Benedict XVI Ratzinger: God's Rottweiler

Benedict refuses to meet Italian victims of JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army

2011-10-08T17:13:00.010-04:00

Charity begins at home and Benedict XVI should have ample time to meet with victims of the JP2 Army the John Paul II Pedophile Priests aptly named after John Paul II who had 27 years to say and do something to stop the most heinous crimes against children. But as Cardinal Ratzinger, Benedict XVI also said and did nothing about priest pedophilia infesting the Vatican clergy when he was the Head of the powerful CDF. Instead Benedict XVI has blamed every body else except himself and John Paul II who were at the helm of the greatest cover-up of the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions that spanned over half the 20th Century.

Benedict XVI has blamed the Devil to Hitler instead of his own crimes against humanity, read our related article -- Benedict used Hitler as mask in German Parliament http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/benedict-xvi-uses-hitler-to-divert.html

These Italian victims are right at the doorstep of the Vatican. The Pope does not need a 100 million Euros security - like he did in Madrid - to meet with them. He has the Swiss Guard Army to protect him. These Italian victims do not need to fly and travel to meet him, they can simply walk over to the door of the smallest country on the planet earth, read our related article -- Hague Is Asked to Investigate Vatican Over Child Abuse http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/hague-is-asked-to-investigate-vatican.html .

Perhaps instead of praying all the 20 mysteries of the Rosary, Benedict should really sit down – or kneel down before – these Italian victims who were neglected during the 27 years papacy of John Paul II. What kind of a Holy Father is Benedict XVI who cannot even meet with his own children who live right in his own backyard in the smallest country on the planet? see the aerial photo of the "country of the Vatican" here http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/benedict-xvi-uses-hitler-to-divert.html

What uses are his Papal Masses and Rosaries if he ignores the very Italian children who live a few steps from the Vatican who are suffering pain and “living Hell” as a result of the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army, read our related article --- the Rosary could not defeat JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the 20th Century ... unlike the Battle of Lepanto in the 16th Century http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/10/rosary-could-not-defeat-jp2-army-john_06.html

Benedict has all the time in the world to be entertained by half naked male acrobats watch the video here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/12/benedict-xvi-give-standing-ovation-to.html but he has no time to meet with these Italian victims of -- the JP2 Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/ ?

Victims of the JP2 Army holding photos when they were sodomized and raped by the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army

Victims of sexual abuse by priests barred from meeting pope

ROME
Interaksyon
Agence France-Presse
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/14740/victims-of-sexual-abuse-by-priests-barred-from-meeting-pope

ROME - Italian victims of pedophile priests demanded to meet Pope Benedict XVI in an open letter published Saturday, accusing papal officials of blocking them.

"We have gone through all the official channels possible in order to meet you, but have been given nothing but evasive replies," the letter from various associations of child abuse victims said.

"We are forced, alas, to admit the extent to which the victims of pedophile criminals are treated with disdain, as if they have the plague."

The letter noted that the pope had met people abused by priests when young in Australia, Britain, Malta, the United States and most recently in his native Germany, but not in Italy.

"We cannot speak to you face to face to express our grief and frustration in the face of so many words and so few acts," it added. "We ask you for an audience in the hope of being listened to, to understand the real meaning of your words when you express your sadness and shame."

The letter asked for a meeting with the pope on Tuesday, the day after the head of one of the associations that signed the letter, Francesco Zanardi, is due to arrive at the Vatican at the end of a protest walk across Italy begun last month.

His group, L'Abuso, claims to have uncovered 130 cases of assault by pedophile priests in Italy since 2000.

At his last meeting with abuse victims, in Germany on September 23, the pope "expressed his deep compassion and regret over all that was done to them and their families", according to the Vatican.

"He assured the people present that those in positions of responsibility in the Church are seriously concerned to deal with all crimes of abuse and are committed to the promotion of effective measures for the protection of children and young people.

"Pope Benedict XVI is close to the victims and he expresses the hope that the merciful God, Creator and Redeemer of all mankind, may heal the wounds of the victims and grant them inner peace."

Over the past year large-scale pedophilia scandals have rocked the Roman Catholic Church in a number of countries, including Ireland, Austria, Belgium, the United States and Germany.

Long accused of a systematic cover-up, the Vatican says it has adopted a zero-tolerance policy, and that victims should be heard and helped, while the guilty are punished in the courts.

However many associations feel that its measures, including the brief meetings between the pope and abuse victims, are not enough.

People of the World and America, wake up and see the Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html

The 15,736 victims is from the recent report of the US Catholic Bishops Conference harmed by almost 6,000 pedophile priests. Note that the victims of the JP2 Army are 5 times those of Osama bin Laden's 9-11, read more http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html

JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

Amnesty International names Vatican in 2011 report on human rights violations - it's time the UN end the Vatican status as a "secular" state http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/05/amnesty-international-names-vatican-in.html

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Walking 350 miles, abuse victim asks to meet pope

VATICAN CITY
National Catholic Reporter

Oct. 11, 2011
By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY -- Francesco Zanardi walked almost 350 miles to deliver a letter asking Pope Benedict XVI to meet Italian victims of clerical abuse and to work harder to ensure bishops around the world follow Vatican norms for dealing with accusations of abuse.

Zanardi, 41, set off from Savona, Italy, Sept. 22 and walked almost all the way to Rome. He said he was abused by a priest when he was about 10 years old, but by the time he reported it to police in 2007, the statue of limitations had expired.

Although more victims of the same priest came forward in 2010 and police are now investigating, Zanardi said, "this priest is still free. He lives in an apartment owned by the church."

The Italian police who patrol St. Peter's Square stopped Zanardi and Alberto Sala, president of an Italian organization that cares for abused children, Oct. 11 at a checkpoint. The men were unable to deliver Zanardi's letter to the Bronze Doors of the Apostolic Palace, but a Vatican employee accepted the letter.

"All accusations should be investigated and accused priests should be isolated from children during the investigation," Zanardi said.

In addition, he said, "it's important to respond to the victims -- they need an incredible amount of help. It's taken me 20 years to overcome the trauma and that's fast. I wanted to die. Victims feel they are at fault, that they are dirty. They need help."

Zanardi said it isn't right that Pope Benedict has met with victims from the United States, Australia, England and Germany, but not victims from Italy. In fact, he said, while his registered letters have reached the Vatican, he has never had a response from the pope or any Vatican official.

He said in his experience, guidelines issued by the Vatican over the past 10 years to improve child protection and deal with accusations of abuse "are not being applied. They exist only on paper."

In addition to asking for a meeting with the pope and for the application of Vatican norms, Zanardi also wants the Vatican to hand over its files of accusations to legal officials in the countries where abuse is alleged to have taken place.

Bishops are obliged to report to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith accusations against priests that appear well-founded.

Pope's visit to Germany greeted by protest PHOTOS & VIDEO‎S. Sex abuse victims blast Pope's inertia

2011-09-23T11:28:00.016-04:00

Updated September 26, 2011

Read our related article Benedict used Hitler as mask in German Parliament. Nazis and Vatican are a “band of robbers” http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/benedict-xvi-uses-hitler-to-divert.html

Our motto is "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for (enough) good men - and good women - to do (and say) nothing". So even if there were less than the 20,000 protesters that were predicted to protest the Pope in Berlin, even if there were only a hundred ministers in Parliament who walked out during the speech of Benedict XVI, and even if the official German television network did not show the protesters on national television but prefer to invite only positive Catholic commentators, the protests is done and it will wake up and stop the triumph of the evils of the Pope and the Vatican.

The hypocrisy of Benedict XVI is astounding as he acts "shaken" during his meeting with sex abuse victims of priests in Germany. If he is truly "shaken", the first thing he must do is to fire Cardinal Bernard Law as Archpriest of St. Mary Major and vanish him from the face of the earth. Hypocrisy is the synonym of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger...

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Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils...Benedict XVI Ratzinger Crimes Against Humanity at The Hague http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/

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

The 9/11 Decade and the JP2 Millstone 9th anniversary of Paris Arrow's vision of the death of John Paul II at the World Youth Day http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/09/911-decade-and-jp2-millstones-9th.html

When Benedict XVI is not wearing mask of Hitler, he is acting up in utter hypocrisy as news of him "shaken up" is manipulated by the Vatican for the media.

Pope 'deeply shaken' in meeting with sex abuse victims in Germany

GERMANY
CNN

Berlin (CNN) -- Pope Benedict XVI met Friday with a group of people who had been sexually abused by clergy in his native Germany, where disenchantment with the Roman Catholic Church has grown in the wake of the scandal.

The meeting, which occurred at a seminary in Erfurt, came on the second day of the pontiff's four-day visit to his homeland. Besides talking with victims of sexual abuse committed by priests and church personnel, he also met with people "who care for those injured by these crimes," according to a statement from the Vatican press office.

"Moved and deeply shaken by the sufferings of the victims, the Holy Father expressed his deep compassion and regret over all that was done to them and their families," the statement added. "He assured the people present that those in positions of responsibility in the church are seriously concerned to deal with all crimes of abuse and are committed to effective measures for the protection of children."

VIDEO

Pope’s visit met by protests

A small group of protesters in Berlin took advantage of the the Pope’s visit to voice their support for victims of abuse within the Catholic Church.

Carrying banners and photos of victims they gathered in front of the Brandenburg Gate.

The demonstrators were from associations and initiatives from allover Germany and further afield.

Barbara Blaine is the President of the Survivors’ Network of those Abused by Priests.

“We believe that the Catholic Church officials have done a horrific job and that they continue to harbour sexual predators and that they endanger children across the globe.”

Brinkmann Henselder from the group Children in Homes, was a victim himself.

“The payments which the church have made do not make up for what the people have experienced. I’ve been suffering for forty years from my five years of abuse by a Catholic priest, and that cannot be overcome using financial means.”

Earlier Pope Benedict had appealed to Catholic Germans not to leave the church. Record numbers of worshippers have left the faith in recent years.

The demonstration organisers say they expect many thousands more to protest in the coming days.

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Pope's visit to Germany greeted by protest‎

VIDEO http://presstv.com/detail/200688.html

Pope Benedict XVI. has arrived in Berlin for his first official visit to his home country Germany.

At Bellevue Palace, the residence of President Christian Wulff, he was greeted with military honors. In his first speech he said his visit followed no political aim but he was to meet people and speak to them about God. After a meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel the pope addressed parliament, a privilege seldom granted.

Dozens of MPs walked out in protest to the pope's speech. Many joined a simultaneous demonstration against the pope's visit. Under the motto “No Power to the Dogma” up to 10.000 people marched through the inner city.

Former foster home children, who were abused in Catholic institutions, also protested in Berlin. The church's handling of the scandal of systematic child abuse had led to a record 181.000 German Catholics officially quitting church last year.

Pope Benedict later held a mass in Berlin's Olympic Stadium among 70.000 worshippers. Despite continuously dropping numbers, the Catholic Church is still the strongest religion in Germany with around 25 million followers. After Berlin the pope will visit the Eastern German city of Erfurt before leaving for Freiburg in Southern Germany.javascript:void(0)

The pope's four-day visit to Germany has caused a lot of controversy in his home country, both in parliament and on the streets, where several MPs joined the protesters in their opposition to Catholic teachings.

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'Pope Go Home': pontiff met by protests in native Germany

23-Sep-11, 1:26 AM | Agence France-Presse
http://www.interaksyon.com/article/13638/pope-go-home-pontiff-met-by-protests-in-native-germany

A protester dressed as a priest blesses an inflatable sex doll during a demonstration against the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in Berlin on Sept. 22, 2011. AFP

BERLIN - A few thousand protesters, some dressed as condoms and nuns, marched against Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday, attacking his views on issues ranging from gay rights to the pedophile priest scandals.

However the rally drew fewer people than organizers hoped, with police saying only around 2,500 had gathered in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz while the pope was delivering a speech at the Reichstag parliament building.

In the run-up to Benedict's visit, organizers had spoken of a protest numbering as many as 20,000.

One demonstrator was dressed as a giant nun clutching a crucifix and a wooden stick with "never again" emblazoned across her robe, a reference to the high-profile abuse scandal that rocked the Church in Germany last year.

Another wielded a banner proclaiming: "Pope Go Home," as he began his first state visit to his native Germany.

Other demonstrators were protesting against the pope's ban on artificial contraception, with signs reading: "Free choice between AIDS and condoms."

Several dozen leftist deputies also boycotted the pontiff's speech in parliament, amid concerns over the separation of Church and state.

