Pope praises Galileo's astronomy to put out water from sinking Papal Titanic Ship

Anti-Pope slogans have appeared at La Sapienza

Early this year, Sapienza University refused to let in Benedict XVI speak at the first day of their school -- so we pointed out that the Opus Dei Titanic Ship has been hit by the GISU iceberg, the Galileo Iceberg at Sapienza University.

So a few weeks before the opening of the school year, Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei are courting Sapienza University again - hoping to save the ugly face of Benedict XVI.

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Pope praises Galileo's astronomy

Pope Benedict had been accused of condoning the heresy charge

Pope Benedict XVI has paid tribute to 17th-Century astronomer Galileo Galilei, whose scientific theories once drew the wrath of the Catholic Church.

The Pope was speaking at events marking the 400th anniversary of Galileo's earliest observations with a telescope.

He said an understanding of the laws of nature could stimulate appreciation of God's work.

In 1992, Pope John Paul said the church's denunciation of Galileo's work had been a tragic error.

Galileo used his scientific methods to demonstrate that the Earth revolved around the Sun and not the other way around.

His view directly challenged the church's view at the time - that the Earth was static and at the centre of the universe.

Galileo was accused of heresy in 1633 and forced to publicly recant his theories.

He lived the rest of his life under house arrest at his villa in the hills outside Florence.

Pope Benedict had been criticised in the past for appearing to condone the heresy verdict against Galileo.

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Papal visit scuppered by scholars

Anti-Pope slogans have appeared at La Sapienza

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7188860.stm

Pope Benedict XVI has cancelled a visit to a prestigious university in Rome where lecturers and students have protested against his views on Galileo.
The Pope had been set to make a speech at La Sapienza University on Thursday.

Sixty-seven academics had said the Pope condoned the 1633 trial and conviction of the astronomer Galileo for heresy.

The Vatican insists the Pope is not "anti-science" - but in light of the protests they have decided it would be better for him not to attend.

Galileo had argued that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

The Vatican says the Pope will now send his speech to La Sapienza, instead of delivering it in person.

Landmark controversy

Pope Benedict was in charge of Roman Catholic doctrine in 1990 when, as Cardinal Ratzinger, he commented on the 17th-Century Galileo trial.

In the speech, he quoted Austrian-born philosopher Paul Feyerabend as saying the Church's verdict against Galileo had been "rational and just".


An old controversy has come back to haunt the Pope

Galileo's inquisitors maintained the scriptures indicated the Earth was stationary.

Galileo, a devout Catholic, was forced to renounce his findings publicly.

In 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret at the way Galileo had been treated.

"The error of the theologians of the time, when they maintained the centrality of the Earth, was to think that our understanding of the physical world's structure was, in some way, imposed by the literal sense of Sacred Scripture," he said.

The academics at La Sapienza signed a letter saying Pope Benedict's views on Galileo "offend and humiliate us".

They said it would be inappropriate for the Pope to open their academic year on Thursday.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7188860.stm

It's a good thing that someone in Italy has the courage to say no to the Pope.

Stefano, Cuneo, Italy

"In the name of the secular nature of science we hope this incongruous event can be cancelled," said the letter addressed to the university's rector, Renato Guarini.

In a separate initiative, students at La Sapienza organised four days of protest this week. The first revolved around an anti-clerical meal of bread, pork and wine, the BBC's Christian Fraser reports from Rome.

The banner at their lunch read: "Knowledge needs neither fathers nor priests".

Vatican Radio said the protest at La Sapienza had "a censorious tone".

Pope Benedict criticizes homosexuals but he is GAY himself!

Benedict XVI and his 24/7 GAY companion Monsignor Georg top his left -- Benedict XVI lives a GAY lifestyle at the Vatican and he condones the priesthood that is also against ecology . Most of all Benedict XVI covered-up the thousands of priests-pedophiles during the reign of John Paul II pedophile Priests Army for 26 years.

Talking about Satan the father of Lies and Benedict XVI the Holy Father of Lies. Benedict XVI lives only with men and is surrounded by only Opus Dei eunuch and his handsome 30 years junior Msgr Georg from Germany -- who according to the Italian GAYS is one of the most handsome GAY in Italy -- and actually he prepares and give Benedict his daily bath at the Vatican Palace!

Msgr Georg is the real private secretary of Benedict XVI and the Jesuit Lombardi is only a prop who receives his daily ration of news from GAY Georg – which we featured a lot in this weblog, see his photos - and then announce the papal news to the world according to Opus Dei prescription -- or else the Pope will banish the Jesuits again. Poor Jesuits, tied to Octopus Dei leash like poor giant elephants. St. Ignatius of Loyola is turning in his grave with the Crucified Christ, as the Companion of Jesus as the Jesuit Jon Sobrino who continues with the poorest of El Salvador is silenced, while the Opus Dei are enjoying their worldly wealth and powers and St. Josemaria Escriva is dancing in Hell with John Paul II his Mystical Husband, because he has gained all the worldly power of Satan with Benedict XVI ruling as the most powerful dictator of all times, thanks to the Opus Dei.

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Pope Benedict criticizes homosexual behavior

Reuters Monday, December 22, 2008 VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict said Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behaviour was just as important as saving the rainforest from destruction.

The Church "should also protect man from the destruction of himself. A sort of ecology of man is needed," the pontiff said in a holiday address to the Curia, the Vatican's central administration.

"The tropical forests do deserve our protection. But man, as a creature, does not deserve any less."

The Catholic Church teaches that while homosexuality is not sinful, homosexual acts are. It opposes gay marriage and, in October, a leading Vatican official called homosexuality "a deviation, an irregularity, a wound."

The pope said humanity needed to "listen to the language of creation" to understand the intended roles of man and woman. He compared behavior beyond traditional heterosexual relations as "a destruction of God's work."

He also defended the Church's right to "speak of human nature as man and woman, and ask that this order of creation be respected."

