No amount of ‘historic apology’ Benedict makes will matter -- unless he fires the first criminals Cardinal Bernard Law & Cardinal Roger Mahony

Benedict made a ‘historic apology’ when he came to Washington for his birthday in 2008, when he went to Australia for World Youth Day in 2008, and when he went to Malta for his birthday this April 2010, where he shed a few tears while meeting with a few (handpicked for propaganda) victims. He’ll probably make another ‘historic apology’ when he goes to Fatima on May 13, 2010. Now a big 'historic apology' is being planned for June 2010 with thousands of priests from all over the world at St. Peter's Square. But, no matter how many ‘historic apology’ Benedict XVI makes, unless he fires the first criminals in the USA Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston and the guiltiest criminal Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles who condoned and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the USA, his papal apologies will always be worthless and futile. Priest pedophilia erupted first here in Boston and culminated in Los Angeles with 600+ pedophile priests, probably the largest ever in the world for one city. Therefore, unless he brings justice first to us in the USA, he cannot bring justice elsewhere. Cardinal Bernard Law is mocking us from his Archpriest High Chair in St. Mary Major in Rome, that mockery must end. Same for Cardinal Mahony who will soon retire in glory.


Benedict XVI and the Vatican don’t seem to get it, they still act as if the world believe that the Pope is the representative of Christ, that his words are infallible, that a few words of apology is enough to assuage the hydrogen bomb existence of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, and that a few papal gestures is enough to heal the innumerable victims that are now revealing themselves and their lifetime sufferings worldwide. We are now in the 21st century, and after 2,000 years of Catholicism and almost all papal sins exposed, after countries have fought for their independence through wars and revolutions against despots, the people of the world have learned their lessons and they will no longer tolerate any form of totalitarianism, not even in the Catholic Church which claims to be the “sole key to Heaven”. Benedict XVI is the last despot in a democratic country and the “vow of obedience” and the 'promise of heavenly grace' will not cut it for the laity at large, for religious orders maybe, but not for the laity who have fought with their own lives and blood revolutions that toppled down autocratic rulers. The people of the world now enjoy their freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of belief and a simple "Amen" will no longer suffice to ‘Hail Mary’ (or Heil Hitler) the Papal dictatorship of Benedict XVI.

In Malta, Benedict XVI met with 8 handpicked victims and he gave a white rosary to one of them who said that “Benedict is a saint”. He is the ‘model victim’ that the Vatican would like all other tens of thousands of victims to imitate. See our earlier article that details this role model for victims in our article of the Vatican's archetype victim of pedophile priests http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/benedict-xvis-phony-sorrow-superficial.html

Now, an “unprecedented act of penance by Benedict, together with thousands of clergymen from around the world in St Peter's Square, 9-11 June” is being planned by the Vatican with the hope that it “will lay to rest the scandal” for the abuse of children. It will be “at the climax of the International Year for Priests”. “It could be considered comparable to the historic step that the previous pope, John Paul II, took in apologising to the Jews for historic church anti-Semitism and for misdeeds during the Crusades”.

The Vatican and Benedict XVI still don’t get it, that John Paul II is not ‘saint’ and can never be a saint; therefore he is not a role model especially for ‘historic apology’ because he never apologized to one single abused child when he was alive. John Paul II was a living compendium of Catholic theology, he made all kinds of ‘historic apologies’, but he was a heartless Holy Father who had neither compunction nor compassion for the tens of thousands of little boys (and girls) sodomized by his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. After we got rid of Cardinal Bernard Law and he resigned in disgrace, John Paul II elevated him in Rome which proves JP2 unsaintly and criminal heart as pope with the longest papacy of 26+ years. See more in our sister weblogs on John Paul II in the John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/and the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

See our related article BENEDICT promises “CHEAP JUSTICE”. Costly justice means: Fire Cardinals Law, Mahony & guilty Bishops! Expose John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/benedict-promised-cheap-justice-costly.html

See our earlier article on the Eucharistic power of priests to re-incarnate Christ's flesh in 9-seconds versus Mary's 9-months pregnancy of Jesus http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/


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


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Pope will make historic apology for abuse

Vatican hopes unprecedented act of penance at June jamboree will defuse anger over worldwide claims

By John Phillips in Rome

Sunday, 25 April 2010

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pope-will-make-historic-apology-for-abuse-1953600.html

Pope Benedict XVI is planning to make the first general apology for the abuse of children and minors by Roman Catholic priests when he meets thousands of clergymen from around the world in June at the climax of the International Year for Priests, Vatican sources say.

In the past there have been papal or church apologies for individual cases of paedophilia or for abuse in specific countries, for example during the German pontiff's recent visit to Malta. What is being prepared now would be the first time a pope seeks to atone publicly for the extent to which paedophilia has been a major stain on the modern history of the church touching a constellation of countries, say the sources at the Vatican's Congregation for the Clergy. It could be considered comparable to the historic step that the previous pope, John Paul II, took in apologising to the Jews for historic church anti-Semitism and for misdeeds during the Crusades, they say.

Vatican officials hope such an unprecedented act of penance by Benedict, together with thousands of clergymen in St Peter's Square, 9-11 June, will do much to lay to rest the scandal and defuse protests that might disrupt his trip to Britain in September. The encounter will form the climax of the special year of events designed in part to encourage vocations to the cloth but which instead has been marred by the mushrooming paedophile scandal.

The Pope has indicated repeatedly that he is considering ways to steer the church toward turning the page and finding an exit strategy from the maelstrom. "The shipwrecks of life can form God's project for us, and can also be useful for new beginnings in our lives," he told journalists on his aeroplane as he flew to Malta
last weekend. He made the point while travelling to celebrate the 1,950th anniversary of St Paul's shipwreck on the small island while on his way to Rome as a prisoner to stand trial, in the year 60 AD.

One veteran Vatican watcher said that using the image of the shipwreck to allude to the abuse scandal "suggests it can be read as not only causing the shipwreck of the church in countries across the globe today, from Ireland to the United States and Australia, from Austria, the Netherlands and Italy to Germany, Malta and others too, but also part of God's plan to purify, reform and revitalise the church".

In speeches during his Maltese sojourn, Benedict underlined how great good can arise from a shipwreck, as happened when St Paul's
stay led to the Maltese becoming one of the first Christian peoples and retaining their faith intact for nearly 2,000 years.

Vatican sources said the Pope considers the jamboree with the priests in June an appropriate occasion for him to lead the whole church in a "Day of Request for Pardon" of the victims and their families for the wrong done by a small percentage of priests in abusing children and minors in many countries, and the wrong done by bishops in covering up that abuse or protecting the predators.

The meeting would be appropriate for a day of fasting as well as penance, they say. On the papal flight last week-end Benedict made a second allusion to the abuse scandal, and its devastating effect on the moral authority of the church and its pastors, describing the church as the body of Jesus Christ "wounded by our sins".

The respected Vatican watcher added: "It is clear that Benedict has been reflecting and seeking to understand the abuse scandal with the eyes of faith. He seems to be developing a theological and spiritual frame for reading and dealing with this shameful and humbling reality in the life of the church in the 21st century and discerning an exit strategy from it."


Abuse victim in Malta: Pope Benedict XVI is a 'saint'

(comment:  THIS IS A A BRAINWASHED VICTIM  BY OPUS DEI BEAST PR DECEITS TEAM - WHO EITHER BRIBED HIM TO SAY THIS OR WAS TRICKED INTO SAYING THIS

 Rome, Italy, Apr 22, 2010 / 01:46 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Vatican analyst Andrea Tornielli spoke with Joseph Magro, 38, one of eight victims of clerical abuse who met with Pope Benedict XVI during his recent visit to Malta.  Magro said the meeting “was truly a most beautiful gift, after all this suffering, we all cried, even the Pope.”

In the interview published by the Italian daily Il Giornale, Magro, who proudly showed the rosary he was given by the Holy Father in Malta, shared details about his meeting with the Pope.

“I did not have any faith in priests. Now, after this moving experience, I have hope again.  You people in Italy have a saint. Do you realize that? You have a saint,” he said, referring to Pope Benedict XVI.

Later, explaining his discussion with the Holy Father, Magro said, “When I told him my name was Joseph, the Pope’s eyes grew wide and he said, ‘Joseph, like me!’ Then I asked him: ‘Why did the priest do this to me, why did he abuse me?’ He replied that he prays for me and we then prayed together.”