One MP, Rolf Schwanitz from the center-left Social Democrats, told Agence France-Presse: "In our constitution, it says that all religions should be treated equally."

"For me, this invitation (to speak in parliament) does not meet this criterion. They say that he has been invited as a head of state, but the Vatican only has a couple of hundred of inhabitants," added the deputy.

He said it made no sense "to invite the head of a dwarf state to speak before the Bundestag".

Berlin's large gay community was also out in force to protest what it says are Benedict's outdated views on sexuality, some carrying banners saying, "Homophobia kills."

Holger Schweitzer, 52, an architect sporting a t-shirt that said: "Homosexuality is curable", told AFP: "I came basically because of the Church's attitude on gay issues."

"We know there are several gay priests and the Church should allow them to say so. This man has a closed mind. He is a long way from reality and I cannot imagine any modernisation" of the Church while he is at the helm, he said.

Protests in Spain last month against the pope's visit turned violent, with clashes between riot police and demonstrators. Thousands turned out to protest against the cost of the pope's visit amid an economic crisis in the country.

Organizers in Germany were adamant before Benedict's arrival that this would not be repeated.

During a 1996 visit by John Paul to Berlin, protesters shouted abuse and hurled paint at the popemobile. The pope was also confronted by streakers.

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Sex abuse victims blast Pope's inertia

Fri Sep 23, 2011 2:12AM GMT

Pope Benedict XVI is seen before meeting German Chancellor Angela Merkel in the house of the German Bishops' Conference in the German capital, Berlin on September 22, 2011.
An American group representing victims of sex abuse by Catholic priests accuses Pope Benedict XVI of failure to tackle the issue appropriately, urging him to take action to halt sexual harassment.

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) demanded on Thursday that his Holiness institute significant reforms to curb the immorality, AFP reported.

"It's sad that in Germany, where hundreds of brave, wounded child sex abuse victims have spoken up in the last year, the pope can't bring himself to openly address the most devastating crisis in modern church history," said SNAP's president Barbara Blaine.

"If he can't even talk about it, there's little chance he can fix it,” she added.

The remarks come as pontiff has begun a four-day visit to Germany, his homeland, where a great number of Christians have abandoned the Roman Catholic Church in protest at the priests' sexual abuse of youths.

The Vatican has announced that the Pope would most probably meet some of the abuse victims in Germany, while critics insist that his goodwill gestures do not cut the mustard.

"We keep looking for the papal speech in which he outlines clear, specific action steps that will help prevent future clergy sex crimes and cover-ups. But it never happens. This time is no exception," Blaine noted.

"It's ironic that the pope speaks of justice while his lawyers and church lawyers across the globe consistently fight to stop child sex abuse victims from being heard in court.”

After a meeting with the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Pope addressed the German parliament, welcoming a privilege seldom granted.

Dozens of German MPs walked out in protest at the Pope's speech, while many joined a simultaneous demonstration against his visit.

Up to 10 thousand people have held protest rallies under the motto 'No Power to the Dogma' during Pope's visit to Germany.

The Church, which is not obliged to report such criminality to any authority under the Vatican's laws, is suspected of having tried to sweep the abuse cases under the carpet.

The scandal, which emanated from Ireland and Pope's home country, has rocked Roman Catholic institutions in Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Italy, and the United States.

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'Pope Go Home': pontiff met by protests in native Germany

GERMANY
Expatica

http://www.expatica.com/de/news/german-news/-pope-go-home--pontiff-met-by-protests-in-native-germany_177310.html

A few thousand protesters, some dressed as condoms and nuns, marched against Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday, attacking his views on issues ranging from gay rights to the paedophile priest scandals.

However the rally drew fewer people than organisers hoped, with police saying only around 2,500 had gathered in Berlin's Potsdamer Platz while the pope was delivering a speech at the Reichstag parliament building.

In the run-up to Benedict's visit, organisers had spoken of a protest numbering as many as 20,000.

One demonstrator was dressed as a giant nun clutching a crucifix and a wooden stick with "never again" emblazoned across her robe, a reference to the high-profile abuse scandal that rocked the Church in Germany last year.

Another wielded a banner proclaiming: "Pope Go Home," as he began his first state visit to his native Germany.

Other demonstrators were protesting against the pope's ban on artificial contraception, with signs reading: "Free choice between AIDS and condoms."

Several dozen leftist deputies also boycotted the pontiff's speech in parliament, amid concerns over the separation of Church and state.

One MP, Rolf Schwanitz from the centre-left Social Democrats, told AFP: "In our constitution, it says that all religions should be treated equally."

"For me, this invitation (to speak in parliament) does not meet this criterion. They say that he has been invited as a head of state, but the Vatican only has a couple of hundred of inhabitants," added the deputy.

He said it made no sense "to invite the head of a dwarf state to speak before the Bundestag".

Berlin's large gay community was also out in force to protest what it says are Benedict's outdated views on sexuality, some carrying banners saying, "Homophobia kills."

Holger Schweitzer, 52, an architect sporting a t-shirt that said: "Homosexuality is curable", told AFP: "I came basically because of the Church's attitude on gay issues."

"We know there are several gay priests and the Church should allow them to say so. This man has a closed mind. He is a long way from reality and I cannot imagine any modernisation" of the Church while he is at the helm, he said.

Protests in Spain last month against the pope's visit turned violent, with clashes between riot police and demonstrators. Thousands turned out to protest against the cost of the pope's visit amid an economic crisis in the country.

Organisers in Germany were adamant before Benedict's arrival that this would not be repeated.

During a 1996 visit by John Paul to Berlin, protesters shouted abuse and hurled paint at the popemobile. The pope was also confronted by streakers.

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The Christian Post

Thu, Sep. 22 2011 04:28 PM EDT

Pope Benedict Greeted by Protests During German Tour

By Ivana Kvesic | Christian Post Reporter

Pope Benedict XVI, who has been facing a summer of immense scrutiny, is visiting Germany from Sept. 22-25 and is expected to be greeted by protestors accusing him of trying to cover up child sex abuse allegations.

The pope said of his journey to his homeland in a speech at Bellevue, "Even though this journey is an official visit which will reinforce the good relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Holy See, I have not come here primarily to pursue particular political or economic goals, but rather to meet people and to speak about God."

Nevertheless, not everyone in the pope's native Germany is enthusiastic about the visit, as Benedict was greeted by protestors gathered in Berlin angered by his handling of cases of child abuse by priests and over his views on sexuality.

One protestor, Markus Schuke told Reuters, "Why has he been invited to parliament? He has nothing to do with politics. His policies on condoms are as good as murder."

Another protestor argued against the way the pope has handled child sexual abuse cases saying, "It was the church and this pope who allowed all of the abuse to be swept under the carpet."

The most recent scrutiny following the pope has come from The Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests (SNAP) that fielded complaints with the International Criminal Court (ICC) against Pope Benedict XVI and three senior Vatican officials.

Lawyers for the Center for Constitutional Rights are handing the (SNAP) case and argued last week, "The Vatican officials charged in this case are responsible for rape and other sexual violence and for the physical and psychological torture of victims around the world both through command responsibility and though direct cover-up of crimes."

The Vatican responded to the scrutiny in a statement released by the Associated Press, calling the action a "ludicrous publicity stunt and a misuse of international justice system."

Nevertheless, experts believe that because the ICC was established with jurisdiction over war crimes and crimes against humanity, crimes allegedly committed by leaders of the Roman Catholic Church are unlikely to come before the court.

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Protests greet Pope Benedict as he visits his native Germany

People dressed as either Hitler or the Pope, or in this case, men dressed as nuns -- came out in protest against the pope's visit in Berlin.

Protestors dress as Hitler, Pope in separation-of-church-and-state demonstrations

In a visit to his native land of Germany, Pope Benedict XVI told the German parliament that politicians must not sacrifice ethics for power, recalling the evils of the Nazi regime and the Third Reich. Benedict's reception was not entirely warm. He was prompted to visit Germany in a bid to halt the tide of Catholics leaving the church and acknowledge the damage caused by recent sex abuse scandals. Protestors, some dressed as either Hitler or the Pope were on hand to denounce what they felt was a violation of the separation of church and state.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - "We Germans know from our own experience" what happens when power is corrupted, Benedict said, describing Nazis as a "highly organized band of robbers, capable of threatening the whole world and driving it to the edge of the abyss," the Pope said, standing in front of the historic Reichstag parliament building. The gesture was symbolic, as Hitler torched the building in 1933 in a show of brute force.

Benedict said that even under the Nazi dictatorship. Resistance movements stuck to their beliefs at a great risk, "thereby doing a great service to justice and to humanity as a whole."

"Even today, there is ultimately nothing else we could wish for but a listening heart - the capacity to discern between good and evil, and thus to establish true law, to serve justice and peace," he said.

Benedict took time to applaud Germany's ecological movement, calling it "a cry for fresh air which must not be ignored or pushed aside."

While dozens of lawmakers from opposition parties boycotted the pope's appearance, Benedict looked out on a mostly full house as guests occupied empty seats. His address ended with a standing ovation.

It was estimated that only "several thousand" protesters ended up showing up at the capital's Potsdamer Platz, far fewer than organizers had predicted. There were no reports of any incidents.

In the rally during the pope's speech, protesters held signs with slogans like "not welcome" and "where there's enlightenment, there's future."

Gay, along with student groups has announced that anti-Papal demonstrations will be held in Berlin and Erfurt.

"We are against discrimination, unequal treatment, against the banning of condoms and we want to make that clear," Joerg Steinert, director of the German Gay and Lesbian Association told Associated Press Television News. "We will be visible when the pope addresses parliament."

Berlin's openly gay mayor, Klaus Wowereit, says that he welcomes the pontiff's visit to the capital and will meet with him personally. Wowereit points out that unlike Benedict's Bavarian homeland, Berlin is largely Protestant, or secular - a leftover of decades of Communist rule.

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Interview in German

The Vatican is made up of GAYS

Protest Benedict XVI's German trip: Banners to use. 86 percent of Germans think Benedict's four-day trip “totally unimportant”

2011-09-19T17:29:00.019-04:00

The number of protestors in Germany against Benedict XVI's state visit will be the largest yet. 20,000 are expected to protest and members of parliament threaten to boycott the Pope's speech. When Benedict went to London last year, there were about 11,000 protestors who lined the streets of London, read our related article Faith, BLESSED NEWMAN, prayers, Christ-CRUCIFIX never protected children and can never bring justice to victims of John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/09/blessed-newmanprayers-crucifix-of.html. When he went to Madrid for World Youth Day, THOUSANDS of protesters marched in central Madrid, read our related article Thousands protest Pope in Madrid VIDEOS.Benedict XVI the narcissistic Pope spends 100 million Euros while millions of Spaniards suffer economic crisis http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/08/anti-pope-protests-in-madrid-injure-11.html Christ said, "The truth shall set you free", at last people are beginning to see the truth about Benedict XVI and his Crimes Against Humanity filed at the Hague, especially the 20,000 filed on the eve of his tript to Germany, read our related article Benedict XVI known worldwide for his Crimes Against Humanity at The Hague. From the Voice of Russia to the Times of India... http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/09/benedict-xvi-known-worldwide-for-his.html Below are banners you can use for the protest against Benedict XVI German visit and other state visits to come. They were sent to us by a German surivor abused by priests.

According to an AP news today, A poll published the week before Benedict's four-day trip showed 86 percent of Germans - including 63 percent of Catholics - thought the trip was “basically unimportant” or “totally unimportant” for them personally.

Even Vatican Radio's German service concluded before the visit, “there is a sense that the pope and Germans are strangers to each other.”

Catholics - and Protestants - are leaving the Church in droves. In 2010, more than 181 000 people deserted the Roman Catholic Church - roughly one every three minutes.

At last, Catholics in Germany realize that the Eucharist is the highest form of magic, sorcery and myth. Benedict XVI and priests have no power to say "Let there be light" and there was light, they cannot re-incarnate dead cats and dogs and therefore they cannot reincarnate God either, read our related article explaining the powerlessness of the Pope and priests -- Magisterium Benedict VERSUS Holy Mary: Priests' transubstantiation instant reincarnation of Christ VERSUS Mary’s 9 months pregnancy& child birth http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html

Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

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

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.html

Read our related articles:

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JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

Freak thunderstorm lashed at Benedict XVI & fanatic World Youth Day pilgrims in Madrid, forcing him to cut short his speech VIDEOS, PHOTOS http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/08/storm-lashes-at-benedict-xvi-and.html

As a born German, a baptized catholic and above all, a survivor of catholic sexual abuse, I like to commemorate the State Visit to Germany of the successor of Constantine and Ceasar(aka Benedict XVI) with more banners in support of the many survivors of catholic sexual abuse.
These banners can be used on websites and in emails, just scale down appropriately.

