Opus Dei Pope #2-Benedict XVI the Wolf within the Shepherd

Opus Dei Pope #2-Benedict XVI is the Wolf within the Shepherd and the classic Wolf in white Sheep's Clothing. Like the Big Bad Wolf all he shows is his face and his hands and he is covered from head to toe by haute couture Zeffirelli props to deceive the 1.1 billion Catholics. Even children are deceived by him because he is like fictitious Shrek. He has a media empire to prop up his deceptions like these ones we show below Opus Dei media spinners and journalists who are liars par excellence - John Allen of ncr, the Jesuits of America Magazine, Cardinal Mahony the Master of Deceit and the editor of Philadelphia Enquirer with their inordinate adulation of the Pope, and hundreds more worldwide.

"I am against homosexuality, but for pedophilia" said by John Paul II and Benedict XVi (image by Danish Cartoonist)






Opus Dei Pope #2-Benedict XVI the Pope of Pedophilia





BBC Documentary of Benedict XVI who covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army for 27 years.

Let us always remember:

Victims - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

Pearl Harbor - 3,000 victims - 170 planes - Admiral Yamamoto

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 5,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

USA Priest Pedophilia - 12,000 victims - 5,448 priests - John Paul II + Benedict XVI + Opus Dei (the new Roman Catholic Trinity!)


It is amazing how the the Opus Dei Pope #2-Benedict XVI physically resembles a wolf with his wolverine eyes. Benedict XVI is indeed the Shark Pope who sounds and speak as a GAY but he is being covered-up and praised as a "Shepherd" by Opus Dei media spinners -- Opus Dei-Pinocchio John Allen of National Catholic Register and the Jesuit-Elephants of America Magazine, Jesuit Elephants tied by the Octopus Dei-leash.

We featured the Octopus Dei-lies of John Allen at the Jesuit General Congregation in Rome and this man from Arizona also exposed more John Allen media spin.
These journalists - liars at their best - compare the Shark Pope and Wolf pope to a "Shepherd like St. Peter". They are all in denial that Benedict XVI is the very same Cardinal Ratzinger who was the Criminal-Pope who led the crime of cover-up of the more than 5,485 pedophiles of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army . They are all in media spin to make SNAP and all survivors like Dust in the Wind in the Church Crimes archives.

One of the survivors said the Pope's words of apology and 25 minutes meeting with survivors "did nothing" - see "No Progress" below.

Really, 25 minutes for 27 years of cover-up is like one-minute for one-year of abuse. John Paul II was pope for 26 years and he and Ratzinger and the Opus Dei were so busy cooking up saints in the Vatican-saint-factory and suppressing all victims. They fired the real prophet Tom Doyle and recently had Bishop Burke forbid him to speak in St. Louis. It was the secular lawyers who brought some Justice to these victims with a $2 Billion pay-off from the Church.

No Progress

Mark Serrano has been central in the battle with the Catholic church since the sexual abuse scandal erupted publicly six years ago. Serrano was among the first to talk about the years he was sexually abused as a child at St. Joseph Church by the former pastor, Hanley. He remains a strong advocate for abuse survivors and is one of the leading voices of SNAP.

"There is one man on the face of the earth who can make a real difference," said Serrano, who lives in Virginia. "This week, that man let us down. Everyone I know sees the meeting as a public relations stunt with no meaning."

Serrano said SNAP had been pressing for a meeting with the pope and several months ago wrote for such a meeting on behalf of the 7,000 abuse survivors in the U.S. Instead, Serrano said, the pope met with a select group and did not inform SNAP in advance of the meeting.

"I take nothing away from those who met with him," Serrano said. "But for the pope to come to America for the first time in three years, when the American Catholic church has endured one of the worst scandals in its history and for the pope to address the crisis two or three times and meet with a select group of survivors doesn't result in a safer environment for a single child on earth."

"It did nothing," Serrano said.

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These are some of the biggest tentacles of the Opus Dei media spinners who serve the WORLD DOMINATION AGENDA of Opus Dei: National Catholic Reporter with Pinocchio John Allen, America Magazine the Jesuit of New York. The Jesuits have some of the worst priest-pedophiles in history!



NY Welcomes Pope Benedict XVI
Opus Dei Awakens to Pope’s Visit

© Susan Gosine
Apr 13, 2008

Protest, chants and cheers for Pope's visit. Thousands of police officers deployed to keep Pope Benedict safe during his three-day visit to New York City.

New Yorkers are gearing up for the first visit of Pope Benedict XV1 next week. Opus Dei is preparing two giant banners, millions of faithful are expected to flock to the city and the NYPD and Secret Service are pooling all their resources to ensure the visit passes without incident. And New York City Catholic teachers are planning to greet the Pope with picket lines and chants.

