Vatican rebuffs UN! Catholic Church not the moral authority of the world. Holy See defies UN Convention it ratified in 1990. Vatican Titanic sunken deep in the ocean of moral bankruptcy

Updated March 4, 2014

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Updated January 18, 2014  

Pope hypocrisy, Vatican insanity: Francis preaches on the “shame of the church” but glorifies shameful Cardinal Mahony. Benedict XVI defrocked 400 priests?

Pope Francis’s hypocrisy with Cardinal Mahony of Los Angeles

The Vatican’s Opus Dei PR stunt army are doing an excellent Luciferian job in bamboozling robot Catholics into cheering chameleon Jesuit Pope Francis who preaches one thing and completely does the opposite. Best example of papal hypocrisy? Last Thursday at the Vatican, to coincide with the Vatican well-staged rebuff at the UN, Pope Francis was preaching about the “shame of the church”  concerning pedophile priests -- but at the same time he was glorifying (worst criminal) Cardinal Mahony right by his side at a public papal Mass.  Pope Francis was condemning the crimes of pedophile priests but at the same time he was glorifying the worst criminal Cardinal Mahony who aided and abetted  the most in record number (worse than Cardinal Bernard Law) -- the greatest numbers of pedophile priests in the USA and in the globe, and who obstructed justice by spending millions of dollars of lawyers to protect these bestial pedophile priests from going to trial, and who paid out the highest amount - almost a billion dollars - to prevent them from going to jail, read our related article,  Los Angeles files. Mahony must be jailed as Nazis caught in their old age and retirement" http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/los-angeles-files-mahony-must-be-jailed.html   

Pope Francis is a Jesuit schizophrenic pope who is rattling about “justice” but is glorifying the worst unjust Cardinal Mahony a criminal right by his side -- at the highest ceremony of the Eucharist – which can only prove that he and Cardinal Mahony are Houdini’s cloning the flesh of Christ – because as pope, he, and Cardinals Mahony and all Cardinals, Bishops and priests cannot clone an ant or a cat and --therefore they cannot clone Christ either!  The Magic of the Eucharist surpasses Harry Potter!

Benedict XVI Ratzinger = Holy Father of Lies!

After the Vatican-UN quasi showdown, a day later, on January 17, 2014, Associated Press announced it has “obtained a document” that Benedict XVI defrocked 400 priests…but which Jesuit Lombardi instantly denied at the Vatican Press, which Vatican Pied Piper John Allen second the motion, but then later on confirmed!  Talking about the speed of Vatican Opus Dei PR stunt army media spinning the attention of the world about Vatican insanity!  See compilation of news updates below with our highlighted comments. As Edgar Allan Pope said, “Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear” (especially nothing that John Allen writes and nothing that the Vatican Pied Pipers write – all media has been bought by the Vatican Deceits Empire.  Edgar Allan Poe also wrote:  “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”  And this apply to Vatican fraud, Vatican totalitarian fear of excommunication, Vatican greed of Popes Mammon Beast in SECRET Vatican Swiss Banks, Vatican imagination of theology, Vatican evil poetry of saints…Necromancy the worship of the dead like Saint Brother Andre, read our related latest article Humankind breathes in God/oxygen -- without need for priests and popes –  read more  in IDLE Oratory of St. Joseph   http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/11/oratory-of-saint-joseph-pedophile.html

Benedict XVI defrocked 400 priests is a Vatican last-minute deceitful device to salvage the Vatican Titanic before the UN in Geneva and to media spin the attention of the world AWAY from the actual number of countless thousands of pedophile priests and the accountability of cardinals and bishops who aided and abetted them – at the UN.  No surprises here because the UN’s landlord is the Vatican and the Vatican got away scot-free from giving the actual numbers of thousands of bestial pedophile priests and nothing was said about the accountability of countless criminals Cardinals and Bishops who aided and abetted them and covered-them up for decades! 

On December 2012, we wrote the following which proves Benedict XVI did not defrock 400 priests because he was too busy attacking American nuns, the Irish outspoken priests and he excommunicated an old 92 years old Jesuit for criticising his book and the Virginity of Mary, read our full article::

But what has Benedict XVI eradicated?  http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/benedict-xvi-vatican-last-tsar-final.html

While he sits in his gilded papal Throne and Papal Midas Touch -  the secret Vatican Billions that’s richer than Microsoft … all Benedict XVI is trying to eradicate are GAYS and the use of condoms and contraceptives and abortion,  and  he is trying to eradicate a few vocal Irish priests and American nuns,  and today he has eradicated an American Maryknoll priest, read links and news below.  But Benedict XVI refused to eradicate those thousands of Catholic criminals of the JP2 Army- John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/ and those criminal Cardinals and Bishops who covered-them-up like criminal Cardinal Bernard Law, and the most recent convicted criminal Opus Dei Bishop Finn, read herehttp://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/bishop-finn-makes-devils-bowels-smell.html

Read also Benedict XVI is an old God’s Rottweiler with old tricks with all his lame excuse at the eruption of Irish JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army  http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2009/12/benedict-xvi-is-old-gods-rottweiler.html

Benedict XVI could not have defrocked 400 pedophile priests, because if he did, he would have spoken about it when the Vatican Titanic was sinking fast under his helm.  He had to resign (as the first pope to do so in 600 years) - because he had lost all credibility and lost all respect and he could not go on deceiving the world any longer - as he had run out of words condemning gays while he could not stop the Gay Lobby bestial orgies inside the Vatican.  If this were true that he defrocked 400 priests, he would have made time to meet with Italian victims who walked across Italy to go and meet with him at the doorstep at the Vatican, read here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/

 

Benedict XVI was too busy condemning American nuns and Irish priests and excommunicating those who criticized his book and the Irish priests, read our related article,  Vatican last Tsar  Benedict XVI the Vatican Last Tsar: Final despotic acts. Vatican jails worldwide locations http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/benedict-xvi-vatican-last-tsar-final.html

Benedict XVI had no time to defrock 400 priests and this is a Jesuit manufacturing device concocted by Pope Francis because the Jesuits are Masters of Deceits, read our related article - Pope Francis Top 10 Vatican Deceits. Francis cloned @3.13.13 inside Vatican Titanic as Jesuit Mask of Vatican Evils. “Bergoglio. Basura. Vos sos la dictadura.” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pope-francis-top-10-vatican-deceits_30.html .)

Benedict XVI was too busy blaming the Devil and piling deceits upon deceits with his Vatican Tsar ceremonies such as the Year of the Priests when he celebrated Mass with thousands of priest at St. Peter’s Square, read our related article here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/06/eve-and-benedict-xvi-blame-devil.html

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Defrocking 400 priests released only after a year that he reassigned -- is an outrageous lie as Benedict XVI is also a Holy Father of Lies just like his predecessor, read our latest article:  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 .

Pope Francis on Vatican Radio deceits

The fact is, Pope Francis is exploiting the sick and the poor by using them for political photo-ups so he can hastily transfer thousands of millionaires accounts to Vatican SECRET Swiss Banks – read our latest article  -- 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

Last Thursday to coincide with the Vatican rebuffs at the UN, Pope Francis went on Vatican Radio and hypocritically proclaimed, "But are we ashamed? So many scandals that I do not want to mention individually, but all of us know...We know where they are! Scandals, some who charged a lot of money.... The shame of the Church!  (COMMENT:  Pope Francis is a Jesuit schizophrenic who preaches one thing and practises another.  Pope Francis can out dance the Devil in appearing as an angel-in-white while committing the worst crimes before humanity’s eyes.  Pope Francis is not ashamed of criminal Cardinal Mahony and therefore all his words are empty clashing cymbals as St. Paul said.)

"But are we all ashamed of those scandals, of those failings of priests, bishops, laity? Where was the Word of God in those scandals; where was the Word of God in those men and in those women? They did not have a relationship with God! They had a position in the Church, a position of power, even of comfort. But the Word of God, no! 'But, I wear a medal,' 'I carry the Cross' . Yes, just as those bore the Ark!  (COMMENT:  What a theological Jesuit rattling snake)

"Without the living relationship with God and the Word of God! I am reminded of the words of Jesus about those for whom scandals come ... And here the scandal hit: bringing decay (it: decadenza) to the people of God, including (it: fino alla) the weakness and corruption of the priests."  (COMMENT:  Pope Francis is a CON CHRIST and a CON ARTIST who is using and abusing Christ’s name and the Gospel -- to perform the worst papal crimes ever --   in the frenzied closing of thousands of Vatican accounts that belonged to the Nazi and terrorists and despots worldwide and then transferring them to Vatican SECRET Swiss Banks to avoid further investigation, read our related article --  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 is babbling in Latin, read our article “Latin is not a mother tongue  http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/10/latin-is-not-mother-tongue-and.html

Monsignor Charles Scicluna lies about Pope Francis

Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the most authoritative Catholic official on the church's abuse crisis lied again to his teeth about Pope Francis just like he lied about Benedict XVI in 2010.  Scicluna said Francis would, despite his merciful nature, be very tough on paedophile priests after an abuse crisis that the pope on Thursday called "the shame of the church"."His gospel of mercy is very important but it is not cheap mercy. It has to respect the truth and the demands of justice," Scicluna said.  (COMMENT: Read our related article in 2010 when this Monsignor was lying about Benedict XVI: Benedict XVI is Papal Humpty Dumpty. Pope showed wisdom and firmness against abuses as CDF prefect, says Msgr. Scicluna is preposterous! http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/03/benedict-xvi-is-papal-humpty-dumpty.html)  

This “gospel of mercy” is an outrageous lie because the Vatican mammon Beast usurp billions of dollars via the Vatican Concordats, read our latest 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


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Updated January 16, 2014  Vatican rebuffs in well-staged choreography at UN! 

Today, the Vatican slyly spat at the UN’s face as the well-staged Vatican delegation led by Italian Archbishop Tomasi preached deceitfully “on the Holy See’s commitment to protecting children” when the historical facts are already established that  John Paul II for 27 years did nothing to protect children, Cardinal RATzinger and Cardinal Bernard Law and Cardinal Mahony, name it, the whole Vatican princely Merlin hooligans did nothing to protect children from bestial JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the latter half of the 20^th century, read more http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

The Vatican is the longest standing Goliath-liar in the history of mankind, 2,000 years of institutional deceptions, and today, it showed the world its most brilliant Luciferian wile ever before the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva – that as crafty Jesuit Lombardi deviously headlined, “Holy See committed to child welfare” – but… the whole world already knows that  the Vatican perpetuated the most recorded thousands of bestial pedophile priests worldwide and for over a quarter of  the 20th century, John Paul II said nothing and did nothing to protect tens of thousands of children from heinous pedophile priests - as he trotted the world to propagate his narcissistic legacy as JP2 “the Great”.  Read our latest article, 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 .

At the end of the day, victims of Vatican’s thousands of pedophile priests NEVER tasted any kind of justice from the United Nations Committee with its white glove “grilling” of the Vatican because  SNAP was still saying the same thing it has been saying for years: “the Vatican response fell far short of what victims wanted. .. What we want to see is the Vatican punish bishops who covered up sex crimes and we want them to turn over information they have about crimes to police”, said Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), which has 15,000 U.S. members and 4,000 foreign members since being launched 25 years ago.

The Vatican delegation felt at home in Geneva because (small) Switzerland is the twin-brother country owned by the (small) Vatican and vice versa.  Switzerland’s SECRET Vatican Swiss Banks are run by graduates of the exclusive elite Vatican Swiss Guards Army made of lawyers, bankers and diplomats!  (The Vatican’s Believe it or Not - makes Ripley blush!)  Read our latest related article on the modus operandi of the Vatican and Hollywood: Argo &“saint” John Paul II are make-believe legends of Hollywood and the Vatican, the twin cities that “lie for a living” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/argo-john-paul-ii-are-make-believe_11.html

Read our related article in March 2010 -  on the Maltese bishop, Charles Scicluna, former prosecutor at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of clergy who sexually abused minors, who was part of the Holy See delegation  and was telling the media of the “positive dialogue with the UN”  -- Benedict XVI is Papal Humpty Dumpty. Pope showed wisdom and firmness against abuses as CDF prefect, says Msgr. Scicluna is preposterous! http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/03/benedict-xvi-is-papal-humpty-dumpty.html

Cardinal Mahony and Pope Francis concelebrated Mass – both cannot clone an ant or a cat and therefore they cannot clone Christ’s flesh either!   Pope Francis is a con Christ or con artist who impersonates Christ and he is a Houdini magician who cannot clone a dog but claims to clone the Christ the Son of God the Creator of the Universe!  The Devil’s Bowels of lies and lies smell like roses in the Vatican indeed!  

What a well planned day, that on this same day – to celebrate their well-staged UN-Vatican  showdown, Cardinal Mahony concelebrated Mass with Pope Francis at the Vatican, which as SNAP wrote, “rub salt on victims’ wounds when Cardinal Roger Mahony, on whose watch hundreds of children were raped, sodomized, fondled and assaulted by hundreds of priests, nuns, brothers, seminarians and other Catholic employees, many of whom were deliberately and repeatedly moved and protected by Mahony and his top aides?”  Read our related articles:  Los Angeles files. Mahony must be jailed as Nazis caught in their old age and retirement" http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/los-angeles-files-mahony-must-be-jailed.html 

 Ex-Jesuit Gov. Jerry Brown vetoes SB131, invokes Roman law, perpetuates cover-up of 20th Century JP2 Army who stabs the heart of Jesus’ mother http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/08/california-bill-sb-131-must-win-next.html,

Read our latest related article, 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

Vatican Pied Pipers led by John Allen

Vatican Pied Pipers – led by John Allen and the Vatican Radio - filled the news network – with deceptive brainwashing sweet headlines (see compilation below) to make the entire world “feel-good” about the most recorded heinous crimes against children on the planet committed by the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army named aptly after John Paul II the Great who said nothing and did nothing for over a quarter of a century to stop the Eucharistic Sodomy of Biblical Proportions -- in the USA alone JP2 Army has 15,750 plus victims, that’s five times more than the 3,000 victims of 9 /11 , read our latest article, 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 .

John Allen’s deceptive headline read: “Church wants to model ‘best practise’ on fighting abuse, Vatican says” and elaborated it in his first paragraph that ‘a senior Vatican official today asserted that the Catholic church wants to be “an example of best practice” in the prevention of abuse’.  

John Allen’s modus operandi is to bamboozle Catholics to cheer on morally repugnant Vatican and hoodwink humanity’s Google Eyes that has witnessed the Vatican Catholic Church as the WORST MODEL with the WORST PRACTISE in the prevention of child abuse --  which history has proven that the entire latter half of the 20^th century when all narcissistic popes and cardinals and bishops said nothing and did nothing to prevent child abuse but rather aided and abetted thousands of pedophile priests (best examples are Cardinal Bernard Law, Cardinal Mahony, Bishop Finn)—and as Amnesty International for the first time named the Vatican guilty in the violation of human rights of children, read our related article http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2011/05/amnesty-international-names-vatican-in.html.  

From today’s well-staged UN-Vatican semi showdown in Geneva, Amnesty International has more credibility than the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, a tiny country owned and operated by the Vatican!

The United States government spends millions of dollars each year for commemorations of 3,000 victims 9 /11 … but what is it doing for 15,750 victims of the Vatican JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army - that have five times more victims than 9 /11?

We strongly suggest a SNAP DAY twice a year wherein the names of victims and their pedophile priests and locations are read, just like they do at Ground Zero in New York City, read our related article http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/may-1-september-11-anniversaries-for.html

The only honest headline came from SNAP Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, “Geneva--Catholic officials deny Vatican power at UN”.  So far, only victims of bestial pedophile priests refuse to sell their souls to the Devil Vatican Mammon Beast – because they have already lost everything and have nothing left to sell.

Most headlines mildly puts it, including CNN that the “UN grilled Vatican” ala grilled cheese and grilled chicken - sweet deceptive headlines because the Vatican owns all these media empire.

When it comes to covering religion especially the Vatican, the media should heed one of their own literary colleagues Edgar Allan Poe who wrote, “Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear” (especially nothing that John Allen writes and nothing that the Vatican Pied Pipers write).

Edgar Allan Poe also wrote:  “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”  

Right-on: Vatican fraud, Vatican totalitarian fear of excommunication, Vatican greed of Popes Mammon Beast in SECRET Vatican Swiss Banks, Vatican imagination of theology, Vatican poetry of saints…Necromancy the worship of the dead like Saint Brother Andre

Read our related latest article Humankind breathes in God/oxygen -- without need for priests and popes –  read more  in IDLE Oratory of St. Joseph   http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/11/oratory-of-saint-joseph-pedophile.html

Vatican Pied Pipers deceptive headlines

Take a look at the highest paid Vatican Pied Pipers’ headlines that exonerated the Vatican and made the hypocritical Holy See appear “above the UN” and above the law with positive feel-good brainwashing one-line headlines – thus making the Vatican appear as the most righteous institution in the planet when all else is contrary:

1. Starting with the official Vatican Radio’s Jesuits Masters of Deceits: “Fr. Lombardi SJ: Holy See committed to child welfare” (this statement is an outright denial of all facts covered-up by the Vatican and it slaps   SNAP and all victims of pedophile priests as liars by turning the table of lies against them.  The Jesuits are Masters of Deceits, read our related article, Pope Francis Top 10 Vatican Deceits. Francis cloned @3.13.13 inside Vatican Titanic as Jesuit Mask of Vatican Evils. “Bergoglio. Basura. Vos sos la dictadura.” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pope-francis-top-10-vatican-deceits_30.html .)

2. The American Vatican Pied Piper - Time Magazine - Vatican: ”No Excuse” for Child Abuse’ (This is not a surprise because  Pope Francis is Time’s Person of the Year, read our related article 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.htm

3.  Of course, John Allen:  “Church wants to model ‘best practise’ on fighting abuse, Vatican says”   (read our related article of the John Allen as the Devil’s Twin http://jp2army.blogspot.com  John Allen moving to Boston Globe can only prove that Boston Globe has sold its soul to the Devil!  The Vatican Titanic is sunken deep in the ocean of moral bankruptcy and therefore it buying all the media in the USA and in the world because -- the world will soon awaken to the Hoax of the Eucharist that Houdini popes and Merlin priests cannot clone an ant or a cat and therefore they cannot clone Christ’s flesh either, see cloning images and read more Eucharist hoax below)

4.  Aljazeera:  “Vatican defends child protection record to UN”  (This is quite a surprise that Aljazeera is suddenly tooting for the Vatican.  The Vatican has bought all the souls of journalists in the planet in its effort to salvage the Vatican Titanic sunken deep in the ocean of moral bankruptcy, read more in our latest related article, Argo and John Paul II are make-believe legends http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/argo-john-paul-ii-are-make-believe_11.html)

5.  Associated Press in Toronto, Canada  Vatican grilled by UN over child sex abuse: ‘The Holy See gets it’  (what a deceptive headline that “The Holy See gets it” but even the newest Pope Francis is doing nothing to bring justice the latest highest ranking pedophile Papal Nuncio, read our related article,

Toronto was where the last World Youth Day of John Paul II was held where Paris Arrow saw the vision of St. Michael the Archangel tying the gigantic millstone around John Paul ‘’s neck because he refused to address the most bestial 80 pedophile priests of Boston whom Cardinal Bernard Law aided and abetted, read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/09/911-decade-and-jp2-millstones-9th.html  

 St. Michael has commissioned Paris Arrow to point out the HOAX of the Eucharist – which is why we’ve added “FRANCIS=CON Christ” in our heading because Pope Francis is a con artist who cannot clone an ant or a cat and therefore he cannot clone Christ either.  

Pope Francis is exploiting the sick by embracing them and having political-photo-ops with them (to falsely imitate St. Francis of Assisi embracing a leper) because the Vatican Titanic is sunken deep in the ocean of moral bankruptcy and the Vatican trillions of dollars and the Vatican Concordats are at stake, read our related 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

We will update this post after we’ve further discussed the entire UN hearing -- which you can also go and listen to http://www.treatybodywebcast.org/category/webcast-archives/crc/  . 

When it comes to covering religion especially the Vatican, the media should heed one of their own literary colleagues Edgar Allan Poe who wrote, “Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear” and “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”

Read our latest article -- 7 acts Australia must do for humanity’s good motivated by the Victorian Inquiry that slams the Vatican (Roman) Catholic Church! http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/australia-victorian-inquiry-slams.htm

Updated January 14, 2014

 Vatican faces the UN!  January 16, 2014

Watch the UN review via livestream here!

http://www.treatybodywebcast.org/category/webcast-archives/crc/ 

The review will take place on Thursday, January 16, 2014 from 10am-1pm CET, (4am-7am EST) where the Vatican will be reviewed on their compliance with the Convention on Rights of the Child and then from 3pm-6pm CET (9am-12 noon EST) the Vatican will be reviewed on their compliance with the Optional Protocols on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography.

 When it comes to covering religion especially the Vatican, the media should heed one of their own literary colleagues Edgar Allan Poe who wrote, “Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear” and “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”  In the little book, The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, there is a famous line that beckons the United Nations and the world today:  “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is essential is invisible to the eye.”   With the ‘heart of compassion for thousands countless children’, the UN and the world must see Pope Francis as a hypocritical chameleon dressed in white Emperor’s Clothes of Injustice - as he frantically exploits the sick, the poor and children for his political photo-ops to avert the United Nations’ attention on Vatican’s Crimes as a State against children worldwide for half the 20^th century and to divert attention from the frenzied closing of thousands of Vatican Bank criminal transactions.  According to El Pais, “The Vatican has an unprecedented appointment on Thursday in Geneva: The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child will study, among other matters, the response of the Catholic Church to the incidences of abuse carried out by its members worldwide over the course of decades. It will be an historic moment; no organization has yet dared to take on the Holy See. Victims and associations in the USA, Mexico and Europe have taken the opportunity to submit to the committee in Geneva reports with their collated complaints and documented cases of pedophilia. Mexico, from where 169 individuals and organizations will present more than 200 separate cases, has asked that the scandal be treated as a crime of state and the Vatican tried by the United Nations” (see news updates below). 

Forbes Magazine recently named Pope Francis as the fourth Most Powerful Person in its Top 10 -- just like it did with Benedict XVI Ratzinger, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/forbes-delusion-of-vatican-last-tsar.html, and therefore, it is time the United Nations bring to trial the worldwide powerful crimes of Most Powerful Popes and the Vatican State.

 John Kerry visited the Vatican and his counterpart today to discuss about the Syrian War, what for - so the Pope can “pray” and hold another vigil at St. Peter’s Square? “To pray” does not qualify the tiny one building Vatican to be a “country”.   The Washington DC Mall and a resort hotel in Las Vegas and a USA High School can house more people than the 800-room Vatican fictitious country!    Read our related article, "USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray” with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/usa-ambassador-to-vatican-for-what.html 

The Vatican Mammon Beast is the major stockholder in the production of the machinery of wars, so again beneath Pope Francis white Emperor’s Clothes is the highest hypocrisy of them all as he preach and pray for peace!

Read more in FRANCIS UPDATES: John Allen and Vatican Pied Pipers toot Francis-mania http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/09/francis-updates-john-allen-and-vatican.html

But the Vatican has the highest paid lawyers and Vatican Pied Pipers in the world, John Allen the foremost of them, who make Catholics “feel-good” despite the Vatican priests’ most heinous crimes against children happening before their eyes in the latter part of the 20^th Century of the infamous JP2 Army.  The John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army is named aptly after the longest reigned pope who for over a quarter of a century said nothing and did nothing to save and protect children from thousands of bestial priests of Biblical Proportions, the largest numbers found are in the USA, more than 6,100 of them. Yet Americans are worshipping the Vatican Mammon Beast as proven by Time Magazine that named Pope Francis as the Person of the Year, read our related article here, FRANCIS UPDATES: John Allen and Vatican Pied Pipers toot Francis-mania http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/09/francis-updates-john-allen-and-vatican.html

For Catholics to continuously go to the Vatican to holler as FRANCIS-MANIACS and -spend billions of dollars that could serve better the poor in their own country proves - they have no “heart that can see rightly what is essential”.  For Catholics to go and attend the canonization of the most heartless pope John Paul II - proves Catholics have callous hearts and are devoid of compassion and compunction for countless victims of bestial JP2 Army -bestial pedophile priests of Biblical Proportions, read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/abolish-vatican-concordat-in-dominican.html. 

Catholics must stop giving money to the Vatican Mammon Beast and give their tithes to feed the poor in their cities or to the Red Cross or to Doctors without Borders and see with their eyes what is essential – that 

Humankind breathes in God/oxygen - without need for priests and popes – read more in our related article in IDLE Oratory of St. Joseph   http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/11/oratory-of-saint-joseph-pedophile.html

FRANCIS-MANIACS most of all prove that the Eucharist is the false flesh of Christ and that Popes are Houdini’s and priests are Merlin magicians who have no power to clone and ant or a cat and therefore they have no power to clone Christ either in the man-made formula of the Transubstantiation of the Daily Mass, see images and explanation below. 

It is time for the UN, the world and Catholics to see with their hearts and beyond their eyes that those feminine robes of priests, Cardinals, Bishops and priests are Emperor’s Clothes devoid of power and are only fictitious religious symbolism that feed  their narcissism, read our latest article Argo &“saint” John Paul II are make-believe legends of Hollywood and the Vatican, the twin cities that “lie for a living”  http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/argo-john-paul-ii-are-make-believe_11.html

Catholics should boycott the investiture of Cardinals new “Princes of the Church” on February 22, 2014 at St. Peter’s Square because these ugly fat podgy men are misogynists who dress in lacy feminine robes but give zero power to women and have zero tolerance for women’s presence and voice within the Vatican Catholic Church.

Those church-going women - who genuflect before those bestial priests (just because they can clone Christ in the flesh) – should wake up and smell the Devil’s Bowels in Catholic churches that smell like roses through the priestly incense smoke as women chant the robotic Rosary, read our related article, John Paul II Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts and Rapists! http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/   and
 http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

WOMEN have the biggest power to topple down the misogynist Vatican Empire because the bulwarks of worshippers are women and it is they who bring or force their children to go to church.  Ironically, the more women worship priests, the more they perpetuate misogyny, the exploitation and abuse of children and women, the perpetuity of poverty in their own country and especially the Vatican Concordats that usurp  billions of dollars in poor countries which are already buried in debts, read our related 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

Most of all it is time, popes and priests are no longer called “Father” - read why in our related article, John Paul II the Holy Father of Lies!  Children must call “Father” - only their own biological fathers or adoptive fathers – and they must not give away this unique paternal title and allegiance to other men on earth.

Children must call “Father” - only their own biological fathers or adoptive fathers - because these lay men alone deserve this unique title which they have rightfully earned through their daily labour and lifetime dedication.  

Lay men must TAKE BACK their unique legal titles as “Fathers” because it is they who truly care and provide for their own children through their daily hard work!  Read more in our  elated articles: 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

Read our  related articles:

The Hague is above Pope, Vatican, Religion. The Hague must prosecute Benedict XVI now to prove secular International Justice reigns over ALL Religions and Despots http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/the-hague-is-above-pope-vatican.html

"USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray” with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/usa-ambassador-to-vatican-for-what.html

Pope Francis Top 10 Vatican Deceits. Francis cloned @3.13.13 inside Vatican Titanic as Jesuit Mask of Vatican Evils. “Bergoglio. Basura. Vos sos la dictadura.” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pope-francis-top-10-vatican-deceits_30.html .

