Updated March 4, 2014
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Updated February 23, 2013
The Vatican gay priests are being blackmailed by a network of male prostitutes who worked at a sauna in Rome’s Quarto Miglio district, a health spa in the city center, and a private residence once entrusted to a prominent archbishop...
The blackmail includes compromising photos and videos of the prelates caught on film in drag and caught ‘in the act’.
Nothing could be more clear than actual videos and photos of Vatican Gay prelates, and at last, this one the Vatican cannot cover-up and refute because their victims are not naive altar boys but clever adults. The hundreds of thousands of altar boys and girls who were sodomized did not have access and the sophistication to video tape those clever cunning pedophile priests. But these Vatican gay priests caught in video and photos are - fair game. Bring them on! SHOW THEM TO the WHOLE WORLD and people will stop going to the hypocrite Vatican Angelus and stop donating to the Vatican Mammon Beast!
Poor Benedict XVI, the “Vicar of Christ” who holds the “Key of St. Peter” actually holds the "Key of the JP2 Army" – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, and now he also holds the "Key of the Vatican Gay Priests Underground Network!" Ah! The glories of Rome is indeed of another day!
Read our latest article: Billion Dollar Christ & Apostles in Red now playing in Vatican. Evil impact of Papal Conclave: epidemic violence against women & perpetuity of poor countries http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/billion-dollar-christ-apostles-in-red.html
Updated February 14, 2013
February 11, 2013 Last Tsar Benedict XVI resigns
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. This post is bespoke by St. Michael the Archangel
http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html
The real reason why Benedict XVI must resign is not his poor health but the wealth of the Vatican Mammon. "Follow the money… What sounded the death knell on Pope Benedict was his personal involvement in the bribery and money-laundering practices of the Vatican Bank comically known as The Institute of Religious Works (IOR)". Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone staged the papal coup d’état. As one of the Italian Roman Senators said, "You must understand that in my country, the Mafia and the government and the Vatican are all the same people, and they really have only one concern: protecting their assets." Their assets are the secret Vatican Billions - read here the most important history of the Vatican that the whole world must know http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html. "Nobody becomes pope without a sordid past, because only with such liabilities can he be controlled by the Curia. It's the same in any big company. Well, Ratzinger made many indiscretions as a Cardinal and made many enemies. His signing letters ordering criminal concealment was just one sin. He was to be the scapegoat for all of the trash that the church knew would surface"…But the real issue is not who or what will replace Joseph Ratzinger as the latest figurehead, but how to displace the Vatican itself as a criminal power unto itself. And that struggle is just commencing…see news article below entitled “Money Scandal Behind Papal Coup d'Etat”.
Whether the new pope will be a white, black, brown, or yellow, his real papal job will be to protect the Vatican Billions at all cost and his best weapon will be the Eucharist - in Latin – as his mythical language for the Black Magic of Christ’s flesh because no one understands Latin today, and with his hocus pocus wizardry language, he will appear untouchable like those pagan ancient kings who were direct descendants of the Sun and other gods. He must use all his papal appearances as masks to cover-up his number one mission to preserve the trillion dollars Chair of St. Peter, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html.
Read our related article on Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Benedict XVI & Bertone, Liars of Fatima? http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/cardinal-ratzinger-and-cardinal-bertone.html
Final “holy” spectacles of “Holy” Week for Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI
On Holy Thursday, watch out for the hypocrisy of the ceremonial washing of the feet of the twelve apostles by Benedict XVI when it was more important that he should have washed the feet of Italian victims of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army who walked across Italy to the doorstep of the Vatican but he refused to welcome them in. Benedict XVI was not a Good Samaritan because he didn’t even bother to take a peek at how they looked like, the suffering faces of children sodomized by the Bestial Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army– John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army of the his confrere, John Paul II whom he hurriedly beatified, read here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html Proud Pope Ratzinger didn’t offer these sexual abuse victims of Vatican sex maniac rapists priests a glass of water and he did not wash their tired feet or console their down trodden souls, read here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/.
Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI will hear confession one last time, read here how the Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html
On Good Friday, there’ll be the spectacle in the Roman Coliseum for the Way of the Cross procession of conclave red robed Cardinals carrying light plastic crosses Made in China as meanwhile they lay the real heavy Cross burden on the poor people, poor women and poor children in Third World countries oppressed by the Vatican Billions, read here the most important history of the Vatican Billions every Catholic and the whole world must know http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
Signs of The Third Secret of Fatima
The Third Secret of Fatima prophecied the total demise of the Vatican and not one pillar of St. Peter's Square will be left standing like the Temple of Solomon...thanks to John Paul II who said and did nothing during his longest papacy to stop his JP2 Army - John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army .
On the same day Benedict XVI announced his resignation, lighting literally struck the tip of the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, see article below and watch the video.
Vatican sex-leash on mankind
The new pope must maintain the Vatican sex-leash on mankind about homosexuals, contraception, abortion and masturbation. The pope’s power is in the invisible realm, the Hollywood Harry Potter hoopla, and by holding to the Vatican invisible (spiritual) sex-leash on men and women, the big wide world will remain like a stupid big elephant at the command of the little country of the Vatican, read more here Synod of Bishops & New Evangelization...or New Marketing of Old Vatican Deceits. Why Vatican must end as a “country”. Christ the Vatican Slave! Australia JP2 Army! http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/why-vatican-must-end-as-country-vatican.html Read our latest article, USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray” with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/usa-ambassador-to-vatican-for-what.html
The next pope has been trained already by Benedict XVI and Opus Dei on how to defend and protect these Vatican Billions at all cost or he won’t last more than 33 days like John Paul I (the first) who was murdered because soon as he saw the Vatican Mammon Beast, he realized the hypocrisy of the papacy as the Vicar of Christ worshiping the Devil who fulfilled his promise in his second temptation in the desert. Mathew 4: 8-9: Next the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. "I will give it all to you," he said, "if you will kneel down and worship me." The Vatican Billions own the city of Rome “as far as the eyes can see” from the Vatican window where the pope always appear before the tens of thousands of blind “Pray, Pay, Obey” Catholics in St. Peter’s Square, read the staggering wealth of the Vatican in Rome that will now rake in 600 million Euros to 2.2 Billion Euros for the secular country of Italy, read Vatican secular properties in "all the kingdoms of the world" here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html John Paul I wanted to be a real shepherd and pastor of the poor like Christ was, and he wanted to “share” the Vatican Billions with the poor, but the Opus Dei would not allow this and so inside the secretive Vatican walls, someone conveniently poisoned him. …And then with typical mythological propaganda, Opus Dei orchestrated the 27 years papacy of John Paul II the Great with Opus Dei papal secretary Joaquin Navarro-Valls whose diktat was “No one goes to the Holy father, except through me”, read here Navarro-Valls in New York Times interview: A psychiatrist with a penchant for media manipulation. Two open letters sent to Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/navarro-valls-in-new-york-times.html
Benedict XVI last despotic ax fall on the Jesuits the archenemy of Opus Dei
There is nothing to feel sad or pity about Vatican tyrant Benedict XVI, after all, one of his last despotic acts was done right before Christmas when he ordered a 92 year old Jesuit to no longer celebrate the Mass or perform any other priestly duties (Cardinal Mahony and Cardinal Bernard Law and Bishop Finn and all guilty “Prince of the Church” who covered-up pedophile priests should be penalized this way). Jesuit Fr. Bill Brennan, a 92-year-old Milwaukee-area priest is a retired parish priest and former missionary to Belize, whose crime was to have participated in a eucharistic liturgy with a woman priest, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/benedict-xvi-vatican-last-tsar-final.html On December 15, 2013, Benedict XVI also silenced a Jesuit Fr. Alfonso Llano Escobar, S.J. who criticized his papal book Jesus of Nazareth. Father Adolfo Nicolás, the superior general of the Jesuits, ordered Father Alfonso Llano to consider his apostolic vocation as a writer to be over, has deprived him of his freedom of speech, and is demanding that he not even say goodbye and that he keep absolute silence.” read more here VAtican Terror on Galileo, priests and the poor, women and children, http://popecrimes.blogspot.fr/2013/01/vatican-terrorism-on-galileo-women-and.html . So, while Cardinal Ratzinger has always sat in the lap of luxury and never dirtied his “Prince of the Church” hands, these two Jesuit have worked hard and labored in the vineyard of Christ among the people of Belize and Colombia respectively. Look and behold how “Holy Father” 85-year-old Benedict XVI will retire in the best comfort and glory at Castel Gandolfo, but this 92-year-old priest will die in "disgrace" in the Church he served all his life. Really, please, The Hague must bring Benedict XVI quickly to trial as the final justice and final triumph for hundreds of thousands of Catholic children sodomized in Biblical Proportions by theJP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army whom Ratzinger covered-up for over a quarter of a century.
Vatican Deceits on Benedict XVI's holiness
The biggest Vatican Deceits to prepare Ratzinger’s speedy sainthood, will be to portray Benedict XVI as a saintly holy suffering vicar - akin to the Lenten suffering of Christ – just like the Opus Dei has been portraying John Paul II as “the suffering pope like Christ’s suffering” because he had Parkinson disease. But the reality check is that John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI are not suffering like Christ because they both sat in the lap of luxury with all the best comfort surrounded by servants and their so-called physical suffering are all alleviated by the best medical treatments that money can buy, these two popes are travesty of Jesus Christ indeed, read our related article, Melinda Gates versus Benedict XVI: who’s more “like Christ”? Melinda Gates saves lives of 200 million women while Benedict XVI sits in out-of-touch-with-reality Vatican Throne http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/vatican-titanic-hit-by-melinda-gates.htm
Reasons why Opus Dei covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army for decades: Words of Opus Dei Joaquin Navarro-Valls http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/04/reasons-why-opus-dei-covered-up-john.html
Opus Dei female symbol for John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/04/opus-dei-female-symbol-for-john-paul-ii.html
The Vatican and Rome are no longer synonymous.
The Vatican Catholics, not Roman Catholics
The Vatican and Rome are no longer synonymous.
The Pope has no authority in Rome.
But the Vatican cling-on to Rome and use its Roman Coliseum to latch-on to the fame of the gladiators and the Hail Caesars as the Pope copy-cat the powers of Caesars which Forbes described Benedict XVI as the 5th Most Powerful Person in the world, read here Forbes delusion of Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI powers http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/forbes-delusion-of-vatican-last-tsar.html.
The biggest Vatican Deceits strategy will be to present the new pope on Easter Sunday, the culmination of the 40 days of Lent, to launch him on with the notoriety of Christ’s Resurrection – and with Hollywood production, the Vatican will brainwash Catholics and the world that the new Pope has supernatural powers just like the Resurrected Christ because he is the “Vicar of Christ”… just like the Mayan Kings were descendants of the Sun-God and therefore, his every word was law including his insane whims.
The world must not forget that Benedict XVI’s Last Tsar despotic act and last papal whim was to silence an old Jesuit priest, 92 years old, who was a good and faithful priest for more than 50 years and forbid him to say Mass. http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/benedict-xvi-vatican-last-tsar-final.html While Benedict XVI will go to retire in glory at Castel Gandolfo, this good old Jesuit priest will die in disgrace as a non-Catholic, read here Vatican Terror on Galileo, priests and the poor, women and children http://popecrimes.blogspot.fr/2013/01/vatican-terrorism-on-galileo-women-and.html
Benedict XVI as the Vicar of Christ is as cruel as those Mayan Kings who killed babies and threw them from the tip of the Mayan Pyramid Temple to satisfy the appetite of their false gods. Well, Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI-Ratzinger also killed many children, all those hundreds of thousands of children bestially sodomized by the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army of the 20th century, read here his crimes against humanity pending at The Hague http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html, and all the billions of souls he condemned to roast in the fires of Hell worse than the Nazis burned Jews in Auschwitz, read here our related article he Nazis of Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church of Benedict XVI are similar: They both burn human beings in Auschwitz and in Hell http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/02/nazis-of-hitler-and-roman-catholic.html
The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html
Easter Sunday is the most televised day of the Vatican next to Christmas. In 2010, Benedict XVI used Easter Sunday to rebuke the New York Times - for exposing Vatican sex maniac rapists priests - accusing it of “Cheap Gossip”, read here http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/04/petty-cash-for-petty-gossip-3-billion.html
John Allen will come out as foremost Vatican Pied Piper at his best list of possible pope candidates, read more about him here John L. Allen Jr. Pied Piper of John Paul II deceives Catholics with his essay Fast-Track Saint in Newsweek -- with Vatican lunacy & Satanic timeline http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/05/john-lallen-jrthe-pied-piper-of-john.html and here John L. Allen Jr the Devil's twin the 21st century deceiving Catholics and the world
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/03/john-l-allen-jr-devils-twin-21st.html
It is quite a coincidence that Benedict XVI would announce his resignation on February 11, the same day the Arab Spring triumphed and Mubarak fled Egypt, read our related article Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/02/holy-heist-john-paul-ii-wyd-had-no-role.html
The Hague must bring Pope Ratzinger to trial just like President Mubarak stood trial in Egypt while lying in bed and was found guilty and punished.
Amnesty International names Vatican guilty of violation of human rights http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2011/05/amnesty-international-names-vatican-in.html
Benedict XVI suffering from Popenesia
Last Christmas, Benedict XVI manifested Popenesia or Vaticanesia, a form of papal amnesia, read our related article here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/popenesia-in-christmas-message-vatican.html
The allegiance of Catholics is to the Pope and the Vatican or the Magisterium… The allegiance of Catholics is NOT to Rome; therefore, it is fallacious to call them “Roman Catholics”.
Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI has no papal authority over Rome; therefore, Catholics are not Roman.
The Vatican must start paying taxes for its staggering business properties in Rome starting in 2013. To keep calling them as “Roman Catholics” is to keep feeding the voracious Vatican Mammon, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html. .
The Pope and the Vatican have no political authority and no influence in Rome or in Italian Parliament.
The false (old) statement is, Catholics are “Roman Catholics” of the “Roman Catholic Church”.
The true (new) statement is, Catholics are “Vatican Catholics” of the “Vatican Catholic Church”.
Christ said, “I am the way, the truth and the life” and “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free”. It’s time the world sets itself free with the truth. It’s time the world sets itself free from the Vatican. It’s time the world sets itself free from Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger whose crimes against humanity are pending at The Hague. It’s time the world sets itself free from John Paul II the false “blessed” and false “saint” of children because he never bothered to protect one child from his thousands of bestial sodomy priests of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army during his 27 years papacy… for best example and greatest papal proof, John Paul II didn’t protect or bother to meet with the children of Boston raped by the 80 pedophile priests Cardinal Bernard Law transferred from one parish to another during his last World Youth Day in Toronto, an hour flight away, read here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html. In the U.S. alone, there are more than 6,100 Vatican sex maniac rapists priests all protected by the Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and Vicars. Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston and Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles are the most famous enablers of the JP2 Army, read more here NCAA & Penn State more moral than Vatican. Sports is more moral than John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html
At the Vatican Hall of Popes, after Ratzinger’s portrait, there is one last photo space for the next pope. Nostradamus prophecy about Ratzinger was right-on. The Third Secret of Fatima predicted the demise of that “last pope” and the total demise of the Vatican that not one of its pillars will be left standing like the Temple of Solomon. Our Lady of Fatima appeared in 1917, and in 4 years, it will be her 100th anniversary, read about Fatima here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/escriva-stage-managed-impostor-sr-lucia.html, One of its seers, "From Fatima, Jacinta would throw the first stone at John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army to defend her little brothers and sisters" http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/04/from-fatima-jacinta-would-throw-first.html
Benedict t XVI is the Master Manipulator of the Media and he will manipulate the media more than ever before. The Vatican will use Easter to present the new pope latching on to Christ again persecuting Him with endless falsehood that popes are his vicars and that they hold the key to the kingdom of heaven even if they are criminal popes like Benedict XVI or Heil Satanas JP2! Hail Caesar John Paul II the Opus Dei Golden Cow read here http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/ The poor Christ is always a brand name that is abused centuries after centuries by the Vatican to camouflage its Vatican Mammon Beast, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html just like overly romanticised “poor” Brother Andre is the golden cash cow of the Congregation de Sainte-Croix at the Oratory of Saint Joseph, read here 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.html
Children must not be brainwashed about the “supernatural” powers of the Pope
The adult Catholics are now hopeless and brainwashed about the supernatural powers of the Pope and priests. But in the 21st century, Catholic children must not be taught to blindly kneel before those Vatican Catholic priests who claim to be able to clone Christ the Son of God - even if they cannot clone Dolly the sheep, see images and links below. These same Vatican “holy fathers” are the most able Vatican sex maniac rapists priests.
Man cannot clone animals - with words alone – but by painstaking scientific laboratories like cloning Dolly the sheep, see images below.
The Pope and Catholic priests cannot clone animals.
The Pope and Catholic priests cannot say “Let there be light, and there’ll be light. http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html
The Pope and Catholic priests cannot clone his own man-kind.
Children are better praying the JP2 Army than parroting the Rosary to protect them from all sexual predators, read here Rosary could not defeat JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the 20th Century ... unlike the Battle of Lepanto in the 16th Century http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/10/rosary-could-not-defeat-jp2-army-john_06.html .
Vatican is equivalent to the Holy See and Chair of St. Peter where the despot Pope and the Catholic oligarchy all-male hierarchy rule and reside in the “smallest country” of 800 persons inside the Vatican state. The Pope has no power and no authority over Rome. Even Roman students don’t want to see his face and they rejected his visit as pope and therefore he cancelled his speech in a Roman university, read here
Rome is the vast secular economic city of Italy with 2,700,000 people, and it is part of the vast secular country of Italy of 61 million people, read more here Synod of Bishops & New Evangelization...or New Marketing of Old Vatican Deceits. Why Vatican must end as a “country” . Christ the Vatican Slave! Australia JP2 Army! http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/why-vatican-must-end-as-country-vatican.html
Rome sounds romantic…
Vatican sounds evil, violent, vulgar, voracious…
Secular democratic Rome is NOT theocratic totalitarian Vatican
Secularism has no god and no religion. Secularism is the self-proclaimed number one enemy of Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI-Ratzinger; therefore, he must stop latching onto secular Rome and stop calling Catholics as “’Roman’ Catholics”.
As the truth and reality has unfolded before our eyes, only secular judges and secular lawyers have been able to render some justice to victims of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/. , read here about the secular judge of Los Angeles who ordered the release of all Los Angeles files that Cardinal Mahony and Opus Dei Archbishop Gomez fought for years to keep secret http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/judge-elias-please-release-all.html.
Even if the Vatican has some history with ancient Rome, it does not give Catholics the right to go on using Rome’s name because Rome is now a secular city. Microsoft also has employees and billions of people users and owns properties in many countries, but that doesn’t make Microsoft a country. To keep calling the 1.2 billion Catholic people spread worldwide with the old word “Roman Catholic” is to perpetuate Vatican Deceits of the Vatican Billions http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html .
Even if the Vatican own most properties in Rome, those are economic properties and not religious properties - which is why the secular government of Italy, starting in 2013, will make the Vatican pay taxes for their properties in Rome and Italy, raking in more than 600 million Euros to 2.2 billion Euros. It was the evil Mussolini who gave the Vatican its status as a “country”
… Mussolini is dead and it is time to end his legacy of the Vatican as a “country”.
Read here Mussolini’s billions owned and managed by the Vatican http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
Synod of Bishops & New Evangelization...or New Marketing of Old Vatican Deceits. Why Vatican must end as a “country” . Christ the Vatican Slave! Australia JP2 Army! http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/why-vatican-must-end-as-country-vatican.html
Vatican Deceits
The truthful way is to call Catholics as “Vatican Catholics” of the “Vatican Catholic Church”.
The Vatican Deceit way is to keep calling them “Roman Catholics “of the “Roman Catholic Church”. Roman Catholic was the traditional way but Catholic traditions are very deceitful such as their tradition of Latin as a “holy language” even if Christ never uttered one word of Latin, read here Latin is not a mother tongue and therefore cannot be the “official language” of the Vatican. Why must the Vatican Bank be above all banks? http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/10/latin-is-not-mother-tongue-and.html
Christ never wore red shoes, never wore white robes, read here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/08/benedict-xvi-vicar-of-christ-and-jon.html
Most of all, Christ never lived in a palace, read here how the Vatican transformed Christ into the Vatican Mammon Beast in the history of the Vatican Billions, the most important history every Catholic must read http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
The Vatican is no longer the Barque of St.. Peter http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/06/vatican-ends.html
Vatican desperately cling on to Rome
The Vatican Deceit way is to keep latching on to Rome for some flair deception to its name, a violent and evil name as in the Vatican Terror on Galileo, Vatican Terror on Women and children http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/vatican-terrorism-on-galileo-women-and.html
There are only two places to visit inside the Vatican, the Vatican Museum and St. Peter’s Basilica, therefore, the smallest country Vatican has to cling-on to Rome for tourism and monetary purposes.
The Vatican is the most evil and most violent power in the world hiding behind the masks of Jesus and His mother Ave Maria, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and under the word “holiness” like the letter of Archbishop Gomez for Lent, “A Time for Holiness”, see news below. Read how John Paul II betrayed Totus Tuus Marie http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2008/12/john-paul-ii-betrayed-totus-tuus-marie.html.
The Vatican has deceitful ways of making people forget Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils and one of its worst Vatican Deceits is the $25 million Catholic League’s president Bill Donohue who’s the most brutal Vatican Goliath-bully that seek to silence everyone who expose Pope crimes, Cardinal and Bishops’ crimes and Vatican Evils anywhere in the U.S.
The Vatican has deceitful ways of making people forget Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils centuries after centuries via the Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html
and through the panacea of “holiness”, and most of all, via the Magic of the Eucharist, read here http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html.
Even if the Pope and priests cannot clone Dolly the sheep they keep claiming they can clone Christ the Son of God during the Wizardry of the Eucharist that’s more fictional and more feel-good than Harry Potter, see images and links below. Hitler said, “Keep telling the same big lie and eventually people will believe it as the truth”.
The JP2 Army-John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army are the most evil priests but John Paul II is the fastest tracking saint from the 20th century http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html For half a century, the JP2 Army thrived as the Vatican itself admitted and which Amnesty International has declared Vatican guilty of human rights, and Cardinal Ratzinger’s crimes against humanity is now pending in The Hague http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html
The JP2 Army –John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army is the most violent, most vulgar and most evil of all priests. All Vatican priests are black magicians who claim to clone Christ even when they cannot clone Dolly the sheep, read here Eucharist feeds “dysfunction, disconnection, elitism...narcissism” of Benedict XVI http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/12/eucharist-feeds-dysfunction.html
President Obama should spearhead the United Nations to remove the Vatican as a “country” and begin taxing all Vatican properties in the USA like Italy did with the Vatican properties all over Rome and Italy, read here, http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray” with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/usa-ambassador-to-vatican-for-what.html
Christ revealed Himself in the New Testament, not in Rome
Christ said, “I am the way, the truth and the life” and “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free”. Self-acclaimed Vatican Vicars of Christ, Cardinals, Bishops, and priests should not be respected more than innocent helpless children and vulnerable women.
Christ said, “I am the way, the truth and the life” and “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free”. Christ came and revealed Himself in the New Testament – not in Rome -- but the Vatican has reincarnated Him into the Vicar of Christ the evil popes centuries after centuries, read here the top worst evil and criminal popes and the history of the Vatican -Billions - the MOST IMPORTANT to read about Christ’s transformation into the Vatican Mammon Beast http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
Christ is perceived in different ways according to one’s belief, one’s personal experiences and one’s state of life. Christ has revealed himself as Jesus the Liberator to Liberation Theology priests in Third World countries, but Cardinal Ratzinger and John Paul II silenced them all because as Forbes puts it, Benedict XVI is the 5th Most Powerful Person in the World, and he and John Paul II could not comprehend this “Christ of the poor” from their trillion dollars Chair of St. Peter at the Vatican Palace, read more here Forbes delusion of Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI powers http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/forbes-delusion-of-vatican-last-tsar.html and here
It’s time the world sets itself free from the Pharisee Pope, read our analysis of the Pope’s Christmas Speech where he mocks the world http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/popenesia-in-christmas-message-vatican.html
Look closely at these natural evil eyes of Benedict XVI, see more about his eyes in many angles here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/09/benedict-xvi-uses-hitler-to-divert.html
Benedict XVI’s Consecration to Mary cannot protect children from pedophile priests http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/05/benedict-xvis-consecration-to-mary.html
http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/05/evil-eyes-of-benedict-xvi.html
Anti-Catholic is not the same as anti-Semitism
In the U.S., the one-man show of Goliath-bully Bill Donohue of the $25 million Catholic League defends the Vatican Catholic Church. Anyone speaking up against the pope and Catholic priests (especially and including pedophile priests), and anyone who questions any one of the medieval Catholic doctrines, he brands them immediately as “anti-Catholic” - copying and inciting the sentiment of “anti-Semitism”. Bill Donohue is also like Samson in the Old Testament, as long as he had his long hair, he was strong. In Bill Donohue’s case, his long hair is his Vatican Billions supported $25 million Catholic League in America, read here Opus Dei's USA mouthpiece Bill Donohue is paid $400,000 to belittle the New York Times and anyone against Opus Dei World Domination Agenda. http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2011/04/opus-deis-usa-mouthpiece-bill-donohue.html
Octopus Dei Tentacles in the Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy
The entire 27 years papacy of John Paul II was controlled by Opus Dei and what mess they left behind for the Jesuit janitor Lombardi to clean up in public. So now, the Vatican Pied Piper news “Vatican Insider” came out with a clever title The Opus Dei and Benedict XVI’s “silent clean-up" operation, see news below.
Priests and nuns are not holier than us and not better than us
Priests and nuns are not holier-than-you and not better-than-you. Priests and nuns are not holier or better simply because they recite a formula of holy prayers and have (hypocritical) vows of poverty, chastity and obedience to the Pope, Cardinals and Bishops especially who aided and abetted half a century of JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests heinous crimes http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011_04_01_archive.html).
Priests and nuns are not holier or better than lay teachers, nurses, social workers, doctors, lab technicians, the police, firefighters, workers at McDonalds and restaurants, janitors, all professions and laborers.
No matter what good deeds the priests and nuns are doing, they are not holier-than nor better than -- the Red Cross workers and Doctors without Borders who are instantly everywhere in war zone or disaster areas regardless of race and creed – while those Popes, Cardinals and Bishops sit in the lap of luxury in the Vatican Palace and Bishops’ Palaces counting the Vatican Billions, and priests and nuns live in their comfy rectories and hushed million dollars convents, read here - The fantastic wealth of Irish Catholic religious orders revealed http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/07/fantastic-wealth-of-irish-catholic.html,
And Opus Dei million dollar houses of their priests and “numeraries” equivalent to nuns and religious brothers http://www.odan.org/foundations.htm
“Holiness” is not measured by the holy prayers a person recites because Christ condemned those Holy Priests Pharisees precisely because they recited the most holy prayers from the Bible and He called them white washed sepulchres, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/10/boston-to-host-former-swiss-guards.html
“It is acts of mercy” that I desire, God said in the Bible, and “not material or animal holocaust”. Christ got angry at those merchants selling those holy lambs for sacrifice in the Temple of Solomon, today that would be Holy Mass Tourism, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
Read about the impotent Zeus statue of St. Joseph who overlooked 50 years of sodomy in College Notre Dame here, BOYCOTT Oratory of St.Joseph http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/boycott-oratory-of-saint-joseph-candles.html
The “Holy Father“ Pope and his copy-cat “holy fathers” Catholic priests cannot clone Dolly the sheep and therefore they cannot clone Christ either, read our related article, OC Diocese buys Crystal Cathedral as flesh-factory of Christ... for wealthy God-flesh-eating Catholics http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/oc-diocese-buys-crystal-cathedral-as.html
Remember the historical cloned sheep Dolly? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep) It was the cream of the crop top team of scientists who cloned her.
