Updated March 4, 2014
Read our new blog: Pope Francis the CON Christ. Pretender & Impostor of Jesus. Merlin hoax CANNOT CLONE JESUS or dogs http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/
Our latest related article about New Jersey "Bling" Bishop Myers http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/new-jersey-bling-bishop-myers-wants-100.html
Every time a VC Vatican Catholic pedophile priest is caught and jailed (though majority are not jailed), every time a Catholic religious ‘brother’is arrested for sexual abuse of children, each time that a Catholic deacon is caught and arrested for child pornography, it is a major victory for lay people and for the secular world - because they prove that the Vatican Catholic Church’s religious all-male hierarchy, with all their vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, are really hypocrite Pharisees who act superior and trample over the laity, read below - Christ’s condemnation of the High Priests of the Temple in Mathew 23 and an article by a retired Wall Street lawyer explaining the myth of the semi-divine infallibility of the Pope and the threat of the survival of the Holy Roman Empire ( that used our original word Vatican Titanic! Perhaps, some Cardinals will not want to handcuff themselves to the railings on the Vatican’s Titanic? )
The fact is Vatican Catholic priests and brothers are also sinners and criminals, and they are not “above the law”, and the Police can catch and arrest them and put them in jail, read our related article of the announcement of the arrest of two pedophiles Holy Cross brothers of Saint Brother Andre last December 29 Oratory of St. Joseph copy Vatican Titanic. Montreal Police announce arrest of 2 Holy Cross CSC pedophile priests for 14 years sodomy at College Notre Dame http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/oratory-of-st-joseph-copy-vatican.html
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And the Wizard of Host Sorcery of the Eucharist, Rosary chains, and size of Zeus GOLDEN COW STATUES of Saint JOSEPH cannot save them from the Police.
History now proves that St. Joseph from his Oratory could not stop the CSC pedophiles from performing sodomy as he looked over College Notre Dame day and night, see news below and read our related article, Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims sacrament-of-confession-protects. and Rosary could not defeat JP2 Army rosary-could-not-defeat-jp2-army-
(Note: WE msut stop calling them Roman Catholicbecause Rome is the economic city of Italy but the Vatican City control Catholics, therefore they should be called Vatican Catholics. Brothers are not priests like ‘Brother’ Andre, religious “brothers” cannot perform the Sorcery of the Eucharist, but for clarity from biological brother siblings, Montreal TV news reporters say “priests” for these CSC pedophiles).
After the Oratory of Saint Joseph’s Brother Andre was canonized, his religious family the CSC Congrégation de Ste. Croix or Holy Cross Congregation reached an $18 million out of court settlement in October 2011, two years after more than 220 victims launched a class action lawsuit. But now Congrégation de Ste. Croix as the powerful order is known are once again trying to delay paying out $18 million in compensation more than a year after a settlement was reached. “They are filibustering, plain and simple,” said Sébastien Richard, spokesman for the victims. The money was to serve as compensation for sexual abuse that occurred between 1950 and 2001 at Montreal's Collège Notre-Dame and at other Quebec CSC schools in Saint-Césaire and Pohénégamook. (FYI, the CSC or Holy Cross also owns Notre Dame University in Indiana).
This half-century CSC pedophilia proves that the biggest basilica in honor of St. Joseph which the CSC built, own and administer, the Oratory of St. Joseph with all its giant (size of Zeus) GOLDEN COW STATUES of St. JOSEPH could not come down and stop one-bit those CSC pedophile priests and brothers who sodomized students for 50 years especially at Collège Notre-Dame, which is located right across the Oratory. Half a century of CSC pedophilia, that’s part of Vatican’s global half-century epidemic JP2 Army-John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/04/titanic-1500-victims-vatican-titanic.html You slimy creepy bastards pedophile priests, go rot in Hell with the Devil! Read here how secular sports is more moral than the Vatican http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html that is why people prefer to go to the stadium than to church.
Montreal is now in the news for its fair share of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/07/irish-pm-blasts-narcissism-of-vatican.html. Quebec is the origin of Vatican Catholicism in Canada and boast of the most beautiful and largest churches in North America. Quebec has the most numbers of religious congregations, saints and blesseds, venerables in Canada. But French Canadian Catholics suffered a lot of endemic abuses – sexual, financial, physical abuses, mental tortures and mind experimentations like the Nazis did, name it they’d done it - under Catholic priests and nuns and today they are speaking out through the empty pews of churches.
Mark Twain once said that if you throw a stone as far as your arm can reach in Montreal, wherever the stone lands, there you'll find a Catholic church or see a Catholic steeple. But if he were to visit today, he’ll find most of the churches he saw are gone, that 80 percent of Catholic churches in Montreal have been closed, sold and built as condominiums. The Grand Seminary is a 250-room building with less than 10 seminarians studying for the priesthood. The Oratory of St. Joseph itself has old Caucasian CSC priests while younger priests are imported from Haiti and India (it’s a form of religious human trafficking). Can you blame Montrealers and Quebecers who have lost faith in the VCC Vatican Catholic Church with all their evil hypocrite priests like those of the Oratory of St. Joseph CSC priests who do not ‘practise what they preach’ just like the hypocrite Holy Father Benedict XVI, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/popenesia-in-christmas-message-vatican.html
After the eruption of the JP2 Army in Australia last year, Canada’s most famous Saint Brother Andre and Canada’s biggest basilica of the Oratory of Saint Joseph now reveals its part of the endemic global crimes of Vatican Catholic Priests of JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. That is why John Paul II must never be canonized or called as a “saint” because he had the longest papacy of 27 years where he did and said absolutely nothing to stop this most heinous crimes against children, read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html. It is about time the whole world know about the CSC because those Holy Cross priests today at the Oratory are cruel, mean and unchristian…
Hollywood, please make movies of these real scenarios: They will save children's lives forever becuase they will be made aware of pedophiles everywhere. Everyday, these CSC Holy Cross child-rapists would crossed over the street to the Oratory of Saint Joseph, bowed their heads and prayed to those Giant (size of Zeus) GOLDEN COW statues of Saint JOSEPH, smelled the thousands of candles in the Votive Chapel, and ate the daily supply of the Sorcery Eucharistic Flesh of Christ in the Crypt Church, then they’d go back to the College Notre Dame to sodomize young students, more than 220! These CSC hypocrites are the living proofs of the fake-flesh of Christ in the Host and the giant (size of Zeus) GOLDEN COW Saint JOSEPH could not stop them one-bit in their bestial sodomy lust on young children they sexually abused.
People, please STOP DONATING to the ORATORY of St. Joseph and instead donate your money to Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, your local charities, and the homeless shelters of Montreal. God will listen more to your prayers - through your acts of charity - because they are better than material candles and money you give to the wealthy billionaire CSC religious Holy Cross family of Saint Brother Andre. God said in the Bible: It isn’t material sacrifice that I want, but acts of mercy. If you were to face Christ on Judgement Day today, He will not ask you how many candles you have lit at the Oratory of St. Joseph, but how many poor people you have helped, as He has said, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, that you have also done to Me.” Christ also said, when you pray, go to your room, close the door and pray to your Father in secret, and he will hear your prayers
God will listen more to your prayers in your acts of charity because they are better than material candles and money you give to the wealthy billionaire CSC religious Holy Cross family of Saint Brother Andre.
Remember what God said in the Bible: “it isn’t material offerings that I want, but acts of mercy”, therefore give your money to the poor instead of feeding the Zeus Golden Cow statues of Saint Joseph who can’t come down and help you just like he couldn’t come down and help those hundreds of students pedophile victims at College Notre Dame sodomized by CSC pedophiles priests/brother.
Jesus said, when you pray, go pray in your own room in secret and close the door, and your heavenly Father in Heaven will hear your prayers …
ST. JOSEPH DU MONT-ROYAL - L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal
Saint-Joseph avec des bougies dans la chapelle votive de l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph
Géant Saint Joseph ne pouvait plus aider les jeunes victimes d'étudiants!
Bougies Oratoire ne pouvait pas arrêter les pédophiles du SCC et la luxure bestiale pendant 50 ans de 1950 à 2001.
Donnez votre argent à des refuges pour itinérants de Montréal!
Arrêtez allumant des bougies! Dieu n'a pas besoin de bougies.
Les pauvres ont besoin de manger. Les sans-abri ont besoin d'un abri. Les sans-abri PAS autorisés dans l'Oratoire!
Il est des actes de miséricorde que je veux, dit le Seigneur, et non pas des sacrifices matériels et des bougies!
Dieu n'a pas besoin de vos bougies!
Saint-Joseph n'a pas besoin de vos bougies.
Les gens, s'il vous plaît cesser de donner à l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph et à la place donner votre argent à la Croix-Rouge, Médecins sans frontières, vos organismes de bienfaisance locaux, ainsi que les refuges pour itinérants de Montréal.
Dieu écoutera plus à vos prières - à travers vos actes de charité - parce qu'ils sont meilleurs que les bougies de matériels et de l'argent que vous donnez à la famille SCC milliardaire riche religieux de Sainte-Croix de Saint Frère André.
Dieu dit dans la Bible: Il n'est pas sacrifice matériel que je veux, mais des actes de miséricorde.
Si vous deviez faire face à Jésus-Christ au jour du jugement d'aujourd'hui, il ne vous demandera pas combien de bougies que vous avez allumé à l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph, mais combien de personnes pauvres que vous avez aidé, comme il l'a dit: «Ce que vous faites à l'au moins de mes frères, que vous avez également fait pour moi. "
Christ a dit, quand tu pries, entre dans ta chambre, ferme la porte et prie ton Père dans le secret, et il entendra vos prières
8 “But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. 11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
15 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
16 “Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’ 17 You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? 18 You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’ 19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. 22 And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it.
23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. 30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!
33 “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. 35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’[c]”
The black belt means she is pregnant
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READ more here about the pregnancy of Our Lady http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html
Benedict XVI, from the Chair of Peter, thinks his papal letter will heal the victims and solve the problem of clergy abuse in Ireland. The fact is, Benedict XVI’s words are powerless. NO POPE has ever healed anyone. As this picture shows,
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Lawyers for the congregation asked a Superior Court judge in Montreal today for more time to process the applications of the more than 200 alleged victims that have come forward.
"The Holy Cross Congregation is adequately compensating all the victims to allow them to close a painful chapter in their lives," the congregation said in a statement released Thursday.
"The extension is necessary due to the brevity of many of the claims as well as delays resulting from requests for information, including medical records supporting those claims."
The congregation reached an out of court settlement in October 2011, two years after victims launched a class action lawsuit.
The money is to serve as compensation for sexual abuse that occurred between 1950 and 2001 at Montreal's Collège Notre-Dame and at schools in Saint-Césaire and Pohénégamook.
Holy Cross also agreed to issue an apology.
The association representing the victims has accused the congregation of foot dragging in paying out the historic $18 million sum.
In a statement issued Wednesday, the association says the congregation is acting in bad faith.
"More than a year after a historic agreement was reached between the victims of religious pedophiles and the Congregation of Holy Cross congregation, no one has yet been compensated," the association stated.
In total, 223 victims have come forward to receive compensation, a number higher than anticipated.
Lawyers representing the congregation have challenged nearly 80 per cent of the claims, the victim's association says.
Sebastien Richard, a former student who speaks on behalf of the victims, says while it's true that some bogus claims have been made, they were quickly rejected.
The judge in the case began this morning's hearing by saying he wants a private meeting with the lawyers on both sides.
Richard said he has faith in the judge hearing the case and believes that meeting is an appropriate way to proceed.
"He wants to see the victims move on and he wants to help the victims," he said. "I think if they have a closed-door discussion, I'm pretty sure it's going to be pretty clear what he thinks about what is going on."
The hearing is expected to continue this afternoon.
Last week, police indicated that warrants had been issued for two former teachers, Georges Sarazin, 91, and Olivain Leblanc, 70, and they would likely be arrested soon.
Physical versus mental child abuse
Read our new blog: Pope Francis the CON Christ. Pretender & Impostor of Jesus. Merlin hoax CANNOT CLONE JESUS or dogs http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/
Our latest related article about New Jersey "Bling" Bishop Myers http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/new-jersey-bling-bishop-myers-wants-100.html
Every time a VC Vatican Catholic pedophile priest is caught and jailed (though majority are not jailed), every time a Catholic religious ‘brother’is arrested for sexual abuse of children, each time that a Catholic deacon is caught and arrested for child pornography, it is a major victory for lay people and for the secular world - because they prove that the Vatican Catholic Church’s religious all-male hierarchy, with all their vows of chastity, poverty and obedience, are really hypocrite Pharisees who act superior and trample over the laity, read below - Christ’s condemnation of the High Priests of the Temple in Mathew 23 and an article by a retired Wall Street lawyer explaining the myth of the semi-divine infallibility of the Pope and the threat of the survival of the Holy Roman Empire ( that used our original word Vatican Titanic! Perhaps, some Cardinals will not want to handcuff themselves to the railings on the Vatican’s Titanic? )
The fact is Vatican Catholic priests and brothers are also sinners and criminals, and they are not “above the law”, and the Police can catch and arrest them and put them in jail, read our related article of the announcement of the arrest of two pedophiles Holy Cross brothers of Saint Brother Andre last December 29 Oratory of St. Joseph copy Vatican Titanic. Montreal Police announce arrest of 2 Holy Cross CSC pedophile priests for 14 years sodomy at College Notre Dame http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/oratory-of-st-joseph-copy-vatican.html
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And the Wizard of Host Sorcery of the Eucharist, Rosary chains, and size of Zeus GOLDEN COW STATUES of Saint JOSEPH cannot save them from the Police.
History now proves that St. Joseph from his Oratory could not stop the CSC pedophiles from performing sodomy as he looked over College Notre Dame day and night, see news below and read our related article, Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims sacrament-of-confession-protects. and Rosary could not defeat JP2 Army rosary-could-not-defeat-jp2-army-
(Note: WE msut stop calling them Roman Catholicbecause Rome is the economic city of Italy but the Vatican City control Catholics, therefore they should be called Vatican Catholics. Brothers are not priests like ‘Brother’ Andre, religious “brothers” cannot perform the Sorcery of the Eucharist, but for clarity from biological brother siblings, Montreal TV news reporters say “priests” for these CSC pedophiles).