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Abuse scandal, rows blight pope’s image

September 19 2011 at 12:05pm
By Richard Carter

AP

Pope Benedict XVI greets the faithful during the Angelus prayer at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo, in the outskirts of Rome on September 18, 2011.

Pope Benedict XVI's election sparked joy in Germany, but the Church's reaction to a sex abuse scandal and a series of controversies have dented his image ahead of his first state trip home.

“Wir Sind Papst” (“We are pope”) crowed Germany's top-selling Bild daily in a famous front-page when Benedict was elected in 2005, encapsulating a nation's pride in the first German-born pontiff for more than 500 years.

“It's the sensation of the century,” the influential paper wrote, as the German Church noted the significance of a countryman elected to lead the world's 1.2 billion Catholics 60 years after the capitulation of Nazi Germany.

But that was six years ago.

Now, while the man born Joseph Ratzinger 84 years ago in the tiny Bavarian village of Marktl-am-Inn will likely be welcomed home by cheering crowds, there will also be protests and a certain degree of apathy in Germany.

“Having just swept all before him in (Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez) Zapatero's Spain, Benedict may very well find Germany to be one of his bigger challenges,” said Samuel Gregg, director of research at the US-based Acton Institute, a think tank on religion and economics.

A poll published the week before Benedict's four-day trip showed 86 percent of Germans - including 63 percent of Catholics -

thought the trip was “basically unimportant” or “totally unimportant” for them personally.

Even Vatican Radio's German service concluded before the visit, “there is a sense that the pope and Germans are strangers to each other.”

Protest groups expect around 20 000 people to demonstrate against the pontiff and some deputies have threatened to boycott his speech in parliament, amid concerns over the separation of Church and state.

Germany's Christians are split down the middle between Catholics and Protestants. According to figures published by the German Bishops' Conference, there were 24.7 million Catholics in 2010 and 24.2 million Protestants.

But Benedict's trip comes as Catholics - and Protestants - are leaving the Church in droves. In 2010, more than 181 000 people deserted the Roman Catholic Church - roughly one every three minutes.

Observers put this down, at least in part, to last year's “annus horribilis” with the emergence of a high-profile sex abuse scandal that deeply harmed the German Catholic Church's image.

Germany's top archbishop admitted the Church had “failed” in its response as hundreds said they were physically and sexually abused as children in Catholic institutions decades ago amid allegations the crimes were hushed up.

“It's not my sense that Benedict is viewed in any way as being particularly at fault himself for what happened in Germany or elsewhere in the 1970s and 80s,” said Gregg.

But he added: “To the extent that the Church's moral standing has been discredited by the scandal, it's inevitable that the pope's standing is also affected.”

The pontiff also touched perhaps Germany's most sensitive nerve by lifting the excommunication of a bishop who denied the Nazis killed six million Jews in World War II - earning himself a rare rebuke from Chancellor Angela Merkel.

In a series of interviews published in a book last year, Benedict said that he would not have done this had he known about the bishop's views on the Holocaust.

Meanwhile, during a private visit to the southern city of Regensburg in 2006, the pope became embroiled in perhaps the biggest row of his papacy after appearing to link Islam with violence.

Nevertheless, organisers expect enthusiastic throngs at Benedict's public appearances and his mass in Berlin's Olympic Stadium is to draw a capacity crowd of 70 000.

Not all Germans are indifferent to the visit. “We are pope - still,” Julia Kloeckner, an MP from Merkel's conservatives told the Rheinische Post daily. - Sapa-AFP

Benedict XVI known worldwide for his Crimes Against Humanity at The Hague. From the Voice of Russia to the Times of India...

2011-09-18T17:31:00.011-04:00

This is the second time that Benedict XVI is being brought to court at The Hague, this time it is with 20,000 pages of documents, read our related article Hague Is Asked to Investigate Vatican Over Child Abuse. Bravo to SNAP and the Center for Constitutional Rights!! Court Filing details. http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/hague-is-asked-to-investigate-vatican.html The first time was last February 14, 2011 when two German lawyers- Benedict XVI`s own countrymen - filed a 48 pages documents for Dr. Ratzinger`s crimes against humanity, read the details here http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html

We pray that The Hague will not sell their souls to the SECRET Vatican Swiss Banks and that they will finally bring to justice Pope Benedict XVI who was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who was the partner of John Paul II at the Vatican for over a quarter of a century in the cover-up of the most heinous crimes against Catholic children, the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army, the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army read more here http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

As Benedict XVI hastily beatify and canonize John Paul II, he is also preparing the documents for his own hasty beatification and canonization. We at the dawn of the 21st century shall see truth and jsutice triumph if The Hague will do its role in bringing the crimes of humanity of Benedict XVI and end the myth and powers of the Vatican Evil Empire once and for all, read our new blog Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils...Benedict XVI Ratzinger Crimes Against Humanity at The Hague http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/

Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

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

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.html

Case against the Pope

Voice of Russia
http://english.ruvr.ru/2011/09/15/56214790.html

Milena Faustova
Sep 15, 2011 16:01 Moscow Time

Photo: EPA

The head of the Roman Catholic Church Benedict XVI may soon become a defendant at the International Criminal Court in the Hague. The case against him and three other high-ranking representatives of the Catholic clergy under charges of “crimes against humanity” was filed by the SNAP human rights organisation. It unites people who at some point in their life suffered from Catholic priests’ sexual abuse.

20,000 pages of documents, such as police reports, press news, undeniable evidence, numerous examination results and many other things, are the proof of the Pontiff’s and his set’s guilt. Plaintiffs state that Benedict XVI and his subordinates knew about the crimes but shielded the pedophile priests. As a result of this policy thousands of children were sexually abused by priests. In the SNAP members’ opinion, these charges fall within the category of crimes against humanity.

Scandals associated with pedophile clergymen became a scourge for the Catholic Church a long time ago. The loudest scandal broke out in Ireland in 2009 when charges were brought against over 100 clergymen. This was followed by similar denunciations in other European countries and the USA. The scandal reached its peak with proving sex abuse of 103 Belgian children, 13 of whom could not survive the disgrace and committed suicide. When these outrageous facts became public, Bishop of Bruges Roger Vangheluwe had to resign, admitting to profligate actions with his two nephews.

Russian expert in religious studies Ivar Maksutov believes that the case against the current head of the Catholic Church in the Hague court is meant to weaken the spiritual leadership of the Catholic Church in Europe, rather than to restore justice.

"Pedophile scandals in the Roman Catholic Church have been in the focus of public attention since the middle of the 20th century. Today this problem has come to the fore due to the process of European integration and a change in the internal European policy. The project of united Europe has given rise to an anti-Catholic trend. Before the 21st century all attempts to bring public attention to pedophile scandals were severely suppressed because no one stood to gain by them and they disturbed the stability of the western world. Today’s pedophile story is a tool of secularized Europe in ousting the Catholic Church which is an important participant in the political struggle and public debates. Many forces are annoyed with the Catholic Church today."

Attacks on the Vatican have become everyday reality in the European community in recent years. Discussions of church scandals are followed by protests against the Pontiff’s visits to many countries. This happened in the UK and Spain recently. In Italy the Holy See was accused of lavish expenses amidst the European financial crisis. Ivar Maksutov is convinced that the main reason for this persecution of the Church is EU citizens’ general dissatisfaction with the political and economic situation forming in the Euro zone.

It is still not clear whether Benedict XVI will appear before the court. The Hague reports that they have already started to study the materials. It is quite likely that there will be no criminal case.

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Hague court urged to investigate Pope over sex abuse

The Times of India

Reuters Sep 15, 2011, 06.32am IST

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-09-15/us/30159909_1_war-crimes-sexual-abuse-cardinal-william-levada

AMSTERDAM: Victims of sexual abuse by the clergy want the International Criminal Court to investigate Pope Benedict and three Vatican officials for allowing the rape and sexual abuse of children.

The New York-based rights group Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) and another group, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), filed a complaint with the ICC alleging that Vatican officials committed crimes against humanity because they tolerated and enabled sex crimes.

But it seems unlikely that the ICC, the world's first permanent war crimes court, could take on such a case.

Many of the crimes occurred before 2002, when the ICC was set up, which puts them outside the court's remit, while the Vatican itself has not signed up to the court's jurisdiction.

"It will be very difficult to make an argument that the Church as an organised group committed a crime against humanity and it would be debatable whether that was based on a common plan," said Andre de Hoogh, a lecturer in international law at Groningen University.

The Catholic Church has been rocked by a series of sexual abuse cover-up scandals in Europe and the United States in recent years.

"Crimes against tens of thousands of victims, most of them children, are being covered up by officials at the highest level of the Vatican. In this case, all roads really do lead to Rome," CCR lawyer Pam Spees said.

A Vatican spokesman said there would be no immediate comment. An ICC official referred inquiries to the prosecutor.

EVIDENCE While the Vatican has not signed up to the ICC, countries such as Italy, the Netherlands and Germany have done so, which means that their citizens are subject to ICC jurisdiction. Pope Benedict is German-born.

"The Office of the Prosecutor has received the documents," spokeswoman Florence Olara said, adding that the prosecutor's office "will analyse ... and make a decision in due course."

CCR said it had lodged more than 20,000 pages of reports, policy papers and evidence of crimes by Catholic clergy committed against children and vulnerable adults. SNAP members from Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and the United States travelled to The Hague to file the request on Tuesday.

The file names Pope Benedict, former Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, current Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone and Cardinal William Levada, the top doctrinal official.

The ICC has investigated crimes including genocide, murder, conscription of child soldiers and rape, mostly in Africa, and most recently issued an arrest warrant for Libya's Muammar Gaddafi.

It has jurisdiction over the crimes of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, which include rape, sexual violence, assault and torture.

It has received multiple requests for investigations in the past, such as from Syrian human rights groups in June calling on the court to investigate the killing of civilians in Syria, but the court also lacks jurisdiction in Syria.

The Rome Statute that set up the court also stipulates that the ICC should be used as a court of last resort only if national proceedings are not taking place.

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Papa mass disrupted from above
Voice of Russia
Aug 21, 2011 16:59 Moscow Time

A sudden thunderstorm has forced Pope Benedict to wind up an open-air appearance before a crowd of young people on his Church’s World Youth Day.

In Madrid where he is staying and also in other parts of Spain, a heatwave with daytime maximums of nearly 40 Celsius is giving way to milder weather.

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SNAP holds child sex abuse protest rally in predominantly Catholic Poland

September 19, 2011
By JohnThomas Didymus
http://www.goddiscussion.com/79340/snap-holds-child-sex-abuse-protest-rally-in-predominantly-catholic-poland/#comment-80250

An international organization promoting the interests of victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests held a rally in Warsaw on Sunday. The organization, the Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), had earlier requested the International Criminal Court (ICC) to prosecute Pope Benedict XVI and other Vatican officials "for crimes against humanity of rape and other sexual violence committed around the world."

According to Barbara Blaine president of the organization,

It would be naïve to think that there are no victims of sexual crimes by Polish priests. We suspect that there are children who have been violated and raped…We’re here to reach out to the victims, so they know about organisations like SNAP.

Pam Spees the lawyer for SNAP said,

Crimes against tens of thousands of victims, most of them children, are being covered up by officials at the highest level of the Vatican..

As might be expected, the protest, which involved SNAP representatives displaying banners and distributing pamphlets drew the ire of Catholic faithful in a predominantly(90%) Catholic country. A catholic, Alicja Krawczyk, expressed offence at the banner messages, some of which read, "Pedophiles are in the church." Krawczyk said, "It's a lie to accuse Polish priests. Go to the U.S. or England to protest."

Reports, however, say that there have been a number of child sex abuse cases among Catholic priests in Poland in recent times but none have so far generated public reaction as in the West because Catholic Poles seem unwilling to talk openly about it.

But Barbara Blaine says that the same attitude prevailed in the U.S. and Britain also for several years when it was a taboo for people to speak of pedophiles in the priesthood.

SNAP is on a tour of Europe to raise awareness on the problem of child sexual abuse in the priesthood. The organization had been in Brussels, Berlin, Paris and Vienna and is expected to visit Madrid.