Well, the black magic holy words of a team of “holy priests” cannot clone Christ the Son God either, read about the Divine Trinity http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/12/gay-trinity-of-father-son-and-holy
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, http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html
Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders
Pearl Harbor - 3,000 victims - 170 planes - Admiral Yamamoto
WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden
JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,100 pedophile priests covered-up by John Paul II, Cardinal Ratzinger, Opus Dei the Vatican Trinity, plus all Cardinals, Bishops, vicars
The womb of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady of Lourdes carried Jesus this way
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http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html
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,
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.
Ireland's greatest saint St. Patrick had a very famous 'breastplate' prayer:
NCAA & Penn State more moral than Vatican. Sports is more moral than John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html
Los Angeles files. Mahony must be jailed as Nazis caught in their old age and retirement http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/los-angeles-files-mahony-must-be-jailed.html
The names of the transferring or covering up Bishops and Cardinals are: Roll Call Please!
http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2008/07/letter-to-opus-dei-pope-john-paul-ii.html
Analysis of Pope’s homily in Year for Priests -sorcerers of Christ’s flesh and blood
http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/06/eve-and-benedict-xvi-blame-devil.html
Benedict calls Cardinals for a one-day conference to tackle the 26+ years Clergy Sex Abuse of Biblical Proportions (with Vatican crocodile tears) http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/11/benedict-calls-cardinals-for-one-day.html
Premier Vaticanista John L. Allen Jr describes his unlimited access into the Vatican and Papal apartments http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/11/premier-vaticanista-john-l-allen-jr.html
The Hague: Full text Criminal Charges against Dr. Joseph Ratzinger, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html
NCAA & Penn State more moral than Vatican. Sports is more moral than John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html
Opus Dei response to Priestly Sex Scandal in 2002 and they are still saying the same things today.... http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/opus-dei-response-to-priestly-sex.html
Opus Dei origin of "the Great" John Paul II. Opus Dei tentacles in USA, Chile, Nicaragua, Philippines, Cuba, and others http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/opus-dei-origin-of-great-john-paul-ii.html
Navarro-Valls in New York Times interview: A psychiatrist with a penchant for media manipulation. Two open letters sent to Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/navarro-valls-in-new-york-times.html
Reasons why Opus Dei covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army for decades: Words of Opus Dei Joaquin Navarro-Valls http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/04/reasons-why-opus-dei-covered-up-john.html
Opus Dei female symbol for John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/04/opus-dei-female-symbol-for-john-paul-ii.html
Why John Paul II is Opus Dei's Patron Saint: analysis of conference at Holy Cross Pontifical University in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.html
John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html
Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/02/holy-heist-john-paul-ii-wyd-had-no-role.html
Saint? John Paul II slept in peace at the Vatican knowing that Fr. Marcial Maciel plus thousands of pedophile priests were raping thousands of boys http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/02/saint-john-paul-ii-slept-in-peace-at.html
John Paul II the Pope Sun (see the Danish cartoonist depiction of him as the Pope Sun http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html
John L.Allen Jr.Pied Piper of John Paul II deceives Catholics with his essay Fast-Track Saint in Newsweek -- with Vatican lunacy & Satanic timeline http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/
The Nazis of Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church of Benedict XVI they both burn human beings in Auschwitz and in Hell http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/02/nazis-of-hitler-and-roman-catholic.html
Opus Dei Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts and Rapists : Prayer to Saint John Paul II = Opus Dei Pope #1.... Benedict XVI is Opus Dei Pope #2 http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2011/04/john-paul-ii-saint-of-pedophiles-and.html
The Opus Dei fabricates “The Age of Benedict XVI” in Rome http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/06/opus-dei-fabricate-age-of-benedict-xvi.html
Popenesia in Christmas Message: Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI does not 'practise what he preach’ and he’s suffering from Vaticanesia (papal amnesia) http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/popenesia-in-christmas-message-vatican.html
The John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, numbering 6,100 priests in the United States of America alone and now expanding into thousands in Ireland, is more heinous and monstrous than heresy or non-belief in the Eucharist-alchemy-magic by the pope and priests so why has Benedict XVI not issue excommunication to these bestial priests or priestly beasts? Rather Benedict XVI has issue “silence” (sort of excommunication) to Jesuits like Jon Sobrino, Roger Haight and the late Jacques Dupuis? The answer is obvious, like father like son, like John Paul II, Benedict XVI has no charity like Mother Teresa see the John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/11/john-paul-ii-did-not-have-charity-of.html
Benedict XVI does “not see Christ” in the 12,000 American victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. But he will witch-hunt heretics of the Eucharist (like us).
When will Catholics ever learn that “Benedict XVI does not have the power to say "Let there be God in the Eucharist" just like he has no power to say "Let there be light " in Genesis http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2009/12/benedict-xvi-has-no-power-to-say-let.html.
If Benedict XVI has no power with his papal words to command-invisible-matter such as light, he has no power to command the Creator-of-the-universe to come down on Earth and be in his hands at Mass.
It is that simple and clear. Benedict XVI is incapable of turning the host-into-the-flesh of God in the Mass. Benedict is like the Emperor’s Clothes, Benedict XVI is naked and powerless. http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2009/12/urbi-et-orbi-john-paul-ii-pedophile.html
Can Benedict XVI and John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army of sodomy bestial priests say “Let there be light” and there was light? http://jp2army.blogspot.com/
Can Benedict XVI and John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army of sodomy bestial priests say “Let there be fish in the ocean, and birds in the air” and there were fish and birds…?
Can Benedict XVI and John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army sodomy bestial priests say “Let there be stars in the heavens” and stars suddenly appeared?
http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2009/12/benedict-xvi-has-no-power-to-say-let.html
It is precisely because of Catholics’ belief in the Eucharist throughout the centuries that has caused them to adulate the Holy Father Pope and then ignore the “sins of the Holy Fathers” even the most bestial pedophile priests against their own children today. The power of the Eucharist is the power of evil itself because it sees evil and do nothing about evil but rather hide it in utmost secrecy as in Crimen sollicitationis http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/06/benedict-xvi-in-google-video-sex-crimes.html.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta “saw Christ” in the HINDUS people of India dying in the streets of Calcutta, but Benedict XVI “cannot see Christ” in the CATHOLICS altar boys and girls sodomized by the John Paul II Pedophile Priests. Benedict XVI is concerned only with perpetuating the powers of papacy through the deceitful Sacrament of the Eucharist and will waste his time only in the witch-hunt of heretics-of-the-Eucharist together with his GAY private secretary http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/06/benedict-xvis-handsome-private.html
Theology and John Paul II are heartless and together they made Father Marcial Maciel and pedophile priests thrive, read our related article here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/05/theology-and-john-paul-ii-are-heartless.html
Nazis and the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army were both an inherently evil all-male elite hierarchy born from the Devil's bowels - read our article here http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/01/nazis-and-john-paul-ii-pedophiles.html
John Paul smelled Devil`s Bowels as roses for 27 years as he deified Father Marcial Maciel and deified Cardinal Bernard Law - read our article here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-smelled-devils-bowels-as.html.
Opus Dei orchestrated John Paul II's trip to El Salvador - by Jon Sobrino http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007/11/john-paul-ii-oppressed-ignacio.html
Christ did not wear red shoes like the Pope http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/08/benedict-xvi-vicar-of-christ-and-jon.html
Oprah did more good than John Paul II for 25 years. Oprah gave truth and exposed evil while John Paul II hid them in his 2 evil papal Achilles Heels http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/oprah-did-more-good-than-john-paul-ii.html
Catholics can emulate Jews [who hunted down Nazi officers] by hunting down pedophile priests’ officers Benedict XVI & Bishops into the World Court read more here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/02/catholics-can-emulate-jews-who-hunted.html .
The Catholic Church is worse than communism where there is no ‘freedom of speech’ - read our related article here about Vatican Temple Police http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/05/temple-police-australian-is-part-of.html and Vatican Terror on Galileo, priests and the poor, women and children
Priests are the WIZARDS of HOST – BLACK MAGIC magicians of the flesh of God! read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/oc-diocese-buys-crystal-cathedral-as.htm
Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html
NCAA & Penn State more moral than Vatican. Sports is more moral than John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html
Pope’s Christmas speech of 2012 , our analysis here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/popenesia-in-christmas-message-vatican.html
USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray” with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/usa-ambassador-to-vatican-for-what.html
Opus Dei Criminal Bishop Finn attacks National Catholic Reporter as he desperately cling to power as a tyrannical ruler http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/criminal-bishop-finn-attacks-national.html
Ireland condemns Vatican secrecy on Cloyne Diocese pedophile priests. Ireland vis-à-vis USA: the way they deal with crimes by the Vatican http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/07/ireland-government-condemns-vatican.html
Forbes delusion of Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI powers http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/forbes-delusion-of-vatican-last-tsar.html
The 4 cornerstones of the Vatican: Narcissism, dysfunction, disconnection, elitism http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/07/4-cornerstons-of-vatican-narcissism.html
Amnesty International names Vatican guilty of violation of human rights http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2011/05/amnesty-international-names-vatican-in.html
The Hague: Full text Criminal Charges against Dr. Joseph Ratzinger, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html
Synod of Bishops & New Evangelization...or New Marketing of Old Vatican Deceits. Why Vatican must end as a “country” . Christ the Vatican Slave! Australia JP2 Army! http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/why-vatican-must-end-as-country-vatican.html
Criminal Bishop Finn attacks National Catholic Reporter as he desperately cling to power as a tyrannical ruler http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/criminal-bishop-finn-attacks-national.html
Diamond bride Mother Angelica’s EWTN acquires Fr. Marcial Maciel’s National Catholic Register: same God and Mammon, same hypocrisy http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/01/diamond-bride-mother-angelicas-ewtn.html
Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html
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News for February 14, 2013
Money Scandal Behind Papal Coup d'Etat
February 11, 2013
Left, The Ex Pope and the New Pope? Joseph Ratzinger (l) and the palace coup-master, Cardinal Bertone
"What sounded the death knell on Pope Benedict was his personal involvement in the bribery and money-laundering practices of the Vatican Bank."
by Kevin Annett
(henrymakow.com)
Theories are abounding now that the first pope in seven centuries is resigning his office. But as always, the most direct way to the truth behind the world's oldest corporation is simply to follow the money: and specifically, Vatican Bank money.
First of all, let's put to rest, the fallacy that "looming scandals" about child rape and coverup are behind Joseph Ratzinger's resignation. That's just the cover story.
Nobody in the church hierarchy is losing sleep over their standing, canon-law endorsed policy of concealing and protecting child rapists in their ranks. Even the International Criminal Court application about such crimes has been stymied by catholic-run legislators and jurists.
What sounded the death knell on Pope Benedict was his personal involvement in the bribery and money-laundering practices of the Vatican Bank, comically known as The Institute of Religious Works (IOR); and how that dirty connection gave the anti-Ratzinger faction in the College of Cardinals the lever they needed to dump the obstinate German from the papal throne.
We had a whiff of that dump-Rat Boy agenda last year, when "Vatileaks" broke a ludicrous story of how Ratzinger's loyal butler Paolo Gabriele disclosed the pope's dirty secrets to the Italian media. In fact, the damning documents detailing Ratzinger's secret rewarding of Vatican contracts to his friends and family members originated in the Vatican Secretary of State's office, which the fall-guy butler could not have had access to.
The Secretary of State and the real power behind the papacy is Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, an old insider who also engineered the sacking of Gotti Tedeschi, head of the Vatican Bank, last May.
Tedeschi had taken seriously the call of the European Parliament for "greater transparency" by the Vatican Bank /IOR, and was about to disclose to Brussels how his bosses had been laundering money for the mob for decades. The last Pope who had tried such a disclosure, John Paul 1, died from poisoning in September, 1978 after less than a month in office.
But even with Tedeschi silenced, the IOR house of cards kept tumbling, as the European Parliament seized from it 300 million Euros fraudulently acquired. Even the American Securities and Exchange Commission declared the IOR's assets and practices "insecure". A major Vatican housecleaning was required; or at least, the appearance of one.
It was the pivotal Cardinal Bertone who leaked the pope's diary and other incriminating papers to a catholic-friendly journalist in Rome last year the same month that Tedeschi was sacked, to prepare the world for Ratzinger's removal. For it is Bertone who is now reaping the benefits of the papal housecleaning. He is not only a primary contender for the pope's position but a key player in the IOR.
During my second speaking tour in Rome, in the spring of 2010, I met with several senior Italian senators and officials of the parliamentary Radical Party. They all said the same thing about why Joseph Ratzinger had been made pope, and what awaited him. To quote one of those politicians,
"Nobody becomes pope without a sordid past, because only with such liabilities can he be controlled by the Curia. It's the same in any big company. Well, Ratzinger made many indiscretions as a Cardinal and made many enemies. His signing letters ordering criminal concealment was just one sin. He was to be the scapegoat for all of the trash that the church knew would surface"
SCAPEGOAT
So now, the papal scapegoat is gone, pensioned off to wherever ex-popes end up; and the time for the big face-saving lie has arrived.
The idea of applying cosmetic surgery to a decaying facade like the Church of Rome reminds me of Shirley Maclaine trying to look forty at the age of ninety. And yet appearances are everything in show business as well as in religion.
Tarcisio Bertone is about as institutional as you can get, and represents the old Italian crowd of the Curia, who are part of the Mob-government-papal clique that run the country and the Roman Catholic church. In the words of one of the Roman Senators I spoke with,
"You must understand that in my country, the Mafia and the government and the Vatican are all the same people, and they really have only one concern: protecting their assets."
Bertone, or whoever from the ranks of his victorious faction does assume the papal tiria, cannot be expected to do much but maintain the assets and security of the church, and that means continuing the policies of silence and dissimulation that keeps the cash flowing. But their position is more difficult now in the wake of the enormous rifts developing within the wider church, where Cardinals are facing criminal prosecution for shielding child rapists, and talk of disaffiliating from Rome is widespread among Irish, American and German Bishops.
"We have all the grounds for a second Reformation now. That's how serious is the crisis. The church will either rid itself of itself or face collapse" said an Italian media commentator recently.
It was easy to despise Joseph Ratzinger: the Hitler Youth raised, reactionary bigot who sacked liberal and independent thinkers in his church as the Cardinal-head of the Vatican Inquisition, and who told American Bishops that purgatory awaited any of them who did not cover up priestly child rape. Even among fellow Cardinals, he was known as "Joe the Rat".
But Ratzinger was a made to order object of hatred, and put there to play out the oldest game in politics: the venting of popular rage on a disposable figurehead so that the institution itself could proceed unscathed.
I doubt that it's totally coincidental that Ratzinger was forced out of office so quickly barely ten days after our Common Law court published online hard evidence of the Pope's involvement in crimes against humanity. Any new Pope will face the same charges, of colluding in a massive criminal conspiracy.
But the real issue is not who or what will replace Joseph Ratzinger as the latest figurehead, but how to displace the Vatican itself as a criminal power unto itself. And that struggle is just commencing.
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Victims Groups Implicate Ratzinger in Sex Abuse Cover Up
http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/feb/11/pope-complicit-child-abuse-say-victims
Joseph Farrell on Ratzinger Resignation
I wrote to Leo Zagami in Rome, asking if Annett's accusations have merit. His reply:
Yes and there is much more to it I had previously published in my latest books and I am coming out in Italy next month in March 2013 with two new books one called The Invisible Masters of the NWO (I Maestri Invisibili del NWO) published by TERRE SOMMERSE that brings some new answers to the Ratzinger story as I had already wrote about the link with the murder plot and his possible resignation one year ago and all the strange developments connected to it that took place in 2012 including the scandal of the MPS Bank (Monte dei Paschi di Siena) tied to the IOR and international Freemasonry and the visit in March 2013 of Queen Elisabeth II in Rome , this book is co-written with journalist Enrica Perucchietti. Leo Zagami is as you know considered even in Italy on the biggest experts on Vatican secrets and another book will came out by two of the most respected Vaticanist Feruccio Pinotti e Giacomo Galeazzi Vaticano massone. Un patto segreto e una finta inimicizia
that will include a chapter on Vatican Freemasonry and the latest events by myself Leo Zagami.
And I have been now been offered to write also a instant book with my journalist colleague Enrica Perucchietti on the particularity of the month of March as all Catholics will become sedevacantist for once.
Second Comment from Richard on the Prophesy of the Popes:
Cardinal Bertone is the Secretary of State of the Roman Curia, the structure that actually runs the Roman Church. As with the President of the United States, the Papal role is largely figurative. Theoretically he heads the Curia, but the real boss is Secretary of State.
(Left, Bertone giving an expert Masonic grip to a brother in Australia in 2007.)
Now, here's something that occurred to me tonight from the information that's come out.
The Prophecy of the Popes, attributed to Saint Malachy, is a list of 112 short phrases in Latin. They purport to describe each of the Roman Catholic popes (along with a few anti-popes), beginning with Pope Celestine II (elected in 1143) and concluding with current pope Benedict XVI's successor.
(Left, Bertone giving an expert Masonic grip to a brother in Australia in 2007.)
The Prophecy of the Popes calls this last Pope "Peter the Roman". Nobody can resist a good prophecy. There's been buzz today on Catholic channels about Bertone's full name being Cardinal Tarcisio PIETRO Bertone of Romano, Turin, Italy.
You see the prophecy says this last Pope will pontificate over the destruction of Rome. A lot of bets were placed last year that Benedict XVI would be gone in 2012 so the last Pope could be seated before December 21st. (Only problem was that Catholics never used the Mayan long count Calendar. - a little humor there..)
Rumors that Bertone's election is a done deal because of his power with the Curia and the Italian faction may be overstated. Of 120 cardinal electors, only 28 are Italians, and nearly half are Hispanic, African and various Asian and others.
Comments for "Money Scandal Behind Papal Coup d'Etat"
Steven said (February 12, 2013):
It would not surprise me that if the next Pope was a back to basics reformer the Freemasons and elements of the Jewish community would attempt to persecute the church and its followers... A corrupt church they would tolerate but a spiritually strong in the Lord church they would love to kill if they couldn't corrupt it. Another thing to remember is that the real biblical city of seven hills that really matters is Jerusalem and not Rome.
O said (February 12, 2013):
This is the most corrupted religious organization on the face of the earth, and all goes back to 1982 with the Banco Ambrosiano affair, as a few years later found out why the Vatican was established as a separate State.
It was to execute the status of Diplomatic immunity, and if you ever wondered why a religious organization has Diplomats running all over the world with suitcases that are sealed with internationally immunity to be searched?
There was a time in my life that had an office dealing with clients that had big money, and one day was approached by someone I knew, and said do you have any clients with big money somewhere that is frozen? I said yes, so he said want you to meet someone.
It was all a matter of me charging a fee of say 5% on the capital, as the Pope at that time wanted to get his money back and he told me who I would be meeting, as would be a Vatican Diplomat with an agenda, so we met.
The first thing I wanted to see was his Diplomatic passport, and other identification which he had, and what he said was a wake up for me, as they could move financial assets out of most countries under the direction of the Pope and they would be charging a 10% fee to get the money out as a tithe, and could charge a brokerage fee as well, so we could all make money; they would move gold, cash, or investment assets with Diplomatic immunity. I said was not interested, and showed him the door.
Winston1984 said (February 12, 2013):
Sorry, with all due respect,
It’s hard to imagine a thicker condensate of BS..
Pope & Vatican for sure are not immune from fault,
but what here is presented as a cleansing report
is voiced by the dirtiest pans saying black to the pot...
Monica said (February 12, 2013):
I'm in the "Ratzinger was a scapegoat" camp, and a planned one at that. Nothing "just happens" when Illuminati and their money are involved. They are eagerly looking forward to the culmination of their plans to completely destroy the Catholic Church, but be advised, in spite of the appearances soon to come, it is already a fait accompli.
The next pope will appear to the public as really holy. He will purport to be a Great Restorer who will supposedly bring a New Springtime to the Church, but this Peter The Roman will be anything but. He will be privately as dissolute and corrupt as any "old Roman". He will indeed preside over the final collapse of the institutional Catholic Church and usher in the era of the supposed Great Monarch.
Peter the Roman will be the final cattle call to rope traditionalists back into the Church before handing the faithful over to the One World Religion under the Anti-Christ who will be the self-proclaimed Great Monarch they are all expecting.
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Feburary 14, 2013
All Voices
If you suspected there was more to the story behind the historic resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, there may be emerging evidence to support that suspicion.
The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) reported on Thursday that Pope Benedict became the first pope to resign in nearly 600 years in order to avoid criminal prosecution for concealing knowledge of “documented crimes of child torture, trafficking and genocide,” connected to the Roman Catholic Church.
The ITCCS report cites a letter from Rev. Kevin Annett to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, written a week before the pope officially resigned.
Feminist Studies in Religion
Posted by Mary E. Hunt on Feb 14, 2013
Patriarchy will get unimaginable amounts of free publicity for the next month as the Roman Catholic Church reshuffles the papal deck. Media commentators will fawn over the proceedings triggered by the unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. Unrivaled displays of kyriarchy will be beamed into our homes as reporters explain piously the ancient rituals of a men’s club cloning its own head. It will be hard to ignore and difficult to make sense of, even though the outcome is clear. When the smoke subsides after the Conclave, there will still be a single man at the helm.
As a media extravaganza full of color and pageantry, the rituals will be hard to beat. The whole package will serve to reinforce the patriarchal patterns of a religious tradition whose billion adherents deserve better, patterns that are alive and well beyond the walls of Rome. No woman will have a voice or a vote in the Conclave. Sisters and consecrated laywomen will care for the elderly pope, but otherwise this is a men’s scene without any questions asked. The explicit—not just implicit, but explicit—message is that men are in charge: men confect the sacred mysteries, men decide whom to elect, men pray, men reflect the divine, men have it all under their control. This carries over into the larger culture as well. It is no wonder violence against women is epidemic.
Sensible feminist friends ask why I worry about such things. I reply that some women’s birth control and abortions are at stake; some young LGBTIQ people will commit suicide because of this crowd. Abuse survivors live with the consequences of acts perpetrated by priests and covered up by these bishops, cardinals, and now popes (plural). Sounds dramatic, but sadly it is true. Moreover, male entitlement in the world, including the violence done to women and girls, is baptized and confirmed by this symbol system. It has the pernicious impact of making the male-only power model seem holy. Ditto for the racist, heterosexist dimensions as well, not to mention the Euro-centrism and moneyed assumptions that underlie the proceedings.
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
As superficial journalists speculate on the next Pope’s nationality with non-stop nonsense, the Roman Holy Empire is falling before their unseeing eyes. The important issue is not who the next pope will be. If the Catholic Church leadership doesn’t restore, pronto, the accountability that Jesus and his early followers demanded, international prosecutors and regulators will do it for them, and soon.
The Pope’s appointment today of a likely well compensated ex-investment banker, also a German lawyer and Knight of Malta, to “clean up” the Vatican Bank is merely the latest example of incompetent tactics in the futile battles among Cardinals taking place daily on the decks of the Vatican’s Titanic. Whomever is elected next Pope will only get to watch the Church sink rapidly, after having taken on dirty water for decades from the obscene child abuse cover-up iceberg. You cannot try to cover-up the rape of hundreds of thousands of children by priests and expect to get away with it forever. Only clueless celibate males sailing on the rudderless Vatican Titanic could fail to understand this.
Pope John XXIII issued in 1962 the main secrecy order on priest child sex abuse. But he also realized that accountabilty had to be restored to save the Church. He took the first step by trying to get the Vatican Cardinals to share power with the worldwide bishops. He died soon therafter and the Vatican Cardinals’ clique rejected power sharing craftily. Since then, they have installed compliant Popes who like the papal prestige and are happy to do the clique’s bidding. But the democratic rule of law has run out of patience with clerical child abusers and Popes no longer have any effective political power, as the re-election of President Obama just proved.The International Sheriff is on his way and the Pope cannot hide with Georgeous Georg in a refurbished convent. His own Cardinals will help nail him, it appears.
But at this point does any of this matter to most Catholics worldwide? While it may seem overly pessimistic to say so soon that the next Pope will likely fail too, it is just being realistic; and yet there is also room for much optimism. The papal resignation is tantamount to an admission of failure and will lead to de-mystification of the papacy quickly. Pope Benedict XVI, soon to again be non-Pontiff, Joseph Ratzinger, and his Vatican clique led by Cardinal Sodano et al., have already set the stage for the next failure. ...
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Bloomberg
By Margaret Carlson Feb 14, 2013
This week Margaret Carlson and Ramesh Ponnuru are discussing the legacy of Pope Benedict XVI. Previously, Ramesh responded to Margaret's column.
The thing about the pope, Ramesh, is that he's as close to all-powerful as we have in this vale of tears. He’s the president without Congress holding him down. He’s infallible when he wants to be. He has no H.R. department telling him whom he can and cannot fire.
As head of the euphemistically named Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, charged with handling the sex-abuse scandal, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger knew the magnitude of the problem. According to the U.S. Conference of Bishops, since 1950, there have been 6,100 accused priests and religious and 16,000 victims.
As head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI could have dramatically cleaned house.
As the spiritual leader of the world's Catholics, he let us down.
SBS
Source: AAP
A priest has told a Victorian inquiry there is extraordinary denial within the Catholic Church hierarchy about sexual abuse.
The Catholic Church is in extraordinary denial over child sex abuse and its absolute mess of a system for dealing with victims has lost all credibility, a priest says.
Geelong-based priest Father Kevin Dillon says the church lacks accountability, is more interested in protecting its name and assets and needs to overhaul the way it deals with abuse victims.
The church hierarchy has been in denial on the issue of sexual abuse, Fr Dillon told a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into sexual abuse within religious organisations during a hearing in Geelong on Friday.
Big Pond News
Friday, February 15, 2013
A Catholic priest says the church has a culture of denial and asset protection in dealing with victims of sexual abuse.
Geelong-based priest Father Kevin Dillon has told the Victorian parliamentary committee into sexual abuse within religious organisations that there is 'extraordinary denial' within the church hierarchy about sexual abuse.
'I think of the riding instructions to protect the church's good name ... (and) protect their assets,' he told the inquiry on Friday.
'I think often the church works with a lack of accountability.'
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News for February 11, 2013
We post below especially two news articles by the Irish abuse victims and by the co-director of Bishops Accountability. We will be updating with our commentaries and adding articles in this post regularly.
The articles below about Vatican Last Tsar Ratzinger’s resignation are statements that speaks about the true legacy of Ratzinger.