The Opus Dei Headquarters in New York is practicing chants, cheers and songs to perform for the pope. The group hopes to attract his attention with two 30-foot banners. One will portray the New York City skyline with the words “Omnes cum Petro,” calling on all Christians to see the pope as the head of the church. It was taken from the opening of an Opus Dei prayer. The second banner will portray the pope’s coat of arms splayed across an American flag with the words “Gratias tibi Benedictus XV1” (“Thank you, Pope Benedict”).

The New York City Police Department will deploy thousands of officers to form a tight security net around the pope to ensure his safety. The bullet proof Pope mobile will be surrounded by armed plain clothes and uniformed officers with thousands others interspersed throughout the city and in the throngs. Snipers will be positioned on roof tops and national security helicopters will patrol the air space over the city. Streets will be blocked and traffic diverted. Subway services and buses will be affected. Bags and backpacks will be searched. Manholes and garbage will bins checked. Every measure will be taken to ensure that Pope Benedict XV1 will be safe as a babe in its mother’s womb while visiting New York City




The Octopus Dei media journalists-liars par excellence!

The story behind the pope's meeting with sex abuse victims; Cardinal O'Malley interview

UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter

All Things Catholic by John L. Allen, Jr.
Friday, April 25, 2008 - Vol. 7, No. 32

Prior to Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States, some handlers worried that the American media would impose the sexual abuse crisis as the trip's dominant storyline. As it turns out, those fears were misplaced -- the media didn't impose the crisis upon the pope, he imposed it on us.

During a papal trip, the Vatican press corps gathers early each day, usually around 5 a.m., to receive advance copies of that day's speeches. Saturday morning in New York, waiting outside the room where the speeches would be handed out, I bumped into a prominent Italian vaticanista who actually grumbled that it would have been better if the pope had given one substantial speech on the crisis, rather than scattering his references across several days. This journalist said he had come prepared to write about several topics, but as it was, four of his five stories so far had led with the sexual abuse crisis -- because, he said, the pope himself kept bringing it up.

Certainly Benedict's five public references to the crisis, beginning with his lengthy answer to my question aboard the papal plane on April 15, were destined to keep the story in the headlines. Yet his most dramatic gesture actually came off-camera, in a private encounter with five survivors of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests. That session took place on Thursday, April 17, in the chapel of the nunciature, or Vatican embassy, in Washington, D.C.

As obvious and long overdue a step as that meeting may seem to some, this was one of those moments in history that could just as easily not have happened. In light of opposition from both the Vatican and some quarters of the American hierarchy, insiders insist that the meeting was a personal decision of Pope Benedict XVI, not a mere formality placed on his schedule by advisors.(This is an excerpt from John Allen the Vaticanista Opus Dei LIAR numero uno!)

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This article below is from the Jesuits of New York covering up for their Jesuit Pedophile brother of Alaska who molested an entire village of little boys -- he left no little boy unmolested by him,. Way to go Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius!

The Jesuit editors say "With his gentle voice and peaceful demeanor, Benedict did not fail to offer a prophetic word to the world." The truth of the matter is Benedict XVI has the most GAYISH voice among all world leaders. He is GAY inside and therefore he speaks as a GAY. See how the Jesuits manipulate words to cover-up the GAY "morally intrinsic evil" voice and GAY body of their "Pastor and Shepherd". Christ said "what comes out in the mouth springs from the heart" and the Pope's heart is GAY as he lives 24/7 with his GAY private secretary. Benedict XVI does not have a "gentle voice" but has an authentic GAY voice and GAY demeanors because he is abona fide GAY! He is as effeminate as it can get. Get Real Jesuit-elephants! Benedict XVI is GAY Pope the Wolf hidden within the Shepherd!

Notice in this article below how the Jesuits Opus Dei media-spin with their Jesuit words of deceit arsenals and make the pope appear like a "Shepherd" when the fact is he is and was a wolf for over 27 years and he should be put to jail with Cardinal Law and all the Cardinals and Bishops who covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army!

Pastor and Prophet

UNITED STATES
America

By The editors | MAY 5, 2008

The enduring impression Pope Benedict XVI left with most Americans following his recent visit to Washington, D.C., and New York was of a pastor ministering to his flock. In repeated gestures, from meeting with the victims of sexual abuse to blessing the disabled and speaking with the survivors of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, he showed his desire to heal those who are wounded and broken.

His numerous comments on sexual abuse by members of the clergy demonstrated awareness of the depth of the hurt to victims and their families as well as to the American Catholic Church as a whole. From his confession of shame to reporters during the flight to the United States to his spontaneous acknowledgment of his own human weakness at the Mass at New York’s St. Patrick’s Cathedral, he signaled that like Peter, he is an ordinary Christian who struggles to be a disciple.

Though commentators have often depicted his German heritage as a source of rigidity and heavyhandedness, Benedict’s Bavarian Gemütlichkeit revealed itself with a relaxed smile, and it projected warm joy throughout his public appearances. His natural graciousness enabled him to look those he encountered in the eyes and to listen to them attentively. Though he is known to prefer more traditional liturgical styles himself, he appeared to relish the multilingual, multiethnic liturgical events prepared for him, which are so characteristic of the United States today. His prayer at ground zero was a gem of quiet commemoration, and the visit to the Park East Synagogue on the eve of Passover was a gesture of undiminished goodwill toward the Jewish community.

