Updated February 9, 2012
The 3rd coincidence that is happening with this Opus Dei's Jesuit Janitors at the Gregorian University Conference in Rome is the 540 victims lawsuits in Milwaukee and Archbishop Listecki is waging the most aggressive legal campaign against victims in USA and is seeking to bar all 540 victims from federal court...so much for the hypocrisy of those 200 (like Queen of Sheba) attendees "Towards Healing and Renewal" in Rome. Read news update below.
The problem with this Opus Dei directed conference is that it is all founded in the sand of lies, lies, lies beginning with citations from John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger who are both the worst criminal-popes against children in the history of Christendom.
As long as Cardinal Bernard Law is a Cardinal and John Paul II is on his way to being a saint, and Cardinal Ratzinger is not tried at The Hague,the whole Catholic Church and the Vatican are a sham and the Vatican Bank is only there to hoard despots' ill-gotten wealth and therefore they perpetuate the rapes of thousands of women - which they could not care less because they also allowed the rapes of hundreds of thousands of children in church rectories - and child soldiers and the oppression of poor countries. That is why Cardinal Ratzinger silenced Liberation Theology because it would awaken the poor of South America of their birthright in Jesus Christ who came to liberate them...read more on Jon Sobrino here Benedict XVI the Rich Man and Jesuit Jon Sobrino the Lazarus http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html
February 8, 2012
There are two coincidences (God-incidence) -- during the Jesuit Gregorian University International Conference to try to patch the child sexual abuse iceberg that has hit the Vatican Titanic Ship and the infestation of the JP2 Army-John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army a.k.a. B16 Army within the Catholic Church –- that prove that pedophile priests are free to roam as sexual predators to more boys, and their complicit Bishops and Cardinals are scot-free criminals, read our related article Sins and crimes are not synonymous. Sinners and criminals are not one and the same, read our full article http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/05/sins-and-crimes-are-not-synonymous.html and Penance is not justice; penitence is inequality to the lifetime suffering of victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/penance-is-not-justice-penitence-is.html
Those numbers may sound impressive but deceitful - 200 people including bishops, leaders of religious orders, victims of abuse and psychologists - so what, they are all mere handpicked Opus Dei janitors who are there to clean-up the JP2 pedophile mess John Paul II left behind and to try salvage the absolute monarchy of Benedict XVI and make his crimes against humanity forgotten like Catholic Church incense, read our related article The Roman Catholic Church is no longer « Holy ». All Catholic churches, sacristies, rectories are not «holy» but potential priestly pedophile places http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/07/roman-catholic-church-is-no-longer-holy.html and Theology and John Paul II are heartless and together they made the immoral Fr. Marcial Maciel thrive http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/05/theology-and-john-paul-ii-are-heartless.html
Cardinal Levada is one of the worst Vatican Pied Pipers (see news below) because he recalled how Blessed John Paul II's Motu Proprio "Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela" clarified and updated the list of canonical crimes, explicitly including the sexual abuse of minors by clerics as one of the most serious crimes, or "graviora delicta". The fact is John Paul II NEVER preached to the World Youth Day when he knew full well that priest pedophilia was erupting in Boston in his last WYD in North America and he went on to live for 3 more years and he did NOTHING to stop pedophile priests. That is all empty theology and papal writings that Cardinal Levada is citing, read our related article John Paul smelled Devil`s Bowels as roses for 27 years as he deified Father Marcial Maciel and deified Cardinal Bernard Law http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-smelled-devils-bowels-as.html.