After the Oratory of Saint Joseph’s Brother Andre was canonized, his religious family the CSC Congrégation de Ste. Croix or Holy Cross Congregation reached an $18 million out of court settlement in October 2011, two years after more than 220 victims launched a class action lawsuit. But now Congrégation de Ste. Croix as the powerful order is known are once again trying to delay paying out $18 million in compensation more than a year after a settlement was reached. “They are filibustering, plain and simple,” said Sébastien Richard, spokesman for the victims. The money was to serve as compensation for sexual abuse that occurred between 1950 and 2001 at Montreal's Collège Notre-Dame and at other Quebec CSC schools in Saint-Césaire and Pohénégamook. (FYI, the CSC or Holy Cross also owns Notre Dame University in Indiana).
This half-century CSC pedophilia proves that the biggest basilica in honor of St. Joseph which the CSC built, own and administer, the Oratory of St. Joseph with all its giant (size of Zeus) GOLDEN COW STATUES of St. JOSEPH could not come down and stop one-bit those CSC pedophile priests and brothers who sodomized students for 50 years especially at Collège Notre-Dame, which is located right across the Oratory. Half a century of CSC pedophilia, that’s part of Vatican’s global half-century epidemic JP2 Army-John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/04/titanic-1500-victims-vatican-titanic.html You slimy creepy bastards pedophile priests, go rot in Hell with the Devil! Read here how secular sports is more moral than the Vatican http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html that is why people prefer to go to the stadium than to church.
Montreal is now in the news for its fair share of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/07/irish-pm-blasts-narcissism-of-vatican.html. Quebec is the origin of Vatican Catholicism in Canada and boast of the most beautiful and largest churches in North America. Quebec has the most numbers of religious congregations, saints and blesseds, venerables in Canada. But French Canadian Catholics suffered a lot of endemic abuses – sexual, financial, physical abuses, mental tortures and mind experimentations like the Nazis did, name it they’d done it - under Catholic priests and nuns and today they are speaking out through the empty pews of churches.
Mark Twain once said that if you throw a stone as far as your arm can reach in Montreal, wherever the stone lands, there you'll find a Catholic church or see a Catholic steeple. But if he were to visit today, he’ll find most of the churches he saw are gone, that 80 percent of Catholic churches in Montreal have been closed, sold and built as condominiums. The Grand Seminary is a 250-room building with less than 10 seminarians studying for the priesthood. The Oratory of St. Joseph itself has old Caucasian CSC priests while younger priests are imported from Haiti and India (it’s a form of religious human trafficking). Can you blame Montrealers and Quebecers who have lost faith in the VCC Vatican Catholic Church with all their evil hypocrite priests like those of the Oratory of St. Joseph CSC priests who do not ‘practise what they preach’ just like the hypocrite Holy Father Benedict XVI, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/popenesia-in-christmas-message-vatican.html
After the eruption of the JP2 Army in Australia last year, Canada’s most famous Saint Brother Andre and Canada’s biggest basilica of the Oratory of Saint Joseph now reveals its part of the endemic global crimes of Vatican Catholic Priests of JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. That is why John Paul II must never be canonized or called as a “saint” because he had the longest papacy of 27 years where he did and said absolutely nothing to stop this most heinous crimes against children, read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html. It is about time the whole world know about the CSC because those Holy Cross priests today at the Oratory are cruel, mean and unchristian…
Hollywood, please make movies of these real scenarios: They will save children's lives forever becuase they will be made aware of pedophiles everywhere. Everyday, these CSC Holy Cross child-rapists would crossed over the street to the Oratory of Saint Joseph, bowed their heads and prayed to those Giant (size of Zeus) GOLDEN COW statues of Saint JOSEPH, smelled the thousands of candles in the Votive Chapel, and ate the daily supply of the Sorcery Eucharistic Flesh of Christ in the Crypt Church, then they’d go back to the College Notre Dame to sodomize young students, more than 220! These CSC hypocrites are the living proofs of the fake-flesh of Christ in the Host and the giant (size of Zeus) GOLDEN COW Saint JOSEPH could not stop them one-bit in their bestial sodomy lust on young children they sexually abused.
People, please STOP DONATING to the ORATORY of St. Joseph and instead donate your money to Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, your local charities, and the homeless shelters of Montreal. God will listen more to your prayers - through your acts of charity - because they are better than material candles and money you give to the wealthy billionaire CSC religious Holy Cross family of Saint Brother Andre. God said in the Bible: It isn’t material sacrifice that I want, but acts of mercy. If you were to face Christ on Judgement Day today, He will not ask you how many candles you have lit at the Oratory of St. Joseph, but how many poor people you have helped, as He has said, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, that you have also done to Me.” Christ also said, when you pray, go to your room, close the door and pray to your Father in secret, and he will hear your prayers
You go Girl! GO! GO! Be brave SUE MONTGOMERY and all Montreal TV and news networks, expose ALL EVILS of Sexual Abuse against young students at the College Notre Dame committed by the CSC pedophile priests & brothers of Saint Brother Andre Holy Cross Congregation of the Oratory of St. Joseph!
Speak and be brave Sebastien Richard – be brave like Moses who spoke for the slaves and freed them from the mighty Pharaohs. Speak for the victims until the mighty PHARAOH CSC HOLY CROSS CONGREGATION Congrégation de Ste. Croix PAY THE $18 MILLION SETTLEMENT!
Ask victims to protest EVERYDAY in front of the College Notre Dame and outside the Oratory of St. Joseph until these settlements are paid. The street is a public place and they have the right to demonstrate there. Remember Gandhi was only one person but he toppled the mighty British Empire in far-flung England! Even if there are only two or three protesters, tell them to hold big placards and let all Montreal people and tourists see the truth about these hypocrite evil CSC Holy Cross pedophile priests and bastards brothers and the (size of Zeus) GOLDEN COW STATUES of St. JOSEPH cannot help them. Tell them to hold placards that say: “Giant Saint Joseph could NOT help me! Oratory candles could not stop CSC pedophiles! Give your money to the homeless shelters of Montreal! Stop lighting candles! God does not need candles. The poor need to eat. The homeless need a shelter. Homeless people NOT allowed in Oratory! It’s acts of mercy that I want, says the Lord, not material sacrifices and candles! God does not need your candles!”
Read our related articles:
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
Hundreds of thousands of victims worldwide, of this half a century global crimes committed by the Roman Catholic Church -- which the Vatican itself admitted http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/vatican-blame-game-its-them-not-us-john.html
Vatican condemned (for the first time) by Amnesty International http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/09/amnesty-international-report-vatican.html
The Prime Minister of Ireland condemned the Vatican before Irish parliament http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/07/irish-pm-blasts-narcissism-of-vatican.html.
We are also praying and hoping The Hague will bring in some final justice and truth http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/09/hague-is-asked-to-investigate-vatican.html
The giant ZEUS statue of St. Joseph overlooking College Notre Dame a few feet across the street -- he could NOT come down to stop the thousands of sodomy committed by Holy Cross Congregation CSC priests and brothers
The CSC priests at the Oratory today are proud cruel priests who act and behave as if they were little gods as in Ezekiel (read text below) and they use St. Joseph and Brother Andre as their masks and pretensions for they are first-class hypocrites who do not "practise what they preach":
Reading 1, Ezekiel 28:1-10
Reading 1, Ezekiel 28:1-10
1 The word of Yahweh was addressed to me as follows,
2 'Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, "The Lord Yahweh says this: Because your heart has grown proud, you thought: I am a god; I am divinely enthroned far out to sea. Though you are human, not divine, you have allowed yourself to think like God.
4 By your wisdom and your intelligence you have made yourself a fortune, you have put gold and silver into your treasuries.
5 Such is your skill in trading, your fortune has continued to increase, and your fortune has made your heart grow prouder.
Saint Joseph ZEUS GOLDEN COW in the Oratory of St. Joseph (Read Exodus 32)
God will listen more to your prayers in your acts of charity because they are better than material candles and money you give to the wealthy billionaire CSC religious Holy Cross family of Saint Brother Andre.
Remember what God said in the Bible: “it isn’t material offerings that I want, but acts of mercy”, therefore give your money to the poor instead of feeding the Zeus Golden Cow statues of Saint Joseph who can’t come down and help you just like he couldn’t come down and help those hundreds of students pedophile victims at College Notre Dame sodomized by CSC pedophiles priests/brother.
Jesus said, when you pray, go pray in your own room in secret and close the door, and your heavenly Father in Heaven will hear your prayers …
ST. JOSEPH of MOUNT ROYAL
St. Joseph with candles in the Votive Chapel of the Oratory of St. Joseph
Giant Saint Joseph could NOT help young students victims!
Oratory candles could not stop CSC pedophiles and bestial lust for 50 years from 1950 to 2001.
Give your money to the homeless shelters of Montreal!
Stop lighting candles! God does not need candles.
The poor need to eat. The homeless need a shelter. Homeless people NOT allowed in Oratory!
It’s acts of mercy that I want, says the Lord, not material sacrifices and candles!
God does not need your candles!
Saint Joseph does not need your candles.
People, please STOP DONATING to the ORATORY of St. Joseph and instead donate your money to Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, your local charities, and the homeless shelters of Montreal.
God will listen more to your prayers - through your acts of charity - because they are better than material candles and money you give to the wealthy billionaire CSC religious Holy Cross family of Saint Brother Andre.
God said in the Bible: It isn’t material sacrifice that I want, but acts of mercy.
If you were to face Christ on Judgement Day today, He will not ask you how many candles you have lit at the Oratory of St. Joseph, but how many poor people you have helped, as He has said, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, that you have also done to Me.”
Christ also said, when you pray, go to your room, close the door and pray to your Father in secret, and he will hear your prayers
People, please STOP DONATING to the ORATORY of St. Joseph and instead donate your money to Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, your local charities, and the homeless shelters of Montreal.
God will listen more to your prayers - through your acts of charity - because they are better than material candles and money you give to the wealthy billionaire CSC religious Holy Cross family of Saint Brother Andre.
God said in the Bible: It isn’t material sacrifice that I want, but acts of mercy.
If you were to face Christ on Judgement Day today, He will not ask you how many candles you have lit at the Oratory of St. Joseph, but how many poor people you have helped, as He has said, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, that you have also done to Me.”
Christ also said, when you pray, go to your room, close the door and pray to your Father in secret, and he will hear your prayers
ST. JOSEPH DU MONT-ROYAL - L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal
Saint-Joseph avec des bougies dans la chapelle votive de l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph
Géant Saint Joseph ne pouvait plus aider les jeunes victimes d'étudiants!
Bougies Oratoire ne pouvait pas arrêter les pédophiles du SCC et la luxure bestiale pendant 50 ans de 1950 à 2001.
Donnez votre argent à des refuges pour itinérants de Montréal!
Arrêtez allumant des bougies! Dieu n'a pas besoin de bougies.
Les pauvres ont besoin de manger. Les sans-abri ont besoin d'un abri. Les sans-abri PAS autorisés dans l'Oratoire!
Il est des actes de miséricorde que je veux, dit le Seigneur, et non pas des sacrifices matériels et des bougies!
Dieu n'a pas besoin de vos bougies!
Saint-Joseph n'a pas besoin de vos bougies.
Les gens, s'il vous plaît cesser de donner à l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph et à la place donner votre argent à la Croix-Rouge, Médecins sans frontières, vos organismes de bienfaisance locaux, ainsi que les refuges pour itinérants de Montréal.
Dieu écoutera plus à vos prières - à travers vos actes de charité - parce qu'ils sont meilleurs que les bougies de matériels et de l'argent que vous donnez à la famille SCC milliardaire riche religieux de Sainte-Croix de Saint Frère André.
Dieu dit dans la Bible: Il n'est pas sacrifice matériel que je veux, mais des actes de miséricorde.
Si vous deviez faire face à Jésus-Christ au jour du jugement d'aujourd'hui, il ne vous demandera pas combien de bougies que vous avez allumé à l'Oratoire Saint-Joseph, mais combien de personnes pauvres que vous avez aidé, comme il l'a dit: «Ce que vous faites à l'au moins de mes frères, que vous avez également fait pour moi. "
Christ a dit, quand tu pries, entre dans ta chambre, ferme la porte et prie ton Père dans le secret, et il entendra vos prières
The CSC Holy Cross priests at the Oratory of St. Joseph are hypocrites like the Pharisees in Mathew 23
Mathew 23 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
4 They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
5 “Everything they do is done for people to see: They make their phylacteries[a] wide and the tassels on their garments long; 6 they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; 7 they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others.Mathew 23 Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples: 2 “The teachers of the law and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat. 3 So you must be careful to do everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
4 They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
8 “But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher, and you are all brothers. 9 And do not call anyone on earth ‘father,’ for you have one Father, and he is in heaven. 10 Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Messiah. 11 The greatest among you will be your servant. 12 For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees
13 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to. [14] [b]15 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when you have succeeded, you make them twice as much a child of hell as you are.
16 “Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gold of the temple is bound by that oath.’ 17 You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred? 18 You also say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it means nothing; but anyone who swears by the gift on the altar is bound by that oath.’ 19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 Therefore, anyone who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And anyone who swears by the temple swears by it and by the one who dwells in it. 22 And anyone who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the one who sits on it.
23 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You give a tenth of your spices—mint, dill and cumin. But you have neglected the more important matters of the law—justice, mercy and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. 24 You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous. 30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. 32 Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started!
33 “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell? 34 Therefore I am sending you prophets and sages and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify; others you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town. 35 And so upon you will come all the righteous blood that has been shed on earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Berekiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar. 36 Truly I tell you, all this will come on this generation.
37 “Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and you were not willing. 38 Look, your house is left to you desolate. 39 For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’[c]”
The black belt means she is pregnant
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The womb of the Immaculate Conception of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe carried Jesus this way
9-months gestation of Jesus the Son of God
READ more here about the pregnancy of Our Lady http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html
DOLLY THE CLONED SHEEP
The cloning process that produced Dolly
http://www.youtube.com/embed/39BbcZVCx8I
BLACK MAGIC OF EUCHARIST
9-seconds black magic of the cloning of Christ by sinful Vatican pope and priests
Those CSC priests at the Oratory have no power to "clone Christ" because they also cannot clone Dolly the sheep! Stop donating your money to them St. Joesph and Saint Brother Andre who cannot protect children from evil pedophile priests!
http://www.youtube.com/embed/39BbcZVCx8I
BLACK MAGIC OF EUCHARIST
9-seconds black magic of the cloning of Christ by sinful Vatican pope and priests
Those CSC priests at the Oratory have no power to "clone Christ" because they also cannot clone Dolly the sheep! Stop donating your money to them St. Joesph and Saint Brother Andre who cannot protect children from evil pedophile priests!
