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A Big Heart Open to God: A Conversation with Pope Francis
Read our related article: 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
Priests, pastors and clergy of every stripe are rarely in the forefront of Occupy protests.
Instead, secular young people are doing the very work that Jesus from Nazareth would urge us to do. Just as Jesus condemned the injustices of his own day – and overturned the money-changing tables at the Temple – the Occupy protesters are challenging how Wall Street bankers and today’s rich and powerful are harming the masses of people. -- see added articles below with highlights on the "political protests of Jesus".
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Occupy The Vatican... like Occupy Wall Street
http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/10/ows-otv-occupy-wall-street-occupy.html
Here are the classic ways on how Pope Francis is fulfilling the words of Jesus in Mathew 23.
Stupid Catholic Women. Legion of Christ. Opus Dei. Pope Francis Hypocrisies http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/women-legion-christ-opusdei-francis.html
Occupy The Vatican... like Occupy Wall Street
http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/10/ows-otv-occupy-wall-street-occupy.html
Vatican
Bank’s ‘peaceful transition’ is akin to Cardinal Bernard Law’s ‘peaceful
transition’ from crime to glory in Rome.
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PopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
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The one-year swift Vatican Bank’s “peaceful transition” (by closing despots’ accounts and transferring them to secret Vatican Swiss Banks) is like a man who murders someone, then swiftly rolls his victim in a carpet, go dig a grave and bury him in a faraway field so that (relatives and) the police will never find his victim and never trace his crime. He also cleans up the murder scene and now he acts normally - as if nothing ever happened. He then goes to Confession and feels-good that the priest will keep his crime secret with the Seal of Confession and he feels relieved that his crime/sin is absolved with his 3 Hail Mary penance and he is guaranteed forgiveness and salvation to Heaven and can eat as much flesh-and-blood of Christ in the Eucharist Satanic Mass.
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
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Pope Francis imitates Saint John Paul II the Great
Pope Francis is imitating – (not Jesus) – but his Holy Father of Lies John Paul II the Great – read our related article, 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 http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/05/cold-blood-ed-pope-john-paul-ii-is-no.html
With pompous fanfare of empty words, words, words, the Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team arranged theatrics for John Paul II to ask forgiveness for many famous (e.g. Crusades, Galileo) Church crimes but not for his own singular crime and biggest sin which was his complicit hidden JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army with his poster boy and evil Achilles Heel, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/
Pope Francis buys souls of Kenneth Copeland &
evangelicals to prepare for USA presidential election. God forbid Jeb Bush
wins! Bush is the curse of
America
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PopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
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On June 23, 2014, Pope Francis met with Kenneth Copeland and 8 other US evangelicals at the Vatican. It was a perfect timing to coincide with the Copeland's annual convention in Forth Worth Texas from June 30 to July 5 where Kenneth spoke about the Pope during an entire session. which he never did in his entire 40 years ministry. Below is a compilation of disagreement and anger from his followers which is very enlightening. So is this why Pope Francis cancelled his daily mass for the summer and his weekly Wednesday Angelus because he wanted to use those time for meeting with other religions and other sects and evangelicals like Kenneth Copeland – instead of meeting his usual Francis-Maniacs Catholic zombie and stupid nuns in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday Angelus?
COWARD Pope Francis, cut the Opus Dei Beast PR stunts
crap. Just tie a millstone on cardinals, bishops, JP2 Army, cast them to the
sea
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POPE FRANCIS the CON-Christ.
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Jesus said, “but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” (ESV Mathew 18:6) Read the John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/
Pope Francis’s papal mass is the apex of the Eucharist Satanic Mass and it heals no one and it only fools everyone.
Pope Francis said in his homily at a papal mass with 6 abused victims that these "despicable actions" had been "camouflaged with a complicity that cannot be explained." How stupid can 1.2 billion Catholics get not to be able to see Pope Francis is papal farting Opus Dei Beast pathological lies again at them?
Irish priests are not smiling because of women: Irish
ex-president mocks Pope Francis! Irish nuns akin to Nazis
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POPE FRANCIS the CON-Christ.
June 21, 2014
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With compilation of Tuam nuns news
Pope Francis has called-in sick for the summer and has cancelled even his well-oiled money machine Wednesday Angelus where he shows all his teeth nonstop to the screeching adulation of Francis-Maniacs who sound more like Catholic zombies in Brad Pitt’s World War Z movie and are probably making him more sick and there’s no antidote to it, read our article, Pope Francis is sick with lies, lies, lies & burdened yoke from Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team weighs heavy on Jesuit puppet pope. But aside from the sick (only one-year old) pope, Irish priests these days too are depressed and not smiling because of three women specifically who are giving them – and to Pope Francis – messages unparalleled to Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. Martin Luther pointed out the 95 corruptions in the Vatican especially its rampant sale of indulgences - to build the mammoth St. Peter’s Basilica - that condemned to hell even the poor if they did not buy them.
POPE FRANCIS CONTROLS WALL STREET AND WARS
LE PÈRE - THE FATHER
LE FILS -- THE SON
LE SAINT ESPRIT -- THE HOLY SPIRIT
Put Pope Francis' face in this emperor
Put Pope Francis' face in this emperor
By the Rev. Howard Bess
When the Martin Luther King Jr. monument was dedicated recently in Washington DC, I was reminded that the civil rights movement in America was led not by a politician fulfilling campaign promises, nor by a popular evangelist bent on saving souls, but by a highly trained theologian who put his religious teachings into practice with a demand for justice for those who had suffered at the hands of the rich and the powerful.
The Rev. King was a Baptist preacher who took his religion into the arena of racism, economics and social disparity. However, hatred caught up with him, and he was killed.
The significance of this latest public protest movement, erupting all over the country, may eventually rival the impact of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, yet when comparing the two movements, there is one glaring difference: priests, pastors and clergy of every stripe are rarely in the forefront of Occupy protests.
Instead, secular young people are doing the very work that Jesus from Nazareth would urge us to do. Just as Jesus condemned the injustices of his own day – and overturned the money-changing tables at the Temple – the Occupy protesters are challenging how Wall Street bankers and today’s rich and powerful are harming the masses of people.
This week, religious people have felt proud of giving turkeys to the poor, but they should be joining the protests against the haughty rich. I maintain that Jesus would be a part of the actions in Portland, Denver, New York and many other cities. For Christians, the crucial issue should be “what would Jesus do”?
Today, Christian theologians and Bible scholars agree that the Jesus trip to Jerusalem at the end of his life is essential to understand what Jesus was about. Yet, Christian tradition has brainwashed followers of Jesus about the realities of his trip south to Jerusalem. We have all been exposed to the worship services in which children march waving palm branches and singing “Hosanna.”
Traditionally we have called the event “the triumphal entry.” However, put into the political and social context of Jerusalem in the early first century BCE, Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey was probably more like a protest march that mocked every leader in the city.
Political and religious “leaders” of the day probably would have ridden into town on a prancing horse, certainly not a humble donkey. So, Jesus’s choice of transportation was more street theatre than triumphal entry. It triggered a week of confrontations and arguments with the leaders of state and Temple.
The key event of the week was the incident in the Temple. Once again church tradition has given us a special name for the incident, “the cleansing of the Temple.” But It was more likely another piece of street theatre that became a bit physical.
To better understand the Temple incident, we need to understand its context. The Temple had become a lot more than a religious temple. It had become a tax collection agency and a bank. The Temple held large sums of money accumulated by collecting tithes from the faithful.
In reality, the tithe was a tax, not a freely given gift to God. In addition, fees were charged for participation in the Temple’s religious exercises. So, the Temple collected lots of money.
With that fat treasury, the Temple had entered the banking business and regularly made loans, primarily to poor people. Poor people were the victims not only of a flat tax, but also high-interest loans. So, the gap between the haves and the have-nots was growing rapidly. The poor were getting poorer, and the rich were getting richer.
Yet, equity was a key concept in the Israelite tradition. Torah (the law) had very specific rules demanding systematic redistribution of wealth. But those who controlled the Temple operation completely ignored their own religious teachings. The banking operation that had developed was very good to those who controlled the system.
Christians believe that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the whole world. However, from the perspective of history, Jesus died because he challenged a banking system that passed itself off as being righteous.
Today, bank buildings are the temples of America and the financial industry is a key pillar of an increasingly inequitable economic system. Although banks and their controlling officers claim to be upholders of orderly American life, a growing number of people know better.
Recent surveys have asked people “who in the banking business do you trust?” Credit unions came out on top, followed by locally controlled banks. Then, came regional banks. Large national banks came in dead last.
Christians should thank the current Occupy Wall Street protesters for their message and their activism. They are doing our justice work for us. The current crop of national bank leaders are being shown to be just as corrupt as the Temple bankers were in Jesus’s day.
If Jesus were present among us today, he would be moving from Portland, to Los Angeles, to Kansas City, to Dallas, up to Chicago and on to Wall Street in New York City. He would join the protest in every city. He would be demanding an overhaul of our financial and banking system. He would be standing with the poor and their allies — and against the rich and their protectors.
When Jesus pursued the corruption of his own day, the representatives of the religious and political status quo killed him. And Jesus said to his followers “take up your cross and follow me.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2011/11/26/would-jesus-join-the-occupy-protests/
The Rev. Howard Bess is a retired American Baptist minister, who lives in Palmer, Alaska. His email address is hdbss@mtaonline.net.
Who
Is the Pope?
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The New York Review of Books
Eamon Duffy
FEBRUARY 19, 2015 ISSUE
The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope
by Austen Ivereigh
Henry Holt, 445 pp., $30.00
A Big Heart Open to God: A Conversation with Pope Francis
by Antonio Spadaro, SJ
HarperOne, 150 pp., $17.99
Pope Francis: Untying the Knots
by Paul Vallely
Bloomsbury, 227 pp., $20.95 (paper)
On December 22, 2014, Pope Francis delivered the traditional papal Christmas speech to the assembled ranks of the Roman Curia. This annual meeting with the staff of the church’s central administration offers popes the opportunity for a stock-taking “state of the union” address. In 2005, his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI had used the occasion to deliver a momentous analysis of the “hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture” that he believed had distorted understanding of the Second Vatican Council by presenting it as a revolutionary event, and to which he attributed many of the ills of the modern church. The phrase “hermeneutic of rupture” was eagerly seized on by those seeking a “reform of the reform,” and became a weapon in the struggle to roll back some of the most distinctive developments in the church following the Second Vatican Council of 1962–1965, which had been presided over first by John XXIII and then by Paul VI.
The scope of Pope Francis’s 2014 address, however, was far more local and specific. Having briefly thanked his hearers for their hard work during the previous year, the pope launched into an excruciating fifteen-point dissection of the spiritual ailments to which people in their position might be prone. It was a dismaying catalog of “curial diseases”—the spiritual “narcissism” that, as part of the “pathology of power,” encouraged some to behave like “lords and masters” (in Italian, padroni); the “Martha complex” of excessive activity, which squeezes out human sympathy and renders men incapable of “weeping with those who weep”; the “spiritual Alzheimer’s” that besets those “who build walls and routines around themselves” and forget the spirit of the Gospel.
The pope’s tally of curial sins also included cliquishness, acquisitiveness, careerism, competitiveness, and indifference to others; the “existential schizophrenia” and “progressive spiritual emptiness” of many who abandon pastoral service and “restrict themselves to bureaucratic matters”; the “theatrical severity and sterile pessimism,” the “funereal face” that often attend the exercise of power; and the “terrorism of gossip” by which the cowardly “are ready to slander, defame and discredit others, even in newspapers and magazines.”
Though presented by Francis as a pastoral aid to a seasonal examination of conscience, the speech was widely perceived, not least by many in his audience, as a scathing critique of the current papal administration. Such excoriation of the Curia by a pope is unprecedented in modern times, yet there was nothing in its substance that need have surprised. The conclave that elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio as pope in March 2013 was beset by a sense of scandal and dysfunction at the heart of the church. The cardinals met in the wake of the startling resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and under a rain of revelations about corruption and money laundering in the Vatican bank, clerical sexual abuse, and the failure of the church authorities to confront it—all given lurid coloring by the “Vatileaks scandal,” the leaking to the press by Pope Benedict’s own butler of hundreds of confidential documents revealing corruption, maladministration, and internecine feuding within the Curia itself.
The
Vatican’s Financial Reform: The Spin Is Back
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Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
>>>>>UNACCOUNTABLE CARDINALS & POPES
>>>>>CANNOT SUCCEED IN THE INTERNET ERA !
Pope Francis returned from his Lenten Retreat to face the latest “cardinal leak” scandal He tried unsuccessfully to give a “subject changing” speech on the current evils for the poor of global capitalism. Leaked scandals are inevitable occurrences, given the pope’s futile continuation of secrecy in the Internet Era, and the lack of transparent accountability of cardinals, and of the pope for that matter, in the past, now or in the foreseeable future. The new leak involved large and questionable expenditures of one of Francis’ more than a hundred unaccountable Cardinals, George Pell, the Vatican’s new finance czar. Pell seems to like to spend lavishly on almost everything but abuse survivors’ just claims.
The pope also faced continuing fallout from his unwise “Mexicanization comments” and from his difficult Angela Merkel meeting over the Vatican’s Ukraine, and women and children’s, positions discussed below. The top German Cardinal, Reinhard Marx, is reportedly currently nearly threatening to act in Germany on a seemingly important local “money matter” — divorced and remarried Catholics’ access to communion, regardless of what Francis’ futile “all celibate male” Final Family Synod, or even Francis, may decide in a matter of months. Unaccountable cardinals are, it seems, not much influenced by an unaccountable pope in his 79th year.
By serendipity, or providence perhaps, legendary investor, Warren Buffett, was at about the same time making relevant remarks on the need to hold managers accountable. Buffett had earlier made some surprising negative observations about global capitalism that were similar to some the pope just made in his new speech on the adverse effect of the current crony capitalist system on the poor.
Buffett, who was raised a Presbyterian, differs from the pope, significantly however, on the importance of top managers being held accountable and on the importance of family planning programs. Buffett is moving forward with his commitment to transfer most of his $75 billion fortune to the Gates Foundation — a major international advocate for accessible family planning programs. The priest child abuse scandal Francis faces, and the desperate plight of some poor families the world faces, are often exacerbated needlessly by couples having more children than they really want or can afford to provide even basic necessities.
Melinda Gates, the Foundation’s co-head and a Catholic, appears, in effect, to be on a collision course with Francis and his upcoming Final Family Synod over the Synod’s approving at least giving poor women access to affordable and effective family planning programs, including contraception. Please see, “Melinda Gates: ‘I’m a Catholic, but women need access to contraceptives‘ – video interview” here,
[The Guardian]
The former Archbishop from Australia, Pell, is still reeling, it appears, from a recent and devastating government report on his brutal treatment of Australian priest sex abuse survivors who sought minimal financial assistance to alleviate the adverse effects of their abuse, see “Pope Francis Must Fire Cardinal Pell Now ” here:
[Christian Catholicism]
Pope
Francis Errs On Child Sex Abusers, Women & the Koch Brothers
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Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Pope Francis is about to meet with all his Cardinals. He needs to change his basic losing strategy before he meets with them. The pope has admitted that he has made many mistakes. The pope, unfortunately, continues to make them with his flawed strategy, including mistakes (1) on his self policing of clerical sex abusers, as indicated here,
[ABC News],
(2) on disregarding Catholic women, as indicated here,
[ABC News],
and here,
[New York Review of Books],
and here
[National Catholic Reporter],
and (3) on aligning through his US bishops with the “low tax” billionaire Koch Brothers, as indicated here
[Religion News Service].
The Vatican continues to err in handling sexual abuse by priests. Pope Francis would do well to read the wise advice of Dr. Rosemary McHugh. a priest abuse survivor and an expert on women’s reproductive health. Please see her remarkable story entitled “Ireland: A Priest Predator & A Young US Doctor & An Archbishop” here.
Oddly, the usually meticulously careful AP Rome earlier today (1/31/15) reported that the pope’s regular (and overworked) Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, indicated that two Polish-born prelates were being investigated by Holy See authorities for alleged possession of child pornography.
AP earlier had reported that Lombardi on Saturday identified one of them as Monsignor Bronislaw Morawiec, an administrator at St. Mary Major Basilica, which was Boston’s disgraced former Cardinal Bernard Law’s former Rome base and is a church where Pope Francis sometimes prays. Presumably, Morawiec had been investigated by then top Vatican prosecutor, Fr, Robert Oliver, Cardinal Law’s former canon lawyer. Cardinal Law’s former key legal aide, Oliver, is now the top staffer at the pope’s new “go slow” abuse commission that, after almost two years, will have its first full meeting soon.
AP’s original report indicated that the spokesman said Morawiec has already been convicted of fraud by the tiny city-state’s justice system. AP later withdrew the original story linked above, saying in a subsequent report, that Morawiec was not under investigation for child pornography possession, while still indicating that Morawiec has been convicted of fraud by a Vatican tribunal. Got that! He has been shown apparently to be a crook, but not a pervert, thank God.
January 30, 2015
Why
is Pope Francis Still So Afraid of Oversight By the Catholic 99.99% ?
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Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Common sense, and accumulated experience, tell us that organizational problems can only be fixed, long term, by changing the organizational structure that caused the problems. The Catholic Church has had escalating and scandalous problems that have resulted, since the 1870 First Vatican Council “proclamation on infallibility”, largely from the Vatican’s top down and unaccountable monarchical structure, regardless of which Church officials handled, or more likely mishandled, specific problems.
Yet, Pope Francis in two years as pope has mostly just recycled some officials, leaving the flawed top down structure intact. Pre-Constantine, early Catholics oversaw their religious leaders directly for three centuries. Catholics must do so again, soon! Who and/or what follows Pope Francis? Please see The Crisis Pope Francis Faces , “Pope Francis Is Still Failing Too Many Abused & Abandoned Children, No?” and Pope Francis vs. Shadow Pope Benedict — Who is Infallible .
The obvious flaw in Francis’ current approach was again just noted by Gerald Posner in an NPR interview, “From Laundering To Profiteering, A Multitude Of Sins At The Vatican Bank” here
[NPR]
discussing former Wall Street lawyer Posner’s explosive new 750+ page book, “God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican” , see at Amazon link:
[Amazon]
God’s Bankers covers the astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, mysterious deaths of private investigators, and questionable suicides; a carnival of characters from Popes and Cardinals, financiers and mobsters, kings and prime ministers; and a set of moral and political circumstances that make clear the Vatican’s real aims and ambitions.And Posner even looks to the future to assess if Pope Francis can succeed where all his predecessors failed: to overcome the resistance to change in the Vatican’s Machiavellian inner court and to rein in the excesses of its seemingly uncontrollable and insatiable hierarchical greed.
Asked in his NPR interview about Pope Francis’ Vatican financial reforms, Posner responded, in pertinent part: “I’ve been impressed by him … {but} What could upend it? He needs to be there long enough that these changes can’t be reversed by a new pope who gets in and can be pushed around by the strong dominant bureaucrats.”
Pope Francis has not yet even selected an international auditing firm for the Vatican’s own huge proprietary assets. As eminent historian of the papacy, Eamon Duffy recently noted in the New York Review of Books, in pertinent part: ” … A pope with a long time in office can ensure that those around him share his vision. Rome appoints all the world’s Catholic bishops; the pope himself decides who will be a cardinal. The long pontificate of John Paul II and the succession of his right-hand man, Benedict XVI, have created a hierarchy who share much of their vision for the church. Gerhard Müller, still head of the Vatican’s most influential department, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is also the general editor of Benedict XVI’s collected writings … Francis himself is unlikely to have a long pontificate: he is an old man, with only one functioning lung.”
Vatican
confirms negotiating tax deal with Italy - update
VATICAN CITY
Gazzetta del Sud
Vatican City, March 5 - The Vatican is in talks with the Italian authorities for a deal about bank secrecy and other tax issues to help track down Italian tax evaders, Holy See sources told ANSA on Thursday. Italy recently reached deals to end bank secrecy with Switzerland, Monaco and Liechtenstein. In an interview with weekly magazine L'Espresso, Premier Matteo Renzi said he was hopeful the Vatican would be the next State to sign a tax deal with Rome. The sources said an eventual deal would not regard the position of individuals with accounts in the Vatican, as this area has been effectively dealt with via recent reforms of the Vatican Bank, the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), and the closure of accounts of people who are not clergy or Holy See employees.
Two
cases of child pornography possession in Vatican in 2014
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Reuters
BY PHILIP PULLELLA
VATICAN CITY Sat Jan 31, 2015
(Reuters) - The Vatican, which is still struggling with the effects of a worldwide pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church, discovered two cases of possession of child pornography within its own walls last year, its chief prosecutor said on Saturday.