Magro said he could see that the Pope “felt great sorrow. I could see he was suffering with me.  I didn’t want to make him suffer, I didn’t tell him about the abuse that I suffered, but he wept with me, even though he had no fault in what happened.”

After admitting that he did not expect to have this emotional encounter with the Holy Father, Magro said, “This was a great gift for me, to be welcomed in this way and to be listened to by him.  I heard his speech at the airport, on Saturday afternoon.  He did not say anything about the problem of abuse.  But this morning (Sunday, April 18), at 9:00 a.m., I received a call: I was to go to the bishop’s house because I was going to see the Pope.”

“I finally have a little bit of peace thanks to this encounter.  He gave me a rosary which I now wear around my neck,” Magro said.

Benedict XVI’s phony sorrow, superficial shame & crocodile tears in Malta; how long will he continue his Papal lies and Papal parody?

Benedict XVI sleeps during Mass in Malta

To celebrate his 83rd birthday and the 5th year of his papacy in Malta, Benedict XVI goes on and on with his Papal lies and Papal parody of "protecting the young" and "bringing the guilty cleric to justice". How long will he hold on to his Papal charade? The media and the peoples of the world are not as stupid as he thinks. He should know the idiom: 'Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me'. Well, this time the shame in on him. Benedict promises “CHEAP JUSTICE”. But costly justice means: Fire Cardinals Law, Mahony & guilty Bishops! Expose John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/benedict-promised-cheap-justice-costly.html. Unless he do these costly justice, his promises are meaningless. From Malta, Benedict XVI is preparing for his historic trip to Fatima for the anniversary of the apparition on May 13, 2010. As if he has the time of day for the "cheap gossip" and issues of pedophile priests. All he is doing now is planning his (deceptive) speech, trying on his new papal wardrobe with his special papal couturiers, fidgeting on what papal gifts to bring to the leaders of Fatima and those handpicked pilgrim.

In Malta, 8 victims of pedophile priests were handpicked for a special meeting for 20 minutes with Benedict XVI and the Vatican Bank paid journalists wrote their Vatican agenda filled essays to glorify infallible Pope Benedict XVI. Here we show you the archetype victim that Benedict XVI would like the world to believe, to see and to hear.

It is up to the peoples of the world on who and what to believe. The 1.1 billion Catholics are now given a chance to purify and get rid of the papacy of its despotism (of infallibility) once and for all. If they want to save their church, they must act, but with costly justice. True purification and true justice will not be achieved by a quick Hail Mary Rosary chanting or the fairy tale ceremony of the Eucharist, or by deceptive Catholic journalists (paid by the Vatican Bank) . See our earlier article on Priests' transubstantiation instant reincarnation of Christ VERSUS Mary’s 9 months pregnancy& child birth http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/

Benedict's lies and propaganda: Vatican's archetype victim of pedophile priests

As we have predicted during the USA trip of Benedict XVI, a few handpicked victims of pedophile priests will meet with Benedict XVI, have a special papal ceremony to mark – once and for all – the end of the story of priest pedophilia. This papal ceremony attempt is beginning. In Malta, Benedict gave a “white rosary” to a victim, Joseph Magro, 38, who said to the media that he “felt at peace after emerging from a private meeting with His Holiness”, that he “will be using daily to say the rosary”, that “the meeting had helped him heal”, and that "After so many years, today I am at peace with the Church. I am a different person." This is the archetype victim the Pope and the Vatican would like that all victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army to imitate, to do, to be and to say.

But a white rosary blessed by Benedict XVI will NOT heal years of sodomy by a holy priest who, in principle, can continue to commit ES Eucharist & Sodomy in Biblical proportion because he is not in jail but in church. As we have repeatedly pointed out, those who are ready to heal with a quick Hail Mary Rosary are not real victims but actors paid by the trillion dollar Vatican Bank to save the face of the pope. Real victims tell their stories in a more agonizing way like victims of Holocaust who will not trivialize times spent in a Nazi camp - see victims personal stories in our earlier article Biggest Vatican stories of the decade: John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army committed Holy ES Eucharist-and-Sodomy of Biblical proportions http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/01/biggest-vatican-stories-of-decade-john.html

In Malta, true to its deceitful plan to fool the world, the Vatican then released its well-planned media spin statement: the Pope was "deeply moved" by the victims' stories. He expressed "shame and sorrow" for the suffering they and their families endured and assured them that "the Church is doing, and will continue to do, all in its power to investigate allegations, to bring to justice those responsible for abuse and to implement effective measures designed to safeguard young people in the future".

Then at the farewell ceremony at the airport, the President of Malta praised the pope: President George Abela thanked him for finding the time to personally address this delicate issue. "We were all moved today to learn you personally met victims who allege abuse who requested to see you and they found comfort in your words. I am sure this will relieve some of the pain they have suffered for many years." This is also the Vatican prototype for all leaders of countries in the world to say and do for Benedict XVI.

(News excertps from : http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100419/local/abuse-victims-in-healing-encounter-with-pope. This is a classic Vatican orchestrated news article, the comments are even chosen to match the news)

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More Vatican propaganda for Benedict XVI (How much was this victim paid to say this?)

Abuse victim in Malta: Pope Benedict XVI is a 'saint'

MALTA
Catholic News Agency

Rome, Italy, Apr 22, 2010 / 01:46 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Vatican analyst Andrea Tornielli spoke with Joseph Magro, 38, one of eight victims of clerical abuse who met with Pope Benedict XVI during his recent visit to Malta. Magro said the meeting “was truly a most beautiful gift, after all this suffering, we all cried, even the Pope.”

In the interview published by the Italian daily Il Giornale, Magro, who proudly showed the rosary he was given by the Holy Father in Malta, shared details about his meeting with the Pope.

“I did not have any faith in priests. Now, after this moving experience, I have hope again. You people in Italy have a saint. Do you realize that? You have a saint,” he said, referring to Pope Benedict XVI.

Later, explaining his discussion with the Holy Father, Magro said, “When I told him my name was Joseph, the Pope’s eyes grew wide and he said, ‘Joseph, like me!’ Then I asked him: ‘Why did the priest do this to me, why did he abuse me?’ He replied that he prays for me and we then prayed together.”

Magro said he could see that the Pope “felt great sorrow. I could see he was suffering with me. I didn’t want to make him suffer, I didn’t tell him about the abuse that I suffered, but he wept with me, even though he had no fault in what happened.”

After admitting that he did not expect to have this emotional encounter with the Holy Father, Magro said, “This was a great gift for me, to be welcomed in this way and to be listened to by him. I heard his speech at the airport, on Saturday afternoon. He did not say anything about the problem of abuse. But this morning (Sunday, April 18), at 9:00 a.m., I received a call: I was to go to the bishop’s house because I was going to see the Pope.”

“I finally have a little bit of peace thanks to this encounter. He gave me a rosary which I now wear around my neck,” Magro said.

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Authentic victims were not fooled by Vatican media spin

But true victims of pedophile priests were not fooled by the Vatican media-spin and “white rosary” ceremony. SNAP immediately reminded Benedict XVI that he “has been Pope for five years. Under his rule, the Vatican has disciplined two predator priests.” Two predator priests, imagine that, and they were disciplined because their victims became well-learned professionals and knew how to pound at Vatican’s door and get Benedict’s attention, for years, not just for 5 minutes like these alleged victims in Malta (see our earlier articles on the Fr. Marcial Maciel in the John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/03/zenitorg-should-shut-down-its-operated.html and Fr. Gino Burresi in the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/04/john-allen-of-ncr-pied-piper-of.html )

Barbara Dorris of SNAP said: “However, the Pope's professions of" sorrow" don't keep one child molesting cleric away from kids, expose one corrupt bishop or make one child more secure. That is where the Pope's focus should be. »

Statement by Peter Isely of SNAP (414 429 7259)

It’s astonishing that the Vatican is now claiming that Benedict “is doing, and will continue to do, all in its power to investigate allegations, to bring to justice those responsible for abuse.” On its face, that’s just wrong.

Benedict has been Pope for five years. Under his rule, the Vatican has disciplined two predator priests. In a one sentence change of policy, bishops have been told to avoid breaking the law and report abuse when required to by secular authority. That's all that he's done to protect kids. To portray that as “all in (his) power. . .” is ludicrous.