Our comment:
Transubstantiation or the Mass is a recent development . St. Peter and
St. Paul and the Apostles never celebrated Mass and never
“transubstantiated” the bread into the flesh of Christ, what they did
was to preach about Christ. The Mass was a slow development from the
12th century through various liturgical reforms until the 20th century.
It was only in 1215 at the Fourth Council of the Lateran that the Mass
began to take form and in 1551 at the Council of Trent that
transubstantiation became what it is today. The Vatican has come to use
it as its main crux of power on earth deceiving Catholics and peoples of
all faiths that only Popes and men-priests have the exclusive power to
transubstantiate God’s flesh. Because of the Mass, the Vatican has
gotten away with all kinds of heinous crimes, e.g. the Crusades, the
Inquisition, the burning of women and witches http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/11/john-paul-ii-revived-inquisition.html
“For the sake of the Eucharist” and because of the shortage of priests,
John Paul II, Cardinal Ratzinger-Benedict XVI, the Opus Dei who
controls the Vatican, the Cardinals and Bishops shuffled pedophile
priests from one parish to another. The rest is history: the John Paul
II Pedophile Priests Army committed Holy ES Eucharist-and-Sodomy of
Biblical proportions see the John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/.
In the name of Hail Mary, we dare challenge and defy the Magisterium:
No words pronounced by any finite-man can create an infinite-God! No
words of the Pope and priests can re-create or re-incarnate Christ’s
flesh. The words of sinful popes and priests are powerless and can never
create God! Only Mary the Immaculate Conception deserved to bear God in
her womb. No evil pope and evil priests is worthy to touch and hold God
in their evil hands. The words of popes and Cardinals, Bishops and
priests are mere clashing-cymbals of St. Paul see John Paul II the Great
clashing cymbal of St. Paul http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/11/john-paul-ii-great-clashing-cymbal-of.html. See Benedict XVI to beatify John Paul II is “brought to nothing” by St. Paul http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2009/11/benedict-xvi-to-beatify-john-paul-ii-is.html
No
matter how we look at it, finite-man cannot create an infinite-God. Man
can never create God’s flesh. Not in in-vitro fertilization of the
scientific laboratories. Not in the sacred altars of holy Roman Catholic
churches which by the way were the same pedophile altars of the John
Paul II Pedophile Priests Army See the John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/
Rome,
call us heretics and we don’t care because in Boston and in America, we
have freedom of speech. It was our freedom of speech that got rid of
criminal-Cardinal Bernard Law and sent him packing out of our sight and
out of our land. But only you, Rome, you the Roman Catholic Church
a.k.a. Magisterium would glorify criminals like Cardinal Bernard Law and
John Paul II. No other American state has been able to replicate our
courage as Bostonians who got rid of the first Cardinal caught guilty of
the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in America. Yes, we caught the
first SS officer of the Third Reich of the Roman Catholic Church … but
he went into glorious exile in Rome because only in the Catholic Church
are criminals glorified See The John Paul II Millstone John Paul II
Pedophile Priests Army expands into Ireland &John Paul is elevated
as "Venerable"... only in the Catholic Church are criminals glorified http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/12/john-paul-ii-pedophile-priests-army.html
Benedict XVI, from the Chair of Peter, thinks his papal letter will heal the victims and solve the problem of clergy abuse in Ireland. The fact is, Benedict XVI’s words are powerless. NO POPE has ever healed anyone. As this picture shows,
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They came sick and they left sick.
There is no "Apostolic" authority or succession here,
for no Pope has EVER been able to heal like Peter or Paul did.
Opus
Dei Goliath-bully Bill want to propagate Catholic Medieval Doctrine
that all crimes of JP2 Army of pedophile priests are already forgiven
and forgotten under the Sacrament of Confession that protects criminals
and persecutes their victims, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html
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Sex-abuse victims face more delays
By Sue Montgomery, GAZETTE JUSTICE REPORTER January 3, 2013 7:11 PM
Sebastien Richard, Holy Cross sex-abuse victim spokesperson, spoke to the media at the Palais du Justice in Montreal on Thursday.
Photograph by: Dave Sidaway , The Gazette
MONTREAL — There were tears, comforting hugs, and exasperated sighs Thursday from men who were sexually abused by members of Congrégation de Ste. Croix as the powerful order once again tried to delay paying out $18 million in compensation more than a year after a settlement was reached.
At least 50 victims, who attended prestigious Collège Notre Dame and two other schools run by the Catholic order, spent most of the day in Quebec Superior Court waiting for lawyers from both sides to agree on how to speed up the process.
“They are filibustering, plain and simple,” said Sébastien Richard, spokesman for the victims.
The victims filed a motion Thursday to speed up the settlement awarding process, after the brothers had sought to delay settling the claims until June. Instead, discussions took place in private outside court and a second adjudicator was named to help move things forward. The case will be back in court March 5.
A total of 220 former students are part of the class-action suit against the order, which owns St. Joseph’s Oratory and several other properties. Only 25 cases have been settled since the deal was reached 15 months ago, but no one has received a cent.
The victims have to go through a complicated process in which they detail the abuse they suffered, how often and what the impact has been on their lives. The order’s lawyers then decide whether to accept the claim, or send it to an adjudicator. To date they have contested between 70 and 80 per cent of the cases, while others are sitting on their desks.
“Right now, we have 150 files ready to be seen by the brothers’ lawyer, but they’ve done nothing,” said Richard, who filed sex-abuse charges against Claude Hurtubise, his former teacher at Collège Notre Dame. A judge acquitted Hurtubise in 2006.
He said many of the victims have only recently come to terms with what happened to them after the story came out in The Gazette in 2008 and then later on Radio-Canada.
“So they need this money so they can get some therapy,” he said.
One of the victims, whose name is protected under a publication ban, has been told he’ll receive $50,000. His single mother worked three jobs to send him to Collège Notre Dame, but after a year and a half of abuse, he dropped out and began taking drugs.
Another victim, who attended the college in the 1950s, said he refers to a 20-year period in his life, rife with drug abuse and broken relationships, as the “lost years.”
He had to sit before an adjudicator for half a day in order to justify his claim.
“The whole process is so complex, it’s demeaning and humiliating,” he said. “It doesn’t solve the vengeance part.”
For decades, the order denied and covered up widespread sexual abuse — knowledge of which went all the way to the Vatican. But faced with inside documents showing that some victims had been paid to keep quiet, and how complaints from others were ignored, the order was forced to apologize and pay amends. The settlement is the biggest in Canada to be paid out by a religious order.
In Montreal, the order has about $50 million in assets, including investments and property. Recently, the brothers joined together with the province’s Fathers of Holy Cross to create one entity worth close to $100 million.
The maximum a victim can receive is $250,000.
Parents who entrusted their children to the boys’ private boarding school facing the iconic St. Joseph’s Oratory are also eligible for $10,000 in compensation.
Former students and their parents of Collège de St. Césaire, southeast of Montreal, and Notre Dame à Pohénégamook, northeast of Quebec City, are also covered by the settlement.
Some of the abusers are still alive and living an expenses-paid, tax-free life in retirement homes owned by the order. But on Dec. 6, Montreal police issued arrest warrants for two brothers, Georges Sarrazin, 91, and Olivain Leblanc, 70, related to sex crimes against former students. Documents from the order show that one student allegedly abused by Leblanc was given $250,000 in 1993 in exchange for silence.
The order’s provincial superior, Father Jean-Pierre Aumont, has been absent from most of the legal hearings but was in court Thursday. He left before reporters could ask him questions.
When The Gazette confronted him more than four years ago with evidence about the abuse, he brushed it off as intimidation and blackmail by a former religious brother who wasn’t happy with the financial package he’d negotiated before his departure.
The order’s lawyer, Eric Simard, said Thursday that the order is keen to settle the files as quickly as possible. (Lawyers are liars)
As part of the settlement, the René Cornellier Foundation has been set up. Named after one of the brothers’ victims, who died in 1994, the foundation will give a $5,000 donation annually to an organization that helps children. Initially, the money was to cover an annual scholarship to Collège Notre Dame, but Cornellier’s father opposed that. Collège Notre Dame, now a coed private school with 1,600 students and no boarders, was founded by the brothers in 1869. The last brother to teach there left in 1997.
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Holy Cross seeks extension on $18M compensation payout
Victims accuse congregation of drawing out payment process
CTV News Posted: Jan 3, 2013
The Holy Cross Congregation says it needs six more months to work through all the applications submitted to an $18 million fund set up for victims of sexual abuse before compensation is paid. 
Lawyers for the congregation asked a Superior Court judge in Montreal today for more time to process the applications of the more than 200 alleged victims that have come forward.
"The Holy Cross Congregation is adequately compensating all the victims to allow them to close a painful chapter in their lives," the congregation said in a statement released Thursday.
"The extension is necessary due to the brevity of many of the claims as well as delays resulting from requests for information, including medical records supporting those claims."
The congregation reached an out of court settlement in October 2011, two years after victims launched a class action lawsuit.
The money is to serve as compensation for sexual abuse that occurred between 1950 and 2001 at Montreal's Collège Notre-Dame and at schools in Saint-Césaire and Pohénégamook.
Holy Cross also agreed to issue an apology.
The association representing the victims has accused the congregation of foot dragging in paying out the historic $18 million sum.
In a statement issued Wednesday, the association says the congregation is acting in bad faith.
"More than a year after a historic agreement was reached between the victims of religious pedophiles and the Congregation of Holy Cross congregation, no one has yet been compensated," the association stated.
In total, 223 victims have come forward to receive compensation, a number higher than anticipated.
Lawyers representing the congregation have challenged nearly 80 per cent of the claims, the victim's association says.
Sebastien Richard, a former student who speaks on behalf of the victims, says while it's true that some bogus claims have been made, they were quickly rejected.
The judge in the case began this morning's hearing by saying he wants a private meeting with the lawyers on both sides.
Richard said he has faith in the judge hearing the case and believes that meeting is an appropriate way to proceed.
"He wants to see the victims move on and he wants to help the victims," he said. "I think if they have a closed-door discussion, I'm pretty sure it's going to be pretty clear what he thinks about what is going on."
The hearing is expected to continue this afternoon.
Investigation continues
Criminal investigations are still ongoing in connection with former teachers at the schools.Last week, police indicated that warrants had been issued for two former teachers, Georges Sarazin, 91, and Olivain Leblanc, 70, and they would likely be arrested soon.
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Montreal religious school to pay record $18M to sex-abuse victims
By Sue Montgomery
MONTREAL — In what is believed to be the largest-ever payout in Canada by a religious order, a Montreal private school and its religious owners have agreed to pay their victims $18-million for decades of sexual abuse committed by members.
After denying and covering up for decades widespread sexual abuse, Congregation de Ste. Croix and Notre Dame also have apologized unequivocally for acts by teachers and school employees “that should never have happened.”
Parents who entrusted their children to the boys private boarding school facing the iconic St. Joseph’s Oratory — also owned by the brothers — will be eligible for $10,000 in compensation for the betrayal. Former students, and their parents, of two other Quebec schools run by the brothers also will be eligible for damages.
The out-of-court settlement was signed Thursday morning, months after victims sought permission from Quebec Superior Court to file a class-action suit.
It’s the first time — aside from an apology one year ago — the order has taken responsibility for the actions of its wayward members, many of whom are living with impunity, expense- and tax-free in a large home in Laval, near Montreal. Montreal police opened an investigation a year ago into the abuse but have yet to make any arrests.
When the Montreal Gazette approached the order’s provincial superior, Father Jean-Pierre Aumont, three years ago with irrefutable evidence about the abuse, he brushed it off as intimidation and blackmail by a former religious brother who wasn’t happy with the financial package he’d negotiated before his departure.
Wilson Kennedy, who left Holy Cross in 2007, was then served with a legal notice to turn over any documents he had and to maintain his loyalty to the order.
“I can assure you that the Congregation of Holy Cross acts with diligence and deals seriously with situations brought to our attention in which one of its members or employees has acted improperly,” Aumont wrote in a letter to The Gazette, after refusing to meet with a reporter in person.
“We have taken necessary steps and co-operated with authorities in the past when made aware of such situations.”
But internal documents — some that come from as high up as the Vatican — show that was not the case.
The order’s own longtime lawyer, Emile Perrin, warned its leadership on a number of occasions about the “time bomb” that, if not dealt with, could ultimately spell financial ruin through litigation and land some of its members in jail.
Other documents show that some victims were paid — one as much as $250,000 — to keep silent. Former student Rene Cornellier tried in vain, before his death in 1994, to convince the school to put an end to the abuse of which he was a victim in the 1970s.
As part of the settlement, the Rene Cornellier Foundation will be set up, from which a $5,000 donation will be given annually for 20 years to an organization that helps children. Initially, the money was to cover an annual scholarship to College Notre Dame, but Cornellier’s father opposed that.
The deal covers all those who were sexually abused at three schools run by the Catholic brothers: College Notre Dame between Sept. 1, 1950 and July 1, 2001; College de St. Cesaire, southeast of Montreal, between Sept. 1, 1950 and July 1, 1991 and Notre Dame a Pohenegamook, northeast of Quebec City, between Jan. 1, 1959 and Dec. 31, 1964.
But it doesn’t deal with alleged abuse in other institutions where the brothers were present.
Internal documents, obtained by The Gazette, show that in January 1998, Perrin was warning the order about Brother Yvan Sarrasin, who had a reputation for trading alcohol for sex with former prisoners at a halfway house, sexually abusing the handicapped and keeping a male lover for years at the order’s expense.
“It appears that none of your predecessors thought it a good idea to remedy a situation that has become, today, a mockery of religious life,” Perrin wrote to the provincial superior at the time, Reginald Robert. “If it continues unchecked it will increasingly become a real financial threat for the Brothers of Holy Cross.”
Perrin, who worked for the order for more than two decades, called Sarrasin the “worst offender.” And despite his strong urgings to move Sarrasin as far away from Laval or Montreal (“his two hunting territories”) as possible, Sarrasin is in the brothers’ large, comfortable retirement home in Laval.