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Protest near Vatican denounces policy on gays

The Associated Press

ROME -- Gay rights proponents have denounced the Vatican's policy on homosexuals in a small protest near St. Peter's Square.

About 200 people, including some Italian politicians, gathered just outside Vatican City's borders Saturday evening to protest the church's opposition to initiatives to decriminalize homosexuality in all countries.

The Vatican's envoy to the United Nations recently said that the Holy See opposes a proposed U.N. declaration to decriminalize homosexuality.

Unidentified activists look on, outside St. Peter's Square at the Vatican during a candle-lit demonstration for gay rights, in Rome, Saturday Dec. 6, 2008.

Benedict XVI more proud than John Lennon

40 years later and Benedict XVI try to usurp the popularity of the Beatles. What is there exactly to pardon with John Lennon -- that he said he was more popular than Jesus Christ? Benedict XVI is trillion times worse than that sin of John Lennon because as Pope and with the Opus Dei priests – he & they claim to be CREATING the flesh of Jesus Christ instantly through their priestly formula at the Eucharist. Imagine when he went for World Youth Day and he turned 1 million tiny hosts into the real flesh of Jesus Christ. There is no amount of pardon for Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei priests, not in 40 years, not in the eternity of Hell. Benedict XVI and Pope John Paul II and St. Josemaria Escriva will dance in the fiery ring of pride in Hell.

Now when did mankind ever have the power to CREATE God? Isn’t it supposed to be the other way around – that God create mankind…not mankind creating God.

Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei are worse than John Lennon’s pride and Satan’s pride in Heaven. It took St. Michael the Archangel to drive down Satan into Hell, but now Satan got Benedict XVI and John Paul II into his circle of pride. That is why the demise of the Vatican is imminent with all this witchcraft of turning the flour-into-the-flesh of Christ.

The Jesuit Jon Sobrino which we featured a lot here wrote books that “Without the poor there is no salvation”. Benedict XVI, like Herod’s conscience being bothered, silenced Jon Sobrino through the Opus Dei Bishop in El Salvador. Jon Sobrino dared criticise John Paul II but the Opus Dei are hurriedly trying to get him canonized – so he can be partnered with his Mystical Husband – St. Josemaria Escriva in the Vatican and the Catholic church.

Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei will never dare diry their hands like the Jesuit Jon Sobrino and the Jesuits who work in Latin America with their Liberation Theology…so because they want to remain the palace of the Vatican and live a luxurious GAY life, they silence the Jesuit Jon Sobrino on the pretext that his definition of Christ might mislead other Catholics. Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei are the worst LIARS and the PROUDEST, even more proud than Satan. Their Vatican pardon on John Lennon is hypocrisy par excellence!

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Vatican forgives John Lennon for Jesus quip

Sat. Nov. 22, 2008

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican's newspaper has finally forgiven John Lennon for declaring that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, calling the remark a "boast" by a young man grappling with sudden fame.

The comment by Lennon to a London newspaper in 1966 infuriated Christians, particularly in the United States, some of whom burned Beatles' albums in huge pyres.

But time apparently heals all wounds.

"The remark by John Lennon, which triggered deep indignation mainly in the United States, after many years sounds only like a 'boast' by a young working-class Englishman faced with unexpected success, after growing up in the legend of Elvis and rock and roll," Vatican daily Osservatore Romano said.

The article, marking the 40th anniversary of the Beatles' "The White Album," went on to praise the pop band.

"The fact remains that 38 years after breaking up, the songs of the Lennon-McCartney brand have shown an extraordinary resistance to the passage of time, becoming a source of inspiration for more than one generation of pop musicians," it said.

Lennon was murdered in New York in 1980.


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Jesus H. Christ! Vatican Pardons Lennon!

“It’s quite suspicious
To say the least
Even mentioned it to my priest
One Our Father, three Hail Marys
Each Saturday night. . .”
—from “Vatican Blues,” by George Harrison.

November 25, 2008 at 17:55:39

JL vs. JC Again

I read the news today, oh boy, about Obama possibly naming Monsanto shill Tom Vilsack as secretary of agriculture (help!), and Donald Rumsfeld opining in the NYT about strategy in Afghanistan (cough), and Ahmad Chalabi -- the Zelig of the Middle East -- kissing Obama’s ring in the New York Times in yet another slimy bid to become emperor of Iraq. . .

And how the Vatican pardoned John Lennon. Eh?
As I recall, Lennon is still dead, and therefore not in much of a position to enjoy a pardon. As I also recall, Lennon never attacked the Vatican, or the Pope, never killed anyone, never helped turn Wall Street into a slot machine.

Funny -- when you read about someone being “pardoned,” especially by the Vatican, isn’t it generally for a rather nefarious deed? Didn’t Pope John Paul forgive that nutso who shot him?

Lennon did, of course, once suggest that The Beatles might be a bigger draw than Jesus Christ, but then, Christ was dead at the time (still is), and his talents as a performer remain open to question.

I checked the rest of the news today, oh boy. Nope. Nothing about the Vatican meeting with Generalissimo Francisco Franco, or urging that nations try to stave off World War I. I checked my watch. Yup, just as I thought. 2008. No new Beatles music since 1970.

Yet there was the Reuters copy: The Vatican's newspaper has finally forgiven John Lennon for declaring that the Beatles were more famous than Jesus Christ, calling the remark a "boast" by a young man grappling with sudden fame.

And from the Guardian: But L'Osservatore Romano turned the other cheek on Saturday, dismissing Lennon's remarks as "showing off, bragging by a young English working-class musician who had ... enjoyed unexpected success."

So some fellow, or fellows, or the holy editorial board at L’Osservatore, decided that poor old Lennon has not committed a sin against Gawd, after all. Forty-two years later. The countless thousands -- millions? -- of so-called Christians in this country who burned Beatles albums and frothed at the mouth, many demanding Lennon’s death, were wrong, after all.
Well, as the Church Lady used to say, “Isn’t that special!” Isn’t it special that the Il Papa and his minions would concern themselves with this! You know, they really have many more important things to do. Like psychologically enslaving the poor, ignorant, helpless of the world by indoctrinating them into the Big Catholic Guilt Trip, and condemning anyone to hell or purgatory who wears a condom or interruptus-es their coitus. Generally rah-rahing to make every ejaculation count, and foment still more little human greedball needballs to wahhh and puke and consume and cry and destroy and get tattooed and play Super Smash Brothers III.