Just as he came to heal, Pope Benedict also came to unify. His homilies and addresses allowed no gloating by one church faction over another. In addressing the bishops, for instance, he balanced pro-life issues with social justice concerns. “Is it consistent,” he asked, “to profess our beliefs in church on Sunday, and then during the week to promote business practices or medical procedures contrary to those beliefs? Is it consistent for practicing Catholics to ignore or exploit the poor and marginalized, to promote sexual behavior contrary to Catholic moral teaching, or to adopt positions that contradict the right to life of the human being from conception to natural death?” Though Pope Benedict’s critique of American culture—of individualism, secularism, materialism and the cult of untrammeled freedom—was clear, his reproof was consistently gentle: questioning rather than condemning, edifying rather than hectoring.

With his gentle voice and peaceful demeanor, Benedict did not fail to offer a prophetic word to the world. At the United Nations General Assembly, he upheld the necessity of the organization for the defense of human rights and gave new prominence to “the duty to protect,” that is, the responsibility of the international community to intervene when a government either fails to protect its own people or is itself guilty of violating their rights. He made clear that the United Nations serves human solidarity by making the strong responsible for defending the weak.

Pope Benedict also extrapolated a seldom discussed teaching of Pope John XXIII in the encyclical Pacem in Terris—that the legitimacy of governments depends on their respect for and defense of the rights of their people. It is not “intervention,” he argued, that should be interpreted as “a limitation on sovereignty,” but rather “nonintervention” that causes harm out of indifference to the victims of oppression. With international missions foundering in long-lasting conflicts like those in Congo and Sudan, however, the pope’s remarks place the burden on the international community to build the capacity to deal with major humanitarian emergencies.

While Pope Benedict showed appreciation for American culture, especially for the flowering of liberty, and for U.S. Catholics, he also laid bare our temptations and failings. He spoke to young people about the “callousness of heart” that leads to “drug and substance abuse, homelessness, poverty, racism, violence and degradation—especially of girls and women.” He also warned against relativism, “which, in disregarding truth, pursues what is false and wrong,” leading to “addiction, to moral or intellectual confusion, to hurt, to a loss of self-respect, even to despair....”

This portrait is unflattering. Americans may find it hard to look in the mirror Benedict held up to us. We may want to avert our eyes. But the challenge of the visit is to learn from Pope Benedict’s criticism as well as his praise, take it to heart and find new ways to redeem the shadow side of our American character. For, as he reminded us, with our eyes fixed on the saints whose lives enable us to “soar freely along the limitless expanse of the horizon of Christian discipleship,” we too can live the Gospel life in 21st-century America.

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This is from the evil-fox Cardinal Mahony , the "Master of Cunning and Deceit" whom we have featured in depth at the John Paul II Millstone. This Cardinal should be in jail for covering up the most number of Pedophiles Priests in America.

Reflection: The Pope's Pastoral Visit

LOS ANGELES (CA)
The Tidings

By Cardinal Roger M. Mahony

Pope Benedict XVI came as our Pastor and as our Shepherd, and he spoke to us of our most human joys and sorrows, our hopes and our failures. He came in the name of Jesus Christ and he reminded us "to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus" [Hebrews 12:2].

Our Holy Father did not hesitate to lift up for us challenges and difficulties which our Church was facing here in the United States, but he never left us alone with our failures and problems. He stood with us, acknowledged the shame of sinful behavior, and urged us forward in the name of our Risen Lord.

He openly spoke of the scourge of sexual misconduct on the part of clergy over these past decades, he visited with victims of that abuse, he reminded us of our immigrant roots and urged us to be present to today's immigrant peoples and their plight, he spent quiet prayerful time at Ground Zero, he met with those young people suffering with physical disabilities, he spoke of the futility of violence and war, and he did not hesitate to alert us to the conflict between the Gospel of Jesus and our contemporary society.

Time and again he led us back to our friendship with Jesus Christ, and urged us to recognize the presence, love, and mercy of Jesus surrounding us.

For me personally, the two most memorable moments of grace with our Holy Father were ones shrouded in quiet prayer, silence and few public words: his meeting with victims of sexual abuse in Washington, D.C., and his visit to Ground Zero in New York. Both of these events had the dignity of silence, the depth of sadness, and the promise of hope-filled prayer - and both captured deeply the most wounded parts of our Church and of our country.

Yes, the great outdoor Masses were inspiring, the meetings with ecumenical and interfaith leaders were moving, and the gathering with young people and seminarians was memorable. But the power of those times of quiet healing moved me more deeply than all the rest of the Holy Father's many public appearances.