Gian Piero Milano, whose official title is Promoter of Justice, reported the cases in a 50-page report read to Vatican officials at a ceremony marking the start of the city-state's judicial year.
The Catholic Church has been hit by scandal involving the sexual abuse of children by priests around the world in the past 15 years. Pope Francis has vowed zero tolerance for offenders but victims of abuse want him to do more and make bishops who allegedly covered up the abuse accountable.
In his report, Milano said Vatican police had investigated "two delicate cases, of varying degrees of seriousness, of possession of child pornography material" by people living or working inside the city-state, which is the headquarters of the 1.2 billion member Church.
The prosecutor gave no details but a Vatican spokesman said one of them involved Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop who was arrested last September in the Vatican on charges of having paid for sex with children while he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic.
Vatican
Hits Sour Note With Women, but Progress May Come
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ABC News
VATICAN CITY — Jan 31, 2015
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
A new Vatican outreach initiative to listen to women hit a sour note before it even got off the ground: The sexy blonde on its Internet promo video came under such ridicule that it was quickly taken down.
But the program is going ahead, and an inaugural meeting this week will study women's issues in ways that are utterly new for the Holy See.
No, there is no talk of ordaining women priests.
But the working paper for the Pontifical Council of Culture's plenary assembly on "Women's Cultures: Equality and Difference" speaks about opening the church's doors to women so they can offer their skills "in full collaboration and integration" with men.
It denounces plastic surgery as a form of "aggression" against the female body "like a burqa made of flesh." And it acknowledges that the church has for centuries offered women "ideological and ancestral left-overs."
This is dangerous territory for the all-male Catholic Church hierarchy, as even Pope Francis has faced criticism for being a bit tone deaf as far as women are concerned.
The Hands on
the Strings of Peter’s Purse
VATICAN CITY
Chiesa
The statutes of the new economic dicastery assign Cardinal Pell supervision over the assets of all the Vatican offices. But the ownership and management remain separate. Here is the story of a battle that is not over yet
by Sandro Magister
ROME, March 6, 2015 – The two most remarkable appointments that Pope Francis has made to the curia so far bear the names of cardinals Pietro Parolin and George Pell.
The first, a diplomat of the highest rank, to the secretariat of state, and the second, a manager of Anglo-Saxon pluck, to the newly created secretariat for the economy. Both of them are part of the “C9,” the council of cardinals that the pope wanted to gather around him for the reform of the curia.
And yet there is no agreement between these two.
Even worse. Behind their backs and to their detriment there has re-exploded the chaos of blunt recriminations, poisonous accusations, and vested interests that ravaged the previous pontificate. A terrible accompaniment for the vaunted reform of the Roman curia.
The appointment of Pell last year had been preceded by a barrage of consultation on how to reorganize the Vatican economic-financial structure, requested from companies like McKinsey, Promontory, Ernst & Young, KPMG, among the most distinguished and expensive in the world but certainly inexperienced with the unique profile that distinguishes the Holy See.
Review:
'God's Bankers' by Gerald Posner
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Chicago Tribune
By Trine Tsouderos
Soon after coming into office, Pope Francis began reforming the church's secretive yet powerful institution, the Institute for the Works of Religion, also known as the Vatican Bank. He issued decrees speeding reviews and improving transparency. He created a commission to do a thorough review of its operations. He replaced much of its leadership with experts from the global banking industry, charging them with overhauling the institution.
Francis' reforms included revising the mission of the bank too. The institution would leave its investment banking days behind to become a payment service and financial adviser to employees and other parts of the Catholic Church. As the prefect of the Vatican's Secretariat for the Economy, Cardinal George Pell, said, "The ambition is to be boringly successful, to get off the gossip pages."
Why all this reform? Wall Street-lawyer-turned-author Gerald Posner lays it out in his deeply researched, passionately argued book, "God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican." Posner, whose previous books include the best-seller, "Why America Slept," about the U.S. government's failure to prevent 9/11, is a merciless pitbull of an investigator, marshaling mountains of evidence to make his arguments.
Posner began researching "God's Bankers" after working on "Mengele," the 1986 biography he wrote with author John Ware on notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. Posner and Ware obtained access to 5,000 pages of Mengele's personal writings and photos, using this trove to paint a portrait of a monster. During his research, Posner writes that he repeatedly unearthed evidence pointing to church involvement with the Nazis.
While the book traces the history of the Vatican's ongoing efforts to fund itself and its network, from sales of "indulgences" in the Middle Ages to the creation of the Vatican Bank to Pope Francis' reforms after decades of scandal, the heart of "God's Bankers" lies in chapters devoted to the church's actions during and immediately after World War II. In these chapters, Posner dissects the church's actions with the eye of a prosecutor.
Is Bishop Scicluna Really a
“Hero”, John Allen?
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Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
* A Maltese journalist, seemingly seeking to endear himself to the new Malta Archbishop Charles Scicluna, conveniently cites the Boston Globe’s John Allen, observing: “One of journalism’s most prolific of Vatican insiders and the leading American authority on the Holy See, John L. Allen, has dubbed Malta’s new archbishop a Catholic “hero” for his role in successful prosecutions of clerical sex abusers.
* The Maltese journalist continues his cite of Allen: “For years serving by the side of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as promoter of justice in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Scicluna, 55, spent 10 years handling accusations of clerical sex abuse, gaining a reputation for treating victims with compassion and respect, and for insisting church officials respond to allegations clearly … His leadership on the church’s effort to recover from its child sexual abuse scandals, especially his role in the prosecution of the late Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado, have made him a hero to reformers everywhere. His appointment will thus be taken not only as an important moment for Malta, but also a sign that good guys don’t always finish last!” . (emphasis mine)
* Of course, John Allen has made a nice living, it appears, increasingly as the US “spinmeister of choice” for the Vatican and its wealthy allies. But can Allen be taken seriously here in his “over the top praise” of Scicluna, who perhaps more than any other Vatican bureaucrat facilitated the Vatican’s evident priest abuse cover-up strategy for years. Scicluna’s rewards for this troubling behavior were promotions to senior episcopal positions from all indications.
* Sadly, in a gathering of “moral midgets” that the Vatican’s priest child abuse cover-up team seems to represent, even a short guy like Scicluna may seem a giant. But let’s be honest, please.
* Scicluna’s latest promotion appears to be just more of the same decades’ old cover up strategy. Pope Francis, a reportedly very hands on manager, apparently selected recently the members of his advisory sex abuse commission to deal, slowly it seems, with his biggest challenge, the scandal of sexual predatory priests and their unaccountable bishop accomplices.
On
financial reform, Pope Francis doesn’t blink
VATICAN CITY
Crux
By John L. Allen Jr.
Associate editor March 3, 2015
By now, one thing ought to be abundantly clear about Pope Francis: Faced with attempts to hobble his reform efforts through character assassination of his reformers, this pope just doesn’t blink.
The latest case in point is Australian Cardinal George Pell, put in charge of leading an historic clean-up of Vatican finances one year ago. The hard-charging former Australian Rules Football brawler has more than his fair share of critics, but on Tuesday Pope Francis issued a set of statutes for his operation which, to some extent at least, amount to a vindication.
(The statutes were released Tuesday, but were signed by the pope on Feb. 22 and actually took effect March 1.)
Early reaction to the decision has been mixed, with some Italian commentators seeing it as a defeat for Pell’s ambition to create a “super-dicastery,” meaning a Vatican department with virtually unlimited powers over both administration and vigilance of all Vatican assets.
Pope Francis’s Report
Card
VATICAN CITY
Time
John L. Allen, Jr./Rome @JohnLAllenJr
A veteran Vatican watcher sizes up Pope Francis
This article is adapted from the new book THE FRANCIS MIRACLE: Inside the Transformation of the Pope and the Church, published by Time Books.
Since his surprise election two years ago, Pope Francis has electrified and baffled the world in roughly equal measure. He’s launched Roman Catholicism on a reform path—though without altering its traditional teaching—and he’s tried to put a more compassionate and attractive face on its message. He has moved to address scandals and meltdowns that plagued the church under his predecessor and has done so in such a far-reaching and unexpected fashion that some of the Cardinals who elected him may be getting more than they bargained for. But on some fronts, the ultimate impact remains unclear. Here’s where Pope Francis’ reform campaign stands on five key issues. ...
3. Sex Abuse: PROMISING BUT INCOMPLETE
Pope Benedict XVI left behind a mixed legacy on Catholicism’s child-sexual-abuse scandals. He was the first Pope to meet victims and the first to embrace a zero-tolerance policy. He moved aggressively to weed abusers out of the priesthood, removing more than 400 in his final two years alone. Yet critics say Benedict fell short of holding bishops around the world accountable for failing to deal with the scandals.
Francis has taken steps to try to complete Benedict’s unfinished business, including the creation of a Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, which is led by Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley of Boston and includes two survivors of clerical abuse as members.
He has also launched a Vatican criminal trial for a former papal diplomat charged with abuse in the Dominican Republic, insisting that there will be no special privileges on his watch. In early February he dispatched a letter to all bishops saying “everything possible must be done to rid the church of the scourge of the sexual abuse of minors.”
Critics nevertheless charge that progress under Francis has been halfhearted and slow. In 2014 he approved an investigation of Bishop Robert Finn in Kansas City—to date the only American bishop found guilty of a crime for failure to report a charge of child abuse. Until victims see a prelate like Finn disciplined, many will argue that the Pope’s efforts deserve a grade of incomplete.
4. Vatican Finances: THE NUMBERS WILL TELL
Over the years, money has been a recurrent source of Vatican scandal. The roll call runs through the Vatican bank crises of the 1970s and ’80s all the way up to the arrest in summer 2013 of “Monsignor 500 Euro”—a onetime Vatican accountant indicted by Italian authorities as part of a cash-smuggling scheme.
Francis began his reform by creating an ambitious three-part structure: a Secretariat for the Economy with power to impose fiscal discipline and accountability; a Council for the Economy composed of heavy-hitter Cardinals as well as business professionals to oversee operations; and an independent auditor general to keep everyone honest.
To run it all, Francis brought in a tough-as-nails Australian prelate named George Pell. In mid-February, Pell reported to all Cardinals that his team had discovered $1.5 billion in hidden assets and a shortfall of almost $1 billion in the pension fund.
Pell and his team have their critics. Some members of the Vatican’s old guard believe it’s a reform in the spirit of the classic Italian novel Il Gattopardo: “Everything must change so that everything can stay the same.” More will become clear when the secretariat submits its first audited financial statement later this year.
The
Vatican’s financial reform: The nasty is back
VATICAN CITY
Crux
By John L. Allen Jr.
Associate editor February 28, 2015
Over the centuries, court politics at the Vatican sometimes have had a seriously nasty side. If anyone was wondering whether that aspect of its culture had been killed off in the Francis era, or had simply gone dormant, late February 2015 provided a fairly clear answer.
In a word, the nasty is back.
The focus this time is Cardinal George Pell of Australia, the pope’s chosen fix-it man on Vatican finances. Francis tapped Pell a year ago to end a cycle of scandal and corruption in money management, and in the year since he took over a newly created Secretariat for the Economy, he’s become a lightning rod of the first order.
This week the Italian newsmagazine l’Espresso published leaked receipts from Pell’s new department purporting to show that it has racked up more than a half-million dollars in expenses during its first six months of existence, including a tab of more than $3,000 at Gammarelli’s, a famed clerical tailor shop in Rome.
A rumor ensued that Francis had called Pell on the carpet about those expenses, something the Secretariat for the Economy called “completely false” and “complete fiction” in a statement on Saturday. In fact, the statement insisted, the new department’s expenses are actually below the budget set when it was established last March.
No
need to be Catholic priests today: Gays now openly marry. Pedophiles are hunted
in Roman Catholic churches (by Interpol).
UNITED STATESf
PopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
Paris Arrow
The Roman Catholic Church used to be a safe haven for gay priests and pedophile priests – where they were guaranteed to find gay partners in the most exclusive boys’ club on earth – and where they could tap on an ample source of supply of little boys (and girls) in Catholic churches packed with idiots Catholics, in parochial schools run by stupid Catholic nuns, in devout Pope John Paul II & rosary worshipping Catholic families, in rectories filled with adulating altar boys. And with additional perks to – the sure supply of gay men and little boys – priests had the backing of the Vatican Billions and the cover-up of bishops and cardinals and popes who imposed secrecy on their clandestine gay and pedophilia orgies – especially the two new saints John XXIII and John Paul II – thus making the Catholic Church as the most secure place for gay priests and pedophile priests to satiate their bestial priestly lust for gay men and young boys (and girls).
Pope
Francis vs. Shadow Pope Benedict — Who is Infallible ?
UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Hans Kung, who has known ex-Pope Benedict well for over a half century, warned Pope Francis about Pope Benedict’s remaining in his Vatican convent, noting that “Pope Benedict Will Be A ‘Shadow Pope’ “, see here,
[Huffington Post]
Archbishop George Gänswein, the ex-Pope’s personal “convent mate”, as reported recently by Crux, publicly expressed regret over specific cases in which Vatican spokesmen have had to issue clarifications about things his boss, Pope Francis, has said or done.
Now comes the “bomb”. In a new and significant Commonweal article by William McDonough, a theology professor, entitled “Right the First Time — Benedict XVI on Communion for the Remarried“, see here,
[Commonweal]
Both popes are already looking quite “fallible” over their mishandling of the contraception ban and the priest child abuse scandal, among other missteps, as discussed in my “Pope Francis Is Still Failing Too Many Abused & Abandoned Children, No?”.
Now this. Which pope is infallible here? Did Pope Benedict, a long time theology professor, lose his “infallible power” when he walked across the Vatican campus to his well renovated convent? Did non-theologian Francis receive a “cranial infallibility” implant when the papal crown was put on his head? Who is the real Papal Wizard now? Are they both serious about preserving the myth of papal infallibility? Will they now both infallibly declare the “principle of contradiction” to be false?
A
paedophile priest, two bishops ...
UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
A paedophile priest, two bishops and a sickening conspiracy of silence: He married Frank Bruno and said Mass for Delia Smith. But behind the glitz was one of the Catholic Church's dirtiest secrets
By RICHARD PENDLEBURY FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Father Tony McSweeney chalked up a number of notable additions to his CV during a lifetime supposedly devoted to the service of children and God.
He said Mass at Norwich City Football Club at the request of its celebrity cook owner Delia Smith, and conducted the marriage of world heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno.
He also received the prestigious Silver Acorn for decades of ‘dedication’ to the global Scout movement and his co-authorship of its official songbook.
Last week, he even boasted of being the ‘world expert’ on organising campfire get-togethers.
But now he must add a chilling new entry to his list of achievements: he has become the first paedophile to be tried and convicted after being linked to allegations of a VIP ring based at an infamous South London guesthouse who preyed on boys from a nearby care home.
And unless police make further progress with their investigations, he could well be the last.
For decades — culminating in his trial and conviction at Southwark Crown Court on Friday — McSweeney, 68, lied and lied.
Predator
priests in the Springfield, Illinois Catholic diocese
ILLINOIS
Holy Family Inclusive Catholic Community
This entry was posted on March 4, 2015 by John Freml
Bishop PaprockiOn Wednesday, March 4, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and Call To Action Central Illinois held a news conference in which the names of eight priests accused of sexual abuse of minors were released, all of whom are believed to have been transferred to various towns within the Springfield diocese.
What follows is a summary of the information that was released. (Disclaimer: This information was provided to us by SNAP.)
What we know for sure:
* Two out-of-state predator priests spent time in the Springfield diocese.
* Neither Bishop Thomas Paprocki nor his predecessors have told anyone about them.
* If they molested kids here, those kids are now adults and are likely still suffering.
* If so, Paprocki has a moral duty to aggressively reach out to them.
* Six predator priests ousted from their Chicago parishes in the 1990s, while Bishop Paprocki was the Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Chicago, were listed in the Official Catholic Directory as having a central Illinois area phone number, after they were ousted from their Chicago parishes for alleged abuse. The phone (217-324-4192) is a land line in Litchfield. Currently, the only operating Catholic facility in Litchfield is Holy Family parish.
More details:
The two out-of-state predator priests who spent time in the Springfield diocese are Fr. Frank R. Martinez Jr. of Iowa and Fr. James Vincent Fitzgerald of South Dakota, both deceased.
In 2008, Fr. Martinez was deemed “credibly accused” of child sex abuse by Davenport diocesan officials and reportedly molested at least one kid in Iowa. Later, he was sent to St. Mary’s hospital in Decatur (source).
Fr. Fitzgerald was a member of a Washington, DC-based religious order called the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (202-529-4505). In 2013, Fr. Fitzgerald was sued for reportedly assaulting one kid in Minnesota and in 2010 for molesting two kids in South Dakota. From 1994-2002, he lived at a church facility in Belleville (source, source).
Catholic officials must soon release more church records about Fr. Fitzgerald, thanks to a ruling last month in a pending civil abuse case against him in Minnesota (source, source)
The six priests ousted from their Chicago parishes in the 1990s and listed in the Official Catholic Directory in the 217 area code are: Fr. David F. Braun, Fr. Eugene P. Burns, Fr. William J. Cloutier, Fr. Norbert J. Maday, Fr. Robert E. Mayer and Fr. Kenneth C. Runge.
We believe Fr. Mayday and Fr. Mayer are alive, but are unsure.
Fr. Cloutier, Fr. Burns, and Fr. Braun are deceased.
The identities of these priests were revealed from long-secret church documents, made public recently through civil lawsuits.
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groups release names of 8 priests who allegedly committed crimes against minors
ILLINOIS
WAND
Posted: Mar 04, 2015
SPRINGFIELD - Members of Call to Action Central Illinois and the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests have released the names of eight priests who were believed to be transferred to the Springfield Catholic diocese and have allegedly committed predatory crimes against minors.
Members of both groups revealed the names of the alleged individuals during a press conference in Springfield Wednesday afternoon. SNAP Director David Clohessy and Call to Action Central Illinois spokesperson John Freml were in attendance.
The individuals who were named at the conference allegedly committed various crimes involving minors before being transferred to the Springfield Catholic diocese.
The press release from the event (information provided by SNAP officials) can be found at this link: http://www.inclusiveholyfamily.org/blog/predator-priests-in-the-springfield-illinois-catholic-diocese.
A statement regarding the release of the alleged individuals' names from Call to Action spokesperson John Freml can be found here: http://www.inclusiveholyfamily.org/blog/john-fremls-statement-at-the-snap-news-conference-on-march-4-2015.
Pope
Consolidates Overhaul of Centuries-Old Financial Structure
VATICAN CITY
Bloomberg
by Alessandro Speciale
March 3, 2015
(Bloomberg) -- Pope Francis consolidated his overhaul of the Vatican’s financial system by publishing the statutes of three new economic bodies created to help increase transparency and modernize the centuries-old institution.
The statues of the Council for the Economy, the Secretariat for the Economy, and an independent Auditor General, all created in the past few years, were published on the Vatican website. Jointly, the bodies promote modern management principles and oversee Vatican offices that have operated independently in the past.
A more transparent and accountable handling of the Church’s affairs has been a key priority for the pope since his election in 2013. The first non-European pontiff in almost 1,300 years, who vowed to make the church “poor, and for the poor,” Francis is trying to restore the image of the Church’s finances following several scandals.
The Council for the Economy “follows international best practices in public administration, with the aim of an ethical and efficient financial and administrative management,” according to one of the three legal texts published on the Vatican website.
Pope
approves legal framework for financial reform
VATICAN CITY
Reuters
BY PHILIP PULLELLA
VATICAN CITY Tue Mar 3, 2015
(Reuters) - Pope Francis approved detailed new plans to reform Vatican finances on Tuesday, giving the Australian cardinal leading the changes sweeping powers to monitor Vatican departments and ensure budgets conform to international accounting standards.
The statutes had been keenly awaited for signs of how much power would fall to Cardinal George Pell - an outsider Francis brought in to oversee often muddled finances and who, according to Italian media, is viewed skeptically by detractors in the Vatican bureaucracy who feel he has amassed too much power.
The changes were one of the clearest indications to date that Francis is committed to the mandate given him by cardinals who elected him in 2013 to clean up after a series of financial scandals.
The most important of three new norms is one that governs the Secretariat for the Economy, which Pell has headed since it was set up last year. The norms give Pell wide powers, including the monitoring of other Vatican departments, ensuring their budgets conform to international accounting standards and are reviewed by external auditors.
