WATCH TV "'Dan Rather Reports' Exposes Coordinated Effort by the Catholic Church to Protect Assets From Abuse Victims"

'Dan Rather Reports' Exposes Coordinated Effort by the Catholic Church to Protect Assets From Abuse Victims

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Are local dioceses declaring bankruptcy in order to avoid paying settlements to victims of priest sexual abuse? Tuesday, June 29 at 8:00 p.m. ET

DALLAS, June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Next week, "Dan Rather Reports" investigates how the Roman Catholic Church has been hiding and shielding assets from victims of priest abuse. Some say the Church is behaving more like a big corporation than a sacred institution.

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From the Vatican on down, the church has vowed to make peace with hundreds of victims of a decades-long epidemic of sex abuse by its priests. But "Dan Rather Reports" found evidence that the church has done just the opposite: Wealthy U.S. Dioceses from California to Delaware have claimed to be broke and have filed for bankruptcy to avoid paying damages; Bishops have exploited arcane corporate laws to shield church assets from liability; and, in San Diego, parish priests have been caught literally hiding money in safes, according to court records.

"If you or I did what the Diocese of San Diego did in that bankruptcy, we'd be charged with bankruptcy fraud, and we'd probably be in prison," said attorney John Manly, who has represented dozens of priest abuse victims in lawsuits across the country.

"Dan Rather Reports" found evidence that some high in the church hierarchy have provided guidance.

"One of the comments that came from one of the bankruptcy attorneys is that, 'These guys make Enron look like altar boys.' Pardon the pun," said Don McLean, who was abused as a 10-year-old altar boy, and sought damages from the San Diego diocese.

"Dan Rather Reports: Spiritually Bankrupt" premieres on HDNet, Tuesday, June 29 at 8:00 p.m. ET with an encore at 11:00 p.m. ET.

Pope: Belgian sex abuse raids deplorable -- but he does not find the decades of "Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions" deplorable

Benedict XVI finds the 9-hours Belgian Police raid "deplorable" but he does not find the decades of "Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions" committed by the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army deplorable.

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The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests

SNAP Press Statement

For immediate release: Sunday, June 27, 2010

Pope: Belgian sex abuse raids deplorable; SNAP responds

Statement by Barbara Dorris, Outreach Director for SNAP 314 862 7688

This is the most telling and depressing indication of Pope Benedict’s true priorities.

It took years before he even acknowledged clergy sex crimes and cover ups, much less begin to express solidarity with victims. But just days after a handful of his colleagues in Belgium were inconvenienced for a few hours, the Pope vehemently rallies to their defense. Because they share his occupation, nine potential wrong-doers merit more prompt and vigorous support from the Pope than hundreds of thousands of deeply wounded child sex abuse victims and still-vulnerable children across the globe.

According to the Associated Press, Benedict “also repeated that such crimes are handled by both civil and canon law ‘respecting their reciprocal specificity and autonomy.’” It is reckless and arrogant to equate civil and canon ‘law.’ In most nations, civil law is drawn up by a wide range of individuals and interests in open discussion, not strictly by a small, narrow, homogeneous handful of church men behind closed doors. In most nations, civil law is enforced by independent institutions and processes, not by a distant monarch.

One key reason why priests are still raping kids and bishops are still concealing these crimes is because the Pope and most of the Catholic hierarchy still refuse to accept that investigating child sex crimes and cover ups is the role of law enforcement.

(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We’ve been around for 22 years and have more than 9,000 members. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)

Contact David Clohessy (314-566-9790 cell, 314-645-5915 home), Barbara Blaine (312-399-4747), Barbara Dorris (314-862-7688 home, 314-503-0003 cell)

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Pope: Belgian sex abuse raids deplorable
Associated Press

VATICAN CITY – The pope has called the raids carried out by Belgian police investigating priestly sex abuse "deplorable" and asserted the autonomy of the Catholic Church to investigate abuse alongside civil law enforcement authorities.

Pope Benedict XVI issued a message Sunday to the head of the Belgian bishops' conference, Monsignor Andre-Joseph Leonard. In it, he expressed solidarity with all Belgian bishops for the "surprising and deplorable way" in which Thursday's raids were carried out.

Benedict said justice must take its course. But he also repeated that such crimes are handled by both civil and canon law "respecting their reciprocal specificity and autonomy."

The raids targeted a retired archbishop and the graves of two prelates.

Abuse victims can sue Vatican, court rules

This is good news. The Vatican and the Popes must not be "above the law" especially secular law. Justice must be brought upon them and jail them when they are found guilty. And they are all guilty of the cover-up of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army.

UNITED STATES
Minneapolis Star Tribune
By JEFF STRICKLER, Star Tribune

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Last update: June 28, 2010 - 11:03 AM

The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for sex-abuse victims to sue Pope Benedict when it refused Monday to hear the Vatican's appeal of an Oregon lawsuit.

St. Paul lawyer Jeff Anderson, who specializes in filing abuse suits against the Roman Catholic Church, called the decision "the biggest breakthrough in the movement's history."

"This is huge. Really, really huge," he said. "We've kicked down the iron gates that they've been hiding behind for all these years."

In declining to hear the case, the court upheld an appeals court ruling that the Vatican can be sued for sexual abuse if church officials knowingly reassign priests who have been accused of such acts in their previous parishes. The Vatican appeal had argued that the U.S. courts lacked jurisdiction over the Rome-based church.

Anderson predicted that now he can eventually depose Pope Benedict.

"I won't start with him; I'm going to work my way up," he said. "But this ruling gives me the ability to depose anybody within the organization who has knowledge about the events."

Before becoming pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger oversaw the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the office that disciplines priests for abusive acts.

SNAP (Survivors Network of the Those Abused by Priests) issued a statement saying that the Supreme Court's decision "gives hope to hundreds of thousands of clergy sex abuse victims across the globe who know lies remain under wraps at the Vatican and will only be unearthed through persistent action by secular justice officials and systems."

The suit that led to the appeal was filed in 2002 by Anderson in Oregon for an unnamed 49-year-old man who alleges he was sexually abused as a teenager by a priest who had been reassigned after being accused of similar abuses in parishes in Chicago and Ireland.

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Statement from SNAP

There's so much more work to be done, but ever so slowly, the tenacity of courageous victims is beginning to shed light on deeply-buried church secrecy and complicity. This is another crucial step forward towards healthier public understanding of the depth of church corruption. This court ruling and last week's Belgian police raid should make every bishop in the world think twice about keeping clergy sex crimes hidden. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “No lie lives forever.” This decision gives hope to hundreds of thousands of clergy sex abuse victims across the globe who know lies remain under wraps at the Vatican and will only be unearthed through persistent action by secular justice officials and systems. We’re thrilled that this brave victim is closer to exposing which and how Catholic officials knowingly moved a dangerous predator priest, and we applaud him for preserving in his quest for truth. It’s ironic that on the same day, the Pope tries to stifle open examination of church abuse cover ups while the US Supreme Court tries to enable open examination of church abuse cover ups. (SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the world’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We’ve been around for 22 years and have more than 9,000 members. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is http://www.snapnetwork.org/) Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Associate Director, snapjudy@gmail.com
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Eve and Benedict XVI blame the Devil. Analysis of Pope’s homily in Year for Priests -sorcerers of Christ’s flesh and blood

Who committed the most grievous sins against Catholic children: Naked Mother Eve or Holy Father Benedict XVI all covered in white Emperor’s Clothes? It is said that the Devil can appear in a human form dressed in white regalia. Eve ate (bit) only one apple but Benedict XVI as Cardinal Ratzinger, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith condoned and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army who committed the "Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Protportions" for over 26 years

Benedict XVI was quoted in many Catholic headlines for his few words on the clergy sexual abuse scandal: "It was to be expected that this new radiance of the priesthood would not be pleasing to the 'enemy' ... And so it happened that, in this very year of joy for the Sacrament of the priesthood, the sins of priests came to light - particularly the abuse of the little ones. ...” Benedict XVI preached before 15,000 priests at St. Peter’s Square on June 11, 2010 to close the Year for Priests. The Vatican Bank’s highest paid reporter John L. Allen Jr as Pied Piper for Benedict XVI immediately identifies the ‘enemy’ in his headline, “Pope sees the Devil behind timing of sex abuse crisis”, see http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/06/john-l-allen-jr-deceptions-call-vatican.html. In the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, we pointed out how Benedict insulted the victims with the condescending and demeaning words of “little ones” for now-adult victims who were battered with decades of ‘Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions’ see http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/06/benedict-xvi-asks-for-quickie.html. Calling victims “little ones” shows how out-of-touch and grossly insensitive Benedict really is. But what else can he feel dressed in his Zeffirelli Emperor’s Clothes regalia surrounded by majestic frescoes at the Vatican Palace and heiled by throngs of adoring priests and Catholic fans? In spite of meeting a few victims and shedding a few crocodile tears, he remains arrogant and refuses to see that all authentic victims always speak of how their youthful innocence was stolen from them. Really, there is nothing “little” or sweet- innocent about these long-suffering victims and calling them “little ones” is an unremorseful affront to them.

Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, "Indeed, has God said, 'You shall not eat from any tree of the garden '?" The woman said to the serpent, "From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat; but from the fruit of the tree which is in the middle of the garden, God has said, 'You shall not eat from it or touch it, or you will die.' "The serpent said to the woman, "You surely will not die! "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." When the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate… Then the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The serpent deceived me, and I ate." (Eve, Garden of Eden, Genesis 2: 1-6, 13)

Mother Eve blamed the Devil for her disobedience to God and she was punished for her sins and was driven out of the Garden of Eden. But Holy Father Benedict XVI is craftier than Eve because he blames the Devil for his personal sins which he did not commit alone but with the entire bodies of Catholic Cardinals and Bishops. So Benedict conveniently blames the Devil for collective sins of the “Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions” committed by the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army -- which he personally condoned and covered-up as Head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for 26 years during the longest papacy of John Paul II http://jp2m.blogspot.com/. And Benedict is craftier than Eve because, together with his cohorts in crime, he is still living at the Vatican Paradise, living in the lap of luxury and wielding infallible power with diplomatic immunity as the last theocratic ruler on earth with a trillion dollars Vatican bank to sustain him for life, with our own criminal Cardinal Bernard Law as his drinking pal. But his days are numbered because Our Lady will fulfill her Third Secret of Fatima and burn the Vatican into dust, see From Fatima, Jacinta would throw the first stone at John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army‏ to defend her little brothers and sisters http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/04/from-fatima-jacinta-would-throw-first.html


Analysis of Benedict XVI’s homily in Year for Priests



Benedict XVI said at the first two paragraphs of his homily (our comments are in parenthesis)

…the Year for Priests which we have celebrated on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of the holy Curè of Ars, the model of priestly ministry in our world, is now coming to an end. We have let the Curé of Ars guide us to a renewed appreciation of the grandeur and beauty of the priestly ministry.