Pope still protecting pedophile bishops

Leaked Tapes with Catholic Sex Abuse Victim Make for Sad Reading

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2011-09-14T12:32:00.005-04:00

“I did it because he could have stopped them but instead he remained silent"

GERMANY
Vatican Insider

Alessandro Alviani
Berlin

Wilfried Fesselmann is 43 years old and is one of the victims of abuse who yesterday filed an appeal against the Pope at the Court in The Hague. In 1979, when he was 11 years old, he was abused by Father Hullermann, who a year later was transferred from the diocese of Essen to the archdiocese of Munich and Freising - then led by Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger - to undergo psychiatric therapy. Afterwards Hullermann abused other children. He was suspended only last year, when the Fesselmann case became public.

Interview with Wilfried Fesslmann, the man who wants to take the Pope to court. He suffered abuse by a priest and was compensated with 5,000 Euro

http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/world-news/detail/articolo/vaticano-vatican-pedofilia-pedophilia-8006/

Why did you file a report against the Pope?

"Because he is the head of the Church worldwide and is responsible for all priests. The problem lies in the fact that priests who are guilty of abuse are transferred from one diocese to another. Father Hullermann counts at least 17 victims. His successor as well, who began working in Essen like him, took advantage of some young boys and was transferred from Essen to Munster. The strategy is always the same. Every time the dioceses responds: "You're the first victim, we never heard anything like that". Meanwhile, pedophile priests are transferred from one city to another. We want to put an end to this strategy."

What specifically do you expect from Benedict XVI?

"Apologies. He should finally take a stand on this issue and admit that mistakes were made. He should also block pedophile priests that are still active. In the indictment we filed at The Hague there are the names of at least 300 pedophile priests in Germany, some of whom still are still in office. The Pope should remove them and reveal their names. Then I would be happy if the Pope decided to meet with me in Berlin during his visit next week, since he is directly involved in my case, after having received Hullermann in Munich. I have already written to various institutions, including the German Bishops' Conference and the Vatican, but he has no interest in meeting me, which I cannot understand. I will go to Berlin to participate in the protests against his visit."

What would you say if you could meet him?

"I would ask him why he did this to me and to others. If he had blocked Hullermann in 1979 there would not have been other victims besides me."
Did you file an appeal at this moment because of the upcoming visit to Germany?

"No, it's a very long and complex process, we have been collecting documents since March."

Do you want to achieve other objectives with this appeal?

"We are angry for the way the compensation issue was handled. In Germany, these crimes have already lapsed. But the victims need up to 20-25 years to talk about what happened. It took me over 25 years. In addition, on average, German victims were compensated with 5,000 Euro. Father Hullermann lives in Munich, has an apartment that is paid for and a housekeeper, and he still keeps receiving his salary from the archdiocese as if nothing had happened. It’s not possible that he earns around 5,300 Euro per month, while the victims were compensated with just one lump sum of 5,000 Euro. It’s just not enough."

What are you doing today?
"For 10 years I was diagnosed with panic attacks related to the abuse. Since then I have not been able to work."

What will happen now with the appeal?
"First of all the Court must examine the material: three CDs plus various boxes full of documents. It will take at least three weeks to do this."

Freak thunderstorm lashed at Benedict XVI & fanatic World Youth Day pilgrims in Madrid, forcing him to cut short his speech VIDEOS, PHOTOS

2011-08-21T14:26:00.016-04:00

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Catholic World Youth - future church in cardboard box - signs of times to come - because the Vatican will be completely destroyed as predicted by the Third Secret of Fatima.

Lightning the sign of the total demise of the Vatican at the World Youth Day in Madrid in 2011

See the pathological lies of John Paul II in his slogan Totus Tuus Marie http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/

Pathetic fanatic World Youth Day Catholics partying while Libyan people in Tripoli captured the city of Kadhaffi

Ugly Benedict XVI the Sorcerer of Christ's flesh and blood in Madrid

Half Naked World Youth Day attending Benedict XVI's mass in Madrid his homily was cut short by storm

Those World Youth Day Catholic youth fed and nurtured the Galaxy-size ego of John Paul II making his conscience numbed towards hundreds of thousands of Catholic children abused by his JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, read more here http://jp2army.blogspot.com/. Benedict XVI got a taste when God's hands will destroy the Vatican City to the ground and not one single pillar will be left standing like the Temple of Solomon because of the Vatican evils and Pope crimes, read more here http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/ Benedict XVI is the first pope to be sued in The Hague for his Crimes against Humanity, read the full text here http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html And it is the first time that Amnesty International has condemned the Vatican for the Holy See's violation of human rights especially against children, read more here Amnesty International names Vatican in 2011 report on human rights violations - it's time the UN end the Vatican status as a "secular" state http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/05/amnesty-international-names-vatican-in.html The Pope and the Vatican perpetuate crimes against children and women and God has enough hearing his name used in vain and enough with the sorcery fo Christ's flesh and blood like Harry Potter magic, read Benedict VERSUS Holy Mary: Priests' transubstantiation instant reincarnation of Christ VERSUS Mary’s 9 months pregnancy& child birth http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html

At John Paul II's last World Youth Day in Toronto, it was the reverse, the storm came before he arrived by helicopter and the 800,000 thousands of pilgrims were claiming it was a "miracle" that they got dried so fast just in time to hear him for his last WYD speech. It was during that speech that Paris Arrows saw St. Michael the Archangel asking John Paul II to apologice to those WYD youth for his negligence towards their younger brothers and sisters in Christ and for his voluntary cover-up of the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army. As those fanatic WYD Catholic youths chanted "JP2, we love you", St. Michael tied the most gigantic milltone to JP's neck and dragged him until his neck broke and cast him into a raging sea of fire, read the vision of Paris Arrow here John Paul II Pope of Sodomy. VISION of PARIS ARROW : St. Michael the Archangel tied giant millstone to John Paul II's neck at World Youth Day in 2002 http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html

Watch videos of Cardinal Ratzinger here as he covered-up pedophile priests together with John Paul II for over a quarter of a century http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-smelled-devils-bowels-as.html

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Clergy try to protect Pope Benedict XVI from the strong winds and rain while he leads a prayer vigil for World Youth Day outside Madrid. The pope, his white hair blown into disarray, gripped a copy of his sodden speech, the pages and his vestments flapping in the wind.

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Storm lashes pope, pilgrims at youth festival

AFP - A violent storm lashed Pope Benedict XVI and around one million pilgrims at an open-air service in Madrid, forcing him to cut short his speech and drenching the faithful who had waited for hours in blistering heat.

As the heavens opened during World Youth Day celebrations Saturday night, Benedict's skullcap was swept off and an assistant tried to shelter the 84-year-old pontiff with a large white umbrella.

The pope, his white hair blown into disarray, gripped a copy of his sodden speech, the pages and his vestments flapping in the wind.

A sea of pilgrims, by some reports more than a million, tried to take shelter under large white and yellow umbrellas at the vast esplanade -- the size of 48 football fields -- at the Cuatro Vientos (Four Winds) airbase outside Madrid.

http://www.france24.com/en/20110821-storm-lashes-pope-pilgrims-youth-festival

Wrath of God interrupts Pope Benedict's speech

Rainstorm Interrupts Popes Speech In Spain

Storm lashes pope, pilgrims at youth festival

21 August 2011 - 04H03

AFP - A violent storm lashed Pope Benedict XVI and around one million pilgrims at an open-air service in Madrid, forcing him to cut short his speech and drenching the faithful who had waited for hours in blistering heat.

As the heavens opened during World Youth Day celebrations Saturday night, Benedict's skullcap was swept off and an assistant tried to shelter the 84-year-old pontiff with a large white umbrella.

The pope, his white hair blown into disarray, gripped a copy of his sodden speech, the pages and his vestments flapping in the wind.

A sea of pilgrims, by some reports more than a million, tried to take shelter under large white and yellow umbrellas at the vast esplanade -- the size of 48 football fields -- at the Cuatro Vientos (Four Winds) airbase outside Madrid.

Others danced in the rain, but the vast majority with no shelter just got wet.

When the rain eased some 20 minutes later, the pope declared to cheers: "Thank you for your joy and endurance. Your strength is greater than the rain.

"The Lord with the rain has given us many blessings. In this too you are an example."

The pope then left the stage to change and returned wearing a golden mitre, draped in a golden cloak and clutching a golden crucifix before resuming his speech.

Firefighters were seen checking the stage for storm damage before the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics returned.

Police prevented pilgrims sheltering under any structures. Six youths were slightly injured but needed no treatment when the wind blew a down a tent, a spokeswoman for the event said.

The pope was seated on a large white throne on a vast white, wave-shaped stage and beneath a giant parasol "tree", made of interwoven golden rods, when the deluge broke.

Also attending the service were Spain's Crown Prince Felipe and his wife Letizia.

The pilgrims are supposed to spend the night in the open air at the base, eight kilometres (five miles) southwest of Madrid, where Benedict isjavascript:void(0) to celebrate the closing mass of the August 16-21 youth festival on Sunday morning.

As he bade farewell to the crowds, the pope said: "We have lived through an adventure together. Firm in the faith, you endured the rain.

"Before going I want to say goodnight to you all: May you rest well, with the sacrifice you are making and that I have no doubt you offer generously to the Lord, we will see each other tomorrow, God willing.

He then thanked the pilgrims for the "marvelous example" they had given. "Just like tonight, with Christ you can always face the tests of life," the pope said.

In the part of his speech that he was able to deliver he called on young people to "be afraid neither of the world, nor of the future, nor of your weakness.

"The Lord has allowed you to live in this moment of history so that, by your faith, his name will continue to resound throughout the world."

The deluge brought dramatic relief to pilgrims who had been desperately seeking any shade from the fierce August heat, some crouching behind emergency vehicles or portable toilets.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church earlier warned against "false gods" as he celebrated mass in Madrid's Almudena Cathedral.

In white cassock and a white, gold-embroidered mitre, he told 6,000 young people preparing to join the priesthood: "You may be shunned along with others who propose higher goals or who unmask the false gods before whom many now bow down.

"Approach the priesthood only if you are firmly convinced that God is calling you to be his ministers, and if you are completely determined to exercise it in obedience to the Church?s precepts."

These include "the decision to live in celibacy for the sake of the kingdom of heaven and, leaving aside the world?s goods, live in austerity of life and sincere obedience, without pretence".

Thousands of child abuse claims, to which the pope made no direct reference, have forced the Roman Catholic Church to be more aware of the psychological maturity of those entering the priesthood.

The pope drew a thunderous applause as he announced he would bestow an extremely rare honour on a Spanish saint, Saint John of Avila, by proclaiming him a doctor of the Church.

Only 33 doctors of the Church -- reserved for figures of eminent doctrine and remarkable holiness -- have been proclaimed since 1295, and the last was in 1997.

The sheer scale of the celebrations in Madrid has sparked angry demonstrations at a time of economic hardship, with unemployment for under-25s running at more than 45 percent.

Thousands of protesters marched in central Madrid late Friday to protest the cost and to decry police crackdowns on earlier demonstrations.

But organisers say most of the cost will be covered by a registration fee from the pilgrims, and the celebration will be a massive tourist boost for Spain.

About 100 gays and lesbians protested on Saturday against the papal visit and the Vatican's fierce opposition to same-sex marriages.

Wild weather disrupts the Pope at a mass prayer vigil at World Youth Day.

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

FANATIC World Youth Day almost-naked pope worshipping Catholic youth in Madrid, these are the Catholics who condonned the John Paul II the Pope of Sodomy, read our related articles Faces of Rapists-Priests: from Father Marcial Maciel covered-up by John Paul II and the Eucharist. JOIN Signatories` protest against JP2 beatification http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/03/faces-of-rapists-priests-from-father.html

Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/holy-heist-john-paul-ii-wyd-had-no-role.html

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

WYD & America, wake up and see the Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html

The 15,736 victims is from the recent report of the US Catholic Bishops Conference harmed by almost 6,000 pedophile priests. Note that the victims of the JP2 Army are 5 times those of Osama bin Laden's 9-11, read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html

Thousands protest Pope in Madrid VIDEOS.Benedict XVI the narcissistic Pope spends 100 million Euros while millions of Spaniards suffer economic crisis

2011-08-18T12:56:00.021-04:00

Clashes: Riot police and demonstrators fought in Madrid's Sol square the day before the Pope's visit

Updated with VIDEOS August 19, 2011

When Pope John Paul II trotted around the globe for 27 years during his papacy, he never encountered any protest especially clashies between Catholic protesters and police and World Youth Day young people. Today in Spain - thousands of Spaniards - protest Benedict XVI's visit and these protesters are drowning out the voices of stunned WYD people who are probably seeing and hearing for the first time that their beloved pope is not so lovable after all and they are hearing for the first time about his cover-up of priest pedophilia during his reign as Cardinal Ratzinger, the other hand that ruled the Holy See together with John Paul II. Cardinal Ratzinger is reaping what he and John Paul sowed for 27 years when they deified pedophile priests and ignored thousands of children who were victims of the JP2 Army the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army read our related articles in http://jp2army.blogspot.com/ and John Paul II Galaxy size ego usurps Mary statues. ‘The Holy Father’ John Paul II ousts Baby Jesus from the arms of His ‘Holy Mother’ Mary! http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/ Read Father Hodgens litany of faults of JP2 in our related article http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-4-millionayatollah.html

Lashing out: Police officers scuffled with protesters during the demonstration

Kicking off: Anti-Pope protesters clashed with riot police before the pontiff's visit to Madrid

15-M said in a statement: 'We are not angry about the Pope's visit, which some will agree with and others won't, but rather over the financing of it with public money, especially at a time when many services are being cut because it's necessary to curb government spending.'http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2027351/Popes-visit-Spain-Protests-violence-breaks-Madrids-streets.html#ixzz1VWhLj1Xn

Spanish protester against Benedict XVI's visit is dragged by police.