It hurts and endangers kids when adults confuse inaction with action and recklessness with effectiveness. It’s wrong, when thousands are being molested, to just make vague promises.” (See SNAP full respond below)

See our earlier article on 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

International lawsuits

It's quite a coincidence, as his 83rd birthday and 5th year of papacy gifts, international lawsuits are arising everywhere. As secular governments in Germany and Europe, investigate the decades of crimes of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, the Irish government is asking €680 million from Catholic religious orders for abuse victims. The overall costs of programs to help abuse victims will be €1,360 million; the Irish Prime Minister is asking Church officials to pay half of that cost. SNAP is doing their part in protecting and defending victims and now they are expanding into Europe. And SNAP just filed a lawsuit against Benedict XVI and the Vatican from Milwaukee. See updates: international lawsuits against Benedict XVI and the Vatican http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/updates-world-lawsuits-against-benedict.html

See our sister weblogs

The John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/

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

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

See full article below "What New York owes victims of sex abuse: The Pope's regret is not enough to protect children" By Marge Markey and Marci Hamilton

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Pope: church will protect young from abuse; SNAP responds

Statement by Barbara Dorris (314 503 0003)

We are sure these brave men deserve anything that can help their healing and we hope they feel better. Since their pain has been validated. However, the Pope's professions of" sorrow" don't keep one child molesting cleric away from kids, expose one corrupt bishop or make one child more secure. That is where the Pope's focus should be.

Statement by Peter Isely (414 429 7259)

It’s astonishing that the Vatican is now claiming that Benedict “is doing, and will continue to do, all in its power to investigate allegations, to bring to justice those responsible for abuse.” On its face, that’s just wrong.

Benedict has been Pope for five years. Under his rule, the Vatican has disciplined two predator priests. In a one sentence change of policy, bishops have been told to avoid breaking the law and report abuse when required to by secular authority. That's all that he's done to protect kids. To portray that as “all in (his) power. . .” is ludicrous.

It hurts and endangers kids when adults confuse inaction with action and recklessness with effectiveness. It’s wrong, when thousands are being molested, to just make vague promises.

Just days ago, the Associated Press found 30 proven, admitted and credibly accused predator priests who had been sent to other nations and now live or work among unsuspecting families and neighbors. In 2006, the Dallas Morning News found 200 child molesting clerics in the same situation. More recently, a week ago, Fr. Joseph Jeyapaul and his bishop promised to sent the fugitive back to the US to face criminal charges.

The Vatican has taken no action on any of this.

It’s easy to promise, it’s hard to deliver, especially in a rigid, ancient, secretive, all-male monarchy. Not a single adult should feel relieved until strong steps are actually taken, not promised, that will prevent future child sex crimes and cover ups.

http://www.snapnetwork.org/snap_statements/2010_statements/041410_predator_priests_shuffled_around_globe_snap_responds.htm

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gTBsIVChMjmCnQyj1YYIJQwuhVagD9F5GFP80

Pope: church will protect young from abuse

By VICTOR L. SIMPSON (AP)

VALLETTA, Malta — Pope Benedict XVI met Sunday with a group of clerical sex-abuse victims and promised them with tears in his eyes that the Catholic Church would seek justice for pedophile priests and implement "effective measures" to protect young people from abuse, the Vatican and a victim said.

Benedict expressed his "shame and sorrow" at the pain the men and their families suffered and prayed with them during the meeting at the Vatican's embassy in Malta, the Vatican said.

It was the first time Benedict had met with abuse victims since the worldwide clerical abuse scandal engulfed the Vatican earlier this year, and it marked his most personal and forceful statement on the spiraling abuse scandal since a letter to Irish faithful a month ago.

"He prayed with them and assured them that the Church is doing, and will continue to do, all in its power to investigate allegations, to bring to justice those responsible for abuse and to implement effective measures designed to safeguard young people in the future," the Vatican statement said.

The Vatican offered no further details of what measures would be implemented.

Victims' advocacy groups have demanded that the Vatican take concrete steps to protect children and remove abusive priests, saying the pope's expressions to date of solidarity and shame were meaningless unless actual action is taken.

The Vatican said the group of eight men, in their 30s and 40s, met with Benedict in the chapel of the Vatican embassy.

"Everybody was crying," one of the men, Joseph Magro, 38, told Associated Press Television News after the meeting. "I told him my name was Joseph, and he had tears in his eyes."

He said the men received a call Sunday morning to come to the embassy and that the pope spent a few minutes with each one of them. He said the overall encounter, which lasted about 35 minutes, was "fantastic."

"The climate was intense but very serene," said Vatican spokesman the Rev. Federico Lombardi.

At the end, they prayed together and the pope gave his blessing, the Vatican said.

Benedict's overnight trip to Malta — originally scheduled to commemorate the 1,950th anniversary of St. Paul's shipwreck — has been overshadowed by expectations that he would make a strong gesture to repair the damage of the scandal.

Benedict has been accused by victims groups and their lawyers of being part of systematic practice of cover-up by church hierarchy for pedophile priests, in his earlier roles as an archbishop in Germany and later at the helm of the Vatican morals office.

Ten Maltese men came forward earlier this month saying they wanted to meet with the pope to tell him their stories and to request an apology. They say they were abused by four priests at a Catholic orphanage.

Benedict made no direct reference to the scandals during a Mass Sunday morning. He told Maltese to cling to their faith despite the temptations of modern society.

"Many voices try to persuade us to put aside our faith in God and his church," he warned.

Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.




What New York owes victims of sex abuse: The Pope's regret is not enough to protect children

NEW YORK
New York Daily News
By Marge Markey and Marci Hamilton
Tuesday, April 20th 2010

'The Pope, on his first international trip since the scandal over his alleged complicity in priest-abuse scandals began dominating headlines, is meeting with victims and expressing "shame and sorrow" about their plight.

His statements are welcome - but, with all due respect, they don't mean much to the many victims of priest sex abuse who have yet to experience anything approaching justice. Victims of these heinous crimes, including many right here in New York, have suffered for years in silence.

The childhood sexual abuse scandal is epidemic, with Germany, Brazil, Britain, the Netherlands and Norway being added to the already lengthy list of countries where there is evidence of such abuse by clergy. Since the Vatican's responses continue to lag well behind the world's demands for accountability, it is up to governments to take action. Already in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel launched an in-depth investigation into the abuse of her country's children.

The U.S. is uniquely positioned to take more aggressive steps. One promising path: amending the RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) laws to include institutionally facilitated child sex abuse. These laws could then be used against any organization, religious or otherwise, that has knowingly allowed children to come into harm.

But more importantly and more immediately, states should reform their statutes of limitations for child sex abuse so that arbitrary time barriers no longer keep child predators in business and victims from pursuing justice in the courtroom. It is estimated that one in four girls and one in five boys are sexually abused - a stunning number. Yet only 10% of victims ever go to authorities. It is also fact that survivors typically need decades to come forward and the legal system offers the only viable means of identifying child predators who are operating under the radar against our children.

Lengthening or even eliminating statutes of limitation is a costless way for the states to do right by victims. Alaska, Maine and Delaware simply got rid of their time requirements. In California, lengthening the statute of limitations yielded the identities of more than 300 previously secret predators.

New York has yet to act - and it must correct this oversight now. The Child Victims Act would extend statutes of limitation for childhood sex abuse by five years, so that victims will not have to file charges before they are 23 or civil claims before they are 28. The bill also sets an age cap on victims, so those older than 58 will not be able to bring a claim.

Even more important, the bill would create a brand-new window of opportunity of one year for victims who previously have had their statutes of limitations expire, enabling them to file claims in court against those who caused their abuse. That's an approach that has worked in other states - in exposing not just abusers in the priesthood, but perpetrators in other religions and nonreligious groups as well.

Since the coverup of the Catholic Church's secret handling of child sexual abuse by its priests first broke eight years ago, thousands of victims here in New York and across the U.S. have demanded accountability. Before yet another year passes without justice, our state needs to stand up for child abuse victims. Silence and inaction are simply not an option.

Markey, a Democratic assemblywoman from Queens, is the founding sponsor of the New York State Child Victims Act. Hamilton is a professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University and the author of "Justice Denied: What America Must Do to Protect Its Children."

http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/04/20/2010-04-20_what_new_york_owes_victims_of_sex_abuse_the_popes_regret_is_not_enough_to_protec.html#ixzz0lgWztGqt

http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/all-silent-bishops-should-resign-abuse-survivor-collins-454929.html

All 'silent' bishops should resign: Abuse survivor Collins

Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/all-silent-bishops-should-resign-abuse-survivor-collins-454929.html#ixzz0lsP6ebuU
22/04/2010 - 18:29:06
All bishops who failed to challenge the culture of cover-up over child abuse should resign if the Church has any hope of moving forward, an abuse survivor said tonight.