(Comment: Benedict uses an old 150 year old model, the Curé of Ars, who was known for his bitter temper and who yelled and sent parishioners away feeling depressed, dejected and disconsolate because in the Confessional, he threatened them all with the fires of Hell for their sins, even their venial sins. The Curé of Ars is the antithesis of the healthy psychology we have today. About “the grandeur and beauty of the priestly ministry” that is deceptive advertising because priests today are ALL potential pedophiles who live in their own unrealistic and in-human spiritual bubble just like Fr. Marcial Maciel did and Boston’s criminal Cardinal Bernard Law do today see http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/03/zenitorg-should-shut-down-its-operated.html.)

The priest is not a mere office-holder, like those which every society needs in order to carry out certain functions.


(Comment: This papal statement is an affront and blatant insult to all doctors (especially Doctors without Borders), engineers, nurses, office workers, computer analysts, firefighters, policemen, ordinary mothers and fathers who work to raise and feed their children, all who work certain functions to make the world running to serve 6 billion people. This theocratic position of Benedict XVI must end once and for all -- so we never have to hear this kind of insult again where Benedict XVI puts priest “above” secular society and above everyone else, especially “above” the law. This is the crux of the “reverence for priests” because the priest is the representative of God and the face of God as we will see in his lengthy speech which we will not go into because we can write a book about it. This “priest is not a mere office-holder” is an appalling insult to all people on earth because all people “carry out functions which every society needs”—but he insinuates that the priest is “above all people”. This “not a mere office-holder “is also the reason why John Paul II refused or made it almost impossible for priests to leave the priesthood and get laicized because priests are supposed to be “above the laity” and they are to be wizards of God’s flesh for life.)

Instead, he does something which no human being can do of his own power: in Christ’s name he speaks the words which absolve us of our sins and in this way he changes, starting with God, our entire life.


(Comment: This is the “quickie forgiveness” of sins in the Sacrament of Confession which we have been warning our readers and the world about - see “Sins and crimes are not the same. Sinners and criminals are not one and the same” - see http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/05/sins-and-crimes-are-not-synonymous.html. Sinners blame the Devil and the Original sin of Eve. Therefore, Benedict XVI, the late Pope John Paul II and Opus Dei will never accept responsibility for their decades of systemic condone and cover-up of the ‘Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions’ committed by the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army.)

Over the offerings of bread and wine he speaks Christ’s words of thanksgiving, which are words of transubstantiation – words which make Christ himself present, the Risen One, his Body and Blood


(Comment: Benedict XVI says priests are the unique [wizards and sorcerers] of Christ’s flesh and blood. This “transubstantiation” is the wizardry of priests who claim to be able to play Gods by performing the incantation of the “transubstantiation formula” and as sorcerers, they can make the instant re-incarnation of Christ in the bread and wine -- this is worse than Harry Potter magic, a book which the Vatican condemns and Opus Dei puts in their Forbidden Books Index. The Pope and priests cannot re-incarnate a dead dog, a dead fish, a dead cat, so how on earth can they re-incarnate the flesh of the Risen Christ who is God the Son? They claim and proclaim this power by brainwashing Catholics and the world with deceptive ceremonies like this spectacular gathering at St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. Right from the beginning, Benedict XVI wasted no time and he immediately speaks of 3 sacraments: priesthood, confession and Eucharist – but we have pointed out that these are all totally useless in our justice system. See When it comes to justice, secularism trumps Catholicism. Sacraments of Penance, Eucharist & Priesthood are worthless in our justice system http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/03/when-it-comes-to-justice-secularism.html

The priesthood, then, is not simply “office” but sacrament:


(Comment: Benedict XVI puts down the ordinary work of laity as “office” and puts priesthood as “sacrament” above the “simply” office work of the laity. He preaches to the world that the priests are not common men but sacrament men. This special status of “not simply ‘office” harbours priests to commit grave sins and puts them “above the law” where they are feared for their exclusive powers in the “’sacraments”.)

God makes use of us poor men in order to be, through us, present to all men and women, and to act on their behalf.

(Comment: Benedict speaks with false humility when he says “us poor men” when he is sitting in the trillion dollars Chair of St. Peter and the Vatican Bank holds the billions of dollars of collections from the 1.1 billion Catholics and investors. There is nothing “poor” about priests, materially, psychologically, physically, sexually and spiritually. They have financial security which ordinary lay people do not have. They claim unparallel powers over mankind in that they alone have the exclusive power to forgive sins and reincarnate God’s flesh in 9-seconds. They can sodomize altar boys in the secrecy of the universal Catholic Church sacristies and rectories worldwide.)


This audacity of God who entrusts himself to human beings – who, conscious of our weaknesses, nonetheless considers men capable of acting and being present in his stead – this audacity of God is the true grandeur concealed in the word “priesthood”. That God thinks that we are capable of this; that in this way he calls men to his service and thus from within binds himself to them:


(Comment: Benedict XVI speaks for God, like Satan spoke for God. Satan spoke for God: The serpent said to the woman, "You surely will not die! "For God knows that in the day you eat from it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil." (Genesis 2:4-5) Benedict XVI spoke for God: “This audacity of God who entrusts himself to human beings… considers men capable of acting and being present in his stead - this audacity of God… [who] thinks that we are capable of this…” How dare Benedict preach that God would entrust himself only to priests but not to children and women and ordinary men???)

Benedict XVI manipulates the Devil as scapegoat for priests’ sins


1) Benedict XVI blames the Devil, just like Eve did, for his crimes and the ‘Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions’ committed by the JPIIPPA John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. In his homily, he never accepted responsibility for any of these crimes when in fact he is the most responsible leader who concocted with the Opus Dei the cover-up of JPIIPPA so that John Paul II can leave a legacy as “John Paul II the Great”. For someone who claims to be “The Conscience” of our Age (see Benedict XVI the FAULTY Conscience of our age http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html ) his conscience is powerless before the Devil.

2) Benedict XVI uses the Devil and Devil’s warfare with God as his main strategy. The priests are therefore the puppets of the Devil in his continuing battle with God.


Benedict said: “It was to be expected that this new radiance of the priesthood would not be pleasing to the 'enemy, he would have rather preferred to see it disappear, so that God would ultimately be driven out of the world.”


“So that God would ultimately be driven out of the world”? This is complete bullshit theology – Benedict gives so much power to the Devil over God who created this world! And he attributes powers of Satan to control priests to sin. Double Devil powers! Benedict XVI needs a lobotomy. As “The conscience” of this Age http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html he has the faultiest conscience of all.

Benedict speaks about "the audacity of God" in trusting men to be priests but at the same time he preaches of the power of ‘the enemy’ Satan.

And the Devil can drive God out of his own creation?

Is this why these above-ordinary priests must keep on re-incarnating and reproducing Christ’s flesh and blood so that God will stay in this world and not be driven away by Satan? (Bullshit)



Benedict XVI’s theology is all crap just like his apology is all crap.


See our article in March 2010 - Who’s responsible & to blame: The Devil or Benedict XVI-Cardinal Ratzinger? Satan as scapegoat for Vatican's chaotic sex scandals
http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/whos-responsible-to-blame-devil-or.html

The Devil made pedophile priests do it


3) Benedict XVI and all priests sorcerers claim to be the most powerful men on earth because they can command God the Christ to reincarnate in 9-seconds in the Eucharist or Mass… but they also claim to be totally helpless and are mere victims of the Devil when it comes to the “Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions”.


So, who exactly is Benedict XVI’s most powerful God? God the Trinity or God the Devil? It is the Devil because as Cardinal Ratzinger, he and the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army obeyed him.

Just like Eve obeyed the Serpent and ate the fruit, so did Benedict XVI obeyed the Devil and condoned and covered-up priests pedophiles for decades.

Benedict claims that the Devil is more powerful than all these “sacrament” priests and more powerful than the God the Creator whom he wants (and can) kick out of this world! Listen, people, the Devil is the most powerful person in the universe!!! You got it from Benedict horse’s mouth


So what did the Devil tell Fr. Marcial Maciel and the 6,000 Pedophile Priests in the USA (alone not counting the thousands in other countries)? And what did the Devil tell John Paul II, the Opus Dei and Cardinal Ratzinger as Head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for over a quarter of a century? “Oh, that’s a small statistics; ignore it and cover-it up”? See the reasons why Opus Dei covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/


This Chair of Peter which give the capacity to Benedict XVI and all Popes to keep on lying to the world (with bullshit theology) and blaming the Devil for all of Vatican crimes against humanity they have committed for over 2,000 years must be stopped once and for all.

We must work for the following. If WE do not do it…then WHO will

First, we must refuse to believe and refuse to obey Benedict and priests’ claims of priestly powers of transubstantiation in the Eucharist. (It is God who creates and commands man, not vice versa. Priests have no power to say, Let there be rain, and it rained; they cannot say, Let there be light, and there was light. Priests have no power to say, Let there be Christ’s flesh, and Christ obeyed. God is not a stupid God who obeys sinful men, or he is not God at all.)


Second, we must refuse to see “priests not simply ‘office’ but sacrament”. Priests are ordinary mortals who simply studied a bunch of theology books that are totally heartless like John Paul II and they harbour and commit the very sins they claim to forgive. See the Homosexual colonization of the Catholic Church http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/05/benedict-xvi-campaigns-against.html

Third, the Vatican must be removed of its status as a state with the Pope as its political Head of State, so that he will no longer have any diplomatic immunity. But of course, the trillion dollars Vatican Bank and the investments of all corrupt political Heads of states are at stake here, so the corrupt politicians will want to keep Benedict as a Head of state in order to maintain their blood money in the Vatican Bank, like they do in the Swiss Bank. So the wheel of corruption goes on like Benedict‘s upcoming trip to England, diplomatic immunity, diplomatic transfer of corrupt money like Cardinal Mahony’s annual 1 billion deposit to the Vatican Bank, tax-free, corrupt leaders visiting the Vatican Palace for a photo-op with Benedict while carrying caseloads of money in their diplomatic immunity airplanes to give to the Pope and the Vatican Bank. The Vatican Bank, now controlled by the Opus Dei, is the wealthiest single institution on the planet, more wealthy than Bill Gates and all billionaires combined.