All other news articles are part of the Vatican Deceits Media Empire with much wasted space vying for readership. The Vatican Pied Pipers media foot soldiers will now all come out in full force, read some of their articles here, Los Angeles files The Vatican Pied Pipers will capitalize on this event to toot on the mask of the papacy to protect the Vatican Mammon.
Pope to Resign: Statement by Anne Barrett Doyle, Co-Director, BishopAccountability.org
UNITED STATES
BishopAccountability.org
Joseph Ratzinger leaves the papacy having failed to achieve what should have been his job one: to rectify the incalculable harm done to the hundreds of thousands of children sexually abused by Catholic priests. He leaves hundreds of culpable bishops in power and a culture of secrecy intact.
Benedict’s apologies to victims were frequent. When he traveled to the US in April 2008, he promised that the Church would do "whatever possible to help, to assist, to heal" victims. In February 2010, meeting with Irish bishops, he called child sexual abuse “heinous.” In his letter to the Irish people in 2010, he expressed “shame and remorse.”
Benedict's words rang hollow. He spoke as a shocked bystander, as if he had just stumbled upon the abuse crisis. But more than anyone in the Vatican, he knew about the damage done to innocent children. As archbishop of Munich and Freising, Cardinal Ratzinger had allowed the transfer of accused priest Rev. Peter Hullermann, and certainly managed many other abuse cases as well. Since 1981, when he was named head of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith (CDF), he had been at the center of the Vatican’s abuse bureaucracy, reviewing many files and, unfortunately, implementing Pope John Paul II’s policy of not laicizing abusive priests. In Spring 2001, the Pope gave Cardinal Ratzinger and the CDF sole responsibility for abuse cases, and in that role, Cardinal Ratzinger read hundreds of files and became the Vatican’s most knowledgeable and powerful person on this issue.
The tragedy is that as Pope he could have enacted true reform. He could have forced the immediate resignation of bishops who had enabled sexual predators. He could have decreed that every bishop post on his website the names, assignment histories, and allegations of accused priests. He could have made the CDF transparent in its handling of cases, instead of the black box that it remains to this day. He could have acted on the Vatican’s vast knowledge of these cases, instead of leaving the work to the survivors, investigative reporters, grand juries in the US, and government commissions in Ireland and Australia.
Instead of remedies, he gave us words. Instead of true penitence, he gave us public relations. His failure to enact real change in the Church’s handling of sexually abusive priests will be his significant and shameful legacy.
About BishopAccountability.org
Launched in 2003 by lay Catholics in Boston, BishopAccountability.org is a comprehensive archive and data center focused on the worldwide sexual abuse crisis in the Roman Catholic Church. It has compiled an online database of 3,800 publicly accused US priests. Its online library contains more than 100,000 pages of church records, legal documents, and media reports. Its mission is to give the public one-stop access to information about the crisis throughout the world. An independent non-profit, BishopAccountability.org is not a victim's group, does not advocate specific church reforms, and is not affiliated with any advocacy or religious group.
Contact:
Anne Barrett Doyle, Co-Director, barrett.doyle@comcast.net, 781-439-5208
Terence McKiernan, Founder and President, mckiernan1@comcast.net, 508-479-9304
Pope Benedict 'complicit in child sex abuse scandals', say victims' groups
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/11/pope-complicit-child-abuse-say-victims
Pope Benedict XVI resigns: Irish abuse victims welcome resignation
IRELAND
The Telegraph (United Kingdom)
A group representing victims of child abuse in Catholic-run institutions in Ireland on Monday welcomed the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI after "he promised a lot but delivered nothing".
"This pope had a great opportunity to finally address the decades of abuse in the church but at the end of the day he did nothing but promise everything and in the end he ultimately delivered nothing," John Kelly, of the Survivors of Child Abuse support group, told AFP.
Ireland has been stunned by a series of revealing reports in recent years that lifted the lid on decades of child abuse suffered at the hands of religious members that stretches back to the foundation of the state in 1922.
"We asked the pope for sanctions against the religious orders who committed the abuse and the religious leaders in Ireland who allowed this to happen but to our dismay nothing has happened," Kelly added.
A sign from above? Lightning strikes Vatican hours after Pope's shock resignation
VATICAN CITY
Mirror (United Kingdom)
[with photo of the lightning strike]
This was the moment lightning struck the Vatican today - hours after Pope Benedict XVI's bolt-from-the-blue resignation.
The lightning touched the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, one of the holiest Catholic churches, after the Pope's shock admission he lacks strength to do the job.
The Vatican stressed that no specific medical condition prompted Benedict's decision to quit - the first pontiff to do so in 600 years.
The move surprised even his closest aides, even though Benedict, 85, had made clear in the past he would step down if he became too old or infirm.
Pope resigns without ever apologizing to Milwaukee’s deaf victims from St. John’s
UNITED STATES
SNAP Wisconsin
Statement by John Pilmaier, SNAP Wisconsin Director
CONTACT: 414.429.7259
It is difficult today, with the announcement that Pope Benedict XVI is retiring this month, not to think of the many victim/survivors of sexual abuse from St. John’s School for the Deaf.
It was Benedict, as Cardinal Ratzinger in his previous post running the powerful Doctrine for the Congregation of the Faith CDF), who was in charge of the fate of the notorious Fr. Lawrence Murphy. Murphy, Ratzinger knew, had sexually assaulted at least 200 children at the boarding school in Milwaukee. Ratzinger ordered that Murphy be left in ministry, unpunished and unprosecuted, undetected to the public, and remain a priest, with all the rights, honors, and power which the church grants only to ordained clerics, right up until his death.
Benedict never once contacted, spoke to, or apologized to the deaf victims from St. John’s
Benedict’s fateful decision with Murphy at the time left children at risk in Wisconsin and also hundreds of deaf victims without a voice in their church. Is it little wonder, then, that Benedict leaves the Papacy without really addressing, fundamentally, the sex abuse crisis in the global church?
Benedict Resigns...
UNITED STATES
SNAP Wisconsin
Benedict Resigns: removing all known child sex offenders from the priesthood, firing bishops who conspired in covered-ups, must be new Pope’s first act
Statement by Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director
CONTACT: 414.429.7259
Pope Benedict, who announced today he will resign on February 28, will leave his tenure as Pope without having made the one, simple moral and executive decision that would have, in a single stroke of his pen, protected potentially millions of children from harm, brought justice to hundreds of thousands of victims, and finally turned the church on a path towards true recovery and reform: worldwide zero tolerance of child sex abuse by priests.
Because he never issued this decree, Benedict leaves office not only with countless children at risk around the world but scores of Cardinals and bishops in leadership positions who are actively covering up child sex abuse.
Amazingly, across the world today, although there was a modification in church law allowed by the Vatican for the United States, if you are a priest and have been found by your bishop to have raped or sexually assaulted a child, you can remain in the priesthood and in ministry, your crimes left secret and unpunished.
No other profession working with children in civil society today formally allows for this bizarre possibility under their occupational rules. Tragically, this makes the priesthood, in some ways, the most dangerous such occupation for children across the globe. Tragic and unnecessary, since obviously the vast majority of priests never harm a child and serve and support the children in their ministry admirably.
Sexual abuse victims blast Benedict papacy
VATICAN CITY
Reuters
James Mackenzie
Reuters
3:43 p.m. CST, February 11, 2013
ROME (Reuters) - Pope Benedict leaves office having failed to stamp out the sexual abuse of children by priests and with the culture of secrecy that fostered the scandal still in place, groups representing some of the victims said on Monday.
Bishops Accountability, a U.S. pressure group, said the pope had apologized frequently for the harm done by priests but had never taken effective action to rectify the "incalculable harm" done to hundreds of thousands of children by predatory clergy.
"Benedict's words rang hollow. He spoke as a shocked bystander, as if he had just stumbled upon the abuse crisis," Anne Barrett Doyle, the group's co-director said in a statement.
The festering child abuse scandal broke out well before the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger took office in 2005 but it overshadowed his papacy from the beginning, as more and more cases came to light in dioceses across the world.
Catholic Clergy Child Abuse Investigations Since 2005 … and a Papal Resignation
UNITED STATES
Patrick J. Wall
The German Pope’s resignation today as the Bishop of Rome (for health reasons) is the final lie in his Papacy. Since 2005, Benedict XVI’s church has been the subject of more civil and criminal inquiries of the Church since the time of the Protestant Reformation.
Just look at the sheer volume of child abuse and financial abuse inquires during Benedict XVI’s reign. The real story is how these worldwide child abuse inquires brought on the first resignation of a healthy Pope in eight centuries.
Click on the links to read the full reports.
Germany
German Bishops Halt Child Abuse Inquiry
Australia
Australian Prime Minister Julian Gillard announces National Inquiry of child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church
Belgium
Report on wide spread child abuse in Belgian Church
Bishop Roger Vanghuewe resigns after child abuse accusations
Mexico
Reverend Marcial Maciel, Founder of the Legionaries of Christ, was removed in 19 after first being removed as head of the Order for sexually abusing children in the 1950′s
United States
Los Angeles – Cardinal Roger Mahony’s 1985-2011 coverup of 128 priest perpetrators is revealed and Benedict XVI remains silent
Milwaukee – In the midst of planning for Bankruptcy and moving assets to shield them from child sex abuse survivors, Archbishop Dolan pays for the perpetrators silence. Pope Benedict XVI rewards Dolan and promotes him to Cardinal
INT - SNAP to Pope: Use remaining two weeks to protect kids
UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by Barbara Dorris on February 11, 2013
No matter how tired or weak Pope Benedict may be, he still has two weeks to use his vast power to protect youngsters. Before he steps down, we hope he will show true leadership and compassion and take tangible action to safeguard vulnerable children.
(Imagine the shock waves – and the hope – that would be generated if, in his waning days, the pontiff demoted, disciplined, or defrocked even a handful of bishops who are concealing child sex crimes. And imagine the deterrent that would be to present and future cover ups.)
It’s reckless to assume the next pope will handle abuse and cover ups better. Vigilance, not complacency, protects kids. The next pope must be judged by his actual track record, not by our naïve assumptions.
Pope Benedict followed the same script church officials have used for years, speaking of abuse in oblique terms and only when forced to do so, ignoring the cover ups, using past tense (as if to pretend clergy sex crimes and cover ups are not still happening now). Instead of taking sweeping, proactive steps to deter wrongdoing, he offered only belated verbal apologies and ineffective symbolic gestures.
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ...
MASSACHUSETTS
Wicked Local Fall River
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests weighs in on Pope Benedict XVI's decision to resign
By Deborah Allard
Herald News Staff Reporter
Posted Feb 11, 2013
FALL RIVER —
An international survivor’s network for those abused by priests is asking Pope Benedict XVI to use his “vast power” in his remaining two weeks to take tangible action to safeguard vulnerable children.
The pope announced he will resign on Feb. 28 due to advanced age and declining strength.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said Pope Benedict unfortunately “followed the same script church officials have used for years,” speaking only of church sexual abuse when “forced to do so,” said Barbara Dorris, outreach director for SNAP.
The group on more than one occasion has organized protests in Fall River, the most recent last summer, and has asked for cooperation from Bishop of the Fall River Diocese George W. Coleman.
In the age of the smartphone, a Pope has no choice but to retire
UNITED STATES
The Worthy Adversary
Posted by Joelle Casteix on February 11, 2013
Today’s announcement that Pope Benedict XVI will resign later this month has become a swirling vortex of media conjecture and speculation. Is it because of growing scandals in the United States and Ireland? Is it because the Pope is directly tied to the cover-up of child sexual abuse in the US and elsewhere?
I doubt it.
Yes, there are growing scandals – scandals that show that the cover-up of child sexual abuse goes all the way to the highest levels of the Vatican. Cardinal (in good standing) Roger Mahony, who covered up for dozens of priest predators in Los Angeles, has yet to receive any public rebuke from Rome. It is doubtful that he ever will. Even the slap on the wrist he received from LA Archbishop Jose Gomez has been minimized. Mahony will be able to vote for the new Pope and—in prime “Prince of the Church” fashion—will parade around Rome with this fellow cardinals next month.
But I believe that Benedict’s “resignation for health reasons” is probably the truth. Rumors have been swirling for years that the Pontiff has Alzheimers, and video from recent public appearances show a man in the ravages of declining health. And more videos like that will keep coming.
Benedict’s Painful Legacy
UNITED STATES
Religion Dispatches
By Elizabeth Drescher
In the wake of Benedict’s sudden announcement of his early retirement, Catholic luminaries from Cardinal Timothy Dolan to James Martin, SJ have already begun, as is the custom when a papal career ends, to lionize the leader of the world’s 1.1 billion Roman Catholics.
But on the margins of the Catholic Church, the legacy Benedict began shaping in 1980 as Cardinal Ratzinger, when he was named as Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faithful (the office formerly known as the Inquisition), and which he solidified during a mere eight years as Bishop of Rome is seen as something far more complex and troubling. ...
Joelle Casteix, Western Region Director for SNAP, which advocates on behalf of some 20,000 survivors and allies of those abused by Roman Catholic priests, likewise sees the action of laypeople as critical to any meaningful change in the Roman Catholic Church. “The only way that we can have influence,” she says, “is if Catholics sitting in the pews demand change. It’s time for the Catholic laity stand up and demand that the church truly embody the teachings of Jesus Christ in protecting children.” She sees that as unlikely to happen between now and when the College of Cardinals meets in March to elect a new pope, especially in a Church that “evolves in geological time.”
Pope Benedict, Casteix says, “offered empty promises and apologies” about the abuse scandal “as a PR move” while at the same time “portraying victims as enemies of the Church.” This, she says, has continued to “ensure the marginalization of abuse victims within the Church” even as civil authorities have moved more decisively to extract a measure of justice from abusive priests and the Church leaders who often enabled them to continue as abusers and actively covered up the Church’s protection of them.
An Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI
UNITED STATES
Minnesota SNAP
Vinnie Nauheimer
What if you had the ability to undo egregious wrongs that affected hundreds of thousands of people worldwide would you, could you do it? What if there was only a sixteen day window for you to act? Would you find the time? Pope Benedict XVI, you have just sixteen days to perform this wondrous task. You’ve heard all about the crimes. You’ve heard the pleas of survivors; they have haunted you since before you took the office of pope. They will haunt your legacy for eternity too if you pay no heed to this request. I’m begging you on behalf of survivors of clergy abuse and their families all around the world, set them free, hear the pleas, hear their suffering, take to heart their pain and publicize the global clergy abuse files regardless of the rank of the offending priest. Only you can alleviate the endless suffering of victims and their families by giving their suffering validity and naming their tormentors!
Whether you wanted it or not, God gave you the opportunity to change the church and put an end to the worldwide sexual abuse of children by priests and bishops. God has given you two opportunities, one as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the second as Pope Benedict XVI to clean up this evil mess festering within His church. In both instances, you have not been up to the task. Now with just days left before the voluntary end of your papacy, you have yet a third chance. We implore you, to summon the courage before God and man to do what you swore to do in assuming your position as a priest, protect the flock.
A man of your intelligence knows beyond a shadow of a doubt about how the sexual abuse of children corrupts, has corrupted and has thrown the Catholic Church and your papacy into a tailspin. Now is the time to resurrect the church as a parting gift to the victims, the future of the church and to Jesus Christ who founded this church. It is your last chance to rectify the wrongs.
Sexual assault survivor on Pope Benedict’s resignation...
UNITED STATES
Current - The Young Turks
[video]
Sexual assault survivor on Pope Benedict’s resignation: ‘He’s resigning without having done what he needs to have done’
Cenk talks to Peter Isely, a founding member of the Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), about the surprising resignation of Pope Benedict and his legacy. “The point about Benedict resigning is that he’s resigning without having done what he needs to have done as Pope,” Isely says, referring to the continuing child abuse scandals and coverups within the Catholic Church. Isely continues his point, laying out direction for the papal sucessor. “The first day he comes into office, [he needs to] sign a decree…that any priest that has sexually assaulted or harmed a child is going to be immediately removed from the priesthood.”
Abuse Victims Welcome Pope's Retirement
VATICAN CITY
Courthouse News Service
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN
(CN) - Pope Benedict's retirement plans may open him up to prosecution by the International Criminal Court for sheltering child abusers, an advocacy group said Monday.
Citing his frail health on Monday, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he will step down as pope after less than eight years in office. He is the first pope to retire in the last 600 years.
Though a surprise to many, one group that the announcement failed to rattle is the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). It announced hours later: "whether he is in office or not makes no difference, but it may lower the bar of resistance enough for justice to be served."
"In this case, all roads really do lead to Rome," the group said in a statement. "Not only does Pope Benedict XVI bear responsibility in his official capacity for the church-wide policy of systematic and widespread concealment and enabling of the crimes, but he bears individual responsibility in a number of cases in which he ensured that perpetrators would be shielded and protected and left in place to assault more victims."
Pope 'could face court over pedophiles'
AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
AUSTRALIAN human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson says the Pope's resignation could expose him to lawsuits from victims of pedophile priests.
Robertson, writing in UK newspaper the Independent, argues the Pope's resignation is "merely expedient" as he'd become too old to cope in the job.
"It would have been both astonishing and courageous, a few years ago, had it been offered in atonement for the atrocity to which he had for 30 years turned a blind eye - the rape, buggery and molestation of tens of thousands of small boys in priestly care," writes the author of The Case of The Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse.
Robertson, based in London, argues that the Pope's "command responsibility" goes back to 1981 when he was appointed head of the Vatican body that disciplines errant priests.
Abuse victims criticise Benedict XVI’s “empty words”
euronews
Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned on February 11 and is expected to leave his post on February 28, will leave behind a Vatican administration mired in scandal over child sex abuse by priests. David Lorenz, who heads up a US group for victims, says the pope failed to really tackle the problem. Lorenz himself was abused by a priest working as a guidance counsellor at his school when he was 16.
Lorenz himself was abused by a priest working as a guidance counsellor at his school when he was 16. Lorenz said of the outgoing pope, “He’s apologised the Irish. He’s apologised to the United States. He’s apologised to Australia, Germany, Spain – you know, letters of apology for what’s gone on in those countries. But the fact is there’s been no action, and words without action really are emptiness.”
Looking ahead to the next pope, Lorenz said, “I’m concerned that we’ll get somebody just as poor and just as rigid on this issue as he was.” Cardinal Roger Mahony, the former Archbishop of Los Angeles, was stripped of his public duties after being linked to efforts to conceal abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.
Resignation Announcement of Pope Benedict XVI
UNITED STATES
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
For Immediate Release
February 11, 2013
Pope Benedict made a sensible decision. It is evidence the papacy and the Church can change.
Let’s hope it is a signal of strength for the next pope to take the steps that the Church needs.
The Church is in bad shape and needs the tremendous power of the papacy to be used courageously and forcefully for good – starting with the sexual abuse crisis, the largest crisis the Church has faced in 500 years.
Pope Benedict, by being in the unique position of being alive, and with his considerable political skills that were in evidence before and during the last conclave will have influence over the coming conclave and, it can be reasonably expected, into the next papacy.
Pope Benedict should bar Cardinal Roger Mahony from entering the conclave. The Los Angeles documents are evidence enough that this high honor of voting for the next Pope should be withdrawn from him. There should be an empty chair to mark Mahony’s spot.
Pope Benedict took a few, tiny, window dressing steps toward resolving the crisis. With the exception of action against the Legionaire of Christ founder Pope Benedict’s provided words only and weak ones at that.
What’s needed now is true righteousness and courage to match the nobility of action that the survivors have brought forth from lives crucified by rape and sodomy by priests and nuns.
Church sexual abuse victims criticise Pope
AUSTRALIA
9 News
Pope Benedict XVI has done nothing to help sexual abuse victims and has instead covered up crimes to protect the church, Australian advocates for victims of church sexual abuse say.
Melbourne lawyer Judy Courtin says the Pope had been "absolutely appalling" in his handling of the worldwide issue.
"He's certainly been responsible for the Catholic Church's policy of concealing and covering up (sexual abuse crimes)," Ms Courtin told AAP.
"And I know his edicts, coming from the Vatican to the bishops worldwide, have been such that there's been threats of excommunication if they don't keep these things secret."
Good riddance, sex abuse victims tell pope
SOUTH AFRICA
Sowetan
Pope Benedict XVI did nothing to punish pedophile priests or Church seniors who looked the other way, according to US and Irish victims hoping his successor will focus on fighting sex abuse.
Barbara Blaine, founder and president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, called the outgoing pope's record "dismal."
"He has made lofty statements. He has not matched those statements with deed or action. Under his reign, the children remained at risk," Blaine said.
In recent years, the United States and Ireland have been among several countries rocked by successive sex scandals involving members of the Catholic clergy and Church higher-ups accused of covering up abuses. ...
"I'm very happy that the pope is resigning because he really did not do very much about clergy sexual abuse," said Robert Hoatson, president of victims aid group Road To Recovery.
"The next pope has to tackle this issue. This is the most important issue because it concerns children, and it is a worldwide problem and the pope has to commission a group of expert to determine what has to be done to solve this problem.
"And if it means firing all the bishops that have covered up, so be it."
POPE RENOUNCES PAPAL THRONE
VATICAN CITY
Vatican Information Service
Vatican City, 11 February 2013 (VIS) – The Holy Father, at the end of today's consistory for causes for canonization, announced his resignation from ministry as Bishop of Rome to the College of Cardinals. Following is the Holy Father's complete declaration, which he read in Latin:
"I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is."
Sexual abuse victims blast Benedict
VATICAN CITY
IBN Live
Rome: Pope Benedict leaves office having failed to stamp out the sexual abuse of children by priests and with the culture of secrecy that fostered the scandal still in place, groups representing some of the victims said on Monday. Bishops Accountability, a US pressure group, said the pope had apologised frequently for the harm done by priests but had never taken effective action to rectify the "incalculable harm" done to hundreds of thousands of children by predatory clergy.
"Benedict's words rang hollow. He spoke as a shocked bystander, as if he had just stumbled upon the abuse crisis," Anne Barrett Doyle, the group's co-director said in a statement. The festering child abuse scandal broke out well before the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger took office in 2005 but it overshadowed his papacy from the beginning, as more and more cases came to light in dioceses across the world.
Hundreds of victims came forward with devastating accounts of abuse suffered at the hands of priests sometimes over years that left them with deep psychological wounds. The scandal broke in Boston in 2002 when reports emerged of the systematic cover-up of sexual abuse, with guilty priests being quietly transferred between dioceses instead of being stripped of their office and handed over to civil authorities.
Lightning strikes the Vatican -- literally
Papal prank? Or did lightning really hit the Vatican?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/02/12/lightning-bolt-strikes-vatican-pope-benedict-resignation/1913095/
Photo: Filippo Monteforte AFP/Getty Images)
Story Highlights
• Lightning hit the same day that Pope Benedict announced his resignation
• Thunderstorms were reported in Rome on Monday
• Meteorologist says it looks real
I know the pope has connections, but this is extraordinary!
An apparent photo of a lightning bolt striking St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican Monday night (left) -- the same day that Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, stunning the world -- has gone viral.
Filippo Monteforte, a photographer with Agence France Press, told England's Daily Mirror that "I took the picture from St. Peter's Square while sheltered by the columns. It was icy cold and raining sheets. When the storm started, I thought that lightning might strike the rod, so I decided it was worth seeing whether – if it DID strike – I could get the shot at exactly the right moment."
Monteforte waited for more than two hours and was rewarded for his patience with not one but two bolts, the Mirror reported.
But could it be fake? One expert, AccuWeather meteorologist and lightning photographer Jesse Ferrell, thinks it's real. In addition to the account from Monteforte -- a trusted and well-known photographer -- Ferrell sees telltale signs of a genuine lightning strike.
"I believe the photo is plausible, and since it was taken by a professional, with potential video to back it up, I'd say that the photo is legitimate," Ferrell writes on his blog.
Also, he notes that thunderstorms were present in Rome Monday afternoon, according to several Facebook users.
What's a bit spooky, Ferrell says, is "that it doesn't appear from a Google Image Search that a similar image has ever been captured before...."
Lightning has a long, symbolic history in the Italian capital, even predating the Catholic Church: "In Rome, from before 300 B.C. to as late as the fourth century, A.D., the College of Augurs, composed of distinguished Roman citizens, was charged with the responsibility of determining the wishes of Jupiter relative to state affairs," writes engineer and lightning expert Martin A. Uman in his book Lightning Discharge.
"This was accomplished," Uman writes, "by making observations of three classes of objects in the sky: birds, meteors, and lightning. In the case of the latter, the observation was always made while looking south, and the location of the lightning relative to the direction of observation was taken as a sign of Jupiter's approval -- or disapproval."
On average, according to Uman in his book All About Lightning, there are about 8 million lightning strikes each day around the world.
Pope Benedict's Legacy Marred by Sex Abuse Scandal
UNITED STATES
ABC News
[with video]
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN (@GoldmanRussell)
Feb. 11, 2013
When Pope Benedict XVI resigns at the end of this month, he leaves behind a Church grappling with a global fallout from sex abuse and a personal legacy marred by allegations that he was instrumental in covering up that abuse.
As the sex abuse scandal spread from North America to Europe, Benedict became the first pope to meet personally with victims, and offered repeated public apologies for the Vatican's decades of inaction against priests who abused their congregants.
"No words of mine could describe the pain and harm inflicted by such abuse," the pope said in a 2008 homily in Washington, D.C., before meeting with victims of abuse for the first time. "It is important that those who have suffered be given loving pastoral attention." During the same trip to the U.S., he met with victims for the first time.
For some of the victims, however, Benedict's actions were "lip service and a public relations campaign," said Jeff Anderson, a Minnesota lawyer who represents victims of sex abuse. For 25 years, Benedict, then known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, headed the Vatican office responsible for investigating claims of sex abuse, but he did not act until he received an explicit order from Pope John Paul II.
Editorial: If pope can resign, so can L.A.'s Cardinal Roger Mahony
LOS ANGELES (CA)
Press-Telegram
With the selection of a new pope, the Roman Catholic Church signals the way forward for an institution whose policies affect the whole world. The shocking news Monday that Pope Benedict XVI is resigning this month presents just such an occasion, giving the church a chance to move beyond the sins of the past, to modernize.
But the church can hardly expect to cleanse itself as long as Benedict's replacement will be chosen by a College of Cardinals that includes Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles.
Last week, following further revelations about Mahony's role in protecting priests who sexually molested children, and the removal of the former head of the L.A. archdiocese from administrative duties, we called on him to resign his post as cardinal.
Mahony's potential role in choosing Benedict's successor underscores what a purely symbolic gesture that removal was and highlights the need for the North Hollywood resident to step aside.
Cardinal linked to Los Angeles abuse cover-up to take part in papal selection
LOS ANGELES (CA)
Reuters
(Reuters) - A former Los Angeles Catholic archbishop who was stripped of all public duties after being linked to efforts to conceal child sex abuse by priests said on Monday he planned to participate in the process to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI.
The announcement by Cardinal Roger Mahony, which angered a prominent victims support group, came less than two weeks after 12,000 pages of church files unsealed under court order showed Mahony worked to send priests accused of abuse out of state to shield known abusers from law enforcement scrutiny in the 1980s.