WI--For
victims, Milwaukee Archdiocesan bankruptcy going from bad to worse
MILWAUKEE (WI)
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Statement by Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director
CONTACT: 414.429.7259
Four years ago Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki petitioned the federal bankruptcy court for chapter 11, promising that court ordering sexual abuse cases into bankruptcy was necessary to bring “healing” and “resolution” to victims of pedophile clergy. That took cases out of state court and put them into bankruptcy court, where they decide if creditors should get paid their business debts or private companies reorganize themselves.
$22.5 million dollars in lawyers’ fees later, not only hasn’t a single one of the 575 victims that filed cases in Milwaukee received a penny of restitution, ten more representative cases were tossed out today in a confusing set of narrow rulings by Judge Susan V. Kelley. One can only wonder: why did it take four years and millions of dollars to figure out only now that these cases don’t have legal merit?
If it wasn’t before, it is now painfully clear that the federal court should never have accepted Listecki’s petition for bankruptcy. The archdiocese never intended to bring healing and restitution to victims. What it has done, besides increasing exponentially the pain and suffering of survivors and their families, is bar victims from seeking justice in state courts and herd them into federal bankruptcy. Now, instead of being a victim of child rape or a plaintiff in a terrible negligence act, you’re a consumer or a creditor trying to get you bill paid.
Which leads to the obvious point: bankruptcy court is no place for criminal child rape and institutional conspiracy cases. Yes, other church bankruptcies around the US were resolved quickly, leading to some actual restitution for victims, on average, $350,000 per survivor. But the bishops in the other bankruptcies, in retrospect, seemed to have decided that they would work in some significant way with victims and their attorneys to reach resolution. In Milwaukee, however, the lone wolf archbishop decided he was going to send his lawyers to destroy victim cases like heat seeking missiles. So far, they have done splendidly for themselves. The current offer on the table for restitution per victim, by the way, is under $7,000.
That is why Milwaukee is now the nation’s object lesson on exactly how not to resolve church sexual abuse cases, as was recently mentioned, very pointedly and publically, from the bench of at least two federal judges in other church bankruptcy filings, Gallup and Minneapolis. How, the judges mused, could lawyers be paid twice as much in Milwaukee as the total being offered to all victims?
Apparently the message to the community from the archbishop from this bankruptcy, the innocent and the criminal alike, is that you can get away with anything if only you have enough money, power and time.
Priest
who does Vatican PR says he won’t sue conservative blogger
ROME
Crux
By Inés San Martín
Vatican correspondent March 4, 2015
ROME — Despite a frenzy in the conservative Catholic blogosphere, a high-profile priest who volunteers as an English-language assistant to the Vatican press office says he’s not planning to take legal action against a Canadian blogger who had criticized him, and considers the matter closed.
The Rev. Thomas Rosica, also a Canadian, said Wednesday he never planned to sue the blogger, and also insisted that he’s not a “high-ranking Vatican official” and hence there was never any prospect of the Vatican taking action.
On Feb. 17, Rosica sent David Domet, a musician who runs a blog called “Vox Cantoris,” a letter through the Toronto-based law firm Fogler, Rubinoff demanding the removal of nine statements that Domet had posted about Rosica. The letter said the statements were “false and defamatory for suggesting that the priest is dishonest, untrustworthy, and willing to act unethically to further his own agenda.”
When Domet posted the letter, it generated a mini-tempest among some Catholic commentators, often based on the impression that the Vatican was cracking down on conservative voices.
TX--Bishop
accused of illegal taping of victim’s mom
TEXAS
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Wednesday, March 4
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com , davidgclohessy@gmail.com )
A startling new clergy sex abuse and cover up lawsuit charges that Ft. Worth Catholic Bishop Michael F. Olsen:
-- illegally tape recorded a child sex abuse victim’s mom without her knowledge,
-- also tape recorded a “trusting” and deeply wounded victim too,
-- “betrayed,” “re-victimized” and “tried to silence” him until his statute of limitations expired,
-- conducted a “virtual interrogation” of him “for fraudulent purposes: to limit or deny” any potential civil case (he) would have and to “elicit support for the diocese’s legal defenses” if he did sue,
-- intended to “trick and betray” the mom “into testifying against her own abused and damaged son” with the “sole purpose of (using) her statements to defeat any potential civil claims he might justly have.”
-- promised to contact the victim again “in a few weeks” but never did,
-- led the victim “to believe he would go to Mass with him and pray with him but never did,
-- said “how happy he was that (the victim) had not hired a lawyer to sue the diocese.”
The bottom line is that “As a trusting child, Doe was betrayed and victimized by a chaplain and as a trusting adult he was betrayed and then re-victimized by his bishop,” the suit asserts.
The perpetrator of the child sex crimes was Fr. Hugh John Sutton.
Under the guise of punishment, Fr. Sutton repeatedly inflicted “sadistic abuse” on the boy,” the suit charges, beginning in in 1990, when the boy was in the 7th grade at Notre Dame Middle-High School at Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish in Wichita Falls, Texas. During lunch hour in the school chapel, Fr. Sutton “disciplined” the boy by sexually assaulting him.
Fr. Sutton claimed, the suit says that “these excruciating, humiliating abuses were testimonies to God of his repentance for having plagiarized, and pleased Him” while also warning the boy to “not to tell anyone because no one would believe him,” and threatening “I have the power to ruin your life.”
A New York native, Fr. Sutton was ordained in Pueblo Colorado and worked as a teacher, chaplain or priest in Arkansas, California, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Guam and the US Navy. His only church assignment in the Ft. Worth diocese was apparently at Notre Dame (which he left in 1992). His last known location was at the Commons of Providence, a Catholic-affiliated assisted living facility in Sandusky, Ohio. He died in 2004.
The victim now lives out of state. He is represented by Dallas attorney Tahira Khan Merritt (214 503 7300). The suit, filed yesterday in Tarrant County court, seeks actual and punitive damages of more than one million dollars. It also says that in 2013, the victim “had a nervous breakdown, began to suffer debilitating panic attacks (which) flooded his sleeping and waking hours and wreaked havoc in his life” “as he recalled, for the first time, disturbing images of the serial rapes and sadistic abuses by Sutton.”
We urge anyone who may have seen, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes or cover ups in the Ft. Worth diocese – by this cleric or any church employee – to find the strength and courage to step forward, seek help, call police, expose wrongdoers, protect kids and start healing.
Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston
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!
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 usingmilitary 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.
At European Union Parliament, misogynist Pope Francis described Europe as a “grandmother ...
UNITED STATES
POPE 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).
Our
Lady of revenue: NYC churches on the market
NEW YORK
USA Today
[with video]
Rick Hampson, USA TODAY March 1, 2015
NEW YORK – Our Lady of Vilnius Church, built by families of immigrant Lithuanian longshoremen, started out a century ago as a beloved worship space. Now, it's a coveted real estate asset.
In 2013, six years after the church was closed, it was sold for $13 million to one of the city's biggest developers. The following year that company flipped it like a pancake to another developer for $18.4 million.
Now the yellow brick church near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel awaits demolition to make way for an 18-story luxury apartment house.
"It makes you cynical,'' says Christina Nakraseive, a former parishioner who supported the legal case against the church closing until it was rejected by the state's highest court. "It seems like it's all about real estate.''
The issue has taken on added significance since the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, citing declining attendance, rising costs and a looming priest shortage, announced plans to merge scores of parishes and close dozens of churches this year.
Franciscan
friars accused of racist rants at St. Francis Friends of the Poor
NEW YORK
New York Post
By Kathianne Boniello
March 1, 2015
Forgive me, fathers, for you have sinned.
Three Catholic priests who run homeless charities in Manhattan are anything but Christian behind closed doors, longtime female staffers at St. Francis Friends of the Poor claim in a lawsuit.
Franciscan Friars John McVean, John Felice and Tom Walters subjected the women to racist rants and took a veritable vow of silence as the ladies were repeatedly manhandled for three years by a leering, oversexed co-worker, court papers allege.
The trio “ruled St. Francis with an iron fist and fostered a culture of intimidation,” according to the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit. “The priests, who many at St. Francis suspect occasionally come to work drunk, often lashed out at employees and frequently screamed at subordinates.”
McVean, Felice and Walters — all friars in residence at St. Francis of Assisi Church on West 31st Street — launched their nonprofit in 1980 and now house 250 mentally ill men and women at three Manhattan locations. The charity is independent of the Archdiocese of New York.
McVean routinely referred to the building manager as “a goat-loving Muslim,” “an idiot Muslim” and “often said that ‘Muslims are dangerous,’ ” according to court papers. ...
The most traumatizing experience, the women say, came at the hands of Friends of the Poor program director Gyasi Bramos-Hantman, who subjected the women to an atmosphere that “would not be tolerated in any locker room,” according to the lawsuit.
About “twice a month,” Bramos-Hantman would corner the women for unwanted hugs, rubbing himself against them and once embracing O’Leary so forcibly “it loosened [her] colostomy and drainage bag,” she claims.
The women turned to McVean, Felice and Walters for help, but were threatened with termination by the priests, who engaged in “a massive coverup,” they allege.
The three priests denied the allegations.
The Vatican is the Devil reincarnated in Pope Francis
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 WORST PATHOLOGICAL LIAR ON THE
PLANET IS POPE FRANCIS HE SURPASSES
SATAN
Laughing THIEF
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
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!
There was a former Swiss Guard who came to Boston to recruit investors as he was the CEO of an investment company, read about him in our other blog http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/10/opus-dei-seminar-on-pope-and-ceo-world.html
Sacerdote pederasta mexicano es buscado en 180 países
MEXICO
Sopitas
[Priest Eduardo Cordova Bautista of the San Luis Potosi diocese is wanted in 180 countries thought the Interpol international police agency. He is wanted in connection with allegations that he sexually abused 19 young people.]
El sacerdote que llegó a fungir como representante de la Arquidiócesis de San Luis Potosí, de nombre Eduardo Córdova Bautista, es buscado en 180 países a través de la Policía Internacional de la Interpol por el abuso sexual de 19 menores.
De acuerdo con el procurador de Justicia de SLP, Miguel Ángel García Covarrubias, se tramitó una alerta migratoria en la Interpol Washington ante el supuesto caso de que el cura intente entrar o salir de Estados Unidos.
El procurador de Justicia emitió esta respuesta en un comunicado luego de que defensores de las víctimas protestaran, acusando que el gobierno de San Luis Potosí protege al prófugo sacerdote pederasta.
El fiscal aseguró que no habrá impunidad y que ha actuado con celeridad:
“En este caso siempre se ha actuado con estricto apego a la ley, evitando que haya impunidad, tan es así que en su momento se giró la respectiva orden de aprehensión en contra del ahora ex sacerdote por los delitos de abuso sexual calificado, privación ilegal de la libertad y corrupción de menores”.
Córdova Bautista tiene en su contra desde el 25 de junio pasado una orden de arresto por pederastia en agravio de 19 menores. Fue párroco del Templo de Nuestra Señora de la Anunciación e, incluso, representante de la Arquidiócesis en el estado.
Anonymous are about to wage war on rich and powerful ...
UNITED KINGDOM
The Independent
Anonymous are about to wage war on rich and powerful covering up child sex abuse in 'nightmarish' Friday 13th march
LAMIAT SABIN Friday 13 February 2015
Masked protesters will march on the homes of "elite" paedophiles and public figures they claim have been involved in the "nightmarish" cover-up of child sex abuse.
In a video released on YouTube, Anonymous says it has exposed a club of people in positions of trust and responsibility that have been murdering and torturing children.
"Friday the 13th will see us become the nightmare on Elite Street," the message says.
"Politicians, royals, media, religious figures, singers, actors, men and women; it seems that the long grotesque arm of this club has no bounds.
Opferverein kritisiert Bewährungsstrafe
DEUTSCHLAND
Katholisch
[An association of victims of abuse at Ettal Monastery said giving their abuser probation is no penalty.]
Kloster Ettal | 27.02.2015 – München
Der Verein Ettaler Missbrauchs- und Misshandlungsopfer hält die vom Landgericht München II dem geständigen Pater G. zugesagte Bewährungsstrafe für problematisch. Aus Sicht von Missbrauchsopfern sei es keine Strafe, "wenn jemand nicht einmal eine Woche ins Gefängnis muss", sagte der Vereinsvorsitzende Robert Köhler am Freitag auf Anfrage der Katholischen Nachrichten-Agentur (KNA) in München. Eine solche Sanktion werde dem "Vergeltungsbedürfnis der Opfer" nicht gerecht.
Zugleich würdigte Köhler die grundsätzliche Bedeutung des Geständnisses. Damit könne nicht mehr bezweifelt werden, dass es diese Übergriffe gegeben habe. Der Ordensmann hatte nach jahrelangem Leugnen am Donnerstag sich im Sinne der Anklage für schuldig bekannt. Demnach hat er als Internatspräfekt in Kloster Ettal zwischen 2001 und 2005 drei Schüler insgesamt 23 Mal sexuell missbraucht. Das Gericht hatte ihm zuvor für den Fall eines Geständnisses eine zur Bewährung ausgesetzte Haftstrafe von nicht mehr als zwei Jahren in Aussicht gestellt. Eines der Opfer soll noch als Zeuge vernommen werden, bevor am 11. März ein Urteil erwartet wird.
Rome--Victims question church-state ties in Norway, other nations
UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com , davidgclohessy@gmail.com )
Norwegian Catholic officials are accused of exaggerating church rosters to get more money. We’re skeptical of Oslo Bishop Bernt Eidsvig’s claims that he and his colleagues “never intended to do anything illegal."
[The Local]
We’re saddened by these allegations and urge governments to reconsider their agreements to collect fees for churches. These arrangements invite corruption and discourage abuse victims, witnesses and whistleblowers.
This kind of system gives churches too much power to church officials and deters abuse victims from speaking up ("See how powerful church is? See how closely it’s tied to secular authorities? Who will believe me? Why risk speaking up? Nothing will be done if I tell police or prosecutors")
Priest faces jail over sex abuse
UNITED KINGDOM
Belfast Telegraph
27 FEBRUARY 2015
A Catholic priest dubbed the "fat vicar" is facing jail after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy at a children's home.
Father Anthony McSweeney, 68, preyed on the vulnerable youngster while working at Grafton Close Children's Home in Hounslow, west London, between 1979 and 1981. Morbidly obese McSweeney was also found guilty of making indecent images of children.
He preyed on the boy with his close friend John Stingemore, 72, who managed the care home and was found dead in January - weeks before his trial.
Wearing a black suit and red tie and carrying a walking stick, McSweeney stared straight ahead as the jury of six men and five women returned their verdicts at London's Southwark Crown Court. He was cleared of three indecent assaults on two other boys at the care home and taking a pornographic photo of one of these boys.
Czech Roman Catholic priest convicted of rape, sexual abuse, receives 5-year prison term
CZECH REPUBLIC
Star Tribune
Associated Press Updated: February 26, 2015
PRAGUE — A court official in the Czech Republic says a Roman Catholic priest has been convicted of rape and sexual abuse and sentenced to five years in prison.
Jan Dolezal, spokesman for the county court in Havlickuv Brod, located some 120 kilometers (75 miles) southeast of Prague, said Erik Tvrdon was found guilty of raping four women and sexually abusing a minor. Police previously said they believed he forced a 13-year old girl to send him naked images of herself.
Tvrdon pleaded not guilty.
Thursday's verdict is not final. Dolezal says the state prosecutor has appealed, demanding a stiffer prison term.
James Jennings, former Catholic priest jailed for molesting fights compo claims
AUSTRALIA
Herald Sun
PADRAIC MURPHY HERALD SUN FEBRUARY 27, 2015
A FORMER Catholic priest jailed for molesting students at a Bendigo boarding school is fighting compensation claims brought by his victims.
James Jennings, 81, was jailed last year after being found guilty of molesting boys in his car at St Vincent’s college boarding school in the mid-1960s.
Two victims are now trying to make Jennings pay compensation personally.
Jennings — who maintains his innocence — yesterday attacked one of the victims, claiming he had misled the court by saying he was not motivated by compensation and the jury’s decision may have been different had they known of the compensation claim.
“During my trial (he) very clearly stated he was not interested in money. He had agreed to press charges to assist other victims,” Jennings yesterday told County Court Judge Wendy Wilmoth.
Abusi sessuali, frate in manette L'arresto lungo il Cammino di Santiago
ITALIA
L'Unione Sarda:
[A Franciscan monk is accused of sexually abusing a 19 year old disabled person and a minor.]
Con l'accusa di presunti abusi sessuali su una disabile di 19 anni e su un minorenne, un frate francescano è stato arrestato a Lugo, in Galizia, dalla guardia civile.
Il religioso, J.Q., prestava servizio nella comunità di O Cebreiro e le manette sono scattate due giorni fa lungo il Cammino francese di Santiago a seguito delle indagini avviate dopo le denunce dei parenti delle vittime. Nella sua abitazione sono stati sequestrati computer, cellulare e dispositivi elettronici, con un archivio di video in cui il francescano appare mantenendo rapporti con la minore.
Philippines idiots Catholics & Migrante International missed biggest protest against Pope Francis - Pope of the Richest 1% of the Globe -NOT Pope of the Poor
UNITED STATES
PopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
Paris Arrow
The Migrante International is one of the largest Philippine groups that keep protesting American Imperialism and its power over the Philippine’s President BS Aquino and its corrupt government and they wrote an open letter to Pope Francis asking him, “Pope of the Poor, Fight for Us”. Below is its open letter proving how stupid and idiotic Filipinos are to believe in Pope Francis who is the very same Pope – who colludes with American imperialists – therefore he is the Pope of the Rich who oppresses the Filipino people. Migrante International should have used the visit of Pope Francis to protest US Imperialism and Vatican Imperialism – after all the Philippines (was under Spaniard and the Vatican Catholic Church oppression for over 400 years) and today the Philippines continue to be controlled by the Vatican Catholic Church and the Vatican Swiss Banks continue to hoard American and European Imperialists' loot,the late President Marcos’ loot and President Aquino's loot from the Philippine treasury, read our related article, Hidden Heist in the Holy See.
Confessions of a Gay Jesuit: How I Was Forced To Leave My Church—And Calling
UNITED STATES
The Daily Beast
Ben Brenkert wanted to be a priest, but confronted by the hypocrisy and prejudice of the Catholic Church he had to quit. Here, in a powerful, heartfelt essay, he explains why.
Today, at 35, I am a gay seminarian who still needs human touch. For me the best place is the Episcopal Church. Some day I will be a priest, hopefully married with children. That’s what I’m looking for, love; it falls under the rubric of modern love. I am a modern gay Christian in search of love, one who still wants to become a priest.
From 2004 to 2014 I was a Jesuit, a member of the Society of Jesus in good standing, an order gone global by the election of Pope Francis I. I left the Jesuits because I left the Roman Catholic Church. I would not be an openly gay priest in a Church that fires LGBTQ employees and volunteers. I left in protest: How could I be an openly gay priest who fires LGBTQ employees and volunteers?
Here’s my story; it is an experiment with truth telling, as much as it is about justice for LGBTQ Christians and non-Christians, men, women and children who have been deeply affected by the millennia of anti-gay theology and hate speech espoused by the Roman Catholic Church. The effects of this violence linger today. ...
In 2006, at 26, we Jesuit novices studied together in Denver. During this summer gay Jesuits met periodically, in secret to discuss the lack of hospitality and welcome by our straight brothers. Many spoke about how this led them into the dark night of the soul, to what some interpreted as an unhealthy uses of pornography, when what they really wanted was genuine human connection.
Of course, using porn contradicted one’s vow of chastity. One immature novice said that for him gay porn was but one means to keep his “gay self” alive and still connected to a community so often alienated by the Church; for me, he was erroneously projecting his own sense of isolation and alienation by the Church onto the gay porn industry.
In those secret meetings we discussed why it was OK for our straight brothers to make crude jokes about women during dinner while we could not discuss ex-boyfriends or what it meant to be healthy, chaste gay man. Our callings we opined were from God irrespective of our sexual orientation.
After nine trials spanning 12 years ...
AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
After nine trials spanning 12 years St Joseph's teacher Brother John Maguire faces sentencing for child sex offences
After nine separate trials spanning 12 years, Brother John Dennis Maguire was used to being in a courtroom.
But when the 71-year-old priest sat in the dock on Friday it was the first time he had faced the prospect of being sentenced for a crime.
From 1978 to the mid-1980s, Maguire was a teacher and dorm master at St Joseph's College in Hunters Hill, an exclusive Catholic school run by the Marist Brothers.