Fourth, Cardinals and bishops, priests must be viewed as any regular workers on this earth, subject to secular laws and to secular justice, so that they will also stand trial and be jailed for their crimes, such as the pedophile crimes. Cardinal Mahony should resign in disgrace like Cardinal Bernard Law did here in Boston. (But with his billions of dollars, he has already bought all Los Angeles priests’ souls. It’s incredible that not one LA priest ask him to resign, so different from the collective priests here in Boston who demanded Cardinal Bernard Law to resign and they succeeded)



Fifth, Cardinal Bernard Law must step down as Archpriest of St. Mary Major in Rome and retire and die in disgrace as he deserves for his condone and cover-up of more than 100 pedophile priests in our city of Boston.



Sixth, the late Pope John Paul II must never be called a “saint” by children of this generation and all generations to come because he was cruel and heartless and he did not defend one child from one pedophile priest among the hundreds of thousands of children and tens of thousands of pedophile priests during his longest 27 years of papacy. John Paul II was the responsible leader of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army who committed “Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions”.


Seventh, there must be a Catholic Registry of Pedophile Priests to list all alleged pedophiles to warn parents and children to keep away from them and not invite them to their homes. This is not a smear campaign against priests, pedophile or not, their status as the “representative of God’ visiting our homes are over. They are ordinary office workers who are sorcerers of the flesh and blood of Christ. Once they are not wearing their magical albs and not performing wizardry at the altar, they are ALL potential pedophile priests and potential criminals just like any human beings. As Benedict said in his homily, the Devil is more powerful than priests and so we must be wary of them who are the “Devil’s puppets of sins”.



Compare the CRIMES and their VICTIMS in America

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 - 6,000 priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity


See our related article


Vatican segue Benedict XVI sex abuse scandals into the Devil, celibacy and role of women. Who’s biting the Vatican bait of deception? http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/vatican-segue-benedict-xvi-sex-abuse.html

Sins and crimes are not synonymous. Sinners and criminals are not one and the same http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/05/sins-and-crimes-are-not-synonymous.html

Apology is not enough; Benedict XVI & Cardinals and Bishops who covered-them up must spend jail time and pay million$$$ of Euro to victims http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/apology-is-not-enough-benedict-xvi.html

The John Paul II Millstone

Reasons why priest pedophilia is eternal: John Paul II the Great “Saint”, “The Conscience” of the ‘Age of Benedict XVI’, “Holy Father” Marcial Maciel http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/06/reasons-why-priest-pedophilia-is.html


The John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army


Opus Dei fabricate “The Age of Benedict XVI” in Rome http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/06/opus-dei-fabricate-age-of-benedict-xvi.html


Benedict XVI asks for ‘quickie forgiveness’ from “little ones” who were battered for years by ‘Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions’ http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/06/benedict-xvi-asks-for-quickie.html



Bible Study Tools http://www.biblestudytools.com/nas/genesis/2.html

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Note Bene: John L. Allen Jr is the highest paid journalist on earth, 6-digits paid by NCR and 7-digits paid by the Vatican trillion dollars Bank. The Vatican bank is like the Swiss Bank that is independent from the World Bank and keeps its clients confidential and untraceable. John Allen’s millions of dollars salaries are deposited in the Vatican Bank that is why he must defend the Pope who is the CEO of the Vatican Bank. Look at how he acts as the Pied Piper for Benedict XVI, John Allen mentions the Devil’s name for Benedict XVI who says “the enemy”…


Pope sees the Devil behind timing of sex abuse crisis

VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter
By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.

Since the Catholic sexual abuse crisis erupted a decade ago, there have been numerous attempts to explain its causes, from a lack of fidelity to an over-emphasis on celibacy and clerical privilege. This morning in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI pointed to a deeper unseen force lurking behind the crisis, especially its timing: the Devil.
It’s no accident, the pope implied, that precisely as the Catholic church was celebrating a “Year for Priests” in 2009-2010, the sexual abuse crisis once again took on massive global proportions.

“It was to be expected that this new radiance of the priesthood would not be pleasing to the ‘enemy,’” Benedict XVI said. “He would have rather preferred to see it disappear, so that God would ultimately be driven out of the world.”
Posted in Abuse Tracker June 11, 2010

See our related article on Chiesa --‘Forgiveness’ is a gizmo of injustice to victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. To Vaticanista chiesa.espresso Sandro Magister, Baloney! http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/03/forgiveness-is-gizmo-of-injustice-to.html

Year for Priests. "It was to be expected that the 'enemy' wouldn't like it"

VATICAN CITY
Chiesa
A tally of twelve months under constant fire. What the pope wanted, and what happened instead, with the explosion of the scandal of pedophilia. In the concluding homily, Joseph Ratzinger teaches Catholic priests how to walk towards the light in the "dark valley"

by Benedict XVI

(Homily of the Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, celebrated by the pope in Saint Peter's Square with thousands of priests from all over the world, Friday, June 11, 2010, at the conclusion of the Year for Priests.)
Dear brothers in the priestly ministry, dear brothers and sisters, the Year for Priests which we have celebrated on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of the holy Curè of Ars, the model of priestly ministry in our world, is now coming to an end. We have let the Curé of Ars guide us to a renewed appreciation of the grandeur and beauty of the priestly ministry. The priest is not a mere office-holder, like those which every society needs in order to carry out certain functions. Instead, he does something which no human being can do of his own power: in Christ’s name he speaks the words which absolve us of our sins and in this way he changes, starting with God, our entire life. Over the offerings of bread and wine he speaks Christ’s words of thanksgiving, which are words of transubstantiation – words which make Christ himself present, the Risen One, his Body and Blood – words which thus transform the elements of the world, which open the world to God and unite it to him.

The priesthood, then, is not simply “office” but sacrament: God makes use of us poor men in order to be, through us, present to all men and women, and to act on their behalf. This audacity of God who entrusts himself to human beings – who, conscious of our weaknesses, nonetheless considers men capable of acting and being present in his stead – this audacity of God is the true grandeur concealed in the word “priesthood”. That God thinks that we are capable of this; that in this way he calls men to his service and thus from within binds himself to them: this is what we wanted to reflect upon and appreciate anew over the course of the past year. We wanted to reawaken our joy at how close God is to us, and our gratitude for the fact that he entrusts himself to our infirmities; that he guides and sustains us daily.


In this way we also wanted to demonstrate once again to young people that this vocation, this fellowship of service for God and with God, does exist – and that God is indeed waiting for us to say “yes”. Together with the whole Church we wanted to make clear once again that we have to ask God for this vocation. We have to beg for workers for God’s harvest, and this petition to God is, at the same time, his own way of knocking on the hearts of young people who consider themselves able to do what God considers them able to do.
Posted in Abuse Tracker June 11. 2010

Pope: While Church focused on goods of priesthood, Satan tried to tarnish priests
VATICAN CITY
Catholic News Agency
Vatican City, Jun 11, 2010

(CNA/EWTN News).- At the closing Mass of the Year for Priests on Thursday, Pope Benedict reviewed the purpose of the year, saying that he wanted the universal Church to appreciate and reflect on the priesthood, which shows the “audacity of God who entrusts himself to human beings.” Because the Church focused on the good of the priesthood, the Devil reacted by inspiring the timing of the recent revelations of clerical sex abuse within the Church, the Pope said.

“It was to be expected that this new radiance of the priesthood would not be pleasing to the 'enemy,'” the Pontiff explained, “he would have rather preferred to see it disappear, so that God would ultimately be driven out of the world.”
“And so it happened that, in this very year of joy for the sacrament of the priesthood, the sins of priests came to light – particularly the abuse of the little ones, in which the priesthood, whose task is to manifest God’s concern for our good, turns into its very opposite.”
Posted in Abuse Tracker June 11, 2010

Pope promises action on abuse -- but what?
VATICAN CITY
America Magazine
Posted at: Friday, June 11, 2010
Author: Austen Ivereigh

It wasn't anything new, exactly, and a lot less than I had speculated he might do, but Pope Benedict's heartfelt words this morning before a sea of 15,000 priests in white albs in St Peter's Square was still pretty powerful stuff. Speaking at the close of the Year of Priests, on the 150th anniversary of the death of the Curé d'Ars, whose chalice he used for the consecration of the wine, he said:
"It was to be expected that this new radiance of the priesthood would not be pleasing to the 'enemy'; he would have rather preferred to see it disappear, so that God would ultimately be driven out of the world. And so it happened that, in this very year of joy for the Sacrament of the priesthood, the sins of priests came to light - particularly the abuse of the little ones. ... We too insistently beg forgiveness from God and from the persons involved, while promising to do everything possible to ensure that such abuse will never occur again; and that in admitting men to priestly ministry and in their formation we will do everything we can to weigh the authenticity of their vocation and make every effort to accompany priests along their journey".

Grassroots Group Urges Catholics to Re-direct Peter’s Pence Collection Donations on Sunday June 27

UNITED STATES
Send the Bishops a Message
CONTACT INFORMATION:
Frank Douglas, (520) 579-9575 (home), (520) 404-2489 (cell) frankdouglas62@yahoo.com
Dick Regan, (607) 368-0463 (cell), dickregan@yahoo.com
Kristine Ward, (937) 272-0308, kristineward@ hotmail.com
Steve Sheehan, (617) 783-6336, Sheehan1777@aol.com

The pope’s response to the clergy sex abuse crisis has been woefully inadequate, lacks a sense of urgency, is long on words and symbols, but short on substantive actions. In brief, the pope’s response is unacceptable. The Peter’s Pence collection provides Catholics a unique opportunity to cast a NO vote of confidence on Pope Benedict’s abuse crisis performance.

The grassroots group Send the Bishops a Message urges all United States Catholics to prayerfully and thoughtfully consider re-directing the donations that they would ordinarily earmark for the Peter’s Pence collection on Sunday June 27 (http://www.usccb.org/comm/archives/2010/10-108.shtml) to a non-church charity of their choice . For those who would like to donate to non-profit organizations that provide direct help to survivors of clergy sexual abuse, the group recommends that they choose the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) (https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/SNAP/OnlineGiving.htm and/or Road to Recovery International (http://www.road-to-recovery.org/page/support-road-recovery).