 

Read here the assets of the Vatican Mammon Beast http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html

Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html

Vatican bank Bishop∕accountant caught money laundering €20M and it surpasses the Da Vinci Code intrigue. Vatican greedy Mammon never sleeps and never stops http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/06/vatican-greedy-mammon-vatican-banks.html

Australia JP2 Army! Anne Lastman the false witness to “the limping Christ towards Calvary”… she camouflages John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/australia-jp2-army-anne-lastman-false.html

7 acts Australia must do for humanity’s good motivated by the Victorian Inquiry that slams the Vatican (Roman) Catholic Church!  http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/australia-victorian-inquiry-slams.html

Dreamworks movie on Boston Pedophile Priests: Its moral message and mission in Boston, in the USA and in the world http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/04/dreamworks-movie-on-boston-pedophile.html

9/11 victims = 3,000. JP2 Army = 100,000s. May Day: both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1 on John Paul II Beatification Day B-Day http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html

Image of John Paul II by Danish artist http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2007/10/john-paul-ii-portrait-by-danish-artist.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/

The JP2 Army prayer: Children’s most important prayer

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 http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/12/eucharist-feeds-dysfunction.html

Read the list of questions from UN Committee on the Rights of the Child here. 
Read the Vatican’s response here December 13, 2013 . 
Read the SNAP-CCR report here.

Read our related article last July, UN commands Vatican to reveal cover-ups/info

UN says the Vatican population include all priests, nuns and monks in all Catholic churches worldwide (from its questionnaire).  Vatican says no, it’s only those within its tiny country’s jurisdiction (from its reply)  Who is telling the truth?

In 1990, the Vatican a.k.a Holy See was one of the many countries who ratified the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the main UN treaty that guarantees a full range of human rights for children. The Vatican submitted a first implementation report in 1994 but it didn't provide progress reports for years. Last July, the UN Committee demanded the Vatican to answer specific questions (based on the thousands of pedophile priests’ heinous abuse cases that have exploded worldwide especially in USA, Europe and beyond).  Last November, in its reply the Vatican rebuffed the UN questions and next January 2014, the Vatican will be represented by a delegation to answer in person before a UN panel in Geneva to clarify its answers.  It is very crucial to take hold and compare the Vatican’s reports in 1994 and 2013 because this could determine the validity of the Vatican status as a member of the United Nations.  Did the Vatican include its Catholic churches worldwide in 1994?  Because this year it is saying that it is responsible only for those within its tiny state.

Here’s the most important question:  Who are the legitimate citizens or members of the Vatican country?      

The answer may finally lay in the Vatican’s answers this November to last July’s UN Committee on the Rights of the Child several questions to the Holy See – especially the following: 

 --   detailed information about the particulars of all sexual abuse cases notified to the Vatican since 1995

-- whether priests, nuns and monks guilty of sexual crime were allowed to remain in contact with children

-- what legal action had been taken against them

-- whether the Church required clergy to report abuse to secular authorities

-- whether complainants were silenced”  

These questions prove that the UN sees the Vatican “country” as including the Catholic Church worldwide and its members are “all priests, nuns and monks” and all baptized Catholic children. 

The reply of the Holy See was that:

-- The Vatican insists that the only valid jurisdictions are the ones where the alleged abuse took place”

--    that it cannot ratify international treaties on behalf of all the world's Catholics, and that they can only be implemented in the territory it controls – the Vatican City State.  

What the Vatican is saying here is that -- its members are limited to those who reside within the little country of the Vatican City State – referring to priests, nuns and monks inside the tiny Vatican estate.  May we point out, that there are practically no children inside the Vatican – to begin with – and there are no “secular police” because it is a religious country, the only one of its kind as a religious member of the UN.  

So what “secular police is the UN talking about??  ( Obviously, the Vatican is acting like a big bully here - telling off the UN that it is asking an irrelevant question because  -- what the UN is asking is exactly the opposite as what the Vatican considers non-existent  =  there are  no secular police, no priests, no nuns, no monks, no children being abused in the little tiny Vatican City country !!!  That sounds like asking about the abuse of cows in a chicken farm - where there are no cows!!!)

 

This UN question and Vatican answer proves that there is a big discrepancy between the UN and the Vatican as to the basic question of: Who are the actual members of the Vatican as a “country”?  This should spark a debate and an immediate review of the United Nations as to the validity of the membership of the Holy See to the UN.  

Also, believe it or not, every country pays billions of dollars to the Vatican because there is a lifetime “bond” on each and every BAPTIZED Catholic child paid by each country and via the Vatican Concordats usurp billions of dollars from each country and Spain is now spearheading the abolition of the Vatican Concordats so that the annual 6.5 billion Euros the Vatican takes from Spain will cease and it will go to help the Spanish people – instead of the 800 PERSONS inside the Vatican country, read more bellow.

 Compare the Vatican to our REAL country of the USA with more than 313.9 million people .

The Vatican as a member of the United Nations ratified in 1990, the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty to guarantee the human rights of children in all countries worldwide.   But how many children actually live in the smallest country of the Vatican - that has only a maximum capacity to house 800 persons?   Compare the Vatican to our REAL country of the USA with more than 313.9 million people (2012).  Or China with 1.351  billion people (2012) where children are born every day.    So who and where are the Vatican’s own children within its own country – whom the Holy See had in mind when it ratified U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child treaty in 1990?   

The reality and truth is, the Holy See has no children of its own, never had and will never have children.  What right does a group of homosexual males have to speak for children they already denounced to have?  What right does an all-male club of religious totalitarian hierarchy to speak for the very human group of children they have disavowed for life - and whom they outlawed to live within their own little country where children are practically non-existent ?  Read our related articles, USA ambassador to the Vatican - for what exactly?  “Pray with the pope in one office, one basilica that equals “one country”? http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/usa-ambassador-to-vatican-for-what.html  and Amnesty International names Vatican guilty of violation of human rights  http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2011/05/amnesty-international-names-vatican-in.html

Popes, Cardinals, Bishops, Papal Nuncios, priests, Vatican Opus Dei eunuchs have made vows to never touch women and vowed never to have children - so as celibates what right do they have to speak for children they never want to have around in their all-male club exclusive private abode in the first place?  Hello, world?  Christ said:  The truth shall set you free” and the truth is there are no children at the Vatican and therefore it is not a country…and therefore it is time the world to be set free from the powers of the Vatican a.k.a. Holy See.  The 800 people population at the Vatican are living in a different spiritual planet where they have the luxury to only write papal dictum and Apostolic Letters so as to spin the world at its little finger - on trivial matters as to what the Pope said and wear… It is time to stop the Holy See’s bullying women and children at the UN!  Read our related articles, At the UN, the Vatican obstruct women’s rights .

Women and children are forbidden to enter and live in the sacred chambers of the Vatican (where there are the Gay Lobby orgies).  The fact is the Holy See does not even meet the criteria of a “country” because the Vatican is half the population of a USA High School and women and children are not part of it because it is only for homosexual gays.  So who are these 800 people that the 7 billion people of the world must kowtow to…via the Vatican Concordats?  Read about the powerful Vatican Concordats that usurp billions of dollars annually from poor countries who are already buried in debts, and Spain is spearheading the abolition of the Vatican’s economic power that usurp more than 6.5 billion annually from Spain  read our related article on the abolition of Vatican Concordats here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/abolish-vatican-concordat-in-dominican.html   .   

Reasons why the Vatican refuses to comply with UN treaty on children

Pope Francis may be wearing black shoes but he is made of the same white cloth of Benedict XVI-Ratzinger, the Vatican Last Tsar who wore red shoes and said Mass in Latin -- to impersonate Christ (who never wore white robes, never spoke Latin, and most of all never lived in a Vatican Palace surrounded by a Swiss Army). Not only do the double Popes impersonate Christ, they claim to have the supernatural powers to clone the actual flesh and blood of Christ in the instant magic of the Eucharist.  When will 1.2 billion Catholics wake up to the reality that Cardinals, Bishops and priests cannot clone cats and dogs - and therefore they cannot clone God or Christ either?  Hello Catholic women! It takes you 9 months to carry a fetus full term to make a human baby, changes in your hormonal balance, et cetera, and you are kneeling down to eat -- before those immoral popes and Catholic priests who con you that they can clone Christ the Son of God in 9 seconds of the transubstantiation formula of the “Consecration” of the Eucharist -- but Mary the purest Immaculate Conception to carry Jesus full term.  The Sorcery of the Eucharist is sheer Vatican Holy Shit!

The Vatican has gotten away with 2,000 years of Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils and now it is doing it again in the 21^st century.  This time the Holy See refuses to comply with the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child demand that it releases information on its internal investigations into clergy sex abuse cases because: 1) its policy is to keep such cases confidential. 2) It will only release such information only if required to do so by a request from a state or government to cooperate in legal proceedings. 3) It claims that it only bears responsibility for what happens inside Vatican City. It refuses to accept responsibility for the policies and practices that allow, even facilitate and encourage, the proliferation of rape and sexual violence against children in the Catholic Church worldwide.  4) It blames the lack of prevention and redress for these crimes by priests and others associated with the church around the world on local governments.  As eNews Park Forest sums it best, “the Holy See has taken one of its most explicitly disingenuous and misleading positions on the issue to date. The Vatican conveniently ignores its strict policies regarding internal reporting and oversight and the ways in which it has blocked efforts at civil remedies, blocked efforts to ensure access to justice for victims by fighting reforms or the abolition of statutes of limitations, and rewarded bishops who have subverted and often thwarted criminal and civil investigations in many countries.” See news compilation below.

 

The Vatican has gotten away with 200 centuries of Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils…but the latter half of the 20^th century of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army named aptly the longest reigned pope who said nothing and did nothing for 27 years is the last straw that broke the camel’s back.  The JP2 Army of thousands of bestial pedophile priests from the USA to Europe to as far as Down Under Australia must bring the final end of the Vatican as a “country” in the United Nations. When the Victoria Inquiry was tabled in Australia a few days ago, Premier Denis Napthine boldly condemned “The leaders of the Catholic Church should hang their heads in shame". (That includes the new Pope Francis) He also condemned “the culture of the Catholic Church” because “Criminal abuse of children represents a departure of the gravest kind from the standards of decency fundamental to any civilised society".  If the United Nations is to implement “standards of decency fundamental to all civilised country”, it must make the Vatican accountable for the bestial JP2 Army and most of all abolish the Vatican’s status as a “country” because it isn’t one.

Read our latest article, 7 acts Australia must do for humanity’s good motivated by the Victorian Inquiry that slams the Vatican (Roman) Catholic Church!    http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/australia-victorian-inquiry-slams.html

 

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

The Hague is above Pope, Vatican, Religion. The Hague must prosecute Benedict XVI now to prove secular International Justice reigns over ALL Religions and Despots  http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/the-hague-is-above-pope-vatican.html 

It is time for the UN and the 175 countries under the Vatican Concordats to annul the Vatican as a country. 

 The Vatican days of financial domination, deceits, lies, 2,000 years of Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils, zero respect for children, zero tolerance for women, and sorcery of the cloning of the flesh of God/Christ (when popes and priests cannot clone cats and dogs) must end now at the dawn of this 21^st century.  The JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army named aptly after the longest reigned pope who said nothing and did nothing to protect children from thousands of bestial pedophile priests of Biblical Proportion worldwide must stir and move the UN and humanity to eradicate the Vatican as a country.    Mankind has no need for the Vatican monopoly of salvation because Christ/God is as oxygen – God/oxygen is everywhere and available to everyone - for without it life is not possible.   Christ/oxygen does not need vicars as the popes assert and impose themselves to be.  Christ/oxygen does not need representatives as priests impose themselves to be.  Christ/oxygen cannot be cloned by popes and priests because they cannot clone cats and dogs.  Christ/oxygen cannot be controlled and contained in a golden chalice and locked up in a golden tabernacle.  It is time to shatter the “toxic delusion” that the Vatican is a country.  To liberate the Third World countries, the UN must first annual the Vatican as a country.  The surest and only way to Occupy Wall Street is to – first - Occupy the Vatican.

  

Read our related article: Occupy The Vatican... like Occupy Wall Street http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/10/ows-otv-occupy-wall-street-occupy.html

At the UN, the Vatican obstruct women’s rights throughout the world http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/at-un-vatican-obstruct-womens-rights.html

 

December 8, 2013 is the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
  The Immaculate Conception is one of the most important feast day because Mary had to be sinless to carry Jesus in her womb for 9 months.  The Popes and priests cannot clone cats and dogs and therefore they have no power to clone Christ in the Eucharist, the Mass is SORCERY and false MAGIC, read more below and see Dolly the Sheep that was cloned.  Those arrogant CSC priests at the Oratory of St. Joseph especially Claudel Petit-Homme have no powers to instantly clone Christ the Son of God, read more below.

The Jesuits used to have the Black Pope but now it has the real deal, the White Pope.  Pope Francis is the Jesuit Mask of 200 centuries of Pope Crimes and Vatican Evils and the Jesuits came on time to salvage the Vatican Titanic sunken deep in the ocean of moral bankruptcy.   So Benedict XVI-Ratzinger could not take the heat anymore of Vatican lies, lies, lies and cover-ups of the Vatican Gay Lobby of prelates partying with gay orgies inside the Vatican Temple.  He could not take the heat anymore of the JP2 Army- John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army with Father Marcial Maciel as its poster boy and the 500 Billion Dollars Legion of Christ that he cannot dissolve.  But the Legion of Christ (just like the Opus Dei) is a castle built on sand and their daily sorcery of Christ and daily rosaries and noon Angelus like the Opus Dei will all collapse like the Holy of Holies chamber of the Temple of Solomon.  Those Pharisees Opus Dei are like the “holy” Pharisees whom Christ condemned as “white washed sepulchres” even if they prayed and dressed well at the Temple and looked down upon the Publican just like the “holy” Opus Dei looked down upon the laity and non-OD members who do not “pray the rosary daily and received the Eucharist daily.

 

Read our related article,  Vatican Last Tsar Benedict XVI resigns as Vatican Pontiff of Vatican Catholic Church. It’s deceitful to say “Roman Pontiff” of “Roman Catholic Church” http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/vatican-last-tsar-benedict-xvi-resigns_13.html

 The Vatican Plan is to use the giant statues of “Saint” John Paul II “the Great” in all catholic countries to make 1.2 billion Catholics and the world’s population to worship his giant statues in front of all major basilicas and Cathedrals, like the one in Mexico – in order to blind people to stupidly bow to him and “pay, pay, obey” the Vatican Golden Calf JP2!  Priests are now to act as robots and cite only the “Official Vatican Interpretation” of “saint John Paul II”, read our related article Restore image of priests for obsolete doctrines, Vatican Concordats, narcissist “saint” John Paul II, Mass fake cloning of Christ religious spectacle?

OC Diocese buys Crystal Cathedral as flesh-factory of Christ... for wealthy God-flesh-eating Catholics http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/oc-diocese-buys-crystal-cathedral-as.html

Pope Francis Top 10 Vatican Deceits. Francis cloned @3.13.13 inside Vatican Titanic as Jesuit Mask of Vatican Evils. “Bergoglio. Basura. Vos sos la dictadura”.   http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pope-francis-top-10-vatican-deceits_30.html

The Catholic Church is not the moral authority of the world


Fox News interview with former US ambassador to the Holy See spread Vatican deceits that
“ the Catholic Church still the world’s moral authority” 

The former US ambassador to the Vatican, Francis Rooney recently gave an interview to Fox News wily foxily entitled “Is the Catholic Church still the world’s moral authority?”  We refute his statements in detail (see below) because obviously this former US ambassador to the Holy See is also a Vatican Pied Piper, read our related article, Benedict XVI Master Manipulator of the Media…the Pied Piper of Children Deceiving Them Away from Truth of His Crimes against Humanity at the Hague http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/11/benedict-xvi-master-manipulator-of.html.  Two of the most deceitful things he said were that the priest pedophilia phenomenon “did not happen in many parts of the world” and that “Benedict was part of the solution”.  Really, what planet is he living in?  Read our detailed commentaries below on why the Catholic Church, the Holy See a.k.a. the Vatican is not the moral authority of the world.     

Rooney is author of “The Global Vatican” and said that “In a world right now with some many asymmetrical conflicts that are religiously and culturally oriented I think the Holy See’s voice is needed more than ever.” Huh?  Does Rooney mean the Holy See’s voice like John Paul II’s voice who traveled to every Catholic country but he said nothing to protect children from his own JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army named aptly after him - who did nothing to save children? read more http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/ Is the Holy See's voice through Rooney's colleague, the Papal Nuncio caught pimping minors paying them from $500 to a $1,000 in the Dominican Republic, read our related article here - Abolish Vatican Concordat in Dominican Republic  

Is the Holy See’s voice also through the German “Bling” Bishop who can spend 42 million Euros for his Bishop’s Palace renovations but went to India on a first-class ticket airfare only to donate a few dollars as do-goody band-aid Catholic charities political photo-op with the poor?  Or the Italian Bishop accountant of the Vatican Bank who’s now in jail awaiting his trial caught smuggling 20 million Euros cash in a private jet from the secret Vatican Swiss Bank in Switzerland into Italy in order to “help a friend in need” one of the wealthiest families in Italy?  Read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/06/vatican-greedy-mammon-vatican-banks.html

The Fox News interview took place at about the same time that the new ambassador, Kenneth F. Hackett was presenting his credentials to the Holy See.  Obviously this is a ploy of the Vatican to use the former US ambassador to justify the new ambassador to the Vatican.  The timing was synchronized to brainwash Americans to justify the millions of dollars (wasted) that their taxes are allocated to support the idle, albeit rich lifestyle of the US ambassador, and his staff who also sit idly, while feasting in a pompous lifestyle with the rich and famous in Rome.  Remember we have already an American Ambassador to Italy.  The major difference is that Italy has 92 million people who can actually generate  trade with the USA  while the Vatican has only 800 residents – that’s eight hundred, less than a thousand, and women and children are not allowed to enter or live inside it… so is the Vatican some kind of a magical “country” ?   Magical like the instant cloning of Christ in the Eucharist?  Read our related article, USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray” with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”?   

Did anyone notice that at about the same time, within three days when the new US ambassador presented his (hypocritical) credentials, Los Angeles Archbishop Gomez also met with Pope Francis?  It was also exactly in the same day as the young royal couple princes of Luxembourg and their royal entourage, read more below.   

The French Revolution in the Vatican Catholic Church

Pope Francis and his Opus Dei aristocrats in the Vatican State are like the last vintage of French aristocrats in the Palace of Versailles when the French Revolution abolished the French Royal family and their ostentatious lifestyle while people starved outside in the streets.  Likewise Pope Francis and his Catholic Church OD aristocrats are in their last days at the Vatican Palace because the 1.2 billion Catholics shall wake up and recognize the hoax of the cloning of Christ in the Eucharist and they will stop donating money to the greedy Vatican Mammon and give them to build villages in Africa and  poor countries instead... And  poor countries shall take back the wealth that the secret Vatican Swiss Banks have stolen from them for centuries….and Italy is leading the way.   For a start, in this year of 2013, Italy has begun to impose taxes on all Vatican properties in Italy that will collect more than 600 million to 1.2 billion Euros, read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html

All these new taxes -- paid by the Vatican “country” -- will be put to use in the secular country of Italy and serve Italians who no longer go to church as the Catholic churches there are empty and are mostly museums for tourists.  Even young Italians don’t care and refuse to listen to the Pope, read here how young Italian university students protested and prohibited the visit of Benedict XVI in their convocation at La Sapienza University, the largest university in Europe  (despite the fact that it was originally a pontifical university founded by the popes)  Benedict XVI rejected by Rome's Sapienza University students and professors
http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2008/01/benedict-xvi-rejected-by-romes-sapienza.html.   The Catholic Church should be truthfully called “Vatican Catholic Church” and not “Roman” Catholic Church because Rome is not part of the Vatican State or Vatican “country, read more below.

The Vatican’s claim that its wealthy properties are part of “Catholic Charities” exempt from taxes no longer holds water in Italy and the whole world should pay attention to this and imitate Italy.  Spain is also leading the way in abolishing the tax-exempt Vatican properties in Spain that earn billions of Euros of profits annually and they have started throwing bombs inside the Basilica of Pillar because it was the seat of power of General Franco the Spanish fascist much beloved by Opus Dei founder Saint Josemaria Escriva, read our related article, Abolish Vatican Concordat in Dominican Republic.

Really, it’s time the United Nations must end the Vatican as a “country” in this 21^st century, read here -- 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

 Why should the Vatican’s 25 million Euros apartment complex within the city of Rome be considered as “Catholic Charities” just because a Vatican Cardinal or Vatican Prince resides in it?  Why should it be “Catholic Charities” just because the building holds his private millions of dollars chapel (like Germany“Bling” Bishop’s 42 million Euros palace renovations…15 thousand Euros bathtub? Vatican Holy Shit! http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/germany-bling-bishops-42-million-euros.html ) where he says his Daily Mass the instant hoax cloning of Christ’s flesh?  After all, he does not spend his day praying except for the robotic Angelus at noon, but after his half-hour Latin OD Mass, he really spends most of his time day and night welcoming and joining all the wealthy gays clients who frequent the most expensive largest gay sauna of Europe located on the first floor of that Vatican apartment?  see its photos here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pope-francis-top-10-vatican-deceits_30.html.  
  
Vatican Pied Pipers spreading Vatican Deceits

The fact is, the Vatican Bank or IOR is but a segue window dressing because the real wealth of the Vatican is so immeasurable and safely tucked in the Swiss Banks and so those Vatican residents Vatican Prelates are simply wallowing as filthy rich Gay Lobby having sexual orgies with gay prostitutes from Rome inside the Vatican Palace chambers worse than the days of The Borgias and there is nothing that Pope Francis can do about it except give lip service to a “Vatican Reform”. 

 Catholics should stop making “pilgrimages” to the Vatican because it is not a holy site but a sexual site where Vatican Prelates have sexual orgies with gay prostitutes inside its thick museum walls far away the view from St. Peter’s Square where Catholics gather to pray the weekly robotic Angelus with the Pope.  Read more here why the robotic prayers of the Rosary, Divine Mercy and Angelus are like broken records to the ears of Our Lady of Guadalupe , read more  Ex-Jesuit Gov. Jerry Brown vetoes SB131, invokes Roman law, perpetuates cover-up of 20th Century JP2 Army who stabs the heart of Jesus’ mother http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/08/california-bill-sb-131-must-win-next.html

Papal AUDIENCES in Vatican Information Service

How many days or weeks did SNAP president David Clohessy spent in Rome waiting to have an audience with the new Pope?  The charade of the recent G-8 did not even mention the “clergy sexual abuse” which is the Eucharistic Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army named aptly after the longest reigned pope who said nothing and did nothing to save and protect children.   How many victims of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army - waited outside the Vatican and St. Peter’s Square during the papal conclave but Pope Francis never gave one minute of his time to meet with them?  That’s because the Vicar of Christ /Supreme Pontiff welcomes only European royalties and Catholic princes (those red robe and black robe Opus Dei Cardinals and Bishops), ambassadors to the Holy See, and millionaire investors to the secret Vatican Swiss Banks.  Other papal political photo-ops with ‘lower class of people’ (like the chosen few for Holy Thursday’s washing of the feet to copycat Christ) are but once-a-year charade schemed by the Vatican Deceits Media Empire as window dressing to salvage the Vatican Titanic sunken deep in the ocean of moral bankruptcy.

It’s not a surprise that during the last papal conclave, the Vatican (like Communist China sometimes blocks Google) blocked Abuse Tracker from the Vatican Internet server -- so that journalists from around the world would not be able to access it -- so they could depend solely on Vatican Pied Pipers especially John Allen Jr.http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/05/john-lallen-jrthe-pied-piper-of-john.html  for news about the Pope all concocted by Opus Dei masterminds of the Vatican Deceits Media Empire.  Do not underestimate the Opus Dei’s capability for double face, because while praying faithfully and robotically like the Pharisees, they were persecuting the children who were victims of the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army whom they covered up for more than 27 years.  The Opus Dei after all are capable of the worst betrayal despite their robotic prayers of the Rosary and the Angelus everyday that they count among their infamous members the worst US spy to the Russians in American espionage history - the Opus Dei member, Robert Hanson, read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.html. 

Abuse Tracker is the most neutral source and probably the only website that gathers and presents all of the Catholic Church’s happenings -- at a glance.  http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker/  For this week here’s what’s happening that one can see at a glance - only in Abuse Tracker.

Former US ambassador to Holy See promotes Vatican in Fox News



 more Vatican Pied Pipers spreading Vatican Deceits

As Kenneth F. Hackett, the new American ambassador to the Holy See presents his credentials to Pope Francis (wasting our hard-earned millions of dollars by American taxpayers as he and his staff sit idly in Rome), Francis Rooney, the former US ambassador to the Vatican is also giving an interview to Fox News.  Obviously this is a ploy of the Vatican to use the former US ambassador to justify the new ambassador to the Vatican.  Read our related article, USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray” with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”?

Did anyone notice that shortly, within three days when the new US ambassador presented his hypocritical credentials, Los Angeles Archbishop Gomez also met with Pope Francis within the same day as the new royal couple princes of Luxembourg and their royal entourage?  

Imagine that, Opus Dei Archbishop Gomez rubbing elbows with the rich and famous European royalties, Cardinals and Bishops -- all with diplomatic immunity – which must not to go to waste to serve the Vatican Mammon!   

Opus Dei Cardinals and Bishops and Opus Dei numeraries and supernumeraries  members dressed in their Catholic Church regalia like the Pharisees in their pompous costumes rubbing elbows with European royalties and wealthy investors of the secret Vatican Swiss Banks are what Christ precisely despised when he called them “white-washed sepulchers”


Opus Dei Archbishop Gomez must have been warmly welcomed because he saved millions of dollars of the Vatican Bank from possible pay outs to other victims of pedophile priests because he successfully convinced Opus Dei “Cooperator” Governor Jerry Brown of California to veto SB131, read our related article here Governor Jerry Brown of California to veto SB131, read our related article here  Ex-Jesuit Gov. Jerry Brown vetoes SB131, invokes Roman law, perpetuates cover-up of 20th Century JP2 Army who stabs the heart of Jesus’ mother http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/08/california-bill-sb-131-must-win-next.html

US Ambassadors to the Holy See:  more Vatican Pied Pipers

Let’s see what lies behind the scenes and underneath cosmetic words of Francis Rooney, the former US ambassador to the Vatican in his interview to Fox News; actually it is full of typical Vatican Deceits which we point out in detail below.  Well, after all, that sacred papal magic clone of Christ’s flesh which he received from Joseph Ratzinger Benedict XVI – must have nourished him to become a bonafide Vatican Pied Piper for the Vatican Deceits Empire. (Opus Dei is a major stockholder of Fox News, believe it or not)!

The Vatican Titanic is sunk deep in the ocean of moral bankruptcy and the new Jesuit Pope is nothing but the janitor of the Opus Dei, trying to clean up its OD mess in the 27 years Opus Dei papacy of John Paul II wherein they covered-up and swept under the rug thousands of pedophile priests and ignoring hundreds of thousands of children who were their victims because they wanted to present a “pure clean church under John Paul II ‘the Great’”. http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/2011/04/john-paul-ii-saint-of-pedophiles-and.html

So Fox News like a real fox cleverly (exactly the style of John Allen, read about him here http://jp2army.blogspot.ca/) entitled its interview with this use subliminal suggestion “Is the Catholic Church still the world’s moral authority?”  This is a subtle form of brainwashing so that whatever the reader will read below, the only thing he or she will remember is that “the Catholic Church IS STILL THE WORLD’S MORAL AUTHORITY”.  Unbelievable!  The Pope is Satan dressed in white deceiving the world to worship him because he is the Holy Father of lies…and soon “Saint” John Paul II will be worshiped in all altars in the world as the biggest Holy Father of Lies of them all!

Note that the ambassador has diplomatic immunity and he is one of the best conduits of the evil Vatican Bank and its many secret Vatican Swiss Banks.  Just look at one flight of this Vatican Bank Bishop accountant  in a private jet caught smuggling IN CASH 20 million Euros from Switzerland to Rome and he is now awaiting trial in jail, Bishop Nunzio got 500,000Euros  in commission per errand in some of his “favors for his friends, rich friends only,  read more hereVatican 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

So just imagine how many diplomatic flights this former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Francis Rooney has made and how many potential millions or billions have passed through him -- and the commissions he made – now all safely tucked in secret Vatican Swiss Banks.

Let us educate 1.2 billion Catholics here and show what a Vatican Pied Piper Vatican Deceiver

What former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Francis Rooney said which couldn’t be further from the truth.  