“I assure you, without exaggeration, that as a layman and lawyer, and I have seen a lot in my 22 years of practice, that I am shocked by this brother’s blatant neglect of his vows, by his almost total indifference to the impact his actions could have on the financial life of the order and its reputation, and the deceit which he continues to display.”
A letter, dated April 5, 2004, shows that even the Superior General in Rome, Hugh Cleary, was aware of sexually abusive brothers.
“In the order at large, we have to be careful because of the public scandals in the media and the possibility of litigation that could have devastating effects on the economic state of the order in accomplishing its mission,” he wrote in a letter to the provincial superior, lamenting the “continuing bad sexual behaviour” of a brother.
College Notre Dame, which is now a coed private school with 1,600 students and no boarders, was founded by the brothers in 1869 but the last brother to teach there left in 1997. One person on the seven-member board of directors is a Holy Cross priest.
Montreal Gazette
MONTREAL — In what is believed to be the largest-ever payout in Canada by a religious order, a Montreal private school and its religious owners have agreed to pay their victims $18-million for decades of sexual abuse committed by members.
After denying and covering up for decades widespread sexual abuse, Congregation de Ste. Croix and Notre Dame also have apologized unequivocally for acts by teachers and school employees “that should never have happened.”
Parents who entrusted their children to the boys private boarding school facing the iconic St. Joseph’s Oratory — also owned by the brothers — will be eligible for $10,000 in compensation for the betrayal. Former students, and their parents, of two other Quebec schools run by the brothers also will be eligible for damages.
The out-of-court settlement was signed Thursday morning, months after victims sought permission from Quebec Superior Court to file a class-action suit.
It’s the first time — aside from an apology one year ago — the order has taken responsibility for the actions of its wayward members, many of whom are living with impunity, expense- and tax-free in a large home in Laval, near Montreal. Montreal police opened an investigation a year ago into the abuse but have yet to make any arrests.
When the Montreal Gazette approached the order’s provincial superior, Father Jean-Pierre Aumont, three years ago with irrefutable evidence about the abuse, he brushed it off as intimidation and blackmail by a former religious brother who wasn’t happy with the financial package he’d negotiated before his departure.
Wilson Kennedy, who left Holy Cross in 2007, was then served with a legal notice to turn over any documents he had and to maintain his loyalty to the order.
“I can assure you that the Congregation of Holy Cross acts with diligence and deals seriously with situations brought to our attention in which one of its members or employees has acted improperly,” Aumont wrote in a letter to The Gazette, after refusing to meet with a reporter in person.
“We have taken necessary steps and co-operated with authorities in the past when made aware of such situations.”
But internal documents — some that come from as high up as the Vatican — show that was not the case.
The order’s own longtime lawyer, Emile Perrin, warned its leadership on a number of occasions about the “time bomb” that, if not dealt with, could ultimately spell financial ruin through litigation and land some of its members in jail.
Other documents show that some victims were paid — one as much as $250,000 — to keep silent. Former student Rene Cornellier tried in vain, before his death in 1994, to convince the school to put an end to the abuse of which he was a victim in the 1970s.
As part of the settlement, the Rene Cornellier Foundation will be set up, from which a $5,000 donation will be given annually for 20 years to an organization that helps children. Initially, the money was to cover an annual scholarship to College Notre Dame, but Cornellier’s father opposed that.
The deal covers all those who were sexually abused at three schools run by the Catholic brothers: College Notre Dame between Sept. 1, 1950 and July 1, 2001; College de St. Cesaire, southeast of Montreal, between Sept. 1, 1950 and July 1, 1991 and Notre Dame a Pohenegamook, northeast of Quebec City, between Jan. 1, 1959 and Dec. 31, 1964.
But it doesn’t deal with alleged abuse in other institutions where the brothers were present.
Internal documents, obtained by The Gazette, show that in January 1998, Perrin was warning the order about Brother Yvan Sarrasin, who had a reputation for trading alcohol for sex with former prisoners at a halfway house, sexually abusing the handicapped and keeping a male lover for years at the order’s expense.
“It appears that none of your predecessors thought it a good idea to remedy a situation that has become, today, a mockery of religious life,” Perrin wrote to the provincial superior at the time, Reginald Robert. “If it continues unchecked it will increasingly become a real financial threat for the Brothers of Holy Cross.”
Perrin, who worked for the order for more than two decades, called Sarrasin the “worst offender.” And despite his strong urgings to move Sarrasin as far away from Laval or Montreal (“his two hunting territories”) as possible, Sarrasin is in the brothers’ large, comfortable retirement home in Laval.
“I assure you, without exaggeration, that as a layman and lawyer, and I have seen a lot in my 22 years of practice, that I am shocked by this brother’s blatant neglect of his vows, by his almost total indifference to the impact his actions could have on the financial life of the order and its reputation, and the deceit which he continues to display.”
A letter, dated April 5, 2004, shows that even the Superior General in Rome, Hugh Cleary, was aware of sexually abusive brothers.
“In the order at large, we have to be careful because of the public scandals in the media and the possibility of litigation that could have devastating effects on the economic state of the order in accomplishing its mission,” he wrote in a letter to the provincial superior, lamenting the “continuing bad sexual behaviour” of a brother.
College Notre Dame, which is now a coed private school with 1,600 students and no boarders, was founded by the brothers in 1869 but the last brother to teach there left in 1997. One person on the seven-member board of directors is a Holy Cross priest.
Montreal Gazette
Richard Dawkins
by Richard Dawkins posted on January 01, 2013
Following a recent report in the Daily Mail, various twitterers are horrified at what I am alleged to have said about child abuse. It was in The God Delusion published in 2006 and distributed in more than 2 million copies and therefore hardly red hot news.
In view of the tweeted responses to the Daily Mail article, I thought it might be helpful to reproduce what I actually said in 2006. Incidentally, I was myself sexually abused by a teacher when I was about nine or ten years old. It was a very unpleasant and embarrassing experience, but the mental trauma was soon exorcised by comparing notes with my contemporaries who had suffered it previously at the hands of the same master. Thank goodness, I have never personally experienced what it is like to believe – really and truly and deeply believe – in hell. But I think it can be plausibly argued that such a deeply held belief might cause a child more long-lasting mental trauma than the temporary embarrassment of mild physical abuse.
Anecdotes and plausibility arguments, however, need to be backed up by systematic research, and I would be interested to hear from psychologists whether there is real evidence bearing on the question. My expectation would be that violent, painful, repeated sexual abuse, especially by a family member such as a father or grandfather, probably has a more damaging effect on a child’s mental well-being than sincerely believing in hell. But ‘sexual abuse’ covers a wide spectrum of sins, and I suspect that research would show belief in hell to be more traumatic than the sort of mild feeling-up that I suffered.
by Richard Dawkins posted on January 01, 2013
Following a recent report in the Daily Mail, various twitterers are horrified at what I am alleged to have said about child abuse. It was in The God Delusion published in 2006 and distributed in more than 2 million copies and therefore hardly red hot news.
In view of the tweeted responses to the Daily Mail article, I thought it might be helpful to reproduce what I actually said in 2006. Incidentally, I was myself sexually abused by a teacher when I was about nine or ten years old. It was a very unpleasant and embarrassing experience, but the mental trauma was soon exorcised by comparing notes with my contemporaries who had suffered it previously at the hands of the same master. Thank goodness, I have never personally experienced what it is like to believe – really and truly and deeply believe – in hell. But I think it can be plausibly argued that such a deeply held belief might cause a child more long-lasting mental trauma than the temporary embarrassment of mild physical abuse.
Anecdotes and plausibility arguments, however, need to be backed up by systematic research, and I would be interested to hear from psychologists whether there is real evidence bearing on the question. My expectation would be that violent, painful, repeated sexual abuse, especially by a family member such as a father or grandfather, probably has a more damaging effect on a child’s mental well-being than sincerely believing in hell. But ‘sexual abuse’ covers a wide spectrum of sins, and I suspect that research would show belief in hell to be more traumatic than the sort of mild feeling-up that I suffered.
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Les avocats de la Congrégation de Sainte-Croix devront retourner en cour le 5 mars pour faire état de l'avancement du processus d'indemnisation des victimes d'actes sexuels répréhensibles commis par des membres du clergé ou des laïcs.
C'est ce qu'a décidé le juge à la Cour supérieure du Québec, Claude Auclair, après que les représentants de la Congrégation eurent présenté une requête pour l'obtention d'une prorogation de six mois additionnels afin de traiter avec «rigueur et équité» toute les réclamations.
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News update January 5, 2013
Bishops in many countries must staff parishes with a diminishing domestic priest pool. Bishops are forbidden by the Vatican from seeking available married or female Catholic priests, since permitting these “impure priests” risks undercutting papal “mystical power claims” to infallibility, given prior papal statements by the current Pope and his immediate predecessor on the purported “divine mandate” requiring the “pure priesthood of celibate males” only. Apparently, the need for more priests, especially very “obedient” ones, helps explain the Pope’s disproportionate efforts to solicit support from rigid and controversial groups of “traditionalist” priests, like those involved in Opus Dei, the Legion of Christ and the Society of St. Pius X, as well as the Pope’s unecumenical efforts to “poach” dissident Anglican priests.
Hence, notwithstanding the decades’ old worldwide scandal of priest sexual abuse of children, Bishops still are effectively, and even increasingly, under Vatican pressure to accept some questionable seminarians and many unsuitable foreign priests, and shockingly still to retain suspected sexual predators, whenever feasible, it appears. This blatant clericalism was just reinforced by the appointment of a new Vatican chief prosecutor of predatory priests, who had served under Boston’s infamous Cardinal Law. The new prosecutor reportedly has a reputation for being more “pro accused priest” than many other canon lawyers.
Moreover, Philadelphia’s Archbishop Chaput appears still to be carrying accused priests that his predecessor, Cardinal Rigali, suspended over a year and a half ago. And Cardinal Rigali surely was not one that suspended priests lightly, as amply shown at the recent criminal trial convicting his long time subordinate, Monsignor Lynn, of child endangerment.
The billions of dollars expended by U.S. Bishops relating to legal claims of abuse survivors that result, at least in material part, from the Vatican’s “anti-children” policy appear currently to be just another “cost of doing business” for Bishops to be funded either by trusting Catholics’ contributions or by cost-savings from closing more Catholic churches and schools. Paying large settlements that keep Bishops’ incriminating files sealed appears acceptable to survivors’ lawyers, not too surprisingly given their usual percentage fee arrangements, but also apparently to many Bishops, so long as the Bishops can be assured of avoiding criminal prosecution for child endangerment by making the large payments.
Avoiding criminal prosecution appears, however, to be becoming more difficult for Bishops to do. This prospect potentially poses a very serious threat to the Roman Holy Empire. For example, Philadelphia’s Cardinal Bevilacqua apparently avoided prosecution recently only by being terminally ill, not a “first choice defense” for most hierarchs presumably. Boston’s Cardinal Law apparently only avoided local prosecutors earlier by fleeing to Rome and getting immunity protection from the Vatican, not likely to be available any longer to many other hierarchs. Kansas City’s Bishop Finn was, of course, recently convicted, but got a “soft plea deal” and still seems, nevertheless, to remain for now in good standing with the Vatican.
WILL A NEW POPE SAVE THE CHURCH?
Voting Cardinals know that a new Pope is on the horizon, ending an era of Popes who attended the Second Vatican Council but were beholden for their elections to powerful Vatican Cardinals who thwarted key Council structural reforms overwhelmingly approved by over 2,000 Cardinals and Bishops from around the world. The present providential opportunity may now enable these Cardinals and all Catholics, as the People of God revitalized by the Council, to implement Council structural reforms that Vatican Cardinals have effectively blocked for a half-century.
The recent October Roman Synod was fully “Vatican orchestrated” with carefully pre-selected Cardinals’ and Bishops’, who generally and amazingly ducked the monumental abuse scandal. This Synod was the latest example of the Vatican Cardinals’ success in neutralizing the power-sharing arrangements between the Pope and worldwide Bishops that over 2.000 “Vatican II Fathers” naively thought they had overwhelmingly and definitively approved in 1965 before leaving the Council.
Will voting Cardinals soon act to save the Catholic Church from its present shameful and deteriorating condition, even if some Cardinals may do so mainly to assure their own survival? Or will they instead foolishly choose to remain subject to the control of a corrupt and ruthless Vatican administration that increasingly scandalizes Catholics worldwide, while also intimidating and/or picking off isolated Cardinals, Bishops, priests and members of religious orders, especially female ones, who object to the Vatican’s self-serving strategy?
The world’s Catholics will be watching closely the Cardinals’ actions in choosing a new Pope. If the Cardinals fail to act decisively here, many of the world’s Catholics will likely vote with their feet, as many other millions of Catholics who have left the Catholic Church in disgust in recent years already have. Many of these Catholics will likely also demand governmental investigations following the lead of almost 90 % of Australian Catholics who, according to polls, are supporting their Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in her bold establishment of a national royal commission to investigate organizational child sexual abuse, including in the Australian Catholic Church.
Recently, also, many U.S. Catholics and other U.S. citizens have begun the inevitable push to get President Obama to set up a comparable national investigation commission in the U.S.A. Following the Pope’s disastrous mistep recently in trying to help tax-avoiding Republican plutocrats defeat the President in his recent re-election campaign, why would President Obama, who has spoken out strongly against the organizational sexual abuse of defenseless children, not act here? Moreover, the Pope’s U. S. plutocrat allies just received a major tax increase and may not be returning Vatican calls these days, given the electoral defeat they just received relying too heavily on the Pope’s well funded, but very counter-productive, anti-contraception crusade, it appears.
The Catholic Church likely will soon either reform itself voluntarily or be reformed involuntarily by prosecutors applying international human rights law to protect defenseless children. Either way, it will likely be reformed soon. Worldwide Cardinals sadly and unwisely may again let their Vatican counterparts dictate to them. Notwithstanding, Catholic parents are fed up with priests with impunity raping their children, while insensitive and childless celibates in the Vatican waft mystical smokescreens about the “ontological superiority” of priests. It is time to end this pernicious scholastic nonsense and to protect innocent children honestly and effectively.
Catholics may soon finally eliminate their Church’s coercive and corrupt imperial structure and return to the Church’s original consensual and credible democratic structure with leaders who are once again accountable to the faithful. The consensual Catholic Church structure the Apostles left behind served the original Catholics well. This structure also reflects much better the spirit of God’s loving rule that Jesus revealed to the Apostles than does the hierarchical structure imposed coercively by Roman Emperors in the Fourth Century and that still shamefully continues in Rome. Moreover, modern technology among Bishops themselves, as well as with the Catholic faithful, can make this restored consensual leadership structure function even more efficaciously than it did for Catholics in the post-Apostolic era.