"I look forward to traveling to Rome soon to help thank Pope Benedict XVI for his gifted service to the Church, and to participate in the Conclave to elect his successor," Mahoney, 76, said in a statement released on Monday by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. ...
Joelle Casteix, western regional director for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said she was concerned that it was not in Mahony's best interest to "elect anyone who will punish wrongdoers and take child molesters out of ministry.
"We fear that anyone that he votes for will only continue this shameful cover-up of child sexual abuse," she added.
Pres. Obama Must Act Now To Move Cardinals On New Pope
UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Pope Benedict XVI had to resign. The public objections of Cardinals Meisner and Mahony, the political rejections in the USA, the Philippines, Ireland, Australia and in other countries, the priests’ revolts in Austria, Ireland, the USA and elsewhere, the bank regulators steady pressure on the Vatican Bank, and who knows what will soon be revealed, all made it clear that the Vatican clique’s power was diminishing rapidly.
But the Pope has only been an ornament on a hierarchical structure that remains. Unless and until that Catholic Church’s structure returns to the pre-Constantinian consensual style that Jesus and his first disciples left behind, a new Pope will likely just continue business as usual. For that reason, President Obama must act now to signal to the worldwide Cardinals that business as usual is unacceptable and that the Catholic Church leadership structure must return to a consensual and accountable basis.
As a retired Harvard trained international lawyer and lifelong practicing Catholic and a grandparent, I am convinced the obscene sexual violations against children by priests will unacceptably continue, no matter who is Pope, unless and until the U.S. Federal government steps up. No one else has as much clout to stand up to the power of the Vatican. Local prosecutors have failed for decades to prosecute bishops for enabling predatory priests to attack more children.
Many from different faiths and no faith all across the USA, and even worldwide, including some of those harmed by the abuse of the deaf victims in Milwaukee, have already signed my petition calling on President Obama to step up. They have indicated they have had enough with the domination of local prosecutors and legislators by the Catholic hierarchy and its well paid apologists and lawyers. More signatures, including yours, will help accelerate the establishment of the U.S. national investigation commission, especially important now when the Vatican may be at a turning point.
We all have a moral obligation to protect children and signing a petition is a simple, yet potentially effective, way towards meeting that obligation. Please take a minute and sign it at:
[Click here for the petition.]
Pope favorite has defended African ‘Kill the Gays’ laws
VATICAN CITY
Gay Star News
11 February 2013 | By Joe Morgan
The top three candidates for Pope are all vehemently anti-LGBT, with one defending African laws punishing gay people with death.
Pope Benedict XVI resigned earlier today (11 February), with the 85-year-old citing ill health and his advancing age.
Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, has said many of the laws imposed on gay people in Africa are an ‘exaggeration.’
Last year, the National Catholic Register reported the Cardinal saying it is important people understand the ‘reasons’ why some African governments have created legislation against homosexuality.
Herald (Ireland)
AN ITALIAN NEWSPAPER has claimed that Pope Benedict’s decision to resign was confirmed by the contents of an internal Vatican report which revealed significant adultery and theft problems within the Vatican.
La Repubblica says the Vatican report, chaired by Cardinal Julian Herranz and delivered to the pope in December, is reported to have uncovered details of an ‘underground’ gay network among Vatican and Holy See employees and officials, where members organised events around Rome and inside the Vatican itself.
The report, summarised by The Nation, adds that the members were prone to blackmail because of how their sexual orientation is frowned upon by the Church.
The authors of La Repubblica’s report said the information was “all about the breach of the sixth and seventh commandments” – referring to God’s commands that followers neither steal or commit adultery.
The Daily Beast
by Barbie Latza Nadeau
Feb 22, 2013
Of all the rumors floating around about just why Pope Benedict XVI is hanging up his camauro, one has taken on a life of its own. According to several well-placed vaticanisti--or Vatican experts--in Rome, Benedict is resigning after being handed a secret red-covered dossier that included details about a network of gay priests who work inside the Vatican, but who play in secular Rome. The priests, it seems, are allegedly being blackmailed by a network of male prostitutes who worked at a sauna in Rome’s Quarto Miglio district, a health spa in the city center, and a private residence once entrusted to a prominent archbishop. The evidence reportedly includes compromising photos and videos of the prelates--sometimes caught on film in drag, and, in some cases, caught ‘in the act’.
Revelations about the alleged network are the basis of a 300-page report supposedly delivered to Benedict on December 17 by Cardinals Julian Herranz, Joseph Tomko and Salvatore De Giorgi. According to the press reports, it was on that day that Benedict XVI decided once and for all to retire, after toying with the idea for months. He reportedly closed the dossier and locked it away in the pontifical apartment safe to be handed to his successor to deal with. According to reports originally printed by La Repubblica newspaper and the newsweekly Panorama (and followed up across the gamut of the Italian media), the crimes the cardinals uncovered involved breaking the commandments “Thou shalt not steal” and “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” the latter of which has been used in Vatican-speak to also refer also to homosexual relations instead of the traditional reference to infidelity.
Washington Post
By Sally Quinn
Friday, February 22
But standing there in Rome, I thought about the reality of children being molested and priests who had committed those crimes being protected and excused by the Vatican, the complaints years earlier about my half inch too short skirt seemed pathetic in comparison.
Next week, Pope Benedict will step down, becoming the first pope to retire in nearly 600 years. The official explanation is that he has become too frail to perform his duties. I think there is more to it than that. I think that he either doesn’t want to or can’t deal with all that has gone rotten around him. Let somebody else do the dirty work.
What the Vatican needs to do to prove its viability is for the next pope, as his first act, to demand an accounting of every act of child abuse in the church. Every priest who is known to be guilty should be routed out, excommunicated and jailed. Every priest, bishop and cardinal who had any knowledge of these heinous crimes and protected abusers should be excommunicated and prosecuted in the courts. There should be a zero tolerance policy against child sexual abuse, or sexual abuse of any kind for that matter. If ever there were time for the church to ask, “What would Jesus do?”, this is it.
Sexual abuse, however, is not the only issue the new pope must deal with.
Garry Wills, a devout Catholic and religion scholar, in his new book, “Why Priests? A Failed Tradition” argues that as we have seen in Vatican II, the church can and does change. And it should if it wants to stay relevant.
Wills’s book takes the reader back to Christ’s time and walks through the creation of the church.
Priests, he points out, were man-made, not prescribed by God. There were no priests in the New Testament and certainly no one held the title “pope.” (Many Christians agree, see: the Protestant Reformation.) The idea of priestly celibacy is relatively new, too, as is the sacrament of confession. Wills points out that even the central facet of the Mass, a belief that an ordained priest can literally turn bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood, is not universally held.
According to Wills, some of the teachings of the church have had to be twisted like a pretzel to make sense of them. You have to be baptized or you will go to hell. So what about babies? That didn’t seem fair. Well, they could go to limbo (a holding place between heaven and hell). What about sinners who have been baptized? They can go to purgatory, not as bad as hell but not as good as heaven. But then, limbo didn’t really make sense so that was done away with.
Some 98 percent of sexually experienced Catholics have used birth control even though it is considered a sin by the church. The same percentage of Catholic women have abortions as non-Catholic women. The church is against women in its hierarchy. Women who haven’t already are going to start walking away. The church is against homosexuality. Gay Catholics who have not already will surely start walking. Priests are not always celibate. Soon they may not want to live such hypocrisy.
In old days, the Vatican operated much like a monarchy. The pope had the same kind of power as a king. And, like kings, popes accumulated a lot of money. They were extremely political. Read Hilary Mantel’s intriguing two books, “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” to learn exactly how the Vatican used to operate and how Henry VIII broke away from the papacy in order to marry Anne Boleyn. The pope had much more power then than he does now.
Times change. Rules change. The Vatican moves slowly.
But Catholics have been drifting away, searching for their own kind of religion and spirituality, a personal spirituality which does not inflict rules on those whose lives are so very different from the celibate men in charge.
Colm Toibin’s novel, “The Testament of Mary,” brilliantly describes how it all may have started. The disciples sought Mary out in Ephesus after Christ’s death, where she had gone to get away, and tried to persuade her that the death was something different from what she had observed. They were already trying to build a church when all she saw was her son dying on the cross. They wanted it to be different. She wouldn’t play along. A lot of others did, of course.
Catholicism has come a long way in 2,000 years — from Christ’s sacrificial dying on the cross to the church’s self-protecting cover up of child sexual abuse.
But change it must, or else the Catholic Church may end up like Colonial Williamsburg, with the pageantry, the regalia, red shoes and all, a relic of what was once a vibrant, living institution.
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
February 22, 2013
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child issues a report recently that NSAC believes should not be overlooked.
The Church is quick to hum the tune that it’s the leader in reform where sexual abuse is concerned and the singing is aimed at pushing the inquirer past the blunt facts that few clerics or nuns have been prosecuted for sexual abuse and the hierarchs that covered up the criminal activity aiding and abetting its continuing are not sitting in jail cells.
The UN Report takes aim at the United States at the national level for going light on the investigation and criminal prosecution of clerics for sexual abuse. The report is a result of a five year review.
Gay Star News
21 February 2013 | By Joe Morgan
An Italian newspaper is blaming the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on the ‘gay influence’ within the Vatican.
Referring to an internal report prepared by three senior cardinals, La Repubblica claims there was an ‘inappropriate influence’ by gay priests in internal Holy See affairs.
Filed by cardinals Julian Herranz, Josef Tomko and Salvatore De Giorgi, it was commissioned by Benedict himself.
The newspaper suggests when Pope Benedict saw the report back in December, it hardened his resolve to quit as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
In the 300-page report, it speaks of ‘Impropriam Influentiam’ on the part of various lobbies within the Vatican, including some of a ‘worldly nature’.
The Italian newspaper specifically referred to Angelo Balducci, who was accused of being a member of a ‘gay ring’ active within the Vatican, as well as preying on choral boys three years ago.
Business Insider
Adam Taylor
Feb. 21, 2013
Following Pope Benedict's surprise resignation earlier this month, it didn't take long for conspiracy theories to come out of the woodwork.
To a certain extent, this is expected — a Pope hasn't resigned in centuries, and certain aspects of Benedict's time at the top of the Vatican have been controversial — not least the damaging 'VatiLeaks' scandal.
Today, Italy's La Repubblica newspaper added fuel to the fire, alleging that Benedict's resignation was prompted by a report prepared by three Cardinals on conflict and corruption in the Vatican — including what it says is the "inappropriate influence" of a gay lobby within the Holy See.
The newspaper — which has the largest circulation within Italy — says that Benedict asked three Cardinals, Julian Herranz, Josef Tomko and Salvatore De Giorgi, to conduct an internal report after the VatiLeaks scandal. When the 300 page report was delivered to Benedict in December, it reportedly cemented a decision that he had already been considering — it was time to resign.
The Nation
Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI decided to resign after an internal probe informed him about the extent of sex and graft-scandals inside the Vatican, an Italian newspaper reported on Thursday, quoting unnamed sources.
Three cardinals, including the former chief of the Vatican’s secret services, were asked to verify the allegations of financial impropriety, cronyism and corruption brought up by the publication of confidential papal papers in the so-called VatiLeaks affair.
On December 17, 2012, they handed to the pontiff two red-leatherbound volumes, almost 300-pages long, containing "an exact map of the mischief and the bad fish" inside the Holy See, daily La Repubblica reported.
"It was on that day, with those papers on his desk, that Benedict XVI took the decision he had mulled over for so long," the report suggested.
The Vatican’s press office declined to comment on the story.
Irish Times
PADDY AGNEW, in Rome
Italian daily La Repubblica this morning sensationally claims that Pope Benedict's resignation was at least partly prompted by an internal report prepared by three senior cardinals, alleging that various lobbies, including a gay lobby, exercise an "inappropriate influence" in internal Holy See affairs.
The newspaper suggests that such was Benedict’s dismay when presented with the details of the report on December 17th that it hardened his long-meditated decision to resign. The internal report prepared by Cardinals Julian Herranz, Josef Tomko and Salvatore De Giorgi had been commissioned by Benedict himself.
He had ordered it in response to the so-called Vatileaks scandal which culminated with the arrest and subsequent conviction last autumn of the Pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele, found guilty of having stolen confidential documents from the papal apartment.
In this morning's article, it is claimed that the cardinals reported that various lobbies within the Holy See were consistently breaking the sixth and seventh commandments, namely "thou shalt not steal" and "thou shalt not commit adultery".
The "stealing" was in particular related to the Vatican Bank, IOR, whilst the sexual offences were related to the influence of an active gay lobby within the Vatican.
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The last despotic acts of Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI
The Opus Dei hates the Jesuits with a vengeance and they made sure the last ax that would fall from Ratzinger hands would be on the Jesuits last Christmas.
The Association of Catholic Priests (Ireland)
Fr. Alfonso Llano Escobar, S.J. had learned the hard way that it doesn’t pay to critique your boss’s writings. Fr. Llano, whose weekly column Un alto en el camino (“A stop along the road”) had appeared in the major Colombian newspaper El Tiempo for 30 years, has been told that his writing career has come to an end.
In a message to the editorial board of the newspaper, Fr. Llano wrote that “Father Adolfo Nicolás, the superior general of the Jesuits, has ordered Father Alfonso Llano to consider his apostolic vocation as a writer to be over, has deprived him of his freedom of speech, and is demanding that he not even say goodbye and that he keep absolute silence.”
The priest columnist earned his silencing for a November 24th column in which he offered his views on Pope Benedict XVI’s new book, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives, and specifically on the doctrine of the virginity of Mary. The column focuses on internal debate about the subject within the theological community and is worth translating in its entirety:
The Infancy of Jesus. That’s the title of the third volume of the trilogy on Jesus of Nazareth by theologian Joseph Ratzinger, now Benedict XVI. It has been published in nine languages, including Spanish, and will be published in a first global edition of one million copies. With a series of articles in the press and interviews on radio and television, I would like to guide readers of this book by the Pope, which offers a special difficulty — the virginity of Mary — which will give theologians and the media a lot to talk about.
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Updated February 23, 2013
“Gay network” inside the Vatican caused Benedict XVI to resign? Forbes 5th Most Powerful Person can no longer bear the burden of Vatican Gay Prelates?
According to the Italian newspaper La Repubblica which has a knack of exposing homosexual happenings in the Vatican, the real reason Benedict XVI resigned was because of the 300-pages report of details of "an exact map of the mischief and the bad fish", that one faction of Vatican officials and Holy See employees, an ‘underground’ Vatican gay priests network who organized and lavishly enjoyed gay events around Rome with gay male prostitutes and inside the Vatican itself, see news compilation below.
The blackmail includes compromising photos and videos of the prelates caught on film in drag and caught ‘in the act’.
Nothing could be more clear than actual videos and photos of Vatican Gay prelates, and at last, this one the Vatican cannot cover-up and refute because their victims are not naive altar boys but clever adults. The hundreds of thousands of altar boys and girls who were sodomized did not have access and the sophistication to video tape those clever cunning pedophile priests. But these Vatican gay priests caught in video and photos are - fair game. Bring them on! SHOW THEM TO the WHOLE WORLD and people will stop going to the hypocrite Vatican Angelus and stop donating to the Vatican Mammon Beast!
Poor Benedict XVI, the “Vicar of Christ” who holds the “Key of St. Peter” actually holds the "Key of the JP2 Army" – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, and now he also holds the "Key of the Vatican Gay Priests Underground Network!" Ah! The glories of Rome is indeed of another day!
Read our latest article: Billion Dollar Christ & Apostles in Red now playing in Vatican. Evil impact of Papal Conclave: epidemic violence against women & perpetuity of poor countries http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/billion-dollar-christ-apostles-in-red.html
Updated February 14, 2013
A lawyer who successfully represented 40,000 women who were raped in the war in Bosnia writes that the Pope, Cardinals, Bishops and Vicars can be prosecuted in The Hague in their cover-up of the rape of tens of thousands of children raped by Vatican Catholic pedophile priests. He cites the articles of International Law that apply to the priestly sodomy crimes which fall under crimes against humanity, see news article below.
The reason why Benedict XVI resigned is not health but the Vatican Wealth and it was a papal coup d’état by the Secretary of State Cardinal Bertone, as cardinals call Benedict XVI as “Joe the Rat”, read more below.
The well-paid Vatican Pied Pipers are all out now in full force propagating Vatican hidden agendas in TV, news papers and in the Internet. The foremost Vatican Pied Piper is John L. Allen Jr. but we won’t waste space for his Vatican Deceits here.
The next pope has long been chosen, brainwashed and trained. All speculation out there is utter hypocrisy of Vatican Deceits Media Empire and Vatican pretence of black smoke and white smoke.
Read more below on how the Vatican will capitalize everyday of Lent and especially the Holy Week and Easter to portray criminal Ratzinger as “holy” … and how two live popes (one retired and the other incoming) will concelebrate on Easter Sunday at St. Peter’s Square, two popes for the first time in history.
We post here images of the 9-month human gestation of Christ in his mother’s womb, the cloning process of Dolly the sheep, and the 9-seconds transubstantiation or “cloning” of Christ by the Pope and priests.
The diplomatic immunity of Cardinals and nuncios are being used to feed the voracious Vatican Mammon Beast, read articles below and links to our related articles.
February 11, 2013 Last Tsar Benedict XVI resigns
Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. This post is bespoke by St. Michael the Archangel
Our Lady of Lourdes versus Benedict XVI, Cardinals, Bishops, Vicars and priests
Today is the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes. When the illiterate 14 years old Bernadette asked her, “Who are you?”, she never replied what her name was during all her 18 apparitions to her. Instead she said, “I am the Immaculate Conception”. This is carved right at the foot of statue in the grotto of Lourdes, see image below. Two of the dogmas of Mary in the Catholic Church are her Immaculate Conception and her Assumption to Heaven. Our Lady, as her numerous titles address her, was conceived and born without sin and therefore her body did not need die and go through the same corruption into ashes like all sinful man has to due to Original Sin which is commemorated in Ash Wednesday, the beginning of 40-days of Lent, this year on February 13. If the Pope, Cardinals, Bishops, Vicars and priests really believe in these two dogmas, then they should be the first to humbly admit that they are conceived, born and will die as sinners, that they do not bear a resemblance to Our Lady one iota, and that they are “not worthy to tie the sandals of Christ” - like St. John the Baptist declared when he told people that he was not the Messiah. Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, Vicars and priests are all born sinners who are even “lower” than John the Baptist and therefore they are not worthy to tie the sandals of Christ - and therefore cannot “clone” Christ in the Eucharist - because there was only one WOMAN – prepared by God since the creation of mankind - who was worthy to carry God’s incarnated Son in Her Womb for 9-months, and that is Our Lady of Lourdes, see image of human gestation below. The Mass maybe nice and sweet and the Opus Dei celebrate it only in Latin and Benedict announced his resignation in Latin, but, the truth of the matter is the Eucharist is Black Magic concocted by sinful Popes as seen in their track records of Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils through 2,000 years history of Christendom. And in the 20th Century, we have all witnessed the 50 years Bestial Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army named aptly after John Paul II the Great who did and said nothing during his self-claimed “infallibility” as the Vicar of Christ and he and Cardinal Ratzinger were the pair of hands who covered-up the most heinous crimes against children committed in the “holy” Catholic churches, confessionals, rectories, presbyteries, name it, those Vatican sex maniac rapists priests did it there. And in the 21st Century this Eucharistic Lie and Black Magic Mass has to come to an end and the Vatican as a country must also come to an end. It was the evil Mussolini who gave the Vatican its status as a “country” … Mussolini is dead and it is time to end his legacy of the Vatican as a “country”. Read here Mussolini’s billions owned and managed by the Vatican http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
In the 21st century, it is also time to stop calling Catholics as Roman Catholics of the Roman Catholic Church because the correct way is to call them Vatican Catholics of the Vatican Catholic Church, more about this below. The Vatican own most buildings in Rome but those are economic properties and not religious properties - which is why the secular government of Italy, starting in 2013, will make the Vatican pay taxes for their properties in Rome and Italy, raking in more than 600 million Euros to 2.2 billion Euros in taxes, see the staggering Vatican properties here http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
In the 21st century, it is also time to stop calling Catholics as Roman Catholics of the Roman Catholic Church because the correct way is to call them Vatican Catholics of the Vatican Catholic Church, more about this below. The Vatican own most buildings in Rome but those are economic properties and not religious properties - which is why the secular government of Italy, starting in 2013, will make the Vatican pay taxes for their properties in Rome and Italy, raking in more than 600 million Euros to 2.2 billion Euros in taxes, see the staggering Vatican properties here http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html
Benedict XVI can no longer hold on to the steering wheel of the Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy.
The Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI announced his resignation today and it’ll take effect on February 28, 2013. The conclave will be held in March to coincide with the dramatic Holy Week of Lent. The Vatican Mafia of Opus Dei (not the Holy Spirit) has already decided, chosen, trained, and knows who must be elected just like it orchestrated and controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and then of Ratzinger, see links of related articles below. All news out there about the papal conclave is utter hypocrisy of media guesswork and pretence of black smoke and white smoke.
February 13 is Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent, and the Vatican will exploit the 40-days Lent Season to brainwash the world with its hidden agendas. With typical Vatican Deceits fanfare, the new pope will be declared on Easter Sunday clinging-on to the fame of Christ’s Resurrection – and deploying Hollywood production showcase that the Pope is presented as having divine attributes and supernatural powers like the Resurrected Christ because he is the “Vicar of Christ” and he can clone Christ everyday in the Eucharist (even if he cannot clone Dolly the sheep, see images below). The Vatican will capitalize on all the liturgical rituals of Lent and Easter to brainwash the world with all the worldwide television and Internet coverage available which the Vatican Media Empire owns and manipulates as Vatican Pied Pipers foot soldiers come out in full force, read here - Benedict XVI Master Manipulator of the Media…the Pied Piper of Children deceiving them away from truth of his Crimes Against Humanity at The Hague http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/benedict-xvi-master-manipulator-of.html . There will be the Hollywood hype of the Last Supper of Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI… and the first Papal Mass of the new pope in Easter when there will be two (2) live popes concelebrating Mass for the first time in history at St. Peter’s Square, in Latin, just like Benedict XVI read his resignation in Latin today, read our related article, Latin is not a mother tongue http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/10/latin-is-not-mother-tongue-and.html
Reason why Benedict XVI had to resign? Follow the moneyThe real reason why Benedict XVI must resign is not his poor health but the wealth of the Vatican Mammon. "Follow the money… What sounded the death knell on Pope Benedict was his personal involvement in the bribery and money-laundering practices of the Vatican Bank comically known as The Institute of Religious Works (IOR)". Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone staged the papal coup d’état. As one of the Italian Roman Senators said, "You must understand that in my country, the Mafia and the government and the Vatican are all the same people, and they really have only one concern: protecting their assets." Their assets are the secret Vatican Billions - read here the most important history of the Vatican that the whole world must know http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html. "Nobody becomes pope without a sordid past, because only with such liabilities can he be controlled by the Curia. It's the same in any big company. Well, Ratzinger made many indiscretions as a Cardinal and made many enemies. His signing letters ordering criminal concealment was just one sin. He was to be the scapegoat for all of the trash that the church knew would surface"…But the real issue is not who or what will replace Joseph Ratzinger as the latest figurehead, but how to displace the Vatican itself as a criminal power unto itself. And that struggle is just commencing…see news article below entitled “Money Scandal Behind Papal Coup d'Etat”.
Whether the new pope will be a white, black, brown, or yellow, his real papal job will be to protect the Vatican Billions at all cost and his best weapon will be the Eucharist - in Latin – as his mythical language for the Black Magic of Christ’s flesh because no one understands Latin today, and with his hocus pocus wizardry language, he will appear untouchable like those pagan ancient kings who were direct descendants of the Sun and other gods. He must use all his papal appearances as masks to cover-up his number one mission to preserve the trillion dollars Chair of St. Peter, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html.
Read our related article on Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Benedict XVI & Bertone, Liars of Fatima? http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/cardinal-ratzinger-and-cardinal-bertone.html
Final “holy” spectacles of “Holy” Week for Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI
On Holy Thursday, watch out for the hypocrisy of the ceremonial washing of the feet of the twelve apostles by Benedict XVI when it was more important that he should have washed the feet of Italian victims of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army who walked across Italy to the doorstep of the Vatican but he refused to welcome them in. Benedict XVI was not a Good Samaritan because he didn’t even bother to take a peek at how they looked like, the suffering faces of children sodomized by the Bestial Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army– John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army of the his confrere, John Paul II whom he hurriedly beatified, read here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html Proud Pope Ratzinger didn’t offer these sexual abuse victims of Vatican sex maniac rapists priests a glass of water and he did not wash their tired feet or console their down trodden souls, read here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/.
Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI will hear confession one last time, read here how the Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html
On Good Friday, there’ll be the spectacle in the Roman Coliseum for the Way of the Cross procession of conclave red robed Cardinals carrying light plastic crosses Made in China as meanwhile they lay the real heavy Cross burden on the poor people, poor women and poor children in Third World countries oppressed by the Vatican Billions, read here the most important history of the Vatican Billions every Catholic and the whole world must know http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
Signs of The Third Secret of Fatima
The Third Secret of Fatima prophecied the total demise of the Vatican and not one pillar of St. Peter's Square will be left standing like the Temple of Solomon...thanks to John Paul II who said and did nothing during his longest papacy to stop his JP2 Army - John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army .
On the same day Benedict XVI announced his resignation, lighting literally struck the tip of the dome of St. Peter’s Basilica, see article below and watch the video.