At first, I didn't know why. After all, concelebrating Mass with the Pope and tens of thousands of people was surely uplifting and a source of joy for us all. Slowly the realization became real: those times of quiet healing grace were exactly what I needed at this time in my own journey of faith. My own mistakes and failures over the years had continued to burden me - a weight that I failed to realize was holding me down.

The gentle and quiet manner of Pope Benedict touched me in the most vulnerable depths of my soul. I felt uplifted by our Shepherd and my heavy burdens somehow seemed lighter. How did our Holy Father accomplish this? Through his consistent call to faithful discipleship in Jesus Christ, and his reassurance that we are truly saved by hope in our loving God! His recent Encyclical Letter, Spe Salvi [Saved by Hope], continues to point us forward and upward on our journeys. He does not allow us to remain mired in our sins and faults, but instead, kept repeating the call to "true freedom" in Jesus who has come as "the way, the truth, and the life" for each one of us.

I return to Los Angeles a different disciple of Jesus than when I left a week ago. Thank you, Lord, for sending us not only the Vicar of Christ and the Successor of Peter, but also a brother and friend who knows Jesus personally and gave us six extraordinary days of grace and hope!


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Another Opus Dei media spinner. The Pope covered-up priest-pedophiles for 27 years and now suddenly he is "solving it". No, it was secular lawyers and SNAP who solved it and the Pope is too late in apologizing. His words are hollow like if Osama ben Laden would apologize and he would be hailed as Muslim Prophet for 9/11.

This article is Octopus Dei DECEPTION at its ZENITH! This journalist-liar writes of the Pope as if he was a demi-god.

Back Channels: Benedict issues lofty call to eliminate evil of abuse

PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Philadelphia Inquirer

By Kevin Ferris
Editor of the Editorial Page

Pope Benedict XVI didn't raise just the issue of child sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. He raised the bar on how to respond to the crisis.

There was no 10-point to-do list. Instead, appropriately, he took the discussion to a higher level. The question is, can he and his church live up to his words and deeds?

First, of course, was the condemnation. In his meeting with bishops, he called the sexual abuse of minors a "deep shame" that has caused "enormous pain." He spoke of "clerics [who] have betrayed their priestly obligations and duties by such gravely immoral behavior." He mentioned the need to "eliminate this evil." (Octopus Dei DECEPTION at its zenith!)

The victims of this evil, he told the bishops, must be a high priority: "It is your God-given responsibility as pastors to bind up the wounds caused by every breach of trust, to foster healing, to promote reconciliation, and to reach out with loving concern to those so seriously wronged."

He led by example, holding an emotional meeting with victims the next day. There were tears, prayers and blunt talk. "I told him that he has a cancer growing in his ministry and needs to do something about it," Bernie McDaid told CBS News after the meeting.

Benedict was rightly applauded both for this meeting and for his outspokenness on the issue during his U.S. visit. But victims, their advocates and others were also right to immediately raise questions:

Along with counseling and other outreach efforts, would the church act more forcefully against priests who abused children? Or the bishops and cardinals who both enabled and covered up the crimes for decades? Would the church be more forthcoming about the cover-ups, to help ensure they can't happen again? Would it stop fighting efforts to let survivors seek civil redress, which could provide a fuller picture of the abuse and what the pope called the church's "very badly handled" response?

Benedict is aware that appropriate action by the church can do more than help victims of priests. He told the bishops, "By acknowledging and confronting the problem when it occurs in an ecclesial setting, you can give a lead to others, since this scourge is found not only within your dioceses, but in every sector of society. It calls for a determined, collective response."

Again, the pope didn't tell bishops how to act, but it will be hard to ignore his words as they weigh a response to legislation that could benefit society at large but hurt dioceses financially. It will be even harder if the church reconsiders its own statute of limitations on sexual abuse allegations, a possibility raised by a top Vatican official, Cardinal William J. Levada, in an interview last week with the New York Times.

Some of Benedict's most poignant statements came at a meeting with seminarians in Yonkers, N.Y., in which he never specifically mentioned sexual abuse. He was urging young people to follow the path of U.S. saints, pointing out the difference that loving actions can have in the lives of others as compared with the devastating, far-reaching consequences of evil acts.

"What happens when people, especially the most vulnerable, encounter a clenched fist of repression or manipulation rather than a hand of hope? . . . Here, the dreams and longings that young people pursue can so easily be shattered or destroyed. . . . While the causes of these problems are complex, all have in common a poisoned attitude of mind which results in people being treated as objects - a callousness of heart takes hold which first ignores, then ridicules, the God-given dignity of every human being. Such tragedies also point to what might have been and what could be, were there other hands - your hands - reaching out."

And there, at St. Joseph Seminary, he urged a path for young people to follow:

"Look about you with Christ's eyes, listen with his ears, feel and think with his heart and mind. Are you ready to give all as he did for truth and justice? . . . We must respond with a renewed social action that stems from the universal love that knows no bounds. In this way, we ensure that our works of mercy and justice become hope in action for others."