Then there are trifles such as wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, genocides, famines, AIDS, Madonna. . .Yet the Vatican took a little time out to “forgive” Lennon. How very Christian of them!

Okay, just for fun, sinners, let’s roll back the clock to the foggy old year of 1966, when men were men and Beatles were Beatles. It was then that journalist Maureen Cleave wrote an “at home with” London Evening Standard profile of Lennon, who was still married to first wife Cynthia and living in a posh suburban London enclave with three-year-old son, Julian. The man was all of 25 years old.

It’s a nice article, actually, half-substantial and half-chocked full of gossipy details heavily in demand at the time, casually related, and without apparent awareness of Lennon’s frequent use of psychedelics. (Put it this way: there were at least several days that year when he was not tripping out.) Ringo and George are apt to stop in, Cleave jauntily reported, and “they while away the small hours of the morning making mad tapes -- Bedtimes and mealtimes have no meaning as such.”
My favorite part of the article: Lennon’s prized possession of the moment seems to have been a gorilla suit. He tells Cleave how he suggested that the other Beatles each get one, too, so they could all go driving around London in them. The others weren’t as keen on this idea. Pity!

It is fully eight paragraphs into the piece that this candid little aside crops up, in passing: “Experience has sown few seeds of doubt in him: not that his mind is closed, but it's closed round whatever he believes at the time. 'Christianity will go,' he said. 'It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first -- rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.' He is reading extensively about religion.”

Uh-oh. . . As we know all too punishingly well, the world press promptly filled with headlines, “LENNON SAYS BEATLES BIGGER THAN JESUS,” and the Beatle-album-burning orgy began. Now, 42 years later, the Vatican has suddenly adjuged this comment to merely have been a harmless “boast” by an “English working-class musician who had enjoyed. . .unexpected success.”

Holy See, Batman! They’ve gotten all it wrong again. Cue “Strawberry Fields.” Misunderstanding all you see. . .Il Papa? Il Poopoo.

First, the statement was about the decline of so-called Christianity, not Lennon or The Beatles' fame. He was simply stating the obvious: that the modern version of Christianity -- hollow, hypocritical churchonsundee ritual -- was losing support. And so it was, especially in the wake of the youth movement of the ‘60’s, which was rooted in rejecting seemingly empty conventions of the day. This was a perfectly valid observation well in the context of the time. Just one month later, Time Magazine ran one of its most famous cover stories, “Is God Dead?”

What’s more, as any half-serious student of Beatles history knows, Lennon could not have cared less whether The Beatles were more popular than Christ, The Rolling Stones, or Dylan (Well, maybe the Stones!). At the time of the interview, Johnpaulgeorgandringo had stopped touring -- repeat, stopped touring -- deeply repulsed by all the screaming, fetishizing idolatry.

Boasting of fame? Why, the man was practically a recluse, and never performed a concert tour again in his life! The remark was just off-handed musing, an excerpt from a long, free-ranging discussion. Never mind that Cleave included it as an illustration of Lennon’s sometimes willful statements and skeptical nature, not merely for its content. She hardly played the angle up.

Again, Lennon’s comment was meant to illustrate the widely known decline in popularity of so-called Christianity -- not to trumpet the rise of The Beatles. Note that he did not tout rock ‘n’ roll or The Beatles as being better than Christianity, declaring that all were transitory phenomenae. What's more, JL actually compliments JC -- something he also did, not incidentally, in interviews throughout his life. The man was a Christ fan. The salient part of his statement, really, is how Jesus’ “disciples were thick and ordinary -- it’s them twisting it that ruins it for me.”

Yowzah! Can you say. . .Pat Robertson? John Hagee? Boy, did JL hit the nail on the head here, pardon the metaphor. It’s the televangelists, the martinet priests and pastors and ministers, and the poor dunderhead intolerant true-believers who know that they are gwyne up to hebbin’ because The Babble tells them so. . .who screw up the whole deal. It is these guys who have turned the unassailable goodness of Christ’s ideas into stupidity, hypocrisy, tyranny, evildoing, insanity. Mormon underwear, anyone? I have a personal relationship with Christ.

Any thoughts of Lennon “boasting” about “enjoying unexpected success” should finally be allayed by a statement made later in the article, one that addresses the songwriter’s now fabled restlessness. It is, in retrospect, eerily prophetic: “You see, there's something else I'm going to do, something I must do -- only I don't know what it is,” he said. “That's why I go round painting and taping and drawing and writing and that, because it may be one of them. All I know is, this isn't it for me.”

By “this,” he meant wife/house/six cars/9-to-5 world-famous John-the-Beatle. Not exactly embracing the old Elvis lifestyle, was he! Of course, it would not be long before Lennon would find Yoko Ono and try to turn his gargantuan fame into something constructive: a quixotic ongoing music and PR campaign on behalf of peace, cooperation, understanding. You know, all the kinds of little notions that Christ stood for. This “something else I’m going to do” statement renders as ludicrous the Vatican’s remark implying that the young “working class musician” was a punk kid drunk with unexpected “fame.” Quite the contrary, he was hiding from it, trying to figure out how to accomplish something fulfilling as a private human being.

By the way, almost all of the articles summarizing the Vatican’s comments used that word “fame,” or “famous,” instead of accurately quoting Lennon’s “popular.” (Exactly which Italian word was used in the Vatican press, and how it was translated, I don’t know.) Attention, journalists: there is a big difference between fame and popular. Jack The Ripper is famous. You've gotten the whole point wrong, right out of the starting gate. In the ‘60’s, it absolutely did feel as though The Beatles were more popular -- popular -- than Jesus. I remember.