In 2002, he was charged with multiple sexual offences in relation to several students at the school, with the complainants alleging that he would target boys who were homesick – comforting them and then sexually assaulting them.
Maguire pleaded not guilty to the charges and his lawyers successfully applied for each of the allegations to be heard separately.
Public hearing into St Joseph’s Orphanage, Neerkol
AUSTRALIA
Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
27 February, 2015
The Royal Commission will hold a public hearing commencing on Tuesday 14 April 2015 at the Rockhampton Court House, Virgil Power Building, 46 East Street, Rockhampton.
The scope and purpose of the public hearing is to inquire into:
The experiences of a number of men and women who were resident at St Joseph’s Orphanage, Neerkol operated by the Sisters of Mercy between 1940 and 1975;
The responses of:
a. the Sisters of Mercy
b. the Catholic Diocese of Rockhampton, and
c. the Queensland state government to complaints made by former residents of St Joseph’s Orphanage, Neerkol of child sexual abuse by workers, priests and nuns at the Orphanage between 1993 and present.
Any related matters.
Any person or institution who believes that they have a direct and substantial interest in the scope and purpose of the public hearing is invited to lodge a written application for leave to appear at the public hearing by 20 March 2015.
Applications for leave to appear should be made using the form available on the Royal Commission website.
The form and the submission should be lodged with the Royal Commission via:
Email: solicitor@childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au;
or Mail: GPO Box 5283, Sydney NSW 2001.
Interested individuals and organisations are encouraged to view the proceedings via the webcast on the Royal Commission’s website.
Don’t let S.F. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s charm fool you
CALIFORNIA
San Francisco Chronicle
By C.W. Nevius
February 25, 2015
This week, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone met with The Chronicle’s editorial board. He’s charming, humorous and engaging.
He’s also dead wrong.
The controversy stems from his proposed changes in the collective bargaining agreement with teachers in archdiocese high schools that would designate them as “ministers.” In addition, “clarifications” to school handbooks would emphasize that employees would have to follow the teachings of the church, leading some parents and teachers to call the additions morality clauses because they involve things like same-sex relationships and abortion.
Cordileone may have reconciled his personal beliefs — saying he would allow gay students at archdiocese schools but adamantly opposes the right of same-sex couples to marry — but many of the rest of us are still shaking our heads.
Cordileone made every effort to minimize the controversy, but his explanations were difficult to follow at best.
Take his statement: “To call an act gravely evil does not mean that the person who does the act is an evil person.”
That may be clear to him, but I don’t get it. Among the “evil” activities he’s talking about are homosexuality, same-sex marriage and even in-vitro fertilization. It’s the kind of chilling distinction that puts everyone on edge.
Reporters Lift Curtain on Pope Francis’ Veto of Hillary Clinton’s Pill
UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
* Doggedly determined reporters following Toto’s example at last peeled back on Monday (1/19/15) the Papal Wizard’s curtain. They got the pope unexpectedly to digress about contraception “pills” and even Catholic “rabbits”, as discussed below. Please see also the superb analysis, “The Catholic church’s complicity in {former Manila street child} Glyzelle Palomar’s suffering“,
by Yale educated and prophetic theologian, Jamie Manson, here:
* [National Catholic Reporter]
* and the insightful discussion, “Pope Francis, Breeding Bunnies and Ideological Colonization“, by a leading expert on Catholics and contraception, Patricia Miller, here:
* [Religion Dispatches]
* Pope Francis evidently is gearing up for this summer’s papal push into US presidential politics and likely against family planning advocate, Hillary Clinton. He was untypically revealing about his current plans in responses to questions in his press conference on the flight back from the Philippines. He earlier had been more circumspect publicly after frightened cardinals, who worried about criminal prosecutions and financial bankruptcy, made him pope two years ago , as I recently discussed here Pope, M.L. King & a Dream About Street Children
* President Obama’s likely successor after next year’s US election, Hillary Clinton, has a long history of standing up to the Vatican, especially on the “pill” and contraception, as I recently discussed here Hillary Clinton vs. Pope Francis in 2015 ? Francis made it inevitable, with his “Catholics are not Rabbits” spin, that family planning will be a top issue in the upcoming US presidential elections. Francis and his subordinate US bishops are already following the latest mistaken right wing Republican line that “contraception” equals “abortion”.
Just 16% of Belfast Catholics go to Mass, says diocese survey
NORTHERN IRELAND
Belfast Telegraph
BY JOANNE SWEENEY – 26 FEBRUARY 2015
Only one in five Catholics is regularly attending Sunday Mass in the Down and Connor Diocese, a new report has revealed.
And attendance at Mass in the greater Belfast area has been recorded as low as 16% of all Catholics who live in the area, according to the diocesan report.
Figures from an audit taken last year in Down and Connor, the second largest diocese on the island, showed that based on the 2011 census figures of a potential 356,585 Catholics, only 72,818 were recorded as attending weekly Mass over a two-week period when the count was taken.
The findings also show a situation of an aging church population against the backdrop of an aging priest population.
There were 27 priests aged under 50 in 2014 and 54 aged between 51 and 65, while a third of all Mass-goers were aged 61 and over.
Book review: 'God's Bankers' traces often sordid Vatican banking history
UNITED STATES
Philly.com
POSTED: Sunday, February 15, 2015
God's Bankers
By Gerald Posner
Simon & Schuster.
732 pp. $30.
Reviewed by
Michael D. Schaffer
The New Testament is pretty clear on the incompatibility of earthly riches and the Kingdom of Heaven. But if Gerald Posner is right, a lot of people involved with Vatican finances over the years have skipped those passages.
Posner - lawyer, journalist, and Pulitzer-winning author of 11 books - reviews the church's long, complicated history with money, but his main focus is modern times.
His primary aim is the Institute for the Works of Religion, known as the Vatican Bank or IOR, its Italian acronym. Founded in 1942, IOR is supposed to serve the religious mission of the church, but in Posner's telling, it has also served as an offshore bank, tainted by association with shady characters whose list of sins includes money laundering, tax evasion, fraud, even murder.
Pope Pius XII created IOR at the suggestion of the Vatican's financial consultant, Bernardino Nogara, whose investment wizardry carried the Vatican through the Great Depression. Posner spends a lot of time on Pius XII, who was criticized for not taking a stronger stand against Nazi atrocities. "In World War II, Pius XII's silence helped protect a complex web of interlocking business interests with the Third Reich that yielded significant profits for the Vatican," Posner writes. He uses the word likely to describe this scenario. One hopes he is wrong.
Later on, the bank was tarred by association with rogue financiers Roberto Calvi and Michele Sindona and compromised by the ineptitude of Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, a high-ranking American official at the Vatican. In Posner's telling, Marcinkus, who ran IOR from 1971 to 1989, got the job because Pope Paul VI liked him, and kept it thanks to the gratitude of Pope John Paul II, after Marcinkus sent $5 million in 1978 to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to help clean up a scandal at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa near Doylestown.
It's high time for Pope Francis to open the Vatican Bank's files
UNITED STATES
Los Angeles Times
Op-Ed
By GERALD POSNER
Pope Francis, who has worked hard to carve out a reputation as a reformer, is facing one of his most daunting challenges when it comes to the Catholic Church's finances, particularly the Vatican Bank. Since World War II — when the bank was created as the equivalent of the Federal Reserve combined with a commercial bank — it has operated with few checks and balances. Over the decades, it has become embroiled in seemingly endless scandals that include questions about wartime profiteering with Nazis, gigantic business schemes and political slush funds.
The Vatican did not even have a law against money laundering until 2011. Some previous popes — including Paul VI in the 1960s and John Paul II in the 1980s — had promised upon their election to tame the church's unruly finances. But they were inevitably defeated by entrenched powers inside Vatican City who pretended to embrace reforms while working surreptitiously to maintain the bank's outlier status. The issue facing the church is whether Francis, riding a remarkable wave of international popularity and goodwill, can accomplish what frustrated his predecessors.
Since becoming pope in 2013, Francis has energetically tried to remake the bank into a transparent and accountable institution through decrees, key appointments and an overall reorganization. By tapping outsiders for important management and enforcement roles at the Vatican Bank, he has started to loosen the grip of old-guard clerics, mostly Italian, who have long wielded the city-state's money power. And Francis' appointment of a respected cardinal, George Pell of Australia, to oversee a new uber financial department, has received a mostly positive reception from Vatican watchers.
But has Francis done enough? Will the Vatican Bank move forward as a compliant member of the international financial community, or will it remain the equivalent of an offshore bank in the heart of Rome? It is too early to tell, in part because no one is certain how long Francis will be pope.
Junipero Serra is NO SAINT. Pope Francis abuses his papal power to canonize men of fetid deeds like John Paul II
UNITED STATES
PopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
Paris Arrow
Pope Francis the Jesuit Master of Deceits has announced, "Now in September, God willing, I will canonize Junipero Serra in the United States. He was the evangelizer of the West in the United States." First of all, it is not “God willing” but the “Devil willing” aka “Vatican Mammon Beast willing” aka “Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team willing” aka “Jesuits Masters of Deceits willing”.
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
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!
There was a former Swiss Guard who came to Boston to recruit investors as he was the CEO of an investment company, read about him in our other blog http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/10/opus-dei-seminar-on-pope-and-ceo-world.html
-- Popes do NOT resemble Jesus Christ one iota
-- Popes cannot clone or re-produce Jesus the Son of God
-- Popes are fat popes cannot reincarnate Jesus the Creator of the Universe
Read Pope Francis the con-artist "CON-Christ" http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/
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.
The Vatican is the Devil reincarnated in Pope Francis
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
Read Pope Francis the CON-Christ and biggest THIEF of mankind http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/
narcissim
of Satanas John Paul II who has usurp her
Baby
Jesus from her arms
Updated March 8 -- International Women’s Day
Jesus said in Mathew 23: “The teachers of religious law and the Pharisees
are the official interpreters of the law of Moses…but don’t follow their
example. For they don’t
practice what they teach. They crush people with unbearable religious demands
and never lift a finger to ease the burden.”
Pope Francis is the official interpreter of Vatican religious laws and
Roman Catholic Doctrines – but he does not practise what he preaches. Pope Francis crushes people with
unbearable religious demands – especially on women and the poor – and he never
lifts a finger to ease their burden. When Pope
Francis went to the Philippines, he only used those idiots Catholics for his
narcissistic papal glory as he imposed unbearable religious burdens on them especially on
women – to not use contraceptives but to reproduce babies relentlessly even if
they can no longer afford to feed them in the country – run
by his cohorts of corrupt government officials whose loots are in his
Vatican-owned safe haven of Switzerland and those secret Vatican Swiss Banks –
run by his Swiss Guard Army papal loyalists.
Read our related article, Vatican Circus
in the Philippines
Today in International Women's Day protests worldwide, women of diverse origins posted:
The world is scarred by imperialist, patriarchal and colonialist policies, such as those of the United States and its allies in the Middle East. By funding and arming reactionary forces and fundamentalist states they have triggered chaos in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq and stood by while Palestine was brutally attacked.. We denounce and reject the spurious “war on terror” and stand in solidarity with women around the world who are among its victims. Read more here http://filipina-nannies-caregivers.blogspot.ca/2013/05/philippines-is-not-poor-philippines-is.html
Pope Francis the Pharisee of
the 21st century
"miraculously"transforms the Vatican into a white-washed sepulcher
Many highly paid deceiving Vatican Pied Pipers –
especially John Allen – members of the Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team – are releasing
their books to brainwash Americans idiots Catholics for Pope Francis’ upcoming
visit in September because stupid Americans are the biggest donors to the
Vatican Mammon Beast and there are hundreds of billions of dollars of Vatican
investments and properties in the USA handled in secret by American
billionaires and millionaires and politicians.
Books – entitled with the biggest Jesuitical deceptions in the history
of Christendom – the worst of them all is by John Allen – The Francis Miracle:
Inside the Transformation of the Pope and the Church – can only prove what Jesus said in
Mathew 23: “The teachers of religious law
and the Pharisees are the official interpreters of the law of Moses…but don’t
follow their example. For they don’t practice what they teach. They crush people with unbearable religious demands
and never lift a finger to ease the burden…
Everything they do is for
show…They love to receive respectful greetings as
they walk in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi ’ (or
Pope) …What
sorrow awaits you teachers of religious
law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but
filled on the inside with dead people’s bones (dead saints bones of John Paul II) and all sorts of impurity (of
Opus Dei Beast PR deceptions and Jesuits Masters of Deceits impurities). Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled
with hypocrisy and lawlessness.” This
whitewashed tomb especially applies to the Vatican Bank and Pope Francis hypocrisy and
lawlessness – which John Allen deceitfully dubs as “Francis Miracle – is
in fact the Hidden
Heist in the Holy See. The SECRET
biggest heist in the history of mankind! Pope Francis is the Greatest THIEF on earth
– read our
related article http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/hidden-heist-in-holy-see-biggest-heist.html
Other Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team books are entitled:
The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope
by Austen Ivereigh The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope
and
A Big Heart Open to God: A Conversation with Pope Francis
Read our related article: 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
Priests, pastors and clergy of every stripe are rarely in the forefront of Occupy protests.
Instead, secular young people are doing the very work that Jesus from Nazareth would urge us to do. Just as Jesus condemned the injustices of his own day – and overturned the money-changing tables at the Temple – the Occupy protesters are challenging how Wall Street bankers and today’s rich and powerful are harming the masses of people. -- see added articles below with highlights on the "political protests of Jesus".
Read
Occupy The Vatican... like Occupy Wall Street
http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/10/ows-otv-occupy-wall-street-occupy.html
Here are the classic ways on how Pope Francis is fulfilling the words of Jesus in Mathew 23.
Pope Francis steals widows out of their properties and the poor of their inherent wealth
Pope Francis, to “clean up” the Vatican Bank,
ordered the closure of more than 3,000 accounts, some of them owned by the
wealthiest widows on earth - like Imelda Marcos who looted billions of dollars
from the Philippine treasury and again in Mathew 23:14, Jesus talks to Pope
Francis the Pharisee of the 21st century: “What
sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! You shamelessly cheat widows out of their property and then pretend to
be pious by making long prayers in public. Because of this, you will be severely punished.” Read our related articles: 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 http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/vatican-bank-closes-thousand.html
Pope Francis should return all the billions looted by the Marcos family to the Philippines and its people -- instead of hoarding them in Vatican Swiss Banks.
And the 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
Pope Francis finish what John Paul II started
Jesus said, “Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started (meaning
what Pope Francis’ ancestors
-- John Paul II and Benedict XVI-RATzinger started). Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?” Read our related articles: John
Paul II and Adolf Hitler are permanent allies in history: on May 1st and now on
April 27th. SNAP Remembrance Day & Holocaust Remembrance Day http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/04/john-paul-ii-and-adolf-hitler-are.html
UN vs. Vatican (half its 800 population do NOT live
inside Vatican City) – so its jurisdiction is only for 400 in-house residents?
UN 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.html
Vatican
City the Roman Jerusalem that kills billions of poor people
– by slow
death via poverty
– by
hoarding American and European Imperialists loots in Vatican Swiss Banks
Jesus said “O Jerusalem,
Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones God’s messengers! How
often I have wanted to gather your children together as a hen protects her
chicks beneath her wings, but you wouldn’t let me. And now, look, your house is abandoned and desolate.” Read our related article where hundreds of Roman
Catholic churches are being closed in the USA and Europe -- all abandoned and
desolate: Jesus Christ is liberated from hundreds of tabernacles (prison) in Catholic churches shut down, sold-off, converted into apartments, stores, warehouseshttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/09/jesus-christ-is-liberated-from-hundreds.html
The 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
Read - 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
The Vatican convert idiots Catholics into children
of Hell
Jesus said: “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law
and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you
cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into
twice the child of hellf you
yourselves are!” This is what Pope Francis did in the
Philippines where more than 6 million poor stupid idiots Catholics Filipinos
and Filipinas attended his mythological Mass or Eucharist hoax – because Pope
Francis and priests have neither wombs to bear a child and their mouths cannot
bear the flesh-and-blood of Jesus Christ either, read our related article:
Philippines idiots Catholics & Migrante International missed biggest protest against Pope Francis - Pope of the Richest 1% of the Globe -NOT Pope of the Poor
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
John Allen the Devil’s Twin makes Catholics
feel-good about Pope Crimes as expertly as Satan fooled Eve in the Garden of
Eden http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/john-allen-devils-twin-makes-catholics.html
Thank God, Oscar Best Actor did NOT go to Michael Keaton
Michael Keaton has a
starring role in the Spotlight movie – to coincide with Pope Francis’ visit in
the US. Thank God, the Opus Dei Beast
will not be farting out that he is the “Oscar Best Actor” when they release the
Spotlight movie. What happened -- the
Vatican Mammon Beast couldn’t buy all the Oscars voters’ souls? Those Opus Dei Beast eunuchs are very cheap —
their fake saint founder Josemaria Escriva founded the lowest caste member –
those poor girls from poor countries -- and train them to be “free” maids to
cook and clean -- for his wealthy highest “numeraries” members – living in
multimillion dollar homes - in the Opus Dei Beast caste. And those poor girls will be rewarded in
heaven – typical cheap Vatican Imperialism exploitation of the poor.
Read our related
articles:
Michael Keaton evangelized from Honk Kong to USA: Opus Dei Beast PR Stunt of Day. But he cannot revise the history of the JP2 Army http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2015/01/michael-keaton-evangelized-from-honk.html
Filipina nannies-caregivers
slavery worldwide – http://filipina-nannies-caregivers.blogspot.ca/ Pope Francis went to the Philippines to tell idiots Filipinos to have more children -- so they can work as servants and cheap slaves to his Vatican wealthy cohorts
Stupid Catholic Women. Legion of Christ. Opus Dei. Pope Francis Hypocrisies http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/women-legion-christ-opusdei-francis.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
New York Times reports on “Little Rome” in Boston. Michael Keaton & ‘Spotlight’ cannot salvage the Vatican Titanic, Italianate palazzo & JP2 bedroom in Boston http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2015/01/new-york-times-reports-on-little-rome.html
Do not call anyone “Father” or
Papa
Jesus said “Don’t let anyone call you ‘Rabbi,’ for you have
only one teacher, and all of you are equal as brothers and sisters. And don’t address anyone here on earth as ‘Father,’ for only God in
heaven is your spiritual Father. And don’t
let anyone call you ‘Teacher,’ for you have only one teacher, the Messiah.” Read our related article --- why priests must NEVER be called
“Father” because it steals the dignity and validity of true biological and
adoptive fathers from their true children for whom they toil day and
night while priests do absolutely nothing for the daily welfare of children --- 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
Opus Dei Plan to salvage Vatican Titanic in Boston, Massachusetts. Voice of the Faithful upbeat by Opus Dei PR tentacle John Allen
http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/opus-dei-plan-to-salvage-vatican.html
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
Melinda Gates versus Benedict XVI: who’s more “like
Christ”?
Melinda Gates saves lives of 200 million women while Benedict XVI sits in
out-of-touch-with-reality Vatican Throne
http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/vatican-titanic-hit-by-melinda-gates.html
9/11= 3,000 victims. JP2
Army = 100,000s victims. May 1: Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on John
Paul II Beatification Day. 3 World Criminals! http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html
Vatican bank Bishop∕accountant caught money
laundering €20M and it surpasses the Da Vinci Code intrigue. Vatican greedy
Mammon never sleeps and never stops http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/06/vatican-greedy-mammon-vatican-banks.html
John Paul II portrait by Danish artist http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2007/10/john-paul-ii-portrait-by-danish-artist.html
Theology and John Paul II are heartless and together
they made serial pedophile priest Fr. Marcial Maciel thrive http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2010/05/theology-and-john-paul-ii-are-heartless.html
Fr. MarcialMaciel'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.html
USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray”
with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/usa-ambassador-to-vatican-for-what.html
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.
Occupy The Vatican... like Occupy Wall Street
http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/10/ows-otv-occupy-wall-street-occupy.html
NCAA & Penn State more moral than Vatican.
Sports is more moral than John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Vatican Titanic sinking
in moral bankruptcy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html
See 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 Europehttp://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.html
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.
Vatican
Bank’s ‘peaceful transition’ is akin to Cardinal Bernard Law’s ‘peaceful
transition’ from crime to glory in Rome.