That's a high calling, and certainly Benedict himself knows the difficulty of achieving such a standard amid the pressures and responsibilities of daily life. Nevertheless, his words, his actions and his message of hope suggest that he is ready to lead and help his church meet the challenge.

Read the pope's U.S. speeches and homilies at http://go.philly.com/Pope_Speeches.


Benedict XVI the Wolf within the Shepherd.

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BRAVO Bill Maher

Bill Maher called Pope Benedict XVI a Nazi and the head of a "child-abusing religious cult"...

If you listen to Maher, the pope is just a doddering old man in a white dress and funny hat who heads an international network of pedophiles, homophobes and misogynists.

Bill Maher was sure he could spew his filthy vitriol the week before Benedict made his first official visit to the United States because he knew he'd have the support of every person with a religious grudge.

Victims of sexual abuse were in his corner because they believe the church is still run by pedophiles, even though the percentage of abusive clergy pales in comparison to the anonymous innocent, and most of the documented cases occurred decades ago. Gays and lesbians cheered because they see the pope as a vicar of bigotry, mistaking the condemnation of sin as condemnation of the sinner.

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Yes, Maher's Catholic Rant Was Unfair

As for Maher, he called Catholicism "a child-abusing religious cult . . . the Bear Stearns of organized pedophilia" and claimed that "if the pope, instead of a religious figure, was the CEO of a chain of nationwide day care centers who had thousands of employees who had been caught molesting children and then covering it up, he would have been in jail."

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The people's taxes pay for the cost of the deceptions of the Big Bad Wolf Pope Benedict XVI

The secret costs of papal visits

National Secular Society (United Kingdom)
25 April 2008
By Muriel Fraser

In Australia protests are mounting against the unknown bill for the papal trip planned for July. As a visiting head of state, Benedict XVI will have his accommodation and (the massive) security paid for by his hosts, but the Australian taxpayers are not allowed to know what it will cost them. In preparation for the Pope’s visit to Australia, the premier of New South Wales had a financial statement drawn up which he says proves how advantageous this will be. However, Premier Morris Iemma, who happens to be Catholic, then promptly exempted this report from the Freedom of Information Act, claiming it would be against the public interest to disclose it. (Courier-Mail, 10.4.2008)

Occasionally, however, some of these carefully-guarded figures do come out. Two years ago, on the occasion of Benedict’s first papal trip, the president of the Bavarian Police Union, Harald Schneider, got a look at the cost of the Pope’s security. This led Schneider to remark that it would have been cheaper if the German taxpayers had given every Catholic pilgrim who wanted it, a round-trip ticket to go and see the Pope in Rome. (Mittelbayerische Zeitung, 1.2.2006).

Of course, in the end both the Australian and the German taxpayers can afford to subsidise the pope. But unfortunately, papal trips are not confined to lands like these. The much-travelled John Paul II visited 129 different countries, few of them as wealthy as Australia and Germany. In 1990, for instance, he made a “state visit” to Tanzania. At that time the former nun, Maria Lauda/Majella Lenzen, was working in a Tanzanian hospital. (She was later expelled from the Sisters of the Precious Blood for distributing condoms to prostitutes.) As she relates, “Suddenly the order came for every villager to pay 1000 Tanzanian shillings for the necessary security measures. That’s a month’s wages for a family. But, in order to save face, almost everyone paid up. Even when they had to incur large debts”. (Bild, 4.2.2000)

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These are articles from the secular media who see and say things as they are and do not LIE and media spin for Octopus Dei.

The Pope Has Come, but Not Change

By Jorge Ramos
Dos Mundos
April 24, 2008

http://dosmundos.com/welcome/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1690&Itemid=69

The only reason the visit of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States attracted any attention is that it was his first as pope -- nothing more. There are no changes and no new debates to be engaged in. After all, Joseph Ratzinger is known for defending the Roman Catholic Church's most traditional values. He travels a lot, but he doesn't change.

"Remember, the Catholic Church is not in a continuous process of change," said Los Angeles Cardinal Roger Mahoney in a recent interview.


That's true.

And perhaps that might explain why so many Catholics in the United States are leaving the church. According to a Pew Research Center study on religion in America, three out of nine people raised as Catholics have deserted the Church. And where do they go? The majority leave for Christian congregations with more modern practices that allow pastors to marry, women to have greater access to the same positions as men, and human sexuality to be accepted with fewer restrictions.

The Catholic Church, for instance, continues to ban the use of condoms. They're not accepted as birth control methods even for married couples, nor even to avoid contracting AIDS. And Benedict XVI, who was the prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and whose task was to set the moral tone for the Catholic Church worldwide -- will not be the pope who approves the use of prophylactics.

"The Pope has said many times that it is more important to change mentality and respect the dignity of each individual," Mahoney said, "especially with regard to women."

But it is difficult to get this message across in a country where young people start having sex at age 15 or 16.

Mahoney, who oversees America's largest diocese, knows that.