This is the right time for action, the right time to Send a Message to the pope. If you eat at a restaurant and the service is awful, you have three choices: 1) you can leave the usual tip—and the waiter has no incentive to change his/her ways; 2) you can leave no tip which enables delusional thinking such as "They probably forgot;” or 3) you can leave a penny (or two) so that there can be no doubt about your dissatisfaction with the service.

Posted Abuse Tracker June 13, 2010 at 4:52 PM


June 14, 2010
The Hidden Wealth of the Catholic Church
GERMANY
Spiegel
By Anna Catherin Loll and Peter Wensierski

The Catholic Church in Germany, already struggling to cope with the sex abuse scandal, has been hit by revelations of theft, opaque accounting and extravagance. While the grassroots faithful are being forced to make cutbacks, some bishops enjoy the trappings of the church's considerable hidden wealth.

Shortly before Pentecost, Pastor S. received an unexpected early morning visit, not from the Holy Ghost, but from the police.

For the authorities, the words of the Gospel of Luke came true on that morning: He who seeks finds. More than €131,000 ($158,000) were hidden in various places in the rooms of the Catholic priest, tucked in between his laundry or attached to the bottom of drawers. The reverend was arrested on the spot. After several weeks in custody, Hans S., 76, is now back at the monastery, waiting for his trial.

Protesters Take Stand Against Cardinal Law


BOSTON (MA)
TheBostonChannel
BOSTON --

Dozens of protesters took to the sidewalks outside the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston Sunday morning to voice their opinions on Cardinal Bernard Law.
Law resigned as Boston's archbishop in 2003 following the clergy sex abuse crisis. Area Catholics said he knew of sexual misconduct and covered it up. He was transferred to Rome after his resignation where the last eight years he has been the archbishop emeritus of Boston and archpriest of the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore.
Members of National Survivor Advocates Coalition, Speak Truth To Power and People of Conscience picketed outside the Cathedral Sunday while a special mass to honor couples celebrating their gold and silver wedding anniversaries was going on.
Posted Abuse Tracker at June 13, 2010 4:48 PM

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Note that the Our Sunday Visitor is secretly owned and operated by the Opus Dei

Author: Pope Being Unfairly Blamed for Abuse Scandal

UNITED STATES
Newsmax

“I don’t believe Pope Benedict is culpable,” Erlandson told Newsmax.TV. “I believe he’s in fact the right man for the job.”

The Pope may be the person most knowledgeable about all the abuse cases worldwide reported to the Vatican starting in 2001, he says.

And Benedict’s not shying away from the situation. “He’s not only talking the talk, he’s walking the walk,” Erlandson said.

“He’s been addressing the issue forthrightly and has issued numerous apologies. He has met with victims. He has accepted resignations of bishops. He has encouraged local churches to face up to this problem.”

Put that all together, and you have good leadership, Erlandson says.

“One of the ironies of this controversy is that some would look at him to be the fall guy, when he may be the one who can lead us out of this morass.”

The Pontiff has made clear that the truth most be told, even when it puts Catholicism in a bad light. “That signal is being sent to bishops, priests and the laity around the world,” Erlandson says.

And that’s not an easy task. “Contrary to stereotypes about the Catholic Church, the Pope doesn’t just snap his fingers, and Catholics ask how high they should jump. But he’s providing the leadership,” he said.

Erlandson says the urge to blame the Pope stems from three factors.

First, “Americans tend to want to find someone at the top and figure out should that person be fired. They want to have accountability.”

Second, people who are trying to sue the Vatican want to tie it to cases in the United States. Finally, “There are Catholics who have an agenda at work who feel the church has either been too lax or too conservative.” So they’re blaming the crisis on Benedict too.

Erlandson seeks to put the sexual abuse scandal in context with numbers.

There were only six cases reported of alleged clergy sex abuse last year, according to outside auditors, though going back 50 years, there are 11,000 cases being studied regarding more than 4,000 priests.

“Reportedly there are 200,000 cases of sexual abuse a year in the U.S. This is a problem not just for the Catholic church, but for the larger society,” Erlandson said.

He doesn’t see Catholic churches as a cradle for pedophiles or homosexuality. “Pedophilia is a problem wherever you look in society,” he said.

“It’s not linked to homosexuality or celibacy. I don’t believe the church is a haven for this kind of activity. It’s a significant problem in our schools and other religious denominations too.”

As for the media, in some ways it’s done a great job of covering the scandal, Erlandson says. But some opinion pieces are biased. “A lot of people are getting their licks in. That’s where there’s some exploitation going on.”

The scandal is damaging the church greatly, but it’s an ordeal that will only make it stronger, he says.

“Terrible mistakes were made, there were cover-ups, crimes that weren’t dealt with adequately,” Erlandson said. “We’re paying a high price for that and we have to. But I think we’ll get through this.”

The church has faced worst crises, he says.

“We’ve had many other crises, and unfortunately many of them were self-inflicted, but we do get beyond them and find ways to renew and reform ourselves.”

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Sinead O'Connor No Longer Alone In Church Protest

UNITED STATES
NPR

[with audio]

June 20, 2010

In a 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live, Sinead O'Connor sang an a cappella version of the Bob Marley song "War," but substituted the word "racism" with "child abuse" in protest of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. What she did at the end of the song shocked viewers: She held up a picture of Pope John Paul II and ripped it in two.

Eighteen years later, amid continuing revelations of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, O'Connor's anger is matched by the public worldwide. A Facebook page has even been started called "Apologize to Sinead O'Connor NOW."

O'Connor spoke recently with NPR's Guy Raz about ripping up the photo and how she feels about the church today.


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Dedicated to the hundreds of thousands of victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army

Rome celebrations of Benedict XVI and 15,000 priests who are wizards worse than Harry Potter

At Mass with 15,000 priests wizards at St.. Peter’s Square, Benedict XVI said a few words of apology to clerical abuse victims (he’ll never say “pedophile priests”) but what he really meant was:

I'm not sorry about what we did to your children.
I'm only sorry that we got caught!!

The papal hypocrisy of Benedict XVI shone through his pompous papal robe designed by movie producer Zeffirelli http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/12/benedict-xvi-image-consultant.html He repeated the Vatican strategy of John Paul II who said a few words of apology and then went on as “business as usual” at the Vatican as if nothing had happened.

At least Harry Potter is classified as fiction and in their school of wizardry, they recreate and make thing move in strange ways. They do not claim to be little god or to recreate God’s flesh in any ways like Benedict XVI and priests do.

In the Catholic seminaries, priests are taught how to reincarnate the flesh of God in 9 seconds. http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2009/12/benedict-xvi-has-no-power-to-say-let.html That’s right; a formula of transubstantiation and God obeys men and become flesh and blood in the Eucharist. And therefore they claim to be more powerful than the Blessed Mary, Mother of God, who had to go through 9 months pregnancy to reincarnate Jesus Christ.

If there is any one prouder than Lucifer who had to be cast down from Heaven because of his pride, it is the Pope and priests who claim exclusive power to command God the Christ to become flesh and blood in the sacrament of the Eucharist or Holy Communion.

Look at Benedict XVI as he dons on his papal white robe or his ostentatious papal robe and papal tiara which gets bigger by the day (they could feed 10 African villages for a year).

Can Benedict XVI and priests command the clouds to rain now over the Vatican? Can Benedict XVI command the dust and fashion it to become an insect, a dog,? No. Benedict XVI and all priests cannot create anything in this life and in their lifetime.

So how can they overpower the Virgin Mary who had to go through 9 months of pregnancy of Jesus in her womb?

Look at St. Peter’s Square, 15,000 priests claiming to have supernatural powers to command “Let here be God” in the Eucharist?

This wizardry of Benedict XVI and all priests must end today at the dawn of the 21st Century and the Third Millennium. This power of wizardry of Christ’s flesh must stop deceiving all Catholics and the world once and for all.

It is precisely of this power to transform God’s flesh that gives the Pope and priests the status to be “above the law”, especially “above secular justice” and they have used it to get away with crimes against humanity for 2,000 years...and now the crimes against humanity of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army.

Theology and John Paul II are heartless and together they made the immoral Fr. Marcial Maciel thrive http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/05/theology-and-john-paul-ii-are-heartless.html


Compare the CRIMES and their VICTIMS in America

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 - 6,000 priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

The 9 seconds wizard power of priests versus the 9 months pregnancy of Blessed Virgin Mary http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/
Pope begs forgiveness, promises action on abuse



(This papal robe could feed 10 African villages for an entire year)


AP – Pope Benedict XVI greets faithful at the end of a meeting in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican to celebrate Year of the Priest …

By Nicole Winfield, Associated Press Writer June 11, 2010

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI begged forgiveness Friday from clerical abuse victims for the sins of priests and promised to "do everything possible" to ensure that prelates don't rape or molest children ever again.

Benedict's pledge was similar to comments he has made in the past. But it was uttered in the highly symbolic setting of a Mass in St. Peter's Square concelebrated by 15,000 white-robed priests, all marking the end of the Vatican's Year of the Priest — a year marred by revelations of hundreds of new cases of clerical abuse, cover-ups in several nations and Vatican inaction to root out pedophiles.

In his homily, Benedict lamented that during what should have been a year of joy for the priesthood the "sins of priests came to light — particularly the abuse of the little ones."

"We too insistently beg forgiveness from God and from the persons involved, while promising to do everything possible to ensure that such abuse will never occur again," he said.

He said in admitting men into the priesthood and in forming them as clergymen "we will do everything we can to weigh the authenticity of their vocation and make every effort to accompany priests along their journey, so that the Lord will protect them and watch over them in troubled situations and amid life's dangers."

His comments were similar to those reported by the Vatican during his private meeting with abuse victims in Malta in April, during which the pontiff had tears in his eyes as he heard the stories of men molested by priests as children.

Benedict also made similar comments last month en route to Portugal, in which he acknowledged that the "sins from within the church" were responsible for the scandal, not the media or some outside anti-Catholic lobby.

As such, Friday's comments were a public admission of the sins of priests, a request for forgiveness from their victims and God, and pledge to take action — all delivered before priests who came to Rome from around the world to support the pontiff and the priesthood itself amid the scandal.
Victims groups who had been hoping for a mea cupla and clear-cut action plan to protect children weren't satisfied.

"A promise is nominally more helpful than an apology. But promises are usually easy to make, hard to keep and broken often if there's no oversight or penalties," said Barbara Blaine, president of the U.S. victims group SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.