Marie Collins, who was abused by Father Edmondus in a children’s hospital almost 50 years ago, said it was undignified for senior clerics implicated in the scandals to cling to power.

“I think any bishop who didn’t challenge the cover-up or who actually worked that policy of cover-up should go before the Church in Ireland has any chance of moving forward and getting any sort of trust or respect back,” Ms Collins said.

“Hanging on to power and positions is just undignified. It’s not doing the Church any good.”

Ms Collins welcomed the resignation of Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin James Moriarty but said Pope Benedict must also accept similar requests from Bishop Eamonn Walsh, auxiliary Bishop in Dublin since 1990, and Bishop Ray Field, based in the Dublin Diocese since 1997.

Both clerics announced their resignations in late December.

Ms Collins also urged Primate of all Ireland Cardinal Sean Brady to consider his position, pointing to Bishop Moriarty’s assertion that responsibility must be accepted for the past.

He has been under intense pressure in the last month after admitting holding secret interviews with two young victims of one of the Church’s most heinous sex abusers, the late Brendan Smyth, in the 1970s.

“I think Cardinal Brady hasn’t yet accepted responsibility for the past, particularly his own past,” Ms Collins said.

“I hope he will read that and it will give him some pause for thought in his deliberations and whether he should resign or not.”

BENEDICT promises “CHEAP JUSTICE”. Costly justice means: Fire Cardinals Law, Mahony & guilty Bishops! Expose John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army

In Malta, Benedict XVI listened to a 20 minutes account of 8 (handpicked for propaganda) victims of pedophile priests and he promised to bring those pedophile priests to justice. Note: 20 minutes, that’s scarcely 1 minute for each year of the 30 years cover-up he spent condoning the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/. If Benedict XVI really means it, the first act of justice he would do is fire Boston's criminal-Cardinal Bernard Law from the St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome. Immediately, he would also fire the guiltiest criminal Cardinal Mahony who covered-up 600+ pedophile priests in Los Angeles (exponentially more than our city of Boston and the rest of the world). Then, he should also fire all the Cardinals and Bishops who have been guilty of cover-up of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in USA, in Ireland, in Germany, in Switzerland, and all countries where they are found. If he cannot fire (the most obvious) Cardinal Bernard Law as the first step, then his promise of justice is "cheap" just like he characterized the media's expose of his cover-ups as "cheap gossip" during Holy Week (see our earlier article http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/anti-semitism-card-vatican-defense.html). Benedict's papal sorrow is phony, and his papal tears crocodile. That wouldn't be a suprise because Benedict XVI is the clashing cymbals of St. Paul (see our related articles below).

Next he must reveal ALL the predator priests and show the world all their crimes (these are hidden and lurking deep in the Vatican archives).

Next he must recant the “Venerable” title and annul the sainthood process for John Paul II. (See our earlier article 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)

See our related articles:

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

Things Benedict XVI must do as proofs of his penance for the Irish victims of pedophile priests http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/02/things-benedict-xvi-must-do-as-proofs.html

What do we Catholics got to lose if Benedict XVI was brought to World Court for his crimes as the Hitler-Pope of pedophile priests? http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/02/what-do-we-catholics-got-to-lose-if.html

The French Revolution at the Vatican might start in England with the arrest of Benedict XVI led by the British Dawkins and Hitchens http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/french-revolution-at-vatican-might.html

Next, he must apologize and restore all the Liberation Theology theologians he has silenced, especially our hero, the Jesuit Jon Sobrino in El Salvador, and posthumously the Jesuit Jacques Dupuis. Also Leonardo Boff (See the list of silenced theologians in our article Beware! Benedict XVI-Cardinal Ratzinger and his allies can be violent http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvi-cardinal-ratzinger-and-his.html)

Then, last but not least, he too must resign and go to jail as penance for his crimes in the cover-up of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army for over 30 years.

John Paul II the Great clashing cymbal of St. Paul http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/11/john-paul-ii-great-clashing-cymbal-of.html

Benedict XVI beatify John Paul II is “brought to nothing” by St. Paul http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2009/11/benedict-xvi-to-beatify-john-paul-ii-is.html

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

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

German man demands Benedict XVI’s apology and compensation "even if the church goes bankrupt" for his abuse as an altar boy by a pedophile priest http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/german-man-demands-benedict-xvis.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

Posted on the fifth anniversary of papal election of Benedict XVI

Benedict XVI & Bertone, liars of Fatima?

Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to visit Fatima, Portugal, on May 13, 2010, on the Feast of Our Lady of Fatima.

Our Lady of Fatima in her First Secret of Fatima in 1917 showed Jacinta with her brother Francisco and cousin Lucia a vision of Hell with demons and souls in human form. “That is where poor sinners go”, she said. Is it possible that pedophile priests were burning in it but that vision was withheld from being revealed so as not to shock Catholics and weaken their respect for priests?

Now, with the recent revelations of thousands of pedophile priests condoned and covered-up by John Paul II for more than 26+ years of his papacy, hence the name, John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, could it be possible that many of those souls in that Fatima vision of Hell were specifically pedophile priests? Our Lady of Fatima can see Heaven and Hell, so why can she not also see - and show - the many evil pedophile priests of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army and reveal it to the Fatima seers?

If Our Lady of Fatima showed these 3 children what Hell looks like, it is possible that she also showed them the “sins of priests”… but Cardinal Ratzinger & Cardinal Bertone - the official revealers of Fatima - removed any reference to priests because priests are the highest members of the Catholic Church’s hierarchy (see explanations of the importance of priests in our earlier essay in the John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/04/john-paul-iis-sole-official-papal.html

If Jacinta was alive today, Our Lady of Fatima would also reveal to her the vision of the ‘living hell’ of the lifetime suffering of hundreds of thousands of Catholic children sodomized by priests and she would ask her to throw the first stone to the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army to defend and protect her little brothers and sisters and save them from the ‘living hell’ of sodomy mixed with the Eucharist, see our article Biggest Vatican stories of the decade: John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army committed Holy ES Eucharist-and-Sodomy of Biblical proportions http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/01/biggest-vatican-stories-of-decade-john.html

Please read our article in the John Paul II Millstone entitled "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


Story of Fatima



On May 13, 1917, in Portugal, Our Lady of Fatima appeared to three children in a place called Cova da Iria.

See complete coverage and analysis of Fatima in The Fatima Crusade http://www.fatimacrusader.com/

B & B Benedict XVI and Cardinal Bertone accused as liars by Fatima theologians and experts

Benedict XVI and Cardinal Bertone, official revealers of Fatima

The Official Vatican Statement releasing the Third Secret of Fatima was co-authored by Cardinal Ratzinger and Cardinal Bertone http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_en.html

(Yes, that’s the same B & B Benedict XVI and Cardinal Bertone in 1998 hid a pedophile priest who abused 200 deaf boys http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010_03_01_archive.html

Book by Bertone, Tarcisio (May 6, 2008). The Last Secret of Fatima. Doubleday Religion. ISBN 0385525826.


Cardinal Bertone

Cardinal Bertone has been accused of lying about the content of the Third Secret in his book, The Last Secret of Fatima, and also in televised appearances http://www.secretstillhidden.com/book.html#overview .

After Bertone's book was published, Italian journalist Antonio Socci published an article titled Dear Cardinal Bertone: Who—between you and me—is Deliberately Lying? http://www.fatimacrusader.com/cr86/cr86pg35.asp

Catholic attorney Christopher Ferrara wrote an entire book called The Secret Still Hidden (content available online http://www.secretstillhidden.com/book.html#overview ) aimed at exposing and debunking the claims of Cardinal Bertone with respect to Fatima. Ferrara, Christopher (2008). The Secret Still Hidden. Good Counsel Publications Inc.. (Content available for free online). ISBN 978-0981535708. http://www.secretstillhidden.com/book.html#overview. The book contains an appendix entitled 101 Grounds for Doubting Cardinal Bertone's Account.