Benedict XVI was welcomed in Spain by THOUSANDS of protesters who clashed with police and pilgrims, watch videos below. This WYD World Youth Day which the "Blessed" John Paul II “created” must also end in this 21st century because it is always very costly for host countries and for the young people who have to spend thousands of dollars which could be better used for their "secular" education to achieve their diplomas and prepare them for a career. For Spain which is facing severe austerity measures like Greece and is on the brink of bankruptcy, Benedict XVI had the gall to spend EUROS 50.5 million (or 100 million Euros as protesters are saying) for his spectacular sorceries of the Eucharist and “secular" expenditures for his security and photo-ops with millionaires who are investors of the SECRET Vatican Swiss Banks. The World Youth Day was created by John Paul II to feed the cult of the papacy and, like the strategy of Hitler that made the youth chant "Heil Hitler" World Youth Day made Catholics chant "JP2 , We love you". It is precisely the World Youth Day that fed the narcissism of John Paul II and why he refused to face the truth of the priest pedophilia that was his biggest legacy, read our related article John Paul smelled Devil`s Bowels as roses for 27 years as he deified Father Marcial Maciel and deified Cardinal Bernard Law http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-smelled-devils-bowels-as.html

EUROS 50.5 million could have better used to feed the Spaniards from the children to the old and to educate the youth. Many of the protesters say the real cost to taxpayers will be over EUR 100 million. This Madrid papal visit proves that Benedict XVI has no compunction, no moral conscience and no true charity for the needs of the poor and like John Paul II, his papal narcissism is more important than the hungry mouths of millions of poor peoples, read our related articles
The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html

Benedict XVI is acting like the Tsars of Russia and the Kings of France who partied and dressed grandiosely as the masses starved, they were insensitive to the poverty and plight of their own people and they paid for it at the end ...and so Benedict's days as the final absolute monarch pope on Earth with his spectacular millions of euros and dollars sorcery of the flesh and blood of Christ is also numbered, read our related article It is time for the French Revolution at the Vatican: Benedict XVI must resign, Cardinal Bernard Law et al must resign …Shut-down the Vatican http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/it-is-time-for-french-revolution-at.html

Whether it is 1 million of youths or hundreds of thousands who will attend, the cult of the papacy must end in this century and the status of the Vatican as country must also end, read our related article Amnesty International names Vatican in 2011 report on human rights violations - it's time the UN end the Vatican status as a "secular" state http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/05/amnesty-international-names-vatican-in.html

America, wake up and see the Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html

The 15,736 victims is from the recent report of the US Catholic Bishops Conference harmed by almost 6,000 pedophile priests. Note that the victims of the JP2 Army are 5 times those of Osama bin Laden's 9-11, read more here 9/11 victims 3,000. JP2 Army 100,000s. May Day: both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1 on John Paul II Beatification Day B-Day http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html

JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

Vatican Titanic Ship hits icebergs in New York and Ireland !!! http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/07/vatican-titanic-ship-hits-icebergs-in.html

Eve and Benedict XVI blame the Devil. Analysis of Pope’s homily in Year for Priests -sorcerers of Christ’s flesh and blood http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/06/eve-and-benedict-xvi-blame-devil.html

Police officer arrests a demonstrator after clashes between pilgrims and demonstrators against the visit of Pope Benedit XVI on August 17, 2011 in Madrid, Spain.

Spaniards protest expensive pope visit

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/194424.html

Thousands of outraged demonstrators have taken to the streets of Madrid, the capital of Spain, to protests the costly four-day visit of Pope Benedict XVI.

Hundreds of groups, including members of Spain's M-15 movement, took part in the demonstrations across the city center on Wednesday, AFP reported.

"We criticize this scandalous show at a time of such a terribly distressing economic situation, with entire families unemployed," said protester Evaristo Villar of Christian Networks (Redes Cristianos).

The official cost of the visit, excluding the price of upholding security, has been estimated at around EUR 50.5 million, but many of the protesters say the real cost to taxpayers will be well over EUR 100 million.

The demonstrators shouted several slogans including, “The pope's visit, not with my tax money!”

Dozens of riot police were deployed to prevent any clashes between demonstrators and Catholic groups. Only minor incidents were reported.

"I was at the protest with my father, and one of the Catholics punched me in the face," an 18 year-old protester said who was bleeding from the nose.

Pope Benedict is expected to arrive on Thursday. The visit comes at a time when Spain is struggling to get out of the recession that has crippled the country's economy.

The current unemployment rate stands at 20.89 percent. However, the youth unemployment rate is over 45 percent.

Spain's M-15 movement was born on May 15 to protest the government's bad management of the economy.

VIDEOS

Marcha laica vs. JMJ 2011 (Insults and clashes in the Anti-Pope Protest. WYD 17/07/2011) W SUBTITLES 7.51 minutes - with English subtitles

Spaniards chanted continously "Benedict...pederast". "Your pope is a Nazi". "The Pope is a fascist and a pederast".

http://youtu.be/qZnPqWTkc8M

Spanish police said on Thursday that they arrested eight demonstrators after violent clashes with protesters opposed to a visit by Pope Benedict XVI. Eleven people were reported injured, including two police officers.

The violence broke out on Wednesday night as thousands of people gathered at Madrid's Puerta del Sol.

They are angry that taxpayers' money is being spent on the pontiff's four-day trip at a time of severe economic crisis in Spain.

Marcha Laica contra Ratzinger

Aug 17, Madrid - demonstration against Pope's visit
The demonstration gathers in Tirso de Molina prior to marching to Sol

Aug 17, Madrid - demonstration against Pope's visit
Nothing for the Pope, not with my taxes
Riot police in Madrid clash with demonstrators protesting the cost of the Pope's ...

Demonstration in Sol Aug 17, Madrid (2)- Demonstration against pope visit

Anti-pope protesters face off with pilgrims in Madrid
Thousands of protesters angry over a visit by Pope Benedict XVI for a lavish youth festival took to Madrid's streets Wednesday, to be confronted by Catholic pilgrims and riot police. Duration: 00:50

http://youtu.be/kt0Dlnd91Ng

Aug 17, Madrid - demonstration against Pope's visit

Anti pope protesters clash with police in Madrid

http://youtu.be/e6KkuGoS5lM

Pope in Madrid : protest parade : youtube video : Spain

http://www.france24.com/en/20110818-europe-pope-vatican-spain-demonstrators-protest-cost-spain-madrid-visit-youth-day-festival Spanish priests protest pope's Madrid visit saying youths from Dominican Republic cannot come because they cannot afford it and Christ would not waste such kind of money especially at a time of global economic crisis and that the pope's visit has nothing to do with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

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Anti-Pope protests in Madrid injure 11

http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/anti-pope-protests-in-madrid-injure-11

By The Associated Press, cbc.ca, Updated: August 18, 2011 6:08 AM

Spanish police say eight demonstrators were arrested and 11 people injured in clashes between riot police and protesters opposed to a four-day visit by Pope Benedict XVI for World Youth Day events.

A police official said Thursday that two of the people injured in the disturbances in Madrid were police officers.

Violence broke out Wednesday night after a march by thousands of people angry that, among other things, taxpayer money is being spent on the festival that attracts thousands on pilgrimmages from around the world annually.

The Pope's visit starts Thursday.

Police wielding truncheons charged demonstrators several times in Madrid's Puerta del Sol plaza, scene of anti-establishment rallies in recent months.

The police official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with department rules.
Earlier this week, a chemistry student working as a volunteer for the Pope's visit to Madrid was arrested on suspicion of planning a gas attack targeting protesters opposed to the pontiff's stay.

A police official said the suspect is a 24-year-old Mexican student specializing in organic chemistry. She would not say whether investigators believe the man was actually capable of carrying out a gas attack, and did not know if he actually had chemicals that could have been used to assault the protesters.

The detainee was identified by the Mexican Embassy in Madrid as Jose Perez Bautista from Puebla state, near Mexico City.

External Links

OFFICIAL SITE: World Youth Day 2011

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Pope denounces profit-at-all mentality behind economic crisis hitting Europe

Pilgrims pray at the street during a mass at the Cibeles square, Tuesday Aug. 16, …
MADRID - Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday denounced the profit-at-all-cost mentality he says is behind Europe's current economic crisis. The pontiff insisted that morals and ethics must play a greater role in formulating economic policy in the future.
"Man must be at the centre of the economy and the economy must not be measured only by the maximization of profit but according to the common good," the pontiff told reporters aboard his plane as he travelled to Madrid for the Catholic Church's World Youth Day.

The weeklong Catholic event is taking place against the backdrop of the European debt crisis, which has hit Spain hard.

Benedict's plane touched down in Madrid shortly before noon (1000 GMT) to a crowd of hundreds of young pilgrims cheering and waving mainly Spanish flags.

Pope Benedict was met off his plane by King Juan Carlos Queen Sofia. Socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and conservative opposition leader Marian Rajoy, the man forecast to take power in November elections, were also present.

Many Spaniards have balked at the cost of the visit at a time of economic difficulty for many. Spain has a nearly 21 per cent jobless rate.

Hours before the pontiff's arrival, riot police and protesters opposed to his stay clashed in downtown Madrid. Police said eight demonstrators were arrested and 11 people were injured in the disturbances Wednesday night in the city's Puerta del Sol plaza.

On Tuesday, police arrested a chemistry student working as a volunteer for the pope's visit on suspicion he was planning a gas attack on protesters opposed to the pontiff's visit, officials said. The 24-year-old Mexican student, identified by the Mexican Embassy in Madrid as Jose Perez Bautista from Puebla state, was expected to appear in a Madrid court Thursday.

Organizers expect a million or more young people from 193 countries to attend the festival.

The main events are a prayer vigil with the 84-year-old Pope and outdoor sleepover for pilgrims Saturday night at a sprawling air base, and Mass there the next morning.
The pope's attendance shows how much a priority he places on this economically troubled country, which has departed sharply from its Catholic traditions and embraced hedonism and secularism. In the economic bust, he may be hoping to lure back some of his straying flock.

This will be the third time the pontiff has visited Spain since his papacy began in 2005.

The visit also comes as Spain gets ready for early elections in the fall. While the church officially keeps out of politics, it will be sure to be watching closely because the outcome could affect Spain's direction on hot-button ethical issues.

The election will pit the ruling Socialists, who irked the Vatican with social reforms including gay marriage and a law allowing 16-year-olds to get abortions without parental consent, against conservatives who tend to back church thinking on such issues and are heavily favoured to win.

In Spain the church faces a congregation for whom being Catholic is more a birthmark than a way of life. A poll released in July says that while 72 per cent of Spaniards identify themselves as Catholic, 60 per cent say they "almost never" go to Mass and only 13 per cent every Sunday.

Except for a trip Friday to a historic monastery in El Escorial, 50 kilometres (30 miles) northwest of Madrid, the Pope will spend the whole visit in Madrid, meeting with young people, hearing confession from some of them, riding through the city in his pope-mobile and greeting young nuns, seminarians and university professors, among other activities.

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/pope-arrives-spain-time-turmoil-mounting-youth-frustrations-083513172.html

Benedict XVI's commandments: cartoons

2011-08-17T17:56:00.005-04:00

Spanish priests join opposition to pope's €60m visit. STOP paying for the sorcery of the Eucharist!