Fox News interview analysis

Here are what Francis Rooney said in italics and below each phrase are our comments. 

“The principles which compromise the Holy See’s diplomatic outreach are enduring … in many parts of the world where scandal hasn’t occurred … [the Catholic Church has] the greatest impact in areas that are marginalized, where Christians are persecuted…

“I don’t think it was the scandals per say… you gotta remember that Benedict was part of the solution … he was the fella that changed the procedures to make sure that the Vatican would have a voice when these [sex abuse] cases came up and that Bishops wouldn’t be able to sweep them under the rug and avoid calling in the civil authorities.  (see news updates below)

Francis Rooney : the Holy See’s diplomatic outreach are enduring

- The main reason why the Holy See or Vatican need diplomats is to manage all the vast wealth it is usurping in all countries around the world through the Vatican Concordats.  In Germany, Catholics are required to give 8-10% of their salary.  In the Dominican Republic, the Catholic Religion is entrenched into their Constitution...and it is always the women and children who pay the most - for these nonsensical Vatican doctrines and dogmas.

– read our new related article: Abolish Vatican Concordat in Dominican Republic and bring pimping Vatican Ambassador– pedophile Papal Nuncio to secular justice (not religious Vatican pseudo-justice)

--The Vatican concordats are professionally translated from Latin and Italian in this website, one.evil.org.  Do not be put off by strong words of Protestants websites about the Catholic Church because they can see everything which we cannot -- just like Martin Luther could see all the evils of the Vatican during his time that is why he posted his famous 99 Thesis on the Basilica door.

Francis Rooney : in many parts of the world where scandal hasn’t occurred

-- The JP2 Army has infested every part of the globe.  The JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army is the most heinous crimes against children of Biblical Proportion.  Is Rooney blind that many parts of the world includes Europe where there was already an implosion in Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, read here about the Bishop who arrogantly went on TV to brag his pedophilia escapades even with his own nephew , read more here  The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html

-- In many parts of world especially in Latin America, the priest pedophilia is “a plague”.  But the poor people there have no means and no brave lawyers like we do in the USA and in Europe where at least activists like SNAP and the secular justice system can help to give victims a voice and sue the church, just like they are now doing in Australia with the Royal Commission. 

-- In many parts of the world, the Catholic Church is either buying people’s silence or brainwashing them with the hoax of Christ’s flesh in the Eucharist and promising them Heavenas a reward for their silence.

-- Obviously former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Francis Rooney is a Vatican Pied Piper – as we refute his deceiving words here below.  What planet is he living in?  His spirit is still in the Ivory Tower of the Vatican (Evil) Palace and its intoxicating museum.

-- Obviously, Rooney is covering up his ambassador colleague, pedophile pimping Papal Nuncio in Dominican Republic, read our new article here Abolish Vatican Concordat in Dominican Republic

-- The JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army is erupting in Australia, read more here  Australia JP2 Army! Anne Lastman the false witness to “the limping Christ towards Calvary”… she camouflages John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/australia-jp2-army-anne-lastman-false.html

-- Pedophile Bishop in Peru – see news below

-- Famous Pedophile priest  founder of a religious congregation in Chile – see news below

The worst Vatican lie is “saint” John Paul II – so what if he had one or two miracles, he is the same yesterday, today and forever, he never said anything and he did nothing to protect children.

Francis Rooney : [the Catholic Church has] the greatest impact in areas that are marginalized

The fact is the Vatican uses all its priests especially the Jesuits to keep the poor as “poor of Christ” so that multi-national corporations can do whatever they want to usurp the wealth of those rich Third World countries, read here about the American Imperialism in the Philippines  American IMPERIALISM in Philippines:U.S.TROOPS OUT NOW... http://filipina-nannies-caregivers.blogspot.ca/2013/05/philippinesustroops-out-now-true.html   

Francis Rooney : you gotta remember that Benedict was part of the solution

This statement defending Benedict XVI is one of the biggest Vatican Deceits of Francis Rooney as Vatican Pied Piper

Read our related article: UN sets Benedict XVI Ratzinger’s records straight. Benedict refuses to meet Italian victims of JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army but meets with rare Cuban crocodile http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/


Cardinal Ratzinger was part of the “plague of pedophilia” for 27 years when he covered-up JP2 Army a.k.a B16 Army-Benedict XVI Pedophile Priests Army http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011_11_01_archive.html

It is time for the French Revolution at the Vatican: Benedict XVI must resign, Cardinal Bernard Law et al must resign …Shut-down the Vatican http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/it-is-time-for-french-revolution-at.html

The Vatican is the world’s moral authority -- in what matters exactly? 

1. About forbidding gay marriage when many countries are now approving it?  No one listens to the dictum of the Pope about anything anymore .

2. About forbidding the use of contraceptives when Melinda Gates is donating billions of dollars in free contraceptives especially to women around the world? Read our related article here 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

3. About forbidding remarried divorcees from receiving Holy Communion and forbidding women priests? -- see the hoax of the cloning of Christ in the Eucharist in images below.  

4. About Benedict XVI condemning homosexuality and excommunicating priests who defend gays and lesbians --- when all the while under his very Holy Eyes or Holy See -- there is the Vatican Gay Lobby inside the Vatican where Vatican Prelates are having sexual orgies with gay prostitutes in Rome -- and all the while a prominent Vatican Cardinal resides and welcome on the second floor wealthy gays from all over the world to go to the Vatican owned largest gay sauna in Europe?  See photos  here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pope-francis-top-10-vatican-deceits_30.html  and here  Benedict XVI the Vatican Last Tsar: Final despotic acts. Vatican jails worldwide locations http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/benedict-xvi-vatican-last-tsar-final.html

5. About New Age and condemning American Nuns who adapts it, read more here  Middle Ages Vatican condemns New Age American Nuns: The Celestine Prophecy come true! Sisters in Crisis book mocks LCWR Sisters in Christ http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/middle-ages-vatican-condemns-new-age.html

6. About “purity” of priests and the hypocritical “Theology of the Body” by John Paul II?  Read the Polish Archbishop ordained none other by John Paul II who paid $500 to $1,000 to minors in the Dominican Republic but he is now in the safe haven of criminals at the Vatican http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/gay-adulterer-cardinal-obrien-makes_16.html  See Spanish priest caught masturbating in the forest behind the parish with another man, see story and photos below caught by a passerby.

7.  About children?  The Catholic Church has no moral voice whatsoever towards children.  Nada.  All children should not and must be touched by all priests.  All children must beware of priests.  Good thing there are Halloween costumes by Spirit Halloween  costumes featuring a sexually aroused priest, known as “Happy Priest,” alongside a “Thank You Father” costume that shows a pregnant nun, see news of pregnant nuns below and Goliath-bully Bill Donohue complaining about these costumes.  Children should pray the JP2 Army Prayer to protect them from pedophiles, read it here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/boycott-oratory-of-saint-joseph-candles.html.

8. About the “poor” – Pope Francis throws in a word and use the poor as his “props” just like John Paul II used the poor as his props in his travels, read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html  The Vatican has no moral authority over the poor who are their worst victims since time immemorial as the secret Vatican Swiss Banks continue to hoard despots’ ill-gotten wealth from Third World countries – through the diplomatic immunity of ambassadors. The Vatican Bank or IOR and all its “reform” – it is simply a change of curtains and mere window dressing by Pope Francis, the face of Vatican Deceits, read here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/03/pope-francis-top-10-vatican-deceits_30.html

9.  About stopping war?  The Vatican’s wealth is part in building the arsenals of war, believe it or not.  See the Vatican wealth here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html    The Pope just says a few words “against” war here and there – sheer papal lip-service - but the reality is that Vatican Swiss Banks are heavily invested in the manufacture and sale of weapons worldwide!  Believe it or Not.  So don’t blame Protestants who have websites that are called precisely as Vatican Crimes, One Evil, the Harlot of Babylon, et cetera.

10.   About Jesus Christ? The popes and priests are all imposters of Christ and their Eucharist is the biggest lie since Satan in the Garden of Eden about eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil.  All those Catholic Catechism and Catholic obsolete doctrines and inutile dogmas are useless for “salvation”.  All the sacraments are Vatican Deceits, the Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and persecutes their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/11/sacrament-of-confession-protects.html

11. About prayers?  The Rosary is a broken record that hurts Our Lady’s ears because they remind her of the JP2 Army – read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/08/california-bill-sb-131-must-win-next.html  

The JP2 Army is the 8^th sword on Mary’s Heart.  http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/prayer-to-john-paul-ii-saint-of.html

12. About the Seven Sacraments?  Those Luminous Mysteries are Vatican Deceits because the Baptism of Jesus did not institute any sacrament of baptism or he would have baptised people together with his 12 Apostles.  NONE of them baptized anyone.  Jesus NEVER baptized anyone even as He healed them.  It was never a prerequisite to being his Disciple or his follower.

Catholics are better off following the Evangelicals like the Pentecostals who are filled with the fire of the Holy Spirit, or Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland who’s on television everyday at KCM.org, or the Crossroads Christian Communications, or following the Celestine Vision and Prayer, Meditation & Discussion with James & Salle Redfield via Live Teleconference, Webcast & Skype

Catholics must stop donating to the Vatican and start donating their money to the Doctors without Borders and Red Cross who are immediately in their disaster area if something happen to them.   The popes, Cardinals and Bishops and priests are useless when disaster strikes.

Catholics should tithe their money to poor people in Third World countries and in Africa – instead of giving them to the Vatican where Bishops spend their money on $25,000 bathtubs, read news below of the “Bling” Bishop of Germany.  Germany’s Catholics are required to give 10% of their income to the Catholic Church, imagine that, the German Diocese owned the porn company of Germany http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/10/germany-bling-bishops-42-million-euros.html and what else they are hiding until secular media can expose them?

The Vatican is already the wealthiest institution on the planet more than all the banks and companies combined, what is the Pope and 800 wealthy Vatican residents doing in the Ivory Tower of the Vatican Titanic sunk deep in moral bankruptcy, read more here 

http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/07/ncaa-penn-state-more-moral-than-vatican.html

Catholics must stop feeding the voracious greed of the Vatican Mammon Beast ruling from the depth of the ocean of moral bankruptcy through the Chair of St. Peter of the white clad hypocrite Pope Francis ruled by the Octopus Dei from the depth of Hell.

So the Vatican Titanic sunk deep in the ocean of moral bankruptcy uses its own media network to try salvage itself but it is too late because it is all corroded in the Eucharistic Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army named aptly the Opus Dei Pope who said nothing and did nothing to save and protect children in his years Opus Dei papacy. 

How stupid can 1.2 billion Catholics to not see this most important truth that has caused the 8^th sword in Jesus’ Mother’s heart, see image here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/08/california-bill-sb-131-must-win-next.html  .  

The Vatican Titanic use the orchestrated words of the former US Ambassador to the Vatican as a scheme, well-planned and co-written with the Opus Dei - just like governor Jerry Brown’s letter why he vetoed SB131, read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/08/california-bill-sb-131-must-win-next.html 

Heil Satanas John Paul II! read more here why "saint" John Paul II is the biggest Vatican Deceit
http://jp2m.blogspot.ca/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

“Pope John Paul II [Ed.: pope: 1978-2005] presided over the second ‘pornography of the Papacy’. He presided over the greatest, most widespread, immoral scandal of sexual perversion in church history. Never in the annals of recorded history has such a scandal been displayed for the entire world to see. Documented case after documented case in the courts of the world, joined by thousands of other cases which never came to light as the BAG-MAN, as he was called, bought the silence of thousands of young men whose cases never came to the courts. Combined with other ‘faithful’ souls who, although sodomized as children, in their loyalty to mother church never even complained.” – Ronald Cooke (“The Death of the Pope of Rome”; 2005; Page 14)    Read more below about the book.

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News for October 25, 2013

Is the Catholic Church still the world's moral authority?

UNITED STATES
Fox News
By Christopher Snyder
Heard on Fox
Published October 24, 2013

The Catholic Church is more than 1 billion strong, but has been weakened in recent years by secularization and abuse scandals. While the church is growing globally, a recent Pew study found nearly one-third of Americans who were raised Catholic no longer practice the religion.
Fox News Chief Religion Correspondent Lauren Green asked former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Francis Rooney whether the Catholic Church is still the world's moral authority.

Rooney says even with the child sex abuse, Vatileaks scandals and a declining number of faithful attending church each week, the church still has the power to lead. “The principles which compromise the Holy See’s diplomatic outreach are enduring … in many parts of the world where scandal hasn’t occurred … [the Catholic Church has] the greatest impact in areas that are marginalized, where Christians are persecuted, “said Rooney.

Pope Benedict XVI resigned as the leader of the Catholic Church in February 2013. Green asked if it
“I don’t think it was the scandals per say… you gotta remember that Benedict was part of the solution … he was the fella that changed the procedures to make sure that the Vatican would have a voice when these [sex abuse] cases came up and that Bishops wouldn’t be able to sweep them under the rug and avoid calling in the civil authorities,” said Rooney.

AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY
Vatican Information Service
Vatican City, 24 October 2013 (VIS) - Today, the Holy Father received in audience:
- His Royal Highness Prince Guillaume, hereditary Grand-Duke of Luxembourg, with Princess Stephanie and entourage.
- Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, apostolic nuncio to Australia.
- Archbishop Giuseppe Pinto, apostolic nuncio to the Philippines.
- Archbishop Jose Horacio Gomez of Los Angeles, U.S.A.

Rooney, author of “The Global Vatican” said “Pope Benedict’s health never been that good … his health had to come to deteriorate” during his time as Pope. Rooney believes this was a factor in the Pope’s resignation.

On another front, the Catholic Church is fighting to get a reprieve from the controversial Health and Human Services mandate.  The church says the law forces religious organizations to provide contraception coverage in their health plans. They are seeking an exemption based on religious liberty.

As the fight continues, critics raise doubt over its effectiveness to win the legal fight.

“The issue here is the first amendment … the right to practice religion versus the government taking an action which happens to be in this case … contraception,” said Rooney. “I don't think the struggle to defend the first amendment is a bad thing.”

Rooney sees the current relationship between the Holy See and Obama Administration as “more attenuated” then in previous White Houses.

Ken Hackett, the former president of Catholic Relief Services was installed this summer as the new U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See. While not knowing Hackett personally Rooney said “he’s a very enlightened choice … his background with Catholic charities certainly should resonate strongly with the emphasis Pope Francis put recently.” 

“In a world right now with some many asymmetrical conflicts that are religiously and culturally oriented I think the Holy See’s voice is needed more than ever,” said Rooney. 

Catholics slam response to abuse

AUSTRALIA
The Australian

DAN BOX THE AUSTRALIAN OCTOBER 28, 2013

MORE than half of Catholics who attend mass believe the response of their church's leadership to cases of child sex abuse by clergy has been inadequate and shows a complete failure of responsibility.

New research from a survey of about 2800 churchgoers in more than 200 parishes across the nation also shows that almost half say that the scandal has damaged their confidence in church authorities.

Catholic League outraged that imam costumes don’t come with erections

UNITED STATES
Daily Caller
The Catholic League is upset over a Halloween costume featuring a sexually aroused priest and issued a statement asking why the store Spirit Halloween doesn’t sell similar costumes for imams and rabbis.
Spirit Halloween sells the costume, known as “Happy Priest,” alongside a “Thank You Father” costume that shows a pregnant nun.
The League’s Bill Donohue called both the costumes “offensive.”
“Anyone who wants to buy a costume with a rabbi or imam sporting an erection is out of luck — there are none available,” Donohue said in a statement. “There are also no vulgar Jewish or Muslim women costumes available. Just ones for nuns.”

http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/07/vatican-exposed-money-murder-and-mafia.html

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Catholic Priest Caught Having Oral Sex in Forest Behind the Parish

A priest in Murcia has been fired after photos and a YouTube video showing him involved in public acts of gay sex became a social media sensation.

 http://www.vaticancrimes.us/2013/07/catholic-priest-caught-having-oral-sex.html

SPAIN -- The Catholic Church is being exposed for what it is: the most criminal organization in existence, responsible for more than 10 million crimes around the world.

The pictures here speak for themselves as to the true face of the Vatican. The Catholic church in Cartagena has removed Francisco Javier Ruiz, the priest of the Murcian town of Churra, from his position after oral sex photos set off a social media scandal.

Spanish daily laverdad.es reported that images and videos were released on Twitter, purportedly showing the priest in the so-called Coto Cuadros, an area famous for "cruising" – anonymous, casual public sex.

The priest can be seen masturbating with another man and practicing oral sex.

The priest has responded with the usual norm for the Catholic Church when facing sex scandals - denying the accusations despite the pictures and videos  that catch him in the act and the religious dog had the audicity to tell  laverdad.es, "I have never been to Cotos Cuadros and I do not recognize myself in these images that are said to be of me. This must be a fake. This material should be destroyed because if it is not it is going to create a scandal."

Both the pictures and the video quickly became trending topics on Twitter. The video shows a bicycle ride recorded by a cyclist who is taking pictures when he suddenly passes a figure dressed in black, alleged to be the priest, engaged in fellatio with another man (see video below) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpYwZYf6090.

Photographs reveal in greater detail that the man in black has his pants down while both men are engaged in mutual masturbation. Sources in Churra claim that the priest reported the video to police on Wednesday afternoon as a fake.

Nice try. The public is no longer ignorant to the lies of religion. The video and pics speak for themselves, and the Protect Your Children Foundation and VaticanCrimes.com have no hesitation in exposing these evil and perverse men who use the name of Christ to deceive the masses, live in hypocrisy, teach things they ought not to for filthy lucre's sake (Titus 1:10-11) - which is precisely the reason why their mouths must be shut:

We thank Dr. Jose Luis De Jesus

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Sexual Abuse in the Roman Catholic Church: 40% of Catholic Nuns have been sexually abused too. Those who got pregnant, their babies were murdered

By Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT // Website: www.toughissues.org

A 2-Page Handout // All emphasis is mine unless otherwise stated. //

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Over the past several decades some major newspapers have been exposing the problem of priestly sexual abuse of boys, girls, women – and even nuns – within the Roman Catholic Church here in the United States of America. Please carefully consider the following quotations

“A large part of the history of [Ed.: mandatory] celibacy is the story of the degradation of women and – an invariable consequence – frequent abortions and infanticide.

            In the ninth century, many monasteries were the haunts of homosexuals; many convents were brothels in which babies were killed and buried…Promiscuity was rife in monasteries and convents. The great Ivo of Chartres (1040-1115) tells of whole convents with inmates who were nunsonly in name. They had often been abandoned by their families and were really prostitutes.” – Peter de Rosa (“Vicars of Christ”; 1988; Pages 404 and 408)

            “According to the 1996 survey of nuns in the United States (which was intentionally never published by the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Church but was leaked by some Vatican insider), it is reported that a minimum of 34,000 Catholic nuns (about 40% of all American nuns) claim to have been sexually abused. Three of every four of these nuns claimed they were sexually victimized by a priest, nun, or other religious person. Two out of five nuns who stated they were sexually abused claimed that their exploitation included some form of genital contact. All nuns who claimed repeated sexual exploitation reported that they were pressured by religious superiors for sexual favors.” – “Boston Globe” (1-8-2002) [Ed.: This quote is on p. 179 of the book, “Lucifer’s Lodge”, by William H. Kennedy.]

            “Then sometimes the priests come [Ed.: to the convent] and they get angry with us [Ed.: i.e., the young nuns] because we refuse to have sexual relations with them voluntarily…and many, many the times to have him [Ed.: i.e., the priest] to strike you in the mouth – is a terrible thing! I’ve had my front teeth knocked out [Ed.: by a lecherous priest who was trying to force himself on Sister Charlotte]…and then get you down on the floor [Ed.: in order to molest her]. …Here we are – a body [Ed.: i.e., a group] of little [Ed.: i.e., young] nuns. …[Ed.: One] morning the mother superior might say this: ‘We’re all going to be lined up here…’ …Then you know, there might be ten of us – there might be 15 of us. She [Ed.: i.e., the mother superior] will tell us all to strip. And we have to take every stitch of our clothing off. …Here we are lined up [Ed.: without any clothes], and here come two or three Roman Catholic priests with liquor under their belts [Ed.: i.e., the priests are intoxicated], and there they march in front of those nude girls [Ed.: i.e., the nuns], and choose the girl they want to take to the cell with them. These are convents – cloistered convents – not open orders. The priest can do anything he wants to and hide behind the cloak of religion! Then that same Roman Catholic priest [Ed.: after sexually molesting a nun] will go back into the Roman Catholic Churches and there he will say Mass – and there he will go into the confessional box and make those poor people believe that [Ed.: he has the alleged power to grant] absolution from their sins – when he [Ed.: the priest who has recently sexually molested a nun] is full of sin, full of corruption [Ed.: and] vice. Still he [Ed.: the priest] acts as their ‘god’.

            And then [Ed.: sometimes the priest, while attempting to molest a nun, will] kick you in the stomach. Many of the precious little girls [Ed.: i.e., young nuns] have babies under their hearts, and it doesn’t bother a priest to kick you in the stomach with a baby under your heart – he doesn’t mind – the baby is going to be killed anyway – because those babies are born in the convent. Why wouldn’t those babies be born, when you run places like these [Ed.: i.e., cloistered convents] under the cloak of ‘religion’ – the world thinks [Ed.: they are] religious orders. And there are babies born in there! …I’ve delivered those babies with these hands; and what I’ve seen with my eyes and done with my hands – I just challenge the whole world to say it isn’t true.

            And oh I wish you could see that little [Ed.: pregnant] nun. She is not looking forward to that [Ed.: i.e., having a baby]. There won’t ever be a blanket around his body. They’ll never even bathe that baby’s body. But he can only [Ed.: live] 4 or 5 hours [Ed.: minutes?], and then the mother superior will take that baby and put her fingers in his nostrils and start [Ed.: to] cover its mouth – and snuff its little life out. And why do they build the lime pits in the [Ed.: cloistered] convent? What is the reason for building it [Ed.: i.e., the lime pit] if it isn’t to kill the babies? And that baby will be taken into the lime pit and chemical and lime is put over its body – and that is the end of baby!” – Sister Charlotte (Ex-Carmelite nun; a.k.a. Charlotte Wells; above excerpts are from a taped presentation by Sister Charlotte)

            “Pope John Paul II [Ed.: pope: 1978-2005] presided over the second ‘pornography of the Papacy’. He presided over the greatest, most widespread, immoral scandal of sexual perversion in church history. Never in the annals of recorded history has such a scandal been displayed for the entire world to see. Documented case after documented case in the courts of the world, joined by thousands of other cases which never came to light as the BAG-MAN, as he was called, bought the silence of thousands of young men whose cases never came to the courts. Combined with other ‘faithful’ souls who, although sodomized as children, in their loyalty to mother church never even complained.” – Ronald Cooke (“The Death of the Pope of Rome”; 2005; Page 14)    

            “The late pope [Ed.: i.e., John Paul II; pope: 1978-2005] was the voice of a religious institution which became the reservoir of the most egregious sexual perversion known to man: MEN CALLED PRIESTS PREYING ON THEIR HELPLESS LITTLE ALTAR BOYS [Ed.: Emphasis in original]to satisfy their lust which arose in part from their enforced celibacy, which the Scriptures call a doctrine of demons. So as the chief voice of this reservoir of unnatural perversion, the late pope of Rome [Ed.: John Paul II] was surely the spokesman of a ‘Church’ which was filled with immoral priests under his authority; the spokesman for all the false doctrines of Romanism; and a man who himself claimed to be the Vicar of Christ on earth, making him then without doubt the MOST INFLUENCIAL IMMORAL VOICE OF OUR TIME [Ed.: Emphasis in original]. To have a REAL MORAL VOICE [Ed.: Emphasis in original] one must proclaim true Bible doctrine and repudiate falsehood, false claims [Ed.: e.g., such as alleged papal infallibility], and false practices.” – Ronald Cooke (“The Death of the Pope of Rome”; 2005; Page 15)

            “David Rice (a Roman Catholic writer) in [Ed.: his book “Shattered Vows”] states the figure 100,000 several times to describe the number of [Ed.: Roman Catholic] priests resigning from the priesthood usually over questions of their own morality.” – Ronald Cooke (“The Death of the Pope of Rome”; 2005; Page 15)

            “The policy of silence and cover-up [Ed.: concerning sexual abuse within the Roman Catholic Church] promoted by the Vatican is mind-boggling. The vast amount of data which the Vatican collected concerning the sexual activity of [Ed.: the Roman Catholic] clergy makes it clear that the Pope and [Ed.: the Roman] Curia were well aware of how wide-spread and common the sexual abuse problem was in the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Church. It did nothing to redress the situation but continued with a policy of cover-up and silence. It seems that the only reason the Vatican ordered these secret sex studies was to get a global picture of where they stood and to develop informed strategies for hiding the problem in the future. Never was the welfare of the victims of sexual abuse taken into consideration, nor was the question of broken chastity vows [Ed.: by the celibate priests]apparently of any real concern.” – William H. Kennedy (“Lucifer’s Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church”; 2009; Page 178)

“The media black-out of the sexual abuse of women by clerics in both ritual and non-ritual cases is a great disgrace. The plight of male children who suffer under abusive priests is, of course, horrifying and should receive wide media coverage. However, the sexual abuse of nuns and women by clerics is a far larger problem.” – William H. Kennedy (“Lucifer’s Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church”; 2004; Page 180)

            “It’s tough to stay a Catholic when you’ve been sexually abused by a [Ed.: Roman Catholic] priest, then raped again by the [Ed.: Roman Catholic] Hierarchy.” – Miguel Chincilla (a Roman Catholic sexually abused by a priest)

 

Ed. Comment to the preceding quote: For decades in the USA the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy tried “to keep a lid” (as much as they possibly could) on the extensive abuse of children – almost exclusively boys – by Roman Catholic priests. Many of these pedophile priests were moved from diocese to diocese as their patterns of sexual abuse became known. As much as they were able, the past pope (John Paul II) and the current pope (Benedict XVI) protected these priests accused of sexual abuse from prosecution, even bringing some of them to Rome and putting them up in apartments in order to prevent them from being brought to trial. In many cases, Roman Catholic prelates and other clergy brought tremendous pressure on Roman Catholic victims and their families in order to get them to drop charges against the abusive priests. In other words, the Roman Catholic Church’s hierarchy was much more concerned about protecting the Church’s already tarnished reputation (and protecting its finances against lawsuits) than it was in removing pedophile priests from the priesthood or helping the victims of the priestly abuse!

For Further Research on this topic: Please do a “google-style” search on the Internet for the book, “Lucifer’s Lodge: Satanic Ritual Abuse in the Catholic Church”, by William H. Kennedy, and for the name “Sister Charlotte”.
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The black belt means she is pregnant

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The womb of the Immaculate Conception of Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe carried Jesus this way

9-months gestation of Jesus the Son of God

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DOLLY THE CLONED SHEEP

 The cloning process that produced Dolly 
http://www.youtube.com/embed/39BbcZVCx8I


 


BLACK  MAGIC  OF  EUCHARIST 

1-MINUTE  black magic of the cloning of Christ by sinful Vatican pope and priests 

Pope Francis, all Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and priests cannot clone cats and dogs and therefore they cannot clone Christ either.

HOUDINI POPES AND MERLIN PRIESTS

Pope Francis, all Popes, Cardinals, Bishops and priests cannot clone cats and dogs and therefore they cannot clone Christ either.  

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The Vatican and Rome are no longer synonymous.


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The Vatican and Rome are no longer synonymous.


The Pope has no authority in Rome.


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The Vatican is not part of Rome.

The Pope is not a citizen of Rome.

The allegiance of Catholics is to the Pope and the Vatican or the Magisterium… 

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By Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT Newsletters // Internet website: www.toughissues.org

All emphasis is mine unless otherwise stated. // PERMISSION IS GIVEN TO COPY.