And so this sad old story never dies. Short-sighted, unthinking "Christians" and sophomoric writers will continue to resurrect it and “stir up the controversy” ad nauseum, as long as it will turn heads and compel ears (and advertising bucks.) The mere fact that feeble minds the world over still argue about it, and still castigate Lennon’s old ghost, and that the Vatican -- the Vatican! -- would issue a wrongheaded “pardon” that winds up trivializing Lennon as a braggart kid intoxicated with fame and fortune. . .just proves the ever-so-thoughtful 25-year-old Beatle’s central point...

Christ’s followers are thick and ordinary.

by Rip Rense (Posted by Rip Rense) Page 1 of 1 page

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Jesus-H-Christ-Vatican-P-by-Rip-Rense-081125-323.html

Comment:

...so does the church maintain the moral high ground?


It should be us, if we haven't done so already, who should be pardoning the stupidity of the church.

Screw the church. Everybody knows they're idiots except for their sheople. If they get the last word in - they get the last word in this issue - and retain ultimate judgement.

Seems to me that the move by the Vatican is another PR attempt to retain/gain followers and even more so, excuses THEMSELVES for their stupidity, gives reasons to forgive THEMSELVES, and gives THEMSELVES a reason to "pardon" Lennon. If they didn't have the wisdom to recognize a hot-headed (???) young adult, why should their present judgement of him be trusted or considered well-reasoned

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Benedict XVI LIAR LIAR says "He is totally, and only, the vicar."

Benedict XVI is a pathological liar who succeeds the Devil, the Father of Lies. Now at Christmas, he wants to be known as the Vicar of Christ and of the Catholic Church. Of course there is absolutely nothing in common between Benedict XVI and Christ.

Did Christ speak Latin?

So how can Benedict XVI the Vicar of Christ make Latin the "official language" of the Mystical Body of Christ?

When did Christ ever wear red expensive shoes, don on ornate ceremonial albs, be surrounded and protected by a private army, be a political head of state, write Ph.D books no one can understand except himself and by a few men, oppress those who work with and for the poor like Jon Sobrino? If Christ were to visit Rome today, what would he say about the worse sins of pedophile priests seething beneath the Vatican archives (Crimen Sollicitationis) which are worse than the sins at the Temple of Solomon?

Would he recognize the Peter-the-Rock clones residing at the grand palace of the Vatican rivaling the palace of the Ceasars of Rome? Christ would gag at his ostentious "Vicar of Christ" when they meet for the first time, they'd be like the Prince and the Pauper, the Pope being (and dressed as) the Prince!

Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever and he would do like what he did when he got very angry with the marketeers at the Temple and turned the tables upside down because they have "made God's temple a den of thieves" . But this time the Temple of the Vatican has become the Opus Dei (Ambrosiano Bank)den ... worst of all now the Vatican has become a "den of High Priests-pedophiles"! So Christ would repeat the curse of the Temple of Solomon that "not one stone will be left standing" about the Temple of the Vatican now owned and operated by the Octopus Dei.

We follow-up on the autocracy of Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei Archbishop of El Salvador and their Galileo-style persecution on Jon Sobrino
---- http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html


International theologians views on the Notification
---- http://www.eatwot.org/TheologicalCommission
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Video clip of Jon Sobrino in PBS discussing Salvadoran war
---- http://www.pbs.org/itvs/enemiesofwar/people.html


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"He is totally, and only, the vicar" the Pope said

VATICAN CITY (AP) - He may draw adoring crowds, but Pope Benedict XVI said Monday he's no rock star.

And the Catholic Church's World Youth Day celebrations, which take place every three years in different cities around the globe, are more than just a party for young faithful, he said.

Benedict's predecessor Pope John Paul II, often described as having a rock star-like following among Catholic youth, began the World Youth Days to inspire the faithful.

"Popular analysis tends to consider these days a church version of modern youth culture, as a type of rock festival with the pope as star," Benedict said in his Christmas greetings to the Vatican Curia.

But he said the ability of young Catholics to create a sense of community during the meetings shows they are more than just parties.

"In this way also the pope is not the star around which everything revolves," he said. "He is totally, and only, the vicar."

Benedict attended the youth event in Cologne, Germany in 2005, this past summer in Sydney, Australia, and has said he plans to attend the next one in Madrid, Spain in 2011.
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Benedict XVI ridicules the Birth of Christ

As the Opus Dei clone of John Paul II, Benedict XVI mocks the Birth of Christ by claiming magic power of the Eucharist to be able change instantaneously the bread into the flesh of Christ -- thus overpowering the birth of Christ -- and the 9 months pregnancy of Mary.

Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei priests eternally mocks the Birth of Christ and Mary by claiming supowers in the Catholic Church, thus their demise is inevitable as predicted by the Third Secret of Fatima.


Pope John Paul II consecrated his 27 pedophiliac-papacy-years to Our Lady Mary....... with a Devil's tail encompassing 12,000 American little boys (and girls) sodomized by his JPIIPPA Pedophile Priests Army. He thought he was so holy he was embracing Our Lady everyday --- while he covered-up the worst evil committed against children under his Holy See of Peter. But Mary is no sweet-submissive woman under John Paul II's autocracy. In her Magnificat she proclaims:
He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
He has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted those of low degree

One of those "mighty and proud" that God will soon scatter is John Paul II (together with his proud Marquis de Peralta.) It is only a matter of God's timing when Christ will turn the Vatican like the Temple of Solomon into rubbles because of the John Paul II Altar of Sodomy. Benedict XVI, his papal clone has just touched the first domino that will make the Vatican fall like a deck of cards domino effect.

Posted in honor of the feast of the Immaculate Conception and Christmas.

Withhold Donations on December 21 to Billionnaire Benedict XVI

Abuse victims ask parishioners to withhold donations Dec. 21

From Newsday, 12.8.2008.

By Laura Rivera

December 8, 2008

Members of a new Catholic reform group Sunday urged Long Island parishioners to withhold donations for what they said was the mishandling of clergy sex abuse cases.

