the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe saving young little children from the snares of the Serpent while John Paul II gave freely thousands of children to the Serpent of Sodomy which included his beloved companion Fr. Marcial Maciel a serial pedophile together with thousands of pedophiles rapists-priests as they satiated their lusts on little boys and young pubescent boys hence they will be forever known as the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priest Army -- they are the JP2 Army because they even out-number the 500 men in the Swiss Guard Army at the Vatican see http://jp2army.blogspot.com/
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October 26, 2011
The Full Story on Bishop Finn
Kevin O'Brien, Theater of the Word 0pc on October 26, 2011
"Let's step outside and settle this thing like men," she said, and she was a lady. "You're spewing anti-Catholic rhetoric!" he insisted. "How can you criticize a bishop when you're an actor and everyone knows actors are perverts and nitwits," she screamed. (That last gal had a point).
These are all reactions to my post last week about Rod Dreher's article on Bishop Finn's Indictment.
And above all, people are charging me with believing the biased media coverage of the scandal.
This, at least, is not true. In fact, everything I say in this post will be taken not from a media account of the scandal, but from the independent report on it as commissioned by the diocese, the Graves Report, which you can read on your own here.
So let's shove the media aside and see for ourselves what's contained in this internal diocesan report conducted by an independent firm.
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Fr. Shawn Ratigan was a priest of the diocese of Kansas City - St. Joseph, Missouri. While pastor of St. Patrick's Parish (a parish with a grade school), his behavior around children raised many red flags. There were several incidents of "boundary violation", in which Fr. Ratigan held girls on his lap or tried to spend time with them alone while waiting for rides. At one function, he began rubbing a girl's back until her father angrily pulled her away. A pair of girl's panties was found in Fr. Ratigan's back yard planter.
In December, 2010, a computer technician servicing Fr. Ratigan's laptop discovered hundreds of photographs of young girls, apparently taken by Fr. Ratigan. Many were of children playing, the photographer focusing on their crotches and not including their faces. There were photos of girls climbing ladders in swim suits, focusing on their crotches. There were photos of girls wearing shorts sitting with their legs apart, focusing on their crotches. The girls appeared to be between eight and ten years old. One stash of photos was of a child in diapers. The series of photos ended with the diaper moved to the side, to reveal the girl's genitals and her bare buttocks. The photos were labeled with this toddler's name. Another series of photos was of a girl of about age seven, sleeping, but posed in sexually provocative ways while asleep. Her face was fully visible. The computer also contained links to internet sites advertising spy photo pens and two way mirrors.
The computer technician who made this discovery, his hands shaking, brought this laptop to the deacon at St. Patrick's and showed him the photos. The deacon immediately took the laptop to Msgr. Murphy, the Vicar General of the diocese, and Bishop Finn's right hand man. Before he viewed the images, Msgr. Murphy called and asked a friend of his who was a police officer if a single photo of a nude girl on a laptop "in a non-sexual pose" constituted child pornography. The officer answered that it might, but, particularly if it were of a family member, it would probably not be prosecuted.
This was the only contact the diocese made with the police until the following May. For, even after Msgr. Murphy viewed the images, and after it became clear that these images were not of family members, and that they were of a sexual nature, and that they were almost certainly photos Fr. Ratigan had taken of children in the diocese, neither Msgr. Murphy nor any one else involved in this case, contacted the police for nearly six months.
As soon as the pictures were discovered, Fr. Ratigan tried to kill himself, leaving a note saying he was sorry for what he had done. He survived his suicide attempt and was sent to a psychologist in Philadelphia who specializes in treating priests with problems. And yet, after interviewing Fr. Ratigan, and even after viewing the pictures which were pulled from Fr. Ratigan's laptop, the psychologist concluded he was not a pedophile. He was just lonely. And depressed. Why? Because the principal of the school was "out to get him," having complained about his inappropriate behavior around children. It was her fault, not his.
The diagnosis being evidently wrong, there were at least a few people in the Chancery Office who advised Bishop Finn to seek a second opinion. He did not.
At one point the legal counsel for the diocese told Msgr. Murphy that an attempt should be made to identify the children in the photographs, particularly if they were children in the diocese, as it appeared they were - victims of a child pornographer, and perhaps of other more violent sexual abuse at his hands. Legal Counsel also advised Msgr. Murphy to report this case to the Missouri Division of Family Services.
But contrary to the advise of counsel (and contrary to common sense, not to mention Christian charity), no one made any attempt to identify these victims or to reach out to their families.
No one made any report to the Division of Family Services.
In fact, no one even bothered to report the incident to the Independent Review Board, as required by diocesan "Protecting God's Children" policies!
Bishop Finn then assigns Fr. Ratigan to a Vincentian Retreat Center ... where school groups often go on retreats. He tells Fr. Ratigan to stay away from computers, cameras and children, but he allows him to say Mass for the school groups.