Originally published in a 27-page paper version: December 18, 2009

Updated and greatly expanded version: January 21, 2010

I. Introduction:

 

            The Jesuit Order – a.k.a. the Society of Jesus, the Order of Jesus, the Sons of Loyola, and “the Company” (it was once called “the Company of Jesus”) – was founded in 1534 by Ignatius Loyola. It was officially recognized as a Roman Catholic religious order by Pope Paul III in 1540. Jesuits are famous as educators, and as “father-confessors” to emperors, kings (and their mistresses), queens, princes, princesses, high-ranking military officers, and many of the powerful and wealthy elite of the world. Jesuits are also infamous as seducers of women in the confessional, murderers of kings, makers of sedition, organizers of coup d’états, infiltrators of Protestant denominations, instigators of massacres, and fomenters of wars and revolutions. Numerous books have been written about the Jesuit Order. Some of these books contend that many of the men at the higher levels of the Jesuit Order have been – and are – very evil men! 

            Let us carefully consider the following questions, which I hope to answer in the “conclusions” section of this newsletter: 

1. Is the Jesuit Order – at its higher levels – the most evil organization that the world has seen over the past 4½+ centuries? 

2. Why has the Jesuit Order been expelled from so many countries, including from many predominantly Roman Catholic countries, during its history? 

3. Are the Jesuit Order and the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State responsible for fomenting many wars and revolutions, such as World War I and World War II? 

4. Is the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State the greatest threat to civil and religious liberty that the world has ever seen? 

5. Have agents of the Jesuit Order been responsible for assassinating numerous heads of State over the centuries? 

6. Does the Jesuit Order, which controls the Roman Catholic Church-State, the Knights of Malta, the highest levels of the Knights of Columbus and of Opus Dei, and the highest levels of Freemasonry, etc., sit at the very top of the New World Order (N.W.O.) “pyramid”? 

7. Does the Jesuit Order, through its control of various secret societies, such as high-level Freemasonry and the Knights of Malta, control the International Intelligence Community? 

8. Does the Jesuit Order, through its control of the wealthy, powerful, and influential Knights of Malta – and other “agents” on the Jesuit payroll – control the International Banking Community? 

Surely inquiring minds would like answers to the above questions. Please carefully read and consider the “definitions” found in the next section, and the numerous quotations dealing with the Jesuit Order that are found within this newsletter. 

Important Note: The intention of this TTT issue is to expose many of the evil deeds carried out on the instructions of higher-level members of the Jesuit Order – including the General of the Order – and the resulting harm, mayhem, and death that the Jesuit Order’s actions and operations have brought to many peoples and nations. (The Jesuits have “justified” – or “excused” – these evil deeds with their “maxims” of “the end justifies the means” and “for the greater glory of God”!) The reader should keep in mind that lower-level Jesuits (especially those of the first three degrees) know little to nothing of the evil that goes on at the higher levels of the Jesuit Order. (The same can be said for most Roman Catholics, i.e., they know little to nothing of the evil that goes on at the higher levels of the Jesuit Order – or at the higher levels of the Papacy itself!) Unfortunately, these lower-level Jesuits – due to the blind obedience that they are required to give to all superiors in their order – are merely “tools” in the hands of their superiors; and these lower-level Jesuits often carry out various operations and activities for the sinister intermediate – and long-range – “goals” of the Jesuit Order – goals about which they know little to nothing! 

II. Definitions (hopefully in alphabetical order):  

NOTE: Please read the “definitions” in this section prior to reading the rest of this newsletter. I believe that these “definitions” should help most readers to better understand the many quotations used within this newsletter – and also to better understand some of the reasons why Jesuit agents and/or their hired “hit men” assassinate heads of State – and even some popes! 

“Abbé” (Per Webster’s New World College Dictionary, Fourth Edition; Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2006): “A French title of respect, given to a priest, minister, etc.”  

“Ad hominem” (Per Webster’s New World Dictionary, Second College Edition; William Collins + World Publishing Co., Inc.; 1974): “[Literally, to the man]: Appealing to one’s prejudices rather than to reason, as by attacking one’s opponent rather than debating the issue.”  

“Ad hominem [attack]” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “An ‘ad hominem attack’ occurs when one attacks his opponent’s character, background, past sins or indiscretions, associations, intelligence, scholarship, etc., rather than honestly debating the topic or subject of discussion, writing, etc. This has frequently been the standard ‘tactic’ used by so-called ‘liberals’, ‘social engineers’, secret societies, cults, etc. – and by those attempting to defend the bloody history and/or the unscriptural, man-made doctrines and practices of the Roman Catholic Church-State! It is the old ‘attack the MESSENGER’ rather than honestly debate the MESSAGE. Some folks call it ‘character assassination’. It is a favorite ‘tool’ and tactic of the Jesuit Order.

Roman Catholic apologists, including Jesuits, have great difficulties trying to debate any ‘opponent’ who has a good knowledge of both church history and the Holy Bible. Thus, their primary weapon of ‘debate’ must generally revert to an ‘ad hominem’ attack of their ‘opponent’.”  

“Ad majorem Dei gloriam” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “‘Ad majorem Dei gloriam’ is a phrase in Latin (meaning ‘to [i.e., for] the greater glory of God’) that the Jesuits use to ‘justify’ – to excuse – any evil, sin, or crime (e.g., murder, treason, perjury, stealing, etc.) that they or their agents commit in order to advance the interests of the Jesuit Order and/or of the Jesuit-controlled Roman Catholic Church-State. Another phrase that the Jesuits use to ‘justify’ and excuse their evil, sins, and crimes is ‘the end justifies the means’.” 

  

“Alexander I, Czar of Russia” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Alexander I was born in 1777, and was assassinated by the Jesuits (by means of the poison cup) in 1825. He was the czar of Russia from 1801 to 1825. Czar Alexander I expelled the Jesuit Order from all of Russia in 1820. (He had earlier expelled the Jesuits from Moscow and St. Petersburg in 1816.) For these ‘crimes’ against the Jesuits – and because Czar Alexander I had been tolerant of all religious sects in Russia – he was hated by the Jesuits. There was yet another reason why the Jesuits hated Czar Alexander I. Author E.H. Broadbent tells us that in 1812 Czar Alexander I had ‘encouraged the establishment of the British and Foreign Bible Society in Russia, giving it special privileges…’ Broadbent also tells us that Czar Alexander I had told visitors to St. Petersburg that he ‘had never seen a Bible until he was forty years of age, but when at that time he was directed to it he devoured it’. The Jesuits eventually succeeded in murdering this good Bible-believing Russian Czar who wanted to get God’s Holy Word (the Bible) – in the Russian language – into the hands of the Russian people!”   

“Alexander II, Czar of Russia” (Per Darryl Eberhart, Editor of ETI & TTT): “Alexander II was born in 1818, and was czar of Russia from 1855 to 1881. He was assassinated in 1881 by agents of the Jesuits, who threw hand-made bombs at him as he rode through St. Petersburg. His proclamation in 1861 had resulted in the emancipation of 23 million serfs. Because the Jesuits had fomented the Polish rebellion, Czar Alexander II revoked Papal Rome’s Concordat with Russia. He also twice broke diplomatic relations with the Papacy (in 1866 and in 1877).   

Relatively few Americans are aware of the fact that Czar Alexander II helped to preserve the American Union at the time of the American Civil War of 1861-65. Because France and England were preparing to intervene militarily on the side of the South (the Confederate States of America), Czar Alexander II sent part of the Russian fleet to U.S. shores, placing those Russian naval vessels under the direct command of President Lincoln. In doing so, Czar Alexander II was sending a clear message to France and England that if they intervened militarily on the side of the Confederacy, then Russia would intervene militarily on the side of the North (the Union). Since the Papacy and the Jesuits supported the Confederacy, and since they wanted to divide the Union into two separate nations, they never forgave either President Lincoln or Czar Alexander II. Both of them were assassinated by agents of the Jesuit Order.”   

Read http://www.toughissues.org/the%20jesuit%20oder.htm


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USA ambassador to Vatican - for what exactly? “Pray” with the pope in one office, in one basilica that equals “one country”?

UNITED STATES
Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils...

Paris Arrow

Updated October 24, 2013

On October 21, 2013, the Vatican Information Service publish the audiences that Pope Francis met - for a few minutes - and the new American Ambassador was one of them. It said a few words, Kenneth F. Hackett, the new ambassador of the United States to the Holy See, presenting his credential letters.

Credentials for what? Theology? Agreement for the Pope's ultra conservative doctrines that are totally obsolete and useless for the poor of Christ!

We do not need to pay millions of dollars for some theological papaers that anyone can now read in Google.



 October 26, 2013

Germany“Bling” Bishop’s 42 million Euros palace renovations…15 thousand Euros bathtub? Vatican Holy Shit!

UNITED STATES
Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils...
Paris Arrow

German Catholics are required to give 10% of their salaries to the Catholic Church (if they want to be buried in the Catholic cemetery). Germany’s church tax, collected by the state and handed over to the churches, raised 5.2 billion euros for the Catholics in 2012. Germany is one of the richest countries in the world. So what does the Vatican Prince – German Bishop do with all that money coming into the Catholic Church treasury? He renovates his Bishop’s Palace with 42 million Euros which includes a 15 thousand Euros bathtub! Vatican Holy Shit!

The Bishop of Bling and the Bishop Who Should be Bounced

UNITED STATES
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
EDITORIAL
Pope Francis suspended the German bishop, tagged as the bishop of bling, for his lavish spending not only on his mansion but as a way of life including his first class airline ticket to visit the poor in India.
Bishop of Limburg Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, spent a reported $42 million in renovations for his home.
Here’s a link to the story:
[USA Today]
All well and good that he’s been removed – at least temporarily – to go to a hopefully less lavish room and think about what he’s done.
Now, where’s the action on convicted Bishop Robert Finn of the Diocese of Kansas City- St. Joseph?
Without action by Pope Francis the message is and will continue to hang heavy in the air if you get caught putting on the ritz you’re bounced, but if you’re convicted of knowledge of and non-reporting as a mandated reporter of a priest who was hip boot deep into child pornography and who is now serving a 50 year sentence in a federal prison for production of child pornography – it’s business as usual?
Germans were outraged about the bishop of bling and showed it.
Where is the outrage for what Bishop Finn failed to do?

Pope boots out 'bishop of bling' over £26m luxury home

VATICAN CITY/GERMANY
Telegraph (UK)
[with video]
Pope Francis has ordered Germany's Bishop of Limburg to leave his diocese after spending millions of Church money on refurbishing his home
The Vatican on Wednesday suspended indefinitely a German Catholic cleric dubbed the "bling bishop" for his luxury lifestyle, despite multiple calls in Germany for the prelate to be dismissed.
The bishop flew to Rome last week with low-cost airline Ryanair to explain himself to Pope Francis - following accusations he took an expensive ticket on a trip to India and squandered money.
His private quarters in a new diocesan building are reported to have cost up a €31 million (£26.4 million), and included a 63-square-metre dining room and a £12,000 bathtub - using the revenue from a religious tax in Germany.

Bishop of Bling v. USCCB’s Omertà

UNITED STATES
Spiritual Politics
Mark Silk
Oct 24, 2013
There’s no doubt that the profligate lifestyle of the Bishop of Limburg, Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, stinks like the local cheese. One can hope that Pope Francis has exiled him him from his palatial residence to contemplate his behavior in a monastic cell with a hard cot, a diet of bread and legumes, and the bathroom down the hall.
But what Americans would do well to contemplate in this case of episcopal discipline is the criticism that the head of the German bishops conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, has leveled at his colleague. Zollitsch said that Tebartz-van Elst had created credibility problems for the church. The “decisive” turning point came, he said, when the public prosecutor asked the court to fine the bishop for falsely testifying in a related case. He announced the creation of a church commission to investigate, and said it would do its work “quickly and carefully.”
Compare that to the response of the head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, to misbehavior by his colleagues. Not a peep when Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City is convicted of the crime of covering up a suspected case of child abuse. Not a peep when Archbishop Robert Myers of Newark is revealed to have failed to follow his agreement with the court on the handling of an abusive priest. Not a peep when it comes to light that Archbishop John Nienstedt of St. Paul and Minneapolis has been covering up abuse cases.

Religious practice drops in the US

UNITED STATES
Vatican Insider

A “Religious News Service” study warns that the number of baptisms and church weddings has dropped. “People want God but they’re not happy with churches”

MARCO TOSATTI
ROME

Religious News Service, an independent interfaith news service raised the alarm bell. The country which has “In God we trust” stamped on its currency seems in fact to be trusting in God less and less every year since the motto first appeared on coins in 1864 and later became the national motto in 1956.

The study carried out by the Religious New Service, shows that one in five Americans today say they have no religious identity. Religious practice has taken a dive among people of any denomination who call themselves Christian, starting with children’s baptism. In 1970 there were 426,000 marriages in U.S. Catholic churches — a full 20% of all U.S. marriages that year. By contrast, in 2011, there were 164,000 such weddings — only 8% of all marriages. But in both years, Catholics were 23% of the national population. Baptisms have followed the same trend. Back in 1970 there were approximately 1 million baptisms registered but by 2011 this had dropped to exactly 793,103.

“There is a de-emphasis on practicing faith. People want God but they’re not happy with churches,” the Rev. Frank Page, president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee said. According to Page, sacraments such as baptism have fallen victim to an “anti-denominational, anti-institutional, even anti-church era.” Like the Catholic Church, the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) which rightly considers baptism a key part of the Christian faith, recorded 314,959 baptisms in 2012, a low which has not been seen since 1948. This is odd when one considers that the number of faithful joining the SBC has risen from 6 million back then to nearly 16 million now.

Germany“Bling” Bishop’s 42 million Euros palace renovations…15 thousand Euros bathtub? Vatican Holy Shit!

UNITED STATES
Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils...

Paris Arrow

German Catholics are required to give 10% of their salaries to the Catholic Church (if they want to be buried in the Catholic cemetery). Germany’s church tax, collected by the state and handed over to the churches, raised 5.2 billion euros for the Catholics in 2012. Germany is one of the richest countries in the world. So what does the Vatican Prince – German Bishop do with all that money coming into the Catholic Church treasury? He renovates his Bishop’s Palace with 42 million Euros which includes a 15 thousand Euros bathtub! Vatican Holy Shit!

SNAP Calls Out Local “Bishop of Bling”

ST. LOUIS (MO)
CBS St. Louis

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (KMOX) - Does the St. Louis area have it’s own “Bishop of Bling?”

This week the Pope suspended a German bishop for his lavish expenses. David Clohessy, with the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) says a Belleville Bishop should be disciplined as well.

He says Bishop Edward Braxton has spent a small fortune renovating his home and taking trips to Africa.

“We’d like to think that if Bishops spent their money more prudently they could devote more resources to stopping abuse and to healing victims,” Clohessy said.

Cleveland priest indicted on felony soliciting charge; failed to reveal he was HIV-positive

OHIO
The Plain Dealer

By James F. McCarty, The Plain Dealer
on October 25, 2013

CLEVELAND, Ohio – A Cuyahoga County grand jury today returned a three-count criminal indictment charging the Rev. James McGonegal, the 68-year-old pastor of St. Ignatius of Antioch Church, with soliciting sex from an undercover ranger at Edgewater Park two weeks ago.

Because McGonegal is HIV-positive, and failed to tell the ranger that, the soliciting charge is a third-degree felony.

McGonegal also was charged with abusing harmful intoxicants and public indecency, both misdemeanors.

His lawyer, Henry Hilow, said he had just learned about the indictments and had not yet discussed them with McGonegal.

 

Three Prison Terms Added For Felon Priest

MISSOURI
KCUR

By DAN VERBECK

A Catholic priest serving a 50-year federal sentence on a Kansas City area child pornography conviction will absorb a new sentence while behind bars.

Reverend Shawn Ratigan pleaded guilty October 25 to state charges at Liberty, MO.

The burly and bearded Ratigan will serve three consecutive 7 year sentences on his admission he had obscene pictures of girls, some under the age of 12.

The priest took the photos during his tenure at churches and schools of the Kansas City- St. Joseph Diocese.

The sentences will not be added to the federal punishment.
Catholic Coalition for Church Reform Votes No Confidence in the Leadership of Archbishop John C. Nienstedt
MINNESOTA
The Progressive Catholic Voice
Minneapolis October 24, 2013 — Despite his statements of October 24 in The Catholic Spirit, the Catholic Coalition for Church Reform (CCCR) has urged Archbishop John C. Nienstedt to step down from his role as head of the Saint Paul/Minneapolis Archdiocese in a letter to him dated October 24, 2013.
At its meeting of October 16, 2013, the board of CCCR resolved to write to Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó, the Vatican delegate to the U.S., stating its vote of no confidence in the leadership of the Archbishop. The Vatican delegate, whose office is at 3339 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington DC 20008, is charged with recommending episcopal appointments to the Vatican.
Also in its letter, CCCR sought recognition for lay consultation in selection of the archdiocese’s next bishop, whenever that happens. They asked the papal delegate “to seek recommendations from all the people of the Archdiocese—ordained and lay, as well as men and women religious—in the matter of a successor Archbishop or any bishops appointed hereafter.”
The letter to Archbishop Viganó was held pending the Archbishop’s statement in the Archdiocesan newspaper, The Catholic Spirit, October 24, then copied to Archbishop Nienstedt with the letter asking him to resign.

MN - Archbishop does "boilerplate PR"

MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
MN archbishop will comment on his crisis today; SNAP responds
MN - What to look for today from Archbishop Nienstedt
MN archbishop's answer: "I'll hire more lawyers"
For immediate release: Thursday October
Statement by Barbara Dorris, Outreach Director, 314-862-7688 SNAPdorris@gmail.com
We agree with Nienstedt: he and his staff can “do better.” But they don’t.
Instead they posture. And they perpetuate the fallacy that child abuse is the root of this inexcusable horror.
It’s not.
Priests that sexually assault adults and kids are NOT the root of this crisis. All kinds of trusted adults sexually violate the vulnerable. (And it’s pretty hard to stop them, at least before the first offense.)
The cover up of those crimes that is the root of this crisis. (That’s what enables the second and 22nd offense. And that’s what enrages Catholics, citizens and victims – knowing that prompt, honest and responsible moves by Nienstedt and his staff would have prevented others from being hurt by at least some of the 34 publicly accused abusive Twin Cities clerics.)
And the cover up is what Nienstedt refuses to mention today. Conveniently, he focuses on just how bad those awful predator priests are, cleverly diverting attention from his actions that ignore, minimize, conceal and enable those predator priests to commit their heinous crimes.
It’s deliberate deception. It’s a carefully-devised public relations calculation designed to shift blame and attention to those who can’t control themselves (the predators) and attention away from those who won’t control them (their peers and supervisors, the Nienstedts, McDonoughs, Bairds, et al.)

Archbishop admits mishandling of misconduct cases

MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By AMY FORLITI Associated Press
POSTED: 10/23/2013
MINNEAPOLIS—The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis made serious mistakes in the way it handled allegations of clergy sexual misconduct in the last decade, Archbishop John Nienstedt acknowledged Thursday as he announced he has ordered an external review of all priest files.
Nienstedt apologized to victims in a column posted on the website of The Catholic Spirit, the archdiocese's official newspaper, and said he knows the ultimate responsibility is his as head of the local church.
"My heart is heavy with the agony that these errors have caused," he wrote.
The archdiocese has come under fire since a former employee claimed church leaders mishandled abuse allegations. Nienstedt's top deputy has stepped down, police are investigating, and there have been public calls for Nienstedt to resign. ...
David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said Nienstedt's words are just more of the same and any external review would not be independent if ordered by the archbishop.
"Nothing he can say will matter. Only what he does matters," Clohessy said. "And today he exposes no predators, disciplines no enablers, reveals no secrets, and deters no cover ups. It's just more promises from a bishop who has repeatedly broken promises."
Clohessy said secrecy is a key part of the problem. His group has called for the archdiocese to make public a list of 33 priests it has identified as having credible allegations of abuse lodged against them.

MN archbishop's answer: "I'll hire more lawyers"

MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
MN archbishop will comment on his crisis today; SNAP responds
MN - What to look for today from Archbishop Nienstedt
For immediate release: Thursday, October 24
David Clohessy, Director, SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, (7234 Arsenal Street, St. Louis MO 63143), 314 566 9790 cell ( SNAPclohessy@aol.com )
In response to scandal stemming from secrecy, Archbishop John Nienstedt proposes more secrecy.
[Catholic Spirit]
He does one thing today – he promises hiring more lawyers. That’s all. The rest of his column is just more promises from a powerful prelate who keeps breaking old promises.
Here’s the only real change: Soon the number of hand-picked, church-paid lawyers looking at predators' files will go from six or eight to 12 or 14. That's not progress.
Those files – all of them – must be turned over to law enforcement. Despite his protestations to the contrary, this is “clear” to Nienstedt. But he refuses to do it.
It doesn't matter if they're paid permanently or temporarily by Nienstedt. The lawyers he picks aren't police or prosecutors. They're regular employees or contract employees. They're beholden to him. And they'll help him keep his secrets secret, as church lawyers have virtually always done. (The one exception, obviously, is Jennifer Haselberger.)

MN archbishop will comment on his crisis today; SNAP responds

MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Thursday, Oct. 24
Statement by Bob Schwiderski of Wayzata, SNAP Minnesota Director
Archbishop John Nienstedt is a coward. His archdiocese is embroiled in scandal. Already wounded clergy sex abuse victims feel re-victimized. And thousands of Nienstedt’s flock feels betrayed.
Based on the on-going recklessness, callousness and deceit by Nienstedt and his colleagues, those feelings are justified.
Yet the 'shepherd' of this 'flock' refuses to talk about the scandal he has largely created, despite repeated pledges, year after year, to be "open and transparent" about clergy sex crimes.
He answers a handful of questions, in writing, from Minnesota Public Radio yesterday and promises he’ll write about this crisis on his website today. Big deal.
That’s cowardice.
Nienstedt isn't alone. Most accused wrongdoers Twin Cities Catholic circles are dodging the media.
St. Thomas University officials are keeping silent about their alleged investigation into a predator priest on their payroll.

MN - What to look for today from Archbishop Nienstedt

MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Thursday, Oct. 24
Statement by Barbara Blaine of Chicago, president of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 312-399-4747, SNAPblaine@gmail.com )
Here’s what we think you can expect from Archbishop John Nienstedt’s column today when he writes about the continuing crisis in his archdiocese stemming from repeated clergy child sex crimes and cover ups of those crimes.
Look for lots of spin, hair-splitting and word-parsing.
Look for Nienstedt to imply that he and his staff made “mistakes,” instead of admitting that he and his staff deliberately and repeatedly took self-serving, deceitful and secretive actions.
Look for lots of sweeping promises designed to mollify his outraged flock, promises that will be broken once the heat of intense scrutiny fades, like his earlier promises have been.
Look for Nienstedt to use the word “allegations” to describe what are really “revelations.” He and his public relations team are trying to ‘spin’ actual church documents as “accusations” when, in fact, they are “disclosures.” (Lawsuits are “allegations.” Actual archdiocesan memos are not.)
Look for Nienstedt to subtly distance himself from predator priests, instead of admitting that most are still on his payroll yet are monitored and supervised
Look for no disclosures today. That’s significant – and tragic – because secrecy is what largely is causing this mess. But today, and in the future, Nienstedt and his staff will continue to practice secrecy, because their reputations and clerical careers matter most to them and if their secrets are revealed, their reputations and clerical careers may suffer.

Catholic Church must go further on child sex abuse

AUSTRALIA
Sydney Morning Herald
October 25, 2013
Patrick Parkinson
There ought to be little doubt that as a society, our record of dealing with child sexual abuse is one of shocking moral failure. It is a reasonable estimate to say that one in four Australian girls and one in 10 boys growing up in the 1970s and '80s experienced some form of sexual abuse before the age of 16. These are truly shocking figures.
Some of that abuse has occurred in church contexts. By far the most of these cases have been in the Catholic Church. Figures produced by the Victorian police of cases since 1950 indicated there were 10 times as many cases in the Catholic Church as in the Anglican Church, which was the next largest group. If that history were not bad enough, the cover-up of those crimes has been a scandal.
In the court of public opinion, the judgment has already been delivered. It is only the consequences of that judgment which are still being worked out in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Yet there is still a need to understand why these failures occurred. The reality is that no church or other community organisation is free from reproach. In Australia, there have been three inquiries established by the Anglican Church into its past failings in dealing appropriately with child sexual abuse cases. Much has changed since the mid-1990s, and child protection is typically taken very seriously in churches. Nonetheless, there is no room for complacency in any community organisation.

I'll quit priesthood if Vatican censures my book, vows D'Arcy

IRELAND
Irish Independent
SARAH MACDONALD – 23 OCTOBER 2013
BROADCASTER and columnist Fr Brian D'Arcy has said his censure by the Vatican "destroyed" him "as a human being and as a priest" and almost caused him to leave the priesthood.
In his new book, 'Brian D'Arcy's Food for the Soul', the 68-year-old said it has been "the most devastating faith crisis of my life".
Recalling the events that led to his rap on the knuckles from the Vatican, Fr D'Arcy said that in 2010 he was formally censured by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).
The then head of the CDF wrote to the Superior General of his religious order, the Passionists, accusing him of being "a source of great scandal".

 

Fr D'Arcy – 'I'll quit Church if censured'

IRELAND
Herald
GREG HARKIN – 23 OCTOBER 2013 02:30 PM
FATHER Brian D'Arcy is prepared to quit the Church if he is censured by the Congregation of the Faith over his new book.
In his new book, Brian D'Arcy's Food for the Soul the cleric reveals that he almost walked away in the past – only for his mind to be changed by thousands of letters he received pleading with him not to give up the priesthood.
However, he has warned that if the Vatican attempts to censor his latest writings: "That would be it."
He explained: "The fact is there is nothing in it that Pope Francis hasn't said.
"I don't believe there would be any grounds for censoring me again or any attempt to shut me up.

 The pope’s financial reforms

UNITED STATES
Religion News Service
Michael J. O'Loughlin | Oct 23, 2013
That Pope Francis has shaken up and reinvigorated parts of the Catholic Church is well known, but what may be less apparent are the changes he is implementing at the Vatican bank, reforming the once perennially corrupt institution to bring it up to international banking norms.
Earlier this month, the bank, known officially as the Institute for the Works of Religion, published an annual report for the first time in its 125-year history and highlighted its reforms. The bank’s new president, Ernst von Freyburg, told Vatican Radio that the bank has “reviewed our procedures for taking on clients to make sure that no money laundering can happen at the institute. We do have a new handbook, we do have new procedures, and we are also ready for inspection by third parties.”
To that end, the bank has contracted with US-based Promontory Financial Group to review all 19,000 accounts, totaling nearly $9 billion, held by the bank. This follows a 2012 evaluation by Moneyval, a European anti-money laundering organization, which praised the Vatican for “coming a long way in a short time.” According to the National Catholic Reporter’s John Allen, Promontory “currently has about twenty inspectors stationed inside the Vatican bank,” and Allen observes that a “new day is apparently dawning at the bank, where the old climate of trust is being leavened with a strong dose of ‘but verify.’” 

Orders still €40m short of cash pledged over abuse

IRELAND
Irish Independent
SHANE PHELAN PUBLIC AFFAIRS EDITOR – 24 OCTOBER 2013
A scheme set up to pay for the treatment for survivors of institutional abuse faces being cut short after Catholic orders failed to stump up almost €40m in promised funding.
The 18 religious orders pledged €110m towards the Residential Institutions Statutory Fund (RISF), which will pay for mental health, social, educational and housing services for survivors.
However, the Irish Independent has learned just €72m has been received by the fund, which is due to begin issuing grants in January.
The scheme was initially anticipated to last up to five years, but this period may now have to be shortened due to the funding shortfall.
In contacts with the Department of Education, the religious orders – with the Christian Brothers and the Daughters of Charity to the forefront – have blamed the depressed property market for the shortfall.