About a dozen people supporting Project Send the Bishops a Message demonstrated outside St. Agnes Cathedral in Rockville Centre after morning Mass, asking parishioners to contribute to children's charities instead of their local parish on Dec. 21.

The group's national director, Frank Douglas, said the selective boycott would convey to church leaders that they need to do more to protect children from sexual abuse and to make their finances more transparent.

"The real message to Catholics is to try to make them aware that they have the power to change the church through the power of their purse," said Douglas, based in Tucson, Ariz. Douglas called on U.S. dioceses to disclose income and balance sheet statements and assets, including real estate, cash, and stocks and bonds.

Diocese of Rockville Centre spokesman Sean Dolan said such action would starve parishes of much-needed funds for social services as well as their own maintenance.

"If these people really want to send a message, withholding collections is probably one of the least effective ways of doing it because you're hurting your pastor and you're hurting your parish, especially in this season of giving," Dolan said.

Outside the cathedral Sunday, Tim Walsh, 45, held up photos of himself as an altar boy at St. Hugh of Lincoln Roman Catholic Church in Huntington Station, where he says he was sexually abused by a priest.

"When they come out of the Mass, they see us as adults," said Walsh, of Huntington, one of four survivors in attendance. "Maybe we should show us as children to show who was the person who was abused. And it wasn't us. It was a child."

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Benedict XVI does not CARE about women in Africa

Benedict XVI surrounded by Opus Dei eunuchs dwells in the lap of luxury at the Vatican Palace that rivals the palace of Europe’s monarchs. Benedict XVI does not care about Africa and its millions of suffering people, that is why he will not care to visit Africa during his short tenure as pope.

Benedict XVI is all talk and no action when it comes to Africa. He sends a few dollars to feed them but the bulk of money, the 5 BILLION Euros annual deposits to the Vatican bank he keeps managed by Opus Dei bankers filled with greed for the WORLD DOMINATION Agenda of St. Josemaria Escriva.

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Benedict XVI mocks and ridicule the Immaculate Conception of Mary

Every year on December we celebrate the Immaculate Conception of Mary who was the only creature to be created WITHOUT original sin so that she alone would be worthy to carry to full term and be the Mother of God Jesus Christ.

It took her about 16 years before she got was impregnated by the Holy Spirit as announced by the Archangel Gabriel in Nazareth and then she was married to Joseph…

Jesus was carried to full term in Mary’s sinless womb for 9 months and then he grew to be a normal boy for 30 years in Joseph’s carpentry shop before he started his ministry at age 30. Then for 3 years he was a preacher with his 12 Apostles. He was crucified at age 33.

And now Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei priests who are ALL SINNERS and who covered-up the most heinous crimes of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army claim to stem-cell and clone in an instant the REAL flesh of God Jesus Christ -- in the Eucharist!

Benedict XVI and Opus Dei priests ridicule the Immaculate Conception by claiming to be sinless like Mary when in fact they are the worst of sinners because they led the cover-up of John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the 20th century!

Christ said that anyone who causes children to sin shall have a millstone tied to his neck and cast to the sea. That is why John Paul II is now in the depths of the sea of Hell and Benedict XVI his clone is also walking with an invisible Papal Millstone also around his neck.

The John Paul II Pedophile Priests all mocked the Immaculate Conception of Mary. Everyday they said Mass and ate the flesh of God and everyday they sodomized the altar boys who assisted them at Mass.


Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei are chanting Latin Masses in a language that Christ never spoke…and which the Immaculate Conception Mary also never spoke.

Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei are Catholic cannibals of the flesh of God in the Eucharist forever ridicule and mock the sinless Mother of God.

Satan tempted Eve and Adam to eat of the fruit of the Good and Evil and now he tempts and perpetually Benedict XVI and Opus Dei priests obey Satan by eating God’s flesh…which they create through the black magic of the Eucharist.

Benedict XVI God's Rottweiler barks about Liturgy and ignores victims of priests-pedophilia

Benedict XVI as God's Rottweiler is distracting the 1.2 Billion Catholics by barking about doctrine and the liturgy which are really show-offs and have nothing to do with the victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army.

Beware SNAP because the most evil of popes Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei will trun SNAP and victims memory into dust

Comments:

How typical…..the pope is so frightened by any real affection that he feels he can just do away with it all together. God forbid - well, actually, God doesn’t forbid it, this human person - that people should show that we are human. How can sharing affection be a distraction from Communion, when people who are celebrating Eucharist are the Body of Christ, too? And as for supporting discrimination against gay people, well, that doesn’t surprise me either. He is an evil man, who has knowingly supported sexually predatory priests, so why would this be any different? I used to be a practicing Catholic, but I would be ashamed now to admit that. I will have nothing to do with the authoritarian church.

Gabe Azzaro Says:
December 6, 2008 at 5:01 pm

I agree w/you Gabe,

What kind of “Christian Love” is he trying to preach?

the kind of love that he & his brethren have shown towards the clergy victims?
or is it the kind of love that is prejudice towards homosexuals?
( does that include all the homosexuals w/i the church now?)

“true Love doesn’t desert you”, by Journey (rock band)

which way is the hot air blowing where you r at?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=524Tf0dNRNw

Deanna Leonti Says:
December 7, 2008 at 1:51 am

Responses to “The Pope’s Christmas Gift: A Tough Line on Church Doctrine”

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From the website of Time magazine, 12.3.2008.

The Pope’s Christmas Gift: A Tough Line on Church Doctrine

By Jeff Israely Wednesday, Dec. 03, 2008


Those nicknames from the past — God’s Rottweiler, the Panzercardinal — don’t seem to stick anymore. After acquiring a reputation as an aggressive, doctrine-enforcing Cardinal, Pope Benedict XVI has surprised many with his gentle manner and his writings on Christian love. But with the Christmas season upon us, there is growing proof that the 82-year-old Pope is also quite willing to play the part of Scrooge to defend his often rigid view of Church doctrine. Top of Form


Benedict’s envoy to the United Nations, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, has announced that the Vatican will oppose a proposed U.N. declaration calling for an end to discrimination against homosexuals. At first blush, no one should be surprised to find the Catholic Church hierarchy butting heads with gay rights activists. But this particular French-sponsored proposal, which has the backing of all 27 European Union countries, calls for an end to the practice of criminalizing and punishing people for their sexual orientation. Most dramatically, in some countries, including Iran and Saudi Arabia, homosexuality can be punished by death.