"It is very difficult to follow Jesus Christ; to follow his teachings. But everything is focused on respect for each person's dignity."

It's not surprising that Benedict XVI has decided to visit Washington and New York, but not Los Angeles. It was in the latter city where most of the sexual abuse cases against children and minors took place. The Los Angeles Archdiocese spent $660 million to settle 508 sexual abuse cases, facing near bankruptcy. Most of the incidents occurred during the 1950s, '60s and '70s.

Popes do not grant interviews to the press. Nor do they equivocate. Or at least that is what the defenders of papal infallibility believe. But the reality is that it would have been extremely difficult for Benedict XVI to visit Los Angeles without being grilled by the press on this subject.

Ratzinger was one of the principal officials in the Catholic Church when it was the Vatican's policy to handle the sexual abuse complaints internally and in secret. Pedophile priests weren't reported to the police. Many cases ended tragically, and guilty priests remained unpunished with the church simply transferring them to a different parish.

"Why did the Catholic Church hide the criminals?" I asked Mahoney.

"There were a lot of problems in those three decades, and we do not know why," responed the spiritual leader of more than three million. Then, he added: "We have taken many steps to protect everyone in the Catholic Church."

Ratzinger does not enjoy high popularity in the United States. Only 52 out of 100 Americans have a favorable opinion of him, according to a poll taken last month by the Pew Research Center. On the other hand, 76 percent of Americans had positive views about John Paul II (in June, 1996).

Perhaps it's a matter of age. John Paul II was elected pope when he was 58 years old. Benedict XVI -- who was described by Mahoney as "very intelligent but always humble" -- began his papacy at 78. And save exceptional cases, men that age, whatever their religion, generally don't change the principles that have guided them throughout their lives.

That is why Benedict XVI will not be the pope of change. And, if his attire is any indication, it is more likely he will ratify the values of the past. The pope customarily wears capes that for decades have not been used even in the Vatican itself.

The pope's mission, Mahoney reminded me toward the end of our talk, is to take the Gospel – not radical changes -- to today's world. Agreed. However, I am still perplexed by the traveler who arrives in a new country and expects everyone around him to change ... except himself.


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Pope's Apologies for Pedophile Priests Are Too Little, Too Late. Nothing Will Change

By Sandy Sand
OpEd News
April 22, 2008

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_sandy_sa_080422_pope_s_apologies_for.htm

While some Catholics are hopeful that Benedict "Arnold" XVI's acknowledgement of crimes committed against children by pedophile priests will bring about change, others are doubtful.

Doubtful wins.

Just as Benedict chose to close his eyes to U.S. torture policies and other crimes committed against humanity during his visit here, his blind-eye policy to pedophile priests and subsequence apology are anti-everything people of sanity and reason hold dear.

There will be no changes and the abuse and cover-ups will continue as long as the pope continues to give Bernard Law sanctuary in Rome and Roger Mahoney is running around free in Los Angeles along with every priest who committed child abuse or covered up for these criminals, including the pope, who is still protecting them.

There will be no change as long as Catholics continue to support these vile criminals with their financial contributions.

There will be no change as long as Catholics flock by the thousands to see and hear the pope, kiss his skirt and the rings on his malevolent fingers that protected guilty priests and did not protect the church's children — leaving their innocent souls to perish in the parishes.

The will be no change as long as glassy-eyed mothers with babes in arms allow those same stained, be-ringed fingers touch the heads of their children.

The sight of one such mother doing just that was revolting beyond description. After the unholy blessing she went before the television cameras, teary-eyed and quivering with exaltation, because that evil man touched her child's head and bestowed his "blessings" on him.

One must wonder if she ever considered that those same hands gave hundreds of priest a papal pass; a get out of jail free card for unspeakable crimes against children. That this same man will do it again, and that innocent babe in her arms may be the victim of yet another pedophile priest. Obviously she didn't or she never would have gone within a million miles of the man.

The will be no change as long as Los Angeles residents — from the rich and powerful to the most humble — continue to flock to Mahoney's grossly ugly Taj Mahal built to the specifications of his ego in downtown L.A.; built with the money earned off the sweat of their backs for his glorification.

There will be no change as long as those same people, especially the rich and powerful like the mayor, line up at every opportunity to be photographed with Mahoney, whose oh, too clever lawyers plied every trick in their legal books to avoid turning over church records to the district attorney, leaving Mahoney and all the pedophile priests free to avoid showing up for their reservations at the gray bar hotel.

All of that left many Angelinos suspicious of the D.A.'s legal abilities and wondering if he did everything he could do, and if he didn't, why didn't he?

No, there will be no change.

Pope Benedict "Arnold" XVI flew home to the Vatican surely smiling a tight-lipped sneering grin of a smile all the way, knowing he once again pulled the wool over the sheep's eyes.

Before the popejet's wheels touch the ground all the fake promises, all the insincere apologies were more than likely to have been scuttled into the Atlantic to sleep with the fishes — never to be heard from again.