Vatican sex-leash on mankind
The new pope must maintain the Vatican sex-leash on mankind about homosexuals, contraception, abortion and masturbation. The pope’s power is in the invisible realm, the Hollywood Harry Potter hoopla, and by holding to the Vatican invisible (spiritual) sex-leash on men and women, the big wide world will remain like a stupid big elephant at the command of the little country of the Vatican, read more here Synod of Bishops & New Evangelization...or New Marketing of Old Vatican Deceits. Why Vatican must end as a “country”. Christ the Vatican Slave! Australia JP2 Army! http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/why-vatican-must-end-as-country-vatican.html Read our latest article, USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray” with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/usa-ambassador-to-vatican-for-what.html
The next pope has been trained already by Benedict XVI and Opus Dei on how to defend and protect these Vatican Billions at all cost or he won’t last more than 33 days like John Paul I (the first) who was murdered because soon as he saw the Vatican Mammon Beast, he realized the hypocrisy of the papacy as the Vicar of Christ worshiping the Devil who fulfilled his promise in his second temptation in the desert. Mathew 4: 8-9: Next the devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. "I will give it all to you," he said, "if you will kneel down and worship me." The Vatican Billions own the city of Rome “as far as the eyes can see” from the Vatican window where the pope always appear before the tens of thousands of blind “Pray, Pay, Obey” Catholics in St. Peter’s Square, read the staggering wealth of the Vatican in Rome that will now rake in 600 million Euros to 2.2 Billion Euros for the secular country of Italy, read Vatican secular properties in "all the kingdoms of the world" here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html John Paul I wanted to be a real shepherd and pastor of the poor like Christ was, and he wanted to “share” the Vatican Billions with the poor, but the Opus Dei would not allow this and so inside the secretive Vatican walls, someone conveniently poisoned him. …And then with typical mythological propaganda, Opus Dei orchestrated the 27 years papacy of John Paul II the Great with Opus Dei papal secretary Joaquin Navarro-Valls whose diktat was “No one goes to the Holy father, except through me”, read here Navarro-Valls in New York Times interview: A psychiatrist with a penchant for media manipulation. Two open letters sent to Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/navarro-valls-in-new-york-times.html
Benedict XVI last despotic ax fall on the Jesuits the archenemy of Opus Dei
There is nothing to feel sad or pity about Vatican tyrant Benedict XVI, after all, one of his last despotic acts was done right before Christmas when he ordered a 92 year old Jesuit to no longer celebrate the Mass or perform any other priestly duties (Cardinal Mahony and Cardinal Bernard Law and Bishop Finn and all guilty “Prince of the Church” who covered-up pedophile priests should be penalized this way). Jesuit Fr. Bill Brennan, a 92-year-old Milwaukee-area priest is a retired parish priest and former missionary to Belize, whose crime was to have participated in a eucharistic liturgy with a woman priest, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/benedict-xvi-vatican-last-tsar-final.html On December 15, 2013, Benedict XVI also silenced a Jesuit Fr. Alfonso Llano Escobar, S.J. who criticized his papal book Jesus of Nazareth. Father Adolfo Nicolás, the superior general of the Jesuits, ordered Father Alfonso Llano to consider his apostolic vocation as a writer to be over, has deprived him of his freedom of speech, and is demanding that he not even say goodbye and that he keep absolute silence.” read more here VAtican Terror on Galileo, priests and the poor, women and children, http://popecrimes.blogspot.fr/2013/01/vatican-terrorism-on-galileo-women-and.html . So, while Cardinal Ratzinger has always sat in the lap of luxury and never dirtied his “Prince of the Church” hands, these two Jesuit have worked hard and labored in the vineyard of Christ among the people of Belize and Colombia respectively. Look and behold how “Holy Father” 85-year-old Benedict XVI will retire in the best comfort and glory at Castel Gandolfo, but this 92-year-old priest will die in "disgrace" in the Church he served all his life. Really, please, The Hague must bring Benedict XVI quickly to trial as the final justice and final triumph for hundreds of thousands of Catholic children sodomized in Biblical Proportions by theJP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army whom Ratzinger covered-up for over a quarter of a century.
http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html
Vatican Deceits on Benedict XVI's holiness
The biggest Vatican Deceits to prepare Ratzinger’s speedy sainthood, will be to portray Benedict XVI as a saintly holy suffering vicar - akin to the Lenten suffering of Christ – just like the Opus Dei has been portraying John Paul II as “the suffering pope like Christ’s suffering” because he had Parkinson disease. But the reality check is that John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI are not suffering like Christ because they both sat in the lap of luxury with all the best comfort surrounded by servants and their so-called physical suffering are all alleviated by the best medical treatments that money can buy, these two popes are travesty of Jesus Christ indeed, read our related article, Melinda Gates versus Benedict XVI: who’s more “like Christ”? Melinda Gates saves lives of 200 million women while Benedict XVI sits in out-of-touch-with-reality Vatican Throne http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/vatican-titanic-hit-by-melinda-gates.htm
Reasons why Opus Dei covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army for decades: Words of Opus Dei Joaquin Navarro-Valls http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/04/reasons-why-opus-dei-covered-up-john.html
Opus Dei female symbol for John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/04/opus-dei-female-symbol-for-john-paul-ii.html
The Vatican and Rome are no longer synonymous.
The Vatican Catholics, not Roman Catholics
The Vatican and Rome are no longer synonymous.
The Pope has no authority in Rome.
But the Vatican cling-on to Rome and use its Roman Coliseum to latch-on to the fame of the gladiators and the Hail Caesars as the Pope copy-cat the powers of Caesars which Forbes described Benedict XVI as the 5th Most Powerful Person in the world, read here Forbes delusion of Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI powers http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/forbes-delusion-of-vatican-last-tsar.html.
The biggest Vatican Deceits strategy will be to present the new pope on Easter Sunday, the culmination of the 40 days of Lent, to launch him on with the notoriety of Christ’s Resurrection – and with Hollywood production, the Vatican will brainwash Catholics and the world that the new Pope has supernatural powers just like the Resurrected Christ because he is the “Vicar of Christ”… just like the Mayan Kings were descendants of the Sun-God and therefore, his every word was law including his insane whims.
The world must not forget that Benedict XVI’s Last Tsar despotic act and last papal whim was to silence an old Jesuit priest, 92 years old, who was a good and faithful priest for more than 50 years and forbid him to say Mass. http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/benedict-xvi-vatican-last-tsar-final.html While Benedict XVI will go to retire in glory at Castel Gandolfo, this good old Jesuit priest will die in disgrace as a non-Catholic, read here Vatican Terror on Galileo, priests and the poor, women and children http://popecrimes.blogspot.fr/2013/01/vatican-terrorism-on-galileo-women-and.html
Benedict XVI as the Vicar of Christ is as cruel as those Mayan Kings who killed babies and threw them from the tip of the Mayan Pyramid Temple to satisfy the appetite of their false gods. Well, Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI-Ratzinger also killed many children, all those hundreds of thousands of children bestially sodomized by the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army of the 20th century, read here his crimes against humanity pending at The Hague http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html, and all the billions of souls he condemned to roast in the fires of Hell worse than the Nazis burned Jews in Auschwitz, read here our related article he Nazis of Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church of Benedict XVI are similar: They both burn human beings in Auschwitz and in Hell http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/02/nazis-of-hitler-and-roman-catholic.html
The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html
Easter Sunday is the most televised day of the Vatican next to Christmas. In 2010, Benedict XVI used Easter Sunday to rebuke the New York Times - for exposing Vatican sex maniac rapists priests - accusing it of “Cheap Gossip”, read here http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/04/petty-cash-for-petty-gossip-3-billion.html
John Allen will come out as foremost Vatican Pied Piper at his best list of possible pope candidates, read more about him here John L. Allen Jr. Pied Piper of John Paul II deceives Catholics with his essay Fast-Track Saint in Newsweek -- with Vatican lunacy & Satanic timeline http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/05/john-lallen-jrthe-pied-piper-of-john.html and here John L. Allen Jr the Devil's twin the 21st century deceiving Catholics and the world
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It is quite a coincidence that Benedict XVI would announce his resignation on February 11, the same day the Arab Spring triumphed and Mubarak fled Egypt, read our related article Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/02/holy-heist-john-paul-ii-wyd-had-no-role.html
The Hague must bring Pope Ratzinger to trial just like President Mubarak stood trial in Egypt while lying in bed and was found guilty and punished.
Amnesty International names Vatican guilty of violation of human rights http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2011/05/amnesty-international-names-vatican-in.html
Benedict XVI suffering from Popenesia
Last Christmas, Benedict XVI manifested Popenesia or Vaticanesia, a form of papal amnesia, read our related article here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/popenesia-in-christmas-message-vatican.html
The Pope is not Roman. Catholics are not Roman.
The Pope has no power in Rome.
The Vatican is not part of Rome.
The Pope is not a citizen of Rome.
The allegiance of Catholics is to the Pope and the Vatican or the Magisterium… The allegiance of Catholics is NOT to Rome; therefore, it is fallacious to call them “Roman Catholics”.
Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI has no papal authority over Rome; therefore, Catholics are not Roman.
The Vatican must start paying taxes for its staggering business properties in Rome starting in 2013. To keep calling them as “Roman Catholics” is to keep feeding the voracious Vatican Mammon, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html. .
The Pope and the Vatican have no political authority and no influence in Rome or in Italian Parliament.
The false (old) statement is, Catholics are “Roman Catholics” of the “Roman Catholic Church”.
The true (new) statement is, Catholics are “Vatican Catholics” of the “Vatican Catholic Church”.
Christ said, “I am the way, the truth and the life” and “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free”. It’s time the world sets itself free with the truth. It’s time the world sets itself free from the Vatican. It’s time the world sets itself free from Pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger whose crimes against humanity are pending at The Hague. It’s time the world sets itself free from John Paul II the false “blessed” and false “saint” of children because he never bothered to protect one child from his thousands of bestial sodomy priests of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army during his 27 years papacy… for best example and greatest papal proof, John Paul II didn’t protect or bother to meet with the children of Boston raped by the 80 pedophile priests Cardinal Bernard Law transferred from one parish to another during his last World Youth Day in Toronto, an hour flight away, read here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html. In the U.S. alone, there are more than 6,100 Vatican sex maniac rapists priests all protected by the Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and Vicars. Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston and Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles are the most famous enablers of the JP2 Army, read more here NCAA & Penn State more moral than Vatican. Sports is more moral than John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html
At the Vatican Hall of Popes, after Ratzinger’s portrait, there is one last photo space for the next pope. Nostradamus prophecy about Ratzinger was right-on. The Third Secret of Fatima predicted the demise of that “last pope” and the total demise of the Vatican that not one of its pillars will be left standing like the Temple of Solomon. Our Lady of Fatima appeared in 1917, and in 4 years, it will be her 100th anniversary, read about Fatima here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/escriva-stage-managed-impostor-sr-lucia.html, One of its seers, "From Fatima, Jacinta would throw the first stone at John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army to defend her little brothers and sisters" http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/04/from-fatima-jacinta-would-throw-first.html
Benedict t XVI is the Master Manipulator of the Media and he will manipulate the media more than ever before. The Vatican will use Easter to present the new pope latching on to Christ again persecuting Him with endless falsehood that popes are his vicars and that they hold the key to the kingdom of heaven even if they are criminal popes like Benedict XVI or Heil Satanas JP2! Hail Caesar John Paul II the Opus Dei Golden Cow read here http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/ The poor Christ is always a brand name that is abused centuries after centuries by the Vatican to camouflage its Vatican Mammon Beast, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html just like overly romanticised “poor” Brother Andre is the golden cash cow of the Congregation de Sainte-Croix at the Oratory of Saint Joseph, read here 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.html
Children must not be brainwashed about the “supernatural” powers of the Pope
The adult Catholics are now hopeless and brainwashed about the supernatural powers of the Pope and priests. But in the 21st century, Catholic children must not be taught to blindly kneel before those Vatican Catholic priests who claim to be able to clone Christ the Son of God - even if they cannot clone Dolly the sheep, see images and links below. These same Vatican “holy fathers” are the most able Vatican sex maniac rapists priests.
Man cannot clone animals - with words alone – but by painstaking scientific laboratories like cloning Dolly the sheep, see images below.
The Pope and Catholic priests cannot clone animals.
The Pope and Catholic priests cannot say “Let there be light, and there’ll be light. http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html
The Pope and Catholic priests cannot clone his own man-kind.
The Pope and Catholic priests cannot clone Jesus.
The Pope and Catholic priests cannot clone God.
Mankind cannot clone Jesus.
Man cannot clone God. Period.
Children are better praying the JP2 Army than parroting the Rosary to protect them from all sexual predators, read here Rosary could not defeat JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the 20th Century ... unlike the Battle of Lepanto in the 16th Century http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/10/rosary-could-not-defeat-jp2-army-john_06.html .
Vatican is equivalent to the Holy See and Chair of St. Peter where the despot Pope and the Catholic oligarchy all-male hierarchy rule and reside in the “smallest country” of 800 persons inside the Vatican state. The Pope has no power and no authority over Rome. Even Roman students don’t want to see his face and they rejected his visit as pope and therefore he cancelled his speech in a Roman university, read here
Vatican Terror on Galileo, priests and the poor, women and children
Rome is the vast secular economic city of Italy with 2,700,000 people, and it is part of the vast secular country of Italy of 61 million people, read more here Synod of Bishops & New Evangelization...or New Marketing of Old Vatican Deceits. Why Vatican must end as a “country” . Christ the Vatican Slave! Australia JP2 Army! http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/why-vatican-must-end-as-country-vatican.html
Rome sounds romantic…
Vatican sounds evil, violent, vulgar, voracious…
Secular democratic Rome is NOT theocratic totalitarian Vatican
Secularism has no god and no religion. Secularism is the self-proclaimed number one enemy of Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI-Ratzinger; therefore, he must stop latching onto secular Rome and stop calling Catholics as “’Roman’ Catholics”.
As the truth and reality has unfolded before our eyes, only secular judges and secular lawyers have been able to render some justice to victims of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/. , read here about the secular judge of Los Angeles who ordered the release of all Los Angeles files that Cardinal Mahony and Opus Dei Archbishop Gomez fought for years to keep secret http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/judge-elias-please-release-all.html.
Even if the Vatican has some history with ancient Rome, it does not give Catholics the right to go on using Rome’s name because Rome is now a secular city. Microsoft also has employees and billions of people users and owns properties in many countries, but that doesn’t make Microsoft a country. To keep calling the 1.2 billion Catholic people spread worldwide with the old word “Roman Catholic” is to perpetuate Vatican Deceits of the Vatican Billions http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html .
Even if the Vatican own most properties in Rome, those are economic properties and not religious properties - which is why the secular government of Italy, starting in 2013, will make the Vatican pay taxes for their properties in Rome and Italy, raking in more than 600 million Euros to 2.2 billion Euros. It was the evil Mussolini who gave the Vatican its status as a “country”
… Mussolini is dead and it is time to end his legacy of the Vatican as a “country”.
Read here Mussolini’s billions owned and managed by the Vatican http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
Synod of Bishops & New Evangelization...or New Marketing of Old Vatican Deceits. Why Vatican must end as a “country” . Christ the Vatican Slave! Australia JP2 Army! http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/why-vatican-must-end-as-country-vatican.html
Vatican Deceits
The truthful way is to call Catholics as “Vatican Catholics” of the “Vatican Catholic Church”.
The Vatican Deceit way is to keep calling them “Roman Catholics “of the “Roman Catholic Church”. Roman Catholic was the traditional way but Catholic traditions are very deceitful such as their tradition of Latin as a “holy language” even if Christ never uttered one word of Latin, read here Latin is not a mother tongue and therefore cannot be the “official language” of the Vatican. Why must the Vatican Bank be above all banks? http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/10/latin-is-not-mother-tongue-and.html
Christ never wore red shoes, never wore white robes, read here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/08/benedict-xvi-vicar-of-christ-and-jon.html
Most of all, Christ never lived in a palace, read here how the Vatican transformed Christ into the Vatican Mammon Beast in the history of the Vatican Billions, the most important history every Catholic must read http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
The Vatican is no longer the Barque of St.. Peter http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/06/vatican-ends.html
Vatican desperately cling on to Rome
The Vatican Deceit way is to keep latching on to Rome for some flair deception to its name, a violent and evil name as in the Vatican Terror on Galileo, Vatican Terror on Women and children http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/vatican-terrorism-on-galileo-women-and.html
There are only two places to visit inside the Vatican, the Vatican Museum and St. Peter’s Basilica, therefore, the smallest country Vatican has to cling-on to Rome for tourism and monetary purposes.
The Vatican is the most evil and most violent power in the world hiding behind the masks of Jesus and His mother Ave Maria, Our Lady of Guadalupe, and under the word “holiness” like the letter of Archbishop Gomez for Lent, “A Time for Holiness”, see news below. Read how John Paul II betrayed Totus Tuus Marie http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2008/12/john-paul-ii-betrayed-totus-tuus-marie.html.
The Vatican has deceitful ways of making people forget Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils and one of its worst Vatican Deceits is the $25 million Catholic League’s president Bill Donohue who’s the most brutal Vatican Goliath-bully that seek to silence everyone who expose Pope crimes, Cardinal and Bishops’ crimes and Vatican Evils anywhere in the U.S.
The Vatican has deceitful ways of making people forget Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils centuries after centuries via the Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html
and through the panacea of “holiness”, and most of all, via the Magic of the Eucharist, read here http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html.
Even if the Pope and priests cannot clone Dolly the sheep they keep claiming they can clone Christ the Son of God during the Wizardry of the Eucharist that’s more fictional and more feel-good than Harry Potter, see images and links below. Hitler said, “Keep telling the same big lie and eventually people will believe it as the truth”.
The JP2 Army-John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army are the most evil priests but John Paul II is the fastest tracking saint from the 20th century http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html For half a century, the JP2 Army thrived as the Vatican itself admitted and which Amnesty International has declared Vatican guilty of human rights, and Cardinal Ratzinger’s crimes against humanity is now pending in The Hague http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html
The JP2 Army –John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army is the most violent, most vulgar and most evil of all priests. All Vatican priests are black magicians who claim to clone Christ even when they cannot clone Dolly the sheep, read here Eucharist feeds “dysfunction, disconnection, elitism...narcissism” of Benedict XVI http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/12/eucharist-feeds-dysfunction.html
President Obama should spearhead the United Nations to remove the Vatican as a “country” and begin taxing all Vatican properties in the USA like Italy did with the Vatican properties all over Rome and Italy, read here, http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray” with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/usa-ambassador-to-vatican-for-what.html
Christ revealed Himself in the New Testament, not in Rome
Christ said, “I am the way, the truth and the life” and “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free”. Self-acclaimed Vatican Vicars of Christ, Cardinals, Bishops, and priests should not be respected more than innocent helpless children and vulnerable women.
Christ said, “I am the way, the truth and the life” and “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free”. Christ came and revealed Himself in the New Testament – not in Rome -- but the Vatican has reincarnated Him into the Vicar of Christ the evil popes centuries after centuries, read here the top worst evil and criminal popes and the history of the Vatican -Billions - the MOST IMPORTANT to read about Christ’s transformation into the Vatican Mammon Beast http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
Christ is perceived in different ways according to one’s belief, one’s personal experiences and one’s state of life. Christ has revealed himself as Jesus the Liberator to Liberation Theology priests in Third World countries, but Cardinal Ratzinger and John Paul II silenced them all because as Forbes puts it, Benedict XVI is the 5th Most Powerful Person in the World, and he and John Paul II could not comprehend this “Christ of the poor” from their trillion dollars Chair of St. Peter at the Vatican Palace, read more here Forbes delusion of Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI powers http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/forbes-delusion-of-vatican-last-tsar.html and here
It’s time the world sets itself free from the Pharisee Pope, read our analysis of the Pope’s Christmas Speech where he mocks the world http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/popenesia-in-christmas-message-vatican.html
Look closely at these natural evil eyes of Benedict XVI, see more about his eyes in many angles here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/09/benedict-xvi-uses-hitler-to-divert.html
Benedict XVI’s Consecration to Mary cannot protect children from pedophile priests http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/05/benedict-xvis-consecration-to-mary.html
http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/05/evil-eyes-of-benedict-xvi.html
Anti-Catholic is not the same as anti-Semitism
In the U.S., the one-man show of Goliath-bully Bill Donohue of the $25 million Catholic League defends the Vatican Catholic Church. Anyone speaking up against the pope and Catholic priests (especially and including pedophile priests), and anyone who questions any one of the medieval Catholic doctrines, he brands them immediately as “anti-Catholic” - copying and inciting the sentiment of “anti-Semitism”. Bill Donohue is also like Samson in the Old Testament, as long as he had his long hair, he was strong. In Bill Donohue’s case, his long hair is his Vatican Billions supported $25 million Catholic League in America, read here Opus Dei's USA mouthpiece Bill Donohue is paid $400,000 to belittle the New York Times and anyone against Opus Dei World Domination Agenda. http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2011/04/opus-deis-usa-mouthpiece-bill-donohue.html
Octopus Dei Tentacles in the Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy
The entire 27 years papacy of John Paul II was controlled by Opus Dei and what mess they left behind for the Jesuit janitor Lombardi to clean up in public. So now, the Vatican Pied Piper news “Vatican Insider” came out with a clever title The Opus Dei and Benedict XVI’s “silent clean-up" operation, see news below.
Priests and nuns are not holier than us and not better than us
Priests and nuns are not holier-than-you and not better-than-you. Priests and nuns are not holier or better simply because they recite a formula of holy prayers and have (hypocritical) vows of poverty, chastity and obedience to the Pope, Cardinals and Bishops especially who aided and abetted half a century of JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests heinous crimes http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011_04_01_archive.html).
Priests and nuns are not holier or better than lay teachers, nurses, social workers, doctors, lab technicians, the police, firefighters, workers at McDonalds and restaurants, janitors, all professions and laborers.
No matter what good deeds the priests and nuns are doing, they are not holier-than nor better than -- the Red Cross workers and Doctors without Borders who are instantly everywhere in war zone or disaster areas regardless of race and creed – while those Popes, Cardinals and Bishops sit in the lap of luxury in the Vatican Palace and Bishops’ Palaces counting the Vatican Billions, and priests and nuns live in their comfy rectories and hushed million dollars convents, read here - The fantastic wealth of Irish Catholic religious orders revealed http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/07/fantastic-wealth-of-irish-catholic.html,
And Opus Dei million dollar houses of their priests and “numeraries” equivalent to nuns and religious brothers http://www.odan.org/foundations.htm
“Holiness” is not measured by the holy prayers a person recites because Christ condemned those Holy Priests Pharisees precisely because they recited the most holy prayers from the Bible and He called them white washed sepulchres, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/10/boston-to-host-former-swiss-guards.html
“It is acts of mercy” that I desire, God said in the Bible, and “not material or animal holocaust”. Christ got angry at those merchants selling those holy lambs for sacrifice in the Temple of Solomon, today that would be Holy Mass Tourism, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
Read about the impotent Zeus statue of St. Joseph who overlooked 50 years of sodomy in College Notre Dame here, BOYCOTT Oratory of St.Joseph http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/boycott-oratory-of-saint-joseph-candles.html
The “Holy Father“ Pope and his copy-cat “holy fathers” Catholic priests cannot clone Dolly the sheep and therefore they cannot clone Christ either, read our related article, OC Diocese buys Crystal Cathedral as flesh-factory of Christ... for wealthy God-flesh-eating Catholics http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/oc-diocese-buys-crystal-cathedral-as.html
Remember the historical cloned sheep Dolly? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep) It was the cream of the crop top team of scientists who cloned her.
Well, the black magic holy words of a team of “holy priests” cannot clone Christ the Son God either, read about the Divine Trinity http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/12/gay-trinity-of-father-son-and-holy
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, http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html
Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders
Pearl Harbor - 3,000 victims - 170 planes - Admiral Yamamoto
WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden
JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,100 pedophile priests covered-up by John Paul II, Cardinal Ratzinger, Opus Dei the Vatican Trinity, plus all Cardinals, Bishops, vicars
The womb of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady of Lourdes carried Jesus this way
http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html
The cloning process that produced Dolly
http://www.youtube.com/embed/39BbcZVCx8I
BLACK MAGIC OF EUCHARIST
http://www.youtube.com/embed/39BbcZVCx8I
BLACK MAGIC OF EUCHARIST
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,
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.
JP2 Army Prayer to protect children from pedophiles, pederasts and rapists
Ireland's greatest saint St. Patrick had a very famous 'breastplate' prayer:
Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me,
Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me,
Christ on my right, Christ on my left,
Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Christ when I arise...
Because the mile long writings of John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger are now being cited in every Sunday homilies (but St. Patrick is cited only once each year), today's boys and girls are better off to pray the JP2 Army prayer to protect them, similar to St. Patrick's prayer but more effective, like this
JP2 Army with me, JP2 Army before me, JP2 Army behind me,
JP2 Army in me, JP2 Army beneath me, JP2 Army above me,
JP2 Army on my right, JP2 Army on my left,
JP2 Army when I lie down, JP2 Army when I sit down, JP2 Army when I arise...
It's an irony but it is like a vaccine, the JP2 Army must always remind children of the most heinous crimes against children in the 20th century - http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/ . To remember the JP2 Army is protect children from predator pedophile priests forever so that they are able to pierce through their theological mask as "representative of Christ" and it will empower children to see through John Paul II writings which are heartless, read our related article Theology and John Paul II are heartless and together they made the immoral Fr. Marcial Maciel thrive... and they also made complicit Cardinal Bernard Law thrive, read our related article here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2010/05/theology-and-john-paul-ii-are-heartless.html
NCAA & Penn State more moral than Vatican. Sports is more moral than John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html
Los Angeles files. Mahony must be jailed as Nazis caught in their old age and retirement http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/los-angeles-files-mahony-must-be-jailed.html
The names of the transferring or covering up Bishops and Cardinals are: Roll Call Please!
http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2008/07/letter-to-opus-dei-pope-john-paul-ii.html
Analysis of Pope’s homily in Year for Priests -sorcerers of Christ’s flesh and blood
http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/06/eve-and-benedict-xvi-blame-devil.html
Benedict calls Cardinals for a one-day conference to tackle the 26+ years Clergy Sex Abuse of Biblical Proportions (with Vatican crocodile tears) http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/11/benedict-calls-cardinals-for-one-day.html
Premier Vaticanista John L. Allen Jr describes his unlimited access into the Vatican and Papal apartments http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/11/premier-vaticanista-john-l-allen-jr.html
The Hague: Full text Criminal Charges against Dr. Joseph Ratzinger, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html
NCAA & Penn State more moral than Vatican. Sports is more moral than John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html
Opus Dei response to Priestly Sex Scandal in 2002 and they are still saying the same things today.... http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/opus-dei-response-to-priestly-sex.html
Opus Dei origin of "the Great" John Paul II. Opus Dei tentacles in USA, Chile, Nicaragua, Philippines, Cuba, and others http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/opus-dei-origin-of-great-john-paul-ii.html
Navarro-Valls in New York Times interview: A psychiatrist with a penchant for media manipulation. Two open letters sent to Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/navarro-valls-in-new-york-times.html
Reasons why Opus Dei covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army for decades: Words of Opus Dei Joaquin Navarro-Valls http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/04/reasons-why-opus-dei-covered-up-john.html
Opus Dei female symbol for John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/04/opus-dei-female-symbol-for-john-paul-ii.html
Why John Paul II is Opus Dei's Patron Saint: analysis of conference at Holy Cross Pontifical University in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.html
John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html
Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/02/holy-heist-john-paul-ii-wyd-had-no-role.html
Saint? John Paul II slept in peace at the Vatican knowing that Fr. Marcial Maciel plus thousands of pedophile priests were raping thousands of boys http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/02/saint-john-paul-ii-slept-in-peace-at.html
John Paul II the Pope Sun (see the Danish cartoonist depiction of him as the Pope Sun http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006_08_01_archive.html
John L.Allen Jr.Pied Piper of John Paul II deceives Catholics with his essay Fast-Track Saint in Newsweek -- with Vatican lunacy & Satanic timeline http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/
The Nazis of Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church of Benedict XVI they both burn human beings in Auschwitz and in Hell http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/02/nazis-of-hitler-and-roman-catholic.html
Opus Dei Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts and Rapists : Prayer to Saint John Paul II = Opus Dei Pope #1.... Benedict XVI is Opus Dei Pope #2 http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2011/04/john-paul-ii-saint-of-pedophiles-and.html
The Opus Dei fabricates “The Age of Benedict XVI” in Rome http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/06/opus-dei-fabricate-age-of-benedict-xvi.html
Popenesia in Christmas Message: Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI does not 'practise what he preach’ and he’s suffering from Vaticanesia (papal amnesia) http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/popenesia-in-christmas-message-vatican.html
Urbi et Orbi John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army more heinous than heresy of Mass…but Benedict XVI not issue excommunication of 6,100 bestial priests?