Cardinal Levada went on with his spectacle Pied Piper speech that Benedict XVI, then prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "was instrumental in implementing these new norms" and supported "approving the Essential Norms for the United States". In 2010 Pope Benedict also approved and ordered the promulgation of stricter revised norms. The fact is Cardinal Ratzinger and John Paul II were both the pair of hands that ruled the Vatican and the Catholic Kingdom for more than a quarter of a century and they both condonned and covered-up the JP2 Army of Pedophile Priests named aptly after both of them, read about the most notorious here http://jp2army.blogspot.com/
Those norms are just empty words because Benedict XVI is actually a criminal for his crimes against humanity, read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2012/02/benedict-xvi-must-first-be-tried-at.html
Will Cardinal Levada please explain why Benedict XVI refuse to meet with Italian victims of pedophile priests who walked across Italy to meet with him at the Vatican doorsteps, read more here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/
Cardinal Levada is only playing dramatics with his accouncement that "Priests in 4,000 sex assaults" and yet the brutal fact is, the Vatican did nothing about them because John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger wanted these pedophile priests as perpetual sorcerers of Christ's flesh, read our related article 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
2 coincidences
The first coincidence that prove this Gregorian Conference is all PR campaign and the attendees are by handpicked only by Opus Dei is that all the readings in the Liturgy are all about King Solomon, the purportedly wisest king in the Catholic Kingdom and yet the most polygamist man that has fooled the planet with his Temple of Solomon which Jesus cursed to its last pillar. At least the columns of the pagain Parthenon are all still standing. We post here the full reading of today because those who are attending the Gregorian Conference have come from all over the world - just like Queen of Sheba and like her, they are mersmerized by King Pope Benedict XVI and the Vatican Palace and that includes one of the speakers who was a raped vicitm of a priest who is praising Benedict to the highest heaven, see news below with her Vatican Pied Pipers words “Listening to victims is one of the most important things, and it was something that was maybe not done enough, and the Pope is giving an example as to how it should be done,” Marie Collins said Feb. 7. - cited by Vatican Pied Piper media Catholic news Agency. Obviously she is not aware that Benedict XVI refused to meet and lsiten to Italian priests-raped victims, we invite ehr to read about them here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/ . For a priest-rape-victim to praise Benedict XVI proves she was well prepared on what to say by Opus Dei, 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/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.html
The second coincidence is the interview of Cardinal Egan of New York wherein he just withdrew his apology for the Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal he made in 2002, 10 years ago, which illustrate and prove the callous heart and immoral conscience of Cardinals especialy Cardinal Ratzinger, read news below
Benedict XVI as absolute monarch
In ancient times, the king was the law of the land, his every whim and words were laws, whether he was a murderer or an adulterer he was right - all by the merit of his position. The Catholics and the Jesuits treat the Pope as an absolute monarch. Therefore, Pope Benedict XVI is right despite his crimes against humanity pending at The Hague, read our related article John Allen promotes monarchy of Catholicism. As Vatican Pied Piper he announces ‘Meet the new Crown Prince of Catholicism’ http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/07/john-allen-promotes-monarchy-of.html and Benedict XVI must first be tried at The Hague and face true justice, or else, Gregorian Conference is only a PR campaign and more Vatican deceptions http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2012/02/benedict-xvi-must-first-be-tried-at.html
There is of course the endless articles by the best Vatican Pied Piper of them all, John L. Allen Jr. cooking up the Devil's Bowels to smell like roses for all 1.2 Catholics especially the English-speaking American who give the most money to the Vatican Mammon, read our related article http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2012/02/john-l-allen-jr-pied-piper-fooling.html
Read our related article:
SO WHAT, new 22 Cardinals and Pellini. FOCUS:Benedict's crimes against humanity,Vatican violation of human rights. Again,no new Jesuit voting Cardinal http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2012/01/benedict-appoints-22-new-cardinal.html
Ireland appoints new ambassador to the Holy See...to do what exactly...with a few hundred GAY homosexual residents of the smallest country, Vatican?
Updated February 5, 2012 http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/12/ireland-appoints-new-ambassador-to-holy.html
In the 20th Century and dawn of the 21st Century this is the new statistic of the JP2 Army and American crimes which the Rosary could not defeat:
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
JP2 Army victims around the world http://jp2army.blogspot.com/
Amnesty International Report Vatican “Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment” on tens of thousands of children sexually abused by priests in Ireland http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/amnesty-international-report-vatican.html
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 article The Nazis of Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church of Benedict XVI are similar: They both burn human beings in Auschwitz and in Hell http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/02/nazis-of-hitler-and-roman-catholic.html
Totus Tuus Marie pathological lie of John Paul II
See this image of Our Lady of Guadalupe defending and protecting children from the Serpent but 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".
In this Danish cartoonist image, 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. See more on the Danish cartoonist describing about John Paul II on Danish radio 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 -- Read 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
John Paul II in the Basilica of Guadalupe in Rome
The original image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico revered by beloved companions John Paul II and Fr. Marcial Maciel who built the Legion of Christ Guadalupe Basilica in Rome where is now buried see http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html
The Hague: Full text Criminal Charges against Dr. Joseph Ratzinger, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html
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News for February 8, 2012
Readings on King Solomon. The Queen of Sheba is impressed with the wealth ang grandeur of the Kingdom of Solomon just like all these people attending the Gregorian Conference are awed by the grandeur of the Vatican and Opus Dei King Benedict XVI.
Reading 1, First Kings 10:1-10
1 The queen of Sheba heard of Solomon's fame and came to test him with difficult questions.
2 She arrived in Jerusalem with a very large retinue, with camels laden with spices and an immense quantity of gold and precious stones. Having reached Solomon, she discussed with him everything that she had in mind,
3 and Solomon had an answer for all her questions; not one of them was too obscure for the king to answer for her.