Papal spokesman Father Federico Lombardi was forced to clarify that the Vatican continues to condemn the use of the death penalty for any crime, including those associated with homosexuality. Instead, Migliore said the Vatican’s opposition to the U.N. proposal was driven by concern that countries that prohibit gay marriage would somehow be targeted. Said Migliore: “Countries that don’t recognize the union between people of the same sex as marriage will be punished and pressured.”

The U.N. declaration does not in fact mention gay marriage, and most of the nations that support it themselves don’t allow people of the same sex to wed.

Archbishop Migliore confirmed on Tuesday that the Vatican had also refused to sign a U.N. document last May in support of the rights of the disabled because it did not include condemnation of abortion, and the rights the fetus with birth defects. Vatican officials nevertheless voiced support for the central principles of the disabled rights document, which Migliore helped craft before the final decision to withhold the Holy See’s signature.


The Italian gay rights association Arcigay says the Vatican’s opposition to the anti-discriminatory measure is “unprecedented,” and the citing of gay marriage is an “excuse” to distract people from the real intent of criminalizing gays. One Rome-based priest was disappointed that the Vatican decided to publicize its opposition to what appears a rather innocuous declaration. “When you’re always trying to look for new ways to make your point, you lose credibility,” says the priest. “Better sometimes to keep quiet.”

Benedict has said repeatedly that the Church is forced to speak out against the tide of secularization, especially in Catholicism’s home turf in Europe. His kindly manner notwithstanding, Benedict does not seem to hesitate doing or saying what he deems necessary to keep Catholicism from straying too far from its doctrinal tradition.

And that includes revisiting the Catholic liturgy if necessary. His top Vatican deputies are now studying a change to the mass that would affect the moment when members of the congregation are asked to greet each other with a “sign of peace.” Worshippers then exchange handshakes, or sometimes a hug or kiss. In 2007, writing about the exchanging of the peace, Benedict called for “greater restraint in this gesture which can become exaggerated and cause a certain distraction in the assembly before the reception of Communion.” It may now be moved earlier in the service. Cardinal Francis Arinze, head of the Vatican’s liturgical office, said last month that the affectionate gesture is often misunderstood. “It is thought to be a chance to shake hands with friends. Instead it is a way to tell those nearby that the peace of Christ, really present on the altar, is also with all.”

Though there is no indication if or when the proposed movement of the peace would happen, this change would respond to a desire by the Pope to rein in some of the excesses that he sees in the ways the faith is currently celebrated. And to those who wonder why not just let everyone to say ‘peace’ when and where they please for Christmases to come, one can imagine Benedict flashing that gentle smile, tilting his head ever so slightly and declaring: Bah Humbug!

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Benedict XVI at peak of secular power laughs at American victims of pedophile priests

These comments confirm what we have been saying all along: that Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei have absolute control in America and the political world and therefore will delete SNAP and all victims records like Dust in the Wind from history books.

But we also believe that inspite of their absolute powers Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei's days are numbered because the Vatican will be reduced to rubbles like the Temple of Solomon as predicted by the Third Secret of Fatima by Our Lady.

That is why the Pope will never reveal the Third Secret because the world will be watching the demise of the Vatican with the clock ticking......right at St. Peter's Square.

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Don’t you get it! The bishops do not care what you think. They have arrived at the peak of secular power.

When you demonstrate, or make statements on Youtube or anywhere, they do not care.

That is why they are where they are.

They break their sides laughing at efforts like SNAP. I know, I talk to them.

They do not care how or what you organize.

The pope, with his use of canon law can place the entire United States under interdict.

He can close down the entire Jesuit order as popes have done in the past. There is nothing that you can do to the massive power of Rome.

The only slight hope is to have someone of the temper and guts of Martin Luther. There is no such person on the world scene.

Then Benedict can shrug his shoulders and say that ‘the catholic church does not impose anything’.

Withold all the money you want. They do not need your money. They can live off the interest of old money, and the sale of real estate. And the Sunday take in the United States is about $700 million each week.

DR. HENRY
December 3, 2008 at 6:29 am

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Sad to say but I think Dr. Henry is right. The bishops “do their thing” or “have their orders” or “continue with their mind set”, however you want to say it. To be effective money must be withheld every week, put in a pot to be used to lobby for elimination of SOLs in every state, educate the laity, further any and all kind of legal action against the organization untill it crumbles. A reformation was begun years ago only to have hundreds of “denominations” of Christians. There has never been an actual reform of the organization. Will it ever come?

johnwirtz

John Wirtz
December 6, 2008 at 3:45 am

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You speak the absolute, unvarnished truth, Dr. Henry.

But with the exception of the excellent you point you make about the hierarchy being able to survive indefinitely on the interest alone of its vast wealth, I made the same point a while back, and if I am not mistaken, Frank had my post taken down.
In any event, Catholics are so firmly hooked that they can’t escape their church and even if all they do is remain members, their massive membership gives the church the very power they then strive in vain to overcome.

Rev Ray Dubuque
December 6, 2008 at 3:53 am

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Catholic Reform Group Launched With Extensive Press Coverage, Wide Grassroots Participation

Fast Start for Send the Bishops a Message

Tucson, AZ — Dec 1, 2008 –

“Send the Bishops a Message” is a recently launched group of reform-minded Roman Catholics deeply disappointed, saddened, and exasperated about Catholic Church officials’ two major, ongoing failures: to protect children from dangerous clerical predators and to provide acceptable levels of stewardship for hard-earned donations. The group advocates that all Catholics withhold financial donations (cash, check, and credit card) on designated “Withholding Sundays,” to send a message to the bishops that business as usual will no longer be tolerated.