This may be the last chance for any Pope and the Cardinals and Bishops to salvage their rapidly disappearing moral authority that most Catholics once respected. Even in countries with large numbers of Catholic voters, perceptive political leaders have begun to challenge increasingly previously mandated papal positions, for example, on contraception and same sex marriage. These political leaders know well that more Catholic voters are regularly disregarding papal mandates, as respect for the Vatican declines in light of the ceaseless media reports of child abuse scandal cover-ups and financial corruption and incompetence at the Vatican Bank.
The Roman Holy Empire has survived since Emperor Constantine for almost 1,700 years. It has survived despite the violently executed Reformation that failed to reform the Church sufficiently. But the taboo against sexually abusing children is more powerful than opposition to selling indulgences. This Holy Empire has even survived democratically inspired Revolutions that by 1918 helped end all other European absolute monarchies, but still left the papal monarchy intact. The democratic revolution has now reached the Vatican.
It clearly appears that the Roman Holy Empire may now be in its final days as the mandates of the democratic rule of law are being applied increasingly to alleged Vatican misconduct relating to endangering children. The previously unaccountable Vatican administration is facing growing challenges from the application of international human rights laws. These challenges are likely to compel the Vatican and worldwide Cardinals and Bishops against their personal preference, but in their legal self-interest, to reform radically the Catholic Church’s centralized hierarchical structure and to discard the contrived theological and clearly unhistorical positions underpinning it.
The Vatican’s administration’s failure to address the abuse problem effectively to date, and the prevalence of the current code of silence, or “omerta”, on child abuse matters, reported last February by the Vatican’s former chief prosecutor before he was “promoted out” to Malta, suggest that the Vatican administration is incapable of curtailing abuse sufficiently itself, unless legally compelled to do so. If Vatican officials will not even discuss the priest child abuse problem openly among themselves and with their own prosecutor, how can they possibly resolve this continuing problem?
Of course, these Vatican officials likely are aware their abuse related discussions could come back to haunt them in a future criminal proceeding. Presumably, their lawyers have so advised them. For example, Philadelphia’s Monsignor Lynn testified extensively about his boss, Cardinal Bevilacqua’s misdeeds. Perhaps someone, for example, even the Pope’s mistreated butler, may testify against senior Vatican officials, possibly even against the Pope himself. For example, what more does the butler know about the documents the Pope reportedly marked, “Destroy!”.
Will Catholics be able soon to select leaders who they can really respect, and who will listen to them even if they are not major donors? Will Jesus’ clear mandate of the “First” serving the “Last” finally be the Catholic Church’s policy once again soon, by force of international law no less? Will Catholic Church leaders now be able again boldly and widely to speak “truth to power” on behalf of victims of injustice in all forms, without having to soften their message for some questionable organizational or plutocratic advantage pushed by Vatican intimidation?
Until now, an unaccountable papal monarch generally has ruled this Holy Empire. Often during the last millenium, he has been selected to rule the Catholic Church absolutely for life by an opportunistic and self-interested elite “male club” dominated by a clique of Roman Cardinals. Is this hierarchical structure about to end? Will the Catholic Church finally return to its original consensual Gospel structure that the Apostles left behind and that was mainly followed for almost three centuries, until Constantine and his successors began to coercively commandeer the Church for Roman imperial purposes beginning in the Fourth Century?
ARE CARDINALS WATCHING CURRENT EVENTS?
Some current developments strongly suggest that the seemingly unresolvable priest child abuse problem may contribute to toppling this medieval monarchy soon. Significantly and surprisingly, two prominent Cardinals, Martini and Pell, had recently indicated publicly that the child sexual abuse problem continues, in one case even pointing a finger at the Vatican’s administration. These very knowledgable Cardinals apparently were unwilling to accept their own Pope’s public relations efforts that try to suggest that the priest child abuse problem has been sufficiently curtailed.
How many other Cardinals will also soon be publicly rejecting this papal media spin, if only to protect themselves better from increasingly relentless international prosecutors and survivors’ civil lawyers on the horizon? Will Catholics find out more about many Cardinals’ actual views before the next papal election, especially since the next Pope can be expected to try to continue indefinitely the Vatican’s control over the criminal legal defense strategy that is apparently imposed now on all of the hierarchy worldwide? Perhaps, some Cardinals will not want to handcuff themselves to the railings on the Vatican’s Titanic?
Having observed for several years, as an experienced lawyer, the misguided and ineffective legal defense strategy of the current Pope, it seems inadvisable for Cardinals and Bishops worldwide to concede their legal defense to a distant Vatican administration often controlled, it appears at times, by octogenerians worried more about protecting themselves first. Philadelphia’s Monsignor Lynn may have found this out the hard way when he reportedly was recently denied sufficient funds for an effective appeal of his recent child endangerment criminal conviction for his actions while serving as a subordinate of Cardinals Bevilacqua and Rigali. Should Cardinals really rely on a Vatican admininistration that, after months of warnings, let their credit card payment system ‘bounce” in the midst of the busy holiday tourist season, as just occurred?
Will the priestly breaches that, as indicated above, two significant Cardinals had recently implied were still being tolerated, of the deep-seated social taboo against sexually violating children lead soon to ending papal dominance of the Catholic Church? Jesus, of course, reiterated this taboo in his stern prohibitions in the Gospels against harming children. Can celibate and childless Catholic hierarchs, like Cardinal Sodano who reportedly referred to news reports of alleged earlier papal cover-ups of priest sexual abuse, as “petty gossip”, even begin to understand the revulsion felt by countless Catholic parents at these obscene violations of children.
Reportedly, there have been over 100,000 child victims of Catholic priest abuse in the USA alone so far, according to experts at a Vatican conference last February. This is hardly “gossip”, and surely not “petty”. Apparently, celibate and childless Catholic hierarchs do not yet sufficiently appreciate the power of this revulsion! Now they must be compelled by international prosecutors to appreciate this.
Have worldwide Catholics and their democratically chosen political leaders now finally had enough of the endless abuse horror stories and the hierarchy’s inadequate and cynical efforts to curtail them effectively? It appears increasingly clear that Catholics worldwide have had enough. Majorities of Catholics in Australia, Ireland, the Philippines and the USA, for example, have just effectively resisted significant Vatican pressure regarding child protection and/or related contraception policies the Vatican opposed strongly.
In particular, the Pope aimed many “moral arrows” at President Obama in connection with the recent November elections, apparently hoping decisively to topple the leader of the world’s most powerful nation. The Pope missed by a wide margin. Now what? Will President Obama now finally investigate priest abuse of Catholic children in the USA, as many Catholics have recently petitioned him to do? Time will tell, as the pressure builds for President Obama to act, especially as Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, moves forward with an unprecedented royal commission investigation of child sexual abuse in organizational settings, including in the Catholic Church. What is President Obama waiting for to establish a comparable U.S. national investigation commission on child sexual abuse in organizational religious, educational and youth group settings, including in the Catholic Church?
The modern worldwide papal geo-political strategy, that began mainly in the 1930′s with facilitating the fascists Mussolini and Hitler, of influencing Catholic voters in exchange for expected political favors from “papally preferred” successful candidates, appears now to be bankrupt, at least as bankrupt as many U.S. Catholic dioceses now are under the weight of significant priest child abuse financial settlements that seem often to be agreed upon at the last minute by U.S. bishops apparently to keep potentially incriminating hierarchical files secret.
How are these current developments likely to lead to the toppling of this long standing hierarchical structure? What would the potential consequences be for Catholics if this happens?
Pope Benedict XVI at 85 years old still reigns over the Roman Holy Empire to be sure. He has so far continued to rule despite the abuse scandal that he has faced, unsuccessfully mostly, often since his days as Archbishop of Munich three decades ago.
The bizarre episode of key documents leaked recently by the Pope’s bold butler raises substantial doubts, however, about how firm this aging Pope’s grip remains on the levers of papal power. Since the butler still likely knows many more papal secrets and cannot any longer be “burned at the papal stake” for copying and distributing documents, he has been pardoned after a very harsh imprisonment process. Will the butler, whose relationship to the Pope does not appear to have been legally privileged and protected, soon be subpoened to testify in civil and criminal proceedings involving alleged Vatican misdeeds? Have we heard the last from the butler yet? Probably not.
A new Pope, as mentioned above, is expected by many soon to succeed Pope Benedict XVI. But will it matter much by then? Especially, when it seems that the next Pope may already have been, in effect, pre-selected by the current Pope and Vatican Cardinals that hold significant power over papal candidates’ selection and election. This Pope and his predecessor, John Paul II, carefully selected all of the current voting Cardinals, evidently seeking “Yes Men” who would obedientally continue these two Popes’ increasingly hierarchical and retrogressive policies. These two Popes witnessed up close as youths the rigid discipline of the Third Reich and both seem thereafter to have held clerical “obedience” to be a “cardinal virtue”.
But are the Vatican Cardinals going to be the last word here? While no European emperors or monarchs in the last century have had a significant say on selecting popes, the modern rule of law is now being applied by constitutional democracies increasingly to the previously unaccountable Vatican administration. At the same time, the modern papal geo-political strategy continues to produce spectacular failures, thereby weakening in many cases the Vatican’s ability to resist these significant legal incursions. These important legal and political developments will likely and should have considerable impact on the next papal election and its aftermath.
Prosecutors and abuse survivors’ civil lawyers from constitutional democracies worldwide, from Australia in the Pacific to Ireland in the Atlantic and to the USA in between, are relentlessly advancing legally on Rome, armed with the powerful modern weapons of international human rights law. They may soon be joined by the woman prosecutor from the independent International Criminal Court, who is reviewing a criminal complaint filed against the Pope and Cardinals Sodano, Bertone and Levada, alleging crimes against humanity related to the cover-up of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests worldwide.
The current Pope, and any designated successor, will likely be unable to prevent some of these lawyers from breaching the high Vatican walls and gaining access to secret papal files, initially relating to the child abuse scandal, but who knows what else? What might these lawyers find? Once these files are public, it is impossible to predict all of the potential outcomes, but none of them will likely support continuation of the current Roman Holy Empire.
Meanwhile, papal political power also appears on the wane in many other countries, often as a reaction to the papal failure to curtail effectively the worldwide sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests.
As European monarchs chose not to stop the Italian nationalists from seizing the Papal States in 1870 in part out of dissatisfaction with papal failures to adopt political reforms, it is not likely the Vatican will get much sympathy from current political leaders. The days of Cardinal Sodano complaining, as he did, about aggressive U.S. lawyers for survivors of priest sexual abuse to President George W. Bush’s Secretary of State are over. Now the focus shifts to Australia.
WILL AUSTRALIA’S COMMISSION COMPEL VATICAN CHANGES?
Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s prominent Cardinal, has been considered by some informed sources as a top prospect to be elected pope in the next papal election expected to be held soon. After spending considerable time in late October in Rome with the Pope and numerous other top Cardinals and Bishops at the lengthy Evangelization Synod that was mainly silent on the priest child sex abuse scandal, Cardinal Pell indicated unexpectedly in a public speech last month that the criminal moral cancer of sexual abuse of children by priests is the most important and powerful barrier to Catholic evangelization at present. As Cardinal Pell now faces an unprecedented Australian national governmental commission to investigate thoroughly organizational child sexual abuse in Australia, including in the Catholic Church, he surprisingly admitted in his recent speech that the Catholic Church has failed to deal effectively with some predatory priests and to help enough abuse victims heal. He further acknowledged that much more needs to be done in the child protection area.
Amazingly, as mentioned above, the Evangelization Synod orchestrated by the Pope in late October barely mentioned the child abuse scandal. What may have caused Cardinal Pell so suddenly to “get religion” on abuse matters? Evidentally, Cardinal Pell is very concerned about the unprecedented investigation commission, and he should be from all indications. So should Pope Benedict XVI and so should worldwide Cardinals and Bishops.
Cardinal Pell’s quick “conversion” raises questions of where Pope Benedict VI now stands. The October Synod seemed to indicate that the Pope will continue mainly to avoid the abuse scandal.The continuation of Kansas City’s Bishop Finn after his child endangerment conviction suggests continuing Vatican stonewalling. Moreover, the appointment of Cardinal Law’s former canon lawyer as chief Vatican abuse case prosecutor suggests more of the same.
Pope Benedict XVI is generally publicly elusive, doesn’t give journalists regular access and often clouds his carefully drafted statements, and now “Tweets”, with mystical smokescreens. But he has given some clear indications of his ongoing strategy on predatory priests, especially by some of his consistent actions and failures to act, including the recent Synod, Bishop Finn’s retention and his new chief prosecutor appointment. What might the Pope’s current strategy be?
The Church’s organizational structure is analytically fairly simple. At the top is a pope who is “chief executive officer”, supreme legislator and top judge for life. In practice, papal decisions appear often to be influenced strongly, if not at times controlled by, senior Vatican Cardinals, especially the Secretary of State, currently Cardinal Bertone, who succeeded Cardinal Sodano, who appears still to be influential. Both of these Cardinals have reportedly been linked to several long standing scandals; Bertone to the Vatican Bank and a Milan hospital scandals and Sodano to the Mexican child sex abuser, Fr. Maciel, who eluded Vatican investigators for almost a half century by, among other things, reportedly frequently sprinkling large cash payments to powerful members of the Vatican clique.
The Pope, with his Vatican management team, controls Church canon law and judicial proceedings, and selects and controls worldwide Catholic bishops, who can be removed promptly by the pope. Priests and male and female members of religious orders are controlled directly by local Bishops and/or Vatican managers who direct the orders’ superiors. Any who deviate from currently favored Vatican theological or even political positions are generally disciplined promptly, often harshly and unfairly.
Pope Benedict XVI’s strategy appears targeted at maintaining maximum obedience to current papal theological, ecclesiastical and political positions. Opposing positions are at best given lip service, with the result that millions of Catholics, including priests, have left the Catholic Church in frustation, if not disgust. Some who stay try almost hopelessly and usually unsuccessfully to effect changes by stressing contrary precedents, especially the positions approved at the Second Vatican Council. In theory, clear positions approved by Church Councils could trump a contrary Vatican position. In practice, especially under Popes Benedict XVI and his immediate predecessor, in several crucial areas the Vatican’s interpretations of the Council is what controls Church practice, regardless of the weakness of the arguments supporting them.
