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December 25, 2014
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Christmas
Vatican Circus: Master of Deceits
– Pope Francis embodies the 15 ailments – plus more secret Jesuit illnesses
In Christmas 2010, we wrote “The Devil’s Bowels smell like roses in the Vatican” http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2010/12/devils-bowels-smell-like-roses-in.html .In August 2014, we featured, Two-faced Pope Francis: Laughing THIEF & Grim LIAR. Two completely different faces that reveal his inner soul. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at the Vatican? http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/08/two-faced-pope-francis-laughing-and.html (Vatican schizophrenia, really) Last
month we wrote (unknowingly, St. Michael
inspired it to be a prelude to the 15 ailments speech), “Pope Francis
points two finger at bishops and three fingers at himself when he says, ‘Bishops
must not be vain careerists after power, honor’” http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/11/pope-francis-points-two-finger-at.html
The Jesuit Master
of Deceits
Pope Francis is being praised by Vatican Pied Pipers worldwide for delivering
his (hypocritical) scathing speech to his staff at the Vatican Curia – listing
their 15 ailments – which
are really ultimately about him
as the first Jesuit Pope – especially the Vatican Mammon Beast’s sickness of “accumulating wealth and leading double
lives which [is] existential schizophrenia.” Pope Francis’ own words confirm our articles and exposés about him – accumulating wealth – in the Vatican’s other secret countries of
Switzerland and Malta that hoard the
wealth of the world’s 1% richest persons – and how he leads a double life as the fattest
clown-in-white in the Vatican Circus – as the biggest thief in mankind’s
history – using Christ as his façade – and as the puppet of the Opus Dei Beast
PR Deceits Team (just like John Paul II
was Opus Dei Beast’s puppet for 27 years).
Pope Francis is the papal schizophrenic par excellence and the archetype Jesuit Master of Deceits -- read
our articles below especially – Hidden Heist in the Holy See. The SECRET biggest heist in the history of
mankind! Pope Francis is the Greatest THIEF on earth. http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/hidden-heist-in-holy-see-biggest-heist.html
Obama thank Spanish Pope Francis in US-Cuba new
relations speech – to use religion to control and subdue Cuban people - and to
perpetuate Vatican Concordats http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/12/obama-thank-spanish-pope-francis-in-us.html
John Paul II’s Achilles Heels. George W. Bush’s Achilles Heels. Jeb
Bush belongs to Regnum Christi of Marcial Maciel. Bush is the curse of America
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/12/john-paul-iis-achilles-heels-george-w.html
Vatican Circus in South Korea: Pope Francis tells idiot Catholics to ‘combat allure of
materialism’ but Vatican owns expensive shops only for 1% wealthiest on earth http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/08/vatican-circus-in-skorea-pope-francis.html
Jesuits transferred
Marcos Gold & Billions of Dollars to the Vatican Treasury. The
JESUIT ORDER - MASTER OF EVASION AND CONSPIRACIES http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/jesuits-transferred-marcos-gold.html
WHAT THE JESUITS CONTROL. Chilling Facts You Need To
Know About the Jesuits. Francis: First Jesuit Pope http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/08/what-jesuits-control-chilling-facts-you.html
Abolition of
Vatican Concordat in Dominican Republic and bring pedophile Papal Nuncio and
other pedophile Polish priests to justice http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/abolish-vatican-concordat-in-dominican.html
US Cardinal Raymond Burke - is not demoted but -
promoted as Patron of Order of Malta whose members are the 1% richest Catholics
on globe
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/11/us-cardinal-raymond-burke-is-not.html
Two-faced Pope Francis: Laughing THIEF & Grim LIAR. Two completely different faces that
reveal his inner soul. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
at the Vatican? http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/08/two-faced-pope-francis-laughing-and.html
Vatican Circus in Istanbul’s Blue Mosque:
Pope Francis prays to Allah who NEVER had a son Jesus – whom Francis represents
and clones in the Eucharist
Idiots Catholics are saying ‘Amen’ again to the
(Vatican-owned) media’s phony hysteria on Pope Francis’ speech about ‘the 15
ailments of the Vatican Curia’ that have been existing – for centuries of Pope Crimes and
Vatican Evils – these
illnesses are innate in all popes – chiefly embodied and epitomized in Pope
Francis himself! (See images, links and books below).
Two Irish presidents first spoke – publicly – of Vatican Curia ailments
Ireland’s Taoiseach Enda Kenny dared to first (rightly)
speak in Ireland’s Parliament chambers in 2011 -- about the Holy See being dominated by a
culture of “dysfunction, disconnection, elitism and
narcissism” – on video, then
he shut down the Irish Embassy to the Vatican in Rome, watch it here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/07/irish-pm-enda-kenny-speech-on-cloyne.html
Read more about it here Irish
PM blasts ‘narcissism’ of Vatican. The narcissism of John Paul II and the
Vatican are one and the same http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/07/irish-pm-blasts-narcissism-of-vatican.html
.
Unfortunately, the Vatican Mammon Beast bought the
souls of the Irish Parliament members to reopen the dummy embassy, read more -- Ireland
Appoints New Ambassador to the Holy See...to Do What Exactly... http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/12/ireland-appoints-new-ambassador-to-holy.html
Another (ex) Irish president, a woman, dared to
point out the misogyny at the Vatican, read our article, Irish ex-president
mocks Pope Francis “completely bonkers" Synod of Bishops “who have no
adult experience of family life as the rest of us know it” http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/irish-ex-president-mocks-pope-francis.html
Is the Vatican a state or country? It is only one building and one
public square but it is a country like the vast USA, Russia, China??? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/05/is-vatican-state-or-country-it-is-only.html
Jesus never baptized anyone in the Sea of Galilee or in the River Jordan
http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/jesus-never-baptized-anyone-in-sea-of.html
Christmas Vatican Circus 2014: The more the Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team
praises its puppet Pope Francis and his hypocritical speeches, the more he
wears The Emperor’s New Clothes
Put Pope Francis' face in this emperor
Put Pope Francis' face in this emperor
At European Union Parliament, misogynist Pope Francis described Europe as a “grandmother, no longer fertile and vibrant,” but instead “elderly and haggard”
http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/12/at-european-union-parliament-misogynist.html
Pope Francis the Jesuit Rich Fool
Among all the 15 ailments that Francis lectured on
his Vatican Curia staff (who serve only
the Vatican Mammon Beast aka Opus Dei Beast), the allusion to the rich best applies to himself. “It is the sickness of the rich fool who thinks he will live for all
eternity, and of those who transform themselves into masters and believe
themselves superior to others, rather than at their service”. Pope Francis’ unprecedented “Hidden Heist in
the Holy See” makes him as the “rich fool” because as the first Jesuit Pope, he
has transformed himself into the prime master of deceits and he believes he is
superior to others --- as
he hoards the loots of despots and imperialists in secret Vatican Swiss Banks thus breeding wars in many nations and
as consequence of poverty, violence against children and women ---
instead of being at their service. What Pope Francis does is to pay lip-service to the poor while serving only
the 1% richest people on the globe.
Pope Francis is the “rich fool” who knows he will
for all eternity be pope– but like a ruse snake, he knows has only a limited
window of opportunity to sweep under the rug the Vatican Billions amassed by
his papal predecessors – especially John Paul II in his longest 27 years
papacy.
Pope Francis is the Jesuit Master of Deceits and he
had to make the Vatican Bank appear acceptable to modern banking standards
because the small fake country of the Vatican has to make business with Italy
and other countries – read our related article, Obama
admin versus Vatican Bank: A compilation. USA government lists Vatican as
'potential money-laundering center' http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/03/obama-admin-list-vatican-as-potential.html
But Switzerland is the other Vatican
country that is above-the-law- and above-banking-laws --- accountable to no one but to itself, just like Vatican Autocracy. It is time for the United
Nations to abolish the Vatican as a (fake) country and to abolish Switzerland
as a “neutral country”. Read
how the Opus Dei raised and control Spain’s King Juan Carlos and how his wealth
is hidden in (Vatican) Swiss Banks in Vanity Fair .
Vanity Fair: Opus Dei raised and control King Juan
Carlos of Spain and his 2 Billion Euros assets in secret Vatican Swiss Banks http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/12/vanity-fair-opus-dei-raised-and-control.html
Please donate today to BishopAccountability.org – your gift is tax-deductible and helps document and promote transparency --
BishopAccountability.org 2015 Projects will include Posting list of accused priests in the Philippines. It will post the first public list of accused priests who have worked in the Philippines in time for Pope Francis’s visit there in January – when he’ll go to honor one of the biggest donor of the Vatican Mammon Beast, Imelda Marcos, wife of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines -- who stole billions of dollars from the Philippines Treasury -- via the help of the Jesuits -- to the Vatican Bank -- read more here http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/09/pope-francis-visit-to-philippines-force.html
It is now completing the assignment histories for all 170 accused Jesuits in its database. Remember that more than one pedophile priest has already confessed to sexually abusing 250 boys through the years (still it’s an underestimate, see news below). Therefore, 170 Jesuits pedophiles have potentially abused 42,500 little boys. For the first time, it will be possible to understand the full impact of abuse in the largest religious order in the Vatican Roman Catholic Church. One of its most famous notorious Jesuit pedophile priest was the spiritual director to the “living saint” Mother Teresa of Kolkata -- read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/07/mother-teresa-was-not-living-saint.html
Please donate today to BishopAccountability.org – your gift is tax-deductible and helps document and promote transparency --
BishopAccountability.org 2015 Projects will include Posting list of accused priests in the Philippines. It will post the first public list of accused priests who have worked in the Philippines in time for Pope Francis’s visit there in January – when he’ll go to honor one of the biggest donor of the Vatican Mammon Beast, Imelda Marcos, wife of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines -- who stole billions of dollars from the Philippines Treasury -- via the help of the Jesuits -- to the Vatican Bank -- read more here http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/09/pope-francis-visit-to-philippines-force.html
It is now completing the assignment histories for all 170 accused Jesuits in its database. Remember that more than one pedophile priest has already confessed to sexually abusing 250 boys through the years (still it’s an underestimate, see news below). Therefore, 170 Jesuits pedophiles have potentially abused 42,500 little boys. For the first time, it will be possible to understand the full impact of abuse in the largest religious order in the Vatican Roman Catholic Church. One of its most famous notorious Jesuit pedophile priest was the spiritual director to the “living saint” Mother Teresa of Kolkata -- read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/07/mother-teresa-was-not-living-saint.html
Idiots Catholics continue to worship Vatican Mammon Beast
Vatican Pied Pipers (see compilation below) are deceiving
idiots Catholics especially in the Philippines where Pope Francis
will visit in January where he will distribute the fake flesh of Christ instead
of returning the loot of the late Ferdinand Marcos all delivered to the Popes
doorstep at the Vatican by his wife Imelda Marcos – whom Pope Francis will go
and personally honor in her native island, Leyte, read our related article Pope Francis
visit to Philippines forcibly displacing bunkhouse dwellers. Hypocrisy of
two-faced Pope Francis preaching about poor while exploiting them http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014_09_01_archive.html
.
Pope Francis
listed 15 ailments of his Vatican Curia and idiots Catholics still believe the Vatican is the holiest site in
Catholicism and in the Satanic Mass -- that Pope Francis and his all-male
oligarchy staff can still instantly clone Christ’s flesh and blood despite
their 15 ailments – and this proves that to idiots
Catholics, the Devil’s Bowels smell life roses at the Vatican despite Pope Crimes and Vatican
Evils and John Paul II’s evil stinking Achilles Heels.
Idiots Catholics are saying the stupid “Amen” and
they “pray, pay, obey” the sick Vatican Curia of the Vatican Titanic sunken
deep in the ocean of moral bankruptcy, read more Vatican
rebuffs UN! Catholic Church not the moral authority of the world. Holy See
defies UN Convention it ratified in 1990. Vatican Titanic sunken deep in the
ocean of moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/the-catholic-church-is-not-worlds-moral.html
The Vatican Titanic is sunken deep in the ocean of
moral bankruptcy and Jesus Christ is leading his own silent revolution of
freeing Himself from the sorcery of the Eucharist Satanic Mass, read our
related articles, Jesus Christ is
liberated from hundreds of tabernacles (prison) in Catholic churches shut down,
sold-off, converted into apartments, stores, warehouses http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/09/jesus-christ-is-liberated-from-hundreds.html
Pope
Francis’ two evil Achilles Heels are his hidden heist in secret Vatican Swiss
Banks and Malta -- and his canonization of false saint John Paul II.
Jesus
Revolution – set Christ
free from Eucharist Satanic Mass. Set all nations free from Vatican Concordats.
End Vatican as “country”. End VA Swiss Banks secrecy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/09/jesus-revolution-set-christ-free-from.html
Pope Francis met
Joel Osteen, Doug Coe, powerful evangelicals. Protest Pope
Francis speech in Congress in 2015 visit. Idiot Catholics, beware of Jeb
Bush http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/07/pope-francis-met-joel-osteen-doug-coe.html
Pope Francis
buys souls of Kenneth Copeland & televangelists to prepare
for USA presidential election. God forbid Jeb Bush wins! Bush is the curse of
America http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/07/pope-francis-buys-kenneth-copeland.html
US
Cardinal Raymond Burke - is not demoted but - promoted as Patron of Order of
Malta whose members are the 1% richest Catholics on globe
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/11/us-cardinal-raymond-burke-is-not.html
10
reasons to abolish the papacy because it is run by Lucifer and not the Holy
Spirit http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/10-reasons-to-abolish-papacy-and-why.html
In January, Pope Francis will go to the Philippines and he will travel
to Leyte, an island and birthplace of Imelda Marcos, wife of the late dictator
Ferdinand Marcos who stole billions of dollars from the country’s treasury and
deposited them in the Vatican Bank and Swiss Banks with the help of the
Jesuits, read more here
Pope Francis visit to Philippines forcibly displacing bunkhouse dwellers. Hypocrisy of two-faced Pope Francis preaching about poor while exploiting them
Imelda Marcos’ accounts at the Vatican Bank were
among those swiftly closed and transferred to Switzerland by Pope Francis in
his attempt to give a facelift to the Vatican Bank or IOR.
Vatican Bank closes thousand accounts/criminal transactions BURNT to leave no trail of crimes further/future investigations...drowned by loud Francis-maniacs at St. Peter’s Square
Catholics sound like Catholic zombies - as in
Brad Pitt’s movie World War Z, see photos and read about them here in the
Catholic version of World War Z http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/catholic-nazis-nuns-killed-babies-in.html
.
REBUTTAL.John Allen ‘The vision behind Crux: To get
the story right…on a regular basis’ means regular Vatican propaganda to
indoctrinate idiot Catholics http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/09/rebuttaljohn-allen-vision-behind-crux.html
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Redemptorists pay $20 million
to victims of JP2 Army for fear of evidence on complicity in court and ending
of its $1B religious tourism http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/08/sainte-anne-de-beaupre-redemptorists.html
Pope Francis accused the
cardinals, bishops and priests who serve him of using their Vatican careers to
grab power and wealth, of living "hypocritical" double lives and
forgetting that they're supposed to be joyful men of God. But Pope Francis is the worst hypocrite and
worst actor that he surpasses Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
Jesus never baptized anyone in the Sea of
Galilee or in the River Jordan http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/jesus-never-baptized-anyone-in-sea-of.html
Is the Vatican a state or country? It is only
one building and one public square but it is a country like
the vast USA, Russia, China??? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/05/is-vatican-state-or-country-it-is-only.html
The Vatican Billions. Two thousand years of
Wealth Accumulation from Caesar to the Space Age.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
Washington Post (predicted Pope Francis win Nobel) says ‘Vatican stuns
Catholic world with greater openness towards gays” – WTF Bishops & Priests
are Gays http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/10/washington-post-predicted-pope-francis.html
Stupid Catholic Women. Legion of
Christ. Opus Dei. Pope Francis Hypocrisies http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/women-legion-christ-opusdei-francis.html
John Paul II the Holy Father of Lies!
Cardinal Dziwisz book: “JPII knew nothing” about bestial pedophile priest Fr.
Maciel is Vatican Titanic Deceits http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/11/john-paul-ii-holy-father-of-lies.html
Heil SatanasJP2 Patron Saint of
Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and
today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html
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.ca/
Confession protects criminals and
persecutes their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html
Paris Arrow’s vision of St. Michael tying the giant
millstone around John Paul II’S neck then dragging him and throwing him into a
raging sea of fire http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html.
Vatican Circus in Istanbul’s Blue Mosque: Pope
Francis prays to Allah who NEVER had a son Jesus – whom Francis represents and
clones in the Eucharist
REBUTTAL to David Gibson’s idle speculation on
schism and conspiracy theories to divert attention away from Vatican Billions
stolen from countries by Vatican Concordats http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/11/rebuttal-to-david-gibsons-idle.html
Mother Teresa was not a living saint - revealed in
detail by book. Tainted Saint: Mother Teresa Defended Pedophile Priest http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/07/mother-teresa-was-not-living-saint.html
Occupy The
Vatican... like Occupy Wall Street http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/10/ows-otv-occupy-wall-street-occupy.html
A Catholic Brother in court on 252 child-sex charges re
35 alleged victims
AUSTRALIABroken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 24 December 2014).
A former Catholic Brother charged with 252 child sexual assaults appeared in court in Sydney on 24 December 2014 after being extradited to Australia from New Zealand. Bernard Kevin McGrath (formerly a member of the St John of God Brothers) faced an extensive list of charges at Sydney's Parramatta Local Court – including raping, molesting and abusing 35 children while he worked as a Catholic Brother in New South Wales.
McGrath (born 22 May 1947) was refused bail and was remanded in custody until his next court date, which is 29 December 2014 for a brief administrative procedure. The main court process will begin in 2015.
The Australian government has been seeking McGrath’s extradition for three years for crimes he allegedly committed during his time as a Catholic Brother in New South Wales in the 1970s and 1980s.
In August 2014, he was ordered to surrender to Australia by New Zealand's Justice Minister. McGrath then lost a New Zealand High Court appeal against the extradition.
Vatican disinclined to invest in
‘poor’ states like Ireland, TK Whitaker told
IRELANDIrish Times
Joe Humphreys
Sat, Dec 27, 2014
TK Whitaker explored the possibility of getting the Holy See to invest in Ireland in the mid-1960s but was informed the Vatican was “disinclined” to put money into poor countries.
A newly released file documenting the Department of Foreign Affairs’ dealings with the Vatican bank includes a confidential letter in 1965 from Mr Whitaker, then secretary of the Department of Finance, seeking information on whether the Holy See would “consider investments in Irish government securities or in property development here. If this were so, it would provide considerable relief for us at the present time when we are short of capital,” he wrote.
It was agreed the Irish ambassador to the Vatican, Tom Commins, would make “some very discreet soundings”.
In a memo labelled “highly confidential”, Mr Commins said he had spoken to a “highly placed” member of the Vatican court who was also the director of one of Italy’s biggest banks.
Informed by such sources, Mr Commins wrote: “Vatican policy on investment is prompted and inspired, not only primarily, but exclusively, by considerations of (a) profit and (b) security.”
The Holy See’s operations were almost exclusively carried out on the New York, Zurich and Geneva exchanges and were confined to “top ranking” bonds, he said.
COMPILATION OF VATICAN PIED PIPERS PRAISING POPE FRANCIS
VATICAN CITY
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
By TOM KINGTON
Pope Francis on Monday launched a stunning attack on the cardinals,
bishops and priests who run the Vatican,
accusing them of
succumbing to greed, jealousy, hypocrisy, cowardice and “spiritual
Alzheimer's.”
In a pre-Christmas speech to the officials of the Roman Curia, Francis
kept the season’s greeting to a minimum, choosing instead to ask prelates to
make “a real examination of conscience.”
Francis then listed
15 “illnesses” he said they were prey to, including the “terrorism” of
gossip, which he called a “cowardly” disease which could
kill the reputation of a colleague “in cold blood.”
Top of the list was the
fault of feeling “immortal, immune or even indispensable,” which Francis said
could be remedied by a visit to a cemetery to see the graves of those who once
felt immortal.
Francis also slammed prelates for showing
off, accumulating wealth and leading double lives, which he said
could lead to “existential
schizophrenia.” ...
“I have never seen a
Christmas speech like this; this felt more like Lent,” said Maria
Antonietta Calabro, a Vatican specialist at Italy’s Corriere della Sera
newspaper. “Francis was elected to clean up the Curia and he is returning to
this theme and strongly reasserting his authority.” ...
Francis also attacked those who “discredit others, even in newspapers and magazines” to
build their own power, even if they claim they are doing so “in the name of
justice and transparency.”
Australian Cardinal George Pell, who was tasked by Francis with giving
order to Vatican finances, recently wrote an article for a Roman Catholic
publication claiming he had found millions of euros unaccounted for only to have Vatican officials deny
funds were concealed.
“It looks like Francis is
referring to Pell, which is ironic because Pell is his man,” said Calabro.
VATICAN CITY
Bustle
Bustle
LAUREN BARBATO
Pope Francis delivered his annual Christmas message on Monday, and it
ended up being a lot less festive than expected. Instead of spreading some
Christmas cheer, the pope harshly criticized Vatican bureaucracy. All Francis
wants for Christmas is for everyone to stop gossiping — is that so much to ask
for?
While addressing senior Vatican officials, which includes bishops and
cardinals who serve the Holy See, Francis laid out their laundry
list of sins — 15, to be exact. Some of the sins these Vatican officials
have committed are the lust for power,
feelings of superiority, and the “terrorism of gossip.” What a way to end the year.
Francis began by suggesting that the Vatican has been “exposed to sickness,” causing it to
become an “ailing body” that has weakened the Catholic Church. The first
sickness, the pontiff said, was “considering oneself ‘immortal’, ‘immune’ or ‘indispensable’.”
Francis continued:
A Curia that is not self-critical, that does not stay up-to-date, that
does not seek to better itself, is an ailing body. … It is the sickness of
the rich fool who thinks he will live for all eternity, and of those
who transform themselves into masters and believe
themselves superior to others, rather than at their service.
Can Pope Francis Save the Vatican ?
Probably Not !
UNITED STATESChristian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
* Yes, probably not. Pope Francis is surely a remarkable person and is clearly giving it his best in his 79th year. Yet by now he must know what the ex-Pope’s quitting last year signified. Popes now cannot save BOTH the Catholic Church and the Vatican for the reasons discussed below. Francis appears to have chosen mainly to protect the Catholic hierarchy, a losing proposition, and likely has as a result set the stage for an accelerated division into various Church factions. The Catholic Church may survive as a “catch all label” for splintered groups, but its hierarchy is playing out its final act from many indications.
* This future outcome may seem too pessimistic for a purported “unchangeable 2,000 year old institution”. But is it? For reasons discussed below, it is more likely than not.
* The Catholic Church has changed and really changed a lot over two millennia, often due to external pressures. For example, in the 19th Century, Pope Pius IX and his Vatican allies were urged by many, including other rulers, to modernize and reform his declining medieval Papal States kingdom. The pope, in effect, imprudently refused to do so, and instead concentrated on being “declared infallible” by many intimidated bishops. He then quickly militarily lost to Italian troops (including many Catholic troops) a large portion of Italy that popes for centuries had ruled as unaccountable absolute monarchs. So too, a corrupt and imprudent Vatican refused to take Martin Luther’s call for needed reforms sufficiently seriously and lost a major part of the European Catholic Church mainly as a consequence. The Vatican can, does and will err, claims of infallibility notwithstanding!
* Pope Francis is quite old and yet is working non-stop. He appears, unfortunately, to be surrounded by some men who seem to be oblivious to the Vatican’s precarious position. Francis faces at least three major scandals involving priest child abuse, sexually repressive teachings and officials’ financial corruption, while his hierarchy debate arcane matters like “graduality” and most of the media focus on counting papal “tweets”.
* The scandal that has changed everything for the previously “untouchable” Vatican is the child abuse scandal. The pope clearly has not done nearly enough here. And his efforts to change the sexually repressive teachings are facing strong resistance from conservative Cardinals as discussed below. He is almost out of time. While the pope has made a start, in Rome at least, on curtailing his hierarchy’s financial corruption, he still has a long way to go. In New York, for example, even prominent conservative Catholics are complaining about Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s very expensive renovation of his NY mansion as discussed below.