UNITED STATESPopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
Paris Arrow
The one-year swift Vatican Bank’s “peaceful transition” (by closing despots’ accounts and transferring them to secret Vatican Swiss Banks) is like a man who murders someone, then swiftly rolls his victim in a carpet, go dig a grave and bury him in a faraway field so that (relatives and) the police will never find his victim and never trace his crime. He also cleans up the murder scene and now he acts normally - as if nothing ever happened. He then goes to Confession and feels-good that the priest will keep his crime secret with the Seal of Confession and he feels relieved that his crime/sin is absolved with his 3 Hail Mary penance and he is guaranteed forgiveness and salvation to Heaven and can eat as much flesh-and-blood of Christ in the Eucharist Satanic Mass.
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
UNITED STATESPopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
Paris Arrow
Pope Francis imitates Saint John Paul II the Great
Pope Francis is imitating – (not Jesus) – but his Holy Father of Lies John Paul II the Great – read our related article, 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 http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/05/cold-blood-ed-pope-john-paul-ii-is-no.html
With pompous fanfare of empty words, words, words, the Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team arranged theatrics for John Paul II to ask forgiveness for many famous (e.g. Crusades, Galileo) Church crimes but not for his own singular crime and biggest sin which was his complicit hidden JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army with his poster boy and evil Achilles Heel, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/
Pope Francis buys souls of Kenneth Copeland &
evangelicals to prepare for USA presidential election. God forbid Jeb Bush
wins! Bush is the curse of
America
UNITED STATESPopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
Paris Arrow
On June 23, 2014, Pope Francis met with Kenneth Copeland and 8 other US evangelicals at the Vatican. It was a perfect timing to coincide with the Copeland's annual convention in Forth Worth Texas from June 30 to July 5 where Kenneth spoke about the Pope during an entire session. which he never did in his entire 40 years ministry. Below is a compilation of disagreement and anger from his followers which is very enlightening. So is this why Pope Francis cancelled his daily mass for the summer and his weekly Wednesday Angelus because he wanted to use those time for meeting with other religions and other sects and evangelicals like Kenneth Copeland – instead of meeting his usual Francis-Maniacs Catholic zombie and stupid nuns in St. Peter’s Square on Wednesday Angelus?
COWARD Pope Francis, cut the Opus Dei Beast PR stunts
crap. Just tie a millstone on cardinals, bishops, JP2 Army, cast them to the
sea
UNITED STATESPOPE FRANCIS the CON-Christ.
Paris Arrow
Jesus said, “but whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.” (ESV Mathew 18:6) Read the John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/
Pope Francis’s papal mass is the apex of the Eucharist Satanic Mass and it heals no one and it only fools everyone.
Pope Francis said in his homily at a papal mass with 6 abused victims that these "despicable actions" had been "camouflaged with a complicity that cannot be explained." How stupid can 1.2 billion Catholics get not to be able to see Pope Francis is papal farting Opus Dei Beast pathological lies again at them?
6 suggestions
for Pope Francis, the Pharaoh of the Vatican Pyramid with three equal sides:
corrupt politicians, corrupt businessmen, corrupt clergy http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/06/6-suggestions-for-pope-francis-as-he.htm l
Irish priests are not smiling because of women: Irish
ex-president mocks Pope Francis! Irish nuns akin to Nazis
UNITED STATESPOPE FRANCIS the CON-Christ.
June 21, 2014
Paris Arrow
With compilation of Tuam nuns news
Pope Francis has called-in sick for the summer and has cancelled even his well-oiled money machine Wednesday Angelus where he shows all his teeth nonstop to the screeching adulation of Francis-Maniacs who sound more like Catholic zombies in Brad Pitt’s World War Z movie and are probably making him more sick and there’s no antidote to it, read our article, Pope Francis is sick with lies, lies, lies & burdened yoke from Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team weighs heavy on Jesuit puppet pope. But aside from the sick (only one-year old) pope, Irish priests these days too are depressed and not smiling because of three women specifically who are giving them – and to Pope Francis – messages unparalleled to Martin Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses in 1517. Martin Luther pointed out the 95 corruptions in the Vatican especially its rampant sale of indulgences - to build the mammoth St. Peter’s Basilica - that condemned to hell even the poor if they did not buy them.
FRANCIS UPDATES: John Allen and Vatican Pied Pipers
toot Francis-mania…while Hans Kung points out “the Pope and his ‘double’”
shadow pope Ratzinger! http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/09/francis-updates-john-allen-and-vatican.html
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
.
POPE FRANCIS CONTROLS WALL STREET AND WARS
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
or in the River Jordan http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014/02/jesus-never-baptized-anyone-in-sea-of.html
Benedict XVI and Georg his GAY Private Secretary
are GAYS.!.
are GAYS.!.
The GAY Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit,
three He’s, three homosexuals ! ! !
LE FILS -- THE SON
LE SAINT ESPRIT -- THE HOLY SPIRIT
Charlie Hebdo (see its Holy Trinity cartoon!) The problem of faith is its limitless powers to commit crimes against humanity, murders, colonization of poor countries, abuses against women http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2015/01/terrorists-attack-charlie-hebdo-see-its.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
Cleansing
the Temple: Jesus' Act of Social Protest
Posted: 04/01/2013 11:13 am EDT Updated: 06/01/2013 5:12 am EDT
During the week before Easter, in the midst of all
the sacred processions, weird reenactments, vacationing and feasting, I always
find it helpful to revisit
the "cleansing of the Temple" story to try and understand its
full significance and meaning -- not only as it relates to the death of Jesus
of Nazareth on Good Friday, but socially, politically and economically today.
Note that in the synoptic Gospels (Mark, Matthew and Luke), the incident comes
at the end of Jesus' ministry and is usually considered the action by Jesus
that led to his arrest and ultimate execution. In the Gospel of John, the
incident comes at the beginning of Jesus' ministry.
Traditionally, the story is interpreted as Jesus
overturning the tables of the money changers and bird sellers as way to show
his condemnation of using the Temple for the purpose of conducting business. The idea is that God's Temple is
holy and should only be used for prayer and worship -- kind of like a church.
On the surface, this interpretation makes complete sense. However, it is
entirely possible that this take may be missing some facts that would change it
rather dramatically.
In his book, "The Trial of Jesus," Alan Watson notes:
In his book, "The Trial of Jesus," Alan Watson notes:
"The sellers were there for the benefit of
pilgrims who had come to sacrifice as Passover. Animals for sacrifice had to
meet stringent requirements and would not be easily found by those coming for
the festival if it were not for the sellers in the Temple precincts. No
prohibition against buying sacrificial animals in the Temple existed, and
Mishnah Shekalim 7.2 show incidentally that the presence there of the sellers
was both lawful and known. The sale of doves for sacrifice
in the Temple at any time was even controlled by Temple authorities."
Jesus was an
observant Jew. He would not have objected to the Temple system of making
sacrifices to God.
Jewish pilgrims traveled to Jerusalem to celebrate Israel's
liberation from Egypt and to offer animal sacrifices. I think the reason
traditional Christianity has taken the "anti-business in a holy
place" interpretation is that it has not seen the incident from the Jewish
perspective. It has perhaps failed to put "Jesus the observant Jew" in that story.
In their book, "The Last Week," theologians Marcus Borg and John
Dominic Crossan stress that Jesus' consistent and primary message was to
proclaim the coming of The Kingdom of God and to challenge the dominant political system: the Romans and their
local collaborators (the ruling Jewish class dominated by the Sadducees,
Pharisees and Scribes). That ruling class had its base of operations in
the Temple.
Jesus' attack on the money changers and bird sellers was much more than an attack on simple tradesman. It was less about defiling the Temple with needed and commonly accepted money transactions and more about attacking the power structure of Jewish society at the time. The "den" of thieves refers to the safe haven of the thieves -- the Roman collaborators who ran the Temple.
Jesus' teachings were mostly and consistently about social justice. They strongly opposed the domination system of the time and thereby probably any system that creates an elite and powerful class that keeps the masses poor and powerless -- for whatever reason. Jesus was a social revolutionary, a radical. He wanted to change the status quo, and that of course ended up getting him into a heck of a lot of trouble -- not because he was, you know, "God," but because he was a mischief-maker who happened to have a small local following.
Jesus' attack on the money changers and bird sellers was much more than an attack on simple tradesman. It was less about defiling the Temple with needed and commonly accepted money transactions and more about attacking the power structure of Jewish society at the time. The "den" of thieves refers to the safe haven of the thieves -- the Roman collaborators who ran the Temple.
Jesus' teachings were mostly and consistently about social justice. They strongly opposed the domination system of the time and thereby probably any system that creates an elite and powerful class that keeps the masses poor and powerless -- for whatever reason. Jesus was a social revolutionary, a radical. He wanted to change the status quo, and that of course ended up getting him into a heck of a lot of trouble -- not because he was, you know, "God," but because he was a mischief-maker who happened to have a small local following.
I often wonder what Jesus would think of the United
States, capitalism and the International Monetary Fund. I wonder what he would
think of the world's free market system, where essentially the strong,
influential and clever do very well and the vast majority of our brothers and
sisters are either dying of hunger or are barely able to earn a living. I
sometimes wonder if he would come down hard on neoliberal trade policies that
hurt the poor in developing countries like Honduras so much.
If we simply interpret the cleansing of the Temple story in the traditional manner, all you have is a critique against "defiling" a holy place of worship -- a physical structure made of stone. The assumption is that somehow the Source of the universe, of all creation is offended by a few businessmen. I have no idea what to do with this lesson.
However, if we interpret the story from the standpoint opposing the domination of the people by a small elite class (yeah, like in Honduras, and increasingly in the United States) collaborating with a foreign occupying power (Rome) and truly establishing the "Kingdom of God" on earth in the here and now, then the message is clear. We are called to transform our world by seeking justice, a fair distribution of the resources that God has temporarily "lent" us.
If we simply interpret the cleansing of the Temple story in the traditional manner, all you have is a critique against "defiling" a holy place of worship -- a physical structure made of stone. The assumption is that somehow the Source of the universe, of all creation is offended by a few businessmen. I have no idea what to do with this lesson.
However, if we interpret the story from the standpoint opposing the domination of the people by a small elite class (yeah, like in Honduras, and increasingly in the United States) collaborating with a foreign occupying power (Rome) and truly establishing the "Kingdom of God" on earth in the here and now, then the message is clear. We are called to transform our world by seeking justice, a fair distribution of the resources that God has temporarily "lent" us.
I grant
you, this is pretty radical stuff. It is revolutionary. It almost sounds dangerously un-American -- certainly un-Republican. It is
the kind of stuff that people who might try to implement this Way would likely
be persecuted, even killed. Sound familiar?
Would Jesus Join the Occupy Protests?
November 26, 2011
In the holiday season, many Christians take pride in helping the poor – by donating food and toys – but U.S. religious leaders have stayed in the background of challenges to an inequitable economic system, leaving that Jesus work to mostly secular young people of the Occupy movement, the Rev. Howard Bess observes.By the Rev. Howard Bess
When the Martin Luther King Jr. monument was dedicated recently in Washington DC, I was reminded that the civil rights movement in America was led not by a politician fulfilling campaign promises, nor by a popular evangelist bent on saving souls, but by a highly trained theologian who put his religious teachings into practice with a demand for justice for those who had suffered at the hands of the rich and the powerful.
The Rev. King was a Baptist preacher who took his religion into the arena of racism, economics and social disparity. However, hatred caught up with him, and he was killed.
Martin Luther King Jr. monument in
Washington DC
Now, nearly a half century later, there is another
broad-based protest that is gaining momentum. The Occupy Wall Street protests
echo some of King’s complaints about economic inequality and social injustice –
and the message can no longer be ignored.The significance of this latest public protest movement, erupting all over the country, may eventually rival the impact of the civil rights movement of the 1960s, yet when comparing the two movements, there is one glaring difference: priests, pastors and clergy of every stripe are rarely in the forefront of Occupy protests.
Instead, secular young people are doing the very work that Jesus from Nazareth would urge us to do. Just as Jesus condemned the injustices of his own day – and overturned the money-changing tables at the Temple – the Occupy protesters are challenging how Wall Street bankers and today’s rich and powerful are harming the masses of people.
This week, religious people have felt proud of giving turkeys to the poor, but they should be joining the protests against the haughty rich. I maintain that Jesus would be a part of the actions in Portland, Denver, New York and many other cities. For Christians, the crucial issue should be “what would Jesus do”?
Today, Christian theologians and Bible scholars agree that the Jesus trip to Jerusalem at the end of his life is essential to understand what Jesus was about. Yet, Christian tradition has brainwashed followers of Jesus about the realities of his trip south to Jerusalem. We have all been exposed to the worship services in which children march waving palm branches and singing “Hosanna.”
Traditionally we have called the event “the triumphal entry.” However, put into the political and social context of Jerusalem in the early first century BCE, Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey was probably more like a protest march that mocked every leader in the city.
Political and religious “leaders” of the day probably would have ridden into town on a prancing horse, certainly not a humble donkey. So, Jesus’s choice of transportation was more street theatre than triumphal entry. It triggered a week of confrontations and arguments with the leaders of state and Temple.
The key event of the week was the incident in the Temple. Once again church tradition has given us a special name for the incident, “the cleansing of the Temple.” But It was more likely another piece of street theatre that became a bit physical.
To better understand the Temple incident, we need to understand its context. The Temple had become a lot more than a religious temple. It had become a tax collection agency and a bank. The Temple held large sums of money accumulated by collecting tithes from the faithful.
In reality, the tithe was a tax, not a freely given gift to God. In addition, fees were charged for participation in the Temple’s religious exercises. So, the Temple collected lots of money.
With that fat treasury, the Temple had entered the banking business and regularly made loans, primarily to poor people. Poor people were the victims not only of a flat tax, but also high-interest loans. So, the gap between the haves and the have-nots was growing rapidly. The poor were getting poorer, and the rich were getting richer.
Yet, equity was a key concept in the Israelite tradition. Torah (the law) had very specific rules demanding systematic redistribution of wealth. But those who controlled the Temple operation completely ignored their own religious teachings. The banking operation that had developed was very good to those who controlled the system.
Christians believe that Jesus Christ died for the sins of the whole world. However, from the perspective of history, Jesus died because he challenged a banking system that passed itself off as being righteous.
Today, bank buildings are the temples of America and the financial industry is a key pillar of an increasingly inequitable economic system. Although banks and their controlling officers claim to be upholders of orderly American life, a growing number of people know better.
Recent surveys have asked people “who in the banking business do you trust?” Credit unions came out on top, followed by locally controlled banks. Then, came regional banks. Large national banks came in dead last.
Christians should thank the current Occupy Wall Street protesters for their message and their activism. They are doing our justice work for us. The current crop of national bank leaders are being shown to be just as corrupt as the Temple bankers were in Jesus’s day.
If Jesus were present among us today, he would be moving from Portland, to Los Angeles, to Kansas City, to Dallas, up to Chicago and on to Wall Street in New York City. He would join the protest in every city. He would be demanding an overhaul of our financial and banking system. He would be standing with the poor and their allies — and against the rich and their protectors.
When Jesus pursued the corruption of his own day, the representatives of the religious and political status quo killed him. And Jesus said to his followers “take up your cross and follow me.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2011/11/26/would-jesus-join-the-occupy-protests/
The Rev. Howard Bess is a retired American Baptist minister, who lives in Palmer, Alaska. His email address is hdbss@mtaonline.net.
Who
Is the Pope?
UNITED STATESThe New York Review of Books
Eamon Duffy
FEBRUARY 19, 2015 ISSUE
The Great Reformer: Francis and the Making of a Radical Pope
by Austen Ivereigh
Henry Holt, 445 pp., $30.00
A Big Heart Open to God: A Conversation with Pope Francis
by Antonio Spadaro, SJ
HarperOne, 150 pp., $17.99
Pope Francis: Untying the Knots
by Paul Vallely
Bloomsbury, 227 pp., $20.95 (paper)
On December 22, 2014, Pope Francis delivered the traditional papal Christmas speech to the assembled ranks of the Roman Curia. This annual meeting with the staff of the church’s central administration offers popes the opportunity for a stock-taking “state of the union” address. In 2005, his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI had used the occasion to deliver a momentous analysis of the “hermeneutic of discontinuity and rupture” that he believed had distorted understanding of the Second Vatican Council by presenting it as a revolutionary event, and to which he attributed many of the ills of the modern church. The phrase “hermeneutic of rupture” was eagerly seized on by those seeking a “reform of the reform,” and became a weapon in the struggle to roll back some of the most distinctive developments in the church following the Second Vatican Council of 1962–1965, which had been presided over first by John XXIII and then by Paul VI.
The scope of Pope Francis’s 2014 address, however, was far more local and specific. Having briefly thanked his hearers for their hard work during the previous year, the pope launched into an excruciating fifteen-point dissection of the spiritual ailments to which people in their position might be prone. It was a dismaying catalog of “curial diseases”—the spiritual “narcissism” that, as part of the “pathology of power,” encouraged some to behave like “lords and masters” (in Italian, padroni); the “Martha complex” of excessive activity, which squeezes out human sympathy and renders men incapable of “weeping with those who weep”; the “spiritual Alzheimer’s” that besets those “who build walls and routines around themselves” and forget the spirit of the Gospel.
The pope’s tally of curial sins also included cliquishness, acquisitiveness, careerism, competitiveness, and indifference to others; the “existential schizophrenia” and “progressive spiritual emptiness” of many who abandon pastoral service and “restrict themselves to bureaucratic matters”; the “theatrical severity and sterile pessimism,” the “funereal face” that often attend the exercise of power; and the “terrorism of gossip” by which the cowardly “are ready to slander, defame and discredit others, even in newspapers and magazines.”
Though presented by Francis as a pastoral aid to a seasonal examination of conscience, the speech was widely perceived, not least by many in his audience, as a scathing critique of the current papal administration. Such excoriation of the Curia by a pope is unprecedented in modern times, yet there was nothing in its substance that need have surprised. The conclave that elected Jorge Mario Bergoglio as pope in March 2013 was beset by a sense of scandal and dysfunction at the heart of the church. The cardinals met in the wake of the startling resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and under a rain of revelations about corruption and money laundering in the Vatican bank, clerical sexual abuse, and the failure of the church authorities to confront it—all given lurid coloring by the “Vatileaks scandal,” the leaking to the press by Pope Benedict’s own butler of hundreds of confidential documents revealing corruption, maladministration, and internecine feuding within the Curia itself.
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The
Vatican’s Financial Reform: The Spin Is Back
UNITED STATESChristian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
>>>>>UNACCOUNTABLE CARDINALS & POPES
>>>>>CANNOT SUCCEED IN THE INTERNET ERA !
Pope Francis returned from his Lenten Retreat to face the latest “cardinal leak” scandal He tried unsuccessfully to give a “subject changing” speech on the current evils for the poor of global capitalism. Leaked scandals are inevitable occurrences, given the pope’s futile continuation of secrecy in the Internet Era, and the lack of transparent accountability of cardinals, and of the pope for that matter, in the past, now or in the foreseeable future. The new leak involved large and questionable expenditures of one of Francis’ more than a hundred unaccountable Cardinals, George Pell, the Vatican’s new finance czar. Pell seems to like to spend lavishly on almost everything but abuse survivors’ just claims.
The pope also faced continuing fallout from his unwise “Mexicanization comments” and from his difficult Angela Merkel meeting over the Vatican’s Ukraine, and women and children’s, positions discussed below. The top German Cardinal, Reinhard Marx, is reportedly currently nearly threatening to act in Germany on a seemingly important local “money matter” — divorced and remarried Catholics’ access to communion, regardless of what Francis’ futile “all celibate male” Final Family Synod, or even Francis, may decide in a matter of months. Unaccountable cardinals are, it seems, not much influenced by an unaccountable pope in his 79th year.
By serendipity, or providence perhaps, legendary investor, Warren Buffett, was at about the same time making relevant remarks on the need to hold managers accountable. Buffett had earlier made some surprising negative observations about global capitalism that were similar to some the pope just made in his new speech on the adverse effect of the current crony capitalist system on the poor.
Buffett, who was raised a Presbyterian, differs from the pope, significantly however, on the importance of top managers being held accountable and on the importance of family planning programs. Buffett is moving forward with his commitment to transfer most of his $75 billion fortune to the Gates Foundation — a major international advocate for accessible family planning programs. The priest child abuse scandal Francis faces, and the desperate plight of some poor families the world faces, are often exacerbated needlessly by couples having more children than they really want or can afford to provide even basic necessities.