She said the crux of the problem remained the "nearly limitless power" of bishops and a church structure and culture that allows them to be "virtually answerable to no one." She said that had allowed abusive priests to remain in the ministry for decades.

Benedict's own legacy has been tarnished by the scandal, since he was archbishop of Munich in the 1980s when he approved therapy for a suspected pedophile who was allowed to resume pastoral duties while being treated. The priest, the Rev. Peter Hullermann, later was handed a suspended sentence for molesting a boy.

In addition, Benedict's legacy at the Vatican office that dealt with sex abuse has come under scrutiny.

Benedict said the scandal had shown the need for a purification of the church.

"Had the Year for Priests been a glorification of our individual human performance, it would have been ruined by these events," he said. "But for us what happened was precisely the opposite: We grew in gratitude for God's gift."

A Spanish priest who attended Friday's Mass, the Rev. Davide Torrijus, concurred.

"We have all suffered during the year of the priests" because of the scandal, he said. "It was good for the pope to show also the positive aspects — gratitude for the gift."

Cardinal Bertone, what we need is not “spiritual renewal” but “a Catholic Registry of Pedophile Priests” to warn and protect children

Benedict XVI, his Cardinals and Bishops, his Vatican media spinners are all talking invisible abstract “spiritual” things to solve the sexual abuse by pedophile priests when there is one essential thing that matters the most -- that is a Catholic Registry of Pedophile Priests to warn parents and children so they can be vigilant and stay away from them.

Currently all those more than 6,000 alleged pedophile priests that were settled out of court or in court by all dioceses in the USA are not known. Their files are confidential and therefore they are free to prey on young altar boys and the parents are all gullible to welcome these predators into their homes and in their midst.

Cardinal Roger Mahony alone spent tens of millions of dollars to keep the files of more than 600 pedophile priests in Los Angeles confidential. Up to today, Los Angeles harbours the largest number of pedophile priests in US history with the largest settlement of $660 millions dollars to their victims. But this is a piece of cake for billionaire Mahony who send in 1 billion dollars of revenue to the Vatican trillion dollars Bank each year (one of his aides told us).

Compare these Catholic sinners and secular criminalsSinners & criminals - Victims - 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 - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity


Sex abuse: Bertone says 'infidelity' of some priests will give birth to 'spiritual renewal'

VATICAN CITY
Rome Reports
[with video]

June 10, 2010. In front of four thousand priests, the Vatican's second highest authority, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, said cases of sexual abuse undermine the Church's credibility. But he also said that the pain caused by this will bring a “spiritual renewal”.

Card. Tarcisio Bertone
Vatican Secretary of State

“In this period we have had to carry the pain of infidelity, at times grave, of some members of the clergy who have negatively influenced the credibility of the Church. Because of this, the Pope, responding to journalists on his trip to Portugal, spoke of a 'persecution' born within the Church.”

It was during a gathering of priests from all over the world organized by the Focolare and Schönstatt Movement, for the ending of the Year for Priests.

The cardinal said the pope is calling for “conversion and purification.”

Tarcisio Bertone
Vatican Secretary of State
“We must follow the path to conversion, purification and reconciliation with courage. Look for new paths to bring youths the beauty and richness of friendship with Jesus Christ in the communion with your Church.”

Cardinal Bertone repeated words the pope said on his way to Portugal, saying persecution of the Church is born from sins of people from within the Church.
He also said celibacy is understood when one sees a priest as “a man of God”, not only when he prays or celebrates the sacraments but “in his whole life”, when he shows the “love and mercy” of God.

For that reason he said mankind needs priests who give themselves unconditionally.

John L. Allen Jr. deceptions call the Vatican as the 'little guy'

John L. Allen Jr, the highest paid journalist on earth, paid by the Vatican trillion dollars Bank and NCR can afford to sit all day and play with words to deceive his Catholic readers. Especially the Opus Dei Catholics - whose sole officially approved book he wrote after he was given exclusive access to Opus Dei archives and Opus Dei WORLD DOMINATION PLAN. Here he is at it again media spinning for the Vatican as the Pied Piper of Benedict XVI.

Lately after the Vatican buys the soul of Obama who quashed the American litigation against Benedict XVI, John L. Allen Jr. deceives his readers by referring to the Vatican as the “little guy” in the American priest pedophilia lawsuits against the Vatican. John L. Allen Jr. is a LIAR par excellence, the biggest Catholic LIAR on the planet. See how he lies, lies, and lies, as he will to his grave and he will join the company of John Paul II in hell.

More articles from John Allen below.

In Vatican lawsuits, who’s really the little guy?

by John L Allen Jr on Jun. 04, 2010

* All Things Catholic

Over the last decade, the Vatican has been hit with at least ten lawsuits in American courts, on matters ranging from an insurance scam to the sexual abuse crisis. Off and on I’ve written about these cases, and I’ve always been curious about one odd feature of the story: How is it that the Vatican’s legal brain trust in the States ended up concentrated in the notoriously left-leaning, anti-establishment haven of Berkeley, California?

In the abstract, Berkeley hardly seems the most obvious place to seek advocates for one of the world’s last remaining monarchies.

In search of an answer, I spent Tuesday of this week with Berkeley native son Jeffrey Lena, the principal architect of the Vatican’s legal strategy, and here’s what I discovered:

Understanding the Berkeley connection depends in part on answering the question, “Who’s really the little guy?”

As fate would have it, Tuesday was the day Lena and his colleagues filed a brief with the United States Supreme Court asking it to take up an Oregon case, Doe v. Holy See, in which a federal appeals court ruled last year that a lawsuit against the Vatican could proceed.

Lawyers for the victim in the Oregon case filed their own brief the same day, urging the Supreme Court to stay out of it. Both sides were reacting to a recent opinion from the Obama administration, signed by the Solicitor General’s Office, the Justice Department and the State Department, essentially endorsing the Vatican’s view that the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act of 1976 shields it from liability in the Oregon case.

The competing briefs are the latest development in the long-running saga of efforts to sue the Vatican in American courts. Of the ten suits brought to date, six have been resolved in the Vatican’s favor and four are still open. It’s not yet clear whether American courts will ultimately decide that they have jurisdiction over the remaining claims, three of which feature sex abuse victims seeking to hold the Vatican accountable.

For most Americans, these cases probably seem analogous to legal fights against Big Tobacco: The victims represent the “little guy,” struggling for justice against the institutional behemoth of the Holy See. The natural temptation is to cheer for the victims, and to see the Vatican’s assertion of immunity as yet another index of its arrogance.

Lena, however, says there’s another way to look at things.

What if we cast the Holy See, by consensus the smallest sovereign state on earth, as the “little guy” in these cases, defending the rights of all small states not to be pushed around by the court system of the world’s biggest superpower? In other words, what if we shift the context from the sex abuse crisis to equality in international relations?

For Lena, who did graduate work in history at UC-Berkeley, a framework based on concerns over the modern projection of American power around the world -- which, he says, can at times border on hegemony -- seems right on the money.

Understandably, Lena is reluctant to talk much about his own vision of these cases – his job, after all, is to represent his client. Moreover, Lena insists that he is determined to fight these claims because of the Vatican’s “factual innocence.” He says it’s just not true that decisions about transferring abuser priests or concealing their crimes were made in Rome, as these lawsuits generally allege. Lena insists that Vatican officials often never even knew these priests existed until they were being dismissed from the clerical state (usually long after the abuse had occurred), or their names popped up in the press.

But Lena also sees a bigger picture: Preserving a level playing field on the international scene. Respect for sovereign immunity (and international law generally), he argues, is a bulwark against strong states imposing their will on weaker ones.

Though Lena wouldn’t use this language, what’s really at stake in the Vatican lawsuits, from this point of view, is what diplomats often call a choice between the “force of law” and the “law of force” in relations among states. In other words, should nations which lack significant military and economic muscle be subject to the dictates of superpowers?

For the record, Lena says he can understand why it’s hard for victims to see things that way. He’s often said that he admires the courage of victims in coming forward, and he’s surprisingly gracious about the lawyers who represent them -- noting that their actions offer a classic example of the power of civil litigation in America to engender social reform.

Yet Lena also wants people to perceive a deeper drama to these cases, as American courts grapple with what is perhaps the most important legal question any court can ask: “What’s the extent of our power to hear a case?” An aggressively expansionist view of jurisdiction, he argues, can unwittingly produce a shift in the global balance of power.

That way of framing the issue is undoubtedly closer to the way many Vatican officials see things, and it also dovetails with the Holy See’s longstanding diplomatic efforts in favor of “multilateralism,” meaning a more equitable international system. A large part of the reason popes have repeatedly called for a stronger system of global governance -- as Benedict XVI put it in Caritas in Veritate, a global system with “real teeth” -- is to ensure that smaller states have a meaningful voice in global affairs, as opposed to being subject to superpower dictates. (That was also an important reason the Vatican opposed the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, insisting that any decision on a use of force should have come from the United Nations.)

Of course, Lena knows that “American Exceptionalism” is hardwired into our cultural DNA, and this can foster in our courts -- or our politicians, or our military -- some sense of moral duty to right wrongs around the world. Yet experience teaches that when America is perceived as unilaterally imposing its values, the consequences for its global reputation and the success of its diplomatic efforts can be toxic. There’s also a more pragmatic argument for restraint, which is that how American courts treat other nations today may be the way foreign courts treat the United States in the future.

Interestingly, Lena says that American reporters have essentially ignored this aspect of the story, whereas foreign reporters grasp it immediately. What this suggests, perhaps, is that understanding these cases in terms of weak states and superpowers, rather than just victims and the Vatican, comes more naturally outside American airspace.

Maybe it took a Berkeley guy whose orientation is internationalist and historical, rather than merely legal, to see defending the Vatican as a way of addressing concerns about unwarranted expansion of U.S. power. Nonetheless, Lena raises a question that’s at least worth pondering: Ultimately, what are these cases about? Are they about seeking justice for the victims, or are they about ensuring that American courts do not become the arbiters of all the world’s ills?

Even if the most convincing answer may be “both,” that alone suggests there’s more at stake in the business of suing the Vatican than meets the eye.

[John Allen is NCR senior correspondent. His e-mail address is jallen@ncronline.org.]
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http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/vatican-lawsuits-who%E2%80%99s-really-little-guy

Follow the money. What does
Submitted by frère charles du désert OSB OBLAT (Congrégation de Subiaco) (not verified) on Jun. 04, 2010.

Follow the money.

What does the Vatican have?