For example, Ferrara asserts that Bertone has given at least five different versions of Lucia's alleged acceptance of the interpretation of the vision published by the Vatican in 2000. Ferrara, Christopher (2008). The Secret Still Hidden. Good Counsel Publications Inc.. p. 149. (Content of book available online for free http://www.secretstillhidden.com/book.html#overview.. )

For more on the Third Secret of Fatima http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Secret_of_Fatima



Benedict XVI the Pope with 'evil eyes' in the Third Secret of Fatima?

Now i will reveal the third part of the secret;
This part is the apostasy in the Church!
Our Lady showed us a vision of some-
one who I describe as the ' Pope ', standing in front of a praising
multitude.

But there was a difference with a real Pope, the evil
look, this one had eyes of evil.

Then after a few moments we saw the same Pope entering
a church, but this church was like the church of hell, there is no
way to describe the ugliness of this place, it seemed like a fortress made
of gray cement, with broken angles and windows like eyes, the-
re was a beak on top of the building.

We then looked up at Our Lady who said to us
you have seen the apostasy in the Church, this message can be opened by The Holy
Father, but must be announced after Pius XII and before 1960.

During the pontificate of John Paul II the cornerstone from Peter's tomb
must be removed and transferred to Fatima.

Because the Dogma of faith is not preserved in Rome, her
authority will be removed and given to Portugal.

The cathedral of Rome must be destroyed and a new one built in
Fatima.

If 69 weeks after this command is announced Roma continues it's abomi-
nation, the city will be destroyed.

Our Lady told us this is written, Daniel 9 24-25 and Mathew 21 42-44

See http://the-end-of-evil.blogspot.com/2010/04/el-secreto-es-anunciado_21.html

See http://beatimonoculiinterracaecorum.blogspot.com/2010/04/terceiro-segredo-de-fatima.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

See our sister weblogs

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

The John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/

The Eucharist instant reincarnation of Christ's body versus Mary's 9-months pregnancy of baby Jesus http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/

Malta defaced Benedict XVI billboard with Hitler’s moustache & word pedophile

See our earlier article Benedict XVI is the Hitler-Pope of history http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/02/benedict-xvi-is-hitler-pope-of-history.html

See our response to Benedict XVI's call for penance: 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



Graffiti on a Maltese bridge

UK victims of paedophile priests seek meeting with pope

Vatican is urged to use the papal visit to demonstrate concern at the damage done by paedophile priests

A poster announcing Pope Benedict XVI's forthcoming visit to Malta has been defaced with a Hilter-style moustache and the word "pedoflu" (paedophile). Photograph: Ben Borg Cardona/AFP

The Vatican is being urged to arrange meetings between victims of clerical sexual abuse and Pope Benedict XVI when he comes to the UK later this year.

Victim support groups, including the Survivors' Network of those Abused by Priests (Snap) and One in Four UK, said such encounters would help defuse anger and demonstrate the church's concern for its wounded congregation.

The call comes after the papal spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, said that the pope had "written of his readiness to hold new meetings" with abuse victims in the "context of his concern" for them. Lombardi's statement is the strongest indication so far that the Vatican will continue to reach out to victims of clerical sexual abuse through papal visits. The pope's British visit in September would be a high-profile opportunity to do so.

There was further embarrassment for the Roman Catholic church in England yesterday, when it was reported that a paedophile priest was allowed to continue abusing victims despite being investigated by a child protection commission chaired by the archbishop of Westminster, Vincent Nichols. Catholic officials denied that Nichols knew any details of the case involving the London priest, Father David Pearce, who was eventually arrested in 2008.

Church officials said last week that the papal itinerary had yet to be finalised and would neither confirm nor deny that the Vatican was looking at arranging meetings with abuse victims.

Snap, which is opening a UK office to cope with the demand for support from victims, said it "fully expected" meetings with abuse victims to happen in the UK. But victims' groups warned that such meetings must be open and transparent. Similar meetings in Australia and the US had been clandestine and orchestrated, they said, with church leaders selecting suitable candidates for encounters that, despite their secret and unofficial nature, attracted positive headlines.

Maeve Lewis, from One in Four, said: "In Australia and the USA, there was no opportunity for victims to set their own agenda. There was no chance to ask difficult questions."

Last month one abuse victim, Bernie McDaid, from Peabody, Massachusetts, revealed how he was chosen to attend a secret meeting with the pope during the 2008 papal visit to the US. McDaid was abused by a Boston-based priest who molested at least 40 boys in the area.

Cardinal Sean O'Malley, the archbishop of Boston, arranged the meeting in Washington DC between a mass and a papal address to Catholic educators after the pope declined an invitation to go to Boston, one of the areas worst affected by clerical sexual abuse.

McDaid told Associated Press he had left the chapel believing Benedict had grasped the scale of the problem and the pain caused by it. But two years of subsequent inaction by the church left him disillusioned. "Was it a PR move? Looking back at that now, I have to say it was. Everything they do is not about the children. It's about the church. It's always the church first," he said.

The past few months have seen devastating revelations about clerical sexual abuse and its concealment in churches and Catholic-run institutions across Europe, prompting outrage from the public, and profuse apologies and promises of investigations from the most senior Catholics on the continent.

Next weekend Benedict visits Malta, itself shaken after botched handling of abuse claims. It was reported this month that 45 priests had been accused of sexual offences since the creation of a church response team in 1999. None of the cases has been referred to the police – the retired judge who heads the project said that was the responsibility of victims and parents. The island, which has a population of 400,000, is 98% Catholic and abortion and divorce are banned.

Amid the expressions of regret from bishops about paedophile priests in their ranks, there is also quiet fury about the €750,000 bill for the two-day trip.

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April 17, 2010
Pope’s visit to Malta overshadowed by paedophile priest scandal
The damage done by the child abuse scandal has been compounded by a lack of coherent response from those at the top
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7100403.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093

A papal trip to Malta would not normally attract world attention, but these are not normal times in the Vatican. The Pope’s first overseas engagement since the sex abuse scandal embroiled the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy will take place in the full glare of the media — the same media that some of his supporters accuse of waging a campaign against him and their religion.

The blame game — the Vatican has also attributed its woes to homosexuals, the Holocaust, the Irish, and even the Devil — speaks to a wider problem in the Church’s handling of accusations that it conspired to cover up paedophilia committed by its clergy. Only in the past few days have Vatican officials scrambled to find a coherent strategy to try to control a scandal that has inflicted immeasurable damage on the institution.

“The problem is not that the Vatican line over the crisis has had unfortunate consequences,” said Andrea Tornielli, the biographer of Pope Benedict XVI and other modern pontiffs. “The problem is that there is no line.”

Even as the Pope faced accusations that he had covered up instances of clerical abuse while Archbishop of Munich from 1977 to 1982, and later as head of doctrine at the Vatican for 24 years, there was no co-ordinated rebuttal. In the corporate world, the response to such a public relations disaster would be crisis management, but the Vatican’s ancient bureaucracy, and a centuries-old culture of secrecy is ill equipped to meet the demands of communications strategies.
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“We are not a multinational,” Father Federico Lombardi, the Pope’s spokesman, said recently. The Holy See, he said, “does not believe it is necessary to respond to every single document taken out of context”.

Asked during a rare briefing for reporters whether there had been urgent meetings in the Vatican over the abuse scandal, he looked baffled. Didn’t he feel that the Vatican was under siege? “No. We issue clarifications when necessary,” he replied, pointing to the publication on the Vatican website of church rules on abuse, making it clear for the first time that bishops must go to the police.

The reality, however, is that new abuse stories have appeared almost daily, and Father Lombardi, 68, a genial and mild-mannered Jesuit from Piedmont, northern Italy, has struggled without any apparent strategy or guidance from higher up in the Church.

Instead, stories involving abuse at the hands of priests have been dismissed as “petty gossip” or “idle chatter”. Contentious remarks by cardinals and bishops — blaming the stories on a Jewish conspiracy, for instance — have added to the furore.

The publication on the internet this week of new Vatican rules setting out a requirement to report suspected paedophiles to civic authorities, and intended to mark a new start, was almost immediately overshadowed by yet another gaffe, this time from the Pope’s deputy, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, who, on a visit to Chile, linked child abuse in the Church to homosexuality.

Vatican officials have repeatedly claimed that 2001 regulations issued by the then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger — now Pope — which imposed papal confidentiality on abuse cases, were meant to speed up inquiries, not bury them, and that abusive priests were primarily the responsibility of local bishops.