Victims still coming forward to Catholic Church pastoral processes

AUSTRALIA
Christian Today
By: Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Victims of child sexual and physical abuse continued to come forward to the Catholic Church pastoral processes during the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into child abuse, the Church announced today.
Church spokesperson, Father Shane Mackinlay, said that in the 12 months to 30 June 2013, 53 complaints were received in Victoria by the Melbourne Response and Towards Healing that were relevant to the Inquiry.
Eighteen complaints were received by the Melbourne Response, with 13 upheld so far, and 35 complaints were received by Towards Healing, with 15 upheld to date.
The remaining five complaints to the Melbourne Response, and the 20 to Towards Healing, are still to be determined and are ongoing.
Seven of the Towards Healing complainants have chosen to go to the police and their cases will not resume until police actions are completed.

Catholic Church of Victoria facing 95 new abuse complaints

AUSTRALIA
7 News
ABC News
The Catholic Church in Victoria says complaints about child sexual and physical abuse are continuing to pour in.
The Catholic Archdiocese of Melbourne has released new information that shows 95 complaints from victims of child sexual and physical abuse were received in the last financial year.
Fifty-three of the complaints are being dealt with by the church's internal response programs, Towards Healing and the Melbourne Response.
The church says 28 of those complaints have been upheld so far.
Seven of the unresolved complaints have been taken to the police.
The church says another 42 complaints from child victims were made directly to representatives of the church after the Victorian parliamentary inquiry into child abuse.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:42 AM

Catholic Church sex abuse complaints top 100 since inquiry began

AUSTRALIA
Brisbane Times
October 24, 2013
Barney Zwartz
Religion editor, The Age.
More than 100 new complaints of clergy child abuse have been made to the Catholic Church in Victoria since the parliamentary inquiry into how the churches handled child sexual abuse began last year.
There were 95 new complaints in the 2012-13 financial year ended June 30, the Melbourne
Archdiocese announced on Thursday, and church spokesman Shane Mackinlay said that victims had come forward "at the same rate" in the first three months of this financial year.
Because the figures came from different sources he did not have precise figures for this year, but it would be about 25. The church gave the updated figures to the Victorian inquiry on Wednesday.
The new complaints relate to abuse from the 1940s to the 1990s, and one parish priest has been stood down and had his faculties removed, Father Mackinlay said.

Family's outrage as 'predatory pedophile priest', 75, escapes rape trial ...

PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Daily Mail (UK)
Family's outrage as 'predatory pedophile priest', 75, escapes rape trial for attack on 11-year-old altar boy in 1998 after his victim dies of a drugs overdose
By JAMES NYE
Philadelphia prosecutors today announced they have no choice but to drop child-rape charges against a priest because the only witness able to testify died two weeks ago of an overdose after battling substance abuse for years.
Sean McIlamil, 26, a former alter boy under Fr. Robert Brennan, came forward in January with startling allegations that the priest sexually abused him 15 years ago - but today his family spoke only of their grief and anger that Brennan will now walk free.
At a press conference today in the city his mother Debbie explained that her son spoke up because he wanted to be a voice against child abuse for his nephews sake's and other young children like them.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:37 AM

Calls for Archbishop's Resignation Come from Within Church

MINNESOTA
KAAL
As the priest sex abuse scandal continues to play out in the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, some are calling for the resignation of Catholic Archbishop John Nienstedt.
In the weekly newsletter published for parishioners, Father Bill Deziel from the Church of St. Peter wrote, "These accounts of priest abuse and misconduct are disturbing, yet even more disturbing to many of the faithful is the apparent lack of good judgment and common sense on the part of archdiocesan leaders to deal with offending priests." Deziel later writes, "it may be time for a do over with our archdiocesan leadership."
Local attorney Thomas Lyons says he's a member of the Church of St. Peter. He says dissatisfaction with church response has boiled over, "At some point the rage rises to the level that you have to express that this is not acceptable. I don't know who is advising the bishop!"
Lyons says Archbishop Nienstedt does not meet the new Pope Francis' high standards, "Corruption, worldliness, arrogance, vanity and pride, and that's all put together in Nienstedt. He should resign for the purpose of allowing the Pope, who has this high standard, to appoint someone for that position."

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:34 AM

Archdiocese paid $11 million for misconduct by priests

MINNESOTA
Star Tribune
by: TONY KENNEDY , Star Tribune Updated: October 23, 2013
Payments from 2003 to 2012 went to victims of abuse, as well as to priests, lawyers and therapists.
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis spent nearly $11 million from 2003 through 2012 to cover costs directly associated with sexual abuse and other misconduct committed by priests who were removed from active ministry, according to church documents obtained by the Star Tribune.
The archdiocese wrote checks directly to victims of abuse, in cases involving children and vulnerable adults, in every year of the period covered by the reports, totaling more than $476,000 over the decade. Also, $1.5 million was paid on behalf of victims to cover counseling, therapy and other medical services.
Additional money was distributed to child victims via a trust account funded by the archdiocese and managed by the St. Paul law firm Meier, Kennedy & Quinn.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 7:31 AM

Speaking up about sexual abuse in Catholic churches

NEW YORK
WBNG
[with video]
By Jillian Marshall
Binghamton, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Sexual abuse allegations against Catholic priests and bishops have been making headlines for decades. A former priest speaks out against child abuse in Catholic churches at a church in Binghamton.
Father Thomas Doyle was invited to St. Francis of Assisi Church in Binghamton to speak about the "unfinished business" of clergy sex abuse in the Catholic church.
Doyle was a priest in the Dominican Order for 49 years. He is no longer allowed to be an active priest in the institutionalized Catholic Church. Doyle believes it's because he's been standing with sexual abuse victims of the church for the past 30 years.
"I've spoken out too loudly and too often for the comfort level for the leadership of the Catholic church," Doyle said.
Doyle was invited by Fr. Tim Taugher, St. Francis of Assisi Church pastor and a leader of Upstate NY Call to Action.

Listen to Bad Religion's "O Come, O Come Emmanuel"

UNITED STATES
Artists Direct
Christmas is coming early and in punk rock style, as those icons known as Bad Religion are releasing a Christmas album, Christmas Songs, on October 29. Christmas Songs features eight new studio recordings of traditional Christmas hymns and an alternate mix of their single "American Jesus" by Andy Wallace.
Get in the holiday spirit and listen to Bad Religion's rendition of "O Come, O Come Emmanuel" below.
Bad Religion will contribute 20 percent of the proceeds from Christmas Songs to SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. For more information visit snapnetwork.org.
"This might be the most subversive album we've done," co-songwriter and guitarist Brett Gurewitz explains. "To me, what the album is indirectly stating is that this music, and thus the world, can be powerful and beautiful stripped of God and religion. These are just really good songs, and a historically non-religious band like Bad Religion can perform them with as much power and feeling as anyone."

Priests, Rapists, Snap and Bad Religion's "Christmas Songs"

UNITED STATES
American Pancake
Two words that should not go together are Priest and Rapist but unfortunately these two words that should be morally opposite seemingly go hand in hand rather hold hands as it were with the remaining hands holding the hands of innocent children. The disgusting truth has been out there for decades and while the hierarchy of the Catholic Church has a history of easily half a century of feigning concern but really doing nothing there are organizations that have sprung up to not only fight the good fight but to give a voice to those who have been sexually, physically, mentally abused within the supposed sanctity of the "house of God."
Bad Religion is releasing "Christmas Songs" and 20% of the proceeds from the albums sales will be contributed to SNAP which is a "Survivors Network" for people sexually abused by Priests. I do not endorse SNAP as an organization because I don't know that much about it but their Mission Statement is a just one. I encourage anyone who donates to any organization to check them out to make sure they are who they say they are. Be smart and be just.
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Fight the good fight!

OH - Ohio bishop should "out" accused predator

OHIO
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Wednesday Oct 23, 2013
Statement by Carol Zamonski, SNAP Central Ohio Leader ( snapcentralohio@yahoo.com, 614-447-2084 )
A Fisher Catholic High School teacher in Columbus was suspended a few days ago for allegedly “sexting” – sending nude or partially nude photos of herself to a student.
We in SNAP believe in the principle of “innocent until proven guilty.” This teacher should not be jailed unless she’s convicted.
[10TV]
But that concept doesn’t preclude common sense safety steps being taken right now, especially because kids are involved here, because sex crimes are most apt to be repeated and because she’s taught for five years, so the chances of there being other victims are higher.
In child sex cases, we must consider the reputation of one adult AND the well-being of multiple kids. And we must always come down on the side of protecting the safety of several youngsters over the privacy of one adult.
This teacher is suspended. But that doesn’t mean kids are safe. If, in fact, she committed these crimes, she used a cell phone to do so and likely still has a cell phone. So we must put the protection of kids first here.

MN - Why MN predator priests get more $$ than non-offenders

MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )
Some Minnesota child molesting clerics get paid more than their non-offending peers, a new MinnPost story reveals.
There’s a simple explanation: blackmail.
Predator priests are often cunning and selfish and insist on more money. We believe that bishops comply out of fear. They are scared that unless they comply, predator priests may tell what they know and suspect about other wrongdoing in the church – sexual and financial. And bishops – more than anything else – desperately want to avoid being dragged into a public scandal.
There’s an old saying: “Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer.” Bishops realize that priests know a lot about private misdeeds in their dioceses. This is especially true of predator priests. So if bishops “crack down” or threaten to “crack down” on predators, those predators can retaliate by disclosing wrongdoing by their peers or supervisors.
That’s why some predator priests get special treatment and “sweetheart deals.” That’s one reason why some get their tuition paid to return to school and get degrees in teaching or counseling (like Fr. Patrick O’Donnell in Seattle).

NY - Judge's ruling protects Cardinal Dolan

NEW YORK
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013
Statement by Peter Isely of Milwaukee, national board member of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 414-429-7259, peterisely@yahoo.com )
A judge’s new ruling could further shield NY Cardinal Tim Dolan from the legal and public consequences of clergy child sex abuse cases he handled for eight years in Milwaukee.
The decision comes weeks after the same judge refused to rescue himself from the Milwaukee bankruptcy case even though he and his family have strong connections to the archdiocese.
Late yesterday, Judge Rudolph Randa ruled that a deaf survivor of the Fr. Lawrence Murphy is bound by an agreement he reached with church officials even though he was deceived in order to secure that agreement.
The agreement was reached in an archdiocesan program designed by Dolan in 2003. We believe the purpose of that program was to quickly and quietly settle with victims while deliberately misleading them about the archdiocese’s prior knowledge of the criminal history of abusers. At the same time, it induced victims to accept nominal restitution in exchange for waving all future legal rights. If the victim would later discover they had been deceived by Dolan and the archdiocese, as we now know they were, they would have no legal recourse.

Abuse victim writes to the Pope

CANADA
Northern Life
By: Darren MacDonald - Sudbury Northern Life | Oct 23, 2013
Jerome Myre has written a letter to Pope Francis, and is hoping for a personal reply. While it's a long shot, he's got a better chance of hearing from the pontiff than most of us.
Myre was 12 years old when he was sexually abused by Fr. Bernard Cloutier, a former priest who was convicted in 2009 for incidents that took place in Sudbury, Espanola and Massey. Myre, who is allowing his name and face to be made public, was one of five victims abused between 1974 and 1983. He attended a parole hearing last month, where he and another victim read their victim impact statements, doing their part to ensure Cloutier, 71, serves his full sentence, which runs until Oct. 14, 2014.
While no longer a Catholic, Myre says he still believes in God. But not in a church that refuses to defrock priests who abuse children. So he's written the Pope, asking for a change in policy.
“I think it would show some good faith to victims around the world,” Myre said. “To me, they shouldn't have any status whatsoever.

OH - Victims prod Catholic officials in sex case

OHIO
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
SNAP: “Disclose accused teacher’s name”
She allegedly sent inappropriate photos to student
Group wants Catholic school & church officials to “reach out”
“It’s especially hard for boys who are sexually exploited by females,” SNAP says
WHAT
Holding signs at a sidewalk news conference, clergy sex abuse victims will urge Catholic church and school officials to do more about allegations last week of child sex crimes by a teacher. They will prod Columbus’ Catholic bishop to
--disclose the accused teacher’s name,
--write to former staff, students and their families about her, and
--post notices about her in church bulletins and on church websites to “help police and prosecutors determine whether formal charges should be filed” and to “help find others who may have been hurt by her.”
WHEN
TODAY, Wednesday, Oct. 23 at 1:45 p.m.
WHO
Two members of a support group called SNAP (the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), including a Columbus woman who is the organization’s local director
WHERE
On the sidewalk outside St. Joseph Cathedral, 212 East Broad Street (corner of N 5th St.) in downtown Columbus
WHY
For the sake of kids’ safety, and to help law enforcement, SNAP wants Columbus Bishop Frederick Campbell to publicly reveal the name of a Fisher Catholic High School teacher who has been suspended a few days ago for allegedly “sexting” – sending nude or partially nude photos of herself to a student.
[Newark Advocate]
The teacher also allegedly rubbed a boy’s leg under a desk in a classroom.
SNAP believes that too often, Catholic officials are secretive about alleged child sexual abuse. The group notes that for more than a decade, official church policy mandates “openness and transparency” in such cases.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:37 AM

Writer who was abused collapses after speech at protest

IRELAND
Irish Independent
Nicola Anderson – 23 October 2013
A WRITER who survived years of abuse at a religious institution collapsed after making an impassioned speech at a protest against government cuts.
Patrick Touher (72), from Balbriggan, who wrote 'Fear of the Collar, my Terrifying Childhood in Artane', was sent into the care of the Christian Brothers at the age of eight after the death of his mother and the departure of his father, who left the country.
In his book, he wrote about years of physical and sexual abuse during his time at Artane.
Two other people are believed to have collapsed at yesterday's protest which saw up to 5,000 demonstrators, most of them elderly, descend on Leinster House.
Many had travelled from the farthest-flung parts of the country and carried placards attacking the Government.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 10:00 AM

Archdiocese's priest pension-fund policy gives some abusers bigger checks than typical clerical retirees

MINNESOTA
MinnPost
By Beth Hawkins
Like pretty much every traditional American pension plan, Catholic clergy retirement funds are struggling to deal with the triple punch of an aging work force, lengthening lifespans and lagging investments.
The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, however, has some special complications with its plan, sparked by recent sex abuse scandals and controversy over its handling of continuing "disability payments" to priests.
In some cases, critics say, the abusers end up with larger incomes from the pension fund than priests who retire with unblemished records.
Among the recent revelations: The woefully underfunded priests’ pension plan has been stretched even thinner by the church hierarchy’s decision to classify some priests accused of abuse as disabled and grant them early retirement.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:48 AM

Rome - Pope ousts one bishop but let’s convicted one stay

UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013
Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell, SNAPdorris@gmail.com )
Pope Francis has suspended a German bishop for financial misdeeds.
But he ignores bishops who have concealed or are concealing child sex crimes. He should suspend them promptly, starting with Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City Missouri, who was convicted in 2012 of withholding evidence - hundreds of sexual photos of young girls - from police.
[Kansas City Star]
There are many bishops who should be suspended. But Finn is the most clearly proven wrongdoer. His guilt was established in an impartial trial in open court, despite a bevy of experienced and highly-paid lawyers fighting on his behalf.
Many Catholics no doubt applaud the German bishop’s suspension. But think about the message it sends hundreds of thousands of victims of child molesting clerics: “The Pope cares more about saving the church’s money than about saving the church’s children.”
One reason to suspend a wrongdoer is to deter others from emulating him. So what’s more crucial to deter? Child sex crimes and cover ups? Or financial extravagance?

Local Priest Indicted on Sex Related Charges

OHIO
Fox 8
October 25, 2013, by Peggy Sinkovich
CLEVELAND- A priest is now facing felony charges after being indicted on sex related charges.
Rev. James McGonegal is accused of soliciting sex at Edgewater Park earlier this month.
The indictment was released shortly after noon Friday.
McGonegal is now facing three counts, including counts of soliciting and public indecency.
The 68-year-old has “stepped away from his duties” at St. Ignatius of Antioch parish to “attend to his personal matters,” according to a statement released by the Diocese of Cleveland.
A police report states that McGonegal asked a ranger at the park to get into his vehicle.

Catholic priest Ratigan pleads guilty once again in child porn case

MISSOURI
The Kansas City Star
October 25
BY GLENN E. RICE
The Kansas City Star
The final criminal chapter in the child pornography case against a Northland Catholic priest concluded Friday when the Rev. Shawn F. Ratigan pleaded guilty in Clay County Circuit Court to three counts of possessing child pornography.
Ratigan was sentenced to seven years in prison on each felony charge, with the 21-year combined sentence to run concurrent to the 50-year sentence that he recently received in federal court for producing child pornography.
“There are certain offenses that shock the conscience when the defendant takes advantage of people who are unable to defend themselves, and this is one of those cases,” Presiding Circuit Judge Larry D. Harman said when announcing the sentence in Liberty.
Earlier in the hearing, Harman asked Ratigan to explain in his own words the crimes he committed.
Ratigan simply stated, “I possessed them.”
Harman asked if Ratigan was aware that possessing child pornography was illegal.
“Yes sir,” the 48-year-old priest answered.

Vatican Not Amused by the 'Bling Bishop' and His $20,000 Bathtub

GERMANY/VATICAN CITY
The Atlantic Wire
ALEXANDER ABAD-SANTOS
Only a very few people on this earth will ever get a punishment handed down to them by the central governing body of the Catholic Church. One of those people is bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst a.k.a. the "bling bishop" who was suspended by the Vatican on Wednesday for, among other things, spending $20,000 on his bathtub. Tebartz-van Elst, as the AFP reports, first got into trouble after it was reported that he purchased a business-class ticket to fly to India, which led to some digging into his other extravagant purchases.
"His private quarters in a new diocesan building are reported to have cost some 2.9 million euros ($3.9 million) and included a 63-square-metre dining room and a 15,000 euro bathtub — using the revenue from a religious tax in Germany," the AFP reported. This, of course brought up accusations that Tebartz -van Elst was squandering money, abusing his position, and basically living like a Kardashian. This luxurious spending goes against Pope Francis's aim to make the Catholic Church a "poor church that looked after others" after Pope Benedict's tenure was marred by financial corruption scandals and controversy.
Tebartz-van Elst flew on a low-cost airline to his meeting with Pope Francis on Wednesday, but that didn't save him from being put on leave. "The Vatican didn't say Wednesday if Bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst would permanently leave the diocese of Limburg. But it said Limberg's newly named vicar general, Monsignor Wolfgang Roesch, would administer the diocese during Tebartz-van Elst's 'period of time away,'" the AP reports.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:10 AM

Vatican Expels German 'Bishop of Bling' Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst

GERMANY/VATICAN
International Business Times
[with video]
Pope Francis has temporarily expelled German bishop Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst, dubbed the "Bishop of Bling", over a scandal regarding his €31million (£26m, $40m) project to renew a sumptuous diocesan residence in the western small city of Limburg.
The Vatican said Tebartz-van Elst "could no longer exercise his episcopal ministry" and Limbrug's newly named vicar general, Monsignor Wolfgang Roesch would administer the diocese.
"The Holy See deems it appropriate to authorise a period of leave from the diocese for Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst," the Vatican said in a statement.
"The Holy Father has been continuously and objectively informed of the situation," it said.

Prayers to riches tale of ‘bling bishop’ puts German church in spotlight

VATICAN CITY/GERMANY
Irish Times
Derek Scally
Pope Francis had clear words at morning Mass on Monday. Hours before he met Germany’s so-called bling bishop to ask him about his €31 million new residence in Limburg, the pope – who called for a “poor church for the poor” – warned how “greed destroys people, families and human relationships”.
At noon, Pope Francis granted a 20-minute audience to the German bishop with the multi-barrelled name, Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Eltz, and an unenviable reputation in the German media.
On his watch, the small diocese of Limburg, near Frankfurt, approved a sprawling residence costing €5 million. The final bill is likely to be six times that, thanks to expensive fittings and special requests by its incoming resident: a now notorious €15,000 free-standing bath, €200,000 on special windows and €350,000 for wardrobes.
The anger over the case is spiralling out of control, prompting a Frankfurt bishop to warn of a “meltdown in the church”.

Bling bishop suspended by the Vatican

VATICAN CITY
Brisbane Times
October 23, 2013
Dario Thuburn
The Vatican has suspended a scandal-tainted German Catholic cleric dubbed the "bling bishop" for his luxury lifestyle, despite multiple calls for the prelate to be dismissed.
"The Holy See deems it appropriate to authorise a period of leave from the diocese for Franz-Peter Tebartz-van Elst," the Vatican said in a statement on Wednesday.
"The Holy Father has been continuously and objectively informed of the situation," it said.
"A situation has been created in which the bishop can no longer exercise his episcopal duties."
It did not specify how long the bishop would have to stay away but added that this would depend on an analysis of the finances of his Limburg diocese and the responsibilities for its high costs.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 9:00 AM

Second controversial ruling by federal Judge in Milwaukee further shields Dolan from fraud investigation

WISCONSIN
SNAP Wisconsin
Statement by Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director
CONTACT: 414.429.7259
Federal Judge Rudolph Randa has issued a second controversial ruling today in the Milwaukee Archdiocese bankruptcy case that could further shield New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan from the legal and public consequences of a pattern of fraudulent practices and conduct related to clergy child sex abuse cases while he was in charge of the Milwaukee Archdiocese from 2002 to 2010.
The decision comes weeks after Randa refused to recuse himself from rendering decisions in the archdiocese bankruptcy despite both he and his family having strong connections to the archdiocese.
In his decision today, Randa ruled that a deaf survivor of the notorious Fr. Lawrence Murphy must abide by an agreement he entered into in an archdiocesan run settlement program, even though he was deceived in order to secure that agreement.
The program was designed by former Archbishop Dolan in 2003 in an effort to secure victim settlements while, according to victims, deliberately misleading them as to the archdiocese’s prior knowledge of the criminal history of the abuser. At the same time, it induced victims to accept nominal restitution in exchange for waving all future legal rights. If the victim would later discover they had been deceived by Dolan and the archdiocese, as we now know they were, no legal remedy would be available.
For instance, court ordered released documents show that Dolan and the archdiocese misled both victims and the public about their true knowledge of Murphy’s history of assaulting deaf children and when they knew it.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 8:58 AM

Priest paraded victim, court told

AUSTRALIA
Newcastle Herald
By GABRIEL WINGATE-PEARSE Oct. 23, 2013
A PRIEST who befriended the family of a young boy from a violent home introduced the child to a paedophile, parading him to the man and telling him to ‘‘show us your muscles’’, Newcastle Local Court heard yesterday.
The introduction allegedly occurred at the presbytery of St Michael’s Catholic Church in Nelson Bay between 1982 and 1984, where Father Lewis Fenton was parish priest.
‘‘Father Lou’’, as he was known to the boy at the time, introduced Frank Tully to him in his office as his good friend, said the victim, who cannot be identified.
He was asked to ‘‘turn around’’ while Tully looked on, saying ‘‘nice, nice’’.
Shortly afterwards he was indecently assaulted by Tully in a room to the side of the church, until they were interrupted by the boy’s sister.

Críticas a arzobispo polaco por abuso infantil

POLONIA
El Nuevo Herald
BY POR MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
VARSOVIA, Polonia -- El líder de la Iglesia católica polaca es objeto de una ola de condenas por lo que parece ser una sugerencia de que los niños tienen parte de la culpa de ser objeto de abusos sexuales a manos de sacerdotes.
El arzobispo Jozef Michalik, jefe del influyente Episcopado, hizo en comentario este mes cuando hablaba sobre sobre revelaciones relacionadas con sacerdotes polacos pedófilos. Un niño de una familia abrumada, dijo Michalik a los reporteros, "busca acercarse a otros, puede el rumbo y hacer que la otra persona también lo pierda".
Esas palabras provocaron fuertes protestas de inmediato, que Michalik trató de calmar el mismo día al disculparse diciendo que no habían entendido sus palabras. Dijo que no había sugerido que las víctimas menores de abusos sexuales tenían culpa alguna.

Top bishop bought bogus 'Man of the Year' certificate?

POLAND
The News
23.10.2013
Cambridge University has denied awarding a 'Man of the Year' title to the head of the Polish Episcopate, Archbishop Jozef Michalik, currently under fire for controversial remarks me made about paedophilia.
Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny alleges that Archbishop Michalik bought a certificate for 'Man of the Year 1998-99' from a widely criticised private institution, and has since been promoting it on his official web site.
The allegations provide further embarrassment for the clergyman following a series of controversial remarks that appeared to shift the blame for child abuse by priests towards children and their families.
On the web site of the head of the Polish Episcopate, an entry notes that the archbishop received the 1998/99 honour from “the International Biographical Centre at the University of Cambridge” in a category for “individuals whose leadership and achievements stand out in the international community.”
However, Sian Jones, a press officer at the University of Cambridge has indicated that the information is incorrect.
“I do not know of any links between our university and the International Biographical Centre,” she said.
When approached by the Catholic weekly, the International Biographical Centre itself denied links with the university. The centre is a private institution dedicated to publishing biographical dictionaries.
However, it has been frequently criticised for allegedly luring potential candidates to sign up.

POLAND ARCHBISHOP SLAMMED OVER SEX ABUSE COMMENTS

POLAND
Associated Press
BY MONIKA SCISLOWSKA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- The leader of Poland's Catholic Church has come under a wave of condemnation by appearing to suggest that children are partly to blame for being sexually abused by priests.
Archbishop Jozef Michalik, head of Poland's influential Episcopate, was commenting this month on revelations about Polish pedophile priests. A child from a troubled family, Michalik told reporters, "seeks closeness with others and may get lost and may get the other person involved, too."
The words triggered an immediate uproar - one that Michalik tried to stamp out the same day by apologizing and saying he had been misunderstood. He had not, he said, meant to suggest that child victims were in any way responsible.
But the damage was done.
Ordinary citizens joined prominent politicians in expressing outrage, and intense debate continues more than two weeks later. The media pointed out that Michalik had supported a parish priest convicted in 2004 of child sex abuse, and one of the priest's victims said she was horrified by Michalik's latest remarks.

Do you stand with abusers, or with victims?

HAWAII
The Worthy Adversary
Posted by Joelle Casteix on October 22, 2013
Survivors to Bishop: Stand with victims!
Three more victims file child sex abuse and cover-up lawsuits
Former bishop and two known predators named
Victims pass out postcards to neighbors, citizens
Group urges people to “pledge to stop donating” and “talk to family about abuse”

What: Holding pictures of themselves at the age they were abused, victims of child sex abuse and their supporters will:
–Announce three new child sex abuse and cover-up lawsuits against the Diocese of Honolulu, including a new lawsuit against a former bishop.
They will also:
– Pass out “pledge postcards” in the neighborhood where some of the abuse occurred and outside of the Diocese headquarters.
The postcards will ask Honolulu Bishop Clarence Silva to stand with victims and remove accused offenders from ministry. Senders can tell the bishop that they choose to stop donating; they will reach out to other victims; and/or they will turn evidence over to the law enforcement.

When/Where: Wednesday, Oct 23
10 am – In the neighborhood surrounding Damien Memorial School, 1401 Houghtailing St., Honolulu. (Please call 949-322-7434 for exact location)
12:30 pm – in the plaza outside of the Honolulu Diocese headquarters, 1184 Bishop Street, Honolulu
Who:
Members of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPnetwork.org), the nation’s largest support group for men and women who were sexually abused in religious and institutional settings, including a California woman who is the group’s volunteer Western Regional Director.
Why:
On Tuesday, three Hawaii men filed child sex abuse and cover-up lawsuits against the Diocese of Honolulu. Three priests, including a three-time accused former bishop, have been named as predators.
Two of the victims were abused at Damien Memorial School in Honolulu. One of the victims charges he was abused by notorious offender Fr. Gerald Funcheon. Funcheon made headlines in March when attorneys for victims released Funcheon’s sworn video deposition, where the priest admitted to molesting children at Damien Memorial School from 1983-1985.
The other victim from Damien alleges he was abused by Fr. Larry Spellen in 1976. Spellen was removed from ministry in Salt Lake CIty in 1993, when then-Salt Lake Bishop Wiegand heard about accusations against Spellen from the 1980s and believed that they had merit. Bishop Wiegand referred the case to child and protective services. Spellen died in 2003.