4 When the queen of Sheba saw how very wise Solomon was, the palace which he had built,
5 the food at his table, the accommodation for his officials, the organisation of his staff and the way they were dressed, his cupbearers, and the burnt offerings which he presented in the Temple of Yahweh, it left her breathless,
6 and she said to the king, 'The report I heard in my own country about your wisdom in handling your affairs was true then!
7 Until I came and saw for myself, I did not believe the reports, but clearly I was told less than half: for wisdom and prosperity, you surpass what was reported to me.
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Cardinal Edward Egan Just Withdrew His Apology For The Catholic Sex-Abuse Scandal
UNITED STATES
Business Insider
Michael Brendan Dougherty
St. John Chrysostom, once said "The road to hell is paved with the skulls of bishops."
Here's proof that he was right.
In an interview this week with Connecticut Magazine, Cardinal Edward Egan, withdrew his 2002 apology for the Church's handling of the sex-abuse scandal, which was once read in all New York parishes.
A decade after that letter, the former archbishop of New York, and former bishop of Bridgeport, now describes the handling of the priest-abuse crisis under his watch as “incredibly good.” He said of the letter, "I never should have said that,” and added, “I don’t think we did anything wrong.”
“I never had one of these sex abuse cases.” he said, before adding pompously, “If you have another bishop in the United States who has the record I have, I’d be happy to know who he is.” He also claimed that the Church had no obligation to report abuse to the civil authorities.
These are lies, strutting around with pride.
The Church is required to report abuse, according to laws on the books since the 1970s.
Bishop Egan ran a diocese that was notoriously dangerous for children. Contrary to his claim, during his twelve-year enthronement at Bridgeport, Egan repeatedly failed to investigate priests where there were obvious signs of abuse, according to The Hartford Courant. His diocese had to settle the cases and awarded victims some $12-15 million in damages.
Here is just one incredible case of negligence. According to the Hartford Courant, in 1990, Egan received a memo about "a developing pattern of accusations” that Rev. Charles Carr of Norwalk had fondled young boys. Egan kept Carr working for another five years, only suspending him after a lawsuit was filed, and then in 1999 making him a chaplain at Danbury's hospital.
How about another? The Connecticut Post also reported that early in his reign, dozens of people came forward to accuse Rev. Raymond Pcolka of Greenwich of sexual abuse and violence against children. Egan claimed that the accusers were never "proved" to be telling the truth. Well, Egan never even bothered to interview them and kept Pcolka in ministry.
And, speaking as a Catholic, who lived in the New York Archdiocese under Cardinal Egan's reign, I can say Egan did punish some priests. But not child-abusers. He swiftly punished and evicted those Catholic priests that said the Traditional Latin Mass (later liberalized by Pope Benedict XVI), if he thought they didn't pay him sufficient deference.
In short: Egan coddled child-abusers, and persecuted decent priests during his ignominious reign as a Prince of the Church. His entire interview reeks of a narcissism and self-regard that is so palpable it makes your eyes water.
Again, speaking as a Catholic, God is merciful with those who repent and do penance.
It is time for Egan to repent before his victims and before God.
Otherwise, he'll end up as pavement.
http://www.businessinsider.com/cardinal-edward-egan-who-just-withdrew-his-apology-for-the-catholic-sex-abuse-scandal-is-a-monster-2012-2#ixzz1loqIa7sD
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Victims want NY & CT prelates to denounce colleague
CONNECTICUT/NEW YORK
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by David Clohessy on February 07, 2012
In a new, rare and stunning interview, former NYC Archbishop Edward Egan made shocking statements about the church’s on-going clergy sex abuse and cover up crisis.
We urge US Catholic officials – especially in New York and Connecticut – to publicly rebuke Egan for these shockingly callous comments that will no doubt heap more pain onto millions of victims and Catholics who are still suffering because they have been assaulted by child molesting clerics or betrayed by corrupt church officials. We especially urge Egan’s successors, Archbishop Tim Dolan of New York and Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, to clearly denounce Egan. Ignoring callousness or mouthing vague platitudes aren’t enough. At an absolute bare minimum, Catholics need and deserve explicit, public and repeated condemnations of Egan by his brother bishops.
Among other things, Egan said:
■I don’t think we did anything wrong.
■I’m very proud of how this thing was handled.
■I believe the sex abuse thing was incredibly good.
■There really wasn’t much . . . hidden.
■I do think it’s time to get off this subject.
■I don’t think I should be upset about that, or you should be, or anybody else.