Melinda Gates, the Foundation’s co-head and a Catholic, appears, in effect, to be on a collision course with Francis and his upcoming Final Family Synod over the Synod’s approving at least giving poor women access to affordable and effective family planning programs, including contraception. Please see, “Melinda Gates: ‘I’m a Catholic, but women need access to contraceptives‘ – video interview” here,
[The Guardian]
The former Archbishop from Australia, Pell, is still reeling, it appears, from a recent and devastating government report on his brutal treatment of Australian priest sex abuse survivors who sought minimal financial assistance to alleviate the adverse effects of their abuse, see “Pope Francis Must Fire Cardinal Pell Now ” here:
[Christian Catholicism]
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Pope
Francis Errs On Child Sex Abusers, Women & the Koch Brothers
UNITED STATESChristian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Pope Francis is about to meet with all his Cardinals. He needs to change his basic losing strategy before he meets with them. The pope has admitted that he has made many mistakes. The pope, unfortunately, continues to make them with his flawed strategy, including mistakes (1) on his self policing of clerical sex abusers, as indicated here,
[ABC News],
(2) on disregarding Catholic women, as indicated here,
[ABC News],
and here,
[New York Review of Books],
and here
[National Catholic Reporter],
and (3) on aligning through his US bishops with the “low tax” billionaire Koch Brothers, as indicated here
[Religion News Service].
The Vatican continues to err in handling sexual abuse by priests. Pope Francis would do well to read the wise advice of Dr. Rosemary McHugh. a priest abuse survivor and an expert on women’s reproductive health. Please see her remarkable story entitled “Ireland: A Priest Predator & A Young US Doctor & An Archbishop” here.
Oddly, the usually meticulously careful AP Rome earlier today (1/31/15) reported that the pope’s regular (and overworked) Vatican spokesman, Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, indicated that two Polish-born prelates were being investigated by Holy See authorities for alleged possession of child pornography.
AP earlier had reported that Lombardi on Saturday identified one of them as Monsignor Bronislaw Morawiec, an administrator at St. Mary Major Basilica, which was Boston’s disgraced former Cardinal Bernard Law’s former Rome base and is a church where Pope Francis sometimes prays. Presumably, Morawiec had been investigated by then top Vatican prosecutor, Fr, Robert Oliver, Cardinal Law’s former canon lawyer. Cardinal Law’s former key legal aide, Oliver, is now the top staffer at the pope’s new “go slow” abuse commission that, after almost two years, will have its first full meeting soon.
AP’s original report indicated that the spokesman said Morawiec has already been convicted of fraud by the tiny city-state’s justice system. AP later withdrew the original story linked above, saying in a subsequent report, that Morawiec was not under investigation for child pornography possession, while still indicating that Morawiec has been convicted of fraud by a Vatican tribunal. Got that! He has been shown apparently to be a crook, but not a pervert, thank God.
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January 30, 2015
Why
is Pope Francis Still So Afraid of Oversight By the Catholic 99.99% ?
UNITED STATESChristian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Common sense, and accumulated experience, tell us that organizational problems can only be fixed, long term, by changing the organizational structure that caused the problems. The Catholic Church has had escalating and scandalous problems that have resulted, since the 1870 First Vatican Council “proclamation on infallibility”, largely from the Vatican’s top down and unaccountable monarchical structure, regardless of which Church officials handled, or more likely mishandled, specific problems.
Yet, Pope Francis in two years as pope has mostly just recycled some officials, leaving the flawed top down structure intact. Pre-Constantine, early Catholics oversaw their religious leaders directly for three centuries. Catholics must do so again, soon! Who and/or what follows Pope Francis? Please see The Crisis Pope Francis Faces , “Pope Francis Is Still Failing Too Many Abused & Abandoned Children, No?” and Pope Francis vs. Shadow Pope Benedict — Who is Infallible .
The obvious flaw in Francis’ current approach was again just noted by Gerald Posner in an NPR interview, “From Laundering To Profiteering, A Multitude Of Sins At The Vatican Bank” here
[NPR]
discussing former Wall Street lawyer Posner’s explosive new 750+ page book, “God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican” , see at Amazon link:
[Amazon]
God’s Bankers covers the astounding saga marked by poisoned business titans, murdered prosecutors, mysterious deaths of private investigators, and questionable suicides; a carnival of characters from Popes and Cardinals, financiers and mobsters, kings and prime ministers; and a set of moral and political circumstances that make clear the Vatican’s real aims and ambitions.And Posner even looks to the future to assess if Pope Francis can succeed where all his predecessors failed: to overcome the resistance to change in the Vatican’s Machiavellian inner court and to rein in the excesses of its seemingly uncontrollable and insatiable hierarchical greed.
Asked in his NPR interview about Pope Francis’ Vatican financial reforms, Posner responded, in pertinent part: “I’ve been impressed by him … {but} What could upend it? He needs to be there long enough that these changes can’t be reversed by a new pope who gets in and can be pushed around by the strong dominant bureaucrats.”
Pope Francis has not yet even selected an international auditing firm for the Vatican’s own huge proprietary assets. As eminent historian of the papacy, Eamon Duffy recently noted in the New York Review of Books, in pertinent part: ” … A pope with a long time in office can ensure that those around him share his vision. Rome appoints all the world’s Catholic bishops; the pope himself decides who will be a cardinal. The long pontificate of John Paul II and the succession of his right-hand man, Benedict XVI, have created a hierarchy who share much of their vision for the church. Gerhard Müller, still head of the Vatican’s most influential department, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, is also the general editor of Benedict XVI’s collected writings … Francis himself is unlikely to have a long pontificate: he is an old man, with only one functioning lung.”
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Vatican
confirms negotiating tax deal with Italy - update
VATICAN CITYGazzetta del Sud
Vatican City, March 5 - The Vatican is in talks with the Italian authorities for a deal about bank secrecy and other tax issues to help track down Italian tax evaders, Holy See sources told ANSA on Thursday. Italy recently reached deals to end bank secrecy with Switzerland, Monaco and Liechtenstein. In an interview with weekly magazine L'Espresso, Premier Matteo Renzi said he was hopeful the Vatican would be the next State to sign a tax deal with Rome. The sources said an eventual deal would not regard the position of individuals with accounts in the Vatican, as this area has been effectively dealt with via recent reforms of the Vatican Bank, the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR), and the closure of accounts of people who are not clergy or Holy See employees.
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Two
cases of child pornography possession in Vatican in 2014
VATICAN CITYReuters
BY PHILIP PULLELLA
VATICAN CITY Sat Jan 31, 2015
(Reuters) - The Vatican, which is still struggling with the effects of a worldwide pedophilia scandal in the Catholic Church, discovered two cases of possession of child pornography within its own walls last year, its chief prosecutor said on Saturday.
Gian Piero Milano, whose official title is Promoter of Justice, reported the cases in a 50-page report read to Vatican officials at a ceremony marking the start of the city-state's judicial year.
The Catholic Church has been hit by scandal involving the sexual abuse of children by priests around the world in the past 15 years. Pope Francis has vowed zero tolerance for offenders but victims of abuse want him to do more and make bishops who allegedly covered up the abuse accountable.
In his report, Milano said Vatican police had investigated "two delicate cases, of varying degrees of seriousness, of possession of child pornography material" by people living or working inside the city-state, which is the headquarters of the 1.2 billion member Church.
The prosecutor gave no details but a Vatican spokesman said one of them involved Jozef Wesolowski, a former archbishop who was arrested last September in the Vatican on charges of having paid for sex with children while he was a papal ambassador in the Dominican Republic.
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Vatican
Hits Sour Note With Women, but Progress May Come
VATICAN CITYABC News
VATICAN CITY — Jan 31, 2015
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
A new Vatican outreach initiative to listen to women hit a sour note before it even got off the ground: The sexy blonde on its Internet promo video came under such ridicule that it was quickly taken down.
But the program is going ahead, and an inaugural meeting this week will study women's issues in ways that are utterly new for the Holy See.
No, there is no talk of ordaining women priests.
But the working paper for the Pontifical Council of Culture's plenary assembly on "Women's Cultures: Equality and Difference" speaks about opening the church's doors to women so they can offer their skills "in full collaboration and integration" with men.
It denounces plastic surgery as a form of "aggression" against the female body "like a burqa made of flesh." And it acknowledges that the church has for centuries offered women "ideological and ancestral left-overs."
This is dangerous territory for the all-male Catholic Church hierarchy, as even Pope Francis has faced criticism for being a bit tone deaf as far as women are concerned.
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The Hands on
the Strings of Peter’s Purse
VATICAN CITYChiesa
The statutes of the new economic dicastery assign Cardinal Pell supervision over the assets of all the Vatican offices. But the ownership and management remain separate. Here is the story of a battle that is not over yet
by Sandro Magister
ROME, March 6, 2015 – The two most remarkable appointments that Pope Francis has made to the curia so far bear the names of cardinals Pietro Parolin and George Pell.
The first, a diplomat of the highest rank, to the secretariat of state, and the second, a manager of Anglo-Saxon pluck, to the newly created secretariat for the economy. Both of them are part of the “C9,” the council of cardinals that the pope wanted to gather around him for the reform of the curia.
And yet there is no agreement between these two.
Even worse. Behind their backs and to their detriment there has re-exploded the chaos of blunt recriminations, poisonous accusations, and vested interests that ravaged the previous pontificate. A terrible accompaniment for the vaunted reform of the Roman curia.
The appointment of Pell last year had been preceded by a barrage of consultation on how to reorganize the Vatican economic-financial structure, requested from companies like McKinsey, Promontory, Ernst & Young, KPMG, among the most distinguished and expensive in the world but certainly inexperienced with the unique profile that distinguishes the Holy See.
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Review:
'God's Bankers' by Gerald Posner
UNITED STATESChicago Tribune
By Trine Tsouderos
Soon after coming into office, Pope Francis began reforming the church's secretive yet powerful institution, the Institute for the Works of Religion, also known as the Vatican Bank. He issued decrees speeding reviews and improving transparency. He created a commission to do a thorough review of its operations. He replaced much of its leadership with experts from the global banking industry, charging them with overhauling the institution.
Francis' reforms included revising the mission of the bank too. The institution would leave its investment banking days behind to become a payment service and financial adviser to employees and other parts of the Catholic Church. As the prefect of the Vatican's Secretariat for the Economy, Cardinal George Pell, said, "The ambition is to be boringly successful, to get off the gossip pages."
Why all this reform? Wall Street-lawyer-turned-author Gerald Posner lays it out in his deeply researched, passionately argued book, "God's Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican." Posner, whose previous books include the best-seller, "Why America Slept," about the U.S. government's failure to prevent 9/11, is a merciless pitbull of an investigator, marshaling mountains of evidence to make his arguments.
Posner began researching "God's Bankers" after working on "Mengele," the 1986 biography he wrote with author John Ware on notorious Nazi doctor Josef Mengele. Posner and Ware obtained access to 5,000 pages of Mengele's personal writings and photos, using this trove to paint a portrait of a monster. During his research, Posner writes that he repeatedly unearthed evidence pointing to church involvement with the Nazis.
While the book traces the history of the Vatican's ongoing efforts to fund itself and its network, from sales of "indulgences" in the Middle Ages to the creation of the Vatican Bank to Pope Francis' reforms after decades of scandal, the heart of "God's Bankers" lies in chapters devoted to the church's actions during and immediately after World War II. In these chapters, Posner dissects the church's actions with the eye of a prosecutor.
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Is Bishop Scicluna Really a
“Hero”, John Allen?
UNITED STATESChristian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
* A Maltese journalist, seemingly seeking to endear himself to the new Malta Archbishop Charles Scicluna, conveniently cites the Boston Globe’s John Allen, observing: “One of journalism’s most prolific of Vatican insiders and the leading American authority on the Holy See, John L. Allen, has dubbed Malta’s new archbishop a Catholic “hero” for his role in successful prosecutions of clerical sex abusers.
* The Maltese journalist continues his cite of Allen: “For years serving by the side of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as promoter of justice in the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Scicluna, 55, spent 10 years handling accusations of clerical sex abuse, gaining a reputation for treating victims with compassion and respect, and for insisting church officials respond to allegations clearly … His leadership on the church’s effort to recover from its child sexual abuse scandals, especially his role in the prosecution of the late Fr Marcial Maciel Degollado, have made him a hero to reformers everywhere. His appointment will thus be taken not only as an important moment for Malta, but also a sign that good guys don’t always finish last!” . (emphasis mine)
* Of course, John Allen has made a nice living, it appears, increasingly as the US “spinmeister of choice” for the Vatican and its wealthy allies. But can Allen be taken seriously here in his “over the top praise” of Scicluna, who perhaps more than any other Vatican bureaucrat facilitated the Vatican’s evident priest abuse cover-up strategy for years. Scicluna’s rewards for this troubling behavior were promotions to senior episcopal positions from all indications.
* Sadly, in a gathering of “moral midgets” that the Vatican’s priest child abuse cover-up team seems to represent, even a short guy like Scicluna may seem a giant. But let’s be honest, please.
* Scicluna’s latest promotion appears to be just more of the same decades’ old cover up strategy. Pope Francis, a reportedly very hands on manager, apparently selected recently the members of his advisory sex abuse commission to deal, slowly it seems, with his biggest challenge, the scandal of sexual predatory priests and their unaccountable bishop accomplices.
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On
financial reform, Pope Francis doesn’t blink
VATICAN CITYCrux
By John L. Allen Jr.
Associate editor March 3, 2015
By now, one thing ought to be abundantly clear about Pope Francis: Faced with attempts to hobble his reform efforts through character assassination of his reformers, this pope just doesn’t blink.
The latest case in point is Australian Cardinal George Pell, put in charge of leading an historic clean-up of Vatican finances one year ago. The hard-charging former Australian Rules Football brawler has more than his fair share of critics, but on Tuesday Pope Francis issued a set of statutes for his operation which, to some extent at least, amount to a vindication.
(The statutes were released Tuesday, but were signed by the pope on Feb. 22 and actually took effect March 1.)
Early reaction to the decision has been mixed, with some Italian commentators seeing it as a defeat for Pell’s ambition to create a “super-dicastery,” meaning a Vatican department with virtually unlimited powers over both administration and vigilance of all Vatican assets.
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Pope Francis’s Report
Card
VATICAN CITYTime
John L. Allen, Jr./Rome @JohnLAllenJr
A veteran Vatican watcher sizes up Pope Francis
This article is adapted from the new book THE FRANCIS MIRACLE: Inside the Transformation of the Pope and the Church, published by Time Books.
Since his surprise election two years ago, Pope Francis has electrified and baffled the world in roughly equal measure. He’s launched Roman Catholicism on a reform path—though without altering its traditional teaching—and he’s tried to put a more compassionate and attractive face on its message. He has moved to address scandals and meltdowns that plagued the church under his predecessor and has done so in such a far-reaching and unexpected fashion that some of the Cardinals who elected him may be getting more than they bargained for. But on some fronts, the ultimate impact remains unclear. Here’s where Pope Francis’ reform campaign stands on five key issues. ...
3. Sex Abuse: PROMISING BUT INCOMPLETE
Pope Benedict XVI left behind a mixed legacy on Catholicism’s child-sexual-abuse scandals. He was the first Pope to meet victims and the first to embrace a zero-tolerance policy. He moved aggressively to weed abusers out of the priesthood, removing more than 400 in his final two years alone. Yet critics say Benedict fell short of holding bishops around the world accountable for failing to deal with the scandals.
Francis has taken steps to try to complete Benedict’s unfinished business, including the creation of a Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, which is led by Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley of Boston and includes two survivors of clerical abuse as members.
He has also launched a Vatican criminal trial for a former papal diplomat charged with abuse in the Dominican Republic, insisting that there will be no special privileges on his watch. In early February he dispatched a letter to all bishops saying “everything possible must be done to rid the church of the scourge of the sexual abuse of minors.”
Critics nevertheless charge that progress under Francis has been halfhearted and slow. In 2014 he approved an investigation of Bishop Robert Finn in Kansas City—to date the only American bishop found guilty of a crime for failure to report a charge of child abuse. Until victims see a prelate like Finn disciplined, many will argue that the Pope’s efforts deserve a grade of incomplete.
4. Vatican Finances: THE NUMBERS WILL TELL
Over the years, money has been a recurrent source of Vatican scandal. The roll call runs through the Vatican bank crises of the 1970s and ’80s all the way up to the arrest in summer 2013 of “Monsignor 500 Euro”—a onetime Vatican accountant indicted by Italian authorities as part of a cash-smuggling scheme.
Francis began his reform by creating an ambitious three-part structure: a Secretariat for the Economy with power to impose fiscal discipline and accountability; a Council for the Economy composed of heavy-hitter Cardinals as well as business professionals to oversee operations; and an independent auditor general to keep everyone honest.
To run it all, Francis brought in a tough-as-nails Australian prelate named George Pell. In mid-February, Pell reported to all Cardinals that his team had discovered $1.5 billion in hidden assets and a shortfall of almost $1 billion in the pension fund.
Pell and his team have their critics. Some members of the Vatican’s old guard believe it’s a reform in the spirit of the classic Italian novel Il Gattopardo: “Everything must change so that everything can stay the same.” More will become clear when the secretariat submits its first audited financial statement later this year.
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The
Vatican’s financial reform: The nasty is back
VATICAN CITYCrux
By John L. Allen Jr.
Associate editor February 28, 2015
Over the centuries, court politics at the Vatican sometimes have had a seriously nasty side. If anyone was wondering whether that aspect of its culture had been killed off in the Francis era, or had simply gone dormant, late February 2015 provided a fairly clear answer.
In a word, the nasty is back.
The focus this time is Cardinal George Pell of Australia, the pope’s chosen fix-it man on Vatican finances. Francis tapped Pell a year ago to end a cycle of scandal and corruption in money management, and in the year since he took over a newly created Secretariat for the Economy, he’s become a lightning rod of the first order.
This week the Italian newsmagazine l’Espresso published leaked receipts from Pell’s new department purporting to show that it has racked up more than a half-million dollars in expenses during its first six months of existence, including a tab of more than $3,000 at Gammarelli’s, a famed clerical tailor shop in Rome.
A rumor ensued that Francis had called Pell on the carpet about those expenses, something the Secretariat for the Economy called “completely false” and “complete fiction” in a statement on Saturday. In fact, the statement insisted, the new department’s expenses are actually below the budget set when it was established last March.
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No
need to be Catholic priests today: Gays now openly marry. Pedophiles are hunted
in Roman Catholic churches (by Interpol).
UNITED STATESfPopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
Paris Arrow
The Roman Catholic Church used to be a safe haven for gay priests and pedophile priests – where they were guaranteed to find gay partners in the most exclusive boys’ club on earth – and where they could tap on an ample source of supply of little boys (and girls) in Catholic churches packed with idiots Catholics, in parochial schools run by stupid Catholic nuns, in devout Pope John Paul II & rosary worshipping Catholic families, in rectories filled with adulating altar boys. And with additional perks to – the sure supply of gay men and little boys – priests had the backing of the Vatican Billions and the cover-up of bishops and cardinals and popes who imposed secrecy on their clandestine gay and pedophilia orgies – especially the two new saints John XXIII and John Paul II – thus making the Catholic Church as the most secure place for gay priests and pedophile priests to satiate their bestial priestly lust for gay men and young boys (and girls).
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Pope
Francis vs. Shadow Pope Benedict — Who is Infallible ?
UNITED STATESChristian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Hans Kung, who has known ex-Pope Benedict well for over a half century, warned Pope Francis about Pope Benedict’s remaining in his Vatican convent, noting that “Pope Benedict Will Be A ‘Shadow Pope’ “, see here,
[Huffington Post]
Archbishop George Gänswein, the ex-Pope’s personal “convent mate”, as reported recently by Crux, publicly expressed regret over specific cases in which Vatican spokesmen have had to issue clarifications about things his boss, Pope Francis, has said or done.
Now comes the “bomb”. In a new and significant Commonweal article by William McDonough, a theology professor, entitled “Right the First Time — Benedict XVI on Communion for the Remarried“, see here,
[Commonweal]
it is being reported that a very important moral
issue for Pope Francis (and his theological adviser, Cardinal Walter Kasper,
who was a longtime intellectual rival of the ex-Pope’s and former assistant to
Fr. Kung) has been put in play by the ex-Pope. The matter is
communion for divorced and remarried Catholics.
This is also a “big money” issue for top German Cardinal
Reinhard Marx and other German bishops, who stand to lose at least some of
their annual $6 billion governmental subsidy over an unsatisfactory resolution
of this issue.Both popes are already looking quite “fallible” over their mishandling of the contraception ban and the priest child abuse scandal, among other missteps, as discussed in my “Pope Francis Is Still Failing Too Many Abused & Abandoned Children, No?”.