* Pope Francis’ response to date on the most sensational scandal, the abuse cover up, seems to be mostly more of the same half measures used by his failed predecessors. Bishops are still not required under Church rules generally to report child abuse claims to the police, for example, and accused clerics are investigated secretively by other clerics mainly. The respected and informed Financial Times recently has even labeled the Vatican as “criminally slow” on curtailing child abuse and has also viewed the initial Synod on the Family as having been a “victory for conservatives” ! {My emphasis}
UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
* Aging Pope Francis cannot clean up the Catholic Church “mess” and its
rigged leadership transition process, unless he moves now to restore the
Church’s consensual management structure with its democratic accountability. It is basic “Management 101″.
Changing the obsolete top down monarchical management structure, and
curtailing the resulting and continuing priest child abuse and financial
scandals, among others, cannot be avoided any longer! It appears to be “now or never” for Pope Francis
and the Vatican.
* The first Catholics consensually managed their leaders; Catholics can
and must do so again, as discussed below. Otherwise, the Vatican Titanic will continue to
sink.
* Unless Pope Francis acts promptly, while he yet is still able, to make
the worldwide Catholic 0.01% leadership accountable
again to the Catholic 99.9% laity, he will likely fail.
* Now in his 79th year, Pope Francis has once again raised unexpectedly
his mortality, volunteering that he will not “be around” in connection with Rome’s Olympic bid. He
had also a few months ago publicly broached with reporters the prospect of his
own death in “two or three years”, while also not ruling out retirement before
then.
* Pope will be nearing his 80th year, when his all “celibate
male” Final Synod of Bishops gives him in less than ten months their
recommendations for Church reforms. It appears to be now or never for this pope
to make a real difference in Church reform that is not just a temporary fix
that can be readily reversed by his soon to be secretly selected successor,
perhaps Cardinal Sodano’s protege, Cardinal Parolin.
* Pope Francis now has the full power to change the procedures for
selecting bishops, including the Bishop of Rome (i.e., the Pope himself). He
needs to begin now to change these procedures promptly, just as he created his
Council of Cardinals out of thin air, it appears. Canon law is whatever a pope says it is, in the final
analysis.
VATICAN CITY
Bustle
Bustle
LAUREN BARBATO
Pope Francis delivered his annual Christmas message on Monday, and it
ended up being a lot less festive than expected. Instead of spreading some
Christmas cheer, the pope harshly criticized Vatican bureaucracy. All Francis
wants for Christmas is for everyone to stop gossiping — is that so much to ask
for?
While addressing senior Vatican officials, which includes bishops and
cardinals who serve the Holy See, Francis laid out their laundry
list of sins — 15, to be exact. Some of the sins these Vatican officials
have committed are the lust for power,
feelings of superiority, and the “terrorism of gossip.” What a way to end the year.
Francis began by suggesting that the Vatican has been “exposed to sickness,” causing it to
become an “ailing body” that has weakened the Catholic Church. The first
sickness, the pontiff said, was “considering oneself ‘immortal’, ‘immune’ or
‘indispensable’.”
Francis continued:
A Curia that is not self-critical, that does not stay up-to-date, that
does not seek to better itself, is an ailing body. … It is the sickness of
the rich fool who thinks he will live for all eternity, and of those
who transform themselves into masters and believe
themselves superior to others, rather than at their service.
UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
* Aging Pope Francis cannot clean up the Catholic Church “mess” and its
rigged leadership transition process, unless he moves now to restore the
Church’s consensual management structure with its democratic accountability. It is basic “Management 101″.
Changing the obsolete top down monarchical management structure, and
curtailing the resulting and continuing priest child abuse and financial
scandals, among others, cannot be avoided any longer! It appears to be “now or never” for Pope Francis
and the Vatican.
* The first Catholics consensually managed their leaders; Catholics can
and must do so again, as discussed below. Otherwise, the Vatican Titanic will continue to
sink.
* Unless Pope Francis acts promptly, while he yet is still able, to make
the worldwide Catholic 0.01% leadership accountable
again to the Catholic 99.9% laity, he will likely fail.
* Now in his 79th year, Pope Francis has once again raised unexpectedly
his mortality, volunteering that he will not “be around” in connection with Rome’s Olympic bid. He
had also a few months ago publicly broached with reporters the prospect of his
own death in “two or three years”, while also not ruling out retirement before
then.
* Pope will be nearing his 80th year, when his all “celibate
male” Final Synod of Bishops gives him in less than ten months their
recommendations for Church reforms. It appears to be now or never for this pope
to make a real difference in Church reform that is not just a temporary fix
that can be readily reversed by his soon to be secretly selected successor,
perhaps Cardinal Sodano’s protege, Cardinal Parolin.
* Pope Francis now has the full power to change the procedures for
selecting bishops, including the Bishop of Rome (i.e., the Pope himself). He
needs to begin now to change these procedures promptly, just as he created his
Council of Cardinals out of thin air, it appears. Canon law is whatever a pope says it is, in the final
analysis.
How Pope Francis Became the World’s
BFF
UNITED STATESThe Daily Beast
Jason Berry
The first Jesuit pope has endeared himself to people not so much through his religion but through his humane politics, which were forged in repressive Argentina.
In the 20 months since his bow from the balcony above St. Peter’s Square after the conclave, introducing himself as the bishop of Rome, Pope Francis has registered in poll after poll as the most popular person in the world.
“Barack Obama gets an average of 1,300 retweets on his account; Pope Francis gets twenty thousand,” wrote Alma Guillermoprieto in a June 23 profile of the pope for Matter, signaling another sign of this pope’s status.
Popes, presidents, the Dalai Lama, certain first ladies, and movie stars typically lead such surveys; but after decades of scandals over sexually abusive priests and financial corruption reaching into the Vatican Bank, the church’s reversal under Francis is a striking media narrative. For much of the popular tide behind him reflects another reality: his politics have an appeal that reaches far beyond the declining number of church-going Catholics. Not since 1989, when John Paul II bestrode the global stage as a catalyst in the collapse of the Soviet Empire, has a pope stirred such feelings of hope. John Paul was youthful in his sixties with a radiant charisma. Francis is well into his seventies, looks it, has a mild demeanor and soft speaking style; but his rhetoric is electrifying.
Pope Francis, At Christmas
Gathering, Blasts Vatican's Bureaucrats
VATICAN CITYNPR
KRISHNADEV CALAMUR
Pope Francis has blasted the Vatican's top bureaucrats at an annual Christmas gathering, accusing the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Curia of "spiritual Alzheimer's" and careerism.
"Sometimes, [officials of the Curia] feel themselves lords of the manor – superior to everyone and everything," Francis told the Curia's assembled members, according to Vatican Radio, which carried a report of the meeting titled "Pope Francis: Christmas greetings to Curia."
The Curia is dominated by Italians who oversee the world's 1.2 billion Catholics. Francis, an Argentine, is the first non-European to hold the papacy in more than a millennium. The former Cardinal had not worked in the Curia before his election, and has made reform of the Vatican a major part of his agenda.
"The Curia needs to change, to improve ... a Curia that does not criticize itself, that does not bring itself up to date, that does not try to improve, is a sick body," he said.
Pope Francis makes scathing critique
of Vatican officials in Curia speech
VATICAN CITYThe Guardian (UK)
Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Rome
Monday 22 December 2014
Pope Francis ended the year with a scathing critique of the church’s highest-ranking officials, including a list of 15 “ailments” that he said plagued the Vatican’s power-hungry bureaucracy.
The Argentinian pontiff used a traditional Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Holy See to portray a church hierarchy that had lost its humanity at times, a body consumed by narcissism and excessive activity, where men who are meant to serve God with optimism instead presented a hardened, sterile face to the world.
The 78-year-old pope’s second Christmas speech since his election in 2013 was met by tepid applause among his Vatican audience, according to the Associated Press, and just a few smiling faces.
Francis: a Curia that is outdated,
sclerotic or indifferent to others is an ailing body
VATICAN CITYVatican Information Service
Vatican City, 22 December 2014 (VIS) – This morning in the Clementine Hall the Holy Father held his annual meeting with the Roman Curia to exchange Christmas greetings with the members of its component dicasteries, councils, offices, tribunals and commissions. “It is good to think of the Roman Curia as a small model of the Church, that is, a body that seeks, seriously and on a daily basis, to be more alive, healthier, more harmonious and more united in itself and with Christ”.
“The Curia is always required to better itself and to grow in communion, sanctity and wisdom to fully accomplish its mission. However, like any body, it is exposed to sickness, malfunction and infirmity. … I would like to mention some of these illnesses that we encounter most frequently in our life in the Curia. They are illnesses and temptations that weaken our service to the Lord”, continued the Pontiff, who after inviting all those present to an examination of conscience to prepare themselves for Christmas, listed the most common Curial ailments:
The first is “the sickness of considering oneself 'immortal', 'immune' or 'indispensable', neglecting the necessary and habitual controls. A Curia that is not self-critical, that does not stay up-to-date, that does not seek to better itself, is an ailing body. … It is the sickness of the rich fool who thinks he will live for all eternity, and of those who transform themselves into masters and believe themselves superior to others, rather than at their service”.
The second is “'Martha-ism', or excessive industriousness; the sickness of those who immerse themselves in work, inevitably neglecting 'the better part' of sitting at Jesus' feet. Therefore, Jesus required his disciples to rest a little, as neglecting the necessary rest leads to stress and agitation. Rest, once one who has brought his or her mission to a close, is a necessary duty and must be taken seriously: in spending a little time with relatives and respecting the holidays as a time for spiritual and physical replenishment, it is necessary to learn the teaching of Ecclesiastes, that 'there is a time for everything'”.
Pope Francis: Merry Christmas, you
power-hungry hypocrites
VATICAN CITYUSA Today
Josephine McKenna , Religion News Service December 22, 2014
VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Pope Francis launched a blistering attack on the Vatican bureaucracy Monday, outlining a "catalog of illnesses" that plague the church's central administration, including "spiritual Alzheimer's" and gossipy cliques.
The pope's traditional Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Holy See was less an exchange of warm wishes than a laundry list of what the pontiff called the "ailments of the Curia" that he wants to cure.
In a critique that left many of the assembled clerics clearly uncomfortable, the 15 ailments in Francis' "catalog of illnesses" reflected the take-no-prisoners approach he promised when he was elected nearly two years ago as an outsider with little direct experience in Rome.
Pope issues scathing critique of
Vatican bureaucracy in pre-Christmas meeting
VATICAN CITYNational Catholic Reporter
Joshua J. McElwee | Dec. 22, 2014
ROME
Pope Francis on Monday used an annual pre-Christmas meeting with the cardinals and bishops of the Vatican bureaucracy -- normally an exchange of good wishes and blessings -- to issue a scathing critique of them, warning against 15 separate "diseases" in their work and attitudes.
Saying he wanted to prepare them all -- including himself -- to make "a real examination of conscience" before Christmas, Francis said while the Vatican bureaucracy was called to "always improve and grow in communion," it was also prone to "disease, malfunction, and infirmity" like every human institution.
"I believe it will help us [to make] a 'catalog' of diseases ... to help us prepare for the sacrament of reconciliation, which will be a good step for all of us to prepare for Christmas," Francis said.
Many of the 15 diseases given by Francis were frank and blunt: a feeling of indispensability like a "rich fool"; of having a "spiritual Alzheimer's" that makes a person dependent on the present; of living an "existential schizophrenia" of double lives that create "parallel worlds"; and a "terrorism of gossip" that sows discord and that amounts to "cold-blooded murder" of friends and colleagues.
Pope says Vatican administration is
sick with power and greed
VATICAN CITYeuronews
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican’s top administrators would have been expecting an exchange of pleasantries at their annual Christmas meeting with Pope Francis on Monday.
Instead, he chose the occasion to issue a stinging critique, telling the priests, bishops and cardinals who run the Curia, the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, that careerism, scheming and greed had infected them with “spiritual Alzheimer’s”.
Francis, the first non-European pope in 1,300 years, has refused many of the trappings of office and made plain his determination to bring the Church’s hierarchy closer to its 1.2 billion members.
To that end, he has set out to reform the Italian-dominated Curia, whose power struggles and leaks were widely held responsible for Benedict XVI’s decision last year to become the first pope in six centuries to resign.
“The Curia needs to change, to improve … a Curia that does not criticise itself, that does not bring itself up to date, that does not try to improve, is a sick body,” he said in a sombre address.
Pope Francis deplores Vatican 'ills' in speech
to Curia
VATICAN CITYBBC News
Pope Francis has sharply criticised the Vatican bureaucracy in a pre-Christmas address to cardinals, complaining of "spiritual Alzheimer's" and "the terrorism of gossip".
He said the Curia - the administrative pinnacle of the Roman Catholic Church - was suffering from 15 "ailments", which he wanted cured in the New Year.
Pope Francis - the first Latin American pontiff - also criticised "those who look obsessively at their own image".
He has demanded reform of the Curia.
Pope Francis’ remedies to heal
Curial pathologies
VATICAN CITYVatican Insider
An analysis of the speech to the Curia. The Pope does not introduce a new project from the top but the way of mercy that the Church has always recommended in order to cure the 15 ‘diseases’
GIANNI VALENTE
VATICAN CITY
In his traditional speech to the collaborators of the Roman Curia, a few days before Christmas, Pope Francis avoided customary evaluations of the past year and did not launch programmatic discussions or key words on which to realign the language and initiatives of the Vatican congregations. The Pope spoke to the heads of the Vatican congregations in the Curia about the life of the Curia and its ‘diseases’. His speech expounded a detailed, collective ‘examination of conscience’, recommended to cardinals, bishops and monsignors called to collaborate with him in the Vatican.
The Pope took on the role of spiritual father, educated at the school of St. Ignatius. He did not have any qualms about calling the pathologies, affecting his immediate surroundings, by their name. He did it with lucidity and ‘expertise’ of the object, frustrating once again the stereotype of the Latin-American alien who is not used to the ‘complexities’ of Rome and Europe, with which critics and neo-courtiers attempt to neutralise him. Pope Francis highlighted the root of the curial diseases, as well as providing an ample symptomatology and, above all, he suggested remedies. He started from the rediscovery of the nature of the Church as ‘Mystical Body’ of Christ, according to the consecrated form of Pius XII’s encyclicals ‘Mystici Corporis’.
The ‘Messiah complex’ is mostly responsible for these pathologies among ecclesiastics also in the Curia. This complex often takes over circles and ambitious ecclesiastics, used to putting the teaching about the necessity of grace on the backburner; a teaching already pronounced by Christ to his disciples. Pope Francis said that ‘it must be clear to us all that without Him we can do nothing’. Christmas, said Pope Francis to the officials of the Curia, is a favourable chance to rediscover this dynamic of grace told in the Gospel, because ‘it is also the festival of a light that is not welcomed by the “chosen people” but by the “poor and simple” who awaited the salvation of the Lord.’
Pope Francis: the fifteen 'diseases'
of the Curia
VATICAN CITYVatican Insider
Francis invites his collaborators to examine their conscience to confess their 'sins' in today's speech. He mentions vainglory and feeling essential, as well as 'spiritual Alzheimer's' and hoarding money and power. The Pope also speaks of closed circles and worldly profit, as well as the 'terrorism of gossip'
ANDREA TORNIELLI
VATICAN CITY
15 diseases listed and explained, one by one in detail. In his second Christmas speech to the Roman Curia, Pope Francis identifies and explains 15 shades of sin, inviting everyone to ask for God's forgiveness. The same God who 'is born in poverty in a cave in Bethlehem to teach us the power of humility', and was welcomed not by the "chosen" people but by the "poor and simple". Pope Francis asks his collaborators to really examine their conscience in preparation for confession before Christmas.
Francis explains that these 'diseases' and 'temptations' do not only concern the Curia but 'are naturally a danger to every Christian and every curia, community, congregation, parish, and ecclesiastic movement'. The Pope, however, clearly identifies these as present within the environment where he has been living for 21 months now.
The Pope said that 'it would be good to think of the Roman Curia as a small model of the Church, that is as a "body" which earnestly attempts to be more alive, healthier, more harmonious and more united in itslef and in Christ every day". The Curia, like the Church, cannot live 'without having a vital, personal, authentic and solid relationship with Christ'. And a member of the Curia who does not draw from that every day will become a mere bureaucrat. He adds that ' we will talk about the list of diseases which, following the Fathers of the desert, will aid us in preparing for confession'.
Pope Francis: Christmas greetings to
Curia
VATICAN CITYVatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis received the heads and other senior officials of the departments of the Roman Curia on Monday, in their traditional exchange of Christmas greetings. In remarks prepared for the occasion and delivered Monday morning, the Holy Father focused on the need for those who serve in the curia – especially those in positions of power and authority – to remember and cultivate an attitude and a spirit of service.
“Sometimes,” said Pope Francis, “[Officials of the Curia] feel themselves ‘lords of the manor’ [It. padroni] – superior to everyone and everything,” forgetting that the spirit, which should animate them in their lives of service to the universal Church, is one of humility and generosity, especially in view of the fact that none of us will live forever on this earth.
This “disease” of feeling “immortal” or “essential” – irreplaceable – was one of fifteen maladies, which Pope Francis identified during the course of his address: from a tendency to prefer Martha’s portion over Mary’s, to over-planning (and micromanaging), to wearing being a perpetual downer and wearing a “funeral face” all the day long.
“These and other maladies and temptations,” said Pope Francis, “are a danger for every Christian and for any administrative organization, community, congregation, parish, ecclesial movement, etc., and can strike at both the individual and the corporate level.”
Udienza del Santo Padre alla Curia
Romana in occasione della presentazione degli auguri natalizi, 22.12.2014
CITTA' DEL VATICANOBolletino
[Francis: a Curia that is outdated, sclerotic or indifferent to others is an ailing body - Vatican Information Service]
La Curia Romana e il Corpo di Cristo
"Tu sei sopra i cherubini, tu che hai cambiato la miserabile condizione del mondo quando ti sei fatto come noi" (Sant’Atanasio).
Cari fratelli,
Al termine dell’Avvento ci incontriamo per i tradizionali saluti. Tra qualche giorno avremo la gioia di celebrare il Natale del Signore; l’evento di Dio che si fa uomo per salvare gli uomini; la manifestazione dell’amore di Dio che non si limita a darci qualcosa o a inviarci qualche messaggio o taluni messaggeri ma dona a noi sé stesso; il mistero di Dio che prende su di sé la nostra condizione umana e i nostri peccati per rivelarci la sua Vita divina, la sua grazia immensa e il suo perdono gratuito. E’ l’appuntamento con Dio che nasce nella povertà della grotta di Betlemme per insegnarci la potenza dell’umiltà. Infatti, il Natale è anche la festa della luce che non viene accolta dalla gente "eletta" ma dalla gente povera e semplice che aspettava la salvezza del Signore.
Innanzitutto, vorrei augurare a tutti voi - collaboratori, fratelli e sorelle, Rappresentanti pontifici sparsi per il mondo - e a tutti i vostri cari un santo Natale e un felice Anno Nuovo. Desidero ringraziarvi cordialmente, per il vostro impegno quotidiano al servizio della Santa Sede, della Chiesa Cattolica, delle Chiese particolari e del Successore di Pietro.
Essendo noi persone e non numeri o soltanto denominazioni, ricordo in maniera particolare coloro che, durante questo anno, hanno terminato il loro servizio per raggiunti limiti di età o per aver assunto altri ruoli oppure perché sono stati chiamati alla Casa del Padre. Anche a tutti loro e ai loro famigliari va il mio pensiero e gratitudine. ...
Pope lashes Vatican's bureaucracy,
decries greed, egoism
VATICAN CITYThe Guardian (Nigeria)
Monday, 22 December 2014 Written by AFP
POPE Francis lambasted the Vatican's bureaucracy on Monday, saying some within the Church had a lust for power, were indifferent to others and suffered from "spiritual Alzheimer's".
The Argentine used a Christmas speech to cardinals, bishops and priests to list a catalogue of ailments plaguing some at the very top and urging a "cure".
He said the Vatican was riven with "existential schizophrenia", "social exhibitionism", "spiritual Alzheimer's" and a lust for power, all of which have led to an "orchestra that plays out of tune".
He warned against greed, egoism and people who think they are 'immortal'.
It is not the first time the 78-year-old has taken on the scandal-hit, intrigue-filled Curia, and called for them to renounce gossip and act responsibly.
Pope issues blistering critique of
Vatican bureaucracy
VATICAN CITYIsland Packet
BY NICOLE WINFIELD
Associated Press
December 22, 2014
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis issued a blistering critique Monday of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust for power at all costs, live hypocritical double lives and suffer from "spiritual Alzheimer's" that has made them forget they're supposed to be joyful men of God.
Francis' Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Holy See was no joyful exchange of holiday good wishes. Rather, it was a sobering catalogue of 15 sins of the Curia that Francis said he hoped would be atoned for and cured in the New Year.
He had some zingers: How the "terrorism of gossip" can "kill the reputation of our colleagues and brothers in cold blood." How cliques can "enslave their members and become a cancer that threatens the harmony of the body" and eventually kill it by "friendly fire." About how some suffer from a "pathology of power" that makes them seek power at all costs, even if it means defaming or discrediting others publicly.
Francis, who is the first Latin American pope and never worked in the Italian-dominated Curia before he was elected, has not shied from complaining about the gossiping, careerism and bureaucratic power intrigues that afflict the Holy See. But as his reform agenda gathers steam, he seemed even more emboldened to highlight what ails the institution.
Pope Francis Denounces the Vatican
Elite’s 'Spiritual Alzheimer’s'
VATICAN CITYThe Daily Beast
Barbie Latza Nadeau
VATICAN CITY—Pope Francis may be known for his generosity when it comes to the needy, giving out 400 sleeping bags to Rome’s homeless and opening the doors of previously shuttered convents to Syrian refugees; but on Monday he made it absolutely clear he won’t be showing the same kindness to the Curia, the clerics who run—or think they run—the worldwide Catholic Church from their comfortable positions in Rome.
In language that left these officials stunned and silent, Francis denounced those among them who "create a parallel world of their own, where they set aside everything they teach with severity to others and live a hidden, often dissolute life.”
The pope didn’t just deliver a lump of coal to the Curia this Christmas; he set it ablaze, outlining what he called 15 ailments that he says are ruining the Catholic Church, ranging from “spiritual Alzheimer's” to “existential schizophrenia” which the pope described as “the sickness of those who live a double life, fruit of the hypocrisy typical of the mediocre.” They are afflicted with “progressive spiritual emptiness,” he said, which no amount of academic honors and degrees can fill. ...
Francis’s comments were met with scorn, reportedly garnering scant applause or none and plenty of glances among the cardinals who expected the usual benight season’s greetings from the pope. Writing in the Boston Globe, Vatican expert John Allen calls the pope’s address “risky” because like a president lambasting congress, the pope does need his Curia to make the changes he so strongly desires: “To insiders, it threw a key question into sharp focus: Is Francis in danger of alienating the very people he will need, sooner or later, to actually get anything done?”
The Vatican’s English language spokesman Father Thomas Rosica said that the pope’s words were prophetic. “Now and then in our religious history, prophets arise to call us back to our origins, our roots and also our intended mission,” Rosica wrote in a note to the press. “That is what Pope Francis is doing. His words apply not only to the Roman Curia at the Vatican but to the entire Church throughout the world. His words are also valid for many institutions in the world today that lose sight of their original mission.”
The Motto of Liberal Catholics:
"Let's Get Those Green Beans Off the Buffet!"
UNITED STATESWaiting for Godot to Leave
Kevin O'Brien
One of the readers of my latest post (It's Not the Abuse Crisis - It's the Neglect Crisis) somehow got it into his head that I was making the claim that only the liberals are to blame for the Sexual Abuse Crisis in the Church - which would be a pretty insane position for me to take. Perhaps he hasn't read my criticisms of all of the so-called "conservative" bishops who have enabled abuse, such as Finn, Carlson, Niendstedt, Livieres, etc.