■I never had one of these sex abuse cases, either in Bridgeport or here (New York). And I believe that the cases I had were each handled just exactly as they should have been.
■I did exactly what we were told to do. And as a result, not one of them (the accused priests) did a thing out of line.
■I’m not the slightest bit surprised that, of course, the scandal was going to be fun in the news.
■If you have another bishop in the United States who has the record I have, I’d be happy to know who he is.
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Clergy must abide by child protection guides
ROME
RTE News
The Vatican's chief prosecutor has said it is unacceptable for bishops or clergy not to abide by "set standards" on child protection within the church.
Monsignor Charles Scicluna said it was possible that clergy or bishops could face sanction under canon law if the non-application of set standards was a result of "malice or fraudulent negligence".
He added that disciplining bishops was a matter for Pope Benedict on a case-by-case basis.
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COOPERATION WITH THE AUTHORITIES IS VITAL IN THE STRUGGLE TO COMBAT SEXUAL ABUSE
ROME
Vatican Information Service
Vatican City, 8 February 2012 (VIS) - Cardinal William Joseph Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, delivered a lecture before the international symposium "Towards Healing and Renewal" being held in Rome's Gregorian University from 6 to 9 February. The event brings together bishops and religious superiors from all over the world and aims to relaunch the Church's commitment to protecting minors and vulnerable people from abuse.
Speaking English, Cardinal Levada affirmed that for Church leaders the question under examination "is both delicate and urgent". It is "important not to lose sight of the gravity of these crimes" as we seek "to form the priests of today and tomorrow to be aware of this scourge and to eliminate it from the priesthood".
Cardinal Levada recalled how Blessed John Paul II's Motu Proprio "Sacramentorum sanctitatis tutela" clarified and updated the list of canonical crimes, explicitly including the sexual abuse of minors by clerics as one of the most serious crimes, or "graviora delicta". Benedict XVI, then prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, "was instrumental in implementing these new norms" and supported "approving the Essential Norms for the United States". In 2010 Pope Benedict also approved and ordered the promulgation of stricter revised norms.
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Priests in 4,000 sex assaults
ROME
The Sun (United Kingdom)
FROM Nick Pisa in Rome
MORE than 4,000 cases of Catholic priests sexually abusing children have been investigated in ten years.
A top churchman admitted it is a "dramatic increase" on the 3,000 in 50 years previously suspected.
Cardinal Joseph William Levada revealed at a Vatican conference the shocking extent of the worldwide scandal.
He told 100 international clergy that the Catholic church has an obligation to report paedophile priests to the authorities.
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Abuse survivor praises Pope for listening to victims
ROME
Catholic News Agency
By David Kerr
Rome, Italy, Feb 7, 2012 / 05:59 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- An Irish woman who was abused by a priest in her youth told an international symposium on clerical abuse that Pope Benedict is a model of how to listen to victims.
“Listening to victims is one of the most important things, and it was something that was maybe not done enough, and the Pope is giving an example as to how it should be done,” Marie Collins said Feb. 7.
Collins, 65, was abused while a patient in a Dublin children’s hospital. She told journalists at the “Towards Healing and Renewal” symposium at the Pontifical Gregorian University that she was particularly impressed by the Pope’s numerous meetings with victims during his apostolic visits abroad.
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Vatican abuse summit: Reassessing the media's role
ROME
National Catholic Reporter
By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
Rome
Throughout the arc of the sexual abuse crisis, Vatican officials have often complained about media sensationalism and bias. In 2002, Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos famously took a series of questions in English during a press conference, and then snarled that fact alone “already says something about the problem and gives it an outline.” As recently as 2010, Italian Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the former Secretary of State, appeared to compare media criticism to “petty gossip.”
The tone out of this week’s abuse summit has been strikingly different. If not quite fulsome gratitude, speakers have at least offered an acknowledgment that whatever progress the church has made, has often come as a result of media pressure.
To be sure, those concessions have usually been coupled with insistence that church leaders should now get ahead of the curve, rather than waiting for yet another media firestorm. Moreover, trace elements of resentment over perceived media hostility haven’t been entirely absent.
Still, in comparison to Vatican attitudes on other occasions, one might almost say that the media’s role in the crisis is undergoing a rehabilitation.
Vatican abuse summit: Prosecutor decries ‘deadly culture of silence’ROME
National Catholic Reporter
By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
Rome
The Vatican’s top prosecutor on sex abuse cases today bluntly decried “a deadly culture of silence” on clerical abuse, calling such denial “in itself wrong and unjust.”
Maltese Monsignor Charles Scicluna told participants in a Vatican summit on sex abuse that while the church now has clear laws to punish abusers, just having such laws on the books isn’t enough.