Ambiguous at best, the guidelines look to many like an attempt to put the reputation of the Church above the suffering of victims. Indeed, cardinals are on record as saying that bishops were “not obliged” to go to the police.

The Pope’s call on Thursday for “penance” — the closest he has yet come to a mea culpa — may mark the start of a more coherent fightback.Father Lombardi has hinted that new initiatives are in the offing, including more papal meetings with victims as well as a “deepening of the measures of prevention and response” to abuse.

It may not be enough. This week Giovanni Maria Vian, the editor of L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, admitted that the Vatican had communication problems, adding: “We could do better.”

When appointed as spokesman for the Pope, Father Lombardi, said: “I don’t think my role is to explain the Pope’s thinking or explain the things that he already states in an extraordinarily clear and rich way.”

This relaxed approach looks dangerously inadequate. Father Lombardi has faced one public relations disaster after another under a Pope who, during his five years in office, has offended Muslims, Jews and Anglicans.


He has admitted that he does not talk to the Pope about the abuse issue, but to Cardinal Bertone.

The Pope, moreover, is not a natural communicator, as was his predecessor, John Paul II, nor did he start out as a parish priest, with contact with daily life. His style is remote and professorial, he listens to few advisers and he does not have people from all walks of life to lunch or dinner, as John Paul did.

In Germany, where the numbers of the faithful are in decline, Der Spiegel magazine has already written off his pontificate as a failure, describing “the tragedy of a man who had set out to write books and only near the end of his life was summoned to assume the Herculean office at the Vatican”.

After Malta, more challenging trips to Portugal, Cyprus, Britain and Spain await. Some doubt that the Pope, who at his appointment described himself as “a humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord”, can rise to the challenge that his Church now faces.

His former friend and fellow theologian Hans Kung does not believe that the Vatican is capable of the reform required. “We cannot hide the fact that the system of hiding [abuse] was led by the Congregation of Faith of Cardinal Ratzinger, in which they kept cases under strict secrecy,” he wrote this week. “The consequences of these scandals for the Catholic Church are devastating. Dear bishops, ask yourselves how we are going to deal with this in the future? Do not be silent – silence makes us complicit. Send demands to Rome for reform.”

Penance is not justice; penitence is inequality to the lifetime suffering of victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army

Benedict XVI called on the Catholic Church at a Vatican mass on Thursday attended by the Pontifical Biblical Commission: "Now, under the attacks from the world that speak of our sins, we see that...it is necessary to make penitence, to recognise what is wrong in our lives". This involved "opening oneself up to forgiveness, preparing oneself for forgiveness, allowing oneself to be transformed." (See Benedict XVI to lead marathon Bible reading on Italian TV http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2008/10/benedict-xvi-to-lead-marathon-bible.html)

If our Supreme Courts and justice houses in every country followed Benedict XVI Catholic recipe of ‘penance’ or the ‘transformation’ through the Sacrament of Penance (which is a 2-minutes quickie confession to a Catholic priest, absolution, and a quick recitation of a Hail Mary as penance), all our jails and CSI Crime Scene Investigation labs would be empty. A rapist could simply go to confession, do the prescribed penitence and go scot-free, and then keep on raping and keep on doing penance. This same papal penance formula would apply to all killers, thieves, defamers, pedophiles, etc.

The problem with the 1.2 billion Catholics is that they believe the Pope is the representative of Christ who is above sin and above the secular law, and that Catholic theology is the most important knowledge to be had. They refuse to see that John Paul II wrote the most comprehensive collection of Catholic theology but he was the most callous pope who did not protect or defend one Catholic altar boy from one pedophile priests during his 26+ years papacy See http://jp2m.blogspot.com/ .

Catholics refuse to see that 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

Catholics believe that ‘forgiveness’ is a simple feel-good ritual of wearing a little piece of sackcloth, fasting meat on Friday, depriving oneself of chocolate and coffee, whipping mildly oneself like John Paul II did see John Paul II the Great clashing cymbal of St. Paul http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/11/john-paul-ii-great-clashing-cymbal-of.html, take a short walk and recite the rosary, and all that will make-up for the sins of the world.

Benedict XVI said that it involved "opening oneself up to forgiveness, preparing oneself for forgiveness, allowing oneself to be transformed." But ‘Forgiveness’ is a gizmo of injustice to victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/03/forgiveness-is-gizmo-of-injustice-to.html

Perhaps Benedict XVI should put down his Bible for a minute and read the Biggest Vatican stories of the decade: John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army committed Holy ES Eucharist-and-Sodomy of Biblical proportions http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/01/biggest-vatican-stories-of-decade-john.html and he’ll understand that no amount of Catholic ceremonial ‘penance’ can heal the pains of these victims of pedophile priests.

The biggest problem of the 1.2 billion Catholics is the Fantasy of the Mass wherein they believe that only all male Pope and priests can instantly re-incarnate the flesh of an infinite God! The Catholics are very intelligent and have learned theologians, but really, no finite man can re-incarnate an infinite God, no finite pope or priest can surpass the 9-months pregnancy of the Virgin Mother of God see illustrations in Magisterium Benedict VERSUS Holy Mary: Priests' transubstantiation instant reincarnation of Christ VERSUS Mary’s 9 months pregnancy& child birth http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/

So, no can do, Happy 83rd Birthday Benedict XVI, your head is wanted by the guillotine of the media that has toppled down all despots in democratic countries like Pinochet…it is your turn to stop fooling us with feel-good theological jargons. See the John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/


Pope says church must do penance for abuse cases
VATICAN CITY
Washington Post

Thursday, April 15, 2010
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Thursday the sexual abuse scandal shaking Roman Catholicism showed the Church needed to do penance for its sins, in a rare public reference by the pope to pedophilia in the priesthood.

"Now, under attack from the world which talks to us of our sins, we can see that being able to do penance is a grace and we see how necessary it is to do penance and thus recognize what is wrong in our lives," the said pope at a mass in the Vatican.

This involved "opening oneself up to forgiveness, preparing oneself for forgiveness, allowing oneself to be transformed," said the pope, whose last public utterance on the scandal was his letter to the Irish people, made public on March 20.


Pope calls for 'penitence'
VATICAN CITY
ANSA
(ANSA) - Vatican City, April 15 - Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday called for penitence in the face of attacks on the Catholic Church's "sins".

The pope said at a Vatican mass: "Now, under the attacks from the world that speak of our sins, we see that...it is necessary to make penitence, to recognise what is wrong in our lives".

The pope's words at the ceremony attended by the Pontifical Biblical Commission appeared set to be seen as his first public apology for the latest string of abuse scandals to hit the Church. The pope made a written apology for clerical sex abuse in an Easter letter to Irish Catholics but has not spoken out publicly about the growing scandals in Ireland, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Germany and Italy which have shaken trust in the Church.

Report: Pope says "we" must repent for abuse
VATICAN CITY
Houston Chronicle
By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press Writer

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI referred Thursday to "attacks" on the church stemming from clerical sexual abuse scandal and said "we Christians" must repent for sins and recognize mistakes, news reports said.

Benedict made the off-the-cuff comments during his homily at a Mass inside the Vatican for members of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, the ANSA news agency reported.

Victims of clerical abuse have long demanded that Benedict take more personal responsibility for clerical abuse. Those demands have intensified in recent weeks as the Vatican and Benedict himself have been accused of negligence in handling some cases.



Pope says church must do penance for abuse cases
VATICAN CITY
Washington Post

Thursday, April 15, 2010

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Thursday the sexual abuse scandal shaking Roman Catholicism showed the Church needed to do penance for its sins, in a rare public reference by the pope to pedophilia in the priesthood.

"Now, under attack from the world which talks to us of our sins, we can see that being able to do penance is a grace and we see how necessary it is to do penance and thus recognize what is wrong in our lives," the said pope at a mass in the Vatican.

This involved "opening oneself up to forgiveness, preparing oneself for forgiveness, allowing oneself to be transformed," said the pope, whose last public utterance on the scandal was his letter to the Irish people, made public on March 20.

Pope calls for 'penitence'

VATICAN CITY
ANSA
(ANSA) - Vatican City, April 15 - Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday called for penitence in the face of attacks on the Catholic Church's "sins".

The pope said at a Vatican mass: "Now, under the attacks from the world that speak of our sins, we see that...it is necessary to make penitence, to recognise what is wrong in our lives".