The John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, numbering 6,100 priests in the United States of America alone and now expanding into thousands in Ireland, is more heinous and monstrous than heresy or non-belief in the Eucharist-alchemy-magic by the pope and priests so why has Benedict XVI not issue excommunication to these bestial priests or priestly beasts? Rather Benedict XVI has issue “silence” (sort of excommunication) to Jesuits like Jon Sobrino, Roger Haight and the late Jacques Dupuis? The answer is obvious, like father like son, like John Paul II, Benedict XVI has no charity like Mother Teresa see the John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/11/john-paul-ii-did-not-have-charity-of.html
Benedict XVI does “not see Christ” in the 12,000 American victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. But he will witch-hunt heretics of the Eucharist (like us).
When will Catholics ever learn that “Benedict XVI does not have the power to say "Let there be God in the Eucharist" just like he has no power to say "Let there be light " in Genesis http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2009/12/benedict-xvi-has-no-power-to-say-let.html.
If Benedict XVI has no power with his papal words to command-invisible-matter such as light, he has no power to command the Creator-of-the-universe to come down on Earth and be in his hands at Mass.
It is that simple and clear. Benedict XVI is incapable of turning the host-into-the-flesh of God in the Mass. Benedict is like the Emperor’s Clothes, Benedict XVI is naked and powerless. http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2009/12/urbi-et-orbi-john-paul-ii-pedophile.html
Can Benedict XVI and John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army of sodomy bestial priests say “Let there be light” and there was light? http://jp2army.blogspot.com/
Can Benedict XVI and John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army of sodomy bestial priests say “Let there be fish in the ocean, and birds in the air” and there were fish and birds…?
Can Benedict XVI and John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army sodomy bestial priests say “Let there be stars in the heavens” and stars suddenly appeared?
http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2009/12/benedict-xvi-has-no-power-to-say-let.html
It is precisely because of Catholics’ belief in the Eucharist throughout the centuries that has caused them to adulate the Holy Father Pope and then ignore the “sins of the Holy Fathers” even the most bestial pedophile priests against their own children today. The power of the Eucharist is the power of evil itself because it sees evil and do nothing about evil but rather hide it in utmost secrecy as in Crimen sollicitationis http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/06/benedict-xvi-in-google-video-sex-crimes.html.
Mother Teresa of Calcutta “saw Christ” in the HINDUS people of India dying in the streets of Calcutta, but Benedict XVI “cannot see Christ” in the CATHOLICS altar boys and girls sodomized by the John Paul II Pedophile Priests. Benedict XVI is concerned only with perpetuating the powers of papacy through the deceitful Sacrament of the Eucharist and will waste his time only in the witch-hunt of heretics-of-the-Eucharist together with his GAY private secretary http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/06/benedict-xvis-handsome-private.html
Theology and John Paul II are heartless and together they made Father Marcial Maciel and pedophile priests thrive, read our related article here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/05/theology-and-john-paul-ii-are-heartless.html
Nazis and the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army were both an inherently evil all-male elite hierarchy born from the Devil's bowels - read our article here http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/01/nazis-and-john-paul-ii-pedophiles.html
John Paul smelled Devil`s Bowels as roses for 27 years as he deified Father Marcial Maciel and deified Cardinal Bernard Law - read our article here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-smelled-devils-bowels-as.html.
Opus Dei orchestrated John Paul II's trip to El Salvador - by Jon Sobrino http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007/11/john-paul-ii-oppressed-ignacio.html
Christ did not wear red shoes like the Pope http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/08/benedict-xvi-vicar-of-christ-and-jon.html
Oprah did more good than John Paul II for 25 years. Oprah gave truth and exposed evil while John Paul II hid them in his 2 evil papal Achilles Heels http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/oprah-did-more-good-than-john-paul-ii.html
Catholics can emulate Jews [who hunted down Nazi officers] by hunting down pedophile priests’ officers Benedict XVI & Bishops into the World Court read more here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/02/catholics-can-emulate-jews-who-hunted.html .
The Catholic Church is worse than communism where there is no ‘freedom of speech’ - read our related article here about Vatican Temple Police http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/05/temple-police-australian-is-part-of.html and Vatican Terror on Galileo, priests and the poor, women and children
Priests are the WIZARDS of HOST – BLACK MAGIC magicians of the flesh of God! read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/oc-diocese-buys-crystal-cathedral-as.htm
Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html
NCAA & Penn State more moral than Vatican. Sports is more moral than John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html
Pope’s Christmas speech of 2012 , our analysis here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/popenesia-in-christmas-message-vatican.html
USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray” with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/usa-ambassador-to-vatican-for-what.html
Opus Dei Criminal Bishop Finn attacks National Catholic Reporter as he desperately cling to power as a tyrannical ruler http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/criminal-bishop-finn-attacks-national.html
Ireland condemns Vatican secrecy on Cloyne Diocese pedophile priests. Ireland vis-à-vis USA: the way they deal with crimes by the Vatican http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/07/ireland-government-condemns-vatican.html
Forbes delusion of Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI powers http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/forbes-delusion-of-vatican-last-tsar.html
The 4 cornerstones of the Vatican: Narcissism, dysfunction, disconnection, elitism http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/07/4-cornerstons-of-vatican-narcissism.html
Amnesty International names Vatican guilty of violation of human rights http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2011/05/amnesty-international-names-vatican-in.html
The Hague: Full text Criminal Charges against Dr. Joseph Ratzinger, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html
Synod of Bishops & New Evangelization...or New Marketing of Old Vatican Deceits. Why Vatican must end as a “country” . Christ the Vatican Slave! Australia JP2 Army! http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/why-vatican-must-end-as-country-vatican.html
Criminal Bishop Finn attacks National Catholic Reporter as he desperately cling to power as a tyrannical ruler http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/criminal-bishop-finn-attacks-national.html
Diamond bride Mother Angelica’s EWTN acquires Fr. Marcial Maciel’s National Catholic Register: same God and Mammon, same hypocrisy http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/01/diamond-bride-mother-angelicas-ewtn.html
Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html
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News for February 14, 2013
Money Scandal Behind Papal Coup d'Etat
February 11, 2013
Left, The Ex Pope and the New Pope? Joseph Ratzinger (l) and the palace coup-master, Cardinal Bertone
To understand the Pope's resignation,
Kevin Annett says, "Follow the money."
"What sounded the death knell on Pope Benedict was his personal involvement in the bribery and money-laundering practices of the Vatican Bank."
by Kevin Annett
(henrymakow.com)
Theories are abounding now that the first pope in seven centuries is resigning his office. But as always, the most direct way to the truth behind the world's oldest corporation is simply to follow the money: and specifically, Vatican Bank money.
First of all, let's put to rest, the fallacy that "looming scandals" about child rape and coverup are behind Joseph Ratzinger's resignation. That's just the cover story.
Nobody in the church hierarchy is losing sleep over their standing, canon-law endorsed policy of concealing and protecting child rapists in their ranks. Even the International Criminal Court application about such crimes has been stymied by catholic-run legislators and jurists.
What sounded the death knell on Pope Benedict was his personal involvement in the bribery and money-laundering practices of the Vatican Bank, comically known as The Institute of Religious Works (IOR); and how that dirty connection gave the anti-Ratzinger faction in the College of Cardinals the lever they needed to dump the obstinate German from the papal throne.
We had a whiff of that dump-Rat Boy agenda last year, when "Vatileaks" broke a ludicrous story of how Ratzinger's loyal butler Paolo Gabriele disclosed the pope's dirty secrets to the Italian media. In fact, the damning documents detailing Ratzinger's secret rewarding of Vatican contracts to his friends and family members originated in the Vatican Secretary of State's office, which the fall-guy butler could not have had access to.
The Secretary of State and the real power behind the papacy is Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, an old insider who also engineered the sacking of Gotti Tedeschi, head of the Vatican Bank, last May.
Tedeschi had taken seriously the call of the European Parliament for "greater transparency" by the Vatican Bank /IOR, and was about to disclose to Brussels how his bosses had been laundering money for the mob for decades. The last Pope who had tried such a disclosure, John Paul 1, died from poisoning in September, 1978 after less than a month in office.
But even with Tedeschi silenced, the IOR house of cards kept tumbling, as the European Parliament seized from it 300 million Euros fraudulently acquired. Even the American Securities and Exchange Commission declared the IOR's assets and practices "insecure". A major Vatican housecleaning was required; or at least, the appearance of one.
It was the pivotal Cardinal Bertone who leaked the pope's diary and other incriminating papers to a catholic-friendly journalist in Rome last year the same month that Tedeschi was sacked, to prepare the world for Ratzinger's removal. For it is Bertone who is now reaping the benefits of the papal housecleaning. He is not only a primary contender for the pope's position but a key player in the IOR.
During my second speaking tour in Rome, in the spring of 2010, I met with several senior Italian senators and officials of the parliamentary Radical Party. They all said the same thing about why Joseph Ratzinger had been made pope, and what awaited him. To quote one of those politicians,
"Nobody becomes pope without a sordid past, because only with such liabilities can he be controlled by the Curia. It's the same in any big company. Well, Ratzinger made many indiscretions as a Cardinal and made many enemies. His signing letters ordering criminal concealment was just one sin. He was to be the scapegoat for all of the trash that the church knew would surface"
SCAPEGOAT
So now, the papal scapegoat is gone, pensioned off to wherever ex-popes end up; and the time for the big face-saving lie has arrived.
The idea of applying cosmetic surgery to a decaying facade like the Church of Rome reminds me of Shirley Maclaine trying to look forty at the age of ninety. And yet appearances are everything in show business as well as in religion.
Tarcisio Bertone is about as institutional as you can get, and represents the old Italian crowd of the Curia, who are part of the Mob-government-papal clique that run the country and the Roman Catholic church. In the words of one of the Roman Senators I spoke with,
"You must understand that in my country, the Mafia and the government and the Vatican are all the same people, and they really have only one concern: protecting their assets."
Bertone, or whoever from the ranks of his victorious faction does assume the papal tiria, cannot be expected to do much but maintain the assets and security of the church, and that means continuing the policies of silence and dissimulation that keeps the cash flowing. But their position is more difficult now in the wake of the enormous rifts developing within the wider church, where Cardinals are facing criminal prosecution for shielding child rapists, and talk of disaffiliating from Rome is widespread among Irish, American and German Bishops.
"We have all the grounds for a second Reformation now. That's how serious is the crisis. The church will either rid itself of itself or face collapse" said an Italian media commentator recently.
It was easy to despise Joseph Ratzinger: the Hitler Youth raised, reactionary bigot who sacked liberal and independent thinkers in his church as the Cardinal-head of the Vatican Inquisition, and who told American Bishops that purgatory awaited any of them who did not cover up priestly child rape. Even among fellow Cardinals, he was known as "Joe the Rat".
But Ratzinger was a made to order object of hatred, and put there to play out the oldest game in politics: the venting of popular rage on a disposable figurehead so that the institution itself could proceed unscathed.
I doubt that it's totally coincidental that Ratzinger was forced out of office so quickly barely ten days after our Common Law court published online hard evidence of the Pope's involvement in crimes against humanity. Any new Pope will face the same charges, of colluding in a massive criminal conspiracy.
But the real issue is not who or what will replace Joseph Ratzinger as the latest figurehead, but how to displace the Vatican itself as a criminal power unto itself. And that struggle is just commencing.
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Related-
Victims Groups Implicate Ratzinger in Sex Abuse Cover Up
http://m.guardiannews.com/world/2013/feb/11/pope-complicit-child-abuse-say-victims
Joseph Farrell on Ratzinger Resignation
I wrote to Leo Zagami in Rome, asking if Annett's accusations have merit. His reply:
Yes and there is much more to it I had previously published in my latest books and I am coming out in Italy next month in March 2013 with two new books one called The Invisible Masters of the NWO (I Maestri Invisibili del NWO) published by TERRE SOMMERSE that brings some new answers to the Ratzinger story as I had already wrote about the link with the murder plot and his possible resignation one year ago and all the strange developments connected to it that took place in 2012 including the scandal of the MPS Bank (Monte dei Paschi di Siena) tied to the IOR and international Freemasonry and the visit in March 2013 of Queen Elisabeth II in Rome , this book is co-written with journalist Enrica Perucchietti. Leo Zagami is as you know considered even in Italy on the biggest experts on Vatican secrets and another book will came out by two of the most respected Vaticanist Feruccio Pinotti e Giacomo Galeazzi Vaticano massone. Un patto segreto e una finta inimicizia
that will include a chapter on Vatican Freemasonry and the latest events by myself Leo Zagami.
And I have been now been offered to write also a instant book with my journalist colleague Enrica Perucchietti on the particularity of the month of March as all Catholics will become sedevacantist for once.
Second Comment from Richard on the Prophesy of the Popes:
Cardinal Bertone is the Secretary of State of the Roman Curia, the structure that actually runs the Roman Church. As with the President of the United States, the Papal role is largely figurative. Theoretically he heads the Curia, but the real boss is Secretary of State.
(Left, Bertone giving an expert Masonic grip to a brother in Australia in 2007.)
Now, here's something that occurred to me tonight from the information that's come out.
The Prophecy of the Popes, attributed to Saint Malachy, is a list of 112 short phrases in Latin. They purport to describe each of the Roman Catholic popes (along with a few anti-popes), beginning with Pope Celestine II (elected in 1143) and concluding with current pope Benedict XVI's successor.
(Left, Bertone giving an expert Masonic grip to a brother in Australia in 2007.)
The Prophecy of the Popes calls this last Pope "Peter the Roman". Nobody can resist a good prophecy. There's been buzz today on Catholic channels about Bertone's full name being Cardinal Tarcisio PIETRO Bertone of Romano, Turin, Italy.
You see the prophecy says this last Pope will pontificate over the destruction of Rome. A lot of bets were placed last year that Benedict XVI would be gone in 2012 so the last Pope could be seated before December 21st. (Only problem was that Catholics never used the Mayan long count Calendar. - a little humor there..)
Rumors that Bertone's election is a done deal because of his power with the Curia and the Italian faction may be overstated. Of 120 cardinal electors, only 28 are Italians, and nearly half are Hispanic, African and various Asian and others.
Comments for "Money Scandal Behind Papal Coup d'Etat"
Steven said (February 12, 2013):
It would not surprise me that if the next Pope was a back to basics reformer the Freemasons and elements of the Jewish community would attempt to persecute the church and its followers... A corrupt church they would tolerate but a spiritually strong in the Lord church they would love to kill if they couldn't corrupt it. Another thing to remember is that the real biblical city of seven hills that really matters is Jerusalem and not Rome.
O said (February 12, 2013):
This is the most corrupted religious organization on the face of the earth, and all goes back to 1982 with the Banco Ambrosiano affair, as a few years later found out why the Vatican was established as a separate State.
It was to execute the status of Diplomatic immunity, and if you ever wondered why a religious organization has Diplomats running all over the world with suitcases that are sealed with internationally immunity to be searched?
There was a time in my life that had an office dealing with clients that had big money, and one day was approached by someone I knew, and said do you have any clients with big money somewhere that is frozen? I said yes, so he said want you to meet someone.
It was all a matter of me charging a fee of say 5% on the capital, as the Pope at that time wanted to get his money back and he told me who I would be meeting, as would be a Vatican Diplomat with an agenda, so we met.
The first thing I wanted to see was his Diplomatic passport, and other identification which he had, and what he said was a wake up for me, as they could move financial assets out of most countries under the direction of the Pope and they would be charging a 10% fee to get the money out as a tithe, and could charge a brokerage fee as well, so we could all make money; they would move gold, cash, or investment assets with Diplomatic immunity. I said was not interested, and showed him the door.
Winston1984 said (February 12, 2013):
Sorry, with all due respect,
It’s hard to imagine a thicker condensate of BS..
Pope & Vatican for sure are not immune from fault,
but what here is presented as a cleansing report
is voiced by the dirtiest pans saying black to the pot...
Monica said (February 12, 2013):
I'm in the "Ratzinger was a scapegoat" camp, and a planned one at that. Nothing "just happens" when Illuminati and their money are involved. They are eagerly looking forward to the culmination of their plans to completely destroy the Catholic Church, but be advised, in spite of the appearances soon to come, it is already a fait accompli.
The next pope will appear to the public as really holy. He will purport to be a Great Restorer who will supposedly bring a New Springtime to the Church, but this Peter The Roman will be anything but. He will be privately as dissolute and corrupt as any "old Roman". He will indeed preside over the final collapse of the institutional Catholic Church and usher in the era of the supposed Great Monarch.
Peter the Roman will be the final cattle call to rope traditionalists back into the Church before handing the faithful over to the One World Religion under the Anti-Christ who will be the self-proclaimed Great Monarch they are all expecting.
The Pope, Cardinals And Bishops Should Be Prosecuted For The Sexual Abuse Of Children
Countercurrents.org
By Francis A. Boyle
13 February, 2013
Countercurrents.org
As the Lawyer for the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during Yugoslavia’s War of Extermination against the Bosnians, I represented all 40,000 raped Women of Bosnia, argued their case for genocide before the International Court of Justice in The Hague (the World Court of the United Nations System), and won two World Court Orders of Provisional Measures of Protection on their behalf on 8 April 1993 and 13 September 1993. See my book “ The Bosnian People Charge Genocide!” (1996).
The Pope and his Cardinals and his Archbishops and his Bishops are ultimately responsible for the widespread and systematic Sexual Abuse of thousands of completely innocent children around the world, which constitutes a Crime against Humanity under the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court, in particular article 7(1)(g)—“rape”—and article 7(1) (k)— “Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.” According to the well known principle of Command Responsibility under International Criminal Law, the Pope and his Cardinals and his Archbishops and his Bishops should all be prosecuted for their own criminal acts and the criminal acts of their subordinate priests for the reasons set forth in Rome Statute article 28(b):
“b) With respect to superior and subordinate relationships not described in paragraph (a), a superior shall be criminally responsible for crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court committed by subordinates under his or her effective authority and control, as a result of his or her failure to exercise control properly over such subordinates, where:
(i) The superior either knew, or consciously disregarded information which clearly indicated, that the subordinates were committing or about to commit such crimes;
(ii) The crimes concerned activities that were within the effective responsibility and control of the superior; and
(iii) The superior failed to take all necessary and reasonable measures within his or her power to prevent or repress their commission or to submit the matter to the competent authorities for investigation and prosecution.”
To every Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop, Bishop, Priest, Abbot, Monk, and Brother in the entire world I ask: What did you know and when did you know it about your colleagues and friends and subordinates and superiors sexually abusing Children? And why did you not act immediately and effectively to stop them? As Jesus Christ said about protecting Children: "If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matthew 18:6).
By Francis A. Boyle
13 February, 2013
Countercurrents.org
As the Lawyer for the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina during Yugoslavia’s War of Extermination against the Bosnians, I represented all 40,000 raped Women of Bosnia, argued their case for genocide before the International Court of Justice in The Hague (the World Court of the United Nations System), and won two World Court Orders of Provisional Measures of Protection on their behalf on 8 April 1993 and 13 September 1993. See my book “ The Bosnian People Charge Genocide!” (1996).
The Pope and his Cardinals and his Archbishops and his Bishops are ultimately responsible for the widespread and systematic Sexual Abuse of thousands of completely innocent children around the world, which constitutes a Crime against Humanity under the Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court, in particular article 7(1)(g)—“rape”—and article 7(1) (k)— “Other inhumane acts of a similar character intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health.” According to the well known principle of Command Responsibility under International Criminal Law, the Pope and his Cardinals and his Archbishops and his Bishops should all be prosecuted for their own criminal acts and the criminal acts of their subordinate priests for the reasons set forth in Rome Statute article 28(b):
“b) With respect to superior and subordinate relationships not described in paragraph (a), a superior shall be criminally responsible for crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court committed by subordinates under his or her effective authority and control, as a result of his or her failure to exercise control properly over such subordinates, where:
(i) The superior either knew, or consciously disregarded information which clearly indicated, that the subordinates were committing or about to commit such crimes;
(ii) The crimes concerned activities that were within the effective responsibility and control of the superior; and
(iii) The superior failed to take all necessary and reasonable measures within his or her power to prevent or repress their commission or to submit the matter to the competent authorities for investigation and prosecution.”
To every Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop, Bishop, Priest, Abbot, Monk, and Brother in the entire world I ask: What did you know and when did you know it about your colleagues and friends and subordinates and superiors sexually abusing Children? And why did you not act immediately and effectively to stop them? As Jesus Christ said about protecting Children: "If any of you put a stumbling block before one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be better for you if a great millstone were fastened around your neck and you were drowned in the depth of the sea" (Matthew 18:6).
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Feburary 14, 2013
Child sex abuse cover-up alleged in Pope Benedict's resignation
ROMEAll Voices
If you suspected there was more to the story behind the historic resignation of Pope Benedict XVI, there may be emerging evidence to support that suspicion.
The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS) reported on Thursday that Pope Benedict became the first pope to resign in nearly 600 years in order to avoid criminal prosecution for concealing knowledge of “documented crimes of child torture, trafficking and genocide,” connected to the Roman Catholic Church.
The ITCCS report cites a letter from Rev. Kevin Annett to Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, written a week before the pope officially resigned.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
UNITED STATESFeminist Studies in Religion
Posted by Mary E. Hunt on Feb 14, 2013
Patriarchy will get unimaginable amounts of free publicity for the next month as the Roman Catholic Church reshuffles the papal deck. Media commentators will fawn over the proceedings triggered by the unexpected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. Unrivaled displays of kyriarchy will be beamed into our homes as reporters explain piously the ancient rituals of a men’s club cloning its own head. It will be hard to ignore and difficult to make sense of, even though the outcome is clear. When the smoke subsides after the Conclave, there will still be a single man at the helm.
As a media extravaganza full of color and pageantry, the rituals will be hard to beat. The whole package will serve to reinforce the patriarchal patterns of a religious tradition whose billion adherents deserve better, patterns that are alive and well beyond the walls of Rome. No woman will have a voice or a vote in the Conclave. Sisters and consecrated laywomen will care for the elderly pope, but otherwise this is a men’s scene without any questions asked. The explicit—not just implicit, but explicit—message is that men are in charge: men confect the sacred mysteries, men decide whom to elect, men pray, men reflect the divine, men have it all under their control. This carries over into the larger culture as well. It is no wonder violence against women is epidemic.
Sensible feminist friends ask why I worry about such things. I reply that some women’s birth control and abortions are at stake; some young LGBTIQ people will commit suicide because of this crowd. Abuse survivors live with the consequences of acts perpetrated by priests and covered up by these bishops, cardinals, and now popes (plural). Sounds dramatic, but sadly it is true. Moreover, male entitlement in the world, including the violence done to women and girls, is baptized and confirmed by this symbol system. It has the pernicious impact of making the male-only power model seem holy. Ditto for the racist, heterosexist dimensions as well, not to mention the Euro-centrism and moneyed assumptions that underlie the proceedings.
Next Pope Is Irrelevant As Roman Holy Empire Falls
UNITED STATESChristian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
As superficial journalists speculate on the next Pope’s nationality with non-stop nonsense, the Roman Holy Empire is falling before their unseeing eyes. The important issue is not who the next pope will be. If the Catholic Church leadership doesn’t restore, pronto, the accountability that Jesus and his early followers demanded, international prosecutors and regulators will do it for them, and soon.
The Pope’s appointment today of a likely well compensated ex-investment banker, also a German lawyer and Knight of Malta, to “clean up” the Vatican Bank is merely the latest example of incompetent tactics in the futile battles among Cardinals taking place daily on the decks of the Vatican’s Titanic. Whomever is elected next Pope will only get to watch the Church sink rapidly, after having taken on dirty water for decades from the obscene child abuse cover-up iceberg. You cannot try to cover-up the rape of hundreds of thousands of children by priests and expect to get away with it forever. Only clueless celibate males sailing on the rudderless Vatican Titanic could fail to understand this.
Pope John XXIII issued in 1962 the main secrecy order on priest child sex abuse. But he also realized that accountabilty had to be restored to save the Church. He took the first step by trying to get the Vatican Cardinals to share power with the worldwide bishops. He died soon therafter and the Vatican Cardinals’ clique rejected power sharing craftily. Since then, they have installed compliant Popes who like the papal prestige and are happy to do the clique’s bidding. But the democratic rule of law has run out of patience with clerical child abusers and Popes no longer have any effective political power, as the re-election of President Obama just proved.The International Sheriff is on his way and the Pope cannot hide with Georgeous Georg in a refurbished convent. His own Cardinals will help nail him, it appears.
But at this point does any of this matter to most Catholics worldwide? While it may seem overly pessimistic to say so soon that the next Pope will likely fail too, it is just being realistic; and yet there is also room for much optimism. The papal resignation is tantamount to an admission of failure and will lead to de-mystification of the papacy quickly. Pope Benedict XVI, soon to again be non-Pontiff, Joseph Ratzinger, and his Vatican clique led by Cardinal Sodano et al., have already set the stage for the next failure. ...
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The Disappointing Reign of Pope Benedict, Continued
UNITED STATESBloomberg
By Margaret Carlson Feb 14, 2013
This week Margaret Carlson and Ramesh Ponnuru are discussing the legacy of Pope Benedict XVI. Previously, Ramesh responded to Margaret's column.
The thing about the pope, Ramesh, is that he's as close to all-powerful as we have in this vale of tears. He’s the president without Congress holding him down. He’s infallible when he wants to be. He has no H.R. department telling him whom he can and cannot fire.
As head of the euphemistically named Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, charged with handling the sex-abuse scandal, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger knew the magnitude of the problem. According to the U.S. Conference of Bishops, since 1950, there have been 6,100 accused priests and religious and 16,000 victims.
As head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Benedict XVI could have dramatically cleaned house.
As the spiritual leader of the world's Catholics, he let us down.
Church has culture of abuse denial: priest
AUSTRALIASBS
Source: AAP
A priest has told a Victorian inquiry there is extraordinary denial within the Catholic Church hierarchy about sexual abuse.
The Catholic Church is in extraordinary denial over child sex abuse and its absolute mess of a system for dealing with victims has lost all credibility, a priest says.
Geelong-based priest Father Kevin Dillon says the church lacks accountability, is more interested in protecting its name and assets and needs to overhaul the way it deals with abuse victims.
The church hierarchy has been in denial on the issue of sexual abuse, Fr Dillon told a Victorian parliamentary inquiry into sexual abuse within religious organisations during a hearing in Geelong on Friday.
Church culture of abuse denial -priest
AUSTRALIABig Pond News
Friday, February 15, 2013
A Catholic priest says the church has a culture of denial and asset protection in dealing with victims of sexual abuse.
Geelong-based priest Father Kevin Dillon has told the Victorian parliamentary committee into sexual abuse within religious organisations that there is 'extraordinary denial' within the church hierarchy about sexual abuse.
'I think of the riding instructions to protect the church's good name ... (and) protect their assets,' he told the inquiry on Friday.
'I think often the church works with a lack of accountability.'
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News for February 11, 2013
We post below especially two news articles by the Irish abuse victims and by the co-director of Bishops Accountability. We will be updating with our commentaries and adding articles in this post regularly.
The articles below about Vatican Last Tsar Ratzinger’s resignation are statements that speaks about the true legacy of Ratzinger.