2011-08-10T12:50:00.006-04:00

Benedict XVI is going to Madrid next week for the WYD World Youth Day and it will cost Spain €60m visit, what a waste of money during the economic crisis hitting Spain along with Greece...

But these 100 priests should have protested earlier, not at the last minute.

Read our related articles in our new blog Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils. Benedict XVI Ratzinger Crimes Against Humanity at The Hague http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/

It is time to stop paying for the sorcery of the Eucharist by the Pope who has no power to create anything and has no power to reincarnate dead cats and dogs how much more re-incarnate his God Jesus, read our related article http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html

Opus Dei has many secret members in government and in wealthy corporations who are sponsoring the pope's visit.

America & the World, wake up and see the Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html

The 15,736 victims is from the recent report of the US Catholic Bishops Conference harmed by almost 6,000 pedophile priests. Note that the victims of the JP2 Army are 5 times those of Osama's 9-11, read our related article 9/11 victims 3,000. JP2 Army 100,000s. May Day: both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1 on John Paul II Beatification Day B-Day http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html

Read our related article Fr. Murphy in the Evil Eyes of Benedict XVI On 'Today' Show: Religious Leader Tells Americans To 'Continue The Faith In Christ' http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/

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Spanish priests join opposition to pope's €60m visit

SPAIN
The Guardian (United Kingdom)

Stephen Burgen in Barcelona
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 9 August 2011

Pope Benedict is scheduled to hold a prayer vigil and mass as Cuatro Vientos airport outside Madrid, as part of the World Youth Day event. Photograph: Reuters

More than 100 priests from Madrid's poorest parishes have added their voices to the growing protest at the cost of Pope Benedict's visit to Madrid next week.

An umbrella group – the Priest's Forum – says the estimated €60m (£53m) cost of the papal visit, not counting security, cannot be justified at a time of massive public sector cuts and 20% unemployment in Spain.

Evaristo Villar, a 68-year-old member of the group, said he objected to the multinationals with which the Catholic church has had to ally itself to cover the costs of the "showmanship" of the event.

"The companies that are backing World Youth Day and the pope's visit leave much to be desired," he said. "They are the ones who, together with international capital, have caused the crisis. We are not against the pope's visit, we are against the way it is being staged."

The more than 100 corporate sponsors of the event include Coca-Cola, Telefónica and Santander. Opponents of the visit have set up a Facebook page calling for a boycott of the sponsors. Some 140 groups, among them the secular organisation Europa Laica (Secular Europe), are against the visit.

"Catholics can go wherever they like in Madrid but the freedom of movement of the rest of us is restricted," said Francisco Delgado, leader of Europa Laica, on discovering that the city had prohibited his group's proposed march.

Europa Laica plans to march under the slogans "Not a penny of my taxes for the pope" and "For a secular state". There is particular ire that the some 500,000 pilgrims expected in the city will get free transport. Madrid metro fares rose by 50% on Monday.

"With the economic crisis we are going through, we can't pay for this. The church should set the example," said a spokesman for the Indignados movement, which has staged high-profile protests in central Madrid. "They propose to spend €60m when the regional government has just cut €40m from the education budget."

Yago de la Cierva, the executive director of World Youth Day 2011, an event built around the papal visit, said: "We have made a huge effort to be moderate and economically responsible. The new generations – young people today – they like big events and the church uses all the tools that exist to present the message of Jesus Christ."

Interest in the Catholic church is on the wane among young people in Spain. A recent survey by the national statistics office showed that the number of believers aged 18 to 24 has fallen by 56% in the past 10 years.

The pope's visit to Barcelona last November was poorly received, with the popemobile forced to drive at top speed past small groups of the faithful along mainly deserted streets.
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La visita del Papa, NO con mis impuestos

Documento con fecha sábado, 31 de diciembre de 2011. Publicado el miércoles, 10 de agosto de 2011.
Autor: laicismo.org.Fuente: Observatorio de la Laicidad.

El papa Benedicto XVI tiene previsto realizar dos visitas a España, una el próximo mes de noviembre a Santiago y Barcelona, y en 2011 para la Jornada Mundial de la Juventud en Madrid.

En ambos casos su asistencia se realiza con una doble condición, como Jefe de Estado de un ficticio país llamado Vaticano, y como jefe de una iglesia, la católica. Este incoherente estatus, jefe de un Estado y jefe de una iglesia, le permite realizar sus viajes pastorlaes a costa del Estado al que visita. Así en el caso de la visita a Madid, el Estado costeará la mitad del mismo, unos cinco millones de euros.

Entendemos que la ciudadanía no tiene por qué costear las visitas y viajes pastorales de quien viene a predicar y difundir doctrinas con las que puede o no estar de acuerdo.

Por qué tengo que costearle la difusión de su doctrina o el fortalecimiento de una organización que:

- rechaza la igualdad y mantiene un papel secundario para la mujer;

- es homófoba, va contra el matrimonio entrre homosexuales;

- que ataca el derecho al aborto;

- que ataca el uso del preservativo aunque mueran miles de personas por SIDA,

- que mantienen y protege a pedófilos en su seno,

- que mantiene acuerdos y concordatos que privilegian su posición jurídica para difundir sus doctrinas;

- que mantienen miles de catequistas dando su religión en las escuelas públicas:

- que reciben miles de millones de euros al año del Estado

Por todo ello los ciudadanos y ciudadanas firmantes nos manifestamos en contra de que estos viajes se paguen con el dinero público, y exigimos de las administraciones que no se paguen estas visitas.

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Translation from Google

The Pope's visit, not with my taxes

Document dated Saturday, December 31, 2011. Posted on Wednesday, August 10, 2011.
Author: laicismo.org.Fuente: Observatory of Secularism.

Pope Benedict XVI plans to make two visits to Spain, next month from November to Santiago and Barcelona in 2011 for World Youth Day in Madrid.

In both cases, their assistance is carried out with a dual capacity as head of state of a fictitious country called the Vatican, and as head of a church, the Catholic Church. This inconsistent status, head of state and head of a church, allows you to trips off the state pastorlaes that visit. Thus in the case of the visit to Madid, the state will pay half of it, some five million euros.

We understand that citizens do not have to pay visits and pastoral visits to those who come to preach and spread doctrines with which they may or may not agree.

Why do I have to cost the dissemination of their doctrine or strengthening an organization that:

- Rejects equality and maintains a secondary role for women;

- Is homophobic, it is against gay marriage entrre;

- Attacking abortion rights;

- Attacking the use of condoms even thousands of people die from AIDS,

- Maintaining and protecting pedophiles in its midst,

- Which has agreements and accords that favor their legal position to spread their doctrines;

- To maintain thousands of catechists giving their religion in public schools:

- Receiving billions of euros a year from the State

Therefore the undersigned citizens speak out against us that these trips are paid with public money, and demand that government not paid these visits.

Gov.Cuomo defies Rule of Benedict on GAYS. The “Vatican Titanic Ship” hits iceberg in New York

2011-07-27T20:17:00.006-04:00

New York Governor Cuomo has defied the rule of Benedict XVI - that GAYS and homosexuals should never be allowed to marry because they are “intrinsic evil people” – by finally officiating one of the first GAY wedding in New York on July 24, 2011. The GAY couple were members of his staff. Governor Cuomo was able to convince members of the legislation to vote on June 24, 2011, There, in a speech the public would never hear, he offered his most direct and impassioned case for allowing gays to wed. Gay couples, he said, wanted recognition from the state that they were no different than the lawmakers in the room. “Their love is worth the same as your love,” Mr. Cuomo said. “Their partnership is worth the same as your partnership. And they are equal in your eyes to you. That is the driving issue.” (see videos below)

The moral authority of the Holy See or the Vatican Titanic Ship is sinking as it is finally hit in the bull’s eye by the ‘official head of state’ of New York State, Governor Cuomo. Governor Cuomo’s success to legalize GAY marriage in New York is a testament that Rome no longer rules New York. Now, if only New York will also remove the statue of limitation for victims of pedophile priests so they can come out and sue their predator priests and bring them to justice in the court of law, New York will do a further service for humanity.

Benedict XVI was voted as Person of the Year in 2006 by by the Washington Blade , read our related article here Pope Benedict XVI's second bite: the Gays http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2006/10/pope-benedict-xvis-second-bite-gays.html The Rule of Benedict XVI on GAYS prove the “the dysfunction, disconnection, elitism [and] narcissism ... that dominate the culture of the Vatican” which Ireland Prime Minister’s declared at the Irish Parliament last week, read our related article here – Irish PM blasts ‘narcissism’ of Vatican. The narcissism of John Paul II and the Vatican are one and the same http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/07/irish-pm-blasts-narcissism-of-vatican.html.

In this warm month of July we see 2 icebergs hit the Holy See Vatican Titanic Ship across the Atlantic: the iceberg of the GAY marriage in New York and the iceberg of the scathing declarations against the Vatican by the Prime Minister in Ireland, read our related article, Irish PM blasts ‘narcissism’ of Vatican. The narcissism of John Paul II and the Vatican are one and the same http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/07/irish-pm-blasts-narcissism-of-vatican.html.

John Paul II - and his partner Cardinal Ratzinger - proved that the Holy See and the papacy and the Voice of the Vatican cannot protect the most vulnerable, the children, hundreds of thousands of helpless and voiceless children who were harmed-for-life by the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions by the “holy priests” of the JP2 Army and therefore the Holy See has no moral voice whatsoever on other matters, read our related article, Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect childrenh ttp://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html .

July 2011 will always be a historic month as two major icebergs hit the Vatican Titanic Ship. It is time the United Nations end the status of the Vatican as a “country”, read our related article Amnesty International names Vatican in 2011 report on human rights violations - it's time the UN end the Vatican status as a "secular" state http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/05/amnesty-international-names-vatican-in.html

What can the Holy See speak about to the United Nations? About Heaven and Hell? That is the afterlife and the United Nations have nothing to do with the afterlife but rather with this life here and now on Earth. So let religion be religion, out of the secular life of peoples and nations. Secularism is Benedict XVI’s number one enemy and therefore he should not be a member of the United Nations which has neither god nor religion.

The passing of the GAY marriage legislation was not without drama as the Archbishop of New York, Timothy Dolan, tried to twist arms - with his moral powers - but to no avail, read how the law was passed below. The Vatican Pied Piper George Weigel bashed Maureen Dowd and Anglican Bishop Spong mercilessly...

America, wake up and see the Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html

The 15,736 victims is from the recent report of the US Catholic Bishops Conference harmed by almost 6,000 pedophile priests. Note that the victims of the JP2 Army are 5 times those of Osama bin Laden's 9-11, read our related article 9/11 victims 3,000. JP2 Army 100,000s. May Day: both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1 on John Paul II Beatification Day B-Day http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html

Read our related articles:

Pope Benedict XVI express "Horror" 40 years too late -- over Irish clergy abuse http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2006_10_01_archive.html

Benedict XVI and Georg his GAY Private Secretary are GAYS.!. http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/06/benedict-xvis-handsome-private.html

The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html

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Couples wed on 1st day gay marriage is legal in NY

By CHRIS HAWLEY , 07.24.11, 10:39 PM EDT
Associated Press
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/07/24/general-us-gay-marriage-ny_8582033.html

NEW YORK -- Hundreds of gay couples dressed in formal suits and striped trousers, gowns and T-shirts recited vows in emotion-choked voices and triumphantly hoisted their long-awaited marriage certificates on Sunday as New York became the sixth and largest state to recognize same-sex weddings.

Couples began saying "I do" at midnight from Niagara Falls to Long Island, though New York City became the sometimes raucous center of action by daybreak Sunday as couples waited on a sweltering day for the chance to exchange vows at the city clerk's office.

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The New York Times
'Have to do this': Cuomo charts course for gay marriage in NY

Wall Street donors and advocates also show more might than an ineffective opposition

Image: Andrew Cuomo
Mike Groll / AP

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo reacts after same sex marriage was legalized after a vote in the Senate Chamber at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Friday.

By MICHAEL BARBARO
The New York Times
updated 6/25/2011 2:36:57 PM ET

EXCERPT

Outgunned opponents

It was befuddling to gay-rights advocates: The Catholic Church, arguably the only institution with the authority and reach to derail same-sex marriage, seemed to shrink from the fight.

As the marriage bill hurtled toward a vote , the head of the church in New York, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, left town to lead a meeting of bishops in Seattle.

He did not travel to Albany or deliver a major speech in the final days of the session. And when he did issue a strongly worded critique of the legislation — he called it “immoral” and an “ominous threat” — it was over the phone to an Albany-area radio show.