In fact, as everyone knows (but this lone reader), the Abuse crisis cuts across the Big Divide. If liberals could point to hung-up conservatives as abuse enablers, they would, except that conservatives can point to loosey-goosey liberals as abuse enablers. The problem continues to be so wide-spread that every single type of bishop is guilty - and while some of the worst are from the right, some of the worst are also from the left.
But this shows how strange our thinking is.
Conservatives in the Church are a weird bunch, rebelling against the Church on Torture and Lying and Economic issues; but liberals in the Church are even stranger, for not only do the liberals rebel on any issue that has to do with our "naughty bits", the liberals go one step further and make the appallingly stupid mistake of thinking that Church teaching is up for grabs, and that it can be changed, despite 2,000 years of history to the contrary. Not only can it be changed, it will be changed! Just wait long enough and the bishops will endorse "gay marriage", contraception, abortion and pornography - all things most bishops even now wink at and ignore ... but someday these will be positive goods that the bishops will not only tolerate and enable - the bishops will proudly endorse every last one of them! What a strange fantasy to have.
There are days when I wish I was taller than 5' 10". But I don't demand that the yardstick be changed and that feet and inches be redefined to make me 6' 3". In other words, I can understand not liking the measure the Church proposes by which we are to measure ourselves in relation to Christ. I can understand ignoring that measure, discrediting it, making fun of it. What I can't understand is how changing that measure will somehow change us. My height will not change regardless of any tricks I play with the ruler. But liberals are in awe of their ability to alter reality by changing the standards by which we measure reality.
Happy Christmas, you rogues
VATICAN CITYThe Economist - Erasmus
POPE Francis is a bag of surprises. When members of the curia, the Vatican's Italian-dominated bureaucracy, gathered this week for a pre-Christmas meeting with the boss, they may have been expecting some emollient words of encouragement and good wishes for the season when their faith's beginnings are enjoyably celebrated. Instead they got a terrible scolding. All manner of pathologies were at work, they were told, in the corridors of ecclesiastical power: ruthless careerism, back-biting, narcissism, complacency. The pope diagnosed no less than 15 specific failings, ranging from "spiritual Alzheimer's"—presumably, a diminishing awareness that the curia's work had a sacred purpose—to delusions of omnipotence and the "terrorism of gossip". Indeed, some Vatican operatives were said to be guilty of "cold-bloodedly killing the reputation of their own colleagues and brothers".
Many people will immediately understand what the pope was talking about. In the weeks and months before the surprise resignation of his predecessor, Benedict XVI, nearly two years ago, the papacy seemed on the verge of paralysis because of the rumours of financial and sexual scandal that were swirling round the Vatican. Ever since then, the new pope has been working hard to get the curia under control. As the first pope from the global south, he has invited a team of non-Italian prelates to advise him on reforming the administration's labyrinthine structures. In recent days his Australian adviser on economic matters, Cardinal George Pell, reported that the financial situation was both better and worse than anybody imagined; he had found that "hundreds of millions of euros were tucked away in particular sectional accounts and did not appear on any balance-sheet."
Strangely enough, the papal scolding comes only days after a historic success for the one department of the Vatican that is widely admired. The historic breakthrough in relations between the United States and Cuba, announced last week, was in large measure orchestrated by the holy see's diplomatic service, and the Vatican was not shy about taking some credit for this. So was the pope being a tad unfair, or inconsistent, in celebrating a diplomatic triumph one day and excoriating his own bureaucrats a few days later? In fact, both initiatives (helping the breakthrough with Cuba, and the drive to clean up the curia) come from places deep inside the pope's complex personality, to judge from the biography which I reviewed in this week’s print edition.
Lajolo on the speech to the Curia:
nothing like this has ever happened before
VATICAN CITYVatican Insider
The cardinal claims: 'The Pope talks about himself as well. Gossip can kill'
GIACOMO GALEAZZI
VATICAN CITY
'To be honest, nothing like this has ever happened before'. Cardinal Giovanni Lajolo, the former Vatican governor and foreign minister, does not hide his surprise. 'It is the first time this has happened; never before had a Pope set us in the Curia a series of pathologies that we must examine ourselves on.' All along, says the cardinal who has been head of some of the most important offices of the Holy See for many years, 'the exchange of Christmas wishes has been a customary occasion, that follows a usual pattern'.
What did you expect from Pope Francis' speech?
'On this occasion, his predecessors would usually say nothing but the most relevant events of the past year. They summed up the principal events in the Church and in their apostolic activity. So you could have expected Francis to talk about his travels to the Holy See and Turkey, instead he said nothing about them. Maybe he will refer to these in his speech to the ambassadors to the Vatican.'
How did you welcome the Pope's warning?
'It is the request of an examination of conscience, of an end-of-the-year confession. For the first time a Pope asks the Curia to examine itself on a number of problematic issues. For instance, on the basis of my experiences of the Curia, I believe that a simplification of procedures would diminish scandals.'
The Treacherous Intersection of
Faith and Child Abuse
UNITED STATESHuffington Post
Burke E. Strunsky
Prosecutor
Faith is a deeply personal experience, and I don't say this as a politically correct sound bite. I truly believe that I'm lucky to live in a country that values the right of its citizens to freely practice religion if they so choose. However, as a criminal prosecutor, I am repeatedly faced with situations in which people forsake reason for faith or forsake faith for reason. It's a false dilemma--a needless collision of choices. Too many make the tragic mistake of relying solely on their faith in cases of crimes, particularly child sexual abuse. Some religious groups might see these events as strictly a crisis of the soul when, in fact, concealing these atrocities only contributes to even deeper spiritual crises for the victims and their families. That's why I make this plea to families of all faiths: Please do not rely exclusively on the guidance of your religious institutions to deal with the crime of child molestation. If people truly believe in God or a higher power, then they should open their minds and hearts to the possibility that, in addition to their capacity to believe, they also possess the ability to reason for a reason.
It's impossible to pinpoint the first primordial whispers of faith or even the birth of religion--itself a communal kind of faith. Since the earliest man tilted his head to the cosmos and wondered, "Where does it all come from?" humanity has been searching for the meaning of life. Regardless of one's personal beliefs, faith and religion appear to be distinctly human phenomena, pointing us in the same direction toward the same intangible reality of a higher purpose or an unexplainable force that guides and connects us. Thirteenth-century philosopher and theologian Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote that in the search for truth, humans possess two unique sources of knowledge--reason (natural) and faith (supernatural)--and that the two were never meant to contradict one another but rather to work together.
Secrecy is essential to the crime of child molestation and when it encounters the sacred secrecy inherent to some religious organizations, an atmosphere is created in which the predator can thrive. Psychoanalyst Sue Grand has studied child sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church and sums up the crisis from both psychological and religious perspectives: "Secrecy, concealment, denial, ambiguity, confusion: These are Satan's fellow travelers, requiring elaborate interpersonal and intrapsychic collusion between perpetrators and bystanders. The operations of silence potentiate evil and remove all impediments from its path."
Historically, the most prominent religious organizations involved in criminal and civil child sexual abuse cases included the Roman Catholic Church, the Jehovah's Witnesses organization, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (also known as the Mormon Church).This certainly doesn't mean that people who belong to these groups are more likely to sexually abuse children than are, say, Methodists, Buddhists, Jews, Muslims, or Hindus. Rather, it's the manner in which these institutions have sometimes handled sexual molestation accusations that is problematic. It often leaves the pedophile free to roam and attack again.
Duped by the Media on Pope Francis,
Progressives Wonder How Republicans Get Elected
UNITED STATESDaily Kos
SAT DEC 20, 2014
by Betty Clermont
“Americans will vote for Republicans even though they disagree with them on everything. [O]n the biggest issues facing Congress, they still agree with Democrats on ... almost everything. That includes issues like raising the minimum wage, making the rich pay more in taxes, letting illegal immigrants stay in the United States, taking action to stem global warming, legalizing same sex marriage and fixing the Affordable Care Act rather than repealing it,” noted Zachary A. Goldfarb, policy editor at the Washington Post, after November’s elections.
By 2014, “the state of the nation has improved dramatically over the past four years. Unemployment is down to 5.9 percent and consumer confidence is back to levels not seen since before the deep recession which began in late 2007. The stock market is at record highs while the annual federal budget deficit is less than half of what it was when Barack Obama first took the oath of office,” explained Jon Perr who cited the above article by Goldfarb.
A majority of Americans don’t know this because the corporate media don’t report it.
“At its founding [in 1934], the Federal Communications Commission viewed the stations to which it granted licenses as ‘public trustees’ and required that they make every reasonable attempt to cover contrasting points of views. The Commission also required that stations perform public service in reporting on crucial issues in their communities. Soon after he became FCC Chairman under President Reagan, Michael Fowler stated his desire to do away with this Fairness Doctrine.”
“The devolution of the American press began when Ronald Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine. [Broadcasters] no longer have an obligation to serve the public interest. Their only obligation is to their shareholders,” stated Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. ...
The following illustrates the appalling power of the corporate media to create a world leader and will hopefully generate a conversation, using this example, about how to overcome its lies and omissions. Information about Pope Francis withheld by the corporate media comes after the popular headline. ...
Pope Francis Addresses Sex Abuse Scandal
Next to appointing and promoting a dozen or so churchmen with records as dismal as his own in protecting predator pedophiles, there is no better example of Pope Francis’ lack of resolve to protect children than his handling of his former nuncio to the Dominican Republic, Archbishop Josef Wesolowski. For more than 16 months after being informed of the accusations against his ambassador, the pope left Wesolowski with free access to more children. Additionally, Pope Francis has done everything possible to prevent Wesolowski from being prosecuted by Dominican officials.
A Catholic deacon, Francisco Javier Occi Reyes, was arrested by the police on June 24, 2013. The deacon “said at the time of his arrest he was ‘pimping’ a youngster for Wesolowski, who was allegedly waiting in his vehicle nearby….The minors interviewed [by the police] admitted to masturbating for, and of taking part in oral sex with the archbishop as he filmed them with a cell phone [in exchange for cash] while another witness affirmed seeing porno in his laptop at the Vatican embassy.”
Occi confessed to the allegations. “When no one came to bail him out, the deacon sent an anguished letter dated July 2 to Wesolowski... The deacon sent copies of the letter to Cardinal Nicolas de Jesus López Rodriguez, the head of the Church in the Dominican Republic, and to a Dominican bishop, Gregorio Nicanor Peña Rodríguez. The cardinal then carried the evidence to the Vatican, where he met directly with Pope Francis according to Dominican officials.”
Reported with the usual “Pope Francis gets tough on sex abuse” headlines, on July 11, 2013, the pontiff enacted a civil law making sexual violence and possession of child pornography punishable by up to 12 years in prison not only for those who live in Vatican City State, but also all employees, including the diplomatic corps, of the Holy See. Those accused of these crimes would be tried by the Cardinal Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura (Supreme Court) and two other judges of his choosing - providing a possible motive for the later dismissal of the independently-minded Cardinal Raymond Burke.
According to experts in international law, the Vatican could have waived diplomatic immunity for the ambassador. But in hindsight, it’s probable that Pope Francis wanted Wesolowski tried under his control.
Because the pope kept the information about Wesolowski secret, the general public knew nothing about the ambassador until a local TV broadcast on August 31, 2013. The result of a year-long investigation, the program contained testimony about Wesolowski’s crimes. Three days after the broadcast, a local bishop confirmed that Wesolowski had already been dismissed by the pope and that he had left the country only a few days earlier. There were accusations that the pope allowed Wesolowski to escape and his whereabouts remained unknown.
"For me it was a surprise to see Wesolowski walking along Via della Scrofa in Rome. The silence of the Church has injured the people of God," tweeted Santo Domingo archdiocese Auxiliary Bishop Víctor Masalles on June 24, 2014. Another report stated “the former papal nuncio was living in a fairly upscale house for prelates called the Casa del Clero.”
We’re putting an end to religion: Richard Dawkins, Bill Maher and the
exploding new American secularism
UNITED
STATESSalon
PHIL ZUCKERMAN
What is going on? How do we explain this recent wave of secularization that is washing over so much of America?
The answer to these questions is actually much less theological or philosophical than one might think. It is simply not the case that in recent years tens of millions of Americans have suddenly started doubting the cosmological or ontological arguments for the existence of God, or that hundreds of thousands of other Americans have miraculously embraced the atheistic naturalism of Denis Diderot. Sure, this may be happening here and there, in this or that dorm room or on this or that Tumblr page. The best-sellers written by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris—as well as the irreverent impiety and flagrant mockery of religion by the likes of Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, House, South Park, and Family Guy—have had some impact on American culture. As we have seen, a steady, incremental uptick of philosophical atheism and agnosticism is discernible in America in recent years. But the larger reality is that for the many millions of Americans who have joined the ranks of the nonreligious, the causes are most likely to be political and sociological in nature.
For starters, we can begin with the presence of the religious right, and the backlash it has engendered. Beginning in the 1980s, with the rise of such groups as the Moral Majority and the Christian Coalition, the closeness of conservative Republicanism with evangelical Christianity has been increasingly tight and publicly overt. Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, more and more politicians on the right embraced the conservative Christian agenda, and more and more outspoken conservative Christians allied themselves with the Republican Party. Examples abound, from Michele Bachmann to Ann Coulter, from Mike Huckabee to Pat Robertson, and from Rick Santorum to James Dobson. With an emphasis on seeking to make abortion illegal, fighting against gay rights (particularly gay marriage), supporting prayer in schools, advocating “abstinence only” sex education, opposing stem cell research, curtailing welfare spending, supporting Israel, opposing gun control, and celebrating the war on terrorism, conservative Christians have found a warm welcome within the Republican Party, which has been clear about its openness to the conservative Christian agenda. This was most pronounced during the eight years that George W. Bush was in the White House. ...
A second factor that helps account for the recent rise of secularity in America is the devastation of, and reaction against, the Catholic Church’s pedophile priest scandal. For decades the higher-ups in the Catholic Church were reassigning known sexual predators to remote parishes rather than having them arrested and prosecuted. Those men in authority thus engaged in willful cover-ups, brash lawbreaking, and the aggressive slandering of accusers—and all with utter impunity. The extent of this criminality is hard to exaggerate: over six thousand priests have now been credibly implicated in some form of sex abuse, five hundred have been jailed, and more victims have been made known than one can imagine. After the extent of the crimes—the rapes and molestations as well as the cover-ups—became widely publicized, many Americans, and many Catholics specifically, were disgusted. Not only were the actual sexual crimes themselves morally abhorrent, but the degree to which those in positions of power sought to cover up these crimes and allow them to continue was truly shocking. The result has been clear: a lot of Catholics have become ex-Catholics. For example, consider the situation in New England. Between 2000 and 2010, the Catholic Church lost 28 percent of its members in New Hampshire and 33 percent of its members in Maine, and closed nearly seventy parishes—a quarter of the total number—throughout the Boston area. In 1990, 54 percent of Massachusetts residents identified as Catholic, but it was down to 39 percent in 2008. And according to an “American Values” survey from 2012, although nearly one-third of Americans report being raised Catholic, only 22 percent currently identify as such—a precipitous nationwide decline indeed.
Pope sacks Bertone, Cardinal Tauran
new Camerlengo
VATICAN CITYAGI
(AGI) Vatican City, Dec. 20 - Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone is no longer Camerlengo of the Holy Church of Rome. Pope Francis has replaced him with Cardinal Jean Louis Tauran, the memorable Foreign Minister of Pope John Paul II and currently president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
Bertoni turned 80 last Dec. 2 and therefore could not eventually participate in a Conclave. As Protodeacon, Cardinal Tauran announced the election of Pope Francis on March 13, 2013.
During the last few month, he closely collaborated with the Pontiff, especially in cleaning up the Vatican's financial sector and the IOR Vatican bank in particular. Born in Bordeaux, Cardinal Tauran is now 71 years old.
Pope celebrates Christmas Eve Mass
after excoriating staff
VATICAN CITYBloomberg Businessweek
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is celebrating Christmas Eve with a late-night Mass in St. Peter's Basilica just days after excoriating his staff for a laundry list of sins.
Many of the same cardinals, bishops and priests who received the dressing down will be in St. Peter's Basilica for the Mass. Several have spoken out in recent days saying Francis was merely asking them to examine their consciences and use the Christmas season to heal.
Wednesday's Mass kicks off a busy few weeks for the 78-year-old pontiff that includes his traditional Christmas day speech, New Year's Eve vespers and 2015 greetings a few hours later.
Editorial: Pope delivers a welcome
season’s scolding
MASSACHUSETTSDaily Hampshire Gazette
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Now that’s what we call harkening to the reason for the season. In the second of his annual Christmas addresses, Pope Francis chastised a Vatican leadership in which he said too many prelates preach a Christ-like selflessness but practice a life of backstabbing, power grabs and political maneuvering.
“Brothers, let’s guard ourselves from the terrorism of gossip,” Francis told cardinals and bishops gathered at the Apostolic Palace, The New York Times reports. “The ailment of close circles enslaves their members and becomes a cancer that threatens the harmony of the body.”
Francis’ call to conscience provides the latest, and most dramatic, evidence that the first Latin American pope plans to devote his time at the Holy See to a gospel of inclusion rather than one that has too often excluded the weak, the scorned, the fallen-from-favor. What better message to deliver at this time of year when many celebrate a holy man who devoted his life to embracing the least among us?
In less than two years at the Holy See, Francis has made his home in humble quarters rather than the luxurious papal residence, reminded the church of its duty to the poor, called for acceptance of gay people and pushed for an end to the Cold War between the United States and Cuba.
Cardinal Sean O'Malley responds to
Pope Francis' rebuke of church leaders: 'He has our support'
MASSACHUSETTSThe Republican
By Shira Schoenberg | sschoenberg@repub.com
on December 24, 2014
BOSTON - Two days after Pope Francis delivered a harsh critique of the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Sean O'Malley said concern about the church administration is widespread and was discussed at the last conclave, when cardinals met to select the pope.
"Whoever was elected the pope knew that one of his biggest challenges was going to be the renewal of the central administration of the church, and Pope Francis is doing that with great energy, and he has our support," said O'Malley, who is the archbishop of Boston.
Pope Francis made waves with his annual Christmas greeting to the Curia, a group of cardinals, bishops and priests who make up the church administration. The pope accused the Curia of having 15 kinds of spiritual sickness. Among them: "Spiritual Alzheimer's," or forgetting one's connection with God, the sickness of gossip, of "rivalry and vainglory," of pursuing worldly power and of overly valuing belonging to a closed group. The Associated Press reported that the address was unprecedented in the sharpness of Pope Francis' rebuke. Some observers suggested that it was prompted by the results of a secret investigation into leaks of confidential Vatican papers to journalists in 2012.
O'Malley sits on an advisory board to the pope that is tasked with helping the pope reform the church administration, which has been plagued with problems including the church's response to priests accused of molesting children and allegations of corruption within the Vatican bank. O'Malley spoke to reporters in Boston on Christmas Eve before helping serve lunch to homeless people at the Pine Street Inn.
Pope Francis gives tough Christmas
message: Editorial
UNITED STATESClarion-Ledger
Chicago Tribune
December 24, 2014
In holiday messages at this time of year, the boss usually musters the energy to say nice things to the people who work for him. Even if he’s exasperated by the performance of his employees or beset by arrogant bullies on the corporate rungs above him.
That’s the generosity of the Christmas spirit, right?
But what if the boss used this holiday interlude not to extol the good but to point out in withering detail his subordinates’ personal shortcomings?
And what if that message resonated well beyond the boss’ workplace, so that all of us could read his remarks and, gulp, see ourselves in the unflinching mirror that he held aloft?
You may have guessed that we’re talking about Pope Francis’ extraordinary Christmas message on Monday.
Instead of a traditional message of charity and hope, Francis excoriated the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Vatican. He accused them of knuckling under to 15 ailments and temptations, including greed, jealousy, hypocrisy, cowardice and, in a memorable phrase, “spiritual Alzheimer’s.”
UK bishops compare defenders of
Catholic moral discipline to ancient rigorist heretics
UNITED KINGDOMLifeSite News
At almost the same moment that Cardinal Raymond Burke said in an interview that those defending Catholic moral teaching – and the practice of barring people in irregular sexual unions from receiving Communion – are being marginalized within the Church, the Catholic bishops of England and Wales have issued a document for clergy that all but accuses such Catholics of the ancient Donatist heresy.
In a “Reflection Document for Clergy,” the English bishops appear to follow the line of Cardinal Walter Kasper and his followers, saying, “It is not for us to make rash or premature conclusions” about people living in sexual sin.
“We meet people at many different stages of family life which are often not clearly defined in this way nor do they occur in the ‘traditional’ order in which we used to think,” they said.
The bishops go so far as to issue a thinly veiled accusation of heresy against those, like Cardinal Burke, the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, Cardinal George Pell and others, who have refused to follow the Kasper line. The document quotes St. Augustine of Hippo, the 4th century Doctor of the Church, who the bishops say “offers us a way of looking at the Church from his age which is still relevant today.”
Catholic cardinals try to soften
Pope Francis’ harsh message
VATICAN CITYWashington Post
By Josephine Mckenna | Religion News Service December 24
VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Walter Kasper, one of Pope Francis’ closest advisers, has sought to downplay the pontiff’s scathing critique of the Curia earlier this week.
Kasper, who previously led the Vatican body responsible for promoting Christian unity, said the pope was asking the Curia, or Vatican administration, to examine their conscience in a bid to promote spiritual renewal.
The German cardinal, joined by Argentine Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, said Francis was asking the Curia to set an example.
“The fundamental thing is he wants spiritual reform of the Curia,” Kasper told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera on Wednesday (Dec. 24).
“Certainly also reform of the structures is important and he is working on that. But the basis of the problem is spiritual.”
The pope announced what he termed 15 illnesses affecting the Curia at his Christmas greetings on Monday, including “spiritual Alzheimer’s” and gossipy cliques.
The Vatican Bank, Christmas Cheer,
And FATCA
UNITED STATESForbes
Robert Goulder , Contributor
For centuries the inner workings of the Vatican Bank have been cloaked in secrecy. That was before Pope Francis, who has pledged to restore public confidence in the administration of the Roman Catholic Church. This week we learned the United States and the Holy See have brokered a FATCA agreement for the automatic exchange of taxpayer information. The long arm of the U.S. tax code is nothing short of astonishing.
I don’t recall issues like offshore banking and tax evasion being discussed at Sunday school during my youth, but then I wasn’t an attentive pupil. I suppose it’s possible that bilateral exchange of taxpayer information was mentioned at some point in the Beatitudes, but I’d need to double-check. Probably not, since the Sermon on the Mount predates the drafting of article 26 of the OECD model tax convention.
These days, tax treaties aren’t the only way for nations to exchange bank data. We live in the age of FATCA and its progeny — the OECD’s common reporting standard — which are spreading around the world faster than the good word. From Zurich to Bethlehem, from the Cayman Islands to Galilee, FATCA is everywhere. And as of this week, we learned how Francis views the issue. The pontiff is cool with tax transparency. Depending on how one feels about the issue, this news could be either sweeter than sugar plums, or worse than a lump of coal in your stocking.
On December 22 a Treasury Department Web page noted that the Holy See and the U.S. government have reached an agreement in substance regarding FATCA. That informal accord, concluded November 30, adheres to the FATCA Model 1 intergovernmental agreement. There are no details yet on when a formal signing ceremony will be held. In the meantime, the Treasury Department now includes the Holy See on its expanding list of FATCA-compliant jurisdictions.
Why Francis kicked the Curia’s butt
UNITED STATESReligion News Service - Spiritual Politics
Mark Silk
Follow @directorsilk | Dec 24, 2014
So far as I can tell, it’s unprecedented for a pope to chastise the Curia publicly. When Pope Francis administered those 15 Merry Christmas whacks heard round the world on Monday, he was doing something new under the Roman sun.