The Catholic Church’s key “product identity” appears, as mentioned above, to be to create a “monopoly” on the Eucharist, a central element of Catholic worship at the Mass, and on the all male celibate priesthood currently needed to offer the Eucharist worldwide, subject to the control of Bishops and ultimately the Vatican. A common meal of fellow believers in Jesus’ time, at least occasionally overseen by women, has become the central “unique product” in the Vatican’s “marketing” strategy. The pope and his Vatican management team, through numerous “theological” and liturgical statements, seeks to protect and preserve the Vatican’s monopoly here, but need a sufficient number of obedient priests to offer the “product”.
The Vatican seeks zealously to preserve its worldwide “market position” by protecting its “monopoly” on the Eucharist and on the requisite celibate male priesthood against other Christian religious traditions externally and against alternative viewpoints internally, especially espoused often from women seeking admission to the priesthood.
While millions of Catholics have left the Church in rejection of the Vatican’s positions and approach, the Vatican’s prohibition on contraception has helped generate millions of “replacement Catholics”, born to Catholic couples whether or not the couples wanted or could afford to have additional children. Some of those children who survive, often in miserable circumstances, become future sources of Vatican power and wealth, as well as of new priests to serve to fill numerous priest shortages worldwide.
Against this organizational background, the Vatican has seemed incapable of containing its worldwide crisis of children being sexually assaulted by priests. Priests are needed to offer the main “product”, the Eucharist. It take years under current procedures to train young men to serve as obedient and low wage “producer priests”. The supply of domestic priests is diminishing in many countries and foreign “imports” have not and realistically in most cases cannot satisfactorily resolve the shortages.
Fearful of permitting priests to marry or to have women as priests, both of which means the Vatican might have to risk being viewed as “fallible” and then have to deal on a equal basis openly with women priests or priests’ wives, and even some mothers, on all issues, including child protection matters, and also pay at least married priests higher wages, the Vatican has to date thereby retricted the potential supply of new priests.
Consequently, Bishops are increasingly forced at times to ordain questionable seminarians and still even to retain predatory priests. Given the artifical constriction, by prohibiting married and female priests, of the already diminishing candidate pool, the prospects are increasingly bleak for solving the predatory priest problem, no matter what the Vatican and its apologists may say otherwise!
Moreover, the Vatican’s financial policy seems impervious to the multi-billion dollar continuing cash drain from child abuse claims. A continuing revenue stream from governmental subsidies, docile Catholics’ and protected plutocrats’ contributions, and Vatican investments and tax free properties, and a willingness to close parishes and schools almost indiscriminately, makes paying lawyers to protect Bishops an acceptable cost of business, like some Wall Street financial firms that often treat fraud claims as an acceptable cost of doing business.
Survivors’ lawyers, as alluded to above, seeking usually the most cash for their cients, sooner rather than later, can apparently be depended on to settle claims and keep the bishops’ potentially incriminating files sealed if the settlement amounts are high enough. Apparently, bishops will often pay whatever is takes to protect themselves. While this expensive litigation process has benefited a small percentage of abuse survivors, it has not benefited many other survivors nor stimulated the Bishops yet to adopt real accountability measures like thorough independent audits.
WHAT CAN CARDINALS AND CATHOLICS DO?
Are there steps Cardinals can take to reduce, or at least mitigate, the adverse effects of the likely implosion of the Holy Roman Empire?
Yes, simply put, Cardinals should only vote for a papal candidate who will publicly commit, as a pre-condition of his election, to do the following:
(1) Serve as Pope for five years only, and
(2) Call an ecumenical council, to be held within 12 months outside Europe, with voting lay participants holding the same number of total votes as clerical participants, including an equal number of women, that will review and update:
(A) Policies on contraception, divorce, mixed religious marriages and same sex marriages;
(B) Policies on married and female priests;
(C) Procedures for electing bishops and requiring equal lay participation in the elections; and
(D) Procedures for papal elections by worldwide bishops and for papal term limits no greater than ten years.
Are there steps that lay Catholics can take? Yes, simply put, just suspend all funding of Catholic causes if the Cardinals fail to take all the above steps at the next papal election, and do not resume contributions until all of these steps are taken.
In view of the unlikelihood, as indicated above, that the current Vatican administration will effectively curtail any time soon predatory priests on its own initiative, Catholics need to press their political leaders to compel the Vatican to take promptly all feasible corrective action to protect defenseless children from predatory priests.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Several of the themes discussed here are considered in more detail in my statement linked at the top of this statement under the heading, “Vatican: A New Child Protection Policy Now?”. Please click on to the above heading and read it at your convenience.
Please also circulate this full statement or relevant portions thereof widely, as you may consider helpful to reforming the Catholic Church, to protecting defenseless children, to comforting suffering abuse survivors and to giving many discouraged Catholics some new hope.
Matters described above can be readily supplemented by relevant material on the Internet by entering the relevant key words in Google for links to the underlying news and other reports.
Finally, several excellent and readable books available in bookstores or online amplify much of the foregoing. Helpful summaries and/or reviews of most of them are presently freely available at Amazon.com/books.
These selective books are:
(1) The Theology of Fear, by Fr. Emmett Coyne;
(2) Can the Catholic Church Be Saved?, by Fr. Hans Kung (forthcoming soon in an English version);
(3) What Happened at Vatican II, by Fr. John O’Malley, S.J.;
(4) Trent: What Happened at the Council, by Fr. John O’Malley, S.J.;
(5) Electing Our Bishops: How the Catholic Church Should Elect Its Leaders, by Joseph O’Callaghan;
(6) Render Unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church, by Jason Berry;
(7) Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, by Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea;
(8) The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability For Human Rights Abuse, by Geoffrey Robertson; and
(9) The Politics of Sex and Religion, by Robert Blair Kaiser, available for FREE as an E-Book at robertblairkaiser.com .
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ZEUS giant statue and St. JOSEPH statue
The giant statue of St. Joseph overlooking College Notre Dame a few feet across the street -- he could NOT come down to stop the thousands of sodomy committed by Holy Cross Congregation CSC pedophile priests and brothers .
People, please STOP DONATING to the ORATORY of St. Joseph and instead donate your money to Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, your local charities, and the homeless shelters of Montreal. God will listen more to your prayers - through your acts of charity - because they are better than material candles and money you give to the wealthy billionaire CSC religious Holy Cross family of Saint Brother Andre. God said in the Bible: It isn’t material sacrifice that I want, but acts of mercy. If you were to face Christ on Judgement Day today, He will not ask you how many candles you have lit at the Oratory of St. Joseph, but how many poor people you have helped, as He has said, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, that you have also done to Me.” Christ also said, when you pray, go to your room, close the door and pray to your Father in secret, and he will hear your prayers.
If you live in Los Angeles, or elsewhere in the USA or in the world, and are planning a “pilgrimage” to the Oratory of St. Joseph or flying to the Vatican, DON'T GO and instead ponder on donating that money to the Red Cross or your local charity - or sponsor a poor student and pay for his or her school supplies and school lunch for a year, or feed a homeless person for a year at McDonald's, instead of flying to Montreal to see the Oratory or the Vatican Mammon Beast - and God will listen more to your prayers in your act of mercy rather feeding the Vatican Mammon Beast or St. Joseph Oratory Mammon Beast copying the Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy. http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/oratory-of-st-joseph-copy-vatican.html
It’s more important and more relevant for children to know the story of Eleuterio Ramos and all JP2 Army Vatican sex maniac rapists priests of the 20th
century - than the ancient Bible stories irrelevant mythical figures
like Jonah being swallowed by a whale, read here the Los Angeles Files http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/los-angeles-files-mahony-must-be-jailed.html
Vatican Billions: its history, sources, and assets today worldwide. BOYCOTT the Vatican Museum and boycott ALL donations to the Vatican Catholic Church Reign of Terror
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
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Les avocats de la Congrégation de Sainte-Croix devront retourner en cour le 5 mars pour faire état de l'avancement du processus d'indemnisation des victimes d'actes sexuels répréhensibles commis par des membres du clergé ou des laïcs.
C'est ce qu'a décidé le juge à la Cour supérieure du Québec, Claude Auclair, après que les représentants de la Congrégation eurent présenté une requête pour l'obtention d'une prorogation de six mois additionnels afin de traiter avec «rigueur et équité» toute les réclamations.
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News update January 5, 2013
A Taboo, a New Pope & a Truer Church
UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
(by Jerry Slevin, retired Wall Street lawyer)
WILL A TABOO BRING DOWN THE ROMAN HOLY EMPIRE?
The escalating scandal of priests sexually abusing children, and the resulting increasing legal pressures on the Vatican, appear to be threatening the very survival of the “Roman Holy Empire”. This mythical medieval concept supports the essential foundational claim that seeks unsuccessfully to justify historically Vatican hierarchical power. The Pope, as “Supreme Pontiff” for life and the “semi-divine infallible Vicar of Christ”, along with his “Imperial Staff” of Vatican Cardinals, have evidently pursued an imperial “top-down” policy for centuries, in secrecy and despite the rule of law, that seems directed too often at enhancing the power and wealth of senior Vatican officials and their subservient Cardinals and Bishops worldwide.
The Vatican implements this strategy mainly at the expense of trusting and generous lay Catholics, including their many children who continue to suffer from priest sexual abuse. Various prosecutors and survivors’ lawyers internationally are now increasingly challenging the Roman Holy Empire’s strategy with enhanced prospects for more success, in national courts and governmental investigations, as well as at the independent International Criminal Court.
The Vatican’s strategy centers on claiming monopolistic control over a “unique Eucharist” that purportedly can be offered to Catholics only by “ontologically pure celibate male priests”. These priests receive long theological preparation, but work for low wages, under the rigid control of well rewarded and exceedingly obedient Cardinals and Bishops. These hierarchs also usually serve for life in very comfortable surroundings, provided they zealously follow Vatican orders, including those relating to punishing prophetic voices among priests and nuns that could undercut absolute papal authority. A Jesuit from South America, for example, was just silenced for recently questioning a point in the Pope’s new Jesus book, even though the Jesuit relied for his point on the work of the same Scriptural scholar the Pope refers to favorably in his book. So much for the papal pleas for “religious liberty”! Liberty for anonymous Vatican officials, but not for Jesuit scholars. Really?
“Pure priests” are absolutely essential for promoting hierarchical fundraising and political influence among the docile Catholic faithful; hence, Bishops are pressured by the Vatican to supply and protect a continuous stream of priests at all costs to sustain this desired fundraising and influence. Indeed, the resulting absolute priest protection policies, apparently even some that employ illegal cover-ups at the expense of innocent child sexual abuse victims, are at the heart of the growing threat to the Roman Holy Empire.
Christian Catholicism
(by Jerry Slevin, retired Wall Street lawyer)
WILL A TABOO BRING DOWN THE ROMAN HOLY EMPIRE?
The escalating scandal of priests sexually abusing children, and the resulting increasing legal pressures on the Vatican, appear to be threatening the very survival of the “Roman Holy Empire”. This mythical medieval concept supports the essential foundational claim that seeks unsuccessfully to justify historically Vatican hierarchical power. The Pope, as “Supreme Pontiff” for life and the “semi-divine infallible Vicar of Christ”, along with his “Imperial Staff” of Vatican Cardinals, have evidently pursued an imperial “top-down” policy for centuries, in secrecy and despite the rule of law, that seems directed too often at enhancing the power and wealth of senior Vatican officials and their subservient Cardinals and Bishops worldwide.
The Vatican implements this strategy mainly at the expense of trusting and generous lay Catholics, including their many children who continue to suffer from priest sexual abuse. Various prosecutors and survivors’ lawyers internationally are now increasingly challenging the Roman Holy Empire’s strategy with enhanced prospects for more success, in national courts and governmental investigations, as well as at the independent International Criminal Court.
The Vatican’s strategy centers on claiming monopolistic control over a “unique Eucharist” that purportedly can be offered to Catholics only by “ontologically pure celibate male priests”. These priests receive long theological preparation, but work for low wages, under the rigid control of well rewarded and exceedingly obedient Cardinals and Bishops. These hierarchs also usually serve for life in very comfortable surroundings, provided they zealously follow Vatican orders, including those relating to punishing prophetic voices among priests and nuns that could undercut absolute papal authority. A Jesuit from South America, for example, was just silenced for recently questioning a point in the Pope’s new Jesus book, even though the Jesuit relied for his point on the work of the same Scriptural scholar the Pope refers to favorably in his book. So much for the papal pleas for “religious liberty”! Liberty for anonymous Vatican officials, but not for Jesuit scholars. Really?
“Pure priests” are absolutely essential for promoting hierarchical fundraising and political influence among the docile Catholic faithful; hence, Bishops are pressured by the Vatican to supply and protect a continuous stream of priests at all costs to sustain this desired fundraising and influence. Indeed, the resulting absolute priest protection policies, apparently even some that employ illegal cover-ups at the expense of innocent child sexual abuse victims, are at the heart of the growing threat to the Roman Holy Empire.
Bishops in many countries must staff parishes with a diminishing domestic priest pool. Bishops are forbidden by the Vatican from seeking available married or female Catholic priests, since permitting these “impure priests” risks undercutting papal “mystical power claims” to infallibility, given prior papal statements by the current Pope and his immediate predecessor on the purported “divine mandate” requiring the “pure priesthood of celibate males” only. Apparently, the need for more priests, especially very “obedient” ones, helps explain the Pope’s disproportionate efforts to solicit support from rigid and controversial groups of “traditionalist” priests, like those involved in Opus Dei, the Legion of Christ and the Society of St. Pius X, as well as the Pope’s unecumenical efforts to “poach” dissident Anglican priests.
Hence, notwithstanding the decades’ old worldwide scandal of priest sexual abuse of children, Bishops still are effectively, and even increasingly, under Vatican pressure to accept some questionable seminarians and many unsuitable foreign priests, and shockingly still to retain suspected sexual predators, whenever feasible, it appears. This blatant clericalism was just reinforced by the appointment of a new Vatican chief prosecutor of predatory priests, who had served under Boston’s infamous Cardinal Law. The new prosecutor reportedly has a reputation for being more “pro accused priest” than many other canon lawyers.