The pope's words at the ceremony attended by the Pontifical Biblical Commission appeared set to be seen as his first public apology for the latest string of abuse scandals to hit the Church. The pope made a written apology for clerical sex abuse in an Easter letter to Irish Catholics but has not spoken out publicly about the growing scandals in Ireland, Austria, Netherlands, Norway, Germany and Italy which have shaken trust in the Church.


Report: Pope says "we" must repent for abuse

VATICAN CITY
Houston Chronicle

By Nicole Winfield Associated Press Writer

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI referred Thursday to "attacks" on the church stemming from clerical sexual abuse scandal and said "we Christians" must repent for sins and recognize mistakes, news reports said.

Benedict made the off-the-cuff comments during his homily at a Mass inside the Vatican for members of the Pontifical Biblical Commission, the ANSA news agency reported.

Victims of clerical abuse have long demanded that Benedict take more personal responsibility for clerical abuse. Those demands have intensified in recent weeks as the Vatican and Benedict himself have been accused of negligence in handling some cases.

UN Judge Says Pope Should be Prosecuted at International Criminal Court

Benedict XVI is not above the law. He is not a demi-god. He is a criminal pope who covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army for over 30 years.

http://www.c-fam.org/publications/pub_detail.asp?id=1606

UN Judge Says Pope Should be Prosecuted at International Criminal Court

By Susan Yoshihara, Ph.D.
Volume 13, Number 17
April 8, 2010

(NEW YORK – C-FAM) In London last Friday, a high ranking United Nations (UN) jurist called on the British government to detain Pope Benedict XVI during his upcoming visit to Britain, and send him to trial in the International Criminal Court (ICC) for “crimes against humanity.”

Geoffrey Robertson touted his status as a UN judge in an article he published last week claiming that jurists should invoke the same procedures that have been used to indict war criminals such as Slobodan Milosevic. To try the Pope as head of the Roman Catholic Church who is ultimately responsible for sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests.

Robertson is one of five select jurists in the UN’s internal justice system responsible for holding UN officials accountable for corruption and mismanagement. His article was published in both the United States and Britain and reported on by the Associated Press.

Professor Hurst Hannum of the Fletcher School at Tufts University told the Friday Fax that it would be a “real stretch” to use the ICC since that court’s jurisdiction is mainly reserved for crimes during war. More likely, Hannum said, is that Robertson and likeminded experts would invoke the principle of “universal jurisdiction” so that national courts all over the world could detain the pope whenever he stepped foot on their soil. Critics say the principle, already used in practice, is a violation of sovereignty as it is enshrined in the UN Charter.

Yet Robertson insisted that the ICC could be used as long as the Pope’s sovereign immunity was waived and as long as jurists can show that the sex abuse scandal was carried out on a “widespread or systematic scale,” the way that child soldiers were used in the wars in Sierra Leone and the way that sex slaves are traded internationally.

Robertson, a tort lawyer, argued that prosecution at a higher level of the Church is necessary to get more money for victims of clergy sexual abuse in cases where dioceses have gone into bankruptcy. He specifically pointed out the fact that the diocese of Los Angeles has already paid $660M in damages and Boston has paid $100M.

One prominent law professor told the Friday Fax, “Without in any way minimizing the seriousness of the alleged offenses of Catholic priests, it would be a grave mistake to the laws of human rights to permit a trivializing of the responsibility to protect, and to play into the hands of American contingency-fee lawyers.”

Another human rights lawyer told the Friday Fax that the article could be part of a broader campaign. Robertson has long campaigned to strip the Holy See of its permanent observer status at the UN, and has publicly referred to the Holy See “the world’s largest NGO.”

When a campaign was launched to oust the Holy See from its status in 1999, UN Member States rallied around the Vatican, and in 2004 the General Assembly voted unanimously to expand that status. It is unclear whether UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon knew about Robertson’s leanings before appointing him to his current position.

Tracking John L. Allen Jr, the highest paid professional journalist paid both by NCR and the Vatican trillion dollar Bank

Our constitution in the USA guarantees us the freedom of speech and we have a right to critic and expose all public figures and events (president, pope, cardinals, celebrities) and public writers and authors (novelists, newspaper writers such as John L. Allen Jr, the foremost Vaticanista) because they affect our daily lives. Thanks to our first exposures of John L. Allen Jr. of NCR, other professional journalists are picking up on his Vatican ways of deception. This post will keep track of them from the most recent.

Our posts on John L. Allen Jr in our sister weblogs: The John Paul II Millstone and Benedict XVI Ratzinger: God's Rottweiler

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

Biggest Vatican stories of the decade: John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army committed Holy ES Eucharist-and-Sodomy of Biblical proportions http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/01/biggest-vatican-stories-of-decade-john.html

Catholic websites & Benedict XVI's spiritual penance versus Secular government’s justice of monetary compensation & jail time http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html

John Allen (defender of the Vatican Trinity,i.e. John Paul II, Benedict XVI and Opus Dei) surreptitiously undermine SNAP's financial campaign http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/12/john-allen-defender-of-vatican.html

Benedict XVI’s professional media spinners: Note the selected words they put in their titles, ‘dismayed’, ‘shocked’ for papal crocodile tears http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvis-professional-media.html

New York Times

April 21, 2010, 12:26 pm

The Pontiff and the Press

http://douthat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/21/the-pontiff-and-the-press/

Here’s John Allen, analyzing the Vatican’s approach to the abuse firestorm in the wake of Benedict’s private meeting with sex abuse victims on his trip to Malta:

By insisting that these meetings occur only in private and without media coverage, the pope has also demonstrated a determination that they not become public spectacles – in part, perhaps, to avoid impressions of exploiting the victims to score PR points.

… by refusing to offer any other public comment on the crisis, including any sort of response to mounting criticism of his own record, Benedict’s calculation appears to be that he’s not going to seek to win over secular public opinion. That’s a project, by the way, that a growing chorus of senior church officials regards as a losing proposition, since they believe the secular deck is stacked.

Ultimately, the gamble implied in this behind-the-scenes strategy is this: Over the long run, will the pope win points for his refusal to follow the spin-saturated crisis management strategies typically employed by politicians, sports stars and corporate CEOs? In other words, will his public reticence seem more like sincerity than denial?

Nobody who cares about the Catholic Church should want to see Pope Benedict engage in a “spin-saturated crisis management strategy.” But the “we can’t win, so why respond?” approach to unfair press treatment has a way of becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Yes, the media deck is stacked against Catholicism. Yes, there are reasons why this pope, in particular, is unlikely to get a fair shake from the secular commentariat. But the church is a missionary organization, the secular world is its missionary field, and influencing “secular public opinion” is one of its most important tasks. And that means finding effective ways to engage with the mass media, even — or especially — when you’re facing a storm of criticism.

Such engagement doesn’t require apologizing for the sex abuse crisis every time you make a public statement, or letting the scandal overshadow the liturgies of Holy Week. But it requires recognizing how the media works, how different statements and gestures get covered, and how you can get out ahead of a story instead of letting your critics shape the narrative.

What does this mean in practice? Well, the latest wave of press coverage began with a series of allegations from Germany, including one that touched the pope himself: The case of an abusive priest who was returned to ministry in Munich when Benedict, then Joseph Ratzinger, was that city’s archbishop. This was, and remains, the most legitimate of all the incidents cited in the brief against the pope’s record on sex abuse — and so the Vatican should have taken it seriously, rather than swatting it away. I think the last month’s worth of press coverage would have played out very differently if Rome had greeted the story, not with circle-the-wagon defensiveness, but with a clear, “bucks stop here” statement from the pope that 1) took responsibility, as the head of the Munich archdiocese at the time, for mistakes made by his subordinates, 2) acknowledged that the Vatican bureaucracy had been too slow, in the past, to reckon with the crisis, and 3) summarized in detail the labor that’s been done during this pontificate to come to grips with the scandals, including the successes of the Vatican-approved American rubrics on sex abuse, the resignation of several Irish bishops and the visitation that’s been ordered to the Irish church, and the work that’s apparently ongoing in Rome to devise universal, worldwide norms for how bishops and dioceses should handle abuse cases.

Again, the Catholic Church will always face particular difficulties in its dealings with the press. But the rules that apply to politicians also apply to popes. Responding swiftly is always better than responding slowly, and direct statements are better than oblique allusions. Attacks on the media tend to spur journalists to greater unfairness, whereas acknowledging legitimate critiques gives you more credibility, not less, when it comes time to rebut slanderous charges. If you think there’s a story the media isn’t covering, then you need to give them the story, in its most convincing and comprehensive form, instead of just complaining that they aren’t telling it. And if you have a statement that deserves maximum visibility, you’re better off having the pope deliver it himself, rather than punting it to a spokesman.