That’s not to say that popes have always been happy with the world’s oldest continuously functioning bureaucracy. Martin V, the Italian aristocrat whose election ended the Great Schism in 1417, reduced the cardinals to “quivering, stammering children in his presence,” writes Eamon Duffy in his History of the Popes. One hundred years later, when Leo X discovered cardinals plotting against him, he executed the ringleader and created 31 new ones in a single day.
“How many people work at the Vatican?” a journalist once asked Pope John XXIII. “About half of them,” he famously replied. Francis, who came into office with a mandate to get the Curia working properly, has by word and deed made clear that he means to do just that.
Pope Francis, Vatican Officials and
Machiavelli’s Good Advice
UNITED STATESChristian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
* May God help Pope Francis! He faces as the last absolute monarch, in an increasingly democratic world, unrelenting and escalating governmental pressures in Australia, the UK, the USA, Germany, China and many countries in between. Yet as his Christmas speech to his Vatican bureaucracy (the Curia) indicated, he is served by some men who are stuck in a Renaissance time warp.
* As Pope Francis tries to sail through a treacherous child abuse and financial scandal triggered tsunami, he might do well to put down the Catechism for a few days and reflect on one of the best informed analysts of Curia behavior, Machiavelli. Perhaps, Francis is already doing this. Ten short examples of Machiavelli’s relevant wisdom are set forth below.
* Before he begins his 80th year in less twelve months, Pope Francis can successfully seize the opportunity, follow his conscience and apply his unique status, forceful temperament and popular appeal. Most importantly, he can declare “infallibly” key changes. By then, he will have received new input from his two advisory Synods of Bishops. He has already been enlightened by his valuable two years of experience as pope.
* Pope Francis now also is unhampered by his prior pastoral positions and unfettered by his earlier ideological constraints as an obedient cardinal, bishop and Jesuit. If Francis fails to act effectively soon, the consequences will likely be quite negative for the leadership of the Catholic Church.
* Pope Francis acts at times like a radicalized realist. His preferred theologian, Cardinal Kasper, describes him as “radical”. Francis is clearly pressing forward relentlessly on a novel path to change. When necessary, he is even bypassing or sidelining fearful and entrenched opponents and factions. His opponents often overlook the many risks that presently exist in the Vatican’s vulnerable predicament. Pope Francis is evidently well aware of these risks. At times, some of his opponents prefer “to play their fruitless fiddles while Rome burns”.
* Pope Francis can accomplish much if he wants to and finds the wisdom and courage to do so. Equally important, it seems unlikely any of his successors will get a more propitious opportunity in the foreseeable future to adopt long overdue changes. It may be now or never for Pope Francis and the Vatican. Does he realize that? His scolding of the Curia suggests he does.
Pope Francis explains the “15
diseases” members of the Curia may face
VATICAN CITYRome Reports
[with video]
Being a member of the Roman Curia is more dangerous than it looks. During his Christmas address to its members, Pope Francis asked this selected group cardinals to keep an eye on 15 diseases.
POPE FRANCIS
"A Curia that isn't self-critical, that doesn't want to update and doesn't want to improve, is like a sick body.”
He went on to explain that all the different temptations have the same root, to distance oneself from God. He also referred to what he called "careerism,” that is, the wish to receive more and more titles that only feed vanity.
POPE FRANCIS
"It is the sickness of those people who live a double life. People who want to multiply their power at all costs, even if they have to slander, defame and discredit the other, even in newspapers and magazines.”
The Pope read his address in a very peaceful and quiet way. Still, he also made very strong remarks when he talked about the danger of gossiping.
Spiritual Fruit Salad...
UNITED STATESQuestions from a Ewe
Just before I read reports of his Christmas address to the Vatican Curia, I was wondering if Pope Francis ever actually received the Christmas card and other letters I’ve sent him. He doesn’t write…; he doesn’t call…; he doesn’t visit… What’s a girl to think?
However, now I think it’s possible he has received my mail because his “15 Ailments of the Curia” echo many concerns I’ve expressed in my missives. If you’ve not read his list, I encourage you to do so.
As much as I appreciate Francis acknowledging and even chastising the hierarchy for its arrogance, hubris, insensitivity, hypocrisy, insecurity, self-absorption, fear and unhappiness resulting in over-bearing, domineering, control-freak, career-climbing, self-promoting, money-grubbing, gossiping, suck-up, fashionista hierarchy members who travel in cliques, his litany had a glaring omission: the ailment of “sexism.” I don’t know why he overlooked that ailment unless maybe it’s one that plagues him or one he does not acknowledge. Regardless, without addressing it, the other ailments will never be fully addressed.
I actually believe that tackling Pope Francis’ list of 15 without correcting the ailment of sexism likely will just make a sick turn of the crank grinding women down further within the church and society. I don’t know if that would be an intended or unintended consequence but humble, sensitive, secure, confident and happy sexists are still sexists. One might argue that such sexists are even more destructive ones because their charm wins people’s confidence enabling them to manipulate and abuse people more easily.
I think Francis would bristle at being labeled a sexist. I think he probably envisions himself a very pro-female kind of guy what with him appointing 5 whole women to his 30 person International Theological Commission. That mentality is fairly common amongst people of Francis’ and my parents’ generation. They are so indoctrinated into promoting a gender ideology of females’ limitations and duties, that they often see their sexism as just a factual manifestation of nature…”it’s just how things are…” And though some such folks believe themselves to be rather equality-minded, their face-palm worthy sexist statements and actions belie the gender ideology to which they are enslaved.
POPE'S ADDRESS TO ROMAN CURIA
VATICAN CITYThe Pilot
Monday, December 22, 2014
Vatican City (ZENIT) -- Pope Francis received in audience the Cardinals and Superiors of the Roman Curia Dec. 22 for the presentation of Christmas greetings.
After the greeting of the Dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, the Pope gave the Roman Curia the address ZENIT translates below.
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“Thou art above the Cherubim, Thou who hast changed the miserable
condition of the world when Thou made Thyself like us” (Saint Athanasius).
Dear Brothers,
At the end of Advent we meet for the traditional greetings. In a few days we will have the joy of celebrating the Lord’s birth; the event of God who makes himself man to save men; the manifestation of the love of God who does not limit himself to give us something or to send us some message or some messengers, but gives himself to us; the mystery of God that takes our human condition and our sins on himself to reveal his divine life to us, his immense grace and his gratuitous forgiveness. It is the meeting with God who is born in the poverty of the cave of Bethlehem to teach us the power of humility. In fact, Christmas is also the feast of light that was not received by the “Chosen People” but by the “poor and simple people,” who awaited the Lord’s salvation.
First of all, I would like to wish you all – collaborators, brothers and sisters, papal representatives scattered throughout the world – and all your dear ones, a Holy Christmas and a happy New Year. I want to thank you cordially for your daily commitment at the service of the Holy See, of the Catholic Church, of the particular Churches and of the Successor of Peter.
We being persons and not numbers or just denominations, I remember in a special way those that, during this year, finished their service having reached the age limit or having taken on other roles or because they were called to the House of the Father. To all of them also, and to their families, go my thoughts and gratitude.
Together with you I wish to elevate to the Lord a heartfelt and profound gratitude for the year we are leaving behind, for the events lived and for all the good that He willed generously to fulfil through the service of the Holy See, asking Him humbly for forgiveness for the faults committed “in thoughts, words, deeds and omissions.”
Pope Francis In 2014: Reformer,
Diplomat, Media Star
UNITED STATESInternational Business Times
By Zoe Mintz
It would not be an understatement to say Pope Francis has reached rock-star status. His image has graced the covers of Time Magazine, Rolling Stone and even The Advocate, a gay focused magazine. In March, Fortune called the pontiff one of the world’s 50 greatest leaders. Forbes says he is the fourth most powerful person on the globe. He was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. His approval ratings are sky high. He even helped broker a historic diplomatic deal between the U.S. and Cuba.
But has he lived up to the hype?
“He absolutely lives up to the hype,” Robert Christian, editor for Catholic blog Millennial Journal, told International Business Times in an email. “Francis’ message is not that he’s perfect -- it’s that this is who he is: a guy who cares deeply about the poor and vulnerable, who tries to live simply, who tries to build his life around his love of God and others. People can see with their own eyes this is true, and that’s why he is connecting with them.” ...
Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis
The clergy sexual abuse crisis -- where thousands of priests have been accused of abusing children over a span of 60 years -- is arguably the largest problem the modern Catholic Church faces. It is also the area where Pope Francis has been lagging, according to David Clohessy, the national director of SNAP, or the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests -- a 12,000-member U.S.-based organization representing victims of clergy sexual abuse. He has wanted doctrinal change for just as long. But he is met with the challenge that most advocacy groups have: Dealing with a 2,000-year-old institution that moves at a very slow speed.
Between the ages of 12 to 16, Clohessy has memories of his childhood priest molesting him during overnight skiing, hiking and boating trips. He suppressed the memories for years, he said, until they flooded back in his mid-30s. He later discovered three of his siblings said they were abused as well.
One of those siblings -- his younger brother Kevin -- later became a priest. When Clohessy went public with his claims in 1992, one of the youth supervisors in his diocese came forward with a list of names of clergy who teenagers told her “made them feel uncomfortable” during overnight trips. One of those names was Kevin’s. He reportedly would get drunk with the boys and make sexual advances. An 18-year-old said Kevin fed him alcohol and carried him to bed.
In 1993, Kevin was removed from his post and entered a treatment program. Church officials said the allegations against him were “inappropriate and serious” but the sexual behavior was “not criminal, in that it did not involve anyone below the legal age of consent.” He was relocated to a different parish. To the best of Clohessy's knowledge, Kevin is currently working at a funeral home. He was not criminally prosecuted or defrocked.
“With each new pope there seems that there’s more talk, promises and apologies, but little-to-no decisive reform,” Clohessy said. There are roughly 6,400 priests who have been publicly accused of sexual abuse in the U.S. Clohessy suspects there are more who have been protected by their bishops.
It was only in the past six months or so when Pope Francis began speaking about the crisis. In May, he met with sex abuse victims and called the allegations an "ugly crime" akin to performing "a satanic Mass." In June, Polish Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski was defrocked after a Vatican tribunal found him guilty of sexually abusing minors. During a homily given in July, Francis called for “zero tolerance” of sex abuse by clergy and met with six more victims. In November, he created a panel of clergy and sex abuse victims that will advise the Vatican on child protection policies. They will meet for the first time at the Vatican on Feb. 6-8.
For Clohessy this isn’t enough.
“In so many other areas the pope’s word is all he has. In terms of peace, hunger, inequality -- the pope can’t do anything about those things except exhort. He has incredible power with the abuse crisis,” Clohessy said. Catholics, he added, should “judge him by his deeds and not his words in every area of his papacy.”
Gift of reform
UNITED STATESThe Times-Tribune
BY THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Published: December 25, 2014
In addition to the traditional prayers and wishes for peace and goodwill, Pope Francis has presented the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics a distinctly unique Christmas gift — sweeping reforms of Vatican institutions.
Members of the Curia, the powerful cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Vatican bureaucracy, sat before the pope Monday like schoolchildren waiting to see the vice principal.
Pope Francis was unsparing in his assessment of their performance. He accused some of them of using their careers to accumulate power and wealth and, thus, of being hypocritical relative to the church’s fundamental mission — what he called, delightfully, “existential schizophrenia.”
That was just one of the “15 illnesses of the Curia” he defined in a Christmas season address that departed exponentially from its usual collegial tone.
Pope Francis: Man in the middle
spurs cause of change
VATICAN CITYThe National (United Arab Emirates)
Jacopo Barigazzi
December 24, 2014
Iacopo Scaramuzzi is a Vatican analyst. He studied journalism at Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University and for years has been following the day by day activities of the Catholic Church for Italian media. Here he talks about Pope Francis.
What has changed? How is it possible that Pope Francis is bringing about so much change in a such a short time?
The three main contributors to the Holy See are the US, the German and the Italian [Catholic] churches.
What has changed is that the money management issue has been put on the table of the last conclave. The Americans and Germans pay large amounts of money but what they have been seeing are many scandals, clashes with the Italian central bank and all of these involving mainly Italian cardinals and bishops.
Now there are basically no Italians left in the positions that count?
Exactly. The big donors that now want to have more weight are the starting point of what has followed after Bergoglio’s [Pope Francis] election, the de-Italianisation of the Roman curia.
Now all the top positions are held by non-Italians. At the helm of Ior [the Vatican bank at the centre of many financial scandals from the beginning of the 1970s] now there is French banker Jean-Baptiste de Franssu.
George Pell, who heads the Vatican’s new secretariat for the economy, is an Australian Cardinal.
Pope celebrates Christmas Eve Mass
after excoriating staff
VATICAN CITYBloomberg Businessweek
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis is celebrating Christmas Eve with a late-night Mass in St. Peter's Basilica just days after excoriating his staff for a laundry list of sins.
Many of the same cardinals, bishops and priests who received the dressing down will be in St. Peter's Basilica for the Mass. Several have spoken out in recent days saying Francis was merely asking them to examine their consciences and use the Christmas season to heal.
Wednesday's Mass kicks off a busy few weeks for the 78-year-old pontiff that includes his traditional Christmas day speech, New Year's Eve vespers and 2015 greetings a few hours later.
Editorial: Pope delivers a welcome
season’s scolding
MASSACHUSETTSDaily Hampshire Gazette
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Now that’s what we call harkening to the reason for the season. In the second of his annual Christmas addresses, Pope Francis chastised a Vatican leadership in which he said too many prelates preach a Christ-like selflessness but practice a life of backstabbing, power grabs and political maneuvering.
“Brothers, let’s guard ourselves from the terrorism of gossip,” Francis told cardinals and bishops gathered at the Apostolic Palace, The New York Times reports. “The ailment of close circles enslaves their members and becomes a cancer that threatens the harmony of the body.”
Francis’ call to conscience provides the latest, and most dramatic, evidence that the first Latin American pope plans to devote his time at the Holy See to a gospel of inclusion rather than one that has too often excluded the weak, the scorned, the fallen-from-favor. What better message to deliver at this time of year when many celebrate a holy man who devoted his life to embracing the least among us?
In less than two years at the Holy See, Francis has made his home in humble quarters rather than the luxurious papal residence, reminded the church of its duty to the poor, called for acceptance of gay people and pushed for an end to the Cold War between the United States and Cuba.
Cardinal Sean O'Malley responds to
Pope Francis' rebuke of church leaders: 'He has our support'
MASSACHUSETTSThe Republican
By Shira Schoenberg | sschoenberg@repub.com
on December 24, 2014
BOSTON - Two days after Pope Francis delivered a harsh critique of the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Sean O'Malley said concern about the church administration is widespread and was discussed at the last conclave, when cardinals met to select the pope.
"Whoever was elected the pope knew that one of his biggest challenges was going to be the renewal of the central administration of the church, and Pope Francis is doing that with great energy, and he has our support," said O'Malley, who is the archbishop of Boston.
Pope Francis made waves with his annual Christmas greeting to the Curia, a group of cardinals, bishops and priests who make up the church administration. The pope accused the Curia of having 15 kinds of spiritual sickness. Among them: "Spiritual Alzheimer's," or forgetting one's connection with God, the sickness of gossip, of "rivalry and vainglory," of pursuing worldly power and of overly valuing belonging to a closed group. The Associated Press reported that the address was unprecedented in the sharpness of Pope Francis' rebuke. Some observers suggested that it was prompted by the results of a secret investigation into leaks of confidential Vatican papers to journalists in 2012.
O'Malley sits on an advisory board to the pope that is tasked with helping the pope reform the church administration, which has been plagued with problems including the church's response to priests accused of molesting children and allegations of corruption within the Vatican bank. O'Malley spoke to reporters in Boston on Christmas Eve before helping serve lunch to homeless people at the Pine Street Inn.
Pope Francis gives tough Christmas
message: Editorial
UNITED STATESClarion-Ledger
Chicago Tribune
December 24, 2014
In holiday messages at this time of year, the boss usually musters the energy to say nice things to the people who work for him. Even if he’s exasperated by the performance of his employees or beset by arrogant bullies on the corporate rungs above him.
That’s the generosity of the Christmas spirit, right?
But what if the boss used this holiday interlude not to extol the good but to point out in withering detail his subordinates’ personal shortcomings?
And what if that message resonated well beyond the boss’ workplace, so that all of us could read his remarks and, gulp, see ourselves in the unflinching mirror that he held aloft?
You may have guessed that we’re talking about Pope Francis’ extraordinary Christmas message on Monday.
Instead of a traditional message of charity and hope, Francis excoriated the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Vatican. He accused them of knuckling under to 15 ailments and temptations, including greed, jealousy, hypocrisy, cowardice and, in a memorable phrase, “spiritual Alzheimer’s.”
Our guess: Bishops still hiding
1000s of US predator priests
UNITED STATESSurvivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Ever wonder how many more child molesting US clerics there are who have never been publicly exposed?
Consider this: On December 9, in one tiny diocese - Gallup, New Mexico - a court filing revealed in five names of “never before disclosed” credibly accused child molesting clerics.
[BishopAccountability.org - KOAT]
Then, on December 16, Gallup Bishop James Wall released names of 20 priests who it deemed "credibly accused" who had never been publicly accused before.
[Gallup diocese]
So to be crystal clear: In just one diocese, in just two weeks, 25 new names of predator priests have been disclosed.
And there are nearly 200 dioceses in the US. . .
December 25, 2014
Pope’s Priority For Christmas 2014 ?
Children or Clerics
UNITED STATESChristian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
* “May Jesus save the vast numbers of children who are victims of violence … ; children, so many abused children”, so prayed and preached Pope Francis in his well publicized 2014 Christmas greetings to the world. Seemingly on cue, Francis also lamented that many children are ” … never born because of abortion. …”.
* And let us hope and pray that Jesus does help save all the children. But what about Pope Francis doing more to save some children the pope failed to mention that he actually already has the power to save — like those children who still remain at risk of priest sexual abuse or who struggle to recover from the effects of such abuse worldwide, as well as those millions of children whose parents cannot afford to raise them adequately but had them anyway, thanks to Vatican lobbying against affordable access to contraception for these poor couples. Pope Francis will visit the Philippines in a few weeks and can see for himself the millions of struggling kids there on their own, often abandoned by their destitute parents who were, in effect, denied access to effective and affordable family planning.
* An experienced Vatican journalist recently confirmed, in effect, what numerous reports since the pope’s election about his extensive activities with respect to Vatican financial scandals already suggested clearly. Pope Francis may actually be putting a much higher priority on maximizing Vatican wealth than on protecting Catholic children from priest predators and complicit bishops who protect them. Is that what Jesus would have done?
* Generating unlimited children, of course, is geo-politically a “win win” situation for the Vatican. If the children survive, they then become potential donors and voters subject to Vatican indoctrination and influence. If the children struggle, the burden then is mainly on themselves, their parents and their governments. It is only on the Vatican with whatever papal funds remain, if any, after funding the hierarchy’s high lifestyles, political crusades, escalating legal expenses, etc.. Ultimately, children are optional costs for the Vatican.
* Importantly, Francis recently publicly ambushed his cornered Vatican staff. The hapless Vatican officials are an easy target for the pope since many of them lack career and financial options like many diocesan bishops have available to them. Yet, even so, the pope significantly omitted addressing directly and adequately with the assembled Vatican officials either the child abuse cover up or sexism, two major Vatican “ailments” that he urgently must address more effectively. Why these material omissions?
Spiritual Alzheimer’s
PHILIPPINESThe Philippines Star
SKETCHES By Ana Marie Pamintuan (The Philippine Star) | Updated December 26, 2014
My favorite news head on that story about Pope Francis’ greeting to the Vatican Curia is from the Religion News Service: “Merry Christmas, you power-hungry hypocrites!”
RNS reported: The pope’s traditional Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Holy See was more “Bah! Humbug!” than holiday cheer as he ticked off a laundry list of “ailments of the Curia” that he wants to cure.
Christmas surely wasn’t merry for a lot of people in the Vatican.
And some members of our local clergy must be having second thoughts about the wisdom of having Francis see for himself the state of the faith in Asia’s bastion of Roman Catholicism. Would Francis also recite a Pinoy version of the 15 Ailments of the Vatican Curia?
The pontiff looks like someone who personally does his homework and is attuned to world affairs. Consider his role in the historic rapprochement between the United States and Cuba. Would Francis say that “spiritual Alzheimer’s” can be catching and has infected certain Filipino bishops?
We can expect this pope, before he visits Manila and the Visayas, to read up on Philippine history, which is inextricably linked with the history of the Catholic Church in this country. Church interference in political affairs, as we all know, did not start in the House of Sin – a reference to the archbishop of Manila during the Marcos regime.
And Yet Finn Remains Bishop
UNITED STATESTalk to Action
Frank Cocozzelli
Mon Dec 22, 2014
It has been more than two years since Bishop Robert Finn was convicted by a Missouri criminal court for failing to report child abuse by Fr. Shawn Ratigan. Finn had been warned about Ratigan's behavior but the prelate inexplicably waited six months before notifying authorities as required by law.
Within that same period of time, Ratigan pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography. He is now serving a 50-year sentence in prison. But Finn walks free.
Enter Pope Francis.
The new pontiff has been a breath of fresh air in many ways. But when it comes to removing Bishop Finn as head of the diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph Missouri the air around the pontiff has gotten stale.
That's why many were encouraged when Cardinal Sean O'Malley was interviewed recently by the CBS News program 60 Minutes. O'Malley is not just any Cardinal. He is a close friend of and advisor to Pope Francis, who appointed him to lead the Vatican's new sexual abuse commission aimed at strengthening rules to protect children. When the conversation turned to Bishop Finn, Cardinal O'Malley did not mince his words:
Norah O'Donnell: I want to ask you about Robert Finn, who is the bishop of Kansas City/St. Joseph and, as you know, he pleaded guilty to a criminal misdemeanor for not reporting one of his priests to authorities. Bishop Finn wouldn't be able to teach Sunday school in Boston.
Cardinal Seán O'Malley: That's right.
Norah O'Donnell: How is that zero tolerance...
Cardinal Seán O'Malley: Well...
Norah O'Donnell: ...that he's still in place? What does it say to Catholics?
Cardinal Seán O'Malley: Well, it's a question that the Holy See needs to address urgently.
Norah O'Donnell: And there's a recognition?
Cardinal Seán O'Malley: There's a recognition of that.
Norah O'Donnell: From Pope Francis?
Cardinal Seán O'Malley: From Pope Francis.
But it was not to be. Or at least not yet. It has been more than a month since that interview when it sounded like Bishop Finn was on his way out the door.
Why is he still there?
The Pope, Beyoncé and Me
UNITED STATESThe New York Times
Frank Bruni
There was a Christmas Eve a little more than a decade ago when I did something that was, for me, rare, at least on a holiday typically spent in full-party mode, with booze, food, family and friends. I went to church.
No one had died. No one was getting married or baptized. This visit was entirely volitional — and, I told myself, ornamental, which was true to a point.
The church, you see, was St. Peter’s Basilica. I was The Times’s correspondent in Rome. And because I covered the Vatican, I had dibs on prime seats relatively close to the altar. Forgive the following mixture of profane and sacred, but you don’t have to be a Beyoncé devotee to say a quick yes to free tickets in the front rows. You go for the pageant and the privilege.
Pope John Paul II presided over the Mass, as best he could. He struggled to form coherent words, a man disintegrating before the world’s eyes, month by painful month. Many of us in the press corps who kept tabs on him and trailed him — to Guatemala, to Croatia, to Poland — were essentially on a deathwatch. ...
Now there’s Francis. And things are different. Not different enough, not by a long shot. The church remains wrong on women and wrong on gays, and I’ve noted repeatedly the shameful discrepancy between Francis’ kind words and the unkind firings of lesbian and gay employees by Catholic institutions in the United States.
But almost two years into his papacy, it’s impossible to deny the revolutionary freshness of his posture: humble, receptive, even casual. The pomp is gone and, with it, the air of thundering judgment. If the rules haven’t been rewritten, they seem less like bludgeons than in the past.
Francis doesn’t hold himself high, an autocrat with all the answers. He crouches to a level where questions can be asked, conversations broached, disagreements articulated.