Inside the Capitol, where a photograph of Mr. Cuomo shaking hands with Archbishop Dolan hangs in the governor’s private office, the low-key approach did not seem accidental. Mr. Cuomo had taken pains to blunt the church’s opposition.

When he learned that church leaders had objected to the language of the marriage legislation, he invited its lawyers to the Capitol to vent their frustration.

Mr. Cuomo even spoke to Archbishop Dolan about the push for same-sex marriage, emphasizing his respect and affection for the religious leader. An adviser described the governor’s message to Archbishop Dolan this way: “I have to do what I have to do. But your support over all is very important to me.”

By the time a Catholic bishop from Brooklyn traveled to Albany last week to tell undecided senators that passing same-sex marriage “is not in keeping with the will of their people,” it was clear the church had been outmaneuvered by the highly organized same-sex marriage coalition, with its sprawling field team and Wall Street donors.

“In many ways,” acknowledged Dennis Poust, of the New York State Catholic Conference, “we were outgunned. That is a lot to overcome.”

With the church largely out of the picture, the governor’s real worry was the simmering tension in the Senate Republican delegation. Its members met, for hours at a time, to debate the political and moral implications of allowing a vote.

But each time new arguments arose. Some questioned whether homosexuality was genetic or chosen. Others suggested that the same-sex marriage legislation be scrapped in favor of a statewide referendum.

Mr. Cuomo invited the Republicans to visit him at the governor’s residence, a 40-room Victorian mansion overlooking the Hudson River, just a few blocks from the Capitol.

There, in a speech the public would never hear, he offered his most direct and impassioned case for allowing gays to wed. Gay couples, he said, wanted recognition from the state that they were no different than the lawmakers in the room. “Their love is worth the same as your love,” Mr. Cuomo said. “Their partnership is worth the same as your partnership. And they are equal in your eyes to you. That is the driving issue.”

In the late hours of Friday night, 33 members of the State Senate agreed with him.

Danny Hakim contributed reporting.

This story, "The Road to Gay Marriage in New York," originally appeared in The New York Times.

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Fr. Murphy in the Evil Eyes of Benedict XVI On 'Today' Show: Religious Leader Tells Americans To 'Continue The Faith In Christ'

2011-06-02T17:28:00.013-04:00

Updated July 17, 2011

Read our new blog Pope crimes,lawsuits & Vatican lies http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/

We had to create a new blog to focus on the crimes of the Vatican and the long lawsuits against the Vatican, Benedict XVI and dioceses worldwide. Ireland confirmed our new blog as the Irish Prime Minister and Irish government and 99% of the Irish media are condemning the Vatican -- read our article Ireland condemns Vatican secrecy on Cloyne Diocese pedophile priests. Ireland vis-à-vis USA: the way they deal with crimes by the Vatican http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/07/ireland-government-condemns-vatican.html

Fr. Murphy is carved deep in the Evil eyes of Benedict XVI as he speaks to Today Show to attract tourists to the Vatican. How much was the Today Show paid to do a one-hour exclusive on Archbishop Dolan and The Vatican? Where is the integrity of Matt Lauer and American television in the search for truth for Americans and American church history? Where is the Today's Show compassion for the 15,736 victims of USA pedophile priests of the JP2 Army - which is 5 times the victims of the 9-11 attacks? If Matt Lauer is not aware of the most notorious American pedophile priest, Fr. Murphy of Wisconsin, let us educate him with these videos about Fr. Murphy who abused 200 deaf boys under the protection of Cardinal Ratzinger and the lawsuits now pending against the Vatican. Is money and "marketing" all that matters as Archbishop Dolan said "To get our people back, to excite them as the faith, that remains a high pastoral priority," Dolan said Thursday on the show. He added that "maybe some marketing" would be one way to achieve that.

Matt Lauer should learn from his fellow television personality Oprah Winfrey who did more good than John Paul II for 25 years. Oprah gave truth and exposed evil while John Paul II hid them in his 2 evil papal Achilles Heels http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/oprah-did-more-good-than-john-paul-ii.html

Matt Lauer should be informed: Benedict XVI the Liar strikes again as Vatican rejects American lawsuit by Terry Kohut who was raped with other 200 deaf boys by a rapist-priest http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/02/benedict-xvi-liar-strikes-again-as.html

Amnesty International names Vatican in 2011 report on human rights violations - it's time the UN end the Vatican status as a "secular" state http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/05/amnesty-international-names-vatican-in.html

Benedict XVI's HOLY SEE Evil Eyes

Here are the evil eyes of Benedict XVI who oversaw the JP2 Army together with John Paul II for over a quarter of a century. Holy See is an ironic name for the state of the Vatican. People should see through and beyond the wealth of the Vatican Temple -- all those art works are chameleon clothes of Satan that distract people from seeing the crimes committed by Popes generation after generation, and the fastest tracking saint John Paul II and Benedict XVI have their fair share in the most heinous crimes against children committed by the JP2 Army.

We have created a new weblog to expose all those billions of euros and dollars hoarded in the Vatican Swiss Banks hence the Vatican is the most corrupt institution on earth because it perpetuates the poor countries and the poor peoples.

Pope Crimes: Benedict XVI Crimes against Humanity at The Hague & papal lawsuits http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/

Read our related article

John L.Allen Jr.Pied Piper of John Paul II deceives Catholics with his essay Fast-Track Saint in Newsweek -with Vatican lunacy & Satanic timeline http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/05/john-lallen-jrthe-pied-piper-of-john.html

The evil in Benedict XVI's eyes -- the eyes are the windows of the soul - are covered-up by layers of Zeffirelli make-up, read our related articles:

Evil eyes of Benedict XVI
courtesy of http://the-end-of-evil.blogspot.com/-- read about the Fatima prophecies here

Cardinal Ratzinger covered-up Fr. Murphy who raped 200 deaf boys -- SNAP in wisconsin

Abused deaf children, the Pope & Superior Diocese -- SNAP in wisconsin

BENEDICT PEDOPHILE MASTERMIND part 2 (BBC NEWS) Fr. Tom Doyle explains Vatican and Ratzinger blueprint of cover-up of JP2 Army

Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html

Vatican The Pedophile Empire

Vatican Pedophile Enabler

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Pope Benedict XVI On 'Today' Show: Religious Leader Tells Americans To 'Continue The Faith In Christ' (VIDEO)

UNITED STATES
Huffington Post

Jaweek Kaleem

NEW YORK -- Speaking for just a few seconds as he greeted television host Matt Lauer on during Thursday's broadcast of NBC’s "Today" show, Pope Benedict XVI had this message for Americans: “Confidence in God, continue the faith in Christ.”

The words, spoken in English, were part of a rare hour-long broadcast of the show from Vatican City along with New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan.

Part interview with the archbishop and part tour of the papal city-state, the episode covered behind-the-scenes footage of the pope’s daily life and touched upon struggles the church faces in the U.S. and other parts of the world.

The show came on the heels of the the new Vatican council's first meeting to promote the Roman Catholic Church in the face of rising secularism in the West. It also came as the church, faced with declining membership, sexual abuse scandals in Europe and continued criticism over its management of sexual abuse cases in the U.S., attempts a public relations push.

A recent Pew Forum report showed that only 42 percent of adult Catholics celebrate Mass each week, while 27 percent of former Catholics surveyed said they left the church because they believe the sexual abuse scandals tarnished its reputation.

"To get our people back, to excite them as the faith, that remains a high pastoral priority," Dolan said Thursday on the show. He added that "maybe some marketing" would be one way to achieve that.

Experts on the U.S. Catholic Church say Dolan's appearance is part of a concerted effort to up his profile on the national scene since his election last year at the head of the D.C.-based United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Thursday's "Today" episode marked the second time in recent months that the head of New York's 2.5-million member church appeared on national television. In March, Dolan was featured prominently on CBS' "60 Minutes."

During his appearance on "Today," Dolan struck a casual tone, avoiding a deep dive into any controversial issues.

He called priest abuse scandals in the U.S. "the kind of thing that was so horrible, so tragic, so nauseating, we got to keep remembering it," but did not address critiques of the church's handling of such cases. Dolan added that celibacy did not contribute to sexual abuse by priests, citing a recent study the church commissioned from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. He said researchers "can't give a real crisp answer to what caused [abuse]," but said that, above all, "sin caused it."

Dolan wore his bishops' vestments, but he accented the look with a white hat and sunglasses. He heartily laughed as he gave Lauer and Al Roker a tour through Rome, at one point sitting with the hosts as they held pints of beer and chatted about Dolan's love of pasta.

Besides the short greeting with Lauer, the "Today" episode did not include an interview with the pope. The greeting came after the pope's weekly "audience," where he addresses thousands of devout Catholics who pack into St. Peter's Square.

It did, however, show the pope during the course of his day, using video that the Vatican gave to the show. Footage included private morning prayers with his staff, dinner with associates, meetings with visitors and his desk and study at the Vatican. "The Holy Father is a walker," Lauer noted, as clips of the pope praying the rosary and strolling through the Vatican Gardens displayed.

The pope wakes up around 5 a.m., Lauer said, and has a packed schedule all day until he goes back to his residence after watching Italian news at 9 p.m.

Lauer and Roker, who return to the U.S. Thursday, left the pope with a gift. After hearing that the pontiff has a fondness for felines, before leaving the Vatican, they presented him with a crystal cat.

WATCH:
http://video.aol.com/video/matt-lauer-meets-the-pope-on-today-060211-huffington-post/504266850

Matt Lauer, read

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

Pope Crimes: Benedict XVI Crimes against Humanity at The Hague & papal lawsuits
http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/

Amnesty International names Vatican in 2011 report on human rights violations - it's time the UN end the Vatican status as a "secular" state

2011-05-13T18:32:00.016-04:00

Is the Vatican a "state" or country? It is only one building with a public square -- and no children and women are allowed to live there. Actually it is a homosexual building! The Vatican is much smaller than this aerial photo -- See a more precise aerial view of the country of the Vatican here http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/benedict-xvi-uses-hitler-to-divert.html Read more below and the criminal charges against Cardinal Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, for his Crimes agaisnt Humanity at the Hague in http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/

This is a historic first for Amnesty International to name the "country" of the Vatican among their list of infamous countries guilty of the violation of human rights – the Holy See’s crimes are the violation of children's rights in the priests’ sex scandal that has plagued the Catholic Church and was covered-up during the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and rule of Benedict XVI as Cardinal Ratzinger. Both these two rulers were like - a pair of hands - who ruled the Vatican and the Catholic Church for a quarter of a century and all they did was enjoy their lifestyle of the rich and famous at the Vatican as John Paul II traveled as a Head of State and spent taxpayers money for his pompous ceremonies of the sorcery of the flesh and blood of Christ and not once did he address the issue of priest pedophilia that was haunting him until his death. He traveled to Guadalupe with his beloved companion, Fr. Marcial Maciel, one of the most notorious members of his JP2 Army the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Read our related article John Paul smelled Devil`s Bowels as roses for 27 years as he deified Father Marcial Maciel and deified Cardinal Bernard Law http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-smelled-devils-bowels-as.html

Amnesty International placed the Vatican or Holy See (ironic name since John Paul II turned a blind eye to Fr. Marcial Maciel and Cardinal Bernard Law, his two Achilles Heels, and his JP2 Army of pedophiles pederasts priests) in the company of other countries such as China, Libya and Nigeria for their infamous human rights violations. Amnesty International makes detailed report documents especially about torture and other ill-treatments in 98 countries, specific restrictions on free speech in at least 89 countries -- but it failed to include that there is no freedom of speech in the Holy See as we can see the firing of Bishop Morris for speaking about women's ordination and other relevatn issues, read our related article Temple Police: The Australian is part of the Vatican media empire and the near-future demise of the Vatican Temple http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/05/temple-police-australian-is-part-of.html.