The Vincentian leaders at the retreat house adamantly claim that they were never informed of these restrictions on Fr. Ratigan, nor were they told he was a pedophile with a flair for child pornography; they thought he was simply recovering from his suicide attempt. Bishop Finn says he informed them of the full story; they say he did not. In fact, they told the firm conducting the independent review that if they had known the full scope of the situation, they would not have let Fr. Ratigan live with them. In any event, no one was placed in a supervisory role over Fr. Ratigan. He was living entirely unsupervised.
Immediately, Fr. Ratigan began using Facebook. He started attending public events and St. Patrick's parish-family events where children were present, including a birthday party for a sixth grade girl. He started glad handing parishioners, telling them the reason he had not been re-assigned to St. Patrick's was that the principal was "out to get him". Against the Bishop's directives, he made contact with children on retreat at the center, and on Easter Sunday - Easter Sunday - he tried to take pornographic pictures of a girl at the center.
Bishop Finn was informed of all of these violations of the "honor code" he had placed on Fr. Ratigan and yet Bishop Finn admitted that, as late as May of 2011, he had (in his own words) "not formulated a plan to further address Fr. Ratigan's behavior if he continued to violate restrictions".
By the middle of May, Msgr. Murphy eventually let his policeman friend know of the full scope of the situation - that the laptop contained not one photo of a nude girl in a non-provocative pose (as he had told him earlier), but hundreds of photos of girls, all of a lascivious nature. The police officer said, "You never told me that," and informed Msgr. Murphy that the diocese should immediately turn the laptop over to the police.
But instead the laptop was given to Bishop Finn, who gave it to Fr. Ratigan's brother, who (naturally) destroyed it.
And while copies remained of the photos, the original evidence (the laptop and its hard drive), including any other cached information the police could have obtained, is now gone for good.
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Now, Bishop Naumann makes a passioned defense of his brother bishop, and points out that many in the Kansas City media are viciously pro-abortion and will stop at nothing to destroy the Catholic Church. Bishop Naumann, I'm sure this is true.
And many lay folk have pointed out to me that Bishop Finn is orthodox in his teaching and has boldly attacked pornography, for example. I'm sure that this is true as well.
But have we come to a stage where we are so desperate for orthodox bishops that we turn a blind eye to their other shortcomings? Are we so defensive against our own sins that we refuse to acknowledge where we fall shy of virtue, simply because other sinners are pointing our failures out to us?
And how do we expect to turn the hearts of the pro-abortion zealots in the Kansas City media if we don't even have the gumption to protect a two-year-old girl who's being victimized while asleep by one of our priests? Why on earth would they listen to us about the evils of killing unborn babies when we won't even do anything to protect a sleeping two-year-old from a predator?
Because, my friends, it comes down to this.
Bishop Finn and his Vicar General knew that children under their care had been exploited and abused. Bishop Finn and his Vicar General did nothing to identify or protect those children.Instead, and incredibly, when the story finally broke, Bishop Finn and his Vicar General instructed that the parish of St. Patrick's holdlistening sessions at which parents were asked to write down one "hurt" and one "hope".
As the Graves Report states, two "hurts" collected at listening sessionsincluded the following ...
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The images of my daughter's private areas that the FBI showed me, they are forever burned into my brain. Shawn Ratigan was in my house, around my children in February, and I thought my children were completely SAFE!!
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You let one of your priests hurt my children and you saw the pictures and decided to cover it up. That monster was in my house in February 2011 to prey on my children and I let him in since you felt you were above the law and made that decision not to turn in photos of my kids.
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So those of you out there who are offering to take me out back and fight me, those of you who think I'm an anti-Catholic filled with hatred and Chick-tract rhetoric, those of you who think that if a human being happens to be an actor, he should not be allowed to write about this, answer one question for me ...
What would you say to these parents? Or better yet, if Fr. Ratigan had taken pictures of your sleeping two-year-old girl and removed her diapers to take a spy-pen snapshot of her vagina and her bare butt for use on his computer, and perhaps molested her and the diocese never bothered to tell you this, and never bothered to warn you not to let this man back in your house, or reach out to make sure you and your daughter got the help you needed (all the while the beg letters for the annual diocesan appeal kept coming in the mail) ... what would you put down on the "hurt" card? What would you "share" as your "hope" during the listening session while somewhere a man we call father masturbates to a picture of your sleeping two-year-old?
Perhaps Bishop Finn should not be tried for this misdemeanor (failure to report the crime in a timely manner) in the criminal courts of my state. I think a case could be made either way. But one thing I'm sure he should do.
He should repent in sack cloth and ashes and beg the forgiveness of every girl dancing naked in Fr. Ratigan's dreams. For he had the ability to reach out and offer help and the love of Christ to these girls and their parents, and he did not do it.
http://www.snapnetwork.org/the_full_story_on_bishop_finn
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