He insists that other church leaders lower themselves as well, and used a traditional Christmas address on Monday not to chide the flock for its transgressions but to remind the shepherds of theirs.
Another Christian Brother (Bro. Obbens) is
charged in New South Wales
AUSTRALIABroken Rites
(Article posted on 22 December 2014.)
Christian Brother William John Obbens (also known as Brother "Dominic" Obbens) has appeared in court, charged with two counts of indecent assault of "a person under 16 under authority". Police allege that the offences were committed on one boy, then aged 13, in the late 1980s, while Brother Obbens was a teacher at St Patrick's Christian Brothers College in Goulburn, south-western New South Wales.
The case had its first mention in Goulburn Local Court on 22 December 2014 when the prosecutors officially filed the charges against Brother Obbens during a brief administrative procedure.
Brother Obbens, aged 69, now of Balmain in Sydney, sat behind his solicitor in court.
As often happens, the court adjourned the case for several weeks while the prosecutors and the defence are dealing with some court documentation. The prosecution must provide a brief of evidence to the defence by 28 January 2015, and the defence is to provide a reply by February 11.
Some St John of God Brothers abused the
disabled
AUSTRALIABroken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 20 December 2014)
One of Australia’s most prominent Catholic religious orders – the St John of God Brothers (SJOG) – has had an entrenched culture of sexual abuse, according to court evidence. The St John of God religious order has specialised in accommodating boys who have an educational or, in many cases, an intellectual disability. This Broken Rites article is about court cases in the 1990s (and also in 2006) involving Brother Bernard Kevin McGrath, who was jailed for committing sexual crimes against disabled victims.
Bernard Kevin McGrath (born 22 May 1947) grew up in New Zealand. In the 1960s, aged 18, he joined the St John of God Brothers (SJOG), a Catholic religious order which was conducting residential institutions in Australia and New Zealand for boys who have an educational or intellectual disability. For his training, he went to Sydney where the SJOG order has its headquartes for Australia and New Zealand. Most of McGrath's working life has been spent at SJOG institutions in Australia and New Zealand.
McGrath gave details of his SJOG career in a six-hours videotaped interview with New Zealand detectives in 2003. In the videotape, which was shown in a New Zealand courtroom in 2006, McGrath tells how he was bullied by his authoritarian father who pressured him into joining a religious order at age 18. (McGrath’s father had trained for the Catholic priesthood but ended up as a manual worker.)
A Catholic Brother in court on Christmas eve on
child-sex charges
AUSTRALIABroken Rites
By a Broken Rites researcher (article updated 24 December 2014).
A former Catholic Brother charged with 252 child sexual assaults appeared in court in Sydney on 24 December 2014 after finally being extradited to Australia from New Zealand. Bernard Kevin McGrath (formerly a member of the St John of God Brothers) faced an extensive list of charges at Sydney's Parramatta Local Court – including raping, molesting and abusing 35 children – after being flown in from New Zealand in police custody.
He was refused bail.
The case will come up in court again on 29 November 2014 for a brief administrative procedure.
The Australian government has been seeking McGrath’s extradition for three years for crimes he allegedly committed during his time as a Catholic Brother in New South Wales in the 1970s and 1980s.
In August 2014, he was ordered to surrender to Australia by New Zealand's Justice Minister and then lost a New Zealand High Court appeal against the extradition.
Why Pope Francis rocked in 2014
AUSTRALIAnews.com.au
[with video]
FROM his comments about “spiritual Alzheimer’s” to his appearance on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, it’s been a big year for Pope Francis.
As the world prepares to celebrate Christmas, we look back on some of the most awesome things the ever-smiling Pope Francis did in 2014:
He blasted the Vatican bureaucracy
Proving he’s not afraid to take on the big guns in the lead-up, Pope Francis issued a blistering critique of the Vatican bureaucracy that serves him, denouncing how some people lust for power at all costs, live hypocritical double lives and suffer from “spiritual Alzheimer’s” that has made them forget they’re supposed to be joyful men of God.
Francis’s Christmas greeting to the cardinals, bishops and priests who run the Holy See was no joyful exchange of holiday good wishes. Rather, it was a sobering catalogue of 15 sins of the Curia that Francis said he hoped would be atoned for and cured in the new year.
He had some zingers: How the “terrorism of gossip” can “kill the reputation of our colleagues and brothers in cold blood.” How cliques can “enslave their members and become a cancer that threatens the harmony of the body” and eventually kill it by “friendly fire.” About how some suffer from a “pathology of power” that makes them seek power at all costs, even if it means defaming or discrediting others publicly. ...
He promised to take a strong stance against abuse scandals
In April, Pope Francis asked for forgiveness for the “evil” damage to children caused by sexual abusers in the clergy. In his strongest statement on the subject yet, he described the abuse as a “moral damage carried out by men of the Church”, and said “sanctions” would be imposed.
The statement, made in a meeting with a child rights group, didn’t hold back.
Pope Francis pleaded for forgiveness for the “evil” of priests who sexually abused children, and promised to take an even stronger stand than before against Catholic abuse scandals.
“I feel compelled to personally take on all the evil that some priests — quite a few in number, (although) obviously not compared to the number of all priests — to personally ask for forgiveness for the damage they have done for having sexually abused children,” he said.
Nine amazing things Pope Francis did
in 2014
IRELANDIrish Independent
Nishad Sanzagiri
In 2013 Pope Francis had a lot to celebrate. Not only was he named Time magazine person of the year, but was also awarded the title of Esquire’s best dressed man.
But far from resting on his laurels, the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics had a very eventful 2014 too. ...
Personally asked for forgiveness for the ‘evil’ of sexually abusive priests
Pope Francis pleaded for forgiveness for the “evil” of priests who sexually abused children, and promised to take an even stronger stand than before against Catholic abuse scandals.
Vatican Radio quoted him as saying: “I feel compelled to personally take on all the evil that some priests - quite a few in number, (although) obviously not compared to the number of all priests - to personally ask for forgiveness for the damage they have done for having sexually abused children.”
Author underplays reforming potential
at heart of parish life
UNITED STATESNational Catholic Reporter
Paul Lakeland | Dec. 24, 2014
THE CATHOLIC LABYRINTH: POWER, APATHY, AND A PASSION FOR REFORM IN THE AMERICAN CHURCH
By Peter McDonough
Published by Oxford University Press, $29.95
The Catholic Labyrinth: Power, Apathy, and a Passion for Reform in the American Church is a most unusual and remarkably provocative book, both in its thesis and in the way it is constructed. There are surely very few texts on "the state of the American Catholic church" in which bishops figure very little, the pope even less. There cannot be many written by someone quietly signaling liberal sympathies while being less than enthusiastic about the chance of real change. And this has to be the only one in which Jesus Christ, the Gospel and the Eucharist are remarkable by their almost total absence from the weighty 300 pages of closely argued but elegant and attractive prose.
Author Peter McDonough argues that since the Catholic community as a whole is mildly conservative and fairly complacent, the chances of an end to a moderately authoritarian and insistently hierarchical church are slim. Moreover, the fact that most contemporary Catholics vote with their feet on most if not all of the ethical teaching of the church, both sexual and political, reduces still further any righteous indignation for change. ...
One of the more original aspects of the author's argument is that he marginalized the effectiveness of both conservative and reformist pressure groups in today's church. While many think of the church as an intensely polarized community, McDonough's message is that these strong feelings only influence a minority, while the majority of Catholics just go to church and then get on with their lives without paying much attention to either left or right or, for that matter, the voice of ecclesial authority itself.
Conservative Catholic groups, of course, are very well-funded (the Knights of Columbus, Opus Dei, First Things magazine) and have figured out that their struggle is a cultural one in which old-time religion and "family values" blend into a coherent if not particularly influential ideological position. Influential, of course, with a minority of Catholics and, perhaps, a majority of Catholic bishops, but not especially with the mainstream, and destined, thinks McDonough, to fail ultimately to convince a body of believers suspicious of culture warriors and an ethic of sexual repression.
Reform groups, on the other hand, are passionate about internal ecclesial issues but far less well-funded (FutureChurch, Voice of the Faithful, SNAP) and quite disinclined to connect their various platforms to a wider national political agenda. Their cherished causes may find some support among the rank and file of the church, but not enough to inspire real reform.
Pope Francis says Vatican
administration is sick with power and greed
VATICAN CITYSydney Morning Herald
December 23, 2014
Philip Pullella
Vatican City: The Vatican's top administrators would have been expecting an exchange of pleasantries at their annual Christmas meeting with Pope Francis on Monday.
Instead, Francis chose the occasion to issue a stinging critique, telling the priests, bishops and cardinals who run the Curia, the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, that careerism, scheming and greed had infected them with "spiritual Alzheimer's".
Francis, the first non-European pope in 1300 years, has refused many of the trappings of office and made plain his determination to bring the Church's hierarchy closer to its 1.2 billion members. To that end, he has set out to reform the Italian-dominated Curia, whose power struggles and leaks were widely held responsible for Benedict XVI's decision last year to become the first pope in six centuries to resign. ...
"This is the ideological and religious manifesto of a radical reform of the Curia," Carlo Marroni, a Vatican expert with the Italian daily Il Sole 24 Ore, said. "He doesn't describe the details of the reform that we will most likely see next year, but he indicated the principles according to which the Church has to change, at least in the pope's intentions."
In his Christmas speeches, Benedict XVI, now pope emeritus, had often issued programmatic statements for the year to come, and talked about controversial issues like same-sex marriage. However, he had not used such a stern tone.
Last year, in his first Christmas speech to the Curia as pope, Francis warned his prelates against drifting "downwards towards mediocrity," and urged them to be "conscientious objectors" to gossip.
In a meeting with the Vatican's employees soon after his speech to the Curia, Francis repeated his plea for forgiveness, asking the laypeople who work for the Vatican to pardon his shortcomings and those of his collaborators, as well as some scandals that have hurt the church.
Papal tirade
UNITED STATESToledo Blade
Editorial
Pope Francis is popular with millions of Catholics around the world who appreciate his humility, folksy style, and rejection of official splendor. He has fewer fans in the Vatican bureaucracy.
This week, he gathered the Curia — the cardinals, bishops, and priests who run the Vatican’s daily operations — and scolded the surprised and mortified throng.
Outlining 15 problems with the church’s top bureaucracy, Pope Francis accused the princes of the church of being more concerned with accumulating wealth and power than serving God and the ordinary people in the pews. Along with reform of the bureaucracy, he demanded spiritual reform. The stinging rebuke to the men who work directly under him was without historical precedent, some Vatican observers said.
Others speculated that Pope Francis’ fury was informed by the results of a secret investigation ordered by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, of backstabbing and infighting in the Vatican bureaucracy. After Pope Benedict’s butler leaked stolen documents that described the discord in 2012, the pope, now retired, wanted to understand the depths of the tension and corruption that surrounded him.
Year of Pope Francis: no wonder
Iveagh House wanted to get back in on the action
ROMEirish Times
Paddy Agnew
When Ireland’s new Ambassador to the Holy See, Emma Madigan, was chatting to Pope Francis in the pontifical library the day she presented her diplomatic credentials last month, the pope at one point told her: “You know, before the conclave last year the bookmakers were quoting me at 25/1, and then look what happened.”
If Francis’s election in 2013 saw the triumph of a 25/1 shot, what price do we put on the rapid turnaround – even U-turnaround – in Irish-Vatican relations now as compared with three years ago? Those were the days when Taoiseach Enda Kenny, rightly in the opinion of many, accused the Holy See of being dominated by a culture of “dysfunction, disconnection, elitism and narcissism”.
Rather than listen to evidence of clerical sex abuse with “St Benedict’s ear of the heart”, the Holy See had preferred to “parse and analyse it with the gimlet eye of a canon lawyer”, he said in a celebrated speech to the Dáil in July 2011.
When Madigan met Pope Francis last month there was no mention of those strained relations. A veil has been drawn over that awkward moment. But that is not to say that, from 2015, Irish relations with the Vatican will return to their genuflecting past.
Rock star Pope's year of general
awesomeness
VATICAN CITYNew Zealand Herald
In 2013 Pope Francis had a lot to celebrate. Not only was he named Time magazine person of the year, but was also awarded the title of Esquire's best-dressed man.
But the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics had a very eventful 2014 too. Here are nine of the most awesome things the first non-European pope in 1200 years did: ...
7) Personally asked for forgiveness for the 'evil' of sexually abusive priests
Pope Francis pleaded for forgiveness for the "evil" of priests who sexually abused children, and promised to take an even stronger stand than before against Catholic abuse scandals. Vatican Radio quoted him as saying: "I feel compelled to personally take on all the evil that some priests -- quite a few in number, [although] obviously not compared to the number of all priests -- to personally ask for forgiveness for the damage they have done for having sexually abused children."
Dnevnik Says Pope Shows
Determination in Pre-Christmas Speech
SLOVENIASTA
Ljubljana, 27 December (STA) - The pre-Christmas address by Pope Francis to cardinals and bishops in the Apostolic Palace shocked even the veterans, as instead of wishing them all the best for Christmas and saying a nice word or two, the Pope uttered one of the most critical speeches of his pontificate, the daily Dnevnik says in a commentary on Saturday.
Pope Francis takes on the Catholic
bureaucracy
VATICAN CITYFinancial Times
When Pope Francis moved out of the papal apartments into a priestly commune upon ascending to the throne of St Peter last year, he Fsaid it was not so much because they were a luxurious affront to his determination to make the Catholic Church once again an advocate for the poor. The papal suite was, he said, like an “inverted funnel”, keeping people whom he regards as the real church out of its aloof institutions.
That comment from the 78-year-old pontiff was an early sign of his determination to make the Church more open, inclusive and accountable. And that ambition was on full display again this week when he scolded members of the Vatican bureaucracy in a harshly worded Christmas greeting that listed “15 ills” weakening their mission — from narcissism to hypocrisy and even “spiritual Alzheimer’s”.
Pope Francis is giving his two-millennia-old institution the biggest shake-up since the Second Vatican Council convened by John XXIII in 1962-65. Vatican II tried to bring the Church into easier alignment with its modern flock, but its flames of reform flickered and died. Decades of papal intolerance ensued, with John Paul II and Benedict XVI enforcing narrow and defensive dogma. But Francis says the Church must now find a “new balance” or collapse “like a house of cards”. In particular, it cannot “insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive measures”.
His attempt to shift debate away from sexual morality might be seen as tactically astute after the avalanche of evidence of priests sexually abusing children in their care — a scandal the Vatican was criminally slow to address. Yet untold millions of Catholics have drifted away from the Church not just because of that but because its obsession with personal morality is so at variance with the lives they live. One of Pope Francis’s first actions was to replace Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the secretary of state of the Holy See, who said the media was responsible for the impression that the Church was obsessed with sex. Pietro Parolin, his replacement, promptly observed that celibate priests are a clerical tradition, not a doctrine.
Jesus Revolution – set Christ free from
Eucharist Satanic Mass. Set all nations free from Vatican
Concordats. End Vatican as “country”. End VA Swiss Banks secrecy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/09/jesus-revolution-set-christ-free-from.html
Pope Francis & Vatican Swiss Banks control Wall Street
and Wars
and Wars
Two-faced Pope Francis: Laughing THIEF & Grim LIAR. Two completely different faces that reveal his inner soul. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at the Vatican? http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/08/two-faced-pope-francis-laughing-and.html
Human Rights Day: “No land, No life”,
Land grabbing is a human rights violation
Statement
10 December 2014
10 December 2014
Statement to mark the International Human Rights Day collectively issued by the PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP); Aliansi Gerakan Reforma Agraria (AGRA) of Indonesia, National Fisheries Solidarity Movement (NAFSO) of Sri Lanka; Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (KMP) of the Philippines; Human Development Organization (HDO) of Sri Lanka; Unyon ng mga Manggagawa sa Agrikultura (UMA) of the Philippines; Society for Rural Education and Development (SRED) of India; General Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) of Ghana; Farm Worker Association of Florida (FWAF) of the US; Coalition of Agricultural Workers International (CAWI)
As the world marks the International Human Rights Day today, 10 December, we wish to highlight a form of human rights violation that does not get as much attention but nonetheless deeply impacts millions of people around the world, especially in the poor countries. Land grabbing, often accompanied by the grabbing away of resources such as water, represents a worsening threat to the economic, social and cultural rights of countless local communities, including the indigenous peoples. This systemic violation of human rights, including the right to food, right to self-determination of peoples and right to development, must be stopped.
Data from the Land Portal’s Land Matrix show that worldwide land grabbing involves around 36 million hectares, as of March 2014. Most land grabbing deals are concentrated in Africa and the Asia Pacific region, accounting for about 41% and 38%, respectively of about 942 land deals monitored by the Land Matrix. Within Asia Pacific, land deals are heavily concentrated in Southeast Asia, comprising 83% of the regional total and 32% of the global total. Estimates on the extent of land grabbing vary widely but it could not be denied that it is a daily reality confronting rural and indigenous communities.
In many cases, large-scale land investments for export-oriented plantations, logging, mining, biofuel production and power production among others result to the eviction of small food producers and indigenous peoples, many of whom are without formal security of tenure despite tilling, enriching and occupying the land for decades. National and local governments often negotiate with foreign and domestic investors behind closed doors and in patent disregard for the participation of local communities that will be impacted by such investments, including their access to land and productive resources. These investments are also made and promoted without due consideration to the actual development needs of affected local communities that lead to their further marginalization and oppression.
Worse, the human rights violations against the people even go beyond the actual land grabbing and also involve atrocities that blatantly attack the political and civil rights of those who challenge these land-grabbing deals and investments. There are numerous cases and many of them remain undocumented and unreported, and most are unresolved due to the involvement of state security forces themselves as well as private armed groups hired by the companies. This has been the case in the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and many others where anti-land grabbing activists, local community leaders, and their supporters face human rights atrocities ranging from extrajudicial killings, abduction, legal persecution and harassment, among others. Impunity reigns in many rural communities that have been heavily militarized to protect corporate investments.
We call on governments and private corporations to respect and implement existing human rights principles enshrined in national laws and international instruments, including the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. We demand that the right to free, prior and informed consent of communities be upheld before any land investments are made.
We demand to respect the customary rights of the people who do not have legal ownership of the land and water bodies. We demand the demilitarization of rural communities and the prosecution of all those who have committed human rights atrocities against people who are justly defending their legitimate right to land and resources. We demand the implementation of genuine agrarian reform to promote the rights and welfare of small food producers and to promote long-term rural and economic development that serves the interests of the people and not the just the elite few.
We welcome recent developments that aim to provide people an opportunity to make corporations that violate their human rights accountable. In particular, we take note of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s (UNHRC) resolution this year calling for the establishment of “an open-ended intergovernmental working group on a legally binding instrument on transnational corporations and other business enterprises with respect to human rights”. Amid continuing trends of free trade and investment agreements that allow TNCs to sue governments, the UNHRC resolution is positive move towards regulating TNCs and their activities in the context of human rights.
We emphasize, however, that the best prospects for the promotion of human rights, including the right to land and resources, lie not in any legal instrument but in the relentless struggle of the affected communities to defend their human rights. Thus, working with those directly affected and violated, we vow to continue the fight to oppose land grabbing and defend the human rights of rural and indigenous communities.
Ultimately, we are fighting for the dignity and respect for all life and the genuine liberation and freedom of all oppressed people.
End Police Brutality! Black Lives Matter!
End Violence Against Women! End Transmisogyny Now! Justice for Jennifer Laude!
U.S. Out of the Philippines!
Junk the Visiting Forces Agreement!
Junk the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement!
Justice for Victims of Typhoons! End Large-Scale Mining and Logging Now!
Justice for Trafficked Teachers and All Victims of Human Trafficking!
Oust Aquino Now!
The American forces’ murderous reputation and culture of impunity extends internationally. In the Philippines, U.S. Marine PFC Joseph Scott Pemberton violently killed Jennifer Laude, a 26-year-old transgender Filipina. Instead of facing criminal charges under Philippine law, Pemberton is still in U.S. custody and benefits from its protection. Laude’s murder follows the tired pattern of Filipina victims of violence at the hands of U.S. troops illegally stationed in the Philippines. Under the Philippines-U.S. Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) and the 2014 Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA), the Philippines has ultimately given up its rights to its colonial American master and relegated Filipinos, and especially Filipina women, to second-class citizens. The inaction and failure of the Philippine government to protect its own citizens exposes its true agenda: to serve the economic and military interests of the U.S.
A case in point of this is the frequent and extreme typhoons that have erased whole communities. Due to Philippine government corruption and pandering to multinational corporations, the country suffers from weak infrastructure, landslides due to large-scale mining and logging, poor warning systems, and hoarding of relief funds and goods by the Philippine government. U.S. military "relief" is in fact a ploy to justify sending in more troops, as to this day, many families have not received any relief and instead have relied on people’s volunteer organizations on the ground and foreign humanitarian groups, such as the National Alliance for Filipino Concerns. Aquino’s political impotence reveals the nature of his presidency as a puppet for U.S. interests.
The U.S.’ imperialist efforts toward political and economic domination is a key contributor to global human rights violations in all its forms. The global migration phenomenon is a result of unjust economic policies designed and implemented to benefit the U.S. and a handful of the most powerful governments and corporations at the expense of migrant workers. Filipinos, especially women, fall victim to labor and sex trafficking. GABRIELA USA is calling for justice for over 300 teachers who were recently trafficked by Isidro Rodriguez in Washington, D.C. Predatory agents like Rodriguez take advantage of the vulnerability of migrant workers due to weak legal protections in both their home and host countries.
The People’s Demands
The Philippine government, under President Benigno Aquino, is complicit in serving the agenda of the U.S. imperialists to break into the markets of the Asia Pacific at the costs of the basic rights and welfare of its own people. GABRIELA USA exposes the U.S. imperialist agenda motivated by profit and power. We oppose state violence against all people in the U.S. and internationally including cis-women, trans-women, immigrants and migrants, and we recognize the common threads in these narratives.
GABRIELA USA joins the voices of our kababayans in calling for President Aquino to step down or be removed by the people’s will. Aquino must answer for countless criminal acts during his regime, including but not limited to facilitation of human trafficking, negligence in response to natural disasters, and abetting the U.S. in its “War on Terror.” Aquino is murdering and terrorizing Filipinos using military funding from the same government that murders and terrorizes its own black and brown communities with highly militarized police forces. It’s all part of a bigger picture and it needs to stop now.
Hidden Heist in the Holy See. The SECRET biggest heist in the history of mankind! Pope Francis is the Greatest THIEF on earth. http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/hidden-heist-in-holy-see-biggest-heist.html
Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html
Paris Arrow’s vision of St. Michael tying the giant millstone around John Paul II’S neck then dragging him and throwing him into a raging sea of fire http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html.
Occupy The Vatican... like Occupy Wall Street http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/10/ows-otv-occupy-wall-street-occupy.html
At European Union Parliament, misogynist Pope Francis described Europe as a “grandmother ...
UNITED STATESPOPE FRANCIS the CON-Christ.
Paris Arrow
December 8, 2014 feast of the Immaculate Conception
In his first interview with a woman – about women – Pope Francis revealed his narrow-minded outdated medieval view on women by citing the oldest ancient book of Catholicism, the Bible, that woman was formed from the rib of Adam, read our related article Pope Francis treats Catholic women as a joke, says “woman was from a rib” and "priests often end up under the sway of their housekeepers" http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/07/pope-francis-treats-catholic-women-as.html This week, at his (first and probably last) European Union Parliament speech, Pope Francis again demonstrated where his VA heart is about women -- which proves what we have been saying that the Vatican aka Holy See is made of a few all-male oligarchy who are gays and misogynists. The Vatican’s website is Vatican.va. VA really means Vatican Autocracy because it is one of the last “divine right” autocratic governments left on earth. Jesus said, “The good person produces good things from the store of good in his heart, while the evil person produces evil things from the store of evil in his heart. For his mouth speaks what overflows from his heart” (Luke 6:47).