Following these rules might not have made the last month of media coverage fairer or more favorable, whether to Benedict or to the church as a whole. But I’m hard-pressed to see how it could have made things worse.

Massachusetts Priest calls for Pope Benedict to resign

Now we are talking and it is always in Boston that we initiate justice for the pedophile priests’ victims. Only our priests in Boston had the guts to ask Cardinal Bernard Law to resign and they succeeded. Law run and went packing away from us in Boston but Pope John Paul II to spite us Bostonians elevated him as Archpriest of St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome. Those hundreds of priests in Los Angeles did not have the balls to ask Cardinal Mahony to resign. That's because Mahony can easily bribe them with his 1 billion dollar revenue from barrels of oil given to the Archdiocese by a wealthy widow, so an insider told us. Flying Cardinal Law to Rome proves John Paul II was a cold-blooded despot who did not care for any of the 12,000 American victims of his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the USA. John Paul II must not be called a saint in American soil and American lips especially American children in deference to their brothers and sisters sodomized by the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army.

We say the same thing as Father James Scahill: "The Bishop and the Priest don't agree with me. That is their problem not mine. All I have done is speak the truth. When is truth wrong, unless the truth is honing in on what is wrong?"

Watch the video of Reverend James Scahill a longtime critic of the church's handling of the abuse crisis. That was made clear during his homily on Sunday.

http://necn.platformicstaging.com/04/12/10/Mass-Priest-calls-for-Pope-Benedict-to-r/landing_newengland.html?blockID=214970&feedID=4206

Father James Scahill: "A systemic cover-up of the abuse of children and minors for decades if not longer."

Father James Scahill is an outspoken critic of the Catholic Church's handling of the sexual abuse crisis. Sunday in his sermon he called on the Pope and other church leaders whom he believes have known about sexual abuse for decades to admit what they knew and when, or step down.

Father James Scahill: "If he could do this, if he would do this, I believe he will be remembered as a great pontiff but if he can't do this, and he won't do this, then integrity should lead him to resign."

Pope Benedict has been heavily criticized for his handling of some abuse cases and today, the Vatican published an online guide with rules for handling sex abuse charges against priests and defended the pope's handling of the media storm.

Father James Scahill: "Now I am glad they are doing the right thing, but the only reason they are doing the right thing, is they were caught doing the wrong thing."

Parishioners have generally been supportive.

Father James Scahill: "Well the last two masses they gave me a standing ovation."

Sheri Yarrow/Supports Father Scahill: "It was very powerful and I think he has got a good honest message to tell the public"

Jennifer Brown/Supports Father Scahill: "He speaks the way other priests aren't comfortable speaking. He says what he wants to say and he says what he feels."

The Bishop of Springfield, released a statement which said in part, "There is a sad irony in that Fr. Scahill's remarks were delivered on Divine Mercy Sunday, a day on which the Church throughout the world re-affirms Christ's forgiveness, reconciliation and mercy towards all his followers."

Father James Scahill: "The Bishop and the Priest don't agree with me. That is their problem not mine. All I have done is speak the truth. When is truth wrong, unless the truth is honing in on what is wrong?"

Deaf victim ask Benedict XVI to expose ALL predator priests, living or dead, and end ‘culture of secrecy’ of Vatican

From the deaf & mute victims to the most outspoken victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, to lawyers in the USA and in England, the media and the whole world is watching how long will Benedict XVI retain his power of deception at the Holy See.

If the media has toppled down despots like Pinochet and other communist countries, the media will also topple down Benedict XVI. The time is ripe for the autocracy and tyranny of the Pope & the trillion dollar Vatican to end.

Italian abuse victims want pope to speak out

Philip Pullella
VERONA, Italy
Sun Apr 11, 2010 6:22am EDT
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VERONA, Italy (Reuters) - Abuse victim Dario Laiti is deaf and has great difficulty speaking. But he has a clear message for Pope Benedict: expose predator priests, past and present, living and dead, for the good of the Church.

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"I think the pope has to carry out justice. He has to get rid of all the priests who abused children. He has to tell the world who these people were and which of them are still living," Laiti told Reuters in this northern Italian city.

So far, the pope has not spoken out directly on the new wave of sexual abuse allegations that is hounding the Church in a number of countries, including the United States, Italy and his native Germany.

Laiti, 59, and others who say they were abused as boys in the Church-run Antonio Provolo School for the deaf decades ago have joined a growing list of victims who are calling on the pontiff to say more and directly address the crisis.

The diocese of Verona has opened an investigation into the accusations. It says while some abuse may have taken place at the school in the 1950s and 1960s, it was not as extensive as some of the former Provolo students claim.

Victims have come forward in many places, including Germany and the United States. But Laiti and his former schoolmates stand out in a country where the Roman Catholic Church still wields enormous power.

"I think this is just the tip of the iceberg," said Marco Politi, a Vatican analyst and papal biographer.

"The Church has a culture of secrecy in every country, but here in Italy, unlike in some Anglo-Saxon countries, it is still a big player in politics, so people are still afraid of coming out and criticizing it," Politi told Reuters.

CULTURE OF SILENCE

Last month, Monsignor Charles Scicluna, an official at the Vatican department that investigates abuse cases, said he was worried about "a certain culture of silence which I feel is still too widespread in the country (Italy)."

The former students of the school, run at the time by the small Company of Mary priestly order, signed statements in late 2008 saying they were abused by about two dozen priests, brothers and lay religious men, mostly in the 1960s.

Their stories have gained more attention as the abuse scandal swirls around the world and hits the Roman Catholic Church's image.

Some are now questioning whether the pope, then known as Joseph Ratzinger, mishandled cases of abuse when he was a bishop in Germany and a Vatican official before his election in 2005.

Laiti and two other victims, Gianni Bisoli, 61, and Moreno Corbellari, 60, described their ordeals in interviews with Reuters in the garden of a building in Verona where city officials have given their association space for meetings.

The men speak with difficulty, making sounds that resemble mumbles, and sometimes need the help of an interpreter using sign language.

"I went to the Provolo when I was six years old and after a few weeks they started molesting me, two or three times a week, for six or seven years," said Laiti, who worked as a delivery man for a local car parts company before his retirement.

"They masturbated me, they made me masturbate them, they sodomized me," he said.

Gianni Bisoli, 61, said he too was molested at night in bed, in the baths and in the carpentry shop. He attended the school from 1957 to 1963 before running away.

He said he was forced to perform oral sex and was sometimes "bathed and perfumed" and taken to the residence of the then bishop, who has since died.

"I looked at the ceiling which looked liked it was in a museum and he would say "how beautiful you are." I did not know what do to. One time he took my clothes off," Bisoli said, adding that it happened "four or five times," starting when he was 12 years old and until he was 14 or 15.

Asked what the pope should do, Bisoli said: "He should get rid of the (abuser priests). And if he is responsible he should resign."

DIOCESE OPENS INVESTIGATION

The Verona archdiocese opened an investigation into accusations of abuse shortly after the Italian newsweekly L'Espresso first wrote about them last year.

Monsignor Bruno Fasani, a spokesman for the diocese, said priests, brothers and staff who worked at the school from the 1950s to the 1970s were questioned after the magazine report and said they were not aware of any systematic abuse.

He told Reuters the investigation found that decades ago two young "aspiring priests" were "immediately dismissed" when it was discovered that they were sexually attracted to boys.

Fasani said that when the diocesan investigation started, one brother who worked in the school decades ago and is now over 80 admitted to having abused boys. When told he would have to undergo therapy and be further investigated, he left the order.

The results of the Verona investigation were sent to the Vatican last year and the Vatican responded two months ago, telling the diocese to continue the probe by convoking all those who say they were abused and hear their stories.

"We want to clear it all up," Fasani said. "Although something may have happened, saying that 24 priests and brothers were abusers out of a total of 28 in the entire religious order just does not stand up. We are looking for the truth."

Fasani said Bisoli's accusations against the bishop at the time, were "very, very, very unlikely to be true," but that they would be studied further. "No one believes this. Knowing the man, his moral vigor. It is difficult that no-one saw this. A bishop is never alone," Fasani said.


http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6382N220100411