All other news articles are part of the Vatican Deceits Media Empire with much wasted space vying for readership. The Vatican Pied Pipers media foot soldiers will now all come out in full force, read some of their articles here, Los Angeles files The Vatican Pied Pipers will capitalize on this event to toot on the mask of the papacy to protect the Vatican Mammon.
Pope to Resign: Statement by Anne Barrett Doyle, Co-Director, BishopAccountability.org
UNITED STATES
BishopAccountability.org
Joseph Ratzinger leaves the papacy having failed to achieve what should have been his job one: to rectify the incalculable harm done to the hundreds of thousands of children sexually abused by Catholic priests. He leaves hundreds of culpable bishops in power and a culture of secrecy intact.
Benedict’s apologies to victims were frequent. When he traveled to the US in April 2008, he promised that the Church would do "whatever possible to help, to assist, to heal" victims. In February 2010, meeting with Irish bishops, he called child sexual abuse “heinous.” In his letter to the Irish people in 2010, he expressed “shame and remorse.”
Benedict's words rang hollow. He spoke as a shocked bystander, as if he had just stumbled upon the abuse crisis. But more than anyone in the Vatican, he knew about the damage done to innocent children. As archbishop of Munich and Freising, Cardinal Ratzinger had allowed the transfer of accused priest Rev. Peter Hullermann, and certainly managed many other abuse cases as well. Since 1981, when he was named head of the congregation for the doctrine of the faith (CDF), he had been at the center of the Vatican’s abuse bureaucracy, reviewing many files and, unfortunately, implementing Pope John Paul II’s policy of not laicizing abusive priests. In Spring 2001, the Pope gave Cardinal Ratzinger and the CDF sole responsibility for abuse cases, and in that role, Cardinal Ratzinger read hundreds of files and became the Vatican’s most knowledgeable and powerful person on this issue.
The tragedy is that as Pope he could have enacted true reform. He could have forced the immediate resignation of bishops who had enabled sexual predators. He could have decreed that every bishop post on his website the names, assignment histories, and allegations of accused priests. He could have made the CDF transparent in its handling of cases, instead of the black box that it remains to this day. He could have acted on the Vatican’s vast knowledge of these cases, instead of leaving the work to the survivors, investigative reporters, grand juries in the US, and government commissions in Ireland and Australia.
Instead of remedies, he gave us words. Instead of true penitence, he gave us public relations. His failure to enact real change in the Church’s handling of sexually abusive priests will be his significant and shameful legacy.
About BishopAccountability.org
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Pope Benedict 'complicit in child sex abuse scandals', say victims' groups
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/11/pope-complicit-child-abuse-say-victims
Children play in St Peters' Square at the Vatican. Benedict, then Cardinal Ratzinger, was in charge of investigating sex abuse scandals but critics say he covered up paedophilia. Photograph: Gregorio Borgia/ AP
For the legions of people whose childhoods and adult lives were wrecked by sexual and physical abuse at the hands of the Roman Catholic clergy, Pope Benedict XVI is an unloved pontiff who will not be missed.
Victims of the epidemic of sex- and child-abuse scandals that erupted under Benedict's papacy reacted bitterly to his resignation, either charging the outgoing pontiff with being directly complicit in a criminal conspiracy to cover up the thousands of paedophilia cases that have come to light over the past three years, or with failing to stand up to reactionary elements in the church resolved to keep the scandals under wraps.
From Benedict's native Germany to the USA, abuse victims and campaigners criticised an eight-year papacy that struggled to cope with the flood of disclosures of crimes and abuse rampant for decades within the church. Norbert Denef, of the NetworkB group of German abuse victims, said: "The rule of law is more important than a new pope."
Denef, 64, from the Baltic coast of north Germany, was abused as a boy by his local priest for six years. In 2003, Denef took his case to the bishop of Magdeburg. He was offered €25,000 (then £17,000) in return for a signed pledge of silence about what he suffered as a six-year-old boy. He then raised the issue with the Vatican and received a letter that said Pope John Paul II would pray for him so that Denef could forgive his molester.
"We won't miss this pope," said Denef. He likened the Vatican's treatment of the molestation disclosures to "mafia-style organised crime rings".
That view was echoed by David Clohessy in the US, executive director of SNAP (Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests), an organisation with 12,000 members: "His record is terrible. Before he became pope, his predecessor put him in charge of the abuse crisis.
"He has read thousands of pages of reports of the abuse cases from across the world. He knows more about clergy sex crimes and cover-ups than anyone else in the church yet he has done precious little to protect children."
Jakob Purkarthofer, of Austria's Platform for Victims of Church Violence, said: "Ratzinger was part of the system and co-responsible for these crimes."
Under the German pope, his native country, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Austria were rocked by clerical sex-abuse scandals, triggering revulsion at the clergy in Europe just when Benedict saw his mission as leading a Catholic revival on a secular continent.
Before becoming pope, there were also major scandals in the US and Ireland at a time when Pope John Paul II had put the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in charge of dealing with them.
A combination of deep rancour and disgust over the crimes and disaffection with the conservative ethics of the Catholic hierarchy has nudged the church in Austria towards schism, with rebel priests leading an anti-Vatican movement of hundreds of thousands, dubbed We Are The Church.
"He should have come clean about the abuses, but was not really able to change anything fundamentally," said Purkarthofer. "The resignation is a chance for real change, perhaps the best thing he could have done for the church."
While also intensely critical, some Irish victims of the seminaries, convent schools, and church-run orphanages gave the pope the benefit of the doubt, but lamented that not enough action had followed Benedict's expressions of remorse in the spring of 2010.
"When the pope issued his pastoral letter to the people of Ireland we welcomed it," said one Irish campaigner. "Because of the sincerity of the words in that letter from the pope in the name of the church. He said he was 'truly sorry' and accepted that our 'dignity had been violated'.
"So we went on to meet the group of bishops in Ireland thinking that this would be a new era. But what we got instead were pastoral platitudes and special masses offered up."
The fallout from these scandals continues to reverberate. Next Monday campaigners for justice are to protest in the ancient west German city of Trier when the country's church leadership gathers. Last month a church-sponsored inquiry into the abuses collapsed in disarray amid recrimination between the clergy and outside criminologists involved in the examination.
A similar situation persists in Austria, where a church-led inquiry into the abuse and compensation has degenerated, in the view of activists, into a smokescreen. In Belgium, where the head of the church nationally had to resign and then made matters worse by going on television to plead innocence while admitting "intimacy" by having boys in his bed, there are parallel frustrations with the partial nature of the church's openness.
A couple of years ago US activists sought to file a criminal suit against the Vatican at the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, while victims' associations responded to the current drama by demanding an international commission be set up to examine Catholic paedophilia, independent of the church.i
Clohessy said a big question for Benedict's successor is "what he will do in a very tangible way to safeguard children, deter cover-ups, punish enablers and chart a new course.
"There are 30 bishops in the US [who] have posted on the diocese websites the names of predator priests. The pope should require bishops to do that and to work with secular lawmakers to reform archaic sex abuse laws so that predators from every walk of life face justice."
John Kelly, one founder of Ireland's Survivors of Child Abuse group and a former inmate at Dublin's notorious Artane Industrial School, which was run by the Christian Brothers, said Benedict had resisted their demands to properly investigate and disband religious orders tainted by sexual and physical abuse.
"In our view, we were let down in terms of promises of inquiries, reform and most importantly of all the Vatican continuing not to acknowledge that any priest or religious bodies found guilty of child abuse would face the civil authorities and be tried for their crimes in the courts.
"I'm afraid to say Pope Benedict won't be missed as the Vatican continued to block proper investigations into the abuse scandals during his term in office. Nor are we confident that things are going to be different because of all the conservative Cardinals he appointed. For us, he broke his word."
The Austrian campaigner called for church files on paedophilia to be opened and generous compensation for the victims.
Denef pointed to the discrepancies between the response in the US and in Europe, insisting that clergy suspects must be brought before the law.
"From our point of view, Ratzinger did nothing to support the victims. Instead, perpetrators and serial perpetrators were protected and moved to new jobs," he said.
"Victims in the US have been compensated sometimes with more than a million dollars and the personal files of the perpetrators were put on the internet. But the victims of sexual violence by the clergy in Germany had to settle for a few thousand euros, often conditional on pledges of silence and no more claims.
"We demand from German politicians that this concern [the church] is no longer beyond the rule of law. That's more important than waiting to see whether a new pope will be more reactionary than the old one."
• This article was amended on 13 February 2013 because the original attributed quotes from Norbert Denef, of NetworkB, to Matthias Katsch. Katsch is not a member of NetworkB. The original has also been amended to correct the description of NetworkB. It is not a "group of German clerical-abuse victims" as the original said, but a group of German abuse victims.
Victims of the epidemic of sex- and child-abuse scandals that erupted under Benedict's papacy reacted bitterly to his resignation, either charging the outgoing pontiff with being directly complicit in a criminal conspiracy to cover up the thousands of paedophilia cases that have come to light over the past three years, or with failing to stand up to reactionary elements in the church resolved to keep the scandals under wraps.
From Benedict's native Germany to the USA, abuse victims and campaigners criticised an eight-year papacy that struggled to cope with the flood of disclosures of crimes and abuse rampant for decades within the church. Norbert Denef, of the NetworkB group of German abuse victims, said: "The rule of law is more important than a new pope."
Denef, 64, from the Baltic coast of north Germany, was abused as a boy by his local priest for six years. In 2003, Denef took his case to the bishop of Magdeburg. He was offered €25,000 (then £17,000) in return for a signed pledge of silence about what he suffered as a six-year-old boy. He then raised the issue with the Vatican and received a letter that said Pope John Paul II would pray for him so that Denef could forgive his molester.
"We won't miss this pope," said Denef. He likened the Vatican's treatment of the molestation disclosures to "mafia-style organised crime rings".
That view was echoed by David Clohessy in the US, executive director of SNAP (Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests), an organisation with 12,000 members: "His record is terrible. Before he became pope, his predecessor put him in charge of the abuse crisis.
"He has read thousands of pages of reports of the abuse cases from across the world. He knows more about clergy sex crimes and cover-ups than anyone else in the church yet he has done precious little to protect children."
Jakob Purkarthofer, of Austria's Platform for Victims of Church Violence, said: "Ratzinger was part of the system and co-responsible for these crimes."
Under the German pope, his native country, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Austria were rocked by clerical sex-abuse scandals, triggering revulsion at the clergy in Europe just when Benedict saw his mission as leading a Catholic revival on a secular continent.
Before becoming pope, there were also major scandals in the US and Ireland at a time when Pope John Paul II had put the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in charge of dealing with them.
A combination of deep rancour and disgust over the crimes and disaffection with the conservative ethics of the Catholic hierarchy has nudged the church in Austria towards schism, with rebel priests leading an anti-Vatican movement of hundreds of thousands, dubbed We Are The Church.
"He should have come clean about the abuses, but was not really able to change anything fundamentally," said Purkarthofer. "The resignation is a chance for real change, perhaps the best thing he could have done for the church."
While also intensely critical, some Irish victims of the seminaries, convent schools, and church-run orphanages gave the pope the benefit of the doubt, but lamented that not enough action had followed Benedict's expressions of remorse in the spring of 2010.
"When the pope issued his pastoral letter to the people of Ireland we welcomed it," said one Irish campaigner. "Because of the sincerity of the words in that letter from the pope in the name of the church. He said he was 'truly sorry' and accepted that our 'dignity had been violated'.
"So we went on to meet the group of bishops in Ireland thinking that this would be a new era. But what we got instead were pastoral platitudes and special masses offered up."
The fallout from these scandals continues to reverberate. Next Monday campaigners for justice are to protest in the ancient west German city of Trier when the country's church leadership gathers. Last month a church-sponsored inquiry into the abuses collapsed in disarray amid recrimination between the clergy and outside criminologists involved in the examination.
A similar situation persists in Austria, where a church-led inquiry into the abuse and compensation has degenerated, in the view of activists, into a smokescreen. In Belgium, where the head of the church nationally had to resign and then made matters worse by going on television to plead innocence while admitting "intimacy" by having boys in his bed, there are parallel frustrations with the partial nature of the church's openness.
A couple of years ago US activists sought to file a criminal suit against the Vatican at the international war crimes tribunal in The Hague, while victims' associations responded to the current drama by demanding an international commission be set up to examine Catholic paedophilia, independent of the church.i
Clohessy said a big question for Benedict's successor is "what he will do in a very tangible way to safeguard children, deter cover-ups, punish enablers and chart a new course.
"There are 30 bishops in the US [who] have posted on the diocese websites the names of predator priests. The pope should require bishops to do that and to work with secular lawmakers to reform archaic sex abuse laws so that predators from every walk of life face justice."
John Kelly, one founder of Ireland's Survivors of Child Abuse group and a former inmate at Dublin's notorious Artane Industrial School, which was run by the Christian Brothers, said Benedict had resisted their demands to properly investigate and disband religious orders tainted by sexual and physical abuse.
"In our view, we were let down in terms of promises of inquiries, reform and most importantly of all the Vatican continuing not to acknowledge that any priest or religious bodies found guilty of child abuse would face the civil authorities and be tried for their crimes in the courts.
"I'm afraid to say Pope Benedict won't be missed as the Vatican continued to block proper investigations into the abuse scandals during his term in office. Nor are we confident that things are going to be different because of all the conservative Cardinals he appointed. For us, he broke his word."
The Austrian campaigner called for church files on paedophilia to be opened and generous compensation for the victims.
Denef pointed to the discrepancies between the response in the US and in Europe, insisting that clergy suspects must be brought before the law.
"From our point of view, Ratzinger did nothing to support the victims. Instead, perpetrators and serial perpetrators were protected and moved to new jobs," he said.
"Victims in the US have been compensated sometimes with more than a million dollars and the personal files of the perpetrators were put on the internet. But the victims of sexual violence by the clergy in Germany had to settle for a few thousand euros, often conditional on pledges of silence and no more claims.
"We demand from German politicians that this concern [the church] is no longer beyond the rule of law. That's more important than waiting to see whether a new pope will be more reactionary than the old one."
• This article was amended on 13 February 2013 because the original attributed quotes from Norbert Denef, of NetworkB, to Matthias Katsch. Katsch is not a member of NetworkB. The original has also been amended to correct the description of NetworkB. It is not a "group of German clerical-abuse victims" as the original said, but a group of German abuse victims.
Pope Benedict XVI 'knew more about clergy sex crimes than anyone else in church yet did little to protect children', say critic
Pope Benedict XVI resigns: Irish abuse victims welcome resignation
IRELAND
The Telegraph (United Kingdom)
A group representing victims of child abuse in Catholic-run institutions in Ireland on Monday welcomed the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI after "he promised a lot but delivered nothing".
"This pope had a great opportunity to finally address the decades of abuse in the church but at the end of the day he did nothing but promise everything and in the end he ultimately delivered nothing," John Kelly, of the Survivors of Child Abuse support group, told AFP.
Ireland has been stunned by a series of revealing reports in recent years that lifted the lid on decades of child abuse suffered at the hands of religious members that stretches back to the foundation of the state in 1922.
"We asked the pope for sanctions against the religious orders who committed the abuse and the religious leaders in Ireland who allowed this to happen but to our dismay nothing has happened," Kelly added.
A sign from above? Lightning strikes Vatican hours after Pope's shock resignation
VATICAN CITY
Mirror (United Kingdom)
[with photo of the lightning strike]
This was the moment lightning struck the Vatican today - hours after Pope Benedict XVI's bolt-from-the-blue resignation.
The lightning touched the dome of St. Peter's Basilica, one of the holiest Catholic churches, after the Pope's shock admission he lacks strength to do the job.
The Vatican stressed that no specific medical condition prompted Benedict's decision to quit - the first pontiff to do so in 600 years.
The move surprised even his closest aides, even though Benedict, 85, had made clear in the past he would step down if he became too old or infirm.
Pope resigns without ever apologizing to Milwaukee’s deaf victims from St. John’s
UNITED STATES
SNAP Wisconsin
Statement by John Pilmaier, SNAP Wisconsin Director
CONTACT: 414.429.7259
It is difficult today, with the announcement that Pope Benedict XVI is retiring this month, not to think of the many victim/survivors of sexual abuse from St. John’s School for the Deaf.
It was Benedict, as Cardinal Ratzinger in his previous post running the powerful Doctrine for the Congregation of the Faith CDF), who was in charge of the fate of the notorious Fr. Lawrence Murphy. Murphy, Ratzinger knew, had sexually assaulted at least 200 children at the boarding school in Milwaukee. Ratzinger ordered that Murphy be left in ministry, unpunished and unprosecuted, undetected to the public, and remain a priest, with all the rights, honors, and power which the church grants only to ordained clerics, right up until his death.
Benedict never once contacted, spoke to, or apologized to the deaf victims from St. John’s
Benedict’s fateful decision with Murphy at the time left children at risk in Wisconsin and also hundreds of deaf victims without a voice in their church. Is it little wonder, then, that Benedict leaves the Papacy without really addressing, fundamentally, the sex abuse crisis in the global church?
Benedict Resigns...
UNITED STATES
SNAP Wisconsin
Benedict Resigns: removing all known child sex offenders from the priesthood, firing bishops who conspired in covered-ups, must be new Pope’s first act
Statement by Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director
CONTACT: 414.429.7259
Pope Benedict, who announced today he will resign on February 28, will leave his tenure as Pope without having made the one, simple moral and executive decision that would have, in a single stroke of his pen, protected potentially millions of children from harm, brought justice to hundreds of thousands of victims, and finally turned the church on a path towards true recovery and reform: worldwide zero tolerance of child sex abuse by priests.
Because he never issued this decree, Benedict leaves office not only with countless children at risk around the world but scores of Cardinals and bishops in leadership positions who are actively covering up child sex abuse.
Amazingly, across the world today, although there was a modification in church law allowed by the Vatican for the United States, if you are a priest and have been found by your bishop to have raped or sexually assaulted a child, you can remain in the priesthood and in ministry, your crimes left secret and unpunished.
No other profession working with children in civil society today formally allows for this bizarre possibility under their occupational rules. Tragically, this makes the priesthood, in some ways, the most dangerous such occupation for children across the globe. Tragic and unnecessary, since obviously the vast majority of priests never harm a child and serve and support the children in their ministry admirably.
Sexual abuse victims blast Benedict papacy
VATICAN CITY
Reuters
James Mackenzie
Reuters
3:43 p.m. CST, February 11, 2013
ROME (Reuters) - Pope Benedict leaves office having failed to stamp out the sexual abuse of children by priests and with the culture of secrecy that fostered the scandal still in place, groups representing some of the victims said on Monday.
Bishops Accountability, a U.S. pressure group, said the pope had apologized frequently for the harm done by priests but had never taken effective action to rectify the "incalculable harm" done to hundreds of thousands of children by predatory clergy.
"Benedict's words rang hollow. He spoke as a shocked bystander, as if he had just stumbled upon the abuse crisis," Anne Barrett Doyle, the group's co-director said in a statement.
The festering child abuse scandal broke out well before the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger took office in 2005 but it overshadowed his papacy from the beginning, as more and more cases came to light in dioceses across the world.
Catholic Clergy Child Abuse Investigations Since 2005 … and a Papal Resignation
UNITED STATES
Patrick J. Wall
The German Pope’s resignation today as the Bishop of Rome (for health reasons) is the final lie in his Papacy. Since 2005, Benedict XVI’s church has been the subject of more civil and criminal inquiries of the Church since the time of the Protestant Reformation.
Just look at the sheer volume of child abuse and financial abuse inquires during Benedict XVI’s reign. The real story is how these worldwide child abuse inquires brought on the first resignation of a healthy Pope in eight centuries.
Click on the links to read the full reports.
Germany
German Bishops Halt Child Abuse Inquiry
Australia
Australian Prime Minister Julian Gillard announces National Inquiry of child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church
Belgium
Report on wide spread child abuse in Belgian Church
Bishop Roger Vanghuewe resigns after child abuse accusations
Mexico
Reverend Marcial Maciel, Founder of the Legionaries of Christ, was removed in 19 after first being removed as head of the Order for sexually abusing children in the 1950′s
United States
Los Angeles – Cardinal Roger Mahony’s 1985-2011 coverup of 128 priest perpetrators is revealed and Benedict XVI remains silent
Milwaukee – In the midst of planning for Bankruptcy and moving assets to shield them from child sex abuse survivors, Archbishop Dolan pays for the perpetrators silence. Pope Benedict XVI rewards Dolan and promotes him to Cardinal
INT - SNAP to Pope: Use remaining two weeks to protect kids
UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by Barbara Dorris on February 11, 2013
No matter how tired or weak Pope Benedict may be, he still has two weeks to use his vast power to protect youngsters. Before he steps down, we hope he will show true leadership and compassion and take tangible action to safeguard vulnerable children.
(Imagine the shock waves – and the hope – that would be generated if, in his waning days, the pontiff demoted, disciplined, or defrocked even a handful of bishops who are concealing child sex crimes. And imagine the deterrent that would be to present and future cover ups.)
It’s reckless to assume the next pope will handle abuse and cover ups better. Vigilance, not complacency, protects kids. The next pope must be judged by his actual track record, not by our naïve assumptions.
Pope Benedict followed the same script church officials have used for years, speaking of abuse in oblique terms and only when forced to do so, ignoring the cover ups, using past tense (as if to pretend clergy sex crimes and cover ups are not still happening now). Instead of taking sweeping, proactive steps to deter wrongdoing, he offered only belated verbal apologies and ineffective symbolic gestures.
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ...
MASSACHUSETTS
Wicked Local Fall River
Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests weighs in on Pope Benedict XVI's decision to resign
By Deborah Allard
Herald News Staff Reporter
Posted Feb 11, 2013
FALL RIVER —
An international survivor’s network for those abused by priests is asking Pope Benedict XVI to use his “vast power” in his remaining two weeks to take tangible action to safeguard vulnerable children.
The pope announced he will resign on Feb. 28 due to advanced age and declining strength.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests said Pope Benedict unfortunately “followed the same script church officials have used for years,” speaking only of church sexual abuse when “forced to do so,” said Barbara Dorris, outreach director for SNAP.
The group on more than one occasion has organized protests in Fall River, the most recent last summer, and has asked for cooperation from Bishop of the Fall River Diocese George W. Coleman.
In the age of the smartphone, a Pope has no choice but to retire
UNITED STATES
The Worthy Adversary
Posted by Joelle Casteix on February 11, 2013
Today’s announcement that Pope Benedict XVI will resign later this month has become a swirling vortex of media conjecture and speculation. Is it because of growing scandals in the United States and Ireland? Is it because the Pope is directly tied to the cover-up of child sexual abuse in the US and elsewhere?
I doubt it.
Yes, there are growing scandals – scandals that show that the cover-up of child sexual abuse goes all the way to the highest levels of the Vatican. Cardinal (in good standing) Roger Mahony, who covered up for dozens of priest predators in Los Angeles, has yet to receive any public rebuke from Rome. It is doubtful that he ever will. Even the slap on the wrist he received from LA Archbishop Jose Gomez has been minimized. Mahony will be able to vote for the new Pope and—in prime “Prince of the Church” fashion—will parade around Rome with this fellow cardinals next month.
But I believe that Benedict’s “resignation for health reasons” is probably the truth. Rumors have been swirling for years that the Pontiff has Alzheimers, and video from recent public appearances show a man in the ravages of declining health. And more videos like that will keep coming.
Benedict’s Painful Legacy
UNITED STATES
Religion Dispatches
By Elizabeth Drescher
In the wake of Benedict’s sudden announcement of his early retirement, Catholic luminaries from Cardinal Timothy Dolan to James Martin, SJ have already begun, as is the custom when a papal career ends, to lionize the leader of the world’s 1.1 billion Roman Catholics.
But on the margins of the Catholic Church, the legacy Benedict began shaping in 1980 as Cardinal Ratzinger, when he was named as Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faithful (the office formerly known as the Inquisition), and which he solidified during a mere eight years as Bishop of Rome is seen as something far more complex and troubling. ...
Joelle Casteix, Western Region Director for SNAP, which advocates on behalf of some 20,000 survivors and allies of those abused by Roman Catholic priests, likewise sees the action of laypeople as critical to any meaningful change in the Roman Catholic Church. “The only way that we can have influence,” she says, “is if Catholics sitting in the pews demand change. It’s time for the Catholic laity stand up and demand that the church truly embody the teachings of Jesus Christ in protecting children.” She sees that as unlikely to happen between now and when the College of Cardinals meets in March to elect a new pope, especially in a Church that “evolves in geological time.”
Pope Benedict, Casteix says, “offered empty promises and apologies” about the abuse scandal “as a PR move” while at the same time “portraying victims as enemies of the Church.” This, she says, has continued to “ensure the marginalization of abuse victims within the Church” even as civil authorities have moved more decisively to extract a measure of justice from abusive priests and the Church leaders who often enabled them to continue as abusers and actively covered up the Church’s protection of them.
An Open Letter to Pope Benedict XVI
UNITED STATES
Minnesota SNAP
Vinnie Nauheimer
What if you had the ability to undo egregious wrongs that affected hundreds of thousands of people worldwide would you, could you do it? What if there was only a sixteen day window for you to act? Would you find the time? Pope Benedict XVI, you have just sixteen days to perform this wondrous task. You’ve heard all about the crimes. You’ve heard the pleas of survivors; they have haunted you since before you took the office of pope. They will haunt your legacy for eternity too if you pay no heed to this request. I’m begging you on behalf of survivors of clergy abuse and their families all around the world, set them free, hear the pleas, hear their suffering, take to heart their pain and publicize the global clergy abuse files regardless of the rank of the offending priest. Only you can alleviate the endless suffering of victims and their families by giving their suffering validity and naming their tormentors!
Whether you wanted it or not, God gave you the opportunity to change the church and put an end to the worldwide sexual abuse of children by priests and bishops. God has given you two opportunities, one as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the second as Pope Benedict XVI to clean up this evil mess festering within His church. In both instances, you have not been up to the task. Now with just days left before the voluntary end of your papacy, you have yet a third chance. We implore you, to summon the courage before God and man to do what you swore to do in assuming your position as a priest, protect the flock.
A man of your intelligence knows beyond a shadow of a doubt about how the sexual abuse of children corrupts, has corrupted and has thrown the Catholic Church and your papacy into a tailspin. Now is the time to resurrect the church as a parting gift to the victims, the future of the church and to Jesus Christ who founded this church. It is your last chance to rectify the wrongs.
Sexual assault survivor on Pope Benedict’s resignation...
UNITED STATES
Current - The Young Turks
[video]
Sexual assault survivor on Pope Benedict’s resignation: ‘He’s resigning without having done what he needs to have done’
Cenk talks to Peter Isely, a founding member of the Survivor’s Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), about the surprising resignation of Pope Benedict and his legacy. “The point about Benedict resigning is that he’s resigning without having done what he needs to have done as Pope,” Isely says, referring to the continuing child abuse scandals and coverups within the Catholic Church. Isely continues his point, laying out direction for the papal sucessor. “The first day he comes into office, [he needs to] sign a decree…that any priest that has sexually assaulted or harmed a child is going to be immediately removed from the priesthood.”