SPANISH COLONIZATION SUMMARY & ANALYSIS
1492
The arrival of Europeans in the New World in 1492 changed the Americas forever. Over the course of the next 350 years, Spain ruled a vast empire based on the labor and exploitation of the Indian population. Conquistadors descended on America with hopes of bringing Catholicism to new lands while extracting great riches.Religion and self-interest combined to create a potent mixture that drew hundreds of thousands of Spaniards across the ocean with hopes of finding riches and winning souls for God. Along with the Spaniards came diseases to which the New World natives had no immunities.
What followed was one of the greatest tragedies in human history as smallpox, influenza, and other communicable diseases ravaged the native populations, killing millions. The Spanish never set out to destroy the people of the New World—after all, their goal was to use Indian labor for their own ends—and almost immediately a debate arose in Spain concerning the rights of Indians. This was the first time any European nation had consciously debated the rights and status of non-Christians. The traffic of Europeans to the Americas was not a one-way street. The so-called Columbian Exchange brought European goods and ideas to the New World—including the horse, which was not native to the Western Hemisphere—and returned new plants and animals to the Old World, including potatoes, corn, tomatoes and other crops. The world was forever changed by the new horizons opened by Spain's intrepid explorers, despite the misdeeds of Spanish rule in America.
Spanish conquistadors, who were primarily poor nobles from the impoverished west and south of Spain, were able to conquer the huge empires of the New World with the help of superior military technology, disease (which weakened Indian resistance), and military tactics including surprise attacks and powerful alliances with local tribes. Once an area had been conquered, it was partitioned intoencomiendas, or grants of land. More importantly, the Indian people themselves were parceled out to the conquistadors, who were given title to the land and its people in return for a promise to teach the natives Christianity. This system was heavily abused, and Indians throughout the Americas were reduced to a condition of virtual slavery.
However, due to natural attrition and harsh misrule, the population of native laborers soon became too small for the voracious Spanish, so they began to import African slaves to work in sugar plantations and silver mines. The introduction of African traditions to the Native American and mestizo cultures already in existence made for a social mixture richer than in almost any other part of the world, although racism continued to play a dark role in the New World. Colonial society was hierarchical, based upon on the amount of non-Spanish blood a person possessed. A complicated system, called the casta, delineated over 100 separate names for groups containing certain levels of Indian and African blood. Jobs, government positions, titles to land, and almost everything else in the Americas functioned according to this system with those at the top getting preference over those lower on the list. Discrimination and repression were features of Spanish colonial rule throughout its history.
Spain's government in Madrid tried hard to govern the New World, despite its distance from Europe. Using a system of viceroyalties and audencias, royal courts of appeals, the Spanish Monarchy was able to exercise control over Spanish settlers, even when they didn't want any sort of interference from the central government. The Crown was entitled to one-fifth of all mining profits, and this huge income helped Spain to become the largest and most powerful empire in Europe by 1600. Religion was mixed with politics to create a hybrid system in what would become the American Southwest: Dominican, Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries were often left in charge of large areas in what is now Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and, later, California. With its goal of bringing the Catholic religion to the New World, Spain was also able to use the existing church governments for its own political uses. Today, religion and politics continue to mix in Latin America.
The often-heavy handed rule from Madrid and the new ideas of liberty and freedom coming out of the American and French Revolutions brought about the wars of Independence in the early nineteenth century. Simón Bolívar—the Great Liberator—and José de San Martin led the fight for independence, although this was not a fight for Indian rights, or on behalf of the poor. Those who fought for South American independence were called criollos, American-born descendants of Spaniards, and they continued to rule the many new nations of Spanish America for generations. The Spanish left a legacy of cruelty and exploitation in their wake, but they also managed to open the world and increase cultural exchanges to a level never before seen in human history.
What followed was one of the greatest tragedies in human history as smallpox, influenza, and other communicable diseases ravaged the native populations, killing millions. The Spanish never set out to destroy the people of the New World—after all, their goal was to use Indian labor for their own ends—and almost immediately a debate arose in Spain concerning the rights of Indians. This was the first time any European nation had consciously debated the rights and status of non-Christians. The traffic of Europeans to the Americas was not a one-way street. The so-called Columbian Exchange brought European goods and ideas to the New World—including the horse, which was not native to the Western Hemisphere—and returned new plants and animals to the Old World, including potatoes, corn, tomatoes and other crops. The world was forever changed by the new horizons opened by Spain's intrepid explorers, despite the misdeeds of Spanish rule in America.
Spanish conquistadors, who were primarily poor nobles from the impoverished west and south of Spain, were able to conquer the huge empires of the New World with the help of superior military technology, disease (which weakened Indian resistance), and military tactics including surprise attacks and powerful alliances with local tribes. Once an area had been conquered, it was partitioned intoencomiendas, or grants of land. More importantly, the Indian people themselves were parceled out to the conquistadors, who were given title to the land and its people in return for a promise to teach the natives Christianity. This system was heavily abused, and Indians throughout the Americas were reduced to a condition of virtual slavery.
However, due to natural attrition and harsh misrule, the population of native laborers soon became too small for the voracious Spanish, so they began to import African slaves to work in sugar plantations and silver mines. The introduction of African traditions to the Native American and mestizo cultures already in existence made for a social mixture richer than in almost any other part of the world, although racism continued to play a dark role in the New World. Colonial society was hierarchical, based upon on the amount of non-Spanish blood a person possessed. A complicated system, called the casta, delineated over 100 separate names for groups containing certain levels of Indian and African blood. Jobs, government positions, titles to land, and almost everything else in the Americas functioned according to this system with those at the top getting preference over those lower on the list. Discrimination and repression were features of Spanish colonial rule throughout its history.
Spain's government in Madrid tried hard to govern the New World, despite its distance from Europe. Using a system of viceroyalties and audencias, royal courts of appeals, the Spanish Monarchy was able to exercise control over Spanish settlers, even when they didn't want any sort of interference from the central government. The Crown was entitled to one-fifth of all mining profits, and this huge income helped Spain to become the largest and most powerful empire in Europe by 1600. Religion was mixed with politics to create a hybrid system in what would become the American Southwest: Dominican, Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries were often left in charge of large areas in what is now Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and, later, California. With its goal of bringing the Catholic religion to the New World, Spain was also able to use the existing church governments for its own political uses. Today, religion and politics continue to mix in Latin America.
The often-heavy handed rule from Madrid and the new ideas of liberty and freedom coming out of the American and French Revolutions brought about the wars of Independence in the early nineteenth century. Simón Bolívar—the Great Liberator—and José de San Martin led the fight for independence, although this was not a fight for Indian rights, or on behalf of the poor. Those who fought for South American independence were called criollos, American-born descendants of Spaniards, and they continued to rule the many new nations of Spanish America for generations. The Spanish left a legacy of cruelty and exploitation in their wake, but they also managed to open the world and increase cultural exchanges to a level never before seen in human history.
http://www.shmoop.com/spanish-colonization/summary.html
The SPANISH EMPIRE
The Spanish Empire (Spanish: Imperio español) was one of the first empires of global extent, having its peak of political and economic power under the Spanish Habsburgs[1] through the 16th and 17th centuries, becoming the foremost global power of its time, and was the first to be called the empire on which the sun never sets. Its land was eventually administered from Madrid by the Spanish Crown and comprised territories and colonies in Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Oceania. It originated during the Age of Exploration after the voyages of Christopher Columbus. Spain's territorial reach beyond Europe included the Greater Antilles, half of South America, most of Central America and much of North America(including present day Mexico, Florida and the Southwestern and Pacific Coastal regions of the United States), as well as a number of Pacific Ocean archipelagos including the Philippines.
The bulk of Spain's Empire was held for over three centuries, starting in 1492 with the Spanish colonization of the Americas and lasting until the early 19th centurySpanish American wars of independence that left only Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines as Spanish. Following the Spanish–American War of 1898, Spain ceded its last colonies in the Caribbean and the Pacific to the United States. Its last African colonies were granted independence in 1975. In conjunction with the territories of the Portuguese Empire, which Spain controlled from 1580 to 1640, the Spanish Empire started the European dominance in global affairs.
The Spanish Empire left a cultural and linguistic legacy, particularly in the Western Hemisphere. With over 470 million native speakers today, Spanish is the second most spoken native language in the world, as result of the transfer the language of Castile (Castellano) to Spanish America in the colonial era. The other major cultural legacy of the Spanish empire overseas was Roman Catholicism, converting the indigenous peoples to the new religion in what was known as the "spiritual conquest." Catholicism remains the dominant religious faith in Spanish America.
"There are thousands of gold and silver pieces of Inca and pre-Inca handicraft, the most beautiful goldsmith works. . .I could not remove it alone, nor could thousands of men."
- Capt. Barth Blake RN (1886)
Vatican assets in the United States of America
The Catholic Church in the United States, with “assets of more than $100 billion, today possesses more than ten times the combined wealth of IBM, Exxon, General Motors, and U.S. Steel.”
- stock it controls on the New York and American stock exchanges, and property, gold reserves, and paintings—are probably $50 billion to $60 billion
- There is no accountability for these funds to anyone except the Vatican. Everything is done in complete secrecy
- The hierarchy has learned to act indirectly through Catholic laypersons
- The hierarchy acts through Catholic politicians – see list below
Note that this Vatican fortune in the USA has only multiplied – exponentially –through the decades since that book was written.
Read the VATICAN
BILLIONS- http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
BILLIONS- http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
Read Vatican Circus in South Korea: Pope Francis tells idiot Catholics to ‘combat allure of materialism’ but Vatican owns expensive shops only for 1% wealthiest on earth http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/08/vatican-circus-in-skorea-pope-francis.html
The Dark Side of the Papacy: Pope Crimes Revealed
The world is discovering the truth about the global organization known as the "Catholic Church": it is the mother of all abominations on Earth, the root cause of all world suffering, poverty, crimes. With their false appearance of 'mercy' and 'holiness' they have managed to fool the masses into believing they are representatives of Christ, presenting the world with an expired doctrine that brings death. A statistical report shows proof of over 10 million crimes committed by priests and nuns in the nations, since these evil and perverse men (and women) proclaim "celibacy" which is a doctrine of demons that has led to sexual abuse of thousands of innocent children and women around the world. Pope Francis and the previous Pope "Benedict XVI" aren't the only corrupt and evil "popes"...the Vatican has a long track record of criminal popes, starting with the first one - Peter. For this purpose, we highlight a book that sheds light into the dark side of the Papacy, so that you can learn the facts:
This post and blogs are inspired by St. Michael the Archangel whose flaming sword defends us from Goliath bullies of Opus Dei Beast Mafia. St. Michael shows us - through the much canonization news coming out this week – (see compilation below) – that there are more journalists speaking out against John Paul II’s sainthood, therefore our blogs all these years have not been in vain. Read Paris Arrow’s vision of St. Michael tying the giant millstone around John Paul II’s papal neck during his last World Youth Day in Toronto in 2002, as JP2 vehemently refuse to apologize and stop his bestial JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, St. Michael dragged him and threw him into a raging sea of fire as stupid Catholic robots chanted “JP2, we love you”. http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/09/911-decade-and-jp2-millstones-9th.html Beware, Francis-Maniacs for the demise of the Vatican Temple akin to the Temple of Solomon is at hand!
and Opus Dei Beast and
Jesuits Mercenaries are Demons' Angels
St. Michael the Archangel stands over the Vatican Mammon
Beast now ruled by Pope Francis and the heads of the Beast =
John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Opus Dei & Jesuits
Two-faced Pope Francis
: Laughing THIEF & Grim LIAR. Two completely different faces that reveal his inner soul. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at the Vatican?
There are two opposite faces of Pope Francis, has anyone notice? When he laughs in front of crowds and when he says the Eucharist Satanic Mass.
Look at these photos he had in South Korea as he showed all his teeth laughing - versus - when he holds a crucifix in the procession and at the Eucharist Satanic Mass, he looks very grim.
THE WORST PATHOLOGICAL LIAR ON THE
PLANET IS POPE FRANCIS HE SURPASSES
SATAN
Grim LIAR
Hidden Heist in the Holy See. The SECRET biggest heist in the history of mankind! Pope Francis is the Greatest THIEF on earth. http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/hidden-heist-in-holy-see-biggest-heist.html
Cardinal Bergoglio of Argentina as the Godfather in the Dirty Wars - Silence of Pope Francis-Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio on Argentina 42 pedophile priests.
WHAT THE JESUITS CONTROL. Chilling Facts You Need To Know About the Jesuits. Francis: First Jesuit Pope
Pope Francis pointing at his loco crazy head
ruled by Opus Dei Beat PR Deceits Team
GRIM LIAR Pope Francis - Popes and priests have no powers to re-produce or manufacture ants and dogs - and therefore they cannot reproduce or clone Christ's flesh-and-blood either in the mass - hence it is Eucharis Satanic Mass because popes and priests claim to be greater than God that they can "re-create" God Himself!. Satan's pride is smaller than Pope Francis's pride.
In Israel, Pope Francis clones Christ’s flesh & pleas for children’s protection after canonizing 2 popes who protected JP2 Army pedophile priests in 20th century
http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/in-israel-pope-francis-clones-christs.html
Laughing THIEF
When Pope Francis laughs, he is in his role as a thief – because he is laughing all the way to the bank - secret Vatican Swiss Banks with his biggest theft in mankind’s history – and as he enslaves nations and billions of poor people with the Vatican Concordats, read more in our related article, Hidden Heist in the Holy See. The SECRET biggest heist in the history of mankind! Pope Francis is the Greatest THIEF on earth. http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/hidden-heist-in-holy-see-biggest-heist.html
When he is grim, he is in his role as the Opus Dei Beast’s pathological liar, the pretender and impostor of Jesus, because he cannot re-produce ants and dogs and therefore he cannot clone Christ’s flesh-and-blood in the Eucharist either.
Abolition of Vatican Concordat in Dominican Republic and bring pedophile Papal Nuncio and other pedophile Polish priests to justicehttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/abolish-vatican-concordat-in-dominican.html
LIAR Pope Francis, skip ‘forgive’ BS. Set poor nations free by returning your loot hidden in secret Vatican Swiss Banks. Set Jesus free from Vatican & Eucharist
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/07/liar-pope-francis-skip-forgive-bs-set.html
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Redemptorists pay $20 million to victims of JP2 Army for fear of evidence and ending of its $1B religious tourism with Oratory of St. Joseph http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/08/sainte-anne-de-beaupre-redemptorists.html
Francis in-name-only
Pope Francis, YOU took Francis of Assisi’s name – but that’s all there is, isn’t it? You are “in name only” – nothing else. There’s nothing similar in essence or substance or in person between you and St. Francis - and if the Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team are already preparing for your sainthood like they did with documents for John Paul II’s 27 years papacy, you’re being duped big time. You should have retired into a simple cave like poverello St. Francis of Assisi – who even refused to be a priest to clone the flesh of Christ because he knew as he wrote his canticle to the moon and stars - that no one can clone the Creator of those millions of stars in the firmament. Ever saw these images of NASA “Hand of God and Pillars of Creation”? Can you clone one of these with your papal infallible words? You cannot clone an ant or a dog or a star and therefore you cannot clone Christ either.
Images of NASA “Hand of God and Pillars of Creation”
http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/nustar/B1509-pia17566/#.U-aSXfl5MuM
The "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle nebula, as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/Arizona State University
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http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/nustar/B1509-pia17566/#.U-aSXfl5MuM
The "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle nebula, as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/Arizona State University
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You cannot clone an ant or a dog or one of the stars
therefore you cannot clone Jeus the Son of God
either in the sorcery of the Eucharist.
therefore you cannot clone Jeus the Son of God
either in the sorcery of the Eucharist.
St. Francis denounced the wealth of his merchant father while you embraced and vowed to the Vatican Mammon Beast worse than a Satanic Mass. St. Francis embraced a leper but you exploit the sick for your political photo-ops (and at your age caught their virus). You hypocritically preach about the poor but you actually mock them because at the same time, behind closed doors in the Vatican art chambers, you have private audiences and photo-ops with royalties of Europe who are the 1% wealthiest of the globe, photos with despots and imperialists like President Obama who steal the wealth of Third World countries, read here how the Philippines protested Obama’s visit as he plants more bases only to serve American hegemony, read here - http://filipina-nannies-caregivers.blogspot.ca/2013/05/anti-imperialist-groups-cordillera.html .
Why do you think your founder St. Ignatius Loyola specifically wrote in the constitution of the Jesuits that no Jesuits must accept to be a high ranking bishop or cardinal? Jesuits were meant to be companions of Jesus, not companions of the Devil, the father of lies who came to steal, kill and destroy. Ignatius had no choice 500 years ago to go to the world to proclaim the Good News that he needed the ships of the Vatican and the European monarchy. But today, the Jesuits have amassed more wealth than any religious congregation, you have all the universities and schools you want or need. There is no need to continue serving the Pope, the Father of Lies the reincarnation of the Devil! But you set your sight on the highest throne in the Catholic Church and now the favorite words of St. Ignatius haunts you: What does it profit a man to gain the entire world, if he suffers the loss of his soul? …and you have committed the worst Pope Crimes more than all popes combined – you canonized John Paul II despite his JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, read here Cold-blood-ed John Paul is no saint for children because he said nothing and did nothing to save and protect them for 27 years
Jesus the Jew vs. Roman Pope Francis
Amazing how Jesus has lose his Middle East roots and Jewish identity (albeit born in Bethlehem, Palestine, a Muslim country) and lose His Biblical mission as a poor itinerant preacher for He has become Roman Catholic and hostage of the most tiny country - the Vatican City where He is also the most caged captive in gold tabernacles by tyrant evil popes – those 2,000 year old chameleons Pretenders and Impostors of Jesus and con-artists CON-Christ popes.
From mass murderers, thieves, pedophiles, gays, adulterers like the Borgias, to John Paul II the Great Saint of Pedophiles, to Pope Francis the Worst Thief of Mankind – all popes use Christ as their mask, disguise and bait to serve one master alone –the Vatican Mammon Beast a.k.a. Opus Dei Beast ruling in the Vatican Palace - with only one goal - to preserve the Vatican Billions in secret Vatican Swiss Banks because the Vatican owns Switzerland. Hence there’s the unique Swiss Guard Army wherein all Swiss young men are required to go and serve at the Vatican before they can become bankers, investment managers and civil officers in Switzerland because the Vatican pope is its sole monarch. Believe it or not!
Pope Francis, the two new pope saints John XXIII and John Paul II, Benedict XVI, and all popes definitely do not resemble one iota Jesus the Poor Carpenter of Nazareth and Poor Fisherman in the Sea of Galilee! All movies portray Jesus as tall, lean and handsome but all popes, his assumed ‘Vicar of Christ’, have been FAT like COWS podgy, white and really hideous and repugnant they need the long white papal robe to constantly segue attention from their ugliness. Just look at the porky ass of Pope Francis that control 1.2 billion Catholics and the media world with his duck dance of wibble wobble Opus Dei Beast PR stunts. Look at this gigantic poster in Rome of porky ass Pope Francis with the two fat popes new saints he canonized –John XXIII and John Paul II the 27 years globetrotting narcissistic pope – who said nothing and did nothing to protect children from his JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army aptly named after his 27 years globetrotting papacy - and 1.2 billion stupid Catholics now adore them as their new fat Catholic Golden Cows.
Jesus of Nazareth
TALL, LEAN, HANDSOME JESUS
the poor fisherman of the Sea of Galilee
3 FAT well-fed cows - ROMAN POPES
-- Popes do NOT resemble Jesus Christ one iota
-- Popes are CON-Christs and con-artists
-- Popes are Pretenders & Impostors of Jesus
-- Popes are LIARS & HYPOCRITES
- Popes cannot clone Christ, ants or dogs
- Popes are sorcerers in the Eucharist
- Popes are sorcerers in the Eucharist
- Popes are false magicians
-- Popes cannot clone or re-produce Jesus the Son of God
-- Popes are fat popes cannot reincarnate Jesus the Creator of the Universe
The Popes' Master is the Vatican Mammon Beast -
because he is the owner of Switzerland
and the secret Vatican Swiss Banks
- hence there's the Swiss Guard Army.
HOAX of Eucharist - instant reincarnation of Christ's flesh and blood
is the worst Satanic Mass & sorcery of mankind
Popes and priests cannot clone ants and dogs and therefore
they cannot clone Jesus the Son of God the Creator of the Universe!
It took 9-months for Jesus to be in Mary' womb before He was born-
Read Pope Francis in Israel clones Christ where he was born 2,000 years ago http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/in-israel-pope-francis-clones-christs.html
Read the VATICAN
BILLIONS- http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
BILLIONS- http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
Christ wants to be set free from Vatican and popes and priests
Christ inspires and tells us that he wishes to be freed from the slavery of the Eucharist and be freed from the golden tabernacles in all Vatican Catholic churches worldwide – because all these are tools of the Vatican Mammon Beast to subdue people with feel-good theology – which are only pathological lies – that perpetuate their poverty and injustice and violence - via the Vatican Concordats, read more here in our article, Abolition of Vatican Concordat in Dominican Republic and bring pedophile Papal Nuncio and other pedophile Polish priests to justice http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/abolish-vatican-concordat-in-dominican.html
This post and blogs are inspired by St. Michael the Archangel whose flaming sword defends us from Goliath bullies of Opus Dei Beast Mafia. St. Michael shows us - through the much canonization news coming out this week – (see compilation below) – that there are more journalists speaking out against John Paul II’s sainthood, therefore our blogs all these years have not been in vain. Read Paris Arrow’s vision of St. Michael tying the giant millstone around John Paul II’s papal neck during his last World Youth Day in Toronto in 2002, as JP2 vehemently refuse to apologize and stop his bestial JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, St. Michael dragged him and threw him into a raging sea of fire as stupid Catholic robots chanted “JP2, we love you”. http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/09/911-decade-and-jp2-millstones-9th.html Beware, Francis-Maniacs for the demise of the Vatican Temple akin to the Temple of Solomon is at hand!
and Opus Dei Beast and
Jesuits Mercenaries are Demons' Angels
St. Michael the Archangel stands over the Vatican Mammon
Beast now ruled by Pope Francis and the heads of the Beast =
John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Opus Dei & Jesuits
The REAL UGLY COLD-BLOOD-ed COLD-HEART-ed Holy Father
I am John Paul II the GREAT – I refuse to hear about my JP Army
– John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army
- I hide them in my Achilles Heels - no one can see them
Read Pope Francis the CON-Christ and biggest THIEF of mankind http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/
Read more here - John Paul II Millstone, read here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/
The JP2 Army prayer: Children’s most important prayer
-- more important than the Eucharist and the Rosary
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
See origin of JP2 Army Prayer -
The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable - read more here - http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html
Mary with John Paul II
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Many statues of John Paul II are being carved to equal those of Mary, Jesus and St. Joseph...the narcissim and grandiosity of John Paul II can only be equal to that of the Devil who refused to bow down to Jesus but wanted to be his equal on this earth.
John Paul II is LUCIFER reincarnated :" He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, and as a result he takes his seat in God's temple, displaying himself as God. (2 Thessalonians: 2-4)
See more images here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html
Our Lady wants to be set free from the
narcissim
of Satanas John Paul II who has usurp her
Baby
Jesus from her arms
TWO-FACES of Pope Francis
Cardinal Bergoglio of Argentina
TOP 10 PATHOLOGICAL LIES in POPE FRANCIS APOLOGY as HE CONTINUES TO SECRETE PAPAL PEDOPHILE NUNCIO WANTED BY POLICE in Dominican Republic http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/top-10-pathological-lies-in-pope.html
Grim LIAR
Two-faced Pope Francis: Laughing THIEF & Grim LIAR. Two completely different faces that reveal his inner soul. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at the Vatican?