Now this. Which pope is infallible here? Did Pope Benedict, a long time theology professor, lose his “infallible power” when he walked across the Vatican campus to his well renovated convent? Did non-theologian Francis receive a “cranial infallibility” implant when the papal crown was put on his head? Who is the real Papal Wizard now? Are they both serious about preserving the myth of papal infallibility? Will they now both infallibly declare the “principle of contradiction” to be false?
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A
paedophile priest, two bishops ...
UNITED KINGDOMDaily Mail
A paedophile priest, two bishops and a sickening conspiracy of silence: He married Frank Bruno and said Mass for Delia Smith. But behind the glitz was one of the Catholic Church's dirtiest secrets
By RICHARD PENDLEBURY FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Father Tony McSweeney chalked up a number of notable additions to his CV during a lifetime supposedly devoted to the service of children and God.
He said Mass at Norwich City Football Club at the request of its celebrity cook owner Delia Smith, and conducted the marriage of world heavyweight boxing champion Frank Bruno.
He also received the prestigious Silver Acorn for decades of ‘dedication’ to the global Scout movement and his co-authorship of its official songbook.
Last week, he even boasted of being the ‘world expert’ on organising campfire get-togethers.
But now he must add a chilling new entry to his list of achievements: he has become the first paedophile to be tried and convicted after being linked to allegations of a VIP ring based at an infamous South London guesthouse who preyed on boys from a nearby care home.
And unless police make further progress with their investigations, he could well be the last.
For decades — culminating in his trial and conviction at Southwark Crown Court on Friday — McSweeney, 68, lied and lied.
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Predator
priests in the Springfield, Illinois Catholic diocese
ILLINOISHoly Family Inclusive Catholic Community
This entry was posted on March 4, 2015 by John Freml
Bishop PaprockiOn Wednesday, March 4, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) and Call To Action Central Illinois held a news conference in which the names of eight priests accused of sexual abuse of minors were released, all of whom are believed to have been transferred to various towns within the Springfield diocese.
What follows is a summary of the information that was released. (Disclaimer: This information was provided to us by SNAP.)
What we know for sure:
* Two out-of-state predator priests spent time in the Springfield diocese.
* Neither Bishop Thomas Paprocki nor his predecessors have told anyone about them.
* If they molested kids here, those kids are now adults and are likely still suffering.
* If so, Paprocki has a moral duty to aggressively reach out to them.
* Six predator priests ousted from their Chicago parishes in the 1990s, while Bishop Paprocki was the Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Chicago, were listed in the Official Catholic Directory as having a central Illinois area phone number, after they were ousted from their Chicago parishes for alleged abuse. The phone (217-324-4192) is a land line in Litchfield. Currently, the only operating Catholic facility in Litchfield is Holy Family parish.
More details:
The two out-of-state predator priests who spent time in the Springfield diocese are Fr. Frank R. Martinez Jr. of Iowa and Fr. James Vincent Fitzgerald of South Dakota, both deceased.
In 2008, Fr. Martinez was deemed “credibly accused” of child sex abuse by Davenport diocesan officials and reportedly molested at least one kid in Iowa. Later, he was sent to St. Mary’s hospital in Decatur (source).
Fr. Fitzgerald was a member of a Washington, DC-based religious order called the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (202-529-4505). In 2013, Fr. Fitzgerald was sued for reportedly assaulting one kid in Minnesota and in 2010 for molesting two kids in South Dakota. From 1994-2002, he lived at a church facility in Belleville (source, source).
Catholic officials must soon release more church records about Fr. Fitzgerald, thanks to a ruling last month in a pending civil abuse case against him in Minnesota (source, source)
The six priests ousted from their Chicago parishes in the 1990s and listed in the Official Catholic Directory in the 217 area code are: Fr. David F. Braun, Fr. Eugene P. Burns, Fr. William J. Cloutier, Fr. Norbert J. Maday, Fr. Robert E. Mayer and Fr. Kenneth C. Runge.
We believe Fr. Mayday and Fr. Mayer are alive, but are unsure.
Fr. Cloutier, Fr. Burns, and Fr. Braun are deceased.
The identities of these priests were revealed from long-secret church documents, made public recently through civil lawsuits.
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groups release names of 8 priests who allegedly committed crimes against minors
ILLINOISWAND
Posted: Mar 04, 2015
SPRINGFIELD - Members of Call to Action Central Illinois and the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests have released the names of eight priests who were believed to be transferred to the Springfield Catholic diocese and have allegedly committed predatory crimes against minors.
Members of both groups revealed the names of the alleged individuals during a press conference in Springfield Wednesday afternoon. SNAP Director David Clohessy and Call to Action Central Illinois spokesperson John Freml were in attendance.
The individuals who were named at the conference allegedly committed various crimes involving minors before being transferred to the Springfield Catholic diocese.
The press release from the event (information provided by SNAP officials) can be found at this link: http://www.inclusiveholyfamily.org/blog/predator-priests-in-the-springfield-illinois-catholic-diocese.
A statement regarding the release of the alleged individuals' names from Call to Action spokesperson John Freml can be found here: http://www.inclusiveholyfamily.org/blog/john-fremls-statement-at-the-snap-news-conference-on-march-4-2015.
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Pope
Consolidates Overhaul of Centuries-Old Financial Structure
VATICAN CITYBloomberg
by Alessandro Speciale
March 3, 2015
(Bloomberg) -- Pope Francis consolidated his overhaul of the Vatican’s financial system by publishing the statutes of three new economic bodies created to help increase transparency and modernize the centuries-old institution.
The statues of the Council for the Economy, the Secretariat for the Economy, and an independent Auditor General, all created in the past few years, were published on the Vatican website. Jointly, the bodies promote modern management principles and oversee Vatican offices that have operated independently in the past.
A more transparent and accountable handling of the Church’s affairs has been a key priority for the pope since his election in 2013. The first non-European pontiff in almost 1,300 years, who vowed to make the church “poor, and for the poor,” Francis is trying to restore the image of the Church’s finances following several scandals.
The Council for the Economy “follows international best practices in public administration, with the aim of an ethical and efficient financial and administrative management,” according to one of the three legal texts published on the Vatican website.
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Pope
approves legal framework for financial reform
VATICAN CITYReuters
BY PHILIP PULLELLA
VATICAN CITY Tue Mar 3, 2015
(Reuters) - Pope Francis approved detailed new plans to reform Vatican finances on Tuesday, giving the Australian cardinal leading the changes sweeping powers to monitor Vatican departments and ensure budgets conform to international accounting standards.
The statutes had been keenly awaited for signs of how much power would fall to Cardinal George Pell - an outsider Francis brought in to oversee often muddled finances and who, according to Italian media, is viewed skeptically by detractors in the Vatican bureaucracy who feel he has amassed too much power.
The changes were one of the clearest indications to date that Francis is committed to the mandate given him by cardinals who elected him in 2013 to clean up after a series of financial scandals.
The most important of three new norms is one that governs the Secretariat for the Economy, which Pell has headed since it was set up last year. The norms give Pell wide powers, including the monitoring of other Vatican departments, ensuring their budgets conform to international accounting standards and are reviewed by external auditors.
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WI--For
victims, Milwaukee Archdiocesan bankruptcy going from bad to worse
MILWAUKEE (WI)Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Statement by Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director
CONTACT: 414.429.7259
Four years ago Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome Listecki petitioned the federal bankruptcy court for chapter 11, promising that court ordering sexual abuse cases into bankruptcy was necessary to bring “healing” and “resolution” to victims of pedophile clergy. That took cases out of state court and put them into bankruptcy court, where they decide if creditors should get paid their business debts or private companies reorganize themselves.
$22.5 million dollars in lawyers’ fees later, not only hasn’t a single one of the 575 victims that filed cases in Milwaukee received a penny of restitution, ten more representative cases were tossed out today in a confusing set of narrow rulings by Judge Susan V. Kelley. One can only wonder: why did it take four years and millions of dollars to figure out only now that these cases don’t have legal merit?
If it wasn’t before, it is now painfully clear that the federal court should never have accepted Listecki’s petition for bankruptcy. The archdiocese never intended to bring healing and restitution to victims. What it has done, besides increasing exponentially the pain and suffering of survivors and their families, is bar victims from seeking justice in state courts and herd them into federal bankruptcy. Now, instead of being a victim of child rape or a plaintiff in a terrible negligence act, you’re a consumer or a creditor trying to get you bill paid.
Which leads to the obvious point: bankruptcy court is no place for criminal child rape and institutional conspiracy cases. Yes, other church bankruptcies around the US were resolved quickly, leading to some actual restitution for victims, on average, $350,000 per survivor. But the bishops in the other bankruptcies, in retrospect, seemed to have decided that they would work in some significant way with victims and their attorneys to reach resolution. In Milwaukee, however, the lone wolf archbishop decided he was going to send his lawyers to destroy victim cases like heat seeking missiles. So far, they have done splendidly for themselves. The current offer on the table for restitution per victim, by the way, is under $7,000.
That is why Milwaukee is now the nation’s object lesson on exactly how not to resolve church sexual abuse cases, as was recently mentioned, very pointedly and publically, from the bench of at least two federal judges in other church bankruptcy filings, Gallup and Minneapolis. How, the judges mused, could lawyers be paid twice as much in Milwaukee as the total being offered to all victims?
Apparently the message to the community from the archbishop from this bankruptcy, the innocent and the criminal alike, is that you can get away with anything if only you have enough money, power and time.
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Priest
who does Vatican PR says he won’t sue conservative blogger
ROMECrux
By Inés San Martín
Vatican correspondent March 4, 2015
ROME — Despite a frenzy in the conservative Catholic blogosphere, a high-profile priest who volunteers as an English-language assistant to the Vatican press office says he’s not planning to take legal action against a Canadian blogger who had criticized him, and considers the matter closed.
The Rev. Thomas Rosica, also a Canadian, said Wednesday he never planned to sue the blogger, and also insisted that he’s not a “high-ranking Vatican official” and hence there was never any prospect of the Vatican taking action.
On Feb. 17, Rosica sent David Domet, a musician who runs a blog called “Vox Cantoris,” a letter through the Toronto-based law firm Fogler, Rubinoff demanding the removal of nine statements that Domet had posted about Rosica. The letter said the statements were “false and defamatory for suggesting that the priest is dishonest, untrustworthy, and willing to act unethically to further his own agenda.”
When Domet posted the letter, it generated a mini-tempest among some Catholic commentators, often based on the impression that the Vatican was cracking down on conservative voices.
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TX--Bishop
accused of illegal taping of victim’s mom
TEXASSurvivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Wednesday, March 4
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com , davidgclohessy@gmail.com )
A startling new clergy sex abuse and cover up lawsuit charges that Ft. Worth Catholic Bishop Michael F. Olsen:
-- illegally tape recorded a child sex abuse victim’s mom without her knowledge,
-- also tape recorded a “trusting” and deeply wounded victim too,
-- “betrayed,” “re-victimized” and “tried to silence” him until his statute of limitations expired,
-- conducted a “virtual interrogation” of him “for fraudulent purposes: to limit or deny” any potential civil case (he) would have and to “elicit support for the diocese’s legal defenses” if he did sue,
-- intended to “trick and betray” the mom “into testifying against her own abused and damaged son” with the “sole purpose of (using) her statements to defeat any potential civil claims he might justly have.”
-- promised to contact the victim again “in a few weeks” but never did,
-- led the victim “to believe he would go to Mass with him and pray with him but never did,
-- said “how happy he was that (the victim) had not hired a lawyer to sue the diocese.”
The bottom line is that “As a trusting child, Doe was betrayed and victimized by a chaplain and as a trusting adult he was betrayed and then re-victimized by his bishop,” the suit asserts.
The perpetrator of the child sex crimes was Fr. Hugh John Sutton.
Under the guise of punishment, Fr. Sutton repeatedly inflicted “sadistic abuse” on the boy,” the suit charges, beginning in in 1990, when the boy was in the 7th grade at Notre Dame Middle-High School at Our Lady Queen of Peace Parish in Wichita Falls, Texas. During lunch hour in the school chapel, Fr. Sutton “disciplined” the boy by sexually assaulting him.
Fr. Sutton claimed, the suit says that “these excruciating, humiliating abuses were testimonies to God of his repentance for having plagiarized, and pleased Him” while also warning the boy to “not to tell anyone because no one would believe him,” and threatening “I have the power to ruin your life.”
A New York native, Fr. Sutton was ordained in Pueblo Colorado and worked as a teacher, chaplain or priest in Arkansas, California, Mississippi, North Dakota, Ohio, Guam and the US Navy. His only church assignment in the Ft. Worth diocese was apparently at Notre Dame (which he left in 1992). His last known location was at the Commons of Providence, a Catholic-affiliated assisted living facility in Sandusky, Ohio. He died in 2004.
The victim now lives out of state. He is represented by Dallas attorney Tahira Khan Merritt (214 503 7300). The suit, filed yesterday in Tarrant County court, seeks actual and punitive damages of more than one million dollars. It also says that in 2013, the victim “had a nervous breakdown, began to suffer debilitating panic attacks (which) flooded his sleeping and waking hours and wreaked havoc in his life” “as he recalled, for the first time, disturbing images of the serial rapes and sadistic abuses by Sutton.”
We urge anyone who may have seen, suspected or suffered clergy sex crimes or cover ups in the Ft. Worth diocese – by this cleric or any church employee – to find the strength and courage to step forward, seek help, call police, expose wrongdoers, protect kids and start healing.
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American idiots Catholics should examine which power are they enslaved under -- the 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
History repeats itself. Like the Crusaders, the Catholic religion has proven itself again as the best cover-up for the worst crimes against humanity’s children and youth in the 20th and 21stcentury – by means of the cunning use of religion – by John Paul II and George W. Bush. Read our related article, John Paul II and Adolf Hitler are permanent allies in history: on May 1st and now on April 27th. SNAP Remembrance Day & Holocaust Remembrance Day http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/04/john-paul-ii-and-adolf-hitler-are.html
Now we can add George W. Bush to the alliance with his infamous CIA Torture to John Paul II and Hitler.
Americans should work for the end of the Vatican as a country and to end Switzerland as a “neutral” country because both tiny countries are controlled and belong to the Vatican and the secret Vatican Swiss Banks hoard the wealth of the world’s 1% wealthiest and imperialists. Read our related article, 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
USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray” with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/usa-ambassador-to-vatican-for-what.html
John Paul II’s two Achilles Heels
Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston
That "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 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
The Patron Saint of Pedophiles John Paul II embracing and kissing his beloved poster boy Marcial Maciel
John Paul II the Holy Father of Lies! Cardinal Dziwisz book: “JPII knew nothing” about bestial pedophile priest Fr. Maciel is Vatican Titanic Deceitshttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/11/john-paul-ii-holy-father-of-lies.html
MM Marcial Maciel piggyback ride on Mary Magdalene in Galilee – to save face of Legion of Christ and MM billions of dollars in Vatican Swiss Banks http://pope-francis-con-christ.blogspot.ca/2014_08_01_archive.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
Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html
John Paul II portrait by Danish artist http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2007/10/john-paul-ii-portrait-by-danish-artist.html
Theology and John Paul II are heartless and together they made serial pedophile priest Fr. Marcial Maciel thrive http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2010/05/theology-and-john-paul-ii-are-heartless.html
Fr. MarcialMaciel'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.html
George W. Bush’s two Achilles Heels : Iraq War and CIA Torture
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 Terrorhttp://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
Human Rights Day: “No land, No life”,
Land grabbing is a human rights violation
Land grabbing is a human rights violation
Statement
10 December 2014
10 December 2014
Statement to mark the International Human Rights Daycollectively 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 Africaand 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 theInternational 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.
GABRIELA USA calls on you to join us in support of our campaigns against economic, state, military, and gender violence here in the U.S., in the Philippines, and internationally. We demand justice for victims of police violence, human trafficking, man-made environmental disasters, and economic inequality. We demand justice for all victims of human rights violations!
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 Philippines Under U.S. Imperialism
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 usingmilitary 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 victimshttp://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).
Jeb Bush and wife belong to Regnum Christi of Marcial Maciel
Personal life - Columba Bush
An active Roman Catholic, she is a member ofRegnum Christi.[citation needed] In 2007, together with her husband Jeb, she attended the Regnum Christi Family Convention in Atlanta.[6]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba_Bush
Richard John Neuhaus was a staunch supporter and dismissed all the charges against Maciel with "moral certainty." Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum spoke at Legion conferences. Bill Bennett spoke at Legion events and said, "I am fortunate enough to know and trust the priests of the Legionaries of Christ. ... The flourishing of the Legionaries is a cause for hope in a time of much darkness." Bill Donohue supported Maciel against now-substantiated charges of abuse. But in some ways, Maciel's most disturbing enabler was Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law Professor and former ambassador to the Vatican:
Source `: The Vatican's Watergate: Follow The Money http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/04/the-vaticans-watergate-follow-the-money/188415/?single_page=true
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba_Bush
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
Richard John Neuhaus was a staunch supporter and dismissed all the charges against Maciel with "moral certainty." Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum spoke at Legion conferences. Bill Bennett spoke at Legion events and said, "I am fortunate enough to know and trust the priests of the Legionaries of Christ. ... The flourishing of the Legionaries is a cause for hope in a time of much darkness." Bill Donohue supported Maciel against now-substantiated charges of abuse. But in some ways, Maciel's most disturbing enabler was Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law Professor and former ambassador to the Vatican:
Source `: The Vatican's Watergate: Follow The Money http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2010/04/the-vaticans-watergate-follow-the-money/188415/?single_page=true
Jeb and Columba to speak at Catholic youth encounter
Another addition to the calendar of former Gov. Jeb Bush. The Catholic archdiocese of Atlanta has announced that Bush and his wifeColumba will be the keynote speakers on July 28th at the 11th annualYouth and Family Encounter that will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta. The conference is organized by priests of the Legionaires of Christ and members of Regnum Christi, an apostolic movement of lay people, deacons and priests established by the order.
Our
Lady of revenue: NYC churches on the market
NEW YORKUSA Today
[with video]
Rick Hampson, USA TODAY March 1, 2015
NEW YORK – Our Lady of Vilnius Church, built by families of immigrant Lithuanian longshoremen, started out a century ago as a beloved worship space. Now, it's a coveted real estate asset.
In 2013, six years after the church was closed, it was sold for $13 million to one of the city's biggest developers. The following year that company flipped it like a pancake to another developer for $18.4 million.
Now the yellow brick church near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel awaits demolition to make way for an 18-story luxury apartment house.
"It makes you cynical,'' says Christina Nakraseive, a former parishioner who supported the legal case against the church closing until it was rejected by the state's highest court. "It seems like it's all about real estate.''
The issue has taken on added significance since the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, citing declining attendance, rising costs and a looming priest shortage, announced plans to merge scores of parishes and close dozens of churches this year.
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Franciscan
friars accused of racist rants at St. Francis Friends of the Poor
NEW YORKNew York Post
By Kathianne Boniello
March 1, 2015
Forgive me, fathers, for you have sinned.
Three Catholic priests who run homeless charities in Manhattan are anything but Christian behind closed doors, longtime female staffers at St. Francis Friends of the Poor claim in a lawsuit.
Franciscan Friars John McVean, John Felice and Tom Walters subjected the women to racist rants and took a veritable vow of silence as the ladies were repeatedly manhandled for three years by a leering, oversexed co-worker, court papers allege.
The trio “ruled St. Francis with an iron fist and fostered a culture of intimidation,” according to the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit. “The priests, who many at St. Francis suspect occasionally come to work drunk, often lashed out at employees and frequently screamed at subordinates.”
McVean, Felice and Walters — all friars in residence at St. Francis of Assisi Church on West 31st Street — launched their nonprofit in 1980 and now house 250 mentally ill men and women at three Manhattan locations. The charity is independent of the Archdiocese of New York.
McVean routinely referred to the building manager as “a goat-loving Muslim,” “an idiot Muslim” and “often said that ‘Muslims are dangerous,’ ” according to court papers. ...
The most traumatizing experience, the women say, came at the hands of Friends of the Poor program director Gyasi Bramos-Hantman, who subjected the women to an atmosphere that “would not be tolerated in any locker room,” according to the lawsuit.
About “twice a month,” Bramos-Hantman would corner the women for unwanted hugs, rubbing himself against them and once embracing O’Leary so forcibly “it loosened [her] colostomy and drainage bag,” she claims.
The women turned to McVean, Felice and Walters for help, but were threatened with termination by the priests, who engaged in “a massive coverup,” they allege.
The three priests denied the allegations.
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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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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.
Sacerdote pederasta mexicano es buscado en 180 países
MEXICOSopitas
[Priest Eduardo Cordova Bautista of the San Luis Potosi diocese is wanted in 180 countries thought the Interpol international police agency. He is wanted in connection with allegations that he sexually abused 19 young people.]