Nienstedt Says Mistakes Were Made, Offers Apology

MINNESOTA
WCCO
[with video]
MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) — Twin Cities Archbishop John Nienstedt acknowledged Thursday that “serious mistakes” have been made in how he’s handled allegations of clergy sexual misconduct. It’s his strongest wording yet over the ongoing scandal rocking the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis.
The Archbishop wrote his thoughts in the Catholic Spirit newspaper, titled “My Pledge to Restore Trust.”
In one sentence he writes, “with genuine sorrow, I apologize to all those who have been victimized, whether on my watch or not.”
In the lengthy column Nienstedt acknowledges that questions remain, specifically over policies and procedures used by the Archdiocese to identify and prevent clergy sexual misconduct. ...
Bob Schwiderski was abused by a priest as a child. Today, as state director of SNAP, which represents similar victims, he says another task force isn’t what’s needed.
“We don’t need independent people without subpoena power. We need law enforcement looking at potential crimes. We don’t need independent people picked by him,” Schwiderski adds.

Anger as another Magdalene survivor dies without receiving compensation

IRELAND
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry
Wed, Oct 23, 2013
The death of another woman who had been in a Magdalene laundry has been met with fury and upset by a representative group who have questioned the ongoing delay in payment of compensation to the women.
Steven O’Riordan of Magdalene Survivors Together has appealed to the Government to begin paying out the compensation “immediately”.
He pointed out that since the State apology to the women last February the group had seen “two of its members pass way without getting their full entitlement”.
‘Frail’
Magdalene survivor Mary Smyth said “the Government are dragging their heels on the issue; they know that most of the women are frail”.
A spokesman for the Department of Justice told The Irish Times yesterday that on June 25th “the Government approved the immediate implementation of a cash lump sum payments scheme based on duration of stay in laundries recommended by Judge (John) Quirke and tasked an Interdepartmental Group with giving further detailed consideration to the steps necessary to implement the other recommendations, some of which are complicated and will require legislation”.

Outrage as another Magdalene laundries survivor dies without receiving any compensation

IRELAND
Irish Mirror
A Magdalene laundries survivors group has slammed the Government after another victim died without receiving compensation.
Kathleen Whelan, 68, passed away in her home at Baile Na Aoire, Montonotte, Co Cork, last Sunday – the day of her birthday.
And the Magdelene Survivors Together has called on the Government to begin the process of paying out the compensation to the women immediately.
Spokesman for the group, Steven O’Riordan, expressed his disgust that gentle Kathleen died without getting to enjoy a penny of the €100,000 in compensation that was due to her.
He said: “We are all totally and utterly shocked with the passing of this lady. She was a kind, gentle woman.

Papal Nuncio left Ireland after vast sums of money found in his bank accounts

IRELAND
Irish Central

By
PATRICK COUNIHAN,
IrishCentral.com Staff Writer

Published Saturday, September 22, 2012

A former Papal Nuncio left Ireland under a cloud after vast sums of South American funded money were found in his bank account.

Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi left Dublin and the Vatican’s diplomatic service in 1989 after investigations into his financial affairs.

The Irish Times reports that the money originated in South America where Alibrandi had served as Papal Nuncio to Chile from 1961.

He led the Chilean delegation to the second Vatican Council, which opened in October 1962.

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VATICAN REBUFFS UN news updates

Vatican Responds to UN Questions on Sexual Violence Against Children

UNITED STATES
eNews Park Forest

New York –(ENEWSPF)—December 3, 2013. Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), which represents SNAP (the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests), released the following statement on the Vatican’s response to a set of questions posed to it officially by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child with regards to the handling of the widespread sexual violence against children in the church.

In its vague and delayed response to the committee, the Vatican has once again refused to accept responsibility for the policies and practices that allow, even facilitate and encourage, the proliferation of rape and sexual violence against children in the Catholic Church. In claiming it only bears responsibility for what happens inside Vatican City and blaming the lack of prevention and redress for these crimes by priests and others associated with the church around the world on local governments, the Holy See has taken one of its most explicitly disingenuous and misleading positions on the issue to date.

The Vatican conveniently ignores its strict policies regarding internal reporting and oversight and the ways in which it has blocked efforts at civil remedies, blocked efforts to ensure access to justice for victims by fighting reforms or the abolition of statutes of limitations, and rewarded bishops who have subverted and often thwarted criminal and civil investigations in many countries.

The response is vague and general, where the committee sought concrete data and facts. If the Vatican does not have this information, then it has wholly failed in its obligation to investigate allegations of sexual violence by its clergy against children; more likely, it has failed to disclose information about the tens of thousands of cases brought to its attention. As demonstrated in our initial filing to the committee and as we will highlight in our forthcoming submission, the Vatican has certainly been able to track these cases when it comes to aggressively fighting or blocking victims' efforts for compensation in civil actions.  

The Center for Constitutional Rights represents SNAP in their effort to hold high-level Vatican officials accountable for enabling and covering up widespread and systematic sexual violence against children in the Catholic Church.

SNAP and the Center for Constitutional Rights filed an alternate report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child documenting the ongoing worldwide sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. The UN committee has summoned the Vatican to report on its record of ensuring children are protected from sexual violence and safeguarding children’s well-being and dignity, the first time the Holy See will have been called to account for its actions on these issues before an international body with authority. The Vatican’s response to the committee’s questions was due on Nov 1, and they are due to appear before the committee in January to answer questions in person.

The SNAP-CCR report to the Committee lays out the depth and breadth of the problem, the policies and practices within the church that have both enabled and perpetuated the sexual violence, and the principles in the Convention on the Rights of the Child and one of its Optional Protocols which the Vatican has violated.

Vatican refuses to share sex abuse allegations with UN panel

VATICAN CITY
ABS-CBN (Philippines)
Reuters
Posted at 12/04/2013
[Read the list of questions from UN Committee on the Rights of the Child here.
Read the Vatican’s response here.
Read the SNAP-CCR report here.]

ROME - The Vatican refused to provide a United Nations rights panel with information on the Church's internal investigations into the sexual abuse of children by clergy, saying on Tuesday that its policy was to keep such cases confidential.

In response to a series of tough questions posed by the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC), the Holy See said it would not release information on its internal investigations into abuse cases unless required to do so by a request from a state or government to cooperate in legal proceedings.

The response of the Holy See, which will be directly questioned by the panel in January 2014, will be closely watched as it tries to draw a line under financial scandals and abuse by priests that have damaged the standing of the Roman Catholic Church around the world.

Since becoming the first non-European pontiff in 1,300 years, Pope Francis has largely succeeded in changing the subject after the resignation of Benedict XVI in February.

The questions from the panel aimed to assess the Church's adherence to the 1990 U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, a treaty guaranteeing a full range of human rights for children which the Holy See has signed.

Vatican dodges sex abuse questions

VATICAN CITY
3 News (New Zealand)

[Read the list of questions from UN Committee on the Rights of the Child here.
Read the Vatican’s response here.
Read the SNAP-CCR report here.]
By Nicole Winfield

The Vatican has dodged a series of questions posed by a UN committee about clerical sexual abuse by noting that the Holy See doesn't control the actions of every Catholic in the world, much less regulate every Catholic priest, parish or school.

Rather, the Vatican asserted that local bishops are ultimately responsible for keeping children safe from paedophile priests, and that schools and workhouses where abuse occurred in Ireland and elsewhere are subject to local civil laws and regulations, not Vatican jurisdiction.

The Vatican's position was laid out in a response to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child about its implementation of the 1989 UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, the main UN treaty guaranteeing a full range of human rights for children.

The Holy See ratified the convention in 1990 and submitted a first implementation report in 1994. But it didn't provide progress reports for nearly a decade, and only submitted one last year after coming under renewed pressure following the 2010 explosion of child sex abuse cases in Europe and beyond.

Vatican rebuffs United Nations sex abuse inquiries

VATICAN CITY
BBC News

The Vatican has refused to provide information requested by the United Nations on the alleged sexual abuse of children by priests, nuns or monks.

The Vatican said the cases were the responsibility of the judicial systems of countries where abuse took place.

The UK National Secular Society accused the Vatican of hiding behind legal technicalities.
On his appointment in March, Pope Francis said dealing with sex abuse was vital for the Church's credibility.
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child put a wide-ranging questionnaire to the Holy See - the city state's diplomatic entity - last July, asking for detailed information about the particulars of all sexual abuse cases notified to the Vatican since 1995.

 Vatican balks at sharing sex abuse investigations with UN

VATICAN CITY
Deutsche Welle

The Vatican has refused to provide information to a UN panel about its investigation into sexual abuse of children by the clergy. The Church said it couldn't be held responsible for the behavior of Catholics worldwide.

The Holy See on Tuesday said it wouldn't release the details of its internal investigations into abuse cases unless required to do so by the request of a state or government in order to cooperate with legal proceedings. The Church's refusal came in response to a series of questions posed by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the main UN treaty that guarantees human rights for children.

The Vatican ratified the convention in 1990 and submitted its first implementation report in 1994, but then proceeded to not provide progress reports for nearly a decade. The Church finally provided one last year after coming under renewed pressure following an increase in child sex abuse cases in Europe in 2010.

The UN had asked the questions in response to the latest progress report, and a Vatican delegation is set to appear before the panel in person at a committee hearing in Geneva on January 16.

In its response to the panel on Tuesday, the Holy See said the details of its internal disciplinary proceedings were "not open to the public" in order to protect "witnesses, the accused and the integrity of the Church process." It added that it cannot ratify international treaties on behalf of all the world's Catholics, and that they can only be implemented in the territory it controls – the Vatican City State.

Vatican - Date set for Catholic officials to appear in Geneva

GENEVA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
They will face questions from United Nations panel
But church hierarchy has missed Nov. 1st deadline
They were to answer questions about abuse crisis
For immediate release: Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2013

Contact: Barbara Blaine, SNAP President, +1 312 399 4747, snapblaine@gmail.com

A date has been set for Vatican officials to appear before a United Nations panel in Geneva and answer questions about clergy sex crimes and cover ups.

On January 16 top Catholic officials are to meet for several hours with members of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. The meeting will be streamed live on line.

The date was announced by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child and can be found here:

[UN Committee on the Rights of the Child]

A support group for clergy sex abuse victims, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, wonders whether the Vatican will send anyone to the January meeting. SNAP is also blasting Vatican staff for missing a deadline to answer questions in writing from the panel about clergy sex crimes and cover ups.

“High ranking Catholic monarchs often break promises and rules,” said SNAP Executive Director David Clohessy of St Louis. “These monarchs are very accustomed to being treated like royalty and very unaccustomed to facing tough questions in public about this devastating and continuing crisis. So who knows whether any of them will show up in January?”

Last July, the UN committee sent Vatican authorities a list of about 20 questions, with a November 1 deadline. The questions were designed to help the committee determine whether the church is honoring the 23 year old Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Vatican seems to miss deadline

Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

Catholic officials apparently ignore request
UN panel seeks info about crimes & cover ups
Hierarchy was supposed to reply by Nov. 1

 
Victims blast top church staff for “stonewalling”

“Again, prelates thumb their noses at secular authorities,” SNAP says

For immediate release: Friday, November 8, 2013

For more information: Barbara Blaine ( +1-312-399-4747, SNAPblaine@gmail.com )

A support group for clergy sex abuse victims is blasting top Catholic officials for apparently missing a deadline to answer questions from a United Nations panel about clergy sex crimes and cover ups.

Last July, a UN committee sent Vatican authorities a list of about 20 questions, with a November 1 deadline. The questions were designed to help the committee determine whether the church is honoring the 23 year old Convention on the Rights of the Child.

[SNAP]

But it seems clear that Catholic figures are ignoring the committee’s request. Responses from three other countries that were given the same deadline as the Vatican have been posted on the UN committee's website. No response from the Vatican has been posted.

[Committee on the Rights of the Child]

“Once again, top Catholic officials thumb their noses at secular authorities and hide information about on-going crimes and cover ups,” said SNAP spokesperson Miguel Hurtado of London. “Some hoped the church hierarchy might be more open about clergy sex crimes and cover ups under Pope Francis. But that’s obviously not happening.

“We believe that the high-ranking Catholic staff is violating the Rights of the Child treaty,” said Mary Caplan of New York, SNAP representative to the UN. “They do this because they can. They get by with it because few secular authorities have the courage and strength to hold the Catholic hierarchy accountable for repeatedly reckless, callous, deceitful and self-serving actions regarding vulnerable kids, powerful prelates, and child molesting clerics.”

UN committee raises numerous human rights issues with Ireland

IRELAND
Irish Times
Patsy McGarry

The Government has been challenged by the UN Human Rights Committee on what measures it has taken “to prohibit all corporal punishment of children in all settings”.

It has also been asked to explain the narrowness of abortion provision in the new Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act, and the lack of an independent inquiry into the Magdalene laundries. Ireland’s treatment of asylum seekers and Travellers has also been raised, as have the issues of overcrowded prisons and why members of the judiciary must take a religious oath.

Vatican refuses to give UN panel full details of clerical sex abuse cases

VATICAN CITY
The Guardian (UK)
Lizzy Davies in Rome
theguardian.com, Wednesday 4 December 2013
The Vatican has refused to give a United Nations panel information it requested on clerical sex abuse, in a move that it said was part of its confidentiality policy but which was criticised as "a slap in the face" for victims.
In a series of questions asked in the runup to a public hearing scheduled for January, the UN committee on the rights of the child had requested the Holy See provide details of abuse cases and specific information concerning their subsequent investigation and handling.
But, in its response, the Holy See said that although it had answered the questions in a general way, it was not its practice to disclose information on specific cases unless requested to do so by another country as part of legal proceedings.
In the 24-page document, the Holy See said it had been "deeply saddened by the scourge of sexual abuse" and regretted the involvement of some members of the Catholic clergy.
It added that it had "amended norms" regarding the suitability of candidates for the priesthood, and had taken other steps including the revision of some canon law rules "to ensure that clerics and religious are properly disciplined".

Catholic sex abuse scandal: how will Pope Francis make the Church accountable?

UNITED KINGDOM
National Secular Society
Posted: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 17:11 by Terry Sanderson
Did you know that the Pope "sneaks out" of the Vatican at night dressed as an ordinary priest so that he can minister to the homeless and destitute on the streets of Rome?
Isn't it marvellous?
Did you know that Pope Francis once worked as a bouncer at a nightclub?
How wonderful – he's just like one of us – a working man.
As the propaganda piles up, Pope Francis basks in the adulation of the uncritical masses.
But wait. What's this? The sex abuse scandal that so tormented his predecessor seems to be emerging again after being swept under the rug during Francis's honeymoon period.
The Holy See (the political wing of the Vatican) has at last responded to questions put to it by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child about the global issue of child rape by priests.
Or, more accurately, it has not responded. It says that it has nothing to do with what goes on in the dioceses and parishes of its churches. Therefore it cannot be held responsible in any way for the unspeakable things that some of its priests do to defenceless children.
And just when the Vatican thought it had distracted us from the horrors that thousands of its priests have perpetrated, it all starts slithering back again.

Vatican decision to rebuff UN’s abuse inquiries a serious misstep

CANADA
National Post
Charles Lewis | 04/12/13
The BBC is reporting that the Vatican has rebuffed a United Nations request for information concerning sexual abuse.
The Vatican, the report says, insist that the only valid jurisdictions are the ones where the alleged abuse took place.
“The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child put a wide-ranging questionnaire to the Holy See — the city state’s diplomatic entity — last July, asking for detailed information about the particulars of all sexual abuse cases notified to the Vatican since 1995,” the BBC reported.
“The questions included whether priests, nuns and monks guilty of sexual crime were allowed to remain in contact with children, what legal action had been taken against them, whether the Church required clergy to report abuse to secular authorities and whether complainants were silenced.”

Vatican Snubs U.N. Probe On Sex Abuse Cases

VATICAN CITY
Time
By Kharunya Paramaguru Dec. 04, 2013
The Vatican has told the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) that it will not disclose information on cases of alleged sexual abuse of children committed by members of its clergy.
The committee wrote to the Church in July asking for “detailed information” on the investigations, legal proceedings and outcomes of cases of alleged sexual abuses.
In a written response to these questions — hand-delivered last month but just published online by the U.N. on Tuesday — the Vatican wrote that “it is not the practice of the Holy See to disclose information on the religious discipline of members of the clergy or religious according to canon law.” It said this was “in order to protect the witnesses, the accused and the integrity of the Church process.”

Vatican says not legally competent over abuses

VATICAN CITY
New Straits Times
[Read the list of questions from UN Committee on the Rights of the Child here.
Read the Vatican’s response here.
Read the SNAP-CCR report here.]
VATICAN CITY: The Vatican has told a UN investigating committee that it cannot be held legally competent over the abuses of children carried out by Catholic churchmen because they are subject to national laws, a spokesman said on Wednesday.
“When individual institutions of national churches are implicated, that does not regard the competence of the Holy See but rather the laws of the countries concerned,” Father Federico Lombardi said.

Lombardi said Vatican officials would explain their position at a meeting in Geneva on January 16 with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, which is checking whether the Catholic Church is honouring the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

“The competence of the Holy See is at the level of the Holy See,” Lombardi said, explaining that the Vatican was among the first states to sign up to the convention.

Campaign groups for abuse victims have criticised the Vatican in the past for making the legalistic distinction between the central administration of the Church and the actions of individual clergymen.

News updates for January 14, 2014

Mexican abuse victims ask that Vatican be tried for crimes of state

MEXICO
El Pais
INÉS SANTAEULALIA Mexico City 13 ENE 2014
The Vatican has an unprecedented appointment on Thursday in Geneva: The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child will study, among other matters, the response of the Catholic Church to the incidences of abuse carried out by its members worldwide over the course of decades. It will be an historic moment; no organization has yet dared to take on the Holy See.
Victims and associations in the USA, Mexico and Europe have taken the opportunity to submit to the committee in Geneva reports with their collated complaints and documented cases of pedophilia. Mexico, from where 169 individuals and organizations will present more than 200 separate cases, has asked that the scandal be treated as a crime of state and the Vatican tried by the United Nations. Such a move would have to be taken in a separate process as the committee has limited itself to making an evaluation.
“Father, good luck with the UN,” someone this Saturday said to former priest Alberto Athié in the Coyoacán neighborhood in the south of Mexico City. Athié arrived in Geneva on Monday to meet with some of the committee’s members. This priest hung up his robes when his reports of pedophilia against Marcial Maciel, the founder of the Legionaries of Christ, fell on deaf ears in Mexico and Rome. He believes the UN now has “an historic opportunity” to see justice served. “The Church is responsible because there were indications that the highest authority sought to protect the abusers and cover up pedophilia, which led to more and prolonged cases,” says Athié.

Switzerland--Victims leaflet outside cathedral

GENEVA, SWITZERLAND
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
POSTED BY BARBARA DORRIS ON JANUARY 13, 2014
Victims leaflet outside cathedral
They urge church members & staff to report suspicions
Group blasts Pope Francis for refusing to protect children
Catholic officials should encourage reporting to police
What
Holding signs and childhood photos, clergy sex abuse victims will hand out fliers to passers-by encouraging anyone with information about sexual misconduct with children report and blasting Pope Francis and Catholic officials for refusing to protect children.

They will also urge church officials to “actively seek out” anyone who “saw, suspected or suffered” clergy sex or cover ups and beg them to call police and prosecutors so that kids might be safer.
When
Tuesday, 14 January, 12:00 – 13:00

Where
On the sidewalk in front of Basilique Notre-Dame de Genève, Rue Argand 3, 1201 Genève

Who
Three-four members of a support group for clergy sex abuse victims called SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, including a Chicago woman who is the organization’s President

Why
For the first time ever a committee of the United Nations is calling Vatican officials to give an accounting about its own record on children’s rights, in particular the widespread and systemic rape and sexual violence against children. This historic meeting takes place here in Geneva while a culture of secrecy pervades the church across the globe.

Victims who want to ensure that others do not suffer as they did will pass out fliers prodding catholics, employees and former employees who have witnessed, experienced or suspect sex crimes to speak up and report it to police.

In a preliminary report Vatican officials dodged questions by the committee and claimed to be helpless while their own practices and policies provide cover for and enable sexual violence by church employees across the globe. SNAP wants victims and witnesses to report what the Vatican officials keep hidden.

The flier also blasts Pope Francis for refusing to punish bishops who endanger kids and protect predators. Pope Francis has not taken any action to protect children. Francis should be judged on his actions to protect children not his statements about caring for the poor. Suggested benchmarks to judge the new pope include whether he turns over evidence of sex crimes to police and when bishops who protect priest predators are punished and fired.

 

Colectiva Mujer y Salud presenta a ONU informe sobre sacerdotes pederastas en RD

REPUBLICA DOMINICANA
El Nuevo Diario
[Summary: The Women and Health Collective, has appeared before the United National Committee on the Rights of the Child, to issue a report on public allegation of sexual abuse by church authorities against children and adolescents in the Dominican Republic. In the past 10 years there have been six cases of abuse perpetrated against at least 19 minors by authorities in the Catholic Church.]
La Colectiva Mujer y Salud, a través del Observatorio de Ciudadanía Activa de las Mujeress, presentó ante el Comité de los Derechos del Niño de las Naciones Unidas, un Informe sombra sobre denuncias públicas de casos de abuso sexual por autoridades eclesiales contra niños, niñas y adolescentes ocurridos en República Dominicana.
El mismo se presenta en virtud de que el Vaticano tendrá que rendir cuentas el 16 de enero sobre el cumplimiento de la Convención sobre los Derechos del Niño.
En los últimos 10 años se han denunciado 6 casos de abuso sexual perpetrado contra al menos 19 menores de edad a manos de 7 autoridades de la iglesia católica, como lo son: el caso del Albergue de Higüey (Cirilo Antonio Núñez y Ramón Antonio Betances) (2003), el caso del padre Espinal (2006), el caso del sacerdote Juan Manuel Mota de Jesús (Padre Johnny) 2009, el caso del Cura de Bonao (sacerdote Alberto Zacarías Cordero Liriano) en el 2012, en 2013 el caso Juncalito a manos del sacerdote polaco Wojciech (padre Alberto Gil) y el caso del Ex -Nuncio o embajador del Vaticano en Santo Domingo, Joséf Wesolowski.

Honeymoon Over ? Pope OK’s Breast Feeding; But Bishop Child Abuse?

UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Pope Francis may be spinning around St. Peter’s in his old Ford sedan, but the wheels seem to be coming off the Vatican’s media spin machine. Informed Vatican journalists seem to be signaling that Francis’ media honeymoon may be ending. The focus has been until now often on engineered photo ops and slick sound bites orchestrated by the papal media handlers. More frequent substantive reporting may be returning, it appears.
A major current challenge for the Vatican appears to be to advance favorably the April canonization of the Polish Pope, John Paul II, while containing two significant controversies relevant to the Polish Pope. One involves the unresolved scandals of John Paul’s protected contributor, Fr. Maciel, and Maciel’s yet unreformed, and perhaps unreformable, money machine, the Legion of Christ; and the other involves two Polish clerics accused of child abuse in the Dominican Republic .
Francis’ approach to these scandals is quite important because they cannot be handled merely by spin tactics and pious platitudes. They require Francis to show his hand, especially on clerical child abuse, which he has seemingly endeavored mostly to sidestep so far.
The papal spin machine is, of course, still trying to focus more on diversionary and ”children friendly” stories like Francis’ recent endorsement of breast feeding in the Sistine Chapel. This likely would have shocked Michelangelo, but would have been well appreciated by his politically more informed contemporary, Machiavelli. The almost always supportive Catholic News Service carried the mothers’ milk story, unadulterated; see:
[National Catholic Reporter]
The generally more substantive AP reporters, including Rome based Nicole Winfield, has instead honed in more on the apparent efforts of the Vatican to try to avoid stories that may cast a shadow over the soon to be canonized John Paul II, namely, the Maciel scandal and the alleged Polish clerical child abusers.

A Reader Writes: "How Sick Is It That So Many Well-Meaning, Practicing Catholics Are Able to Be Desensitized to the Horrible Reality of Clergy Sex Abuse?"

UNITED STATES
Bilgrimage
WillIam D. Lindsey
In a comment a moment ago here, Mary writes,
How sick is it that so many well-meaning, practicing Catholics are able to be desensitized to to the horrible reality of clergy sex abuse, all so their sacramental experience of weekly mass isn't tarnished. I was once one of them.
The word "desensitized" hits me between the eyes. I hear myself in that word: I hear the word as an accurate description of how I'm in danger of becoming, as I read yet another story about abuse of children by Catholic clergy, and the longstanding cover-up of that abuse.
Mary's comment flashed into my email inbox just as I happened to be reading several articles about the action that the Eastern District of the Missouri Court of Appeals took a number of days ago. The court ruled that the archdiocese of St. Louis does not have to release the names of priests accused of sexual abuse in a lawsuit now before the courts. This was a ruling in response to another court ruling ordering the release of these names.
The lawsuit was filed by a woman who was 19 when she filed suit in 2011, and who claims that her parish priest began to abuse her at St. Cronan's parish in St. Louis when she was 5 years old. The priest in question, Father Joseph Ross, was later defrocked. He had previously been convicted of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy at a parish in University City, Missouri, decades prior to the period in which the woman who has now filed suit claims her abuse took place.

Shutting Down Discussion at Catholic Blog Sites...

UNITED STATES
Bilgrimage
Shutting Down Discussion at Catholic Blog Sites and Amanda Hess on Why Women Aren't Welcome Online: Making the Connections
William D. Lindsey
Some eye-popping statistical data from Amanda Hess's magisterial essay about why women aren't welcome on the internet (each bullet point is a direct quote from Hess's article):
• Pew found that from 2000 to 2005, the percentage of Internet users who participate in online chats and discussion groups dropped from 28 percent to 17 percent, "entirely because of women’s fall off in participation." ...
For me, the advent of online discourse spaces opened places in which I could, for the first time ever, speak out as a gay Catholic theologian, when the Catholic theological academy had decisively slammed its door in my face, and when Catholic journals, all of them dominated primarily by heterosexual men, did not intend to listen seriously to my story of discrimination and exclusion, and colluded in making me invisible and voiceless.
And then, over the course of time, the conversation has seemed to me to slow down significantly. At some Catholic blog sites like NCR's threads, it has become well-nigh impossible to continue, due to the deliberate targeting of those conversations by groups that appear intent on shutting these conversations down by lobbing stink bombs into the discussions and making it extremely difficult for people who are at these sites to talk together respectfully as they pursue their conversations.
And since the slowing down of discourse at these sites, which seems apparent to me if to no one else, has occurred in roughly the period in which Pew Forum studies have found a steady, even precipitous decline in the participation of women in the discussion groups at many blog sites--because women have been deliberately targeted and made unsafe at many blog sites where they had begun freely to express their views--I also have to conclude that the gradual shutting down of open discourse at many of the sites I began following soon after 2000 is deliberate.

Abolition of Vatican Concordat in Dominican Republic and bring pedophile Papal Nuncio and other pedophile Polish priests to justice

UNITED STATES
Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils...
Paris Arrow
Updated January 12, 2014
The Vatican has replied to Poland’s request for the extradition of Papal Nuncio Archbishop Wesolowsk wanted for the crime of pedophilia in the Dominican Republic: “Archbishop Wesolowski is a citizen of the Vatican, and Vatican law does not allow for his extradition.” The tiny Vatican is acting as a giant bully again claiming its citizens are above the law. Really, humble Pope Francis is a chameleon with multiple personalities, he may be humble by wearing black shoes but when it comes to justice he is made of the same cloth as his double shadow pope Benedict XVI Ratzinger! Like RATzinger, Pope Francis has blood in his hands as he – in live action today before our eyes - covers-up and protects the highest ranking pedophile ever, Archbishop Wesolowski, of the JP2 Army

Vatican Bank closes thousand accounts/criminal transactions...