Rear more - http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/08/two-faced-pope-francis-laughing-and.html
Francis in-name-only
Pope Francis, YOU took Francis of Assisi’s name – but that’s all there is, isn’t it? You are “in name only” – nothing else. There’s nothing similar in essence or substance or in person between you and St. Francis - and if the Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team are already preparing for your sainthood like they did with documents for John Paul II’s 27 years papacy, you’re being duped big time. You should have retired into a simple cave like poverello St. Francis of Assisi – who even refused to be a priest to clone the flesh of Christ because he knew as he wrote his canticle to the moon and stars - that no one can clone the Creator of those millions of stars in the firmament. Ever saw these images of NASA “Hand of God and Pillars of Creation”? Can you clone one of these with your papal infallible words? You cannot clone an ant or a dog or a star and therefore you cannot clone Christ either.
Images of NASA “Hand of God and Pillars of Creation”
http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/nustar/B1509-pia17566/#.U-aSXfl5MuM
The "Pillars of Creation" in the Eagle nebula, as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995. Image credit: NASA/ESA/STScI/Arizona State University
› Larger view
You cannot clone an ant or a dog or one of the stars therefore you cannot clone Jeus the Son of God either in the sorcery of the Eucharist.
St. Francis denounced the wealth of his merchant father while you embraced and vowed to the Vatican Mammon Beast worse than a Satanic Mass. St. Francis embraced a leper but you exploit the sick for your political photo-ops (and at your age caught their virus). You hypocritically preach about the poor but you actually mock them because at the same time, behind closed doors in the Vatican art chambers, you have private audiences and photo-ops with royalties of Europe who are the 1% wealthiest of the globe, photos with despots and imperialists like President Obama who steal the wealth of Third World countries, read here how the Philippines protested Obama’s visit as he plants more bases only to serve American hegemony, read here - http://filipina-nannies-caregivers.blogspot.ca/2013/05/anti-imperialist-groups-cordillera.html . Your photo-op with Obama actually perpetuates American Imperialism in the Philippines and in other Asian and European countries. http://ilps.info/index.php/en/office-of-the-chairperson/messages-and-speeches/710-us-imperialism-and-peoples-resistance-in-the-philippines
Why do you think your founder St. Ignatius Loyola specifically wrote in the constitution of the Jesuits that no Jesuits must accept to be a high ranking bishop or cardinal? Jesuits were meant to be companions of Jesus, not companions of the Devil, the father of lies who came to steal, kill and destroy. Ignatius had no choice 500 years ago to go to the world to proclaim the Good News that he needed the ships of the Vatican and the European monarchy. But today, the Jesuits have amassed more wealth than any religious congregation, you have all the universities and schools you want or need. There is no need to continue serving the Pope, the Father of Lies the reincarnation of the Devil! But you set your sight on the highest throne in the Catholic Church and now the favorite words of St. Ignatius haunts you: What does it profit a man to gain the entire world, if he suffers the loss of his soul? …and you have committed the worst Pope Crimes more than all popes combined – you canonized John Paul II despite his JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, read here Cold-blood-ed John Paul is no saint for children because he said nothing and did nothing to save and protect them for 27 years
Please take a look at the worse Roman Catholic Church pedophile priests attacks against more than 15,500 Americans … compared to the September 11, 2001 attacks against 3,000 Americans at theTwin Towers in New York
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
Priest pedophilia - 15,750+ victims - 6,100 pedophile priests covered-up by John Paul II, Benedict XVI Ratzinger, Opus Dei = the Vatican Trinity.
9/11 victims 3,000. JP2 Army 100,000s. May Day: both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1 on John Paul II Beatification Day B-Day http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html.
CRUX is a new attempt to make it like EWTN in the web
Read Mother Angelica Diamond Bride of Christ- http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/01/diamond-bride-mother-angelicas-ewtn.html
The RED DEVIL
the "slimy bastard" Cardinal Bernard Law, those thousands of little boys and little girls who had the grave misfortune of loving and revering this human piece of filth...I’m ashamed to be of the same faith as this evil, malicious creep." But to prove that he is "the Great" John Paul II PAPAL FARTed at us Bostonians and took Cardinal Law to Rome to be the High Priest of the Mother of all Basilicas, that is why Cardinal Law is the evil Achilles Heel of John Paul II
the "slimy bastard" Cardinal Bernard Law, those thousands of little boys and little girls who had the grave misfortune of loving and revering this human piece of filth...I’m ashamed to be of the same faith as this evil, malicious creep." But to prove that he is "the Great" John Paul II PAPAL FARTed at us Bostonians and took Cardinal Law to Rome to be the High Priest of the Mother of all Basilicas, that is why Cardinal Law is the evil Achilles Heel of John Paul II
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/04/two-evil-achilles-heels-of-saint-john.html
Satanas John Paul II and serial pedophile priest Marcial Maciel,
his evil Achilles Heel -- read more here http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/pope-francisfacts-john-paul-ii-knew.html
Satanas John Paul II and serial pedophile priest Marcial Maciel,
his evil Achilles Heel -- read more here http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/pope-francisfacts-john-paul-ii-knew.html
Christ wants to be set free from
the PRISONS of GOLD
Catholic Vatican tabernacles worldwide
-- because popes and priests have NO
powers to clone ants
and dogs and God!
HOAX of EUCHARIST
Wall Street Journal brainwash idiot Catholics for Pope Francis’s visit - to attend his Eucharist Satanic Mass & stupidly give millions of dollars to Vatican Mammon
UNITED STATES
PopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
Paris Arrow
Opus Dei Beast PR Stunt of the Day: Wall Street Journal “Speculation Grows Over Potential Visit by Pope Francis to U.S.” to goad big American business donors and American idiot Catholics to give millions to Vatican Mammon Beast.
It’s very easy to detect the American journalists who are part of the Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team at the Vatican – they all speak positively and fanatically about Pope Francis -- in order to brainwash and entice American idiot Catholics to give blindly and stupidly millions of dollars to the voracious evil Vatican Mammon Beast. Take the Wall Street Journal title Speculation Grows Over Potential Visit by Pope Francis to U.S. and its first paragraph to instantly programme American idiot Catholics that there is an “’intense’ speculation” of Pope Francis’s visit (see news articles below with our comments and emphases). Its purpose is to incite a pop star hype - to attend Pope Francis's Mass - like attending a concert of porno naked singer Miley Cyrus.
PopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
Paris Arrow
Opus Dei Beast PR Stunt of the Day: Wall Street Journal “Speculation Grows Over Potential Visit by Pope Francis to U.S.” to goad big American business donors and American idiot Catholics to give millions to Vatican Mammon Beast.
It’s very easy to detect the American journalists who are part of the Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team at the Vatican – they all speak positively and fanatically about Pope Francis -- in order to brainwash and entice American idiot Catholics to give blindly and stupidly millions of dollars to the voracious evil Vatican Mammon Beast. Take the Wall Street Journal title Speculation Grows Over Potential Visit by Pope Francis to U.S. and its first paragraph to instantly programme American idiot Catholics that there is an “’intense’ speculation” of Pope Francis’s visit (see news articles below with our comments and emphases). Its purpose is to incite a pop star hype - to attend Pope Francis's Mass - like attending a concert of porno naked singer Miley Cyrus.
Philippines idiot Catholics. Opus Dei Beast PR Stunt of the Day “Pope Francis: No to clergy sex abuse” is a pack of pathological lies
UNITED STATES
PopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
Paris Arrow
The Vatican circus for idiot Catholics stretches far and wide as if the Octopus Dei Beast Tentacles has engulfed the four corners of the globe. Across the Pacific Ocean, from New Zealand (to placate the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army earthquake being unraveled by the Royal Commission in Australia) to the Philippines, the Octopus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team is brainwashing millions of idiot Catholics keeping them ignorant about truth of Vatican Evils and making them feel-good Francis-Maniacs about their podgy ass fattest-clown-in-white Pope Francis. Last month, it was in New Zealand. Opus Dei Beast PR Stunt of the Day: “Vatican leads war against child abuse” sounds like “Nazis leads war against terrorism”.
PopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
Paris Arrow
The Vatican circus for idiot Catholics stretches far and wide as if the Octopus Dei Beast Tentacles has engulfed the four corners of the globe. Across the Pacific Ocean, from New Zealand (to placate the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army earthquake being unraveled by the Royal Commission in Australia) to the Philippines, the Octopus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team is brainwashing millions of idiot Catholics keeping them ignorant about truth of Vatican Evils and making them feel-good Francis-Maniacs about their podgy ass fattest-clown-in-white Pope Francis. Last month, it was in New Zealand. Opus Dei Beast PR Stunt of the Day: “Vatican leads war against child abuse” sounds like “Nazis leads war against terrorism”.
Stupid Catholic nuns
worshipping the Opus Dei
new Golden Cow ROMAN Saint John Paul II.
Stupid Catholic nuns
worshipping the Opus Dei Beast
new Golden Cow ROMAN Saint John Paul II.
Vatican assets in the United States of America
The Catholic Church in the United States, with “assets of more than $100 billion, today possesses more than ten times the combined wealth of IBM, Exxon, General Motors, and U.S. Steel.”
- stock it controls on the New York and American stock exchanges, and property, gold reserves, and paintings—are probably $50 billion to $60 billion
- There is no accountability for these funds to anyone except the Vatican. Everything is done in complete secrecy
- The hierarchy has learned to act indirectly through Catholic laypersons
- The hierarchy acts through Catholic politicians – see list below
Note that this Vatican fortune in the USA has only multiplied – exponentially –through the decades since that book was written.
Read Vatican Circus in South Korea: Pope Francis tells idiot Catholics to ‘combat allure of materialism’ but Vatican owns expensive shops only for 1% wealthiest on earth http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/08/vatican-circus-in-skorea-pope-francis.html
The Pope and Vatican Swiss Banks control Wall Street and Wars
Two-faced Pope Francis: Laughing THIEF & Grim LIAR. Two completely different faces that reveal his inner soul. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at the Vatican? http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/08/two-faced-pope-francis-laughing-and.html
The Vatican Concordats give the Bible to
the people
and steal their land and billions of dollars
and assets
the people
and steal their land and billions of dollars
and assets
Abolition of Vatican Concordat in Dominican Republic and bring pedophile Papal Nuncio and other pedophile Polish priests to justice http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/abolish-vatican-concordat-in-dominican.html
Ex-nuncio’s Vatican trial won’t be criminal but a charade. Jail in the Vatican is a joke; it’s sitting on lap of luxury of Vatican Billions
Pope Francis met Joel Osteen, Doug Coe, powerful evangelicals. Protest Pope Francis speech in Congress in 2015 visit. Idiot Catholics, beware of Jeb Bush http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/07/pope-francis-met-joel-osteen-doug-coe.html
Pope Francis buys souls of Kenneth Copeland & televangelists to prepare for USA presidential election. God forbid Jeb Bush wins! Bush is the curse of America http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/07/pope-francis-buys-kenneth-copeland.html
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Redemptorists pay $20 million to victims of JP2 Army for fear of evidence on complicity in court and ending of its $1B religious tourism http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/08/sainte-anne-de-beaupre-redemptorists.html
Hidden Heist in the Holy See. The SECRET biggest heist in the history of mankind! Pope Francis is the Greatest THIEF on earth. http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/hidden-heist-in-holy-see-biggest-heist.html
‘Spotlight’ movie is Opus Dei Beast PR stunt propaganda for the Vatican & publicity for Boston Globe Catholic website - to salvage Vatican Titanic http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/08/spotlight-on-boston-globe-is-opus-dei.html
8 POWERS the VATICAN uses to CONTROL CATHOLICS and COUNTRIES: TRADITIONAL, CHARISMATIC, COERCIVE, SOCIAL, LEGAL, REMUNERATIVE, EXPERT, ECOLOGICAL http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/06/8-powers-vatican-uses-to-control.html
Christ wants to be set free from the Vatican and all gold tabernacles in all Catholic churches worldwide because priests and popes have no power to clone Christ’s flesh-and-blood in the Eucharist Satanic Mass.
IRISH PRIESTS DUPLICITY & HYPOCRISY
Irish Times cartoon shows duplicity of priests. Sacrament of Confession’s absolute choice to protect pedophiles. Priests’ callousness towards children’s security and well being - read here
"Do not use, out of order"
Remarks: System broken
Signed: J.C.
The "odious" sacrament
The Failure of the Sacraments
There’s an elephant quietly sitting in the nave that everyone on all sides of the clergy sex abuse crisis have been diligently ignoring, even the victims themselves. No clergy or even would-be reformers have really remarked on it yet, although it should be more obvious with each and every sad story. More importantly, it is a troubling issue that touches on the very heart and soul of Catholicism.
The monstrous truth is simply this: what the clergy sex abuse crisis clearly demonstrates is that the sacramental system has failed.
This is not just a case of hierarchical reneging of responsibility.There’s more to this than some bad apples. This is nothing that a few reforms can fix, some screening of seminarians or more pastoral responses by bishops. It is nothing less than a fundamental challenge to the entire Catholic Church, and it shows that the spiritual principles the whole structure is supposedly based on simply do not work.
Think about it. The offenders here are Roman Catholic priests, highly trained men. But unlike other professionals, these men are supposedly set apart and dedicated to lives of the spirit. They claim to have the power to forgive sins and make God appear.
They not only administer the sacraments to others, but also receive them themselves daily. That means, among other things, frequent confession to other priests. Moreover, many of these men belong to religious orders or are otherwise under close spiritual direction. They are supposed to confide everything to their confessors and superiors and to obey them unquestioningly.
So what went wrong? When an abusive priest goes to confession, does he start, “Bless me, father, for I have sinned: I buggered an altar boy three times this week”? And does the confessor tell him to say 3 Our Fathers and 4 Hail Marys and not to do it again?
According to their own theory, confessors have the power to forgive sins, but also to refuse to do so if sorrow is insufficient. Moreover, they are to appoint penances – if they wish, they can require satisfaction or significant signs of reform from the penitent before absolution. Some sins – such as solicitation for sex in the confessional – are even deemed so serious that only higher prelates, sometimes only the Pope or his appointed delegate can forgive them.
Yet the abusers continue to abuse. So are the sexually active priestslying to their confessors? This would mean that not only do the perpetrating priests remain in a state of mortal sin and are automatically excommunicated, they perform the sacraments in that state which is itself a grave sacrilege.
Or, even worse, are all the abusive priests linked? Do they only go to confession to like-minded perps who will understand? Is there then an organized network of sexually perpetrating priests, all busily enabling each other? This adds collusion and conspiracy to the sinand would indicate that the very structure itself is rotten to the core.
The evidence available suggests that perhaps both scenarios are true to varying degrees in different situations. Either way, however, the result is much the same.
The sacraments are meant to unite believers with Christ. Not just to remove the accumulations of sin like the weekly laundry, but togradually improve the recipient. They are intended to sanctify and uplift the faithful, increase devotion to God, charity to fellow humans, and moral stamina in the face of evil.
If the sacraments actually worked like this, wouldn’t we hear ennobling stories of clerical reform, of some molester inspired to truly repent and devote himself to the cause? But rather, the stories are depressingly the same, of priests caught time and again, transferred, treated, and now finally, laicized often against their will, with no regret or even acknowledgement of their evil.
What this means, each person must decide in their own conscience. But perhaps the fall off in confessions over the years itself tells the story. Why should anyone, lay or not, risk a ritual that seems so impotent in promoting reform and may, instead of granting grace, actually expose them to greater human wickedness?
The JP2 Army prayer: Children’s most important prayer
-- more important than the Eucharist and the Rosary
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
See origin of JP2 Army Prayerhttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/12/eucharist-feeds-dysfunction.html
To remember the JP2 Army is protect children forever from predator pedophile priests and from all kinds of pedophiles 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 herehttp://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2010/05/theology-and-john-paul-ii-are-heartless.html
Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders
WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden
JP2 Army – 100,000 victims - 6,100 pedophile priests (Los Angeles, Boston, etc)- John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity
Amnesty International Report Vatican “Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment” on tens of thousands of children sexually abused by priests in Irelandhttp://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/amnesty-international-report-vatican.html
Look deeply into this image of Our Lady of Guadalupe defending and protecting children from the Serpent ... compared to Pope John Paul II, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Cardinals, Bishops who covered-up pedophile priests
http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2008/07/letter-to-opus-dei-pope-john-paul-ii.html The names of the transferring or covering up Bishops and Cardinals are: Roll Call Please!
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
Amnesty International Report Vatican “Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment” on tens of thousands of children sexually abused by priests in Ireland http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/amnesty-international-report-vatican.html
John Paul II's official spokesman Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls reveals the true reasons why there's the Pope and the Pedophile Scandal http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/04/john-paul-iis-sole-official-papal.html
Zenit.org should shut down – it’s operated by the Legion of Christ whose founder, Fr. Marcial Maciel is member of John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/03/zenitorg-should-shut-down-its-operated.html
John L. Allen glorifies U.S. bishops' thinker-in-chief propaganda the Catholic Church's totalitarian wayshttp://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/01/john-l-allen-glorifies-us-bishops.html
Premier Vaticanista John L. Allen Jr describes his unlimited access into the Vatican and Papal apartmentshttp://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/11/premier-vaticanista-john-l-allen-jr.html
John Paul II Titanic Ship hit not only by American iceberg of priest pedophilia, also Irish iceberg, German iceberg, Austrian...Canadian icebergs.... http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/03/john-paul-ii-titanic-ship-hit-not-only.html
John Paul II miraculously cures his German barber of hernia in Rome… as the John Paul II Pedophile Priest Army jolts Germanyhttp://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/03/john-paul-ii-miraculously-cures-his.html
John Paul II the Pope of Sodomy. Vision of Paris: St. Michael the Archangel tied a giant millstone to John Paul II's neck at World Youth Day in 2002 http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html
New book shows un-saint-liness of John Paul II and his major flaws and faults: Crossing the Threshold of Confusionhttp://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-book-shows-un-saint-liness-of-john.html
The Roman Catholic Church is no longer « Holy ». All Catholic churches, sacristies, rectories are not «holy» but potential priestly pedophile places http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/07/roman-catholic-church-is-no-longer-holy.html
Reasons why priest pedophilia is eternal: John Paul II the Great “Saint”, “The Conscience”of the ‘Age of Benedict XVI’, “Holy Father” Marcial Maciel http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/06/reasons-why-priest-pedophilia-is.html
The Nazis and the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army were both an inherently evil all-male elite hierarchy born from the Devil's bowels http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/01/nazis-and-john-paul-ii-pedophiles.html
Vatican Pope controls Wall Street and all Stock Exchange and all wars in nations.
Occupy Wall Street, Occupy the Vatican http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/10/ows-otv-occupy-wall-street-occupy.html
Read also the Vatican assets here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html
Read the Vatican Concordats here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/abolish-vatican-concordat-in-dominican.html
Wall Street Journal is a liar about vocations in seminaries http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/04/wall-street-journal-is-liar-about.html
Amnesty International Report Vatican “Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment” on tens of thousands of children sexually abused by priests http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/amnesty-international-report-vatican.html
HOAX of EUCHARIST
The black belt means she is pregnant
The womb of the Immaculate Conception of Nuestra
Senora de Guadalupe carried Jesus this way
Senora de Guadalupe carried Jesus this way
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9-months gestation of Jesus - the Son of God
READ more here about the pregnancy of Our Lady
http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html
http://stella0maris.blogspot.ca/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html
DOLLY THE CLONED SHEEP
The cloning process that produced Dollyhttp://www.youtube.com/embed/39BbcZVCx8I
BLACK MAGIC OF EUCHARIST
1-MINUTE black magic of the cloning of
Christ by sinful Vatican pope and priests
1-MINUTE black magic of the cloning of
Christ by sinful Vatican pope and priests
HOUDINI POPES and MERLIN PRIESTS
Pope Francis, all Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and
priests cannot clone cats and dogs and therefore
they cannot clone Christ either.
priests cannot clone cats and dogs and therefore
they cannot clone Christ either.
Transubstantiation or the Mass is a recent development . St. Peter and St. Paul and the Apostles never celebrated Mass and never “transubstantiation” 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 - or clone - 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 witcheshttp://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 lhttp://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
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 glorifiedhttp://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.
Opus Dei Goliath-bully Bill want to propagate Catholic Medieval Doctrine that all crimes of JP2 Army of pedophile priests are already forgiven and forgotten under the Sacrament of Confession that protects criminals and persecutes their victims, read herehttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html
Vatican bank Bishop∕accountant caught money laundering €20M and it surpasses the Da Vinci Code intrigue. Vatican greedy Mammon never sleeps and never stopshttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/06/vatican-greedy-mammon-vatican-banks.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.
The Pope is not Roman. Catholics are not Roman.
The Vatican Catholics, not Roman Catholics.
The Vatican and Rome are no longer synonymous.
The Pope has no authority in Rome.
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,
is fallacious to call them “Roman Catholics”.
Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI and Pope Francis have 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 herehttp://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”.
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”.