El sacerdote que llegó a fungir como representante de la Arquidiócesis de San Luis Potosí, de nombre Eduardo Córdova Bautista, es buscado en 180 países a través de la Policía Internacional de la Interpol por el abuso sexual de 19 menores.
De acuerdo con el procurador de Justicia de SLP, Miguel Ángel García Covarrubias, se tramitó una alerta migratoria en la Interpol Washington ante el supuesto caso de que el cura intente entrar o salir de Estados Unidos.
El procurador de Justicia emitió esta respuesta en un comunicado luego de que defensores de las víctimas protestaran, acusando que el gobierno de San Luis Potosí protege al prófugo sacerdote pederasta.
El fiscal aseguró que no habrá impunidad y que ha actuado con celeridad:
“En este caso siempre se ha actuado con estricto apego a la ley, evitando que haya impunidad, tan es así que en su momento se giró la respectiva orden de aprehensión en contra del ahora ex sacerdote por los delitos de abuso sexual calificado, privación ilegal de la libertad y corrupción de menores”.
Córdova Bautista tiene en su contra desde el 25 de junio pasado una orden de arresto por pederastia en agravio de 19 menores. Fue párroco del Templo de Nuestra Señora de la Anunciación e, incluso, representante de la Arquidiócesis en el estado.
Anonymous are about to wage war on rich and powerful ...
UNITED KINGDOMThe Independent
Anonymous are about to wage war on rich and powerful covering up child sex abuse in 'nightmarish' Friday 13th march
LAMIAT SABIN Friday 13 February 2015
Masked protesters will march on the homes of "elite" paedophiles and public figures they claim have been involved in the "nightmarish" cover-up of child sex abuse.
In a video released on YouTube, Anonymous says it has exposed a club of people in positions of trust and responsibility that have been murdering and torturing children.
"Friday the 13th will see us become the nightmare on Elite Street," the message says.
"Politicians, royals, media, religious figures, singers, actors, men and women; it seems that the long grotesque arm of this club has no bounds.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:41 AM
Opferverein kritisiert Bewährungsstrafe
DEUTSCHLANDKatholisch
[An association of victims of abuse at Ettal Monastery said giving their abuser probation is no penalty.]
Kloster Ettal | 27.02.2015 – München
Der Verein Ettaler Missbrauchs- und Misshandlungsopfer hält die vom Landgericht München II dem geständigen Pater G. zugesagte Bewährungsstrafe für problematisch. Aus Sicht von Missbrauchsopfern sei es keine Strafe, "wenn jemand nicht einmal eine Woche ins Gefängnis muss", sagte der Vereinsvorsitzende Robert Köhler am Freitag auf Anfrage der Katholischen Nachrichten-Agentur (KNA) in München. Eine solche Sanktion werde dem "Vergeltungsbedürfnis der Opfer" nicht gerecht.
Zugleich würdigte Köhler die grundsätzliche Bedeutung des Geständnisses. Damit könne nicht mehr bezweifelt werden, dass es diese Übergriffe gegeben habe. Der Ordensmann hatte nach jahrelangem Leugnen am Donnerstag sich im Sinne der Anklage für schuldig bekannt. Demnach hat er als Internatspräfekt in Kloster Ettal zwischen 2001 und 2005 drei Schüler insgesamt 23 Mal sexuell missbraucht. Das Gericht hatte ihm zuvor für den Fall eines Geständnisses eine zur Bewährung ausgesetzte Haftstrafe von nicht mehr als zwei Jahren in Aussicht gestellt. Eines der Opfer soll noch als Zeuge vernommen werden, bevor am 11. März ein Urteil erwartet wird.
Rome--Victims question church-state ties in Norway, other nations
UNITED STATESSurvivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com , davidgclohessy@gmail.com )
Norwegian Catholic officials are accused of exaggerating church rosters to get more money. We’re skeptical of Oslo Bishop Bernt Eidsvig’s claims that he and his colleagues “never intended to do anything illegal."
[The Local]
We’re saddened by these allegations and urge governments to reconsider their agreements to collect fees for churches. These arrangements invite corruption and discourage abuse victims, witnesses and whistleblowers.
This kind of system gives churches too much power to church officials and deters abuse victims from speaking up ("See how powerful church is? See how closely it’s tied to secular authorities? Who will believe me? Why risk speaking up? Nothing will be done if I tell police or prosecutors")
Priest faces jail over sex abuse
UNITED KINGDOMBelfast Telegraph
27 FEBRUARY 2015
A Catholic priest dubbed the "fat vicar" is facing jail after he was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenage boy at a children's home.
Father Anthony McSweeney, 68, preyed on the vulnerable youngster while working at Grafton Close Children's Home in Hounslow, west London, between 1979 and 1981. Morbidly obese McSweeney was also found guilty of making indecent images of children.
He preyed on the boy with his close friend John Stingemore, 72, who managed the care home and was found dead in January - weeks before his trial.
Wearing a black suit and red tie and carrying a walking stick, McSweeney stared straight ahead as the jury of six men and five women returned their verdicts at London's Southwark Crown Court. He was cleared of three indecent assaults on two other boys at the care home and taking a pornographic photo of one of these boys.
Czech Roman Catholic priest convicted of rape, sexual abuse, receives 5-year prison term
CZECH REPUBLICStar Tribune
Associated Press Updated: February 26, 2015
PRAGUE — A court official in the Czech Republic says a Roman Catholic priest has been convicted of rape and sexual abuse and sentenced to five years in prison.
Jan Dolezal, spokesman for the county court in Havlickuv Brod, located some 120 kilometers (75 miles) southeast of Prague, said Erik Tvrdon was found guilty of raping four women and sexually abusing a minor. Police previously said they believed he forced a 13-year old girl to send him naked images of herself.
Tvrdon pleaded not guilty.
Thursday's verdict is not final. Dolezal says the state prosecutor has appealed, demanding a stiffer prison term.
James Jennings, former Catholic priest jailed for molesting fights compo claims
AUSTRALIAHerald Sun
PADRAIC MURPHY HERALD SUN FEBRUARY 27, 2015
A FORMER Catholic priest jailed for molesting students at a Bendigo boarding school is fighting compensation claims brought by his victims.
James Jennings, 81, was jailed last year after being found guilty of molesting boys in his car at St Vincent’s college boarding school in the mid-1960s.
Two victims are now trying to make Jennings pay compensation personally.
Jennings — who maintains his innocence — yesterday attacked one of the victims, claiming he had misled the court by saying he was not motivated by compensation and the jury’s decision may have been different had they known of the compensation claim.
“During my trial (he) very clearly stated he was not interested in money. He had agreed to press charges to assist other victims,” Jennings yesterday told County Court Judge Wendy Wilmoth.
Abusi sessuali, frate in manette L'arresto lungo il Cammino di Santiago
ITALIAL'Unione Sarda:
[A Franciscan monk is accused of sexually abusing a 19 year old disabled person and a minor.]
Con l'accusa di presunti abusi sessuali su una disabile di 19 anni e su un minorenne, un frate francescano è stato arrestato a Lugo, in Galizia, dalla guardia civile.
Il religioso, J.Q., prestava servizio nella comunità di O Cebreiro e le manette sono scattate due giorni fa lungo il Cammino francese di Santiago a seguito delle indagini avviate dopo le denunce dei parenti delle vittime. Nella sua abitazione sono stati sequestrati computer, cellulare e dispositivi elettronici, con un archivio di video in cui il francescano appare mantenendo rapporti con la minore.
Philippines idiots Catholics & Migrante International missed biggest protest against Pope Francis - Pope of the Richest 1% of the Globe -NOT Pope of the Poor
UNITED STATESPopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
Paris Arrow
The Migrante International is one of the largest Philippine groups that keep protesting American Imperialism and its power over the Philippine’s President BS Aquino and its corrupt government and they wrote an open letter to Pope Francis asking him, “Pope of the Poor, Fight for Us”. Below is its open letter proving how stupid and idiotic Filipinos are to believe in Pope Francis who is the very same Pope – who colludes with American imperialists – therefore he is the Pope of the Rich who oppresses the Filipino people. Migrante International should have used the visit of Pope Francis to protest US Imperialism and Vatican Imperialism – after all the Philippines (was under Spaniard and the Vatican Catholic Church oppression for over 400 years) and today the Philippines continue to be controlled by the Vatican Catholic Church and the Vatican Swiss Banks continue to hoard American and European Imperialists' loot,the late President Marcos’ loot and President Aquino's loot from the Philippine treasury, read our related article, Hidden Heist in the Holy See.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:35 PM
Confessions of a Gay Jesuit: How I Was Forced To Leave My Church—And Calling
UNITED STATESThe Daily Beast
Ben Brenkert wanted to be a priest, but confronted by the hypocrisy and prejudice of the Catholic Church he had to quit. Here, in a powerful, heartfelt essay, he explains why.
Today, at 35, I am a gay seminarian who still needs human touch. For me the best place is the Episcopal Church. Some day I will be a priest, hopefully married with children. That’s what I’m looking for, love; it falls under the rubric of modern love. I am a modern gay Christian in search of love, one who still wants to become a priest.
From 2004 to 2014 I was a Jesuit, a member of the Society of Jesus in good standing, an order gone global by the election of Pope Francis I. I left the Jesuits because I left the Roman Catholic Church. I would not be an openly gay priest in a Church that fires LGBTQ employees and volunteers. I left in protest: How could I be an openly gay priest who fires LGBTQ employees and volunteers?
Here’s my story; it is an experiment with truth telling, as much as it is about justice for LGBTQ Christians and non-Christians, men, women and children who have been deeply affected by the millennia of anti-gay theology and hate speech espoused by the Roman Catholic Church. The effects of this violence linger today. ...
In 2006, at 26, we Jesuit novices studied together in Denver. During this summer gay Jesuits met periodically, in secret to discuss the lack of hospitality and welcome by our straight brothers. Many spoke about how this led them into the dark night of the soul, to what some interpreted as an unhealthy uses of pornography, when what they really wanted was genuine human connection.
Of course, using porn contradicted one’s vow of chastity. One immature novice said that for him gay porn was but one means to keep his “gay self” alive and still connected to a community so often alienated by the Church; for me, he was erroneously projecting his own sense of isolation and alienation by the Church onto the gay porn industry.
In those secret meetings we discussed why it was OK for our straight brothers to make crude jokes about women during dinner while we could not discuss ex-boyfriends or what it meant to be healthy, chaste gay man. Our callings we opined were from God irrespective of our sexual orientation.
After nine trials spanning 12 years ...
AUSTRALIASydney Morning Herald
After nine trials spanning 12 years St Joseph's teacher Brother John Maguire faces sentencing for child sex offences
After nine separate trials spanning 12 years, Brother John Dennis Maguire was used to being in a courtroom.
But when the 71-year-old priest sat in the dock on Friday it was the first time he had faced the prospect of being sentenced for a crime.
From 1978 to the mid-1980s, Maguire was a teacher and dorm master at St Joseph's College in Hunters Hill, an exclusive Catholic school run by the Marist Brothers.
In 2002, he was charged with multiple sexual offences in relation to several students at the school, with the complainants alleging that he would target boys who were homesick – comforting them and then sexually assaulting them.
Maguire pleaded not guilty to the charges and his lawyers successfully applied for each of the allegations to be heard separately.
Public hearing into St Joseph’s Orphanage, Neerkol
AUSTRALIARoyal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse
27 February, 2015
The Royal Commission will hold a public hearing commencing on Tuesday 14 April 2015 at the Rockhampton Court House, Virgil Power Building, 46 East Street, Rockhampton.
The scope and purpose of the public hearing is to inquire into:
The experiences of a number of men and women who were resident at St Joseph’s Orphanage, Neerkol operated by the Sisters of Mercy between 1940 and 1975;
The responses of:
a. the Sisters of Mercy
b. the Catholic Diocese of Rockhampton, and
c. the Queensland state government to complaints made by former residents of St Joseph’s Orphanage, Neerkol of child sexual abuse by workers, priests and nuns at the Orphanage between 1993 and present.
Any related matters.
Any person or institution who believes that they have a direct and substantial interest in the scope and purpose of the public hearing is invited to lodge a written application for leave to appear at the public hearing by 20 March 2015.
Applications for leave to appear should be made using the form available on the Royal Commission website.
The form and the submission should be lodged with the Royal Commission via:
Email: solicitor@childabuseroyalcommission.gov.au;
or Mail: GPO Box 5283, Sydney NSW 2001.
Interested individuals and organisations are encouraged to view the proceedings via the webcast on the Royal Commission’s website.
Don’t let S.F. Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone’s charm fool you
CALIFORNIASan Francisco Chronicle
By C.W. Nevius
February 25, 2015
This week, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone met with The Chronicle’s editorial board. He’s charming, humorous and engaging.
He’s also dead wrong.
The controversy stems from his proposed changes in the collective bargaining agreement with teachers in archdiocese high schools that would designate them as “ministers.” In addition, “clarifications” to school handbooks would emphasize that employees would have to follow the teachings of the church, leading some parents and teachers to call the additions morality clauses because they involve things like same-sex relationships and abortion.
Cordileone may have reconciled his personal beliefs — saying he would allow gay students at archdiocese schools but adamantly opposes the right of same-sex couples to marry — but many of the rest of us are still shaking our heads.
Cordileone made every effort to minimize the controversy, but his explanations were difficult to follow at best.
Take his statement: “To call an act gravely evil does not mean that the person who does the act is an evil person.”
That may be clear to him, but I don’t get it. Among the “evil” activities he’s talking about are homosexuality, same-sex marriage and even in-vitro fertilization. It’s the kind of chilling distinction that puts everyone on edge.
Reporters Lift Curtain on Pope Francis’ Veto of Hillary Clinton’s Pill
UNITED STATESChristian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
* Doggedly determined reporters following Toto’s example at last peeled back on Monday (1/19/15) the Papal Wizard’s curtain. They got the pope unexpectedly to digress about contraception “pills” and even Catholic “rabbits”, as discussed below. Please see also the superb analysis, “The Catholic church’s complicity in {former Manila street child} Glyzelle Palomar’s suffering“,
by Yale educated and prophetic theologian, Jamie Manson, here:
* [National Catholic Reporter]
* and the insightful discussion, “Pope Francis, Breeding Bunnies and Ideological Colonization“, by a leading expert on Catholics and contraception, Patricia Miller, here:
* [Religion Dispatches]
* Pope Francis evidently is gearing up for this summer’s papal push into US presidential politics and likely against family planning advocate, Hillary Clinton. He was untypically revealing about his current plans in responses to questions in his press conference on the flight back from the Philippines. He earlier had been more circumspect publicly after frightened cardinals, who worried about criminal prosecutions and financial bankruptcy, made him pope two years ago , as I recently discussed here Pope, M.L. King & a Dream About Street Children
* President Obama’s likely successor after next year’s US election, Hillary Clinton, has a long history of standing up to the Vatican, especially on the “pill” and contraception, as I recently discussed here Hillary Clinton vs. Pope Francis in 2015 ? Francis made it inevitable, with his “Catholics are not Rabbits” spin, that family planning will be a top issue in the upcoming US presidential elections. Francis and his subordinate US bishops are already following the latest mistaken right wing Republican line that “contraception” equals “abortion”.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:02 PM
Just 16% of Belfast Catholics go to Mass, says diocese survey
NORTHERN IRELANDBelfast Telegraph
BY JOANNE SWEENEY – 26 FEBRUARY 2015
Only one in five Catholics is regularly attending Sunday Mass in the Down and Connor Diocese, a new report has revealed.
And attendance at Mass in the greater Belfast area has been recorded as low as 16% of all Catholics who live in the area, according to the diocesan report.
Figures from an audit taken last year in Down and Connor, the second largest diocese on the island, showed that based on the 2011 census figures of a potential 356,585 Catholics, only 72,818 were recorded as attending weekly Mass over a two-week period when the count was taken.
The findings also show a situation of an aging church population against the backdrop of an aging priest population.
There were 27 priests aged under 50 in 2014 and 54 aged between 51 and 65, while a third of all Mass-goers were aged 61 and over.
Book review: 'God's Bankers' traces often sordid Vatican banking history
UNITED STATESPhilly.com
POSTED: Sunday, February 15, 2015
God's Bankers
By Gerald Posner
Simon & Schuster.
732 pp. $30.
Reviewed by
Michael D. Schaffer
The New Testament is pretty clear on the incompatibility of earthly riches and the Kingdom of Heaven. But if Gerald Posner is right, a lot of people involved with Vatican finances over the years have skipped those passages.
Posner - lawyer, journalist, and Pulitzer-winning author of 11 books - reviews the church's long, complicated history with money, but his main focus is modern times.
His primary aim is the Institute for the Works of Religion, known as the Vatican Bank or IOR, its Italian acronym. Founded in 1942, IOR is supposed to serve the religious mission of the church, but in Posner's telling, it has also served as an offshore bank, tainted by association with shady characters whose list of sins includes money laundering, tax evasion, fraud, even murder.
Pope Pius XII created IOR at the suggestion of the Vatican's financial consultant, Bernardino Nogara, whose investment wizardry carried the Vatican through the Great Depression. Posner spends a lot of time on Pius XII, who was criticized for not taking a stronger stand against Nazi atrocities. "In World War II, Pius XII's silence helped protect a complex web of interlocking business interests with the Third Reich that yielded significant profits for the Vatican," Posner writes. He uses the word likely to describe this scenario. One hopes he is wrong.
Later on, the bank was tarred by association with rogue financiers Roberto Calvi and Michele Sindona and compromised by the ineptitude of Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, a high-ranking American official at the Vatican. In Posner's telling, Marcinkus, who ran IOR from 1971 to 1989, got the job because Pope Paul VI liked him, and kept it thanks to the gratitude of Pope John Paul II, after Marcinkus sent $5 million in 1978 to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia to help clean up a scandal at the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa near Doylestown.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:24 AM
It's high time for Pope Francis to open the Vatican Bank's files
UNITED STATESLos Angeles Times
Op-Ed
By GERALD POSNER
Pope Francis, who has worked hard to carve out a reputation as a reformer, is facing one of his most daunting challenges when it comes to the Catholic Church's finances, particularly the Vatican Bank. Since World War II — when the bank was created as the equivalent of the Federal Reserve combined with a commercial bank — it has operated with few checks and balances. Over the decades, it has become embroiled in seemingly endless scandals that include questions about wartime profiteering with Nazis, gigantic business schemes and political slush funds.
The Vatican did not even have a law against money laundering until 2011. Some previous popes — including Paul VI in the 1960s and John Paul II in the 1980s — had promised upon their election to tame the church's unruly finances. But they were inevitably defeated by entrenched powers inside Vatican City who pretended to embrace reforms while working surreptitiously to maintain the bank's outlier status. The issue facing the church is whether Francis, riding a remarkable wave of international popularity and goodwill, can accomplish what frustrated his predecessors.
Since becoming pope in 2013, Francis has energetically tried to remake the bank into a transparent and accountable institution through decrees, key appointments and an overall reorganization. By tapping outsiders for important management and enforcement roles at the Vatican Bank, he has started to loosen the grip of old-guard clerics, mostly Italian, who have long wielded the city-state's money power. And Francis' appointment of a respected cardinal, George Pell of Australia, to oversee a new uber financial department, has received a mostly positive reception from Vatican watchers.
But has Francis done enough? Will the Vatican Bank move forward as a compliant member of the international financial community, or will it remain the equivalent of an offshore bank in the heart of Rome? It is too early to tell, in part because no one is certain how long Francis will be pope.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:39 AM
Junipero Serra is NO SAINT. Pope Francis abuses his papal power to canonize men of fetid deeds like John Paul II
UNITED STATESPopeCrimes& Vatican Evils.
Paris Arrow
Pope Francis the Jesuit Master of Deceits has announced, "Now in September, God willing, I will canonize Junipero Serra in the United States. He was the evangelizer of the West in the United States." First of all, it is not “God willing” but the “Devil willing” aka “Vatican Mammon Beast willing” aka “Opus Dei Beast PR Deceits Team willing” aka “Jesuits Masters of Deceits willing”.
Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:16 AM
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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€ 119.00
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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
Why is Pope Francis silent on ISIS if he had media votes for Nobel Peace Prize? Is ISIS created by USA & NATO to control Middle East oil? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2014/10/why-is-pope-francis-silent-on-isis-if.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
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
St.
Joseph Oratory10,000 candles burn $$$$$$$ millions of dollars of WAX --
while 30,000 homeless people starve in harsh winter streets of Montreal
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
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
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