Abuse Victims Welcome Pope's Retirement
VATICAN CITY
Courthouse News Service
By JACK BOUBOUSHIAN
(CN) - Pope Benedict's retirement plans may open him up to prosecution by the International Criminal Court for sheltering child abusers, an advocacy group said Monday.
Citing his frail health on Monday, Pope Benedict XVI announced that he will step down as pope after less than eight years in office. He is the first pope to retire in the last 600 years.
Though a surprise to many, one group that the announcement failed to rattle is the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). It announced hours later: "whether he is in office or not makes no difference, but it may lower the bar of resistance enough for justice to be served."
"In this case, all roads really do lead to Rome," the group said in a statement. "Not only does Pope Benedict XVI bear responsibility in his official capacity for the church-wide policy of systematic and widespread concealment and enabling of the crimes, but he bears individual responsibility in a number of cases in which he ensured that perpetrators would be shielded and protected and left in place to assault more victims."
Pope 'could face court over pedophiles'
AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
AUSTRALIAN human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson says the Pope's resignation could expose him to lawsuits from victims of pedophile priests.
Robertson, writing in UK newspaper the Independent, argues the Pope's resignation is "merely expedient" as he'd become too old to cope in the job.
"It would have been both astonishing and courageous, a few years ago, had it been offered in atonement for the atrocity to which he had for 30 years turned a blind eye - the rape, buggery and molestation of tens of thousands of small boys in priestly care," writes the author of The Case of The Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse.
Robertson, based in London, argues that the Pope's "command responsibility" goes back to 1981 when he was appointed head of the Vatican body that disciplines errant priests.
Abuse victims criticise Benedict XVI’s “empty words”
euronews
Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned on February 11 and is expected to leave his post on February 28, will leave behind a Vatican administration mired in scandal over child sex abuse by priests. David Lorenz, who heads up a US group for victims, says the pope failed to really tackle the problem. Lorenz himself was abused by a priest working as a guidance counsellor at his school when he was 16.
Lorenz himself was abused by a priest working as a guidance counsellor at his school when he was 16. Lorenz said of the outgoing pope, “He’s apologised the Irish. He’s apologised to the United States. He’s apologised to Australia, Germany, Spain – you know, letters of apology for what’s gone on in those countries. But the fact is there’s been no action, and words without action really are emptiness.”
Looking ahead to the next pope, Lorenz said, “I’m concerned that we’ll get somebody just as poor and just as rigid on this issue as he was.” Cardinal Roger Mahony, the former Archbishop of Los Angeles, was stripped of his public duties after being linked to efforts to conceal abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.
Resignation Announcement of Pope Benedict XVI
UNITED STATES
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
For Immediate Release
February 11, 2013
Pope Benedict made a sensible decision. It is evidence the papacy and the Church can change.
Let’s hope it is a signal of strength for the next pope to take the steps that the Church needs.
The Church is in bad shape and needs the tremendous power of the papacy to be used courageously and forcefully for good – starting with the sexual abuse crisis, the largest crisis the Church has faced in 500 years.
Pope Benedict, by being in the unique position of being alive, and with his considerable political skills that were in evidence before and during the last conclave will have influence over the coming conclave and, it can be reasonably expected, into the next papacy.
Pope Benedict should bar Cardinal Roger Mahony from entering the conclave. The Los Angeles documents are evidence enough that this high honor of voting for the next Pope should be withdrawn from him. There should be an empty chair to mark Mahony’s spot.
Pope Benedict took a few, tiny, window dressing steps toward resolving the crisis. With the exception of action against the Legionaire of Christ founder Pope Benedict’s provided words only and weak ones at that.
What’s needed now is true righteousness and courage to match the nobility of action that the survivors have brought forth from lives crucified by rape and sodomy by priests and nuns.
Church sexual abuse victims criticise Pope
AUSTRALIA
9 News
Pope Benedict XVI has done nothing to help sexual abuse victims and has instead covered up crimes to protect the church, Australian advocates for victims of church sexual abuse say.
Melbourne lawyer Judy Courtin says the Pope had been "absolutely appalling" in his handling of the worldwide issue.
"He's certainly been responsible for the Catholic Church's policy of concealing and covering up (sexual abuse crimes)," Ms Courtin told AAP.
"And I know his edicts, coming from the Vatican to the bishops worldwide, have been such that there's been threats of excommunication if they don't keep these things secret."
Good riddance, sex abuse victims tell pope
SOUTH AFRICA
Sowetan
Pope Benedict XVI did nothing to punish pedophile priests or Church seniors who looked the other way, according to US and Irish victims hoping his successor will focus on fighting sex abuse.
Barbara Blaine, founder and president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, or SNAP, called the outgoing pope's record "dismal."
"He has made lofty statements. He has not matched those statements with deed or action. Under his reign, the children remained at risk," Blaine said.
In recent years, the United States and Ireland have been among several countries rocked by successive sex scandals involving members of the Catholic clergy and Church higher-ups accused of covering up abuses. ...
"I'm very happy that the pope is resigning because he really did not do very much about clergy sexual abuse," said Robert Hoatson, president of victims aid group Road To Recovery.
"The next pope has to tackle this issue. This is the most important issue because it concerns children, and it is a worldwide problem and the pope has to commission a group of expert to determine what has to be done to solve this problem.
"And if it means firing all the bishops that have covered up, so be it."
POPE RENOUNCES PAPAL THRONE
VATICAN CITY
Vatican Information Service
Vatican City, 11 February 2013 (VIS) – The Holy Father, at the end of today's consistory for causes for canonization, announced his resignation from ministry as Bishop of Rome to the College of Cardinals. Following is the Holy Father's complete declaration, which he read in Latin:
"I have convoked you to this Consistory, not only for the three canonizations, but also to communicate to you a decision of great importance for the life of the Church. After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry. I am well aware that this ministry, due to its essential spiritual nature, must be carried out not only with words and deeds, but no less with prayer and suffering. However, in today’s world, subject to so many rapid changes and shaken by questions of deep relevance for the life of faith, in order to govern the barque of Saint Peter and proclaim the Gospel, both strength of mind and body are necessary, strength which in the last few months, has deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfil the ministry entrusted to me. For this reason, and well aware of the seriousness of this act, with full freedom I declare that I renounce the ministry of Bishop of Rome, Successor of Saint Peter, entrusted to me by the Cardinals on 19 April 2005, in such a way, that as from 28 February 2013, at 20:00 hours, the See of Rome, the See of Saint Peter, will be vacant and a Conclave to elect the new Supreme Pontiff will have to be convoked by those whose competence it is."
Sexual abuse victims blast Benedict
VATICAN CITY
IBN Live
Rome: Pope Benedict leaves office having failed to stamp out the sexual abuse of children by priests and with the culture of secrecy that fostered the scandal still in place, groups representing some of the victims said on Monday. Bishops Accountability, a US pressure group, said the pope had apologised frequently for the harm done by priests but had never taken effective action to rectify the "incalculable harm" done to hundreds of thousands of children by predatory clergy.
"Benedict's words rang hollow. He spoke as a shocked bystander, as if he had just stumbled upon the abuse crisis," Anne Barrett Doyle, the group's co-director said in a statement. The festering child abuse scandal broke out well before the then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger took office in 2005 but it overshadowed his papacy from the beginning, as more and more cases came to light in dioceses across the world.
Hundreds of victims came forward with devastating accounts of abuse suffered at the hands of priests sometimes over years that left them with deep psychological wounds. The scandal broke in Boston in 2002 when reports emerged of the systematic cover-up of sexual abuse, with guilty priests being quietly transferred between dioceses instead of being stripped of their office and handed over to civil authorities.
Lightning strikes the Vatican -- literally
Papal prank? Or did lightning really hit the Vatican?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2013/02/12/lightning-bolt-strikes-vatican-pope-benedict-resignation/1913095/
Photo: Filippo Monteforte AFP/Getty Images)
Story Highlights
• Lightning hit the same day that Pope Benedict announced his resignation
• Thunderstorms were reported in Rome on Monday
• Meteorologist says it looks real
I know the pope has connections, but this is extraordinary!
An apparent photo of a lightning bolt striking St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican Monday night (left) -- the same day that Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, stunning the world -- has gone viral.
Filippo Monteforte, a photographer with Agence France Press, told England's Daily Mirror that "I took the picture from St. Peter's Square while sheltered by the columns. It was icy cold and raining sheets. When the storm started, I thought that lightning might strike the rod, so I decided it was worth seeing whether – if it DID strike – I could get the shot at exactly the right moment."
Monteforte waited for more than two hours and was rewarded for his patience with not one but two bolts, the Mirror reported.
But could it be fake? One expert, AccuWeather meteorologist and lightning photographer Jesse Ferrell, thinks it's real. In addition to the account from Monteforte -- a trusted and well-known photographer -- Ferrell sees telltale signs of a genuine lightning strike.
"I believe the photo is plausible, and since it was taken by a professional, with potential video to back it up, I'd say that the photo is legitimate," Ferrell writes on his blog.
Also, he notes that thunderstorms were present in Rome Monday afternoon, according to several Facebook users.
What's a bit spooky, Ferrell says, is "that it doesn't appear from a Google Image Search that a similar image has ever been captured before...."
Lightning has a long, symbolic history in the Italian capital, even predating the Catholic Church: "In Rome, from before 300 B.C. to as late as the fourth century, A.D., the College of Augurs, composed of distinguished Roman citizens, was charged with the responsibility of determining the wishes of Jupiter relative to state affairs," writes engineer and lightning expert Martin A. Uman in his book Lightning Discharge.
"This was accomplished," Uman writes, "by making observations of three classes of objects in the sky: birds, meteors, and lightning. In the case of the latter, the observation was always made while looking south, and the location of the lightning relative to the direction of observation was taken as a sign of Jupiter's approval -- or disapproval."
On average, according to Uman in his book All About Lightning, there are about 8 million lightning strikes each day around the world.
Pope Benedict's Legacy Marred by Sex Abuse Scandal
UNITED STATES
ABC News
[with video]
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN (@GoldmanRussell)
Feb. 11, 2013
When Pope Benedict XVI resigns at the end of this month, he leaves behind a Church grappling with a global fallout from sex abuse and a personal legacy marred by allegations that he was instrumental in covering up that abuse.
As the sex abuse scandal spread from North America to Europe, Benedict became the first pope to meet personally with victims, and offered repeated public apologies for the Vatican's decades of inaction against priests who abused their congregants.
"No words of mine could describe the pain and harm inflicted by such abuse," the pope said in a 2008 homily in Washington, D.C., before meeting with victims of abuse for the first time. "It is important that those who have suffered be given loving pastoral attention." During the same trip to the U.S., he met with victims for the first time.
For some of the victims, however, Benedict's actions were "lip service and a public relations campaign," said Jeff Anderson, a Minnesota lawyer who represents victims of sex abuse. For 25 years, Benedict, then known as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, headed the Vatican office responsible for investigating claims of sex abuse, but he did not act until he received an explicit order from Pope John Paul II.
Editorial: If pope can resign, so can L.A.'s Cardinal Roger Mahony
LOS ANGELES (CA)
Press-Telegram
With the selection of a new pope, the Roman Catholic Church signals the way forward for an institution whose policies affect the whole world. The shocking news Monday that Pope Benedict XVI is resigning this month presents just such an occasion, giving the church a chance to move beyond the sins of the past, to modernize.
But the church can hardly expect to cleanse itself as long as Benedict's replacement will be chosen by a College of Cardinals that includes Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles.
Last week, following further revelations about Mahony's role in protecting priests who sexually molested children, and the removal of the former head of the L.A. archdiocese from administrative duties, we called on him to resign his post as cardinal.
Mahony's potential role in choosing Benedict's successor underscores what a purely symbolic gesture that removal was and highlights the need for the North Hollywood resident to step aside.
Cardinal linked to Los Angeles abuse cover-up to take part in papal selection
LOS ANGELES (CA)
Reuters
(Reuters) - A former Los Angeles Catholic archbishop who was stripped of all public duties after being linked to efforts to conceal child sex abuse by priests said on Monday he planned to participate in the process to elect a successor to Pope Benedict XVI.
The announcement by Cardinal Roger Mahony, which angered a prominent victims support group, came less than two weeks after 12,000 pages of church files unsealed under court order showed Mahony worked to send priests accused of abuse out of state to shield known abusers from law enforcement scrutiny in the 1980s.
"I look forward to traveling to Rome soon to help thank Pope Benedict XVI for his gifted service to the Church, and to participate in the Conclave to elect his successor," Mahoney, 76, said in a statement released on Monday by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. ...
Joelle Casteix, western regional director for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said she was concerned that it was not in Mahony's best interest to "elect anyone who will punish wrongdoers and take child molesters out of ministry.
"We fear that anyone that he votes for will only continue this shameful cover-up of child sexual abuse," she added.
Pres. Obama Must Act Now To Move Cardinals On New Pope
UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Pope Benedict XVI had to resign. The public objections of Cardinals Meisner and Mahony, the political rejections in the USA, the Philippines, Ireland, Australia and in other countries, the priests’ revolts in Austria, Ireland, the USA and elsewhere, the bank regulators steady pressure on the Vatican Bank, and who knows what will soon be revealed, all made it clear that the Vatican clique’s power was diminishing rapidly.
But the Pope has only been an ornament on a hierarchical structure that remains. Unless and until that Catholic Church’s structure returns to the pre-Constantinian consensual style that Jesus and his first disciples left behind, a new Pope will likely just continue business as usual. For that reason, President Obama must act now to signal to the worldwide Cardinals that business as usual is unacceptable and that the Catholic Church leadership structure must return to a consensual and accountable basis.
As a retired Harvard trained international lawyer and lifelong practicing Catholic and a grandparent, I am convinced the obscene sexual violations against children by priests will unacceptably continue, no matter who is Pope, unless and until the U.S. Federal government steps up. No one else has as much clout to stand up to the power of the Vatican. Local prosecutors have failed for decades to prosecute bishops for enabling predatory priests to attack more children.
Many from different faiths and no faith all across the USA, and even worldwide, including some of those harmed by the abuse of the deaf victims in Milwaukee, have already signed my petition calling on President Obama to step up. They have indicated they have had enough with the domination of local prosecutors and legislators by the Catholic hierarchy and its well paid apologists and lawyers. More signatures, including yours, will help accelerate the establishment of the U.S. national investigation commission, especially important now when the Vatican may be at a turning point.
We all have a moral obligation to protect children and signing a petition is a simple, yet potentially effective, way towards meeting that obligation. Please take a minute and sign it at:
[Click here for the petition.]
Pope favorite has defended African ‘Kill the Gays’ laws
VATICAN CITY
Gay Star News
11 February 2013 | By Joe Morgan
The top three candidates for Pope are all vehemently anti-LGBT, with one defending African laws punishing gay people with death.
Pope Benedict XVI resigned earlier today (11 February), with the 85-year-old citing ill health and his advancing age.
Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, has said many of the laws imposed on gay people in Africa are an ‘exaggeration.’
Last year, the National Catholic Register reported the Cardinal saying it is important people understand the ‘reasons’ why some African governments have created legislation against homosexuality.
News updates for February 23, 2013
Report: Pope decided to resign after internal report on adultery
VATICAN CITYHerald (Ireland)
AN ITALIAN NEWSPAPER has claimed that Pope Benedict’s decision to resign was confirmed by the contents of an internal Vatican report which revealed significant adultery and theft problems within the Vatican.
La Repubblica says the Vatican report, chaired by Cardinal Julian Herranz and delivered to the pope in December, is reported to have uncovered details of an ‘underground’ gay network among Vatican and Holy See employees and officials, where members organised events around Rome and inside the Vatican itself.
The report, summarised by The Nation, adds that the members were prone to blackmail because of how their sexual orientation is frowned upon by the Church.
The authors of La Repubblica’s report said the information was “all about the breach of the sixth and seventh commandments” – referring to God’s commands that followers neither steal or commit adultery.
Did A Cross-Dressing Priest Sex Ring Bring Down Benedict XVI?
VATICAN CITYThe Daily Beast
by Barbie Latza Nadeau
Feb 22, 2013
Of all the rumors floating around about just why Pope Benedict XVI is hanging up his camauro, one has taken on a life of its own. According to several well-placed vaticanisti--or Vatican experts--in Rome, Benedict is resigning after being handed a secret red-covered dossier that included details about a network of gay priests who work inside the Vatican, but who play in secular Rome. The priests, it seems, are allegedly being blackmailed by a network of male prostitutes who worked at a sauna in Rome’s Quarto Miglio district, a health spa in the city center, and a private residence once entrusted to a prominent archbishop. The evidence reportedly includes compromising photos and videos of the prelates--sometimes caught on film in drag, and, in some cases, caught ‘in the act’.
Revelations about the alleged network are the basis of a 300-page report supposedly delivered to Benedict on December 17 by Cardinals Julian Herranz, Joseph Tomko and Salvatore De Giorgi. According to the press reports, it was on that day that Benedict XVI decided once and for all to retire, after toying with the idea for months. He reportedly closed the dossier and locked it away in the pontifical apartment safe to be handed to his successor to deal with. According to reports originally printed by La Repubblica newspaper and the newsweekly Panorama (and followed up across the gamut of the Italian media), the crimes the cardinals uncovered involved breaking the commandments “Thou shalt not steal” and “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” the latter of which has been used in Vatican-speak to also refer also to homosexual relations instead of the traditional reference to infidelity.
Will the Catholic Church become its own relic?
UNITED STATESWashington Post
By Sally Quinn
Friday, February 22
But standing there in Rome, I thought about the reality of children being molested and priests who had committed those crimes being protected and excused by the Vatican, the complaints years earlier about my half inch too short skirt seemed pathetic in comparison.
Next week, Pope Benedict will step down, becoming the first pope to retire in nearly 600 years. The official explanation is that he has become too frail to perform his duties. I think there is more to it than that. I think that he either doesn’t want to or can’t deal with all that has gone rotten around him. Let somebody else do the dirty work.
What the Vatican needs to do to prove its viability is for the next pope, as his first act, to demand an accounting of every act of child abuse in the church. Every priest who is known to be guilty should be routed out, excommunicated and jailed. Every priest, bishop and cardinal who had any knowledge of these heinous crimes and protected abusers should be excommunicated and prosecuted in the courts. There should be a zero tolerance policy against child sexual abuse, or sexual abuse of any kind for that matter. If ever there were time for the church to ask, “What would Jesus do?”, this is it.
Sexual abuse, however, is not the only issue the new pope must deal with.
Garry Wills, a devout Catholic and religion scholar, in his new book, “Why Priests? A Failed Tradition” argues that as we have seen in Vatican II, the church can and does change. And it should if it wants to stay relevant.
Wills’s book takes the reader back to Christ’s time and walks through the creation of the church.
Priests, he points out, were man-made, not prescribed by God. There were no priests in the New Testament and certainly no one held the title “pope.” (Many Christians agree, see: the Protestant Reformation.) The idea of priestly celibacy is relatively new, too, as is the sacrament of confession. Wills points out that even the central facet of the Mass, a belief that an ordained priest can literally turn bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood, is not universally held.
According to Wills, some of the teachings of the church have had to be twisted like a pretzel to make sense of them. You have to be baptized or you will go to hell. So what about babies? That didn’t seem fair. Well, they could go to limbo (a holding place between heaven and hell). What about sinners who have been baptized? They can go to purgatory, not as bad as hell but not as good as heaven. But then, limbo didn’t really make sense so that was done away with.
Some 98 percent of sexually experienced Catholics have used birth control even though it is considered a sin by the church. The same percentage of Catholic women have abortions as non-Catholic women. The church is against women in its hierarchy. Women who haven’t already are going to start walking away. The church is against homosexuality. Gay Catholics who have not already will surely start walking. Priests are not always celibate. Soon they may not want to live such hypocrisy.
In old days, the Vatican operated much like a monarchy. The pope had the same kind of power as a king. And, like kings, popes accumulated a lot of money. They were extremely political. Read Hilary Mantel’s intriguing two books, “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies” to learn exactly how the Vatican used to operate and how Henry VIII broke away from the papacy in order to marry Anne Boleyn. The pope had much more power then than he does now.
Times change. Rules change. The Vatican moves slowly.
But Catholics have been drifting away, searching for their own kind of religion and spirituality, a personal spirituality which does not inflict rules on those whose lives are so very different from the celibate men in charge.
Colm Toibin’s novel, “The Testament of Mary,” brilliantly describes how it all may have started. The disciples sought Mary out in Ephesus after Christ’s death, where she had gone to get away, and tried to persuade her that the death was something different from what she had observed. They were already trying to build a church when all she saw was her son dying on the cross. They wanted it to be different. She wouldn’t play along. A lot of others did, of course.
Catholicism has come a long way in 2,000 years — from Christ’s sacrificial dying on the cross to the church’s self-protecting cover up of child sexual abuse.
But change it must, or else the Catholic Church may end up like Colonial Williamsburg, with the pageantry, the regalia, red shoes and all, a relic of what was once a vibrant, living institution.
Tell Your Rep
UNITED STATESNational Survivor Advocates Coalition
February 22, 2013
The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child issues a report recently that NSAC believes should not be overlooked.
The Church is quick to hum the tune that it’s the leader in reform where sexual abuse is concerned and the singing is aimed at pushing the inquirer past the blunt facts that few clerics or nuns have been prosecuted for sexual abuse and the hierarchs that covered up the criminal activity aiding and abetting its continuing are not sitting in jail cells.
The UN Report takes aim at the United States at the national level for going light on the investigation and criminal prosecution of clerics for sexual abuse. The report is a result of a five year review.
Claims Pope resigned over ‘gay influence within the Vatican’
VATICAN CITYGay Star News
21 February 2013 | By Joe Morgan
An Italian newspaper is blaming the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI on the ‘gay influence’ within the Vatican.
Referring to an internal report prepared by three senior cardinals, La Repubblica claims there was an ‘inappropriate influence’ by gay priests in internal Holy See affairs.
Filed by cardinals Julian Herranz, Josef Tomko and Salvatore De Giorgi, it was commissioned by Benedict himself.
The newspaper suggests when Pope Benedict saw the report back in December, it hardened his resolve to quit as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church.
In the 300-page report, it speaks of ‘Impropriam Influentiam’ on the part of various lobbies within the Vatican, including some of a ‘worldly nature’.
The Italian newspaper specifically referred to Angelo Balducci, who was accused of being a member of a ‘gay ring’ active within the Vatican, as well as preying on choral boys three years ago.
Italian Newspaper Links Pope Resignation To Vatican's 'Gay Lobby'
VATICAN CITYBusiness Insider
Adam Taylor
Feb. 21, 2013
Following Pope Benedict's surprise resignation earlier this month, it didn't take long for conspiracy theories to come out of the woodwork.
To a certain extent, this is expected — a Pope hasn't resigned in centuries, and certain aspects of Benedict's time at the top of the Vatican have been controversial — not least the damaging 'VatiLeaks' scandal.
Today, Italy's La Repubblica newspaper added fuel to the fire, alleging that Benedict's resignation was prompted by a report prepared by three Cardinals on conflict and corruption in the Vatican — including what it says is the "inappropriate influence" of a gay lobby within the Holy See.
The newspaper — which has the largest circulation within Italy — says that Benedict asked three Cardinals, Julian Herranz, Josef Tomko and Salvatore De Giorgi, to conduct an internal report after the VatiLeaks scandal. When the 300 page report was delivered to Benedict in December, it reportedly cemented a decision that he had already been considering — it was time to resign.
Vatican sex and graft scandals pushed pope to resign - report
VATICAN CITYThe Nation
Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI decided to resign after an internal probe informed him about the extent of sex and graft-scandals inside the Vatican, an Italian newspaper reported on Thursday, quoting unnamed sources.
Three cardinals, including the former chief of the Vatican’s secret services, were asked to verify the allegations of financial impropriety, cronyism and corruption brought up by the publication of confidential papal papers in the so-called VatiLeaks affair.
On December 17, 2012, they handed to the pontiff two red-leatherbound volumes, almost 300-pages long, containing "an exact map of the mischief and the bad fish" inside the Holy See, daily La Repubblica reported.
"It was on that day, with those papers on his desk, that Benedict XVI took the decision he had mulled over for so long," the report suggested.
The Vatican’s press office declined to comment on the story.
Pope's decision 'prompted' by claims over gay influence
VATICAN CITYIrish Times
PADDY AGNEW, in Rome
Italian daily La Repubblica this morning sensationally claims that Pope Benedict's resignation was at least partly prompted by an internal report prepared by three senior cardinals, alleging that various lobbies, including a gay lobby, exercise an "inappropriate influence" in internal Holy See affairs.
The newspaper suggests that such was Benedict’s dismay when presented with the details of the report on December 17th that it hardened his long-meditated decision to resign. The internal report prepared by Cardinals Julian Herranz, Josef Tomko and Salvatore De Giorgi had been commissioned by Benedict himself.
He had ordered it in response to the so-called Vatileaks scandal which culminated with the arrest and subsequent conviction last autumn of the Pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele, found guilty of having stolen confidential documents from the papal apartment.
In this morning's article, it is claimed that the cardinals reported that various lobbies within the Holy See were consistently breaking the sixth and seventh commandments, namely "thou shalt not steal" and "thou shalt not commit adultery".
The "stealing" was in particular related to the Vatican Bank, IOR, whilst the sexual offences were related to the influence of an active gay lobby within the Vatican.
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The last despotic acts of Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI
The Opus Dei hates the Jesuits with a vengeance and they made sure the last ax that would fall from Ratzinger hands would be on the Jesuits last Christmas.
COLOMBIA
The Association of Catholic Priests (Ireland)
Fr. Alfonso Llano Escobar, S.J. had learned the hard way that it doesn’t pay to critique your boss’s writings. Fr. Llano, whose weekly column Un alto en el camino (“A stop along the road”) had appeared in the major Colombian newspaper El Tiempo for 30 years, has been told that his writing career has come to an end.
In a message to the editorial board of the newspaper, Fr. Llano wrote that “Father Adolfo Nicolás, the superior general of the Jesuits, has ordered Father Alfonso Llano to consider his apostolic vocation as a writer to be over, has deprived him of his freedom of speech, and is demanding that he not even say goodbye and that he keep absolute silence.”
The priest columnist earned his silencing for a November 24th column in which he offered his views on Pope Benedict XVI’s new book, Jesus of Nazareth: The Infancy Narratives, and specifically on the doctrine of the virginity of Mary. The column focuses on internal debate about the subject within the theological community and is worth translating in its entirety:
The Infancy of Jesus. That’s the title of the third volume of the trilogy on Jesus of Nazareth by theologian Joseph Ratzinger, now Benedict XVI. It has been published in nine languages, including Spanish, and will be published in a first global edition of one million copies. With a series of articles in the press and interviews on radio and television, I would like to guide readers of this book by the Pope, which offers a special difficulty — the virginity of Mary — which will give theologians and the media a lot to talk about.
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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.
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
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JP2 Army
JOHN PAUL II PEDOPHILE PRIESTS ARMY
The Cardinals and Bishops who enabled the Vatican sex maniac rapists priests
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 for 50 years
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 for 50 yearsIf 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 DONATE that pilgrimage 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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