The Vatican Bank, notoriously corrupt, bag boy for any mob, preserved in its corruption even if this required the neutralization of a supreme reformer.
What does the Vatican Bank know?

About the inner workings of US corruption?

Justice in anglo America is bought
and sold.

Justice goes to the bigger bucks.

The Vatican is now six out of ten with the other four still open.
going 100%.

The real estate might be small, just a few city blocks in Rome, but the Vatican Bank bears great power and influence.

The Vatican by anybody's "consensus" is not the "smallest sovereign state on earth" but a powerful bag boy who holds all the strings.

For a credible source see NCR correspondent Penny Lernoux's In Banks We Trust

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I fail to comprehend how
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Jun. 04, 2010.

I fail to comprehend how priests that sexually abuse parishioners and/or their children and suing the Vatican, employer of these priests, can be construed as “American Exceptionalism”. Is it common practice to condone sexual abuse in other countries? Is it not the responsibility of the accused (Vatican) to prove their case? These abuse cases occurred in the United States of America, not another country. I find it hard to believe those who have experienced abuse are concerned about other countries, but more about seeking justice here at home by the company (Vatican) that employees the offenders.

How did Lena acquire insight as he stated: "He says it’s just not true that decisions about transferring abuser priests or concealing their crimes were made in Rome, as these lawsuits generally allege. Lena insists that Vatican officials often never even knew these priests existed until they were being dismissed from the clerical state (usually long after the abuse had occurred), or their names popped up in the press." Did he personally examine Vatican employees? Did he acquire sworn and witnessed testimony from these employees?

While it may be true that "What if we cast the Holy See, by consensus the smallest sovereign state on earth," I have a hard time seeing the Vatican as "the “little guy” in these cases, defending the rights of all small states not to be pushed around by the court system of the world’s biggest superpower?" I also fail to comprehend why he would conclude with the following statement: "In other words, what if we shift the context from the sex abuse crisis to equality in international relations?" To the best of my knowledge, the United States of America is not the entity suing the Vatican, rather it is individuals who have been harmed.
While the Vatican may be small in size, it is extremely wealthy and has access to an enormous army of religious and parishioners. Count the people and the money before claiming the Vatican is the "little guy".
It is time we get to the bottom line. I am pretty sure Matthew 25:40 did not refer to states, no matter how large or small.

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The Church is a legal

Submitted by Rachel (not verified) on Jun. 04, 2010.
The Church is a legal chameleon...it's not a country with diplomatic privilege until they need to get out of a lawsuit; it doesn't employ bishops, but it is the only entity which can fire and hire bishops...
Chameleons aren't known for the trait of responsibility.

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To position this as a
Submitted by G Bullough (not verified) on Jun. 04, 2010.
To position this as a question of sovereign immunity where, for example, someone might win a judgement in the future that would allow them to take over Monaco is just ridiculous.

That is the straw at which Lena is grasping. Unfortunately, for reasons other than the genuine principle of respecting sovereignty, other governments including ours seem prepared to help him to do so.

We should distinguish between The Vatican (the state) and The Vatican (the parent corporation of the largest multi-national non-profit corporation).

Imagine if BP purchased a privately-held island, declared it to be "The Republic of BP," and then moved its corporate headquarters there.
Would they be able to hide behind "soverign immunity" to avoid liability for the oil spill in the Gulf?

This is exactly what Lena and his client are trying to sell us.

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Lena's claim of protecting
Submitted by david clohessy (not verified) on Jun. 04, 2010.

Lena's claim of protecting "small nations" is eerily reminiscent of Nixon's claim to be protecting "the presidency."


David Clohessy, Director, SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, 7234 Arsenal Street, St. Louis MO 63143, 314 566 9790 cell (SNAPclohessy@aol.com)

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Leave it to a lawyer to slyly
Submitted by Aileen (not verified) on Jun. 04, 2010.
Leave it to a lawyer to slyly cast the egregiously guilty into the role of victim… all for some nebulous international and political 'greater good'.
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1. Over the centuries the Vatican has engaged in its own brand of “hegemony” — welding its political and military power like a sledgehammer of torture and murder until it finally lost its vast territories… reduced to land holding that can be measured in acres as the result of its own political arrogance. Now it wants to posture as poor “little guy” me. Of course the Vatican wants to “shift the context from the sex abuse crisis to equality in international relations”. Shifting the focus has been the ongoing game-plan since the tidal wave of abuse revelations began.
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2. What about “Vatican Exceptionalism”? A “level playing field”? Really? What sort of 'level field' do we have when those sexually abused during their minor years are up against the affluence and political/religious exceptionalism of an arrogant Vatican State — a state which claims diplomatic immunity, and shields sexual predators and their accomplices within its confines. Of course the Vatican wants “smaller states to have a meaningful voice in global affairs” since the Vatican itself is now a “small state” among many nations. What they don’t want is accountability and consequences for their criminal behavior. That is the bottom line at the end of all the parsed legal-speak.
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3. Yes indeed the United States government has a vested interest in not setting precedent for international accountability for crimes committed. Sadly, our own government has shamelessly committed wars crimes in the name of its own perceived “exceptionalism” — torturing prisoners, and violating our own federal laws and international laws. To this day our own predator drones are bombing entire villages of civilians (including women, children and the unborn) off the map, in the bizarre hope of killing perhaps one designated “terrorist”. Our own government, like the Vatican, claims the superior moral high ground while simultaneously engaging in, or tacitly condoning, the most heinous of crimes.
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John, surely you and your lawyer pal can do better than what is reflected in your commentary.

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Vatican's US attorney responds to Supreme Court action

UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter

by John L Allen Jr on Jun. 28, 2010 NCR Today

Jeffrey Lena, the California-based attorney who represents the Vatican in American litigation, issued this statement following the announcement that the U.S. Supreme Court would not hear an appeal from the Holy See.

The Vatican was asking the federal court to stop a law suit filed in Oregon that accuses the Vatican of transferring a priest from city to city despite repeated accusations of sexual abuse.

Lena's statement:

"Today the Supreme Court decided not to grant the Holy See's petition for certiorari. These decisions are made based upon the Supreme Court's docket and what cases it wishes to hear each term. The decision not to hear the case is not a comment on the merits of our case (importantly, the United States does agree that we are correct on the merits). The effect of the Supreme Court's decision is to cause the case to return to the district court in Oregon, where the additional remaining defenses will be heard. Plaintiff currently has one jurisdictional theory left. That theory is that the priest who committed the abuse was an "employee" of the Holy See.

The Vatican's Ask and Tell Problem

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/jun/07/vaticans-ask-and-tell-problem/

The Vatican's Ask and Tell Problem
Garry Wills




The ecclesiastical fashion show from Fellini's Roma

In Arizona we have racial profiling. Now, around the world, wherever the Catholic church holds sway, we have sexual profiling. In The New York Times, Paul Vitello reports on the new screening tests the church is implementing to weed out would-be seminarians who are gay or who are considered prone to pedophilia. In Arizona, police are meant to demand papers from anyone they sense could be an illegal alien. In the church Rev. David Toups, director of the secretariat of clergy for the United States Conference of Bishops, says of his own gaydar: “It’s more like one of those things where it’s hard to define, but I know it when I see it.”

Some may think it a matter of progress if the church is aware of danger coming from pedophiles in the ranks. And if tests become elaborate, to go beyond Father Toups’s educated hunches, so much the better. But read what applicants to the seminaries are going to be asked, and apply the same tests to a would-be medical student, or law student, or science professional, and it will be clear what absurdity the church has backed itself into. Just consider the questions Vitello has found being proposed for the would-be priest, and imagine them being asked of an applicant for other jobs:

When was the last time you had sex?

What kind of sexual experiences have you had?

Do you take cold showers?

Vitello goes on:

Most candidates are likely to be asked not only about past sexual activities, but also about masturbation fantasies, consumption of alcohol, relationships with parents, and the causes of romantic breakups. All must take HIV tests and complete written exams like the 567-question Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, which screens for, among other things, depression, paranoia, and gender confusion. In another test, candidates must submit sketches of anatomically correct human figures.

Defenders of this program might say that it differs from the professional reviews required of doctors or lawyers because priests deal with intimate human needs. Doesn’t a doctor? Don’t lawyers, when they deal with sticky divorces or child custody issues? In the modern world, many people feel closer to their doctors or lawyers (or accountants) than to their priests.

No, the new screenings are proposed because the church has trapped priests inside three doctrinal positions — that homosexuality is “objectively disordered,” that women cannot be priests, and that celibacy is mandatory for all priests. All three positions are eminently challengeable in themselves. But put together they make for a poisonous mix. You can be a good doctor or lawyer and be gay. You can be a good lawyer or doctor and be a woman. You can be a good lawyer or doctor and be married. But all such possibilities are ruled out for priests.

Besides, there is nothing in being a lawyer or doctor (or scientists or engineer) that makes those callings especially attractive to single men or gay men. But the church has been a magnet for gays, as one sees in Ellis Hanson’s Decadence and Catholicism and Douglass Shand-Tucci’s Boston Bohemia. The exotic rituals and vestments, the incense and candles, the authors note, were very attractive to men like Aubrey Beardsley, Joris-Karl Huysmans, and Oscar Wilde. Federico Fellini made light of this when he filmed his camp Vatican fashion show in Fellini’s Roma – the cope and morse, the gloves and slippers, the silks and jewels. As over-the-top as Fellini’s “nunway” seems, it hardly goes beyond the glittery and sequined cope and tasseled mitre on Pope Benedict in the cover picture of the June 7 Time magazine.

It is not surprising, then, that a number of priests are gay – Vitello quotes “some Catholic scholars” putting the number between 24 and 40 percent of the priests, though “other experts” think the number is smaller. No, the new screenings are proposed because the church has trapped priests inside three doctrinal positions — that homosexuality is “objectively disordered,” that women cannot be priests, and that celibacy is mandatory for all priests. All three positions are eminently challengeable in themselves. But put together they make for a poisonous mix. You can be a good doctor or lawyer and be gay. You can be a good lawyer or doctor and be a woman. You can be a good lawyer or doctor and be married. But all such possibilities are ruled out for priests. Besides, Mark D. Jordan, the R. R. Niebuhr professor at Harvard’s Divinity School, says that the odds are that the new screening rules will be enforced, ridiculously, by men who are themselves gay.