There's nothing anybody can about any of this except be revolted by watching this man get away with murdering souls and destroying lives.

He's your pope and the cardinals are your leaders.

If you choose to forgive and forget, as they will forget all their promises to change, you have no one but yourselves to blame when it happens again, and an entire new generation of children — your children — are victimized.

Washington Post: http://www.suntimes.com/news/24-7/907531,CST-NWS-crime22.article

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Victim of abuse thinks little of pope's apology
By Jeffery Kurz , Record-Journal staff
04/27/2008

CHESHIRE - When Pope Benedict XVI visited the United States for the first time, he expressed remorse over the sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the American church. The pope met with a handful of victims and, during Mass at Washington's Nationals Park before 50,000 people, said "no words of mine could describe the pain and harm inflicted by such abuse."

Though surprised that the pope so directly spoke about the issue, Jim Hackett remains unimpressed. The 44-year old computer programmer, who lives in Cheshire, went public in 2005 with his story of being sexually abused three times by the same priest in 1976, when he was an altar boy and middle school student at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Hamden.

Hackett considers the pope's comments public relations "spin."

"Now he's saying he's sorry, again," said Hackett. "They're trained to be consoling."

Hackett was among 43 victims sharing $22 million in a settlement of abuse claims with the Archdiocese of Hartford.

The pope's words ring hollow because the church continues to work to prevent abuse claims from coming forward, he said.

"Now that it's out there, how are they going to protect their image?" he said. "The only way to do that is to say we're going to handle this. To come out and say he's sorry about it is disingenuous."

Hackett, who was included in a victims' photography exhibit at a SoHo art gallery during the pope's visit, waited three decades before going public with his story.

In an e-mail message following an interview at a Cheshire restaurant, he explained why he felt it was ultimately necessary to speak out.

"I think it is important for people to understand, not only that these things are happening and being covered up by those who purport to be a moral compass for society, but, also people need to understand what a lasting effect the abuse has on the victims," he wrote.

"Victims are subjected to a lifetime of internal strife that causes low self esteem, and in many cases self-destructive behavior often resulting in alcoholism, drug abuse, and even suicide."

Since the pope's visit, victims from across the nation have been calling in for the first time to the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said Beth McCabe, co-leader of the organization's Connecticut chapter, which has about 75 members.

"What's really interesting to me is that every single survivor I talk to, they think they are the only ones," said McCabe, a 59-year-old Canton resident who was abused by a priest when she was growing up in Long Island.

"It is just such a betrayal," McCabe said. "Survivors are dealing with it on a sexual level, an emotional level, and most importantly on a spiritual level. We were taught they were God's messengers."

The pope's comments were "a small step that is coming way too late," McCabe said. "Yes, it's good he said those things, but it's taken the church so long to acknowledge the pain and suffering of the survivors, and there's a lot of cynicism from the survivors."

"Unless there's some very concrete action that follows, his words will be meaningless," she said.

Hackett describes himself today as "a struggling Catholic." He and his wife and two daughters no longer attend church services.

"I believe in God and the Bible and what it says about how you should behave," he said.

Hackett was in the seventh grade when the first abuse occurred. Before he was molested, he was an excellent student; afterward, he struggled, with C's and D's, he said.

"I'm lying in bed at night pissed off at the world, thinking about how I'm going to bash this guy's head in," he recalled. "It definitely takes the zest for life right out of you."

Even though his parents complained to the school, the priest was allowed to stay on. The priest was Hackett's gym teacher in the eighth grade.

"It would have been difficult enough if he had disappeared from my life after I'd turned him in," Hackett said.

The Rev. Louis Paturzo, whom Hackett accused of molesting him, was stripped of his priestly faculties following the settlement, according to published reports.

It wasn't until he was about 18 that Hackett said he felt like he could get on with his life.

"As years went by I'd still go to Mass, but I'd still be thinking about that," said Hackett, referring to the sexual abuse that had taken place in the back of the altar.

When friends of his were killed in an accident, Hackett said he wanted to pray for them, but found himself too haunted by the memory of his experience. "My faith was tainted by that," he said.

For years, Hackett kept the experience mostly to himself. He had been considering filing an anonymous, or John Doe, complaint against the church when in 2002 he watched an account of the priest scandal on television news. The memories flooded back, "and I thought, should I come out?" Hackett said.

"Not from the perspective of what happened to me, but of little kids," he said.

"I decided at that point I wanted to come out," he said. He contacted the Bridgeport firm of Tremont & Shelton, which was handling cases of clergy sex abuse victims. The settlement with the Archdiocese of Hartford was reached in October 2005.

"My whole thing was getting the story out there," he said. "I didn't want the money."

In a statement released when the settlement was reached, Hackett said: "While I am grateful that the diocese has offered this compensation, I want to make it perfectly clear that no amount of money can replace what was taken from me at the hands of a child molester who wore a Roman collar and called himself, 'Father.' No financial compensation can even begin to make up for the horror that I endured and the subsequent feelings of loneliness and rage that are all too common for the victims of such atrocities against children."