Moreover, Philadelphia’s Archbishop Chaput appears still to be carrying accused priests that his predecessor, Cardinal Rigali, suspended over a year and a half ago. And Cardinal Rigali surely was not one that suspended priests lightly, as amply shown at the recent criminal trial convicting his long time subordinate, Monsignor Lynn, of child endangerment.
The billions of dollars expended by U.S. Bishops relating to legal claims of abuse survivors that result, at least in material part, from the Vatican’s “anti-children” policy appear currently to be just another “cost of doing business” for Bishops to be funded either by trusting Catholics’ contributions or by cost-savings from closing more Catholic churches and schools. Paying large settlements that keep Bishops’ incriminating files sealed appears acceptable to survivors’ lawyers, not too surprisingly given their usual percentage fee arrangements, but also apparently to many Bishops, so long as the Bishops can be assured of avoiding criminal prosecution for child endangerment by making the large payments.
Avoiding criminal prosecution appears, however, to be becoming more difficult for Bishops to do. This prospect potentially poses a very serious threat to the Roman Holy Empire. For example, Philadelphia’s Cardinal Bevilacqua apparently avoided prosecution recently only by being terminally ill, not a “first choice defense” for most hierarchs presumably. Boston’s Cardinal Law apparently only avoided local prosecutors earlier by fleeing to Rome and getting immunity protection from the Vatican, not likely to be available any longer to many other hierarchs. Kansas City’s Bishop Finn was, of course, recently convicted, but got a “soft plea deal” and still seems, nevertheless, to remain for now in good standing with the Vatican.
WILL A NEW POPE SAVE THE CHURCH?
Voting Cardinals know that a new Pope is on the horizon, ending an era of Popes who attended the Second Vatican Council but were beholden for their elections to powerful Vatican Cardinals who thwarted key Council structural reforms overwhelmingly approved by over 2,000 Cardinals and Bishops from around the world. The present providential opportunity may now enable these Cardinals and all Catholics, as the People of God revitalized by the Council, to implement Council structural reforms that Vatican Cardinals have effectively blocked for a half-century.
The recent October Roman Synod was fully “Vatican orchestrated” with carefully pre-selected Cardinals’ and Bishops’, who generally and amazingly ducked the monumental abuse scandal. This Synod was the latest example of the Vatican Cardinals’ success in neutralizing the power-sharing arrangements between the Pope and worldwide Bishops that over 2.000 “Vatican II Fathers” naively thought they had overwhelmingly and definitively approved in 1965 before leaving the Council.
Will voting Cardinals soon act to save the Catholic Church from its present shameful and deteriorating condition, even if some Cardinals may do so mainly to assure their own survival? Or will they instead foolishly choose to remain subject to the control of a corrupt and ruthless Vatican administration that increasingly scandalizes Catholics worldwide, while also intimidating and/or picking off isolated Cardinals, Bishops, priests and members of religious orders, especially female ones, who object to the Vatican’s self-serving strategy?
The world’s Catholics will be watching closely the Cardinals’ actions in choosing a new Pope. If the Cardinals fail to act decisively here, many of the world’s Catholics will likely vote with their feet, as many other millions of Catholics who have left the Catholic Church in disgust in recent years already have. Many of these Catholics will likely also demand governmental investigations following the lead of almost 90 % of Australian Catholics who, according to polls, are supporting their Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, in her bold establishment of a national royal commission to investigate organizational child sexual abuse, including in the Australian Catholic Church.
Recently, also, many U.S. Catholics and other U.S. citizens have begun the inevitable push to get President Obama to set up a comparable national investigation commission in the U.S.A. Following the Pope’s disastrous mistep recently in trying to help tax-avoiding Republican plutocrats defeat the President in his recent re-election campaign, why would President Obama, who has spoken out strongly against the organizational sexual abuse of defenseless children, not act here? Moreover, the Pope’s U. S. plutocrat allies just received a major tax increase and may not be returning Vatican calls these days, given the electoral defeat they just received relying too heavily on the Pope’s well funded, but very counter-productive, anti-contraception crusade, it appears.
The Catholic Church likely will soon either reform itself voluntarily or be reformed involuntarily by prosecutors applying international human rights law to protect defenseless children. Either way, it will likely be reformed soon. Worldwide Cardinals sadly and unwisely may again let their Vatican counterparts dictate to them. Notwithstanding, Catholic parents are fed up with priests with impunity raping their children, while insensitive and childless celibates in the Vatican waft mystical smokescreens about the “ontological superiority” of priests. It is time to end this pernicious scholastic nonsense and to protect innocent children honestly and effectively.
Catholics may soon finally eliminate their Church’s coercive and corrupt imperial structure and return to the Church’s original consensual and credible democratic structure with leaders who are once again accountable to the faithful. The consensual Catholic Church structure the Apostles left behind served the original Catholics well. This structure also reflects much better the spirit of God’s loving rule that Jesus revealed to the Apostles than does the hierarchical structure imposed coercively by Roman Emperors in the Fourth Century and that still shamefully continues in Rome. Moreover, modern technology among Bishops themselves, as well as with the Catholic faithful, can make this restored consensual leadership structure function even more efficaciously than it did for Catholics in the post-Apostolic era.
This may be the last chance for any Pope and the Cardinals and Bishops to salvage their rapidly disappearing moral authority that most Catholics once respected. Even in countries with large numbers of Catholic voters, perceptive political leaders have begun to challenge increasingly previously mandated papal positions, for example, on contraception and same sex marriage. These political leaders know well that more Catholic voters are regularly disregarding papal mandates, as respect for the Vatican declines in light of the ceaseless media reports of child abuse scandal cover-ups and financial corruption and incompetence at the Vatican Bank.
The Roman Holy Empire has survived since Emperor Constantine for almost 1,700 years. It has survived despite the violently executed Reformation that failed to reform the Church sufficiently. But the taboo against sexually abusing children is more powerful than opposition to selling indulgences. This Holy Empire has even survived democratically inspired Revolutions that by 1918 helped end all other European absolute monarchies, but still left the papal monarchy intact. The democratic revolution has now reached the Vatican.
It clearly appears that the Roman Holy Empire may now be in its final days as the mandates of the democratic rule of law are being applied increasingly to alleged Vatican misconduct relating to endangering children. The previously unaccountable Vatican administration is facing growing challenges from the application of international human rights laws. These challenges are likely to compel the Vatican and worldwide Cardinals and Bishops against their personal preference, but in their legal self-interest, to reform radically the Catholic Church’s centralized hierarchical structure and to discard the contrived theological and clearly unhistorical positions underpinning it.
The Vatican’s administration’s failure to address the abuse problem effectively to date, and the prevalence of the current code of silence, or “omerta”, on child abuse matters, reported last February by the Vatican’s former chief prosecutor before he was “promoted out” to Malta, suggest that the Vatican administration is incapable of curtailing abuse sufficiently itself, unless legally compelled to do so. If Vatican officials will not even discuss the priest child abuse problem openly among themselves and with their own prosecutor, how can they possibly resolve this continuing problem?
Of course, these Vatican officials likely are aware their abuse related discussions could come back to haunt them in a future criminal proceeding. Presumably, their lawyers have so advised them. For example, Philadelphia’s Monsignor Lynn testified extensively about his boss, Cardinal Bevilacqua’s misdeeds. Perhaps someone, for example, even the Pope’s mistreated butler, may testify against senior Vatican officials, possibly even against the Pope himself. For example, what more does the butler know about the documents the Pope reportedly marked, “Destroy!”.
Will Catholics be able soon to select leaders who they can really respect, and who will listen to them even if they are not major donors? Will Jesus’ clear mandate of the “First” serving the “Last” finally be the Catholic Church’s policy once again soon, by force of international law no less? Will Catholic Church leaders now be able again boldly and widely to speak “truth to power” on behalf of victims of injustice in all forms, without having to soften their message for some questionable organizational or plutocratic advantage pushed by Vatican intimidation?
Until now, an unaccountable papal monarch generally has ruled this Holy Empire. Often during the last millenium, he has been selected to rule the Catholic Church absolutely for life by an opportunistic and self-interested elite “male club” dominated by a clique of Roman Cardinals. Is this hierarchical structure about to end? Will the Catholic Church finally return to its original consensual Gospel structure that the Apostles left behind and that was mainly followed for almost three centuries, until Constantine and his successors began to coercively commandeer the Church for Roman imperial purposes beginning in the Fourth Century?
ARE CARDINALS WATCHING CURRENT EVENTS?
Some current developments strongly suggest that the seemingly unresolvable priest child abuse problem may contribute to toppling this medieval monarchy soon. Significantly and surprisingly, two prominent Cardinals, Martini and Pell, had recently indicated publicly that the child sexual abuse problem continues, in one case even pointing a finger at the Vatican’s administration. These very knowledgable Cardinals apparently were unwilling to accept their own Pope’s public relations efforts that try to suggest that the priest child abuse problem has been sufficiently curtailed.
How many other Cardinals will also soon be publicly rejecting this papal media spin, if only to protect themselves better from increasingly relentless international prosecutors and survivors’ civil lawyers on the horizon? Will Catholics find out more about many Cardinals’ actual views before the next papal election, especially since the next Pope can be expected to try to continue indefinitely the Vatican’s control over the criminal legal defense strategy that is apparently imposed now on all of the hierarchy worldwide? Perhaps, some Cardinals will not want to handcuff themselves to the railings on the Vatican’s Titanic?
Having observed for several years, as an experienced lawyer, the misguided and ineffective legal defense strategy of the current Pope, it seems inadvisable for Cardinals and Bishops worldwide to concede their legal defense to a distant Vatican administration often controlled, it appears at times, by octogenerians worried more about protecting themselves first. Philadelphia’s Monsignor Lynn may have found this out the hard way when he reportedly was recently denied sufficient funds for an effective appeal of his recent child endangerment criminal conviction for his actions while serving as a subordinate of Cardinals Bevilacqua and Rigali. Should Cardinals really rely on a Vatican admininistration that, after months of warnings, let their credit card payment system ‘bounce” in the midst of the busy holiday tourist season, as just occurred?
Will the priestly breaches that, as indicated above, two significant Cardinals had recently implied were still being tolerated, of the deep-seated social taboo against sexually violating children lead soon to ending papal dominance of the Catholic Church? Jesus, of course, reiterated this taboo in his stern prohibitions in the Gospels against harming children. Can celibate and childless Catholic hierarchs, like Cardinal Sodano who reportedly referred to news reports of alleged earlier papal cover-ups of priest sexual abuse, as “petty gossip”, even begin to understand the revulsion felt by countless Catholic parents at these obscene violations of children.
Reportedly, there have been over 100,000 child victims of Catholic priest abuse in the USA alone so far, according to experts at a Vatican conference last February. This is hardly “gossip”, and surely not “petty”. Apparently, celibate and childless Catholic hierarchs do not yet sufficiently appreciate the power of this revulsion! Now they must be compelled by international prosecutors to appreciate this.
Have worldwide Catholics and their democratically chosen political leaders now finally had enough of the endless abuse horror stories and the hierarchy’s inadequate and cynical efforts to curtail them effectively? It appears increasingly clear that Catholics worldwide have had enough. Majorities of Catholics in Australia, Ireland, the Philippines and the USA, for example, have just effectively resisted significant Vatican pressure regarding child protection and/or related contraception policies the Vatican opposed strongly.
In particular, the Pope aimed many “moral arrows” at President Obama in connection with the recent November elections, apparently hoping decisively to topple the leader of the world’s most powerful nation. The Pope missed by a wide margin. Now what? Will President Obama now finally investigate priest abuse of Catholic children in the USA, as many Catholics have recently petitioned him to do? Time will tell, as the pressure builds for President Obama to act, especially as Australia’s Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, moves forward with an unprecedented royal commission investigation of child sexual abuse in organizational settings, including in the Catholic Church. What is President Obama waiting for to establish a comparable U.S. national investigation commission on child sexual abuse in organizational religious, educational and youth group settings, including in the Catholic Church?
The modern worldwide papal geo-political strategy, that began mainly in the 1930′s with facilitating the fascists Mussolini and Hitler, of influencing Catholic voters in exchange for expected political favors from “papally preferred” successful candidates, appears now to be bankrupt, at least as bankrupt as many U.S. Catholic dioceses now are under the weight of significant priest child abuse financial settlements that seem often to be agreed upon at the last minute by U.S. bishops apparently to keep potentially incriminating hierarchical files secret.
How are these current developments likely to lead to the toppling of this long standing hierarchical structure? What would the potential consequences be for Catholics if this happens?
Pope Benedict XVI at 85 years old still reigns over the Roman Holy Empire to be sure. He has so far continued to rule despite the abuse scandal that he has faced, unsuccessfully mostly, often since his days as Archbishop of Munich three decades ago.
The bizarre episode of key documents leaked recently by the Pope’s bold butler raises substantial doubts, however, about how firm this aging Pope’s grip remains on the levers of papal power. Since the butler still likely knows many more papal secrets and cannot any longer be “burned at the papal stake” for copying and distributing documents, he has been pardoned after a very harsh imprisonment process. Will the butler, whose relationship to the Pope does not appear to have been legally privileged and protected, soon be subpoened to testify in civil and criminal proceedings involving alleged Vatican misdeeds? Have we heard the last from the butler yet? Probably not.
A new Pope, as mentioned above, is expected by many soon to succeed Pope Benedict XVI. But will it matter much by then? Especially, when it seems that the next Pope may already have been, in effect, pre-selected by the current Pope and Vatican Cardinals that hold significant power over papal candidates’ selection and election. This Pope and his predecessor, John Paul II, carefully selected all of the current voting Cardinals, evidently seeking “Yes Men” who would obedientally continue these two Popes’ increasingly hierarchical and retrogressive policies. These two Popes witnessed up close as youths the rigid discipline of the Third Reich and both seem thereafter to have held clerical “obedience” to be a “cardinal virtue”.
But are the Vatican Cardinals going to be the last word here? While no European emperors or monarchs in the last century have had a significant say on selecting popes, the modern rule of law is now being applied by constitutional democracies increasingly to the previously unaccountable Vatican administration. At the same time, the modern papal geo-political strategy continues to produce spectacular failures, thereby weakening in many cases the Vatican’s ability to resist these significant legal incursions. These important legal and political developments will likely and should have considerable impact on the next papal election and its aftermath.