What does it take to make the hierarchy see that its mandatory celibacy rule is self-destructive for the church? Vitello notes that “half of the nation’s seminaries have one or two new arrivals a year, and one-quarter get none.” That number is bound to be reduced even further by this new obstacle course. No self-respecting person aspiring to be a doctor or lawyer would put up with such absurdly intrusive questioning. Neither should anyone who thinks there is some remaining dignity to the priesthood.

June 7, 2010 1:43 p.m.

WISCONSIN Ron Johnson's record includes opposition to victims' bill

Ron Johnson's record includes opposition to victims' bill

Republican Senate candidate's slate not so blank

http://www.jsonline.com/watchdog/noquarter/95740094.html

Posted: June 6, 2010 |(106) Comments

Ron Johnson, the Republican blessed by his party to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold, is often described as a political blank slate:

No history of messy campaigns.

No legislative voting record.

Just a few interviews on conservative talk radio and some tea party speeches.

But there is one issue that Johnson feels passionately about - passionate enough to insert himself into the debate.

Prodded by a Catholic official, the Oshkosh businessman earlier this year jumped into the controversy over legislation aimed at making it easier for victims of childhood sexual abuse to sue their abusers.

Johnson, a Lutheran, sided with Catholic Church leaders in opposing the so-called Child Victims Act before a state Senate committee in January. The bill failed to win approval.

Here was the heart of his testimony:

"I believe it is a valid question to ask whether the employer of a perpetrator should also be severely damaged, or possibly destroyed, in our legitimate desire for justice."

Johnson had little to say about the victims of sexual abuse in his testimony. His was largely a financial concern.

He followed that up with this suggestion.

"This bill could actually have the perverse effect of leading to additional victims of sexual abuse," he argued, "if individuals, recognizing that their organizations are at risk, become less likely to report suspected abuse."

That argument doesn't sit well with victims of pedophile priests.

Peter Isely, the Midwest director for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, said the Catholic Church has been more likely to cover things up if it is not faced with court action.

"He's just wrong," said Isely, who was not aware that Johnson had testified.

Not surprisingly, a Feingold spokesman took a shot at his likely GOP opponent for his stance on the issue.

"People want a senator who is going to fight for victims of abuse, not lobby against them," said John Kraus, a senior strategist for the incumbent Democrat. "If he won't stand with children who are victims of abuse, who will he stand with?"

Here are the key political questions:

Why did a guy considering a run for statewide office decide to jump into a controversy that cuts across party lines? What upside could there be?

Only Johnson can answer those.

In an interview last week, he said he was first contacted on the issue by Deacon Tim Reilly, director of administration for the Catholic Diocese of Green Bay. Though a Lutheran, Johnson is a big backer of Catholic schools and was serving on the diocese's finance council at the time of his testimony.

The proposal would have eliminated the statute of limitations for future victims of child sex abuse and opened a three-year window for past victims.

It was opposed by the insurance industry and church organizations, including the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, which argued the bill could bankrupt it. The measure had the support of several police organizations, social workers and Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm.

Late last year, Johnson attended a briefing on the legislation for various Catholic officials held by state Sen. Randy Hopper, a Republican from Fond du Lac. During that meeting, Johnson, who sits on the boards for various nonprofits, said he became concerned about the unintended consequences of the bill on groups in addition to the Catholic Church.

"I think it was actually Randy Hopper who said, 'That's a perspective that would be handy to have,' so after that meeting, I got an e-mail from Tim saying when the (Senate Judiciary Committee) hearing would be," Johnson explained.

Johnson emphasized that his statement represented his own thoughts, not those of the diocese.

Isely finds the whole arrangement bizarre.

"It's interesting they send a Lutheran down to fight a Catholic cause," Isely said. "What would Martin Luther say?"

A couple of hours after Johnson talked to No Quarter, a top Republican Party official sent an unsolicited defense of the candidate's actions. The state party has endorsed Johnson, who is running against Watertown businessman Dave Westlake for the Republican nomination.

First, Mark Jefferson, executive director of the state GOP, suggested that the newspaper focus on Assembly Majority Leader Tom Nelson for his role in killing the bill. Jefferson also said the measure was poorly crafted.

"The fact that the bills went nowhere, in a Dem-controlled Legislature no less, shows that this well-intentioned bill wasn't fully thought out or ready for prime time," he wrote.

Actually, the legislation can't be easily pigeon-holed as a partisan effort.

While many sponsors were Democrats, there were a dozen Republicans in both houses who signed onto the bill. Johnson's own representative in the Assembly, Richard Spanbauer, backed it in committee.

More important than any of that, Isely said, is that Johnson sits on the Green Bay Diocese's finance council. Isely asked what Johnson had done in that post about the 51 priests there who SNAP says are the subject of credible claims of abusing children and minors.

"Regardless of the bill, he's in an extremely unique position that very few people are in to insist and demand accountability and transparency from the organization that he is defending here" in his legislative testimony, said Isely, who has no ties to Feingold's campaign.

In response, Johnson emphasized that the finance committee meets only three times a year and focuses primarily on balancing the budget. He resigned from the post to run for the Senate.

He wanted to emphasize that he has no sympathy for clergy sex offenders.

"Actually, had I not been put on the clock (in the state Senate), I would have made another statement," Johnson said. "I can't think of a penalty that would be too harsh for these guys. I don't think people that prey on children deserve a second chance. I guess God can give them one, but I sure don't think our courts and legal system should."

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Taking the side of pedifiles AGAINST their victims (aka children) is NOT a minor issue.

I'm NOT sure Wisconsin is ready to have a Senator that has sympathy for perverts and NO SYMPATHY fot their victims.

The « 'reverence' for priests » harbours and perpetuates priest pedophilia. 9 Apostolic Visitors to Ireland to re-enforce (fairy tale) Holy Communion

So we are right on the money, Benedict XVI dispatches to Ireland 9 Apostolic Visitors – all who are ignorant and indifferent to “secular crimes’ especially pedophile priests crimes, and they know only and will propagate only the “quickie forgiveness of sins” of pedophile priests, see http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/06/benedict-dispatches-to-ireland-9.html. We are right in our predictions as affirmed by Irish news today that the 9 Apostolic Visitors to Ireland handpicked by Benedict XVI have only one mission –one sole purpose - that is, to glorify Benedict XVI, the theocratic ruler of the Vatican – through theology, the Vatican doctrines, Catholic Catechism and the fictitious Eucharist. The 9 papal envoys include, Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan, Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley of Boston, Cardinal Emeritus of Westminister, Cormac Murphy O’Connor, retired leader of English Catholicism, the Archbishop of Toronto Canada, the Most Reverend Terrence Thomas Prendergast, Archbishop of Ottawa, Thomas Christopher Collins. How impressive that they are the archbishops of Westminster, England; Boston, Toronto and Ottawa. Timothy Dolan, the archbishop of New York, is the apostolic visitor for the Irish seminaries, for the broader issue of priestly formation. Two nuns were chosen to handle the religious institutes for women.

One Apostolic Visitor for one specific (vast geographical) area, what can they do within a few days – "to investigate and eradicate a century of pedophile priests crimes in Ireland" -- which the Ryan and Murphy Reports have already done well in advance of their Apostolic visit? Nothing really. It’s all for show. Crocodile tears show.

The Pope and the Vatican have been master deceivers for 2,000 years and so they still are today in the 21st century. And they use the « 'reverence' for priests » as their best shield and weapon for their deceptions. This « 'reverence' for priests » kept children from defying their sodomy experiences by pedophile priests for decades and prevented them from reporting them to their parents. This « 'reverence' for priests » puts priests in a pedestal as “representatives of God”, when they are as ordinary as any other secular men. And now Benedict XVI will reinforce this « 'reverence' for priests » so that he and priests can continue their deceptions and to preserve the theocratic powers of the pope and the Vatican trillion dollars Bank.

The Vatican and Benedict XVI send these 9 Apostolic Visitors with one goal in mind. Whatever their programs, agenda and schedule are, they are already carrying prepared speeches by the Vatican CDF. These 9 Apostolic Visitors in Ireland during the “short duration” of their “visit” will glorify Benedict XVI and safeguard the Vatican Bank.

Why to glorify Benedict XVI and the Vatican (Bank)?

These religious groups have their multi-millions dollars assets invested in the Vatican Bank. And the “Roman Pontiff is the summit of the Catholic Church” as the Jesuit’s bad examples have shown us for over 450 years. Don’t forget that when Ignatius went to Rome to form his first “Companions of Jesus”, they made their vow of chastity (celibacy) and special extra Jesuit “Vow to the Pope’ who had already 3 illegitimate children residing at the Vatican. That is one of the biggest Jesuit hypocrisy – that these smart men would make a vow of chastity to a pope who was himself not chaste and thus was a traitor to his vow of chastity and was living an active sexual life with different partners at the Vatican. No wonder, Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger now Benedict XVI could condone and cover-up tens of thousands of pedophile priests because the popes themselves are criminals at the Vatican, but Jesuits and all 1.1 billion Catholics will always put them above “secular laws”. See our related article: Sins and crimes are not synonymous. Sinners and criminals are not one and the same http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/05/sins-and-crimes-are-not-synonymous.html

Penance is not justice; penitence is inequality to the lifetime suffering of victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/penance-is-not-justice-penitence-is.html

The Jesuits (and all Catholic religious) continue today to put the Pope “above the law” of the Church and above the laws of the secular world, and the Vatican Bank can buy those who are not Catholics like Obama, see Vatican buys Obama's soul and he quashes US litigation against Holy See http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/05/vatican-buys-obamas-soul-and-he-quashes.html. Now the Opus Dei have taken over the papacy and they controlled the 26 years papacy of John Paul II and the election of Ratzinger.

Jesuits have their fair share of pedophile priests; one of them was a personal “Spiritual Director” for Mother Teresa and her congregation of nuns in India. See Jesuits are bad examples as Pope Loyalists; Fr. Federico Lombardi is puppet Public Secretary http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/jesuits-are-bad-examples-as-pope.html For one century as the Jesuits suffered the Jesuit Suppression by the sinful popes, but they continued to serve and put the pope “above secular laws.” Popes murdered (and plundered all their assets) the Jesuits by sending out to sea where hundreds of Jesuits died at sea because they had no countries to land to - because the Supreme Power of the Pope ordered those Catholic countries not to receive the Jesuits. See the movie The Mission with Robert de Niro. The Jesuits are a bad example of co-dependency like some women who would stick to their husbands even if they beat them to death. The Jesuits continue to serve the Pope in Rome as their Supreme Pontiff and Master, Vicar of Christ. Imagine the Vicar of Christ is a mass murderer, the popes were also pillagers in Jerusalem and they killed the entire population of Muslims in the streets of Jerusalem during the Catholic Crusade (the bloods were up to one’s knees as one walked in the streets of Jerusalem).