Tremont & Shelton has represented more than 100 victims since the firm started handling church abuse cases in 1993. Many of the priests involved in settlements are still within the church, said Cindy Robinson, a Tremont & Shelton attorney.

Many victims are unable to be as articulate as Hackett when it comes to talking about what happened to them, Robinson said. "There are many people who will never have a whole life," she said.

"It takes a lot of courage to come out and talk to the media the way he has," she said.

In his e-mail message, Hackett wrote: "every time a story is published about survivors of abuse, more victims come forward seeking help in attaining the empowerment that I have been fortunate enough to finally find within myself."

During his five-day visit to the U.S., the pope said it's important "that those who have suffered be given loving pastoral attention."

"The pope said he expected churches to reach out to victims," said McCabe. "They, quite frankly, treat us as lepers."

"None of us will ever, ever get over this," she said.

The Archdiocese of Hartford did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

The Connecticut chapter of the Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests is on the Internet, at www.snapct.org.

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CHURCH NEEDS TO ACT ON SEX ABUSE
Regional Commentary
Philadelphia Inquirer
Posted on Wed, Apr. 23, 2008

CHURCH NEEDS TO ACT ON SEX ABUSE

By Maureen Paul Turlish

Pope Benedict XVI last week lamented his "deep shame" over the clergy sex-abuse scandal, decrying the "enormous pain" that individuals and communities have suffered from "gravely immoral behavior" by priests. He vowed to "do what is possible so this cannot happen again in the future."

Do what is possible?

Not one bishop has been removed from office because of his own complicity, collusion or cover-up of the church's continuing sexual-abuse problems. Nor has anyone been forced to resign for violating Canon Law or criminal or civil laws.

Even when the Archdiocese of Boston imploded in 2002, church authorities were quick to say former Archbishop Bernard Law's resignation had nothing to do with his leadership style.

Do what is possible?

Some bishops in their own dioceses continue to fight the release of records, even the names and locations of known predators, in their episcopal jurisdictions. The Portland, Oregon, Archdiocese has been dribbling records out to the public as recently as last week while the Archdiocese of Los Angeles continues to oppose releasing its thousands of files.

Rest assured that the institutional church's loud protestations of commitment to victims of sexual abuse in the future offer neither absolution nor justice for the sins and the crimes of the past.

The "scandal" that attaches to the church's sexual abuse problems is that there was, in fact, a cover-up of unimaginable proportions that aided and abetted the continued sexual abuse and molestation of thousands of children, as well as young men, women and vulnerable adults.

Do what is possible?

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has hailed diocesan programs across the country celebrating this month as Child Abuse Awareness Month. "We can never rest when it comes to protecting children and teenagers," said Bishop Gregory Aymond, chairman of the conference's Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People.

However, Catholic conferences and church lobbyists in such states as Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Colorado and Ohio have been ruthless in their opposition to the complete removal of statutes of limitation regarding the sexual abuse of minors.

Superior Court Judge Robert B. Young ruled last Wednesday that Delaware's Child Victims Act does not violate the state constitution, based on the fact that federal courts already have set a precedent for upholding similar laws. The act was passed in 2007 to eliminate the civil statute of limitations for child-sexual abuse and to allow a two-year window during which previously barred suits could be filed.

Removing statutes of limitations is the single most effective method of holding sexual predators - and any possibly complicit or enabling individuals or institutions - accountable along with the inclusion of "window legislation" such as Delaware's to bring forth previously time-barred cases of abuse.

I love my church, and together with Pope Benedict XVI I am ashamed, deeply ashamed of what has been done to children in God's name. I fully expect my church leadership to initiate actions that more faithfully follow their words.

This is possible.

Anything less is "sounding brass and tinkling cymbals" (1 Corinthians 13:1-2) because words without action remain hollow.
Sister Maureen Paul Turlish of Delaware is a victims' advocate and educator.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/pa/18035269.html

Benedict XVI th's Words Mean NOTHING

www.bishop-accountability.org/abusetracker for daily verified coverage on why no laity should be donating for any reason, until many HUNDREDS of aid and abetting and pedophile enabling Bishops & Cardinals, are each removed from office, each canonically censored, and each placed under life time house arrest, like Marciel, founder and proven pedophile of the Mexican Cult-Like Legion of Christ was, or alternatively, each are irrevocably EXCOMMUNICATED (and this is a mild punishment considering what these EVIL miters and red hats each really deserve).

Saluti e tutti e ciao,

Albino Lucani
JP I, Reporting From Heaven, Where There Is NO SIGN Of JP II, who appointed 99f these pedophile enabling clerics.
Albino Lucani, Holy See, Vatican City

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Bill Maher in YouTube on the Pope as the cult leader of THOUSANDS of Pedophile Priests and if he were a CEO of daycares around the world with pedophile caretakers - he'd be in jail by now. Right on Bill!