UNITED STATES
Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils...
Paris Arrow
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
Updated December 22, 2013
Pope Francis and his Vatican Titanic Deceits Empire of PR media stunts army are doing a “feel-good” Hollywood strategy by making non-stop political photo-ops of Pope Francis with children and the sick so that robotic Catholic Francis-maniacs will continue to flock to St. Peter’s Square and chant, “Francesco, humble Francesco”…….and therefore, those over a thousand lay accounts holders won’t be noticed as they slip in and out circumspectly of the Vatican to close their personal accounts at the Vatican IOR Bank! He was even named Person of the Year by Time Magazine to segue Americans’ attentions away from Vatican crimes of money-launderings with drug lords and terrorism, read our analysis in FRANCIS UPDATES

Víctimas de abusos sexuales por parte de sacerdotes repudian el nombramiento de Ezzati

CHILE
El Dinamo
[Summary: Appointment of Archbishop Ricardo Ezatti was welcomed by the Catholic hierarchy in Chile, it was criticized by victims of sexual abuse. While throughout his career he has been recognized for his progressive stance on social issues, he has been harshly criticized and has been accused to being an accessory to abuse. Some analysts believe that Ezatti maintains a closeness to the doctrinal tenets of Pope Francis.]
Este domingo, el Papa Francisco anunció que el arzobispo de Santiago sería investido como
El nombramiento del arzobispo de Santiago Ricardo Ezatti como nuevo cardenal fue recibido este domingo con satisfacción por la jerarquía católica del país, pero duramente criticada por víctimas de abusos sexuales.
Y es que Ricardo Ezatti es un personaje de luz y sombra, que a lo largo de su trayectoria ha recibido reconocimiento por su postura más progresista en materia social, pero también duras críticas por parte de víctimas de abusos que lo apuntan como “encubridor”.

Pope Francis, Cardinal Sodano and Sacrificing Children

UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
Pope Francis’s curial cardinal appointments suggest Cardinal Sodano’s and the ex-Pope’s continuing strong influence. Three long time Sodano proteges ( Archbishops Parolin, Baldisseri and Stella) and the ex-Pope’s long time protege, Archbishop Muller, head of the fundamentally flawed child protection department. Add this to Francis’ decision to protect the Polish Archbishop, another Sodano protege, from answering for alleged crimes against children as Papal Nuncio in the Dominican Republic. The continuation of Cardinal Levada, another protege of the ex-Pope and Muller’s predecessor as purported “child protector”, on the key Commission on Bishops is just more of the same.
It is becoming clearer that Sodano’s 2010 “petty gossip” approach to minimizing the sexual abuse of children, even by Vatican officials like a Nuncio, is guiding Francis. This is even worse than the two prior popes’ protection of Cardinal Law was, since Law had not been accused of abusing children personally.
Please see, “A New Year’s Wish For Catholic Church Democracry”, at: http://wp.me/P2YEZ3-W7
This stonewalling strategy cannot and will not work. It suggests Francis is just a “subject changer” who will not fundamentally reform the Vatican. Meanwhile, Francis slips past key challenges like women’s equality, divorced Catholics’ treatment and contraception by carefully scripted metaphors, photo ops and sound bites with the help of his Opus Dei ex-FOX TV News’ spinner.
Pope Francis is following the failed path of the ex-Pope who had been warned in 2010 not to follow the “petty gossip” approach. See the still relevant and unheeded 2010 Washington Post advice to the ex-Pope based on a suggestion of another experienced Jesuit, “Pope Should Endorse Independent Investigation”, at:
[Faith Street]
Catholics have watched too many papal evasions over the last half century. Now Catholics must consider using their democratic power to get their governments to compel the Vatican to obey child protection laws, as these governments are already compelling the Vatican to obey financial transparency laws. Australia has already begun and the USA may not be far behind.

We fear for you, but we no longer fear you

UNITED STATES
The Worthy Adversary
Posted by Joelle Casteix on January 12, 2014
“But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.” 1 Samuel 16:7
Malcolm Gladwell’s essay in this month’s RELEVANT magazine is worth your time. Read it online here. In it, he discusses how he rediscovered his faith as he was writing his latest book DAVID AND
In both examples Gladwell uses in the essay—parents whose child was murdered and a small town in France whose citizens defied the Nazis in World War II—he discusses the “weapons of the spirit”: the ability, as Samuel says in the verse above, “to look at the heart” and not fear the physical.
Unfortunately, most of us ”estimate[d] the dangers of action by looking on outward appearances—when they need[ed] to look on the heart.” And hence … faith suffered.
Gladwell goes on to say that finding God’s spirit is not about blind acceptance of the actions of others, but instead is using the “Weapons of the Spirit” to look into man’s heart. Standing up for justice. Doing what is right. And if a non-religious person like me can get it, there is a whole lot of untapped power waiting to be set free.
Bishop Kevin Vann … you listening? What about you, Timothy Dolan, Francis George, or James Wall? Have you wondered why so many Catholics have moved elsewhere to celebrate their faith? Perhaps you should look in the mirror of your heart. Because we have looked into your heart, and we fear for you. But we no longer fear you.

SNAP responds to new Catholic cardinals

UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Sunday, Jan. 12
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com )
We are grateful that Pope Francis named none of the eligible U.S. archbishops (Chaput of Philadelphia, Vigneron of Detroit, and Lori of Baltimore) as a new cardinal.
But we are disappointed that Archbishop Gerhard Ludwig Müller of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has been elevated.
Each of these four men have dreadful records on children’s safety.
At the same time, we are disappointed that Pope Francis did not promote Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin. While far from perfect, he’s better than more prelates on abuse. Promoting him would have been encouraging to many survivors.
But the pope’s cardinal choices are less important in many ways than his decision to rebuff Polish law enforcement officials who want a credibly accused child molesting archbishop returned from the Vatican to face criminal charges. Pope Francis’ decision to essentially harbor a fugitive who allegedly molested at least five boys is terribly disturbing and hurtful to tens of thousands of suffering child sex abuse victims and millions of already betrayed Catholics.

ARCHBISHOP ROBERT CARLSON’S LAWYERS’ APPEAL

ST. LOUIS (MO)
Berger's Beat
January 13, 2014 10:39 am | Author: berger
Lawyers for Archbishop Robert Carlson have now appealed to the Missouri Supreme Court to block the release of names of 115 archdiocesan employees accused of abuse. A Feb.24 trial date in the case looms. The publicity around that case has brought “several” new victims forward, SNAP leaders say. Meanwhile, lawyers in Carlson’s home diocese of St. Paul/Minneapolis are asking a judge there to delay the release of predators’ names. And on Wednesday, Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George is set to turn over to victims’ attorneys records on about 30 Windy City clerics as part of civil lawsuit settlements.

MN - Catholic officials want more secrecy; SNAP responds

MINNESOTA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Monday, Jan. 13, 2013
Statement by Frank Meuers, Minnesota SNAP leader, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 952-334-5180, frankameuers@gmail.com )
Minnesota Catholic officials want a judge to give them a break and slow down the forced disclosure of names of priests who are accused of abuse. That’s irresponsible.
[Minnesota Public Radio]
Any such delay would endanger kids. These accused priests have already been protected and hidden and transferred for decades. No good comes from further delay.
Delays give those who commit and conceal child sex crimes more chances to intimidate victims, threaten whistleblowers, discredit witnesses, destroy evidence, invent alibis and practice “spin.” That’s why it’s irresponsible to give secretive and self serving Catholic officials - who have already shown, time and time again, a decades-old pattern of jeopardizing kids and protecting predators – any more time to keep the identities of dangerous and potentially dangerous child molesters hidden.
Every day the names of proven, admitted and credibly accused child molesting clerics are kept secret, innocent children are at risk.

Northern Ireland: Cruel Nuns of Sisters of Nazareth First Focus of UK's Biggest Child Abuse Inquiry

NORTHERN IRELAND
International Business Times
By LYDIA SMITH | January 13, 2014
The Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry is due to begin investigating claims of child abuse in residential homes and borstals today.
The Statutory Inquiry part of the investigation will cover allegations made during a period of 73 years, from 1922 to 1995. Over 400 people contacted the inquiry with claims of neglect and sexual, physical and psychological abuse.
The public hearings will take place in Banbridge, County Down, with 300 people due to testify. They will be offered anonymity and the opening address will be given by chairman and retired judge Sir Anthony Hart.
The institutions and social care trusts will also give evidence in this part of the investigation, as well as testimonies from the government.

 

UK to have biggest child abuse inquiry

NORTHERN IRELAND
World Bulletin
World Bulletin / News Desk
The largest-ever child abuse inquiry in the UK is due to start on Monday to point out possible systemic failings by the state or its institutions.
The inquiry will be looking into historical institutional abuse between 1922 and 1995 in children’s homes and juvenile justice.
More than 400 people have contacted the inquiry alleging that they were abused. The majority of those that have contacted the inquiry are from Northern Ireland, but there are cases from people who are living elsewhere including Australia.

"I want to assure all those who may be affected by both components of the Inquiry that we will do everything within our power to carry out our tasks in a thorough, rigorous, impartial and sensitive manner without any unavoidable delay," said Sir Anthony Hart, Historical Institutional Abuse Inquiry (HIA) chairman which runs the probe.

Children win right to file complaints with UN rights body

GENEVA
London South East
Vienna (Alliance News) - Children will be able to bring violations of their rights before a UN human rights body in Geneva from April, the United Nations said Tuesday in Geneva.
Children or their representatives will be allowed to file complaints with the Geneva-based Committee on the Rights of the Child, if all other legal avenues are exhausted in their country.
"It means children are able to fully exercise their rights and are empowered to have access to international human rights bodies in the same way adults are under several other human rights treaties," said Kirsten Sandberg, the committee's chairwoman.
UN treaties guarantee the development and family life of children, while aiming to protect them against various forms of exploitation.
The body's 18 independent experts would adopt child-sensitive procedures and would issue recommendations to the country in question, she said.

Posted by Kathy Shaw at 6:41 PM

Key UN body can now hear complaints from children whose rights have been violated

UNITED NATIONS
United Nations News Centre
14 January 2014 – A new legal instrument allowing children or their representatives to file a complaint with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child is set to go into effect in April, following its final required ratification, the United Nations today announced.
Costa Rica became the tenth country to ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the child on a Communications Procedure, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) announcement noted.
“The Optional Protocol gives children who have exhausted all legal avenues in their own countries the possibility of applying to the Committee,” said Kirsten Sandberg, Chairperson of the Geneva-based Committee on the Rights of the Child, which monitors implementation of the treaty and its protocols.
“It means children are able to fully exercise their rights and are empowered to have access to international human rights bodies in the same way adults are under several other human rights treaties.”
Starting in April, individual children or groups of children from the countries that have ratified the Optional Protocol will be able to submit complaints to the Committee on specific violations related to the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Victims hope probe will stem sex abuse by priests

GENEVA
News 24
Geneva - Victims of child sexual abuse by Catholic priests said on Tuesday they hoped UN scrutiny of the Vatican would help finally to hold perpetrators to account and halt future violations.
"This is an important moment for those of us who were raped, sodomised and sexually violated as children by priests," said Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (Snap), a global coalition based in the United States.
"Over the years, we've struggled to understand why Church officials continue to support and cover up for sexual predators," Blaine told reporters, two days before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child was to examine the Vatican's record.
"We're hoping that finally the truth will be exposed and, more importantly, the Church officials will change what they are doing and that Pope Francis will take action that will actually protect children," she added.

Kerry visits papal diplomat to talk Mideast peace

By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, January 14, 10:39 AM

 VATICAN CITY — Intrigued by signals of an invigorated papal diplomacy, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry enlisted a new ally Tuesday in his push for Mideast peace in what he described as a “common enterprise” between America and the Holy See.

In a brief visit to the Vatican, Kerry did not meet with Pope Francis, and said he had not expected to. However, he described a broad conversation with the pope’s chief diplomat, Archbishop Pietro Parolin, that touched on everything ranging from violence in Syria and Africa to ending a generations-long feud between Israel and Palestine and addressing climate change and poverty.

Kerry mesmerized by Vatican trillion dollars art hoarded by the Vatican loot especially in Europe.

 January 14, 2014

Secretary of State John Kerry looks up towards the artwork during a tour of a section of the Vatican with Chief of Protocol Monsignor Jose Avelino Bettencourt, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Kerry had an earlier meeting with Vatican Secretary of State Archbishop Pietro Parolin. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

News updates for January 16, 2014
Vatican rebuffs and spat at UN again!

Compilation of Vatican Pied Pipers at UN in January 16, 2014

When it comes to covering religion especially the Vatican, the media should heed one of their own literary colleagues Edgar Allan Poe who wrote, “Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear” and “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”

Compilation of Vatican Pied Pipers at UN in January 16, 2014

When it comes to covering religion especially the Vatican, the media should heed one of their own literary colleagues Edgar Allan Poe who wrote, “Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear” and “All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”

Church wants to model 'best practice' on fighting abuse, Vatican says

GENEVA
National Catholic Reporter
John L. Allen Jr. | Jan. 16, 2014 NCR Today
Rome
Facing a virtually unprecedented examination of its record on child sexual abuse by a U.N. panel, a senior Vatican official today asserted that the Catholic church wants to be “an example of best practice” in the prevention of abuse.
Italian Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s representative to the United Nations in Geneva, spoke this morning to the Committee on the Convention of the Rights of the Child, a 1989 United Nations treaty which the Vatican ratified in 1990.
Although the U.N. panel has no power to compel the Vatican to do anything, its body of independent experts is expected to make recommendations after the day-long hearing.
The seriousness with which the Vatican is taking the process is reflected in the fact that it dispatched not only Tomasi but also Maltese Bishop Charles Scicluna, who served for ten years as the Vatican’s top sex abuse prosecutor and is widely seen as a leading reformer.

Vatican: “No Excuse” for Child Abuse

GENEVA
Time
By Nate Rawlings @naterawlings
Jan. 16, 20141
The Vatican publicly confronted the sex abuse scandal that has rocked the Catholic Church at length Thursday, saying there can be “no excuse” for child abuse.
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s representative in Geneva, told a U.N. hearing “such crimes can never be justified.” Tomasi said that the church welcomes suggestions that could help promote respect for the rights of children.
The hearing is part of a U.N. investigation into the Holy See’s compliance with the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. The church sent a five-person delegation to Geneva for the hearings, including its former chief sex-crimes prosecutor Monsignor Charles Scicluna. Advocacy groups acknowledge a different tone under Pope Francis, but want to see more sweeping changes in how the Vatican deals with sexual molestation by members of the clergy.

Fr Lombardi SJ: Holy See committed to child welfare

VATICAN CITY
Vatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) Vatican officials are appearing Thursday before the UN committee in Geneva that is responsible for overseeing the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, to which the Holy See is a party. The Director of the Press Office of the Holy See, Fr. Federico Lombardi, SJ, issued a Note detailing the history of the Holy See’s adherence to the Convention and its response to a series of questions posed by the committee subsequent to the Holy See’s 2nd Report on implementation of the Convention, submitted in 2011.
The three-page Note, written in Italian, stresses that, “The Holy See is deeply saddened by the scourge of sexual abuse of minors, which harms millions of children throughout the world,” and “laments that, sadly, certain members of the clergy have been involved in such abuse.” The Note goes on to say that the dramatic problem of child sex abuse, lived with unspeakable suffering in the community of the Church, has posed a direct challenge to the credibility of the Church’s commitment to the welfare of children – “[A challenge],” writes Fr. Lombardi, “that has led to the development, in the spirit of the Convention [and] under the Holy See’s guidance, of a series of initiatives and directives [that have proven] extremely helpful also outside the Church community.”
The Note also explains the nature of the Holy See as a sovereign subject of international law, and the limits of the Holy See’s rights and responsibilities vis à vis the conduct of clergy and religious throughout the world. “In fact,” explains Fr. Lombardi, “it is not rare to find that the questions posed [by the committee] – above all where they refer to the sexual abuse of minors – seem to presuppose that bishops or religious superiors act as representatives or delegates of the Pope – [though this is] utterly without foundation.” Fr. Lombardi goes on to clarify that civil authorities in countries that are party to the Convention are directly responsible for the Convention’s implementation and for enforcement of laws for the protection of minors.

Archbishop Tomasi on the Holy See's committment to protecting children

VATICAN CITY
Vatican Radio
(Vatican Radio) The Holy See, will discuss Thursday, at the United Nations Office in Geneva, a report on the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The agreement includes calls for signatories to take all appropriate measures to protect children from harm and to put children's interests above all else.
The Holy See ratified the convention in 1990
The Vatican will be represented by Monsignor Charles Scicluna who previously served as Promoter of Justice at the Congregation of for the Doctrine of the Faith.
Lydia O’Kane spoke to Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations.

See below the transcript of Vatican Radio's interview with Archbishop Tomasi
Q. What is happening today in Geneva regarding this subject?
A. today is in session the committee of experts of the convention of the rights of the child. It is the seat of the Human Rights Office of the United Nations. This committee presents its observations, suggestions, advice to every state that has ratified the convention and therefore has an obligation to present a report on how the convention is implemented in the territory of this state. It’s an occasion to start a dialogue between the state involved and the experts in order to facilitate and to improve the protection of children. Today in this current session of the committee will be examined the reports of Russia, Germany, the Holy See, Portugal, Congo, Yemen, and we will very gladly take this occasion as a constructive moment, an important occasion, to reaffirm the value and the procedures of the convention and to accept any good advice that is given for that can be helpful in the protection of children. The Holy See is more than willing to, as it has declared already when it ratified the convention in 1990, to promote and to sustain the good principles and the good values that are contained in this convention. So, today is a normal day of work for the United Nations. The attention that is given to the Holy See is understandable but it is part of a series of other states that are being examined and we are convinced that some very good results are coming out of this dialogue with the experts.
Q. There has however been criticism of the Holy See. What is your response to that?
A. There are several criticisms that are made on the policies or the presumed policies of the Holy See like that they covered up some crimes but I would say that the policy of the Holy See is to recognize that any crime is bad and when children are involved it becomes a crime that needs to be addressed more forcefully. So the obstruction of justice to the detriment of the legitimate jurisdiction of the individual state should be prosecuted by those states in every case. The policy and good sense of the Holy See is to encourage the prosecution of any crime, including crimes, and especially crimes, against children. So my sense is that some of these accusations or criticisms derive from a lack of knowledge of the activity, the measures taken by the Holy See in the last several years and also by the local churches and by the attitude and the directives given by the Holy See that are for transparency and protection in any case of, as a priority of all the children.

Holy See hails “fruitful dialogue” on protecting children’s rights

VATICAN CITY/GENEVA
Vatican Radio

(Vatican Radio) A Holy See delegation has concluded a hearing at the United Nations on implementing the Convention on the Rights of the Child, describing it as an “important and fruitful, interactive dialogue” on dealing with child protection.

Maltese Bishop Charles Scicluna, who has long experience of dealing with abuse cases as the former Promoter of Justice at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, told Vatican Radio the Holy See shares the principles of the Convention and is committed to adequately addressing all issues and concerns regarding cases of abuse within the Catholic Church.

Heading the Vatican delegation on Thursday was Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva.

Philippa Hitchen spoke with Bishop Scicluna to find out more about the day’s events in Geneva:

A: It was grueling, in the sense it was a very long session and it was very engaging ….the rapporteur had important concerns to express and we had a very important and fruitful interactive dialogue….I think that we share the principles of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and I think that we put out in a very clear, coherent way to the international community that the Holy See “gets it”, that as a sovereign state that the Holy See is implementing the Convention and that the Holy See, as the central organ of the Catholic Church, is promoting the values of the Convention and that canon law, as an expression of the jurisdiction of the Holy See, is also constantly being revised, as was the case in 2010, so that procedures and substantive issues are addressed adequately.

Q: Among the concerns are the accusations that the Vatican has not released information about some of the abuse cases – how have you responded to that?

It was not within the remit of the Committee to ask for individual cases, even if there is one individual case which is within the remit of the Convention and that is the case of a diplomat who is a citizen of Vatican City State and allegations concerning whom are under investigation and that was addressed openly by the head of the delegation, nuncio Archbishop Tomasi. With other cases, the constant response of the Holy See has been that these are dealt with on a local level and they should be addressed at local level

Q: Victims groups, survivors networks, say this however is not responding to their needs for transparency at the highest level. How do you answer their allegations?

A: I think there are two important elements of this which are transparency and accountability. And I think that transparency and accountability have to start on the local level. Concerning procedures on the level of the Holy See, I think that the parties concerned to every single and individual procedure, have every right to have access to all the information necessary for their defense, for their exercise of rights under the system we operate on.

Scicluna: Holy See had “very positive dialogue” with UN Committee for Rights of the Child

MALTA
Vassallo Malta

The Maltese bishop, Charles Scicluna, former prosecutor at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of clergy who sexually abused minors, was part of the Holy See delegation that appeared before the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child in Geneva on January 16.

In this interview by telephone from Geneva, he spoke about the day-long session with the UN body that attracted so much interest internationally. He says it gave the Holy See an opportunity to respond to the Committee’s concerns regarding child abuse, to reaffirm its commitment to protect children and minors throughout the Catholic Church and all its institutions, and explain how it is doing so.

Q. Could you sum up how the meeting went?
A. It was a very interesting dialogue and the Committee had the opportunity to express its concerns and they are concerns that we share. And so I think it has been a very positive dialogue because the Holy See, as sovereign of Vatican City State and as central organ of government of the Catholic Church around the world, shares the high values of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Committee is very anxious to promote these values and we are on the same page. We had the opportunity, which was I think very important, to express our commitment with the teachings and the guidance of the recent Holy Fathers on the question of the sexual abuse of minors by clergy. And we are also very grateful for the input of the Committee; that input will also help the setting up the working of the Commission for the Protection of Minors announced by the Holy Father at the beginning of December.

Q. The Committee raised many tough questions in today’s session. You were asked: given the ‘zero tolerance’ policy why were there efforts to ‘cover up’ and obscure cases of the abuse of minors by clergy?
A. I think that ‘cover-up’, meaning the obstruction of justice, has to be addressed by the domestic laws of the countries where it happens. It is not the policy of the Holy See. And to the extent that it is a crime in the sovereign territories of the different countries it should be prosecuted, irrespective of whoever is guilty of the crime of the obstruction of justice.

Vatican grilled by UN over child sex abuse: ‘The Holy See gets it’

GENEVA
Toronto Star
By: John Heilprin The Associated Press, Published on Thu Jan 16 2014
GENEVA—The Vatican came under blistering criticism from a UN committee Thursday for its handling of the global priest sex abuse scandal, facing its most intense public grilling ever over allegations that it protected pedophile priests at the expense of victims.
Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Vatican’s former sex crimes prosecutor, acknowledged that the Holy See had been slow to face the crisis but said that it was now committed to doing so. He encouraged prosecutors to take action against anyone who obstructs justice — a suggestion that bishops who moved priests from diocese to diocese should be held accountable.
He was responding to a grilling by the UN committee over the Holy See’s failure to abide by terms of a treaty that calls for signatories to take all appropriate measures to keep children from harm. Critics allege the church enabled the rape of thousands of children by protecting pedophile priests to defend its reputation.
The committee’s main human rights investigator, Sara Oviedo, was particularly tough, pressing the Vatican on the frequent ways abusive priests were transferred rather than turned in to police. Given the church’s “zero tolerance” policy, she asked, why were there “efforts to cover up and obscure these types of cases.”
Another committee member, Maria Rita Parsi, an Italian psychologist and psychotherapist, pressed further: “If these events continue to be hidden and covered up, to what extent will children be affected?”

U.N. committee on sexual abuse grills Vatican officials

GENEVA
CNN

[with video]

(CNN) — A senior Vatican official acknowledged Thursday there is “no excuse” for child sex abuse, as he and others were grilled by a U.N. committee about the Catholic Church’s handling of pedophile priests.

It’s the first time the Vatican has been forced to answer allegations so publicly that it enabled the sexual abuse of children by protecting such priests.

The committee questioned a handful of Vatican officials — including Monsignor Silvano Tomasi, permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations in Geneva, and Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the Vatican’s former chief sex-crimes prosecutor — for several hours Thursday in Switzerland.

In his opening remarks, Tomasi said, “There is no excuse for any form of sexual violence or exploitation of children. Such crimes can never be justified, whether committed in the home, in schools, in community and sports programs, in religious organizations and structures. This is the longstanding policy of the Holy See.”

U.N. panel grills Vatican officials about abuse of children

GENEVA
Los Angeles Times

By Tom Kington
January 16, 2014

ROME -- In their toughest and most public questioning to date about sexual abuse of children by the clergy, senior Vatican officials came under heavy criticism Thursday from a United Nations committee over their handling of such cases and promised that changes were underway.

"The Holy See gets it," Msgr. Charles Scicluna, the Vatican's former sex crimes prosecutor, told the Committee on the Rights of the Child at a meeting in Geneva.

But Scicluna and a colleague maintained the Vatican’s position that, while it is responsible for responding to abuses committed within the confines of the Vatican state, it is up to local law enforcers to punish abusive priests around the world.

"Priests are not functionaries of the Vatican," said Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's envoy to the U.N. in Geneva. "Priests are citizens of their own states, and they fall under the jurisdiction of their own country."

That contention does not satisfy the Vatican's critics, who accuse senior officials in the Roman Catholic Church of actively trying to cover up cases of abuse.

Vatican pushed to reveal scope of child sexual abuse

GENEVA
The Star

BY STEPHANIE NEBEHAY

GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations child protection experts grilled Vatican delegates on Thursday on how Roman Catholic officials handled the decades-long sexual abuse of minors by priests that Pope Francis called "the shame of the Church".

The officials, called to account for the first time since the Holy See signed the U.N. children's rights charter in 1990, argued that the Church recognised the problem and had drawn up clear guidelines to protect children from predator priests.

But members of the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child and abuse victims attending the session in Geneva demanded far more transparency on a scandal that has hounded the Church for more than two decades in countries from Ireland to Australia.

"The view of committee is that the best way to prevent abuses is to reveal old ones - openness instead of sweeping offences under the carpet," Kirsten Sandberg, chairwoman of the 18-strong U.N. committee, told the Vatican delegation.

"It seems to date your procedures are not very transparent."

Barbara Blaine, president of the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP), which has 15,000 U.S. members and 4,000 foreign members since being launched 25 years ago, said the Vatican response fell far short of what victims wanted.

"What we want to see is the Vatican punish bishops who covered up sex crimes and we want them to turn over information they have about crimes to police," she said.

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Vatican’s UN Ambassador Monsignor Silvano Tomasi (L), speaks with Former Vatican Chief Prosecutor of Clerical Sexual Abuse Charles Scicluna (R), prior to the start of a questioning over clerical sexual abuse of children at the headquarters of the UN’s office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. Vatican’s UN Ambassador Monsignor Silvano Tomasi (L), speaks with Former Vatican Chief Prosecutor of Clerical Sexual Abuse Charles Scicluna.

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Geneva--Catholic officials deny Vatican power at UN – the ONLY HONEST HEADLINE BY VICTIMS about Vatican’s BESTIAL PEDOPHILE PRIESTS

GENEVA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Thursday, Jan. 16

Statement by Mary Caplan of Manhattan, national board member of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( Mcaplan682@aol.com )

Two high-ranking Catholic officials today basically told a United Nations panel that the Vatican has little real power to stop bishops from hiding clergy sex crimes. We’re very saddened that such a huge and powerful church bureaucracy continues to pretend it’s powerless over its own officials.

These clerics said some nice things today in Geneva. But unfortunately, the nice public words today by Catholic officials differ radically from the actual and distressing private behavior of Catholic officials. Before the cameras, the church hierarchy often denounces predators and thanks victims. But behind closed doors, the church hierarchy often protects predators and rebuffs victims (despite repeated pledges of reform).

The Catholic officials today repeatedly cited vague, minor, new and unenforced internal church abuse guidelines. But these are meaningless because no one is ever punished for breaking church abuse guidelines.
And many of the guidelines focus on child molesting clerics while ignoring the bigger problem: corrupt church officials who are still endangering kids, moving offenders, stonewalling law enforcement and deceiving parishioners and the public.