So now Benedict XVI is dispatching to Ireland his 9 horsemen (2 are nuns) to reinforce this “Pope is above the law” by segueing the priest pedophilia to other fickle issues of Benedict XVI which are the papal ban on birth control, the admission of divorced Catholics living with new partners to the sacraments -- especially Eucharist or Holy Communion.

This fairy tale of the Eucharist that the Pope and priests are the only capable men to transform the little host into the flesh of the God is worst than Harry Potter magic and witchcraft. Benedict XVI and priests cannot even say “Let there be light” and there was light, priests, Bishops and Cardinals cannot say, “Let there be rain” and rain fell over the Vatican, so they are the biggest liars on the planet, Benedict XVI is using the Bible and theology to claim he to be the “Summit” and theocratic ruler of 1.2 billion Catholics. See our expose on the fantasy of the Eucharist Magisterium Benedict VERSUS Holy Mary: Priests' transubstantiation instant reincarnation of Christ VERSUS Mary’s 9 months pregnancy& child birth http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/



As long as (1) our own Boston criminal Cardinal Bernard Law sits as Archpriest of the St. Mary Major Basilica, “the mother of all basilicas in Rome”, and (2) there is no Catholic Registry of pedophile priests to warn parents and altar boys and girls of predator priests amidst their environment and Catholic parishes, Benedict XVI and his horsemen are ALL HYPOCRITES serving only the Pope and the Vatican trillion dollar Bank, that is God and Mammon. There are currently more than 600 pedophile priests roaming free to sodomize other little boys in the streets and churches of Los Angeles protected by billionaire Cardinal Mahony.

9 Apostolic Visitors to Ireland will cry a few crocodile tears for the victims of pedophile priests and go on trying to perpetuate the LIES of the Catholic Church, the fairy tale and witchcraft of the Eucharist or Holy Communion, see Benedict XVI has no power to say « Let there be God » in the Eucharist just like he has no power to say « Let there be light » in Genesis http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2009/12/benedict-xvi-has-no-power-to-say-let.html.. See John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army expands into Ireland &John Paul is elevated as "Venerable"... only in the Catholic Church are criminals glorified http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/12/john-paul-ii-pedophile-priests-army.html

So we trust in Our Lady of Fatima who predicted in the Third Secret of Fatima that the Vatican will disappear like smoke on the ground and all that greedy wealth of John Paul II’s, with his favourite cash cow and pedophile priest, Fr. Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, and his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army , see http://jp2army.blogspot.com/, will have brought the extinction of the papacy and the Vatican. SNAP and the poor hundreds of thousands of victims of pedophile priests are little victims with no money and manpower like the infallible almighty Pope. So it is now in God’s hands and St. Michael the Archangel. We shall reveal soon Paris Arrow’s vision at World Youth Day on how St. Michael tied the biggest millstone on John Paul II’s neck.

Compare these Catholic sinners and secular criminals

Sinners & criminals - Victims - 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 - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity


John Paul II’s loved so much pedophile priest par excellence Fr. Marcial Maciel

This special affection of John Paul II for theology and Fr. Marcial Maciel shows the emptiness and uselessness of theology when it comes to protecting children.

Called to accompany Pope John Paul II on his visits to Mexico in 1979, 1990, and 1993, Maciel was also appointed by the Pope to the Ordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the formation of Candidates for the Priesthood in Actual Circumstances (1991). He has been a member of the Interdicasterial Commission for a Just Distribution of Clergy (1991), the IV General Conference of Latin American Bishops (CELAM) (1992), the Synod of Bishops on Consecrated Life and Their Mission in the Church and the World (1993), the Synod of Bishops' Special Assembly for America (1997) and (since 1994) a permanent consultant to the Congregation for the Clergy. The golden anniversary of his priestly ordination was celebrated on 26 November 1994, with 57 Legionary priests ordained on the anniversary's eve. Maciel served as Chancellor of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum, which is based in Rome. During the pontificate of Pope John Paul II, considered Venerable and heroic in virtue, Maciel collaborated extensively with the pope, either in person or through members of his organization, the Legion of Christ. Pope John Paul II admired Maciel because of his conservative fealty to doctrine and his ability to raise money and recruit priests. His influence was tied in part in his ability to ingratiate himself with Mexico's millionaire elite, who contributed copiously to his cause.[17] The Vatican failed to act for years over sex abuse by Maciel,[12] and Marciel bribed many high ranking people from the Roman Catholic church (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcial_Maciel)

See our related articles

Pope convenes Irish bishops for talks in Rome the Eternal City of crocodile Popes and Bishops and the Venerable John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/01/pope-convenes-irish-bishops-for-talks.html


Benedict XVI angers Jewish groups for declaring “Venerable” Pius XII who did nothing during Holocaust… like John Paul II did nothing for clergy abuse http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2009/12/benedict-xvi-angers-jewish-groups-for.html


Fatima's seer Jacinta would throw the first stone at John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army‏ to defend her little brothers and sisters http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/04/from-fatima-jacinta-would-throw-first.html

John Paul II's official spokesman Opus Dei Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls reveals the true reasons why there's the Pope and the Pedophile Scandal http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/04/john-paul-iis-sole-official-papal.html


When it comes to justice, secularism trumps Catholicism. Sacraments of Penance, Eucharist & Priesthood are worthless in our justice system http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html

John L. Allen Jr the Pied Piper of Benedict XVI toots “Will Ratzinger's past trump Benedict's present?” http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/04/john-allen-of-ncr-pied-piper-of.html


Benedict XVI is a mixed-up Pope. The Catholic Church is the safest haven for criminals http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/05/benedict-xvi-is-mixed-up-pope-catholic.html

Opus Dei female symbol for John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/04/opus-dei-female-symbol-for-john-paul-ii.html

‘Forgiveness’ is a gizmo of injustice to victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. To Vaticanista chiesa.espresso Sandro Magister, Baloney! http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/03/forgiveness-is-gizmo-of-injustice-to.html

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New Vatican campaign to clamp down on 'liberal opinion'

IRELAND
Irish Independent
By John Cooney

Monday June 07 2010

VATICAN investigators to Ireland appointed by Pope Benedict XVI are to clamp down on liberal secular opinion in an intensive drive to re-impose traditional respect for clergy, according to informed sources in the Catholic Church.

The nine-member team led by two cardinals will be instructed by the Vatican to restore a traditional sense of reverence among ordinary Catholics for their priests, the Irish Independent has learned.

Priests will be told not to question in public official church teaching on controversial issues such as the papal ban on birth control or the admission of divorced Catholics living with new partners to the sacraments -- especially Holy Communion.

Theologians will be expected to teach traditional doctrine by constantly preaching to lay Catholics of attendance at Mass and to return to the practice of regular confession, which has been largely abandoned by adults since the 1960s.

An emphasis will be placed on an evangelisation campaign to overcome the alienation of young people scandalised by the spate of sexual abuse of children and by later cover-ups of paedophile clerics by leaders of the institutional church.

A major thrust of the Vatican investigation will be to counteract materialistic and secularist attitudes, which Pope Benedict believes have led many Irish Catholics to ignore church disciplines and become lax in following devotional practices such as going on pilgrimages and doing penance.

Bishops and priests will be instructed to preach to their congregations the unchanging central message of Jesus Christ about love, healing and repentance.

While the restoration of church discipline and pious practices such as praying to Our Lady and the saints will be welcomed by regular church-goers, the Vatican investigation is likely to face a backlash from liberal Catholics who want more accountability and democracy in church decision-making.

Visitation

Vatican officials are finalising the precise terms of the instructions for the investigators named last week by Pope Benedict, who initiated an 'Apostolic Visitation' last March in his pastoral Letter to the Catholics of Ireland.
The investigators are clearing their diaries to visit Ireland's four principal archdioceses, the national seminaries and study centres run by religious orders in the autumn.

In the wake of the shocking Murphy report into clerical child abuse, the conservative Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan, will examine the study courses conducted for trainee priests at the national seminaries in St Patrick's College, Maynooth, and the Pontifical Irish College in Rome.

At a meeting held in Maynooth last month, Archbishop Dolan told a gathering of priests "to return to basics" and to ground their ministry in "prayer, humility and a rediscovery of identity".

Archbishop Dolan's address, titled "God is the only treasure people desire to find in a priest", was the high point of the Irish church's celebration of The Year of the Priest, a campaign to encourage vocations to the priesthood.

The hardline address was enthusiastically endorsed by Cardinal Sean Brady, the Primate of All Ireland and Archbishop of Armagh.

This week, as part of the Vatican's rigorous restoration policy, a widely promoted rally will be staged in Rome to cap what Pope Benedict has called "The Year of the Priest".

Thousands of priests from across the world, including from Ireland, are expected to attend the showcase event which is planned as a major spectacle trumpeting the special status of the priesthood.

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The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests

SNAP Press Statement
For immediate release: Monday, June 7, 2010

Dolan's Irish probe will allegedly focus on 'doctrine;' SNAP responds
Statement by David Clohessy, executive director of SNAP, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314-566-9790 cell, 314-645-5915 home)

An Irish newspaper reports that the upcoming Vatican "visitation" of Ireland's Catholic church (involving two US prelates - NY Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley) will likely concentrate on increased evangelization," fighting "secularization," boosting confession and mass attendance and similar “measures” of how devout parishioners may or may not be. The internal church probe was announced weeks ago by the Pope and is supposedly to deal with horrific revelations of widespread child sex crimes and cover ups in Ireland.
If this report is accurate, this is extremely disheartening. Clergy sex crimes and cover ups happen when church officials are “liberal” or “conservative,” and whether the flock is “devout” or “lax.” Even discussing such matters detract from the real task at hand: protecting the vulnerable, healing the wounded, exposing the truth, and deterring future recklessness, callousness and deceit.

Focusing on the laity, especially regarding mass attendance and confession, more than “misses the boat.” The problem has been and remains a rigid, secretive, self-serving all-male monarchy that consistently puts its own comfort and reputation above the safety and well-being of its flock.

There’s no need for an “evangelization” campaign. If bishops truly reform - and oust wrongdoers, protect kids and help victims - Catholics will likely return to the church. If bishops refuse, however, Catholics won’t.