“Our people need to know that the law is being applied,” he said. “No strategy for the prevention of child abuse will ever work without commitment and accountability.”
Scicluna likewise reaffirmed the obligation of church leaders to cooperate with civil authorities, including reporting abuse allegations to police and prosecutors.
Vatican abuse summit: 'Bishops must be held accountable'
ROME
National Catholic Reporter
By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
Rome
To all those critics who have clamored for greater accountability for bishops who drop the ball on sex abuse cases, the Vatican’s top prosecutor this morning had a simple message: You’re absolutely right.
“We need to be vigilant in choosing candidates for the important role of bishop, and we also need to use the tools that canonical law and tradition give us for the accountability of bishops,” said Maltese Monsignor Charles Scicluna.
As a case in point, Scicluna bluntly said it is simply “not acceptable” for bishops to ignore anti-abuse protocols established by the Vatican or by their bishops’ conference. He said the church in Ireland, to take one example, “has paid a very high price for the mistakes of some of its shepherds.”
Sciculuna was apparently referring to a damning government report in 2011 which found that in the Irish diocese of Clone, which founded that both civil laws and church procedures on handling sex abuse complaints were flouted as recently as 2009.
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Bishops seek forgiveness for clergy abuse
ROME
Washington Post
By Alessandro Speciale| Religion News Service, Updated: Tuesday, February 7
VATICAN CITY — Bishops and religious leaders on Tuesday (Feb. 7) held an unprecedented service of repentance in Rome, seeking atonement for lapses in church management that led to the abuse of thousands of children by predatory priests.
“We implore forgiveness for those who have abused in various ways,” Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Bishops, said during the rite at the Church of St. Ignatius.
“This evil is within us and severely tarnishes our testimony,” he admitted, and said church leaders have at times “become an instrument of evil” toward those they were charged to protect.
The ceremony was organized as part of a Vatican-sponsored conference at Rome’s Gregorian University to help bishops meet a May deadline to craft voluntary “guidelines” to improve the church’s handling of abuse cases.
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SNAP President: New Vatican Guidelines Not Likely To Stop Priest Sex Abuse
CHICAGO (IL)
WBBM
[with audio]
CHICAGO (CBS) — The worldwide priest sex abuse scandal is the focus of a gathering of hundreds of Catholic bishops and priests in Rome this week.
As WBBM Newsradio’s Bernie Tafoya reports, more proposed guidelines to deal with priest predators, and to protect children, are to be submitted to Pope Benedict XVI in May. This week in Rome, those who will write those guidelines are hearing from experts and victims.
But Barbara Blaine, the Chicago-based president of the Survivors’ Network of Those Abused by Priests, is skeptical that there will be any real change. She calls this week’s symposium at the Vatican a PR maneuver.
“Unless and until they are willing to take concrete action that changes the way they do things, I suspect that children will continue to be raped and sexually violated by priests, and bishops will continue to cover up these crimes,” she said.
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News update for February 9, 2012
Justice for half century of clergy child sex crimes...
MILWAUKEE (WI)
SNAP Wisconsin
Justice for half century of clergy child sex crimes and cover up may well be determined in Milwaukee bankruptcy court Thursday
Archbishop Listecki, waging the most aggressive legal campaign against victims in US, seeking to bar 540 victims from federal court
Victim claims to Judge Kelley likely detail thousands of individual felony sex crimes and dozens of previously unidentified clerical abusers
WHAT
In Federal Bankruptcy Court on Thursday, February 9, Judge Susan V. Kelley will hear arguments from church lawyers who, at the instruction of Archbishop Jerome Listecki, will seek to dismiss the claims of nearly 540 victims of clergy sexual assault. These record number of claims for a single US court action concerning abusive clergy, likely detail thousands of individual acts of rape and sexual assault by dozens of clergy working or living in the Milwaukee Archdiocese and span several decades. Many of these offenders were routinely concealed or transferred by church officials, and were known to be a danger to children by several Milwaukee archbishops.
More detail on Thursday’s hearing and the motions, can be found in SNAP Milwaukee’s February 7th media advisory.
WHEN
Thursday February 9th, the court hearing is scheduled to begin at 1:00 p.m. SNAP leaders and victim/survivors will be available for comment following the conclusion of the court proceedings.
WHERE
The U.S. Federal Courthouse, 517 East Wisconsin Avenue, Milwaukee
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John Paul smelled Devil`s Bowels as roses for 27 years as he deified Father Marcial Maciel and deified Cardinal Bernard Law http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-smelled-devils-bowels-as.html
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