Catholic officials couldn't cite a single case in which the Vatican punished even a single church staff for endangering a single child or helping a single predator. That's because this almost never happens. And until it does, kids won't be measurably safer in the church.

Church slow to respond, abuse hearing told

GENEVA
Irish Times

Paddy Agnew

The Holy See appeared to emerge with a clean bill of health from a hearing of the UN Committee for the Rights of the Child in Geneva yesterday.

The 5½-hour session ended with a deal of mutual back slapping as one UN delegate expressed satisfaction about a “positive dialogue”, while another said that the Vatican’s presentation indicated that “new steps” were being taken, steps which represented a “new era, a new dawn for the Holy See”.

The Holy See was not on trial yesterday. Rather the Vatican, like all other countries which have signed up to the 1989 Convention for the Rights of the Child, had been asked to report on just how it implements that Convention.

Obviously, in the case of the Vatican, this meant turning a potentially uncomfortable spotlight on the Catholic Church’s clerical sex abuse crisis.

High moral character

That the spotlight never actually became uncomfortable was a tribute both to the skill of the Vatican delegation and to the UN Committee’s modus operandi.

For example, the 18 independent experts – “persons of high moral character” – who make up the Committee were much too busy asking, not always relevant, questions to ever get answers.

So, a question about compensation for the victims of the Magdalene Laundries scandal never got answered. This was because six or seven questions tended to be asked simultaneously, meaning that some inevitably got “forgotten”.

The Holy See put its best foot forward with Maltese Bishop Charles Scicluna, a former prosecutor at the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, implicitly conceding that the Holy See had been slow to understand the worldwide clerical sex abuse crisis.

In a key moment, Bishop Scicluna said that the Holy See now “gets it” in relation to the sex abuse crisis.

Accountability

Questions were asked about church cover-ups, church silences, Bishop accountability, victim compensation and the extent of the Holy See’s data on clerical sex abuse.

Both Bishop Scicluna and the Vatican delegation leader, Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, held up their hands, saying that the “egregious” crime of child abuse by priests was a “wound” for everyone in Church life.

Bishop Scicluna quoted Pope John Paul II’s comment in 2002: “There is no place in the priesthood and in religious life for anyone who would harm a child . . .”  (COMMENT:  He had the gall to qoute the most pypocritical DEAD John Paul II)

Asked specifically what measures the Holy See now routinely takes in relation to a priest who has been convicted of paedophile crime, Archbishop Tomasi said: “Most of those who have been convicted have now been dismissed from the priesthood . . .”

However, both Bishops, were careful to underline the limitations of the Catholic Church’s legal responsibility.

CA - Mahony and Pope concelebrate mass in Rome - Victims react

CALIFORNIA
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014
Statement by Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach CA, western regional director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests ( 949 322 7434, jcasteix@gmail.com )
Pope Francis just rubbed salt into the wounds of LA clergy sex abuse victims and Catholics.
Maybe more than any of his predecessors, Pope Francis is keenly aware that images and gestures matter. So why did he concelebrate mass and privately meet with America’s least deserving and most polarizing retired Catholic official – Cardinal Roger Mahony, on whose watch hundreds of children were raped, sodomized, fondled and assaulted by hundreds of priests, nuns, brothers, seminarians and other Catholic employees, many of whom were deliberately and repeatedly moved and protected by Mahony and his top aides?
Mahony’s years of self-serving secrecy forced Archbishop Jose Gomez to forbid Mahony from doing ‘public ministry’ in the LA archdiocese. How ironic that he’s persona non grata in LA but welcomed in Rome. How ironic that Mahony’s predecessor basically bans him but Catholicism’s head honcho embraces him.
It should go without saying that the pope is the world’s most powerful Catholic. He can meet with anyone he likes. And he can deny anyone the chance to appear with him in public.
Yet he chooses to say mass publicly and meet privately with Mahony.
There are plenty of prelates across the globe who understand immigration issues. Few prelates, however, understand public relations and image-burnishing more than Mahony. And even when he retires, he’s remorseless and fixated on trying to rebuild his well-deserved shattered reputation. It’s sad that Pope Francis is complicit in this selfish and insensitive effort.

Victims Want Real Change from Pope

UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests

POSTED BY DAVID CLOHESSY ON JANUARY 16, 2014

In less than a year Pope Francis has changed the image of the Church by preaching tolerance and wading into crowds to embrace the sick. Few doubt his sincerity. But there’s one area in which the Church hasn’t changed in image or substance: Its stance on child sex abuse by the clergy.

The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child meets this week in Geneva to, among other things, investigate child sex abuse by Catholic clergy. The Vatican is sending representatives and announced it will put together another panel to look into the issue.

But survivors of sex abuse don’t need another commission or for the Vatican to continue in the same plodding, evasive and in some cases criminal manner. For example, the Vatican recently declined to order the release of the names of bishops who transferred and hid pedophile priests over the years, saying it has no legal authority to do so.

Instead, victims need the fresh approach Pope Francis is bringing to other areas of the Church. They need the Vatican representatives to be open and forthright with the UN committee. They need the immediate release of the names of the clergy and employees who abused hundreds of thousands of children. They need the bishops identified who hid and protected pedophile priests, sometimes for decades, by transferring them from parish to parish.

Victims need clerics to lobby for, not against, local laws protecting children from sexual predators. They need the Church to make public every document or scrap of paper concerning a credible accusation of sexual abuse. They need the Church to be completely open and honest on the issue of clergy abuse. They need the Church to change. No matter how sincere, more expressions of regret in Geneva won’t stop pedophile priests today any more than it undoes the abuse of the past.

News updates for January 18, 2014

Pope will be tough on paedophile priests, says sex abuse crisis authority  (COMMENT: Read our related article in 2010 when this Monsignor was lying about Benedict XVI: Benedict XVI is Papal Humpty Dumpty. Pope showed wisdom and firmness against abuses as CDF prefect, says Msgr. Scicluna is preposterous! http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010/03/benedict-xvi-is-papal-humpty-dumpty.html)

VATICAN CITY
The Guardian (UK)

Reuters
theguardian.com, Saturday 18 January 2014

Pope Francis will not show leniency towards paedophile priests as truth and justice are more important than protecting the church, the Vatican's former sex crimes prosecutor has pledged.

Monsignor Charles Scicluna, the most authoritative Catholic official on the church's abuse crisis, said on Saturday that the number of clerics defrocked by the Vatican was likely to have fallen to about 100 in 2013 from about 125 in 2012 and a peak of 260 in 2011.

Scicluna said Francis would, despite his merciful nature, be very tough on paedophile priests after an abuse crisis that the pope on Thursday called "the shame of the church".

"I have met with Francis and he has expressed great determination to continue on the line of his predecessors," said Scicluna, who served in the Vatican for 17 years before he was named an auxiliary bishop in his native Malta in 2012.

"His gospel of mercy is very important but it is not cheap mercy. It has to respect the truth and the demands of justice," Scicluna said.

Pope Francis denounces child sexual abuse as 'The shame of the church'

UNITED STATES
Catholic Online
LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The pope had only the highest words of condemnation in a heated homily. Having addressed the sexual abuse issue as part of his Vatican reforms with the creation of a commission on abuse, the pope on Vatican radio proclaimed, "But are we ashamed? So many scandals that I do not want to mention individually, but all of us know...We know where they are! Scandals, some who charged a lot of money.... The shame of the Church!  (COMMENT:  Pope Francis is a Jesuit schizophrenic who preaches one thing and practises another.  Pope Francis can out dance the Devil in appearing as a an angel while committing the worst crimes before humanity’s eyes)
"But are we all ashamed of those scandals, of those failings of priests, bishops, laity? Where was the Word of God in those scandals; where was the Word of God in those men and in those women? They did not have a relationship with God! They had a position in the Church, a position of power, even of comfort. But the Word of God, no! 'But, I wear a medal,' 'I carry the Cross' . Yes, just as those bore the Ark!
"Without the living relationship with God and the Word of God! I am reminded of the words of Jesus about those for whom scandals come ... And here the scandal hit: bringing decay (it: decadenza) to the people of God, including (it: fino alla) the weakness and corruption of the priests."  (COMMENT:  Pope Francis is a CON CHRIST and a CON ARTIST who is suing and abusing Christ’s name and the Gospel -- to perform the worst papal crimes ever --   in the frenzied closing of thousands of Vatican accounts that belonged to the Nazi and terrorists and despots worldwide and then transferring them to Vatican SECRET Swiss Banks to avoid further investigation, read our related article --  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: 

The Big Question about the Pope’s Thursday Homily

UNITED STATES
Catholic Culture
By Dr. Jeff Mirus January 17, 2014
On Thursday, Pope Francis preached against scandal and harm caused by corrupt clergy when he concelebrated Mass with two cardinals. One of the cardinals was Roger Mahony, the former archbishop of Los Angeles. A fair evaluation of Mahony’s ecclesiastical career would suggest, among other things, that he showed greater interest in fashionable causes than in the counter-cultural moral demands of the Catholic faith, that he conveyed a noticeably “thin” understanding of the Mass, that he had no qualms about showing ecclesiastical approval of pro-abortion politicians, and that at the very least he handled cases of sexual abuse extraordinarily badly, deliberately protecting abusive priests.
In a move clearly connected to the abuse scandal, Cardinal Mahony was relieved by his successor early last year of all his remaining duties in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles. Years earlier, his lack of opposition to abortion had angered the American Life League enough to call for his resignation. Similarly, the absence of any clear sense of the Eucharistic Presence of Christ in his worship guidelines so infuriated Mother Angelica of EWTN that she (unwisely) publicly counseled disobedience to his episcopal authority.

Submission to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child

UNITED STATES
BishopAccountability.org
BishopAccountability.org submitted this letter and report to the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) to assist in the CRC's historic review of the Holy See’s compliance with the Convention on the Rights of the Child. In our submissions, we discuss the Holy See's knowledge and management of cases of clergy sexual abuse worldwide, its continued refusal to require reporting to civil authorities, and Pope Francis's problematic choice to head the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
On January 16, 2014, in Geneva, Switzerland, Committee members closely questioned Bishop Charles Scicluna, formerly of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Archbishop Silvano M. Tomasi, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer to the UN. The Committee focused on the Holy See’s replies to the CRC’s July 2013 List of Issues.
See PDFs of our letter and report, or see our web versions below. See also the response to the Holy See Replies filed December 2013 by the Center for Constitutional Rights and SNAP (the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests); the Holy See’s 2011 report to the CRC; and CCR/SNAP’s February 2013 alternative report. Click here to see all related documents on file with the CRC.
Letter to the CRC from BishopAccountability.org
• Detailed information on abuse cases brought to the attention of the Holy See
• Command and control structures
• Current leadership of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
• The record of Pope Francis in Buenos Aires and in Rome

 

Vatican- Defrocking is more defense strategy than child protection

UNITED STATES
Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
For immediate release: Friday, Jan. 17, 2014
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 566 9790, SNAPclohessy@aol.com)
This is a decades-late drop in bucket. Defrocking predator priests is less about safeguarding kids. It's more about church damage control.
[New York Daily News]
Yesterday in Geneva, Catholic officials claimed to be essentially powerless over pedophile priests. Today, Catholic officials are saying how many they've defrocked.
Here's the number Catholics should remember: zero. That's how many Catholic supervisors have been punished, worldwide, for enabling and hiding horrific clergy sex crimes. The Pope must start defrocking clerics who cover up sex crimes, not just clerics who commit them. Until that happens, little will change.
So why the alleged increase in defrocked pedophile priests? It's likely because more victims across the globe are gaining the strength and courage to come forward and are reporting to (and pressuring) church officials because archaic, predator-friendly secular laws prevent most victims from seeking justice in court. And it's likely because more bishops are convincing Vatican officials that defrocking predators is a smart public relations and legal defense strategy. Cutting all ties with the most egregious serial sex offender clerics helps convince Catholics that progress is being made.
But it's irresponsible for Catholic officials to recruit, educate, ordain, train, transfer and protect predator priests, then defrock them when they're caught and the heat gets too intense. Catholic officials should help make sure child molesting clerics are criminally prosecuted. If that can't happen, then Catholic officials should house them in remote, secure treatment centers. And Catholic officials should lobby for, not against, reforming outdated, secular laws that enable many who commit and conceal child sex crimes to escape punishment.

 

Vatican Called Before the UN

UNITED STATES
Huffington Post
By Barbara Blaine, President of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)
Since 1988, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) has been working to help survivors of clergy sex abuse heal one another and to protect children and vulnerable adults from continuing sexual violence. We have formed a vast network of mutual support among survivors, exposed this global crisis to the public, and repeatedly confronted perpetrators and their protectors, demanding that the Catholic church stop enabling - and start helping to end - this widespread and systemic violence. When we realized we needed to take our work global, we reached out to human rights attorneys at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR)--a partnership that has brought us all the way to the United Nations in Geneva yesterday to witness the Vatican being called to account for the crisis by an international body for the first time.
In 2011, CCR and SNAP joined together to file a complaint with the International Criminal Court (ICC), requesting that the ICC prosecutor investigate the Vatican for crimes against humanity and hold accountable high-level Vatican officials, including Pope Benedict, in their supervisory and direct roles. Along with the complaint, we submitted more than 20,000 pages of supporting materials, including reports, policy papers, and evidence of the crimes. In addition to the obvious impact that an ICC investigation would have on efforts to obtain justice and accountability, by framing the sexual violence scandal as an international human rights issue and taking it directly to the tribunal that has handled some of the most horrific human rights abuses in recent history, we made an important statement about the extent of the clergy sex abuse crisis, the gravity of the harm of rape and sexual violence, the depth of the wounds it has left, and where responsibility lies. This is not a problem of a few bad priests, it is not a problem of the past, and it is not a problem confined to the United States. It is a global culture of violence that is concealed and enabled by those at the highest levels of an entity that purports to be a sovereign state.
In the wake of worldwide media coverage of the filing, SNAP heard from thousands of survivors in more than 70 countries, and, in April, we held our first international conference, in Dublin, which drew survivors from twelve countries and five continents. Shortly after our ICC filing, Amnesty International released a report affirming that physical and sexual abuse within the Catholic Church in Ireland included "acts that amounted to torture and inhuman and degrading treatment." Though the ICC prosecutor has indicated that the office will not pursue an investigation at this time while leaving open the possibility of doing so in the future, the filing has sparked a worldwide movement urging international human rights bodies to provide accountability--which ultimately led us to the United Nations.

Vatican refuses extradition of former ambassador

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Dominican Today
Santo Domingo.– The Holy See told Polish prosecutors that its former ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Polish Archbishop Josef Wesolowski, is covered by diplomatic immunity and that the Vatican does not extradite its citizens.
Wesolowski´s case has raised questions about whether the Vatican, in recalling him from Dominican jurisdiction, was shielding him and giving its own investigations priority over those of the Dominican Republic.
The former ambassador is the highest-ranking Vatican official ever to be investigated for alleged sex abuse. Poland also opened an investigation into the archbishop and a fellow Polish priest.

 

The Vatican to prosecute former envoy to Dominican Republic 'with severity'

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Dominican Today
Santo Domingo.- Former Vatican envoy to the Dominican Republic, Jozef Wesolowski, charged with sex crimes against several boys will face criminal prosecution by the Vatican Court, said Papacy representative to the UN Monsignor Silvano Tomasi on Thursday.
The investigation, said Tomasi, is underway and the Polish prelate will be tried "with the severity he deserves," reports Vatican Insider, of the daily La Stampa.
Responding to the UN expert on the issue of non-extradition, Tomasi noted that, in adherence to the new rules approved by Pope Francis, Wesolowski, as a diplomat of the Holy See will be prosecuted in the Vatican, and not extradited.
Wesolowski, who was whisked out of the Dominican Republic August 21, is at the center of two investigations, in the Caribbean nation as well as in his homeland.

Flynn: The church must fix this, and it will  (“Fix this, and it will” – are you kidding? How?  By glorifying John Paul II as a “saint” when under his watch he covered-up thousands of pedophile priests named aptly after him as JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army?)

MASSACHUSETTS
Boston Herald
Saturday, January 18, 2014
By:
Raymond L. Flynn  (COMMENT: Another Vatican Pied Piper who deceives readers with his Vatican agenda of deceptions, we highlight his deceptive words)

Vatican representative Archbishop Silvano Tomasi’s testimony yesterday before the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child was painful for all to hear. It is depressing to learn about the sexual abuse of children and there is no explanation that is acceptable. (COMMENT: “painful” is a  false description. This is sheer deception because the Vatican well-staged speeches made it appear as if it has nothing wrong and they did not reveal the number of pedophile priests the Cardinals worldwide have covered-up for decades)
This is a crime and as many people have said, this is a matter for law enforcement authorities to prosecute, not church officials. The pain that these children and their parents experience defies explanation. The only resolution is full disclosure and transparency. Church leaders owe this to the public and the good name of the overwhelming majority of decent and faithful priests.
Pedophile priests have been a problem for many years and only a fundamental change in church policy can put this problem behind the church. Nobody wants to see swift and decisive action more than faithful Catholics. This is not just a matter of forgiveness, but of justice and the protection of children.
Catholics have always felt that such a serious and sensitive matter as sexual abuse of children could not be effectively dealt with in-house by church personnel. The process must be more open and accountable to the public and press. Until that happens, we will continue to hear about these shocking revelations. A more sexually permissive society is no excuse for even one case of sexual abuse of a child by a priest.

Pope Benedict Defrocked Almost 400 Priests in 2 Years; New Documents Make Astonishing Revelation

VATICAN CITY
Christian Post
BY MORGAN LEE , CHRISTIAN POST REPORTER
January 17, 2014
Documents released by the Associated Press suggest that from 2011 to 2012 Pope Benedict worked to defrock nearly 400 priests on claims that the men molested children - news that comes in the aftermath of the U.N.'s harsh critique of the Catholic Church's handling of the global sex abuse scandal on Thursday.
The reports also demonstrate a shift in the Church's approach towards handling sex abuse cases, which historically were dealt with by switching the parish where the priest served, rather than involving local law enforcement or Vatican tribunals.
But in 2001, former Pope Benedict, then a cardinal, mandated that accused priests be put on trial in church tribunals, with a maximum penalty of being defrocked.
In 2005, the Vatican began reporting numbers of defrocked priests and authorized Church trials against 21 accused clerics. Since 2005, the numbers began to increase to between 300-400 cases a year in 2007 and 2008.
In 2010, following a wave of media coverage of sex abuse scandals in Europe, 527 cases were reported, though the Vatican did not report how many priests had been defrocked. In 2011 and 2012, however, 260 and 124 priests were defrocked respectively.

The Vatican Sex Abuse Hearing in One Word: Troubling

GENEVA
RH Reality Check
by Erin Matson, Editor at Large, RH Reality Check
January 17, 2014
Thursday, representatives from the Vatican went before a United Nations panel to discuss the way the Catholic Church has handled, and covered up, numerous instances of sexual abuse by priests worldwide.
The public record from this hearing, the first time representatives from the Holy See had been subjected to public questioning of this nature, offers little consolation to those who had been waiting for Pope Francis to offer meaningful reforms that might help him live up to his “Person of the Year” designation. Instead, we were given additional reasons to believe that the all-male hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church must not be entrusted to come up with a program that will resolve and redress sexual crimes within its flock. Further, we were given additional reasons to question the Vatican’s role in the international law community.
First, the hearing came a bit overdue. The Vatican ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990. After an initial report in 1994, the Holy See did not submit a progress report to the international body until 2012. It’s shocking that those reports and Thursday’s hearing took so long; those 18 years were filled with revelations of sex abuse by priests, associated cover-ups by Vatican officials, and international cries for accountability.
To those who think Pope Francis, the alleged reformer, has it covered, a closer examination of the facts suggests otherwise: It wasn’t until last year that the criminal code was updated to specify sexual violence against children as a crime. Further, a new commission established by the pope to address the crisis of child molestation by priests lacks judicial authority and instead focuses on providing care to victims of abuse—quite a sick idea, given that internal supervision mechanisms from the Vatican have no track record of providing appropriate care, much less justice, for the victims of abuse by Catholic priests.

U.N. Questions Vatican On Handling Of Sex Abuse Scandal

GENEVA
WBUR
[with audio]
By Deborah Becker January 17, 2014
BOSTON — Vatican officials faced intense questioning Thursday in Geneva, Switzerland, when a United Nations committee demanded answers about the church’s handling of the clergy sex abuse scandal.
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, representing the Vatican, said the church is committed to protecting children.
“The Holy See and local church structures in all parts of the world are committed to holding inviolable the dignity and entire person of every child: body, mind and spirit,” Tomasi said.
Helen McGonigle, a Connecticut attorney and clergy abuse survivor, joined WBUR’s Morning Edition to talk about her experience in Geneva, where she says she wanted to witness the first public questioning of Vatican officials about clergy abuse.

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Vatican denies report of 400 priests defrocked

VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
[Update: In spite of an earlier Vatican statement denying an Associated Press story that almost 400 priests had been defrocked for the sexual abuse of minors during 2011/2012, a bishop with knowledge of the statistics says the AP story was correct.]
John L. Allen Jr. | Jan. 17, 2014 NCR Today  (COMMENT:  John Allen is the Devil’s Twin when it comes to deceiving Catholics especially the stupid robot American Catholics, read more here   http://jp2army.blogspot.com   and 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.htm
In response to a story by The Associated Press asserting that Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests during 2011-2012 for the sexual abuse of minors, the Vatican released a statement Friday saying that the number in the AP story refers to the number of new cases opened during that span rather than the outcome of those cases.
The following is the full text of the statement from Jesuit Fr. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, in an NCR translation from Italian.
"Information diffused this evening by the Associated Press appears to be based on an incorrect reading of data published in the volume 'Activity of the Holy See 2011,' where there's a reference to the activity of the disciplinary office of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (p.466)."
"That volume speaks about the 612 new cases opened in 2012, which come from the entire world, including 418 cases involving abuse of minors."

 

Vatican defrocked 400 priests for molesting children

VATICAN CITY
Telegraph (UK)
Nearly 400 priests were defrocked by the Vatican over just two years for molesting children, according to a leaked document.
The statistics for 2011-12 show a dramatic increase over the 171 priests removed in 2008 and 2009, when the Vatican first provided details on the number of priests who have been defrocked. Prior to that, it had only publicly revealed the number of alleged cases of sexual abuse it had received.
The document was obtained by The Associated Press and was prepared from data the Vatican had been collecting to help the Holy See defend itself before a U.N. committee this week in Geneva.
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s U.N. ambassador in Geneva, referred to just one of the statistics in the course of eight hours of oftentimes pointed criticism and questioning from the U.N. human rights committee.
The statistics were compiled from the Vatican’s own annual reports about the activities of its various offices, including the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which handles sex abuse cases.
Although public, the annual reports are not readily available or sold outside Rome and are usually found in Vatican offices or Catholic university libraries.

 

APNewsBreak: Pope defrocked 400 priests in 2 years

VATICAN CITY
WCF Courier
By NICOLE WINFIELD and JOHN HEILPRIN
A document obtained by The Associated Press on Friday shows Pope Benedict XVI defrocked nearly 400 priests over just two years for sexually molesting children.
The statistics for 2011 and 2012 show a dramatic increase over the 171 priests removed in 2008 and 2009, when the Vatican first provided details on the number of priests who have been defrocked. Prior to that, it had only publicly revealed the number of alleged cases of sexual abuse it had received and the number of trials it had authorized.
While it's not clear why the numbers spiked in 2011, it could be because 2010 saw a new explosion in the number of cases reported in the media in Europe and beyond.
The document was prepared from data the Vatican had been collecting and was compiled to help the Holy See defend itself before a U.N. committee this week in Geneva.(COMMENT:  The Vatican suddenly manufactured these documents in order to divert UN attention away from demanding the actual numbers of thousands of pedophile priests that the Vatican has been covering-up for decades and to segue attention away from the actual numbers of hundreds of thousands of children abused by bestial JP2 Army – John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army – covered-up by Cardinal Ratzinger and Pope John Paul II in the 20^th century)  
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican's U.N. ambassador in Geneva, referred to just one of the statistics in the course of eight hours of oftentimes pointed criticism and questioning from the U.N. human rights committee.

The statistics were compiled from the Vatican's own annual reports about the activities of its various offices, including the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which handles sex abuse cases. Although public, the annual reports are not readily available or sold outside Rome and are usually found in Vatican offices or Catholic university libraries.

BEWARE OF THE MERLIN HANDS OF MAGICIAN POPES WHO CANNOT CLONE ANTS AND CATS - AND LIKEWISE CANNOT CLONE CHRIST'S FLESH AND BLOOD!

Pope Francis

 controls wars

 and Wall Street

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People, please STOP DONATING to the ORATORY and STOP LIGHTING CANDLES to St. Joseph and instead donate your money to Red Cross, Doctors without Borders, your local charities, and the homeless shelters of Montreal.

  God will listen more to your prayers in your acts of charity because they are better than material candles and money you give to the wealthy billionaire CSC religious Holy Cross family of Saint Brother Andre. If you were to face Christ on Judgement Day today, He will not ask you how many candles you have lit at the Oratory of St. Joseph, but how many poor people you have helped, as He has said, “Whatsoever you do to the least of my brethren, that you have also done to Me.”

   

ZEUS GIANT SAINT JOSEPH did NOTHING to stop pedophile priests of the Congregation de Sainte-Croix happening right before his very eyes for 50 years

If you live in Los Angeles, or elsewhere in the USA or in the world, and are planning a “pilgrimage” to the Oratory of St. Joseph or flying to the Vatican, DON'T GO and instead DONATE that pilgrimage money to the Red Cross or your local charity - or sponsor a poor student and pay for his or her school supplies and school lunch for a year, or feed a homeless person for a year at McDonald's,  instead of flying to Montreal to see the Oratory or the Vatican Mammon Beast - and God will listen more to your prayers in your act of mercy rather feeding the Vatican Mammon Beast or St. Joseph Oratory Mammon Beast copying the Vatican Titanic sinking in moral bankruptcy. http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/12/oratory-of-st-joseph-copy-vatican.html

Children are better sex educated reading the Los Angles files rather than wasting their time to attend the wizardry of the Mass where priests ceaselessly reiterate those old horrid stories of extinct people in the Bible, read here the Immoral Bible http://pope-ratz.blogspot.ca/2010_12_01_archive.html. 

It’s more important and more relevant for children to know the story of Eleuterio Ramos and all JP2 Army Vatican sex maniac rapists  priests of the 20^th century - than the ancient Bible stories irrelevant mythical figures like Jonah being swallowed by a whale, read here the Los Angeles Files http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/los-angeles-files-mahony-must-be-jailed.html
 

Oratory of Saint Joseph pedophile priests! Montreal: Second class-action suit targets Congrégation de Ste-Croix! Saints and Holy Cross cannot protect children! http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/11/oratory-of-saint-joseph-pedophile.html 

BOYCOTT Oratory of Saint Joseph! CANDLES to giant Zeus statues of St. Joseph and Brother Andre cannot protect children from CSC pedophiles

http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/01/boycott-oratory-of-saint-joseph-candles.html
 


Wealth of Vatican Billions: its history, sources, and assets today worldwide. BOYCOTT the Vatican Museum and boycott ALL donations to the Vatican Catholic Church Reign of Terror

http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2011/03/vatican-billions-holy-mass-tourism-for.html  

  

- 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

Billion Dollar Christ & Apostles in Red now playing in Vatican. Evil impact of Papal Conclave: epidemic violence against women & perpetuity of poor countries

http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/02/billion-dollar-christ-apostles-in-red.html

 Cardinal Ratzinger
The live true crucifix of the Holy See a.k.a. Vatican
 http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/07/argo-john-paul-ii-are-make-believe_11.html

Humankind breathes in God/oxygen 

- without need for priests and popes 

– read more in our related article in IDLE Oratory of St. Joseph   http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2013/11/oratory-of-saint-joseph-pedophile.html