Prosecutors and abuse survivors’ civil lawyers from constitutional democracies worldwide, from Australia in the Pacific to Ireland in the Atlantic and to the USA in between, are relentlessly advancing legally on Rome, armed with the powerful modern weapons of international human rights law. They may soon be joined by the woman prosecutor from the independent International Criminal Court, who is reviewing a criminal complaint filed against the Pope and Cardinals Sodano, Bertone and Levada, alleging crimes against humanity related to the cover-up of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests worldwide.
The current Pope, and any designated successor, will likely be unable to prevent some of these lawyers from breaching the high Vatican walls and gaining access to secret papal files, initially relating to the child abuse scandal, but who knows what else? What might these lawyers find? Once these files are public, it is impossible to predict all of the potential outcomes, but none of them will likely support continuation of the current Roman Holy Empire.
Meanwhile, papal political power also appears on the wane in many other countries, often as a reaction to the papal failure to curtail effectively the worldwide sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests.
As European monarchs chose not to stop the Italian nationalists from seizing the Papal States in 1870 in part out of dissatisfaction with papal failures to adopt political reforms, it is not likely the Vatican will get much sympathy from current political leaders. The days of Cardinal Sodano complaining, as he did, about aggressive U.S. lawyers for survivors of priest sexual abuse to President George W. Bush’s Secretary of State are over. Now the focus shifts to Australia.
WILL AUSTRALIA’S COMMISSION COMPEL VATICAN CHANGES?
Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s prominent Cardinal, has been considered by some informed sources as a top prospect to be elected pope in the next papal election expected to be held soon. After spending considerable time in late October in Rome with the Pope and numerous other top Cardinals and Bishops at the lengthy Evangelization Synod that was mainly silent on the priest child sex abuse scandal, Cardinal Pell indicated unexpectedly in a public speech last month that the criminal moral cancer of sexual abuse of children by priests is the most important and powerful barrier to Catholic evangelization at present. As Cardinal Pell now faces an unprecedented Australian national governmental commission to investigate thoroughly organizational child sexual abuse in Australia, including in the Catholic Church, he surprisingly admitted in his recent speech that the Catholic Church has failed to deal effectively with some predatory priests and to help enough abuse victims heal. He further acknowledged that much more needs to be done in the child protection area.
Amazingly, as mentioned above, the Evangelization Synod orchestrated by the Pope in late October barely mentioned the child abuse scandal. What may have caused Cardinal Pell so suddenly to “get religion” on abuse matters? Evidentally, Cardinal Pell is very concerned about the unprecedented investigation commission, and he should be from all indications. So should Pope Benedict XVI and so should worldwide Cardinals and Bishops.
Cardinal Pell’s quick “conversion” raises questions of where Pope Benedict VI now stands. The October Synod seemed to indicate that the Pope will continue mainly to avoid the abuse scandal.The continuation of Kansas City’s Bishop Finn after his child endangerment conviction suggests continuing Vatican stonewalling. Moreover, the appointment of Cardinal Law’s former canon lawyer as chief Vatican abuse case prosecutor suggests more of the same.
Pope Benedict XVI is generally publicly elusive, doesn’t give journalists regular access and often clouds his carefully drafted statements, and now “Tweets”, with mystical smokescreens. But he has given some clear indications of his ongoing strategy on predatory priests, especially by some of his consistent actions and failures to act, including the recent Synod, Bishop Finn’s retention and his new chief prosecutor appointment. What might the Pope’s current strategy be?
The Church’s organizational structure is analytically fairly simple. At the top is a pope who is “chief executive officer”, supreme legislator and top judge for life. In practice, papal decisions appear often to be influenced strongly, if not at times controlled by, senior Vatican Cardinals, especially the Secretary of State, currently Cardinal Bertone, who succeeded Cardinal Sodano, who appears still to be influential. Both of these Cardinals have reportedly been linked to several long standing scandals; Bertone to the Vatican Bank and a Milan hospital scandals and Sodano to the Mexican child sex abuser, Fr. Maciel, who eluded Vatican investigators for almost a half century by, among other things, reportedly frequently sprinkling large cash payments to powerful members of the Vatican clique.
The Pope, with his Vatican management team, controls Church canon law and judicial proceedings, and selects and controls worldwide Catholic bishops, who can be removed promptly by the pope. Priests and male and female members of religious orders are controlled directly by local Bishops and/or Vatican managers who direct the orders’ superiors. Any who deviate from currently favored Vatican theological or even political positions are generally disciplined promptly, often harshly and unfairly.
Pope Benedict XVI’s strategy appears targeted at maintaining maximum obedience to current papal theological, ecclesiastical and political positions. Opposing positions are at best given lip service, with the result that millions of Catholics, including priests, have left the Catholic Church in frustation, if not disgust. Some who stay try almost hopelessly and usually unsuccessfully to effect changes by stressing contrary precedents, especially the positions approved at the Second Vatican Council. In theory, clear positions approved by Church Councils could trump a contrary Vatican position. In practice, especially under Popes Benedict XVI and his immediate predecessor, in several crucial areas the Vatican’s interpretations of the Council is what controls Church practice, regardless of the weakness of the arguments supporting them.
The Catholic Church’s key “product identity” appears, as mentioned above, to be to create a “monopoly” on the Eucharist, a central element of Catholic worship at the Mass, and on the all male celibate priesthood currently needed to offer the Eucharist worldwide, subject to the control of Bishops and ultimately the Vatican. A common meal of fellow believers in Jesus’ time, at least occasionally overseen by women, has become the central “unique product” in the Vatican’s “marketing” strategy. The pope and his Vatican management team, through numerous “theological” and liturgical statements, seeks to protect and preserve the Vatican’s monopoly here, but need a sufficient number of obedient priests to offer the “product”.
The Vatican seeks zealously to preserve its worldwide “market position” by protecting its “monopoly” on the Eucharist and on the requisite celibate male priesthood against other Christian religious traditions externally and against alternative viewpoints internally, especially espoused often from women seeking admission to the priesthood.
While millions of Catholics have left the Church in rejection of the Vatican’s positions and approach, the Vatican’s prohibition on contraception has helped generate millions of “replacement Catholics”, born to Catholic couples whether or not the couples wanted or could afford to have additional children. Some of those children who survive, often in miserable circumstances, become future sources of Vatican power and wealth, as well as of new priests to serve to fill numerous priest shortages worldwide.
Against this organizational background, the Vatican has seemed incapable of containing its worldwide crisis of children being sexually assaulted by priests. Priests are needed to offer the main “product”, the Eucharist. It take years under current procedures to train young men to serve as obedient and low wage “producer priests”. The supply of domestic priests is diminishing in many countries and foreign “imports” have not and realistically in most cases cannot satisfactorily resolve the shortages.
Fearful of permitting priests to marry or to have women as priests, both of which means the Vatican might have to risk being viewed as “fallible” and then have to deal on a equal basis openly with women priests or priests’ wives, and even some mothers, on all issues, including child protection matters, and also pay at least married priests higher wages, the Vatican has to date thereby retricted the potential supply of new priests.
Consequently, Bishops are increasingly forced at times to ordain questionable seminarians and still even to retain predatory priests. Given the artifical constriction, by prohibiting married and female priests, of the already diminishing candidate pool, the prospects are increasingly bleak for solving the predatory priest problem, no matter what the Vatican and its apologists may say otherwise!
Moreover, the Vatican’s financial policy seems impervious to the multi-billion dollar continuing cash drain from child abuse claims. A continuing revenue stream from governmental subsidies, docile Catholics’ and protected plutocrats’ contributions, and Vatican investments and tax free properties, and a willingness to close parishes and schools almost indiscriminately, makes paying lawyers to protect Bishops an acceptable cost of business, like some Wall Street financial firms that often treat fraud claims as an acceptable cost of doing business.
Survivors’ lawyers, as alluded to above, seeking usually the most cash for their cients, sooner rather than later, can apparently be depended on to settle claims and keep the bishops’ potentially incriminating files sealed if the settlement amounts are high enough. Apparently, bishops will often pay whatever is takes to protect themselves. While this expensive litigation process has benefited a small percentage of abuse survivors, it has not benefited many other survivors nor stimulated the Bishops yet to adopt real accountability measures like thorough independent audits.
WHAT CAN CARDINALS AND CATHOLICS DO?
Are there steps Cardinals can take to reduce, or at least mitigate, the adverse effects of the likely implosion of the Holy Roman Empire?
Yes, simply put, Cardinals should only vote for a papal candidate who will publicly commit, as a pre-condition of his election, to do the following:
(1) Serve as Pope for five years only, and
(2) Call an ecumenical council, to be held within 12 months outside Europe, with voting lay participants holding the same number of total votes as clerical participants, including an equal number of women, that will review and update:
(A) Policies on contraception, divorce, mixed religious marriages and same sex marriages;
(B) Policies on married and female priests;
(C) Procedures for electing bishops and requiring equal lay participation in the elections; and
(D) Procedures for papal elections by worldwide bishops and for papal term limits no greater than ten years.
Are there steps that lay Catholics can take? Yes, simply put, just suspend all funding of Catholic causes if the Cardinals fail to take all the above steps at the next papal election, and do not resume contributions until all of these steps are taken.
In view of the unlikelihood, as indicated above, that the current Vatican administration will effectively curtail any time soon predatory priests on its own initiative, Catholics need to press their political leaders to compel the Vatican to take promptly all feasible corrective action to protect defenseless children from predatory priests.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Several of the themes discussed here are considered in more detail in my statement linked at the top of this statement under the heading, “Vatican: A New Child Protection Policy Now?”. Please click on to the above heading and read it at your convenience.
Please also circulate this full statement or relevant portions thereof widely, as you may consider helpful to reforming the Catholic Church, to protecting defenseless children, to comforting suffering abuse survivors and to giving many discouraged Catholics some new hope.
Matters described above can be readily supplemented by relevant material on the Internet by entering the relevant key words in Google for links to the underlying news and other reports.
Finally, several excellent and readable books available in bookstores or online amplify much of the foregoing. Helpful summaries and/or reviews of most of them are presently freely available at Amazon.com/books.
These selective books are:
(1) The Theology of Fear, by Fr. Emmett Coyne;
(2) Can the Catholic Church Be Saved?, by Fr. Hans Kung (forthcoming soon in an English version);
(3) What Happened at Vatican II, by Fr. John O’Malley, S.J.;
(4) Trent: What Happened at the Council, by Fr. John O’Malley, S.J.;
(5) Electing Our Bishops: How the Catholic Church Should Elect Its Leaders, by Joseph O’Callaghan;
(6) Render Unto Rome: The Secret Life of Money in the Catholic Church, by Jason Berry;
(7) Perversion of Power: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, by Mary Gail Frawley-O’Dea;
(8) The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability For Human Rights Abuse, by Geoffrey Robertson; and
(9) The Politics of Sex and Religion, by Robert Blair Kaiser, available for FREE as an E-Book at robertblairkaiser.com .
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ZEUS giant statue and St. JOSEPH statue
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The giant statue of St. Joseph overlooking College Notre Dame a few feet across the street -- he could NOT come down to stop the thousands of sodomy committed by Holy Cross Congregation CSC pedophile priests and brothers .
People, please STOP DONATING to the ORATORY of St. Joseph and instead donate your money to Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, your local charities, and the homeless shelters of Montreal. God will listen more to your prayers - through your acts of charity - because they are better than material candles and money you give to the wealthy billionaire CSC religious Holy Cross family of Saint Brother Andre. God said in the Bible: It isn’t material sacrifice that I want, but acts of mercy. If you were to face Christ on Judgement Day today, He will not ask you how many candles you have lit at the Oratory of St. Joseph, but how many poor people you have helped, as He has said, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, that you have also done to Me.” Christ also said, when you pray, go to your room, close the door and pray to your Father in secret, and he will hear your prayers.
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CSC
Holy Cross Congregation delay $18 million compensation payout. Brother
Andre & Saint JOSEPH giant GOLDEN COW STATUES could not help victims
of CSC pedophiles http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/csc-holy-cross-congregation-delay-18.html
People, please STOP DONATING to the ORATORY and STOP LIGHTING CANDLES to St. Joseph and instead donate your money to Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, your local charities, and the homeless shelters of Montreal. God will listen more to your prayers in your acts of charity because they are better than material candles and money you give to the wealthy billionaire CSC religious Holy Cross family of Saint Brother Andre. If you were to face Christ on Judgement Day today, He will not ask you how many candles you have lit at the Oratory of St. Joseph, but how many poor people you have helped, as He has said, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, that you have also done to Me.”
ZEUS GIANT SAINT JOSEPH did NOTHING to stop pedophile priests of the Congregation de Sainte-Croix happening right before his very eyes
People, please STOP DONATING to the ORATORY and STOP LIGHTING CANDLES to St. Joseph and instead donate your money to Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, your local charities, and the homeless shelters of Montreal. God will listen more to your prayers in your acts of charity because they are better than material candles and money you give to the wealthy billionaire CSC religious Holy Cross family of Saint Brother Andre. If you were to face Christ on Judgement Day today, He will not ask you how many candles you have lit at the Oratory of St. Joseph, but how many poor people you have helped, as He has said, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, that you have also done to Me.”
ZEUS GIANT SAINT JOSEPH did NOTHING to stop pedophile priests of the Congregation de Sainte-Croix happening right before his very eyesIf you live in Los Angeles, or elsewhere in the USA or in the world, and are planning a “pilgrimage” to the Oratory of St. Joseph or flying to the Vatican, DON'T GO and instead ponder on donating that money to the Red Cross or your local charity - or sponsor a poor student and pay for his or her school supplies and school lunch for a year, or feed a homeless person for a year at McDonald's, instead of flying to Montreal to see the Oratory or the Vatican Mammon Beast - and God will listen more to your prayers in your act of mercy rather feeding the Vatican Mammon Beast or St. Joseph Oratory Mammon Beast copying the Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy. http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/oratory-of-st-joseph-copy-vatican.html
Children
are better sex educated reading the Los Angles files rather than
wasting their time to attend the wizardry of the Mass where priests
ceaselessly reiterate those old horrid stories of extinct people in the
Bible, read here the Immoral Bible http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010_12_01_archive.html.
BOYCOTT Oratory of Saint Joseph! CANDLES to giant Zeus statues of St. Joseph and Brother Andre cannot protect children from CSC pedophiles
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/boycott-oratory-of-saint-joseph-candles.htmlVatican Billions: its history, sources, and assets today worldwide. BOYCOTT the Vatican Museum and boycott ALL donations to the Vatican Catholic Church Reign of Terror
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
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