A news conference at Our Lady of the Angels cathedral in Los Angeles on November 10th launched Send the Bishops a Message. The Los Angeles Times featured Send the Bishops a Message in a story by Duke Helfand published in the paper’s November 11th edition. Two L.A. radio stations, KFWB News 980 (Reporter: Bill Cooper) and 89.3 KPCC Southern California Public Radio (Reporter: Brian Watt) also participated in the news conference. Gustavo Arellano, a reporter for the OC (Orange County) Weekly and prolific chronicler of Catholic clergy sex abuse of children and the cover up of the abuse by Orange Bishop Tod Brown, featured Send the Bishops a Message on his blog. The Burbank Spanish language TV station Telemundo on November 10th also interviewed Frank Douglas, the group’s national director.

Send the Bishops a Message advisory board member Linda Pieczynski carried the Send the Bishops a Message banner in a news story published November 11th in a Chicago area newspaper. Linda underscored the group’s main goal: “We want to make Catholics aware that they can change their church,” she said.

Advisory board member Jim Jenkins was interviewed on November 17th for one hour during the prime time evening rush hour on the Andy Caldwell AM 1440 talk radio show that broadcasts in the Central California Coast area.

Advisory board member Vinnie Nauheimer in a November 29th opinion piece in the Journal News, a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper serving Westchester, Rockland and Putnam counties in New York, said, “It is time for the bishops to [drop] …visions of grandeur and airs of self-importance. Continuing this charade only hurts the church, its priests and most importantly, the laity; for it is they who bear the brunt of the embarrassment and monetary burdens created by an out-of-touch hierarchy.”


As of November 30th, Catholics from 43 U.S. dioceses and one foreign country (Australia) have either joined the Send the Bishops a Message campaign or reported that they withheld financial donations on November 16th, the 1st international Withholding Sunday. The 43 U.S dioceses are: Albany, Arlington, Atlanta, Baltimore, Belleville, Boston, Brooklyn, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado Springs, Columbus, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Hartford, Kansas City (KS), Lansing, Los Angeles, Milwaukee, New Orleans, New York, Oakland, Ogdensburg, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland (ME), Rochester, Rockford, Rockville Centre, Saginaw, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Fe, St. Louis, Santa Rosa, Seattle, Tampa, Tucson, Washington, Winona, and Youngstown.


CONTACT–Frank Douglas at (520) 404-2489
FOR MORE INFORMATION–Visit our website at www.sendthebishopsamessage.com

Benedict XVI head Church as Organized Crime

The Church comes across like organized crime


From Kay Ebeling’s blog, 12.1.2008.Monday, December 1, 2008

Thugs as guards, answering only under oath, the Church comes across like organized crime. Jeff Anderson on the brotherhood, on KCTU last week

It’s not a church, it’s a compound. As you approach the LA cathedral downtown, you see organized crime at work. Thug security guards, who look like they can kill with their bare hands, stand at each entrance, barely two feet between them. The local don, Cardinal Roger Mahony, carries himself with the same sense of doomed destiny as does Godfather Michael Corleone. Both men live deep in the compound, separated from their foes by shields of concrete and state of the art security, living out their years in hiding.

The Catholic Church does not even try to hide its resemblance to the MAFIA anymore. Attorney Jeff Anderson spoke about the brotherhood that is Church heirarchy on KCTU Wichita last week:

“When I ask a bishop the question, why didn’t you immediately report these crimes to the police and remove the priest, so often I get the answer, we thought we could handle it internally and we felt a loyalty to our fellow priest. They answer, It’s like a brotherhood it’s our family.”


“We thought we could handle it internally,” implies Church officials, including and especially the Pope, believe that because they are priests in the one true Church of God they are a privileged class, a privileged brotherhood, not subject to civil law like ordinary citizens.

Sounds like Michael Corleone in The Godfather to me.

The conversation with Jeff Anderson took place on Educating to End Abuse, and we have more quotes below. Peggy Warren hosts the caller participation webcast the third Thursday of each month.

December 18, the guest is Tom Doyle.

“Every month the Catholic Church gives us new stuff to talk about,” Warren, who is a predator priest survivor herself, said recently. “They really make it easy for us to come up with topics, but I wish we didn’t have to have this conversation at all. What I do want to push/mention on every show is the importance of lengthening the statute of limitations on childhood sex abuse. The SOL needs to be at the top of everyone’s list of priorities.”

Similarities between church hierarchy and The Sopranos slip out in depositions for civil lawsuits against different archdioceses around the country. Cardinals and bishops under subpoena have to answer civil plaintiff attorneys under oath, meet them eye to eye, one-on-one.

“There are documents that have surfaced in litigation, documents generated by the Vatican and maintained at every archdiocese. And every archdiocese shows a pattern.

“Bishops who know about these crimes are required to be complicit and protect themselves and perpetrators against scandal.”

ME: So they are committing felonies, right?

Jeff Anderson on Educating to End Abuse, November 2008, continued:

“Not just priests offending children, but documented back hundreds of years, there is a pattern and a practice, a protocol that requires them (church heirarchy) to handle any criminal behavior in secret and keep it secret.

“Bishops have to respond the way they do because of orders from the Vatican. They are required to keep secrets by the Vatican. By Secret I mean not reporting the abuse, not making it public, and protecting themselves.


Bishops take orders from the Vatican. That’s how the system works. This is not rocket science, folks. However, denial among Catholics is a very strong force. It’s strong because if one acknowledges the truth of how the system works, one’s faith in that system will take a hit if not disintegrate completely.

“The justification they give is, ‘we didn’t understand the scope of the problem.’”

Moderator Warren took a call from the father of a pedophile priest crime victim. The caller said, he feels the church is a place where pedophiles are protected.

Warren said, as long as statute of limitation changes are not passed, the criminals are off the hook.