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 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
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 TIMELINEHTTP://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.HTMLWE DO NOT PRAY THE ROBOTIC ROSARY OR THE DIVINE MERCY.NUESTRA SENORA DE GUADALUPE INSPIRES US THAT SHE CANNOT STAND THESE CATHOLIC ROBOTIC PRAYERS THAT REMIND HER SO MUCH OF JOHN PAUL II WHO SPENT YEARS ON THE FABRICATION OF THE NEW LUMINOUS MYSTERIES BUT AT THE SAME TIME HE COVERED-UP 27 YEARS OF HEINOUS CRIMES OF HIS JP2 ARMY – JOHN PAUL II PEDOPHILE PRIESTS ARMY – THE LARGEST NUMBERS WHO ARE IN CALIFORNIA.THE 5 NEW MYSTERIES OF LIGHT WRITTEN BY JOHN PAUL II PROVED THE “JP2 MYSTERIES OF DARKNESS” DURING HIS 27 YEARS PAPACY WHEREIN HE SAID NOTHING AND DID NOTHING TO PROTECT CHILDREN AND TO STOP THOUSANDS OF PEDOPHILE PRIESTS.JOHN PAUL II IS THE MOST TRAVELED POPE BUT IT WASALL FOR HIS NARCISSISTIC SELF GLORY AS JOHN PAUL II “THE GREAT” AND NOW WE ARE SEEING THAT THE JP2 ARMY TSUNAMI REALLY INFESTED THE WHOLE WORLD AS FAR AS AUSTRALIA. AND NOW THE POLISH PAPAL NUNCIO IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC WAS QUIETLY SACKED AFTER FAMILIES DISCOVER HE HAS BEEN PIMPING YOUNG PREBUCENT BOYS, SEE NEWS BELOW.Read our related article, 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.ca/2011/10/rosary-could-not-defeat-jp2-army-
IDOLATRY OF GOLDEN COW ST. JOSEPHI am the Holy Father of Jesus, Son of God
ST. JOSEPH of MOUNT ROYALEnabler of Pedophile PriestsSt. Joseph with candles in the Votive Chapel of the Oratory of St. JosephIDOLATRY OF GOLDEN COW ST. JOSEPHI am the Holy Father of Jesus, Son of God.ST. JOSEPH of MOUNT ROYAL
Enabler of Pedophile Priests
St. Joseph with candles in the Votive Chapel of the Oratory of St. JosephGiant Saint Joseph could NOT help young students victims! His giant statue is only a few nearby the College Notre DAme where hundreds of students were sodomized by Holy Cross Brothers of Saint brother Andre.These 2 saints SAID NOTHING and DID NOTHING TO PROTECT CHILDREN
Saint Brother Andre said nothing and did nothingto protect young students victims of his Holy Cross BrothersGiant Saint Joseph could NOT help young students victims!Oratory candles could not stop CSC pedophiles and bestial lust for 50 years from 1950 to 2001.Give your money to the homeless shelters of Montreal!Stop lighting candles! God does not need candles.The poor need to eat. The homeless need a shelter. Homeless people NOT allowed in Oratory!It’s acts of mercy that I want, says the Lord, not material sacrifices and candles!God does not need your candles!Saint Joseph does not need your candles.People, please STOP DONATING to the ORATORY of St. Joseph and instead donate your money to Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, your local charities, and the homeless shelters of Montreal.God will listen more to your prayers - through your acts of charity - because they are better than material candles and money you give to the wealthy billionaire CSC religious Holy Cross family of Saint Brother Andre.God said in the Bible: It isn’t material sacrifice that I want, but acts of mercy.Christ also said, when you pray, go to your room, close the door and pray to your Father in secret, and he will hear your prayersST. JOSEPH DU MONT-ROYAL - L'Oratoire Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal
Vatican Billions: its history, sources, and assets today worldwide. BOYCOTT the Vatican Museum and boycott ALL donations to the Vatican Catholic Church Reign of Terrorhttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html ). .IDLE SAINT JOSEPH CANNOT SPEAK AND CANNOT PROTECT CHILDREN
Giant statue of St. Joseph said nothing and did nothing to save hundreds of students - at College Notre Dame - which he can see day-and-night - across the small street in front of him -- being sexually abused by Brother Andre's pedophile priests and brothersVatican Bank closes thousand accounts/criminal transactions BURNT to leave no trail of crimes further/future investigations...drowned by loud Francis-maniacs at St. Peter’s Square
- .St. Joseph Oratory10,000 candles burn $$$$$$$ millions of dollars while 30,000 homeless people starve in harsh winter streets of Montrealhttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/09/st-joseph-oratory-has-10000-candles.html.Oratory of Saint Joseph pedophile priests! Montreal: Second class-action suit targets Congrégation de Ste-Croix! Saints and Holy Cross cannot protect children! http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/11/oratory-of-saint-joseph-pedophile.html...IDLE SAINT JOSEPH (Oratory) versus First Nations Idle No More native people.Looking Left: No tangible progress in combating Catholic sexual abuseUNITED STATESWashington Square NewsPosted on March 7, 2014 | by Nina GolshanIt has been almost one full year since Pope Francis was elected to take Pope Benedict XVI’s place in the Vatican. He has been hailed by both the Catholic community and its critics for his openness to bringing much needed reform to the outdated ethos of the church. His forthcoming attitude has alleviated some concerns about how the Vatican can reconcile its beliefs with those of its more youthful and liberal followers. However, for all of his efforts to reconnect, Francis has failed to truly address the patterns of sexual abuse and exploitation by clerics supported by the Vatican.In a recent interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Francis made comments defending the church’s response to reports of sexual abuse, claiming that it is “the only public institution to have acted with transparency and responsibility. No other has done more. And, the church is the only one to be attacked.” It is true that the church has been under scrutiny for quite some time — last month, a UN committee issued a report criticizing the Church’s policies on a range of issues, calling for the removal of any known sexual abusers and release of records of sexual assault allegations against clerics.It is also true that he has publicly acknowledged the problem, and in December he created a committee to evaluate methods to protect sexually abused children and more effectively screen men seeking to become priests for sexual deviance. This committee, however, is strictly advisory, and there is almost no information available regarding how it has gone about measuring the breadth of the problem. The “transparency” Francis speaks of does not exist.Read our compilation of articles defying Pope Francis statements in his interview, Who’s the liar: Pope Francis or UN? Vatican secret thousands/files covered-up by Bishops versus UN open/thorough investigators. Francis Pinocchio nose getting biggerVatican Vipers attack UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The Failure of the Sacraments. Letter to a Christian Nation (USA) - read our related article http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/02/vatican-vipers-attack-un-committee-on.html
- Abolition of Vatican Concordat in Dominican Republic and bring pedophile Papal Nuncio and other pedophile Polish priests to justice http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/abolish-vatican-concordat-in-dominican.htmlVatican rebuffs UN! Catholic Church not the moral authority of the world. Holy See defies UN Convention it ratified in 1990. Vatican Titanic sunken deep in the ocean of moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/the-catholic-church-is-not-worlds-moral.htmlUN condemns Vatican for crimes against children.. HOORAH. 10 Reasons to abolish the papacy and why there should never be another pope http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/02/un-condemns-vatican-for-crimes-against.htmlJohn Paul II portrait by Danish artist http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2007/10/john-paul-ii-portrait-by-danish-artist.htmlFr. Marcial Maciel's Swiss Bank accounts: Angelo Sodano with Carlos Slim´s help has set his nephew up in business with a swiss registered company http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/fr-marcial-maciels-swiss-bank-accounts.htmlUSA 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.htmlJohn Paul II the Holy Father of Lies! Cardinal Dziwisz book: “JPII knew nothing” about bestial pedophile priest Fr. Maciel is Vatican Titanic Deceits http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/11/john-paul-ii-holy-father-of-lies.htmlHeil SatanasJP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.htmlConfession protects criminals and persecutes their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.htmlParis Arrow’s vision of St. Michael tying the giant millstone around John Paul II’s neck http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html.UN condemns Vatican for crimes against children http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/02/un-condemns-vatican-for-crimes-against.htmlVatican Bank closes thousand accounts/criminal transactions BURNT to leave no trail of crimes further/future investigations...drowned by loud Francis-maniacs at St. Peter’s Square http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/vatican-bank-closes-thousand.htmlBenedict XVI –Ratzinger, God’s Rottweiler http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/
Occupy The Vatican... like Occupy Wall Street
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.htmlSee the Vatican-owned 23 million Euros gay apartment with the largest gay sauna in Europe where a Vatican Cardinal lives right on the first floor to welcome those wealthy gay clients of Rome and Europe http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pope-francis-top-10-vatican-deceits_30.html .Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI resigns as Vatican Pontiff of Vatican Catholic Church. It’s deceitful to say “Roman Pontiff” of “Roman Catholic Church” is here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/vatican-last-tsar-benedict-xvi-resigns_13.htmlRead our latest articles - Pope Francis Top 10 Vatican Deceits. Francis cloned @3.13.13 inside Vatican Titanic as Jesuit Mask of Vatican Evils. “Bergoglio. Basura. Vos sos la dictadura.” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pope-francis-top-10-vatican-deceits_30.htmlVatican’s wealth all over Rome and Italy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.htmlThe narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html
- Vatican assets in the United States of AmericaThe Catholic Church in the United States, with “assets of more than $100 billion, today possesses more than ten times the combined wealth of IBM, Exxon, General Motors, and U.S. Steel.”- stock it controls on the New York and American stock exchanges, and property, gold reserves, and paintings—are probably $50 billion to $60 billion- There is no accountability for these funds to anyone except the Vatican. Everything is done in complete secrecy- The hierarchy has learned to act indirectly through Catholic laypersons- The hierarchy acts through Catholic politicians – see list belowNote that this Vatican fortune in the USA has only multiplied – exponentially –through the decades since that book was written.Read the VATICAN
BILLIONS- http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.htmlRead Vatican Circus in South Korea: Pope Francis tells idiot Catholics to ‘combat allure of materialism’ but Vatican owns expensive shops only for 1% wealthiest on earth http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/08/vatican-circus-in-skorea-pope-francis.htmlThe Pope and Vatican Swiss Banks control Wall Street and WarsTwo-faced Pope Francis: Laughing THIEF & Grim LIAR. Two completely different faces that reveal his inner soul. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at the Vatican? http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/08/two-faced-pope-francis-laughing-and.html
VATICAN AUTOCRACY WANT STUPID CATHOLIC NUNS AND WOMEN TO SIMPLY WORSHIP AS POWERLESS NON-ORDAINED SLAVES
WHO ONLY “PRAY, PAY, OBEY” as ROBOTS IDIOTS CATHOLICS
Irish cartoon shows duplicity of priests. Sacrament of Confession’s absolute choice to protect pedophiles. Priests’ callousness towards children’s security and wellbeing
Argo &“saint” John Paul II are make-believe legends of Hollywood and the Vatican, the twin cities that “lie for a living” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/argo-john-paul-ii-are-make-believe_11.html
Two-faced Pope Francis: Laughing THIEF & Grim LIAR. Two completely different faces that reveal his inner soul. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde at the Vatican? http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/08/two-faced-pope-francis-laughing-and.html
Pope Francis met Joel Osteen, Doug Coe, powerful evangelicals. Protest Pope Francis speech in Congress in 2015 visit. Idiot Catholics, beware of Jeb Bush http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/07/pope-francis-met-joel-osteen-doug-coe.html
Pope Francis buys souls of Kenneth Copeland & televangelists to prepare for USA presidential election. God forbid Jeb Bush wins! Bush is the curse of America http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/07/pope-francis-buys-kenneth-copeland.html
Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Redemptorists pay $20 million to victims of JP2 Army for fear of evidence and ending of its $1B religious tourism with Oratory of St. Joseph http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/08/sainte-anne-de-beaupre-redemptorists.html
Hidden Heist in the Holy See. The SECRET biggest heist in the history of mankind! Pope Francis is the Greatest THIEF on earth. http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/hidden-heist-in-holy-see-biggest-heist.html
Stupid Catholic nuns
worshipping the Opus Dei
new Golden Cow ROMAN Saint John Paul II
Stupid Catholic nuns
worshipping the Opus Dei Beast
new Golden Cow ROMAN Saint John Paul II
Women Catholics are so stupid
as to stay in denial and refuse to accept
that priests are ordained men have no wombs
cannot reproduce babies like women
or the Blessed Mother of Jesus –
and their male mouths
cannot reproduce Christ
and cannot procreate anything on earth at all.
and cannot procreate anything on earth at all.
STUPID IDIOTS NUNS EMPOWER THE
VA VATICAN AUTOCRACY
OLIGARCHY OF ONLY-MALES MYSOGYNISTS GAYS POPES AND CARDINALS AND OPUS DEI BEAST PRIESTS AND JESUITS WHO
CONTROL THE VATICAN MAMMON BEAST THAT BREED WARS
AMONG NATIONS AND BREED VIOLENCE AGAINST HUDNREDS
OF MILLIONS OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN.
Denounce the divine rights of Pope Francis
Denounce Vatican Autocracy of Opus Dei Beast
Denounce Vatican Autocracy of Opus Dei Beast
REPUDIATE AND REFUSE THE DIVINE RIGHTS OF POPES AND PRIESTS TO CLONE INSTANTLY THE FLESH OF CHRIST IN THE EUCHARIST SATANIC SORCERY.
DENOUNCE POPE FRANCIS’ DIVINE RIGHTS AS AN “INFALLIBLE POPE”.
Defy the Opus Dei Beast and the Jesuits mercenaries of the Vatican Mammon Beast.
Abolish the Vatican as a country.
Read -- Is the Vatican a state or country? It is only one building
and one public square but it is a country like the vast USA,
Russia, China??? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/05/is-vatican-state-or-country-it-is-only.html
and one public square but it is a country like the vast USA,
Russia, China??? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/05/is-vatican-state-or-country-it-is-only.html
ALL THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES ARE NOT POOR
– THEY ARE SIMPLY BEING LOOTED BY THE USA AND BY THE VATICAN CONCORDATS ---AND THE VATICAN-IN-SECRET HOARD AT THE VATICAN SWISS BANKS ALL IMPERIALISTS’ LOOTS.
– THEY ARE SIMPLY BEING LOOTED BY THE USA AND BY THE VATICAN CONCORDATS ---AND THE VATICAN-IN-SECRET HOARD AT THE VATICAN SWISS BANKS ALL IMPERIALISTS’ LOOTS.
READ ABOUT AMERICAN IMPERIALISM IN THE PHILIPPINES --- http://filipina-nannies-caregivers.blogspot.ca/2013/05/anti-imperialist-groups-cordillera.html
VATICAN AUTOCRACY WANT STUPID CATHOLIC NUNS
AND STUPID WOMEN TO SIMPLY WORSHIP
AS POWERLESS NON-ORDAINED SLAVES
WHO ONLY “PRAY, PAY, OBEY” as ROBOTS
IDIOTS CATHOLICS
The Vatican, Switzerland and the British Monarchy control the Central Banks
Office of the Chairperson
International League of Peoples' Struggle
Postbus 475
3500AL Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 30 8895306
Fax: +31 30 2322989
ilpschair@casema.nl
ilp515@runbox.comwww.ilps.info
International League of Peoples' Struggle
Postbus 475
3500AL Utrecht
The Netherlands
Tel: +31 30 8895306
Fax: +31 30 2322989
ilpschair@casema.nl
ilp515@runbox.comwww.ilps.info
USA created ISIS
Support the Kurdish people's resistance against ISIS,
Condemn US and Turkey for creating and using ISIS
By Prof. JOSE MARIA SISON
Chairperson, International League of Peoples' Struggle
14 October 2014
We, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle (ILPS), salute the heroic resistance of the Kurdish people and their army in Rojava, the YPG/YPJ – People’s Protection Units – against the criminal gangs of the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) in Kobane, one of the self-governing cantons of West Kurdistan (Rojava) in Syria.
We call on all the more than 300 ILPS member-organizations in 38 countries around the globe to take initiative and express their solidarity and support to the Kurdish people's resistance in Kobane and the whole of Rojava, or join the demonstrations being organized by the Kurdish liberation movement in different parts of the world.
The ILPS condemns the super-terrorist US for creating the ISIS monster that has rampaged through parts of Syria and Iraq, committing hideous crimes against the people in areas that they have overrun. We condemn Turkey for collaborating with the US in creating, arming and coddling this horde of terrorists.
ISIS and similar extremist Islamist terrorist groups like the Al Qaeda and Al-Nustra have been created by the US as part of its over-all scheme to remake the Middle-East, by carrying out regime change in such countries as Libya and Syria that have dared to assert their national sovereignty against imperialist plunder and war. For its part, the Turkish government is using ISIS to attack the Kurdish liberation struggle led by the PKK.
ISIS terrorists have been trained by US Special Forces in secret NATO bases inside Turkey and Jordan. For the last year and a half, the US has been developing what the world has now come to know as ISIS. Turkey has allowed safe passage through its borders of jihadists from different parts of the world to join ISIS, and has facilitated the transport of wounded ISIS terrorists to be treated in hospitals in the Turkish province of Urfa and other cities in Turkey.
The US is remaking the Middle-East in order to consolidate its hegemony in this oil-rich region. It is using the ISIS in the same manner as it has used Neo-Nazi gangs in the Ukraine to stir up trouble and force regime change, toppling the duly-elected president, and replacing him with a pro-Western president and a fascist military junta as part of US-NATO strategy to encircle and pressure Russia.
In the wake of the hideous crimes of the ISIS, including the massacre of Shiites and Christians, and the beheading of Western journalists, the US has pretended to adopt a policy of opposing ISIS and carrying out bombing raids against ISIS. In fact, the US is still thereby using the ISIS as the pretext to violate the national sovereignty of Syria.
The US war planes are actually bombing food granaries and buildings in Syria which are away from ISIS positions. They are now in a position to attack the forces of the Syrian government. Turkey has also exposed its real dirty agenda to attack the Kurdish liberation struggle by bombing PKK forces in Oramar (Daglica) near the border with Iraq, relieving ISIS from the successful counter-attacks of the Kurdish fighters and allowing the ISIS to block humanitarian aid from Iraqi Kurdistan.
The Kurdish resistance forces in Kobane have said that they can defeat the ISIS without any need for foreign intervention such as that falsely offered by the US and Turkey. All they need from Iraqi Kurdistan are sufficient weapons and ammunition against the tanks and vehicles mounted with big guns of the ISIS terrorists.
The terrible crimes being perpetrated by the ISIS and the support given them by the US and Turkey have aroused the anger of freedom-loving people throughout the world. At the same time, the heroic resistance of the YPG/YPJ – the People’s Protection Units – composed of Kurdish men and women, has inspired the people of the world to rally in support of the Kurdish liberation struggle.
The acknowledged leader of the Kurdish liberation struggle, Abdullah Ocalan, has called on the entire Kurdish nation to mobilize in support of the resistance in Kobane. Kurds throughout the world have responded by organizing demonstrations in many countries calling for international support.
We must show our solidarity to the Kurdish people in their hour of need and give them all-out support until victory.
We must show our solidarity to the Kurdish people in their hour of need and give them all-out support until victory.
U.S. is Responsible for the Ebola Outbreak in West Africa:
Liberian Scientist
Global Research, October 17, 2014
A History of Guatemala’s Syphilis Experiment: How a U.S. Led Team Performed Human Experimentations in Central America
Dr. Cyril Broderick, A Liberian scientist and a former professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Liberia’s College of Agriculture and Forestry says the West, particularly the U.S. is responsible for the Ebola outbreak in West Africa. Dr. Broderick claims the following in an exclusive article published in the Daily Observer based in Monrovia, Liberia. He wrote the following:
The US Department of Defense (DoD) is funding Ebola trials on humans, trials which started just weeks before the Ebola outbreak in Guinea and Sierra Leone. The reports continue and state that the DoD gave a contract worth $140 million dollars to Tekmira, a Canadian pharmaceutical company, to conduct Ebola research. This research work involved injecting and infusing healthy humans with the deadly Ebola virus. Hence, the DoD is listed as a collaborator in a “First in Human” Ebola clinical trial (NCT02041715, which started in January 2014 shortly before an Ebola epidemic was declared in West Africa in March.
Is it possible that the United States Department of Defense (DOD) and other Western countries are directly responsible for infecting Africans with the Ebola virus? Dr. Broderick claims that the U.S. government has a research laboratory located in a town called Kenema in Sierra Leone that studies what he calls “viral fever bioterrorism”, It is also the town where he acknowledges that is the “epicentre of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.” Is it a fact? Is Dr. Broderick a conspiracy theorist? He says that “there is urgent need for affirmative action in protecting the less affluent of poorer countries, especially African citizens, whose countries are not as scientifically and industrially endowed as the United States and most Western countries, sources of most viral or bacterial GMOs that are strategically designed as biological weapons.” He also asks an important question when he says “It is most disturbing that the U. S. Government has been operating a viral hemorrhagic fever bioterrorism research laboratory in Sierra Leone. Are there others?”
Well, Mr. Broderick’s claims seem to be true. After all, the U.S. government has been experimenting with deadly diseases on human beings for a long time, history tells us so. One example is Guatemala. Between 1946 and 1948, the United States government under President Harry S. Truman in collaboration with Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo and his health officials deliberately infected more than 1500 soldiers, prostitutes, prisoners and even mental patients with syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases such as gonorrhea and chancroid (a bacterial sexual infection) out of more than 5500 Guatemalan people who participated in the experiments. The worst part of it is that none of the test subjects infected with the diseases ever gave informed consent. The Boston Globe published the discovery made by Medical historian and professor at Wellesley College, Susan M. Reverby in 2010 called ‘Wellesley professor unearths a horror: Syphilis experiments in Guatemala.’ It stated how she came across her discovery:
Picking through musty files in a Pennsylvania archive, a Wellesley College professor made a heart-stopping discovery: US government scientists in the 1940s deliberately infected hundreds of Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in experiments conducted without the subjects’ permission. Medical historian Susan M. Reverby happened upon the documents four or five years ago while researching the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study and later shared her findings with US government officials.The unethical research was not publicly disclosed until yesterday, when President Obama and two Cabinet secretaries apologized to Guatemala’s government and people and pledged to never repeat the mistakes of the past — an era when it was not uncommon for doctors to experiment on patients without their consent.
After Reverby’s discovery, the Obama administration apparently gave an apology to then-President Alvaro Colom according to the Boston Globe:
Yesterday, Obama called President Álvaro Colom Caballeros of Guatemala to apologize, and Obama’s spokesman told reporters the experiment was “tragic, and the United States by all means apologizes to all those who were impacted by this.Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton had called Colom Thursday night to break the news to him. In her conversation with the Guatemalan president, Clinton expressed “her personal outrage and deep regret that such reprehensible research could occur,’’ said Arturo Valenzuela, assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs.
The study in Guatemala was led by John Cutler, a US health service physician who also took part in the controversial Tuskegee Syphilis experiments which began in the 1930’s. Researchers wanted to study the effects of a group of antibiotics called penicillin on affected individuals. The prevention and treatment of syphilis and other venereal diseases were also included in the experimentation. Although they were treated with antibiotics, more than 83 people had died according to BBC news in 2011 following a statement issued by Dr Amy Gutmann, head of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues:The Commission said some 5,500 Guatemalans were involved in all the research that took place between 1946 and 1948. Of these, some 1,300 were deliberately infected with syphilis, gonorrhoea or another sexually transmitted disease, chancroid. And of that group only about 700 received some sort of treatment. According to documents the commission had studied, at least 83 of the 5,500 subjects had died by the end of 1953.
Washington’s reaction to the report is a farce. The apology made to Guatemala’s government was for the sake of public relations. Washington knows about its human experimentations in the past with deadly diseases conducted by government-funded laboratories that are known to be harmful to the public. The U.S. government is guilty in conducting numerous medical experiments on people not only in Guatemala but in other countries and on its own territory. As the Boston Globe report mentioned, the Tuskegee Syphilis Study occurred between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the “natural progression” of untreated syphilis in the African American population. The U.S. Public Health Service and the Tuskegee Institute collaborated in 1932 and enrolled 600 poor sharecroppers from Macon County, Alabama to study the syphilis infection. However, it was documented that at least 400 of those had the disease (they were never informed that they actually had syphilis) while the remaining 200 did not. They received free medical care, food and even free burial insurance for participating in the study. Documents revealed that they were told that they had “bad blood” which meant that they had various medical conditions besides syphilis. The Tuskegee scientists continued to study the participants without treating their illnesses and they also withheld much-needed information from the participants about penicillin, which proved to be effective in treating Syphilis and other venereal diseases. The test subjects were under the impression that they were receiving free health care from the U.S. government while they were deliberately being lied to by the same administrators who were conducting the tests. Washington is fully aware of its human experimentations with deadly diseases. The government of Guatemala also knew about the Syphilis experiments according to the Boston Globe:
A representative of the Guatemalan government said his nation will investigate, too — looking in part at the culpability of officials in that country. The records of the experiment suggest that Guatemalan government officials were fully aware of the tests, sanctioned them, and may have done so in exchange for stockpiles of penicillin.
However, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services published the study ‘Fact Sheet on the 1946-1948 U.S. Public Health Service Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) Inoculation Study’ and was forced to admit what happened in Guatemala during the syphilis experiments:
While conducting historical research on the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis, Professor Susan Reverby of Wellesley College recently discovered the archived papers of the late Dr. John Cutler, a U.S. Public Health Service medical officer and a Tuskegee investigator. The papers described another unethical study supported by the U.S. government in which highly vulnerable populations in Guatemala were intentionally infected with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). The study, conducted between 1946 and 1948, was done with the knowledge of Dr. Cutler’s superiors and was funded by a grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health to the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (which became the Pan American Health Organization) to several Guatemalan government ministries. The study had never been published.
The U.S. government admitted to its wrongdoing, 62 years too late. What Dr. Broderick wrote is not conspiratorial in any sense. The U.S. government has been involved in bioterrorism; Guatemala is a case in point. Dr. Broderick summarized what average people can do to prevent governments, especially those from the West from creating and exposing populations from diseases they experiment with in laboratories:
The challenge is global, and we request assistance from everywhere, including China, Japan, Australia, India, Germany, Italy, and even kind-hearted people in the U.S., France, the U.K., Russia, Korea, Saudi Arabia, and anywhere else whose desire is to help. The situation is bleaker than we on the outside can imagine, and we must provide assistance however we can. To ensure a future that has less of this kind of drama, it is important that we now demand that our leaders and governments be honest, transparent, fair, and productively engaged. They must answer to the people. Please stand up to stop Ebola testing and the spread of this dastardly disease.
After Guatemala’s ordeal with the U.S. government who deliberately infected people with syphilis, West African nations should be extremely skeptical about the U.S. government’s actions combating Ebola. Professor Francis Boyle of the University of Illinois, College of Law questions the Obama administration’s actions in West Africa. RIA Novosti recently interviewed Boyle and he said the following:
US government agencies have a long history of carrying out allegedly defensive biological warfare research at labs in Liberia and Sierra Leone. This includes the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is now the point agency for managing the Ebola spill-over into the US,” Prof. Francis Boyle said.Why has the Obama administration dispatched troops to Liberia when they have no training to provide medical treatment to dying Africans? How did Zaire/Ebola get to West Africa from about 3,500km away from where it was first identified in 1976?”
That’s a good question for Washington, but would the public get any answers? Not anytime soon, since it took more than 62 years for the Guatemala syphilis experiments to be exposed to the public, not by the US government, by a medical historian.
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