CALLER: It’s a collective crime that comes from the pope down and anybody in the church who knows about it in the church is responsible, each and every one of them.

Caller (Cont’d):

“What, have people got rocks in their heads? Why do they still take their kids in there and give the church money?”

PEGGY WARREN : Lay people are living in denial. We need to convince them this is a real serious enormous problem that is continuing. It’s going to take victims’ stories, people like yourself, parents, saying enough is enough, we’re not going to let our children be hurt anymore.

CALLER: The way the church has concealed the abuse, they’ve enabled these guys to avoid prosecution and they’re probably serial abusers. These guys are out there. They’ve never been convicted. The only way to find them is to open SOL windows in other states like they did in California, so victims can come forward.

“Because these guys are out there.”

The Caller to KCTU Educating to End Abuse continued:

“How does the church get away with having lobbyists. Isn’t that against the Constitution? Why does a church need lobbyists?”

JEFF ANDERSON: The observations about the SOL couldn’t be more right on. In Legislatures across the country statute of limitation laws protect the offenders and those that protect them. SOL laws keep victims from being able to expose offenders through the criminal and civil courts. SOL reform is going to be necessary to protect children in the future.

“In California the one year period of time where survivors could come forward brought up close to a thousand lawsuits, just in California.

“250 Catholic priests, over two dozen bishops were exposed by that one year window in the Statute of Limitations in California.

“250 priests who committed abuse that had not been exposed before and two dozen bishops who took part in the coverup were exposed,” Anderson said.

“250 priests we found in California because the SOL was open and we were allowed to expose them.”

Warren commented about Denial:

“Why is this being allowed to happen. Catholic Church hierarchy denying that they are the problem. It’s not a few offending priests, as the pope suggested in America, there are a lot of offending priests, and the problem is the bishops in control of them are in denial. They’re the ones responsible for not dealing with it.

“They are offenders themselves, thinking they could deal with it themselves instead of allowing law enforcement to handle it.

“The dynamic of denial is allowing molestations and rapes to continue in so many ways.

CALLER: Why doesn’t the church handle these cases with more consideration for the parishioners? They’d have a lot more credibility if they’d take a hard line against the priests that are being reported.

ANDERSON: My answer to that is it’s baffling as to why the Church hasn’t taken a different approach.

“When I ask a bishop that question, why didn’t you immediately report this to the police and remove the priest, so often I get the answer, we thought we could handle it internally and we felt a loyalty to our fellow priest. It’s like a brotherhood it’s our family

ME(at home listening): As in MAFIA
The bishops when forced to answer under oath, reveal it is a Mafia

ANDERSON: So that’s the answer that they give, and as unsatisfactory as it is, that’s the answer that I’m still getting from the church hierarchy when I ask them that question.

Benedict XVI the Chief Enabler of Pedophile Priests

There are still American victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army who are coming forward but the Bishop clones appointed by John Paul II spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to suppress their cases in courts.

Benedict XVI is the foremost Enabler of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army but sadly there are very few Catholics who have the courage to say this fact of history.

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1.Richard Orareo Says:
November 30, 2008 at 11:50 pm

Amazing as it may seem, Pope Benedict, as the Vatican Secretary of State, affirmed into Canon Law the regulation that say when a priest is accused of criminal solicitation, the documents must be sealed in a secret file and the priest re-assigned to a different location. All of the Bishops of the world were informed of this directive; the secrets were kept and the offending priests were sent to different schools and churches where they re-offended by sexually molesting other boys and girls.

that canon law is presently in effect. You can find it in the section: Criminalis Solicitiationis. It has been translated from the Latin into English.
So, the Pope, the Bishops, and the offending priests are all guilty. The priests who were aware or were suspicious of the offending priests are complicit in these crimes. What about the lawyers, the insurance executives, the police and district attorneys? Are they also complicit? What of the parents who didn’t believe the children? What of the people who remain in the pews and contribute to the church; are they abetting criminal behaviour? You may ask “Where does it end?”

“When will it end?” Let your conscience be your guide.

2.Michael Skiendzielewski Says:
December 1, 2008 at 1:59 am

Time after time, story after story, I am reminded of the image of Pontius Pilate, a feckless leader who washed his hands of all responsibility at the time of Our Lord’s Passion. Sadly and ironically, this tragedy is played out over and over again by our Catholic Church leaders throughout the United States as they “wash their hands” of responsibility and accountability in the devastation and destruction that clergy sexual abuse has wrought on every single Catholic child, young adult, parochial school child and Catholic high school student over these many, many years.

Withholding church contributions on select dates is a fine idea to send a message. I think an equally important one would be to send cards with the image of Pontius Pilate to those Church leaders who have clearly shown the kind of behaviour, decision-making and moral strength that was exhibited by the real Pontius Pilate in the Bible.

Better yet, maybe on a given date in the future, advocates for victims of clergy abuse nationwide can deliver “washing bowls” to Church leaders at the headquarters of dioceses and archdioceses throughout the country.

2 responses to

Church enablers
November 25, 2008

Re: “Archdiocese defends chaplain,” (News, Nov. 21).

I would challenge Colleen Dolan, communications director for the archdiocese of Chicago, to provide more specificity when she says, “accusations that Rev. Daniel Coughlin, the current chaplain to Congress, failed to report sex crimes are ‘reckless and irresponsible.’”

What is “reckless and irresponsible” is if Coughlin did not report to the police immediately any individuals he knew had sexually abused children.

The responsibility of the institutional Roman Catholic Church is, and always has been, to protect the most vulnerable among us. How difficult can this possibly be to understand? These are horrific accusations that should to be investigated with a fine tooth comb so that the truth comes out.

When the Grand Jury Report on the Archdiocese of Philadelphia was published in the fall of 2005, there was a name for individuals who did not do what they were morally and legally bound to do instead of waiting for criminal and civil statutes of limitation to expire.

They were called enablers. Unfortunately they were not jailed for their crimes against humanity.

–Sister Maureen Paul Turlish

Victims’ Advocate