Amnesty International wrote that, “However, by the year’s end the Holy See had again failed to submit its second periodic report on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, due in 1997, and the initial report on the UN Convention against Torture, due in 2003.” Do you Catholics get that? The Vatican is so busy beatifying John Paul II and so busy writing all kinds of books and papal speeches and busy performing all kinds of spectacle sorceries of the Flesh and Blood of Christ that John Paul II failed to submit these periodic reports due under his papacy – after all he died in 2005! And Benedict XVI is so busy with the fast-track beatification of John Paul II and his usual global appearances as he declares his pathological lies and books that he has not submitted the Holy See’s “periodic reports” to the UN due in 1997 and 2003, as the successor of John Paul II. It is quite a hypocrisy that the Vatican want to be a bona fide member of the United nation when it is a mere building and garden in Rome, but it cannot even submit this reports that the UN has been waiting for since 1997, that is over 14 years! It figures that the Vatican Bank which controls the Vatican Swiss Banks is interested only in hoarding the evil-gotten moneys of despots and therefore perpetuates the oppression of poor peoples and poor countries – perhaps Amnesty International should be investigating this too as this is the last frontier of the biggest crimes committed by the Vatican and John Paul II and Benedict XVI. Read our related article Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011_02_01_archive.html

Really, Catholics, it is time this sorcery of Christ end in this 21st century because Benedict XVI and Cardinals and Bishops and all priests cannot reincarnate dead cats and dead dogs and dead fishes, and therefore they cannot reincarnate the Creator God the Son Jesus Christ. This sorcery of Christ in the 9-seconds transubstantiation of the bread and wine can only match the hype for Harry Potter magic feel-good read our related article Magisterium Benedict VERSUS Holy Mary: Priests' transubstantiation instant reincarnation of Christ VERSUS Mary’s 9 months pregnancy& child birth http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html

And it is time the Vatican or Holy See be a holy house and garden and not anymore as a "secular" state so it can stop its powers as the Vatican Swiss Banks...

Read our sister weblog the John Paul II Millstone article Bill Donohue ‘should have his head examined’ for refuting Amnesty International indictment of Vatican violation of human rights : Analysis http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/bill-donohue-should-have-his-head.html

Read our articles on the beatification of John Paul II

Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

9/11 victims 5,000. JP2 Army 100,000s. May Day: both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1 on John Paul II Beatification Day B-Day http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html

Benedict XVI complemented bin Laden's death with JP2 Army! The Battle Hymn of the Republic! Not even the Almighty Vatican could see it coming http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/05/benedict-xvi-complemented-bin-ladens.html

MAY DAY: John Paul II,Adolf Hitler,Osama bin Laden share the same DAY OF INFAMY on MAY 1 = TEL Trio Evil Leaders of mass murders of souls and bodies http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/05/may-day-john-paul-iiadolf-hitlerosama.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 - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

USA Priest Pedophilia - 15,736 victims - 6,000 priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva.

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The Holy See did not sufficiently comply with its international obligations relating to the protection of children.

Amnesty International

Read the Amnesty report: Amnesty International Report 2011: The State of the World’s Human Rights http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/vatican/report-2011

Head of state and government
Pope Benedict XVI
Death penalty
abolitionist for all crimes

International scrutiny

In May, the Holy See submitted its initial reports on the optional protocols to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child which at the end of the year had yet to be considered by the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child.

However, by the year’s end the Holy See had again failed to submit its second periodic report on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, due in 1997, and the initial report on the UN Convention against Torture, due in 2003.

Children’s rights – response to child abuse

Increasing evidence of widespread child sexual abuse committed by members of the clergy over the past decades, and of the enduring failure of the Catholic Church to address these crimes properly, continued to emerge in various countries. Such failures included not removing alleged perpetrators from their posts pending proper investigations, not co-operating with judicial authorities to bring them to justice and not ensuring proper reparation to victims.

The Pope acknowledged the abuses during visits to countries where they had been reported, such as Ireland, Malta and the UK, and expressed regret. He affirmed that “just penalties” should be imposed to exclude perpetrators from access to young people and stressed that to prevent abuses education and selection of candidates for priesthood should be improved.

In March, in a letter to the Catholics of Ireland, the Pope admitted that “a misplaced concern for the reputation of the Church and the avoidance of scandals” had resulted in the “failure to apply existing canonical penalties and to safeguard the dignity of every person”. He exhorted bishops to fully implement the norms of canon law when addressing child abuse and “to continue to cooperate with the civil authorities in their area of competence”.

Amendments to the canon law promulgated in May introduced the “delicts” of paedophile pornography and abuse of mentally disabled people; the maximum punishment for these “delicts” is dismissal or deposition. Canon law does not include an obligation for Church authorities to report cases to civil authorities for criminal investigation. Secrecy is mandatory throughout the proceedings.

In November, Holy See representatives conducted an “apostolic visitation” to Ireland, to verify “the effectiveness of processes used in responding to cases of abuse and of forms of assistance provided to the victims”. Results of the visit were due to be announced in 2011.

vatican/report-2011">http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/vatican/report-2011

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Amnesty International names Vatican in 2011
report on human rights violations

Statements of Jeff Anderson and Marci Hamilton

Jeff Anderson: “The news that Amnesty International’s 2011 Annual Report on Human Rights Abuses names the Vatican because of its failure to protect children from sexual abuse is further evidence that the international community is now coming to the aid of child sex abuse victims everywhere. I applaud Amnesty International for its courage in making this historic decision, its dedication to human rights, and its extraordinary effort to protect children. It is also important to note that the Vatican has recently announced that it will be issuing new guidelines for the handling of child sex abuse by bishops. It does not appear, however, that it will be establishing mandatory rules that will protect children, like mandatory reporting of all allegations of abuse to the authorities. Children, therefore, remain at risk in the largest religious organization in the world, which is why Amnesty International, the United Nations and the courts of the world, will have to be the protectors of the children at risk of sexual abuse.”

Marci Hamilton: “In light of this most deserving attention to an egregious international problem, the Vatican is surely on notice that it cannot keep its secrets about child sex abuse anymore. Clearly, the Vatican cannot escape the fact that the world understands how it has harmed children repeatedly. Additionally, this report will be helpful in the lawsuits filed against the Holy See because it corroborates the experiences of the victims and supports the cases’ legal theories.”

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Excerpt from Amnesty International Report
“Increasing evidence of widespread child sexual abuse committed by members of the clergy over the past decades, and of the enduring failure of the Catholic Church to address these crimes properly, continued to emerge in various countries. Such failures included not removing alleged perpetrators from their posts pending proper investigations, not co-operating with judicial authorities to bring them to justice and not ensuring proper reparation to victims.”

http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/vatican/report-2011

Background

Attorneys Jeff Anderson, Marci Hamilton, and Michael Finnegan represent Oregon, Wisconsin, and Illinois victims of the Vatican’s cover-up policies in pending federal lawsuits against the Vatican. The Vatican has tried to avoid liability for its actions by arguing that it has sovereign immunity. Federal law, however, does not provide immunity to foreign sovereigns when they commit torts against Americans or when they engage in commercial activity that harms Americans. The Amnesty Report supports their claims.

Contact Information

Jeff Anderson: Office 651.227.9990 Mobile 612.817.8665 Jeff@AndersonAdvocates.com
Marci Hamilton: Mobile 215.353.8984 hamilton02@aol.com

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Amnesty International names Vatican in 2011 report of human rights violations

UNITED STATES
SNAP - Wisconsin

Contact: Peter Isely, SNAP Midwest Director, 414.429.7259/

The world’s largest human rights organization, Amnesty International, has named the Vatican in its annual global report today for failing to protect children from abuse and not complying with international mandates to protect children. (link to Vatican page of the report: http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/vatican/report-2011)

The Vatican joins the list this year of such infamous human rights violators such as China, Lybia and Nigeria.

The Amnesty report documents torture and other ill-treatment in at least 98 countries, specific restrictions on free speech in at least 89 countries, reports on unfair trials in at least 54 countries and highlights cases of prisoners of conscience in at least 48 countries.

Specifically the Vatican is named for not removing alleged perpetrators from their posts pending proper investigations, not cooperating with judicial authorities to bring them to justice and not ensuring proper reparation to victims “Canon law does not include an obligation for church authorities to report cases to civil authorities for criminal investigation. Secrecy is mandatory throughout the proceedings,” according to the report.

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Amnesty names Vatican over human rights abuses

VATICAN CITY/IRELAND
The Irish Times

PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent

THE VATICAN and Ireland are criticised in connection with child protection issues in the Amnesty International Report 2011: The State of the World’s Human Rights, published later this morning on the eve of Amnesty International’s 50th anniversary.

The 400-page report examines human rights in 157 countries and, for the first time, also includes the Holy See.

It has found that, in Ireland, “child protection standards were inadequate in both law and practice” and that “the Holy See did not sufficiently comply with its international obligations relating to the protection of children”.

It found that the Irish Government “failed to implement a number of commitments it made in 2009 following the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse .

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UK: Secularists welcome Amnesty naming Vatican over Child Abuse

http://secular-europe-campaign.org/2011/05/14/uk-secularists-welcome-amnesty-naming-vatican-over-child-abuse/
Posted on May 14, 2011

Secularists have welcomed Amnesty International’s naming of the Vatican in its 2011 report into human rights abuses around the world. Amnesty criticises the Vatican, and its political arm the Holy See, for failing to honour its obligations under the United Nations Charter on the Rights of the Child, to which it is a signatory. This is the first time Amnesty has reported on the Vatican.

Keith Porteos Wood, Chief Executive of the National Secular Society

The National Secular Society, whose Executive Director has been pursuing the Vatican at the United Nations Human Rights Council over its consistent failure to file reports as it is required to do under the terms of the Charter, congratulated Amnesty for drawing attention once more to this reluctance by the Vatican to face up to its responsibilities and admit its failures.

Keith Porteous Wood, Executive Director of the National Secular Society said: “from the highest echelons of the Vatican down to local level, the Roman Catholic Church continues to obstruct investigations into the horrific abuse of children under its care. It is beyond contention that the Vatican has broken at least six Articles of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.

“That scandal is almost equalled by the failure, so far, of international bodies to bring the Vatican to account.

“We call on the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the European Union and the Council of Europe – as well as their member states of goodwill – to call the Vatican to account for its past failures, in particular to press for the Vatican:

* to release its secret child abuse files to prosecuting authorities
* to require suspicions of child abuse within the Church to be reported to secular authorities without recourse to the Vatican
* to instruct all those under the control of the Church to cooperate with secular authorities over enquiries connected with child abuse, and
* to correct its continuing failure to file a report with the UN due in 1997 on child protection”

Keith Porteous Wood has made similar points at plenary sessions of the UN Human Rights Council in 2009, 2010 and most recently March 2011. He was speaking as an international representative of the International Humanist and Ethical Union.

National Secular Society | 13th May 2011

Also see: Previous IHEU report to UN and worldwide publicity

Read the Amnesty report: Amnesty International Report 2011: The State of the World’s Human Rights http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/vatican/report-2011

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Is the Vatican a "state" or country? It is only one building with a public square -- and no children and women are allowed to live there. Actually it is a homosexual building!

Is the Vatican Truly an Independent State?

April 11, 2010 — Terence Weldon
http://queeringthechurch.com/2010/04/11/is-the-vatican-truly-an-independent-state/

With extraordinary synchronicity I had just proposed in my last post, which I had not yet even published, that we should seriously question the Vatican’s claims to be treated as an independent state, when I saw an opinion piece in the LA Times on exactly the same topic.

The problem with the Vatican’s present status as a “state” is not just that is a quirky little oddity, an peculiar little legacy of the historical interrelationship between it and the rest of Italy, nor is it even that it leaves the Vatican beyond the legal reach of any external authority. No, it is worse. There are other tiny states (not quite so small) which are truly independent, and are not a problem to anyone. The real issue is that the Vatican’s claims are so one-sided: while their insistence on independent status excludes any other state from interfering in their internal affairs, they do not respect the balancing principle. Through their army of clerical staff, all under direct or indirect Vatican control, they are constantly busying themselves with the affairs of the entire world. They dictate moral rules to individual citizens, and they regularly attempt to influence the political process – as is seen most dramatically on abortion, marriage equality and gay adoption.

It is not right that they should be allowed to get away with these double standards. Which major country will be the first to withdraw recognition of the Vatican “state”?

From the LA Times:

Consequences of the Catholic Church’s claim of statehood

The practice of treating the Catholic Church as a state has been bad for women’s equality and gay rights. Now, the unfolding sexual abuse scandal reveals another dark side of the Holy See’s status.
Giuseppe dalla Torre, a top Vatican legal advisor, declared in a preemptive strike last week that Pope Benedict XVI could not be sued in an American court. His statement — in response to allegations that the pope played a role in covering up, among other scandals, the sexual abuse of children at a Wisconsin school for the deaf — was unequivocal. “The pope is certainly a head of state, who has the same juridical status as all heads of state,” Dalla Torre said, which grants him immunity from foreign courts.

But is the spiritual leader of the world’s Roman Catholics really a “head of state” as well?

Benedict XVI is the head the church’s governing body — known as the Holy See — which claims many of the privileges of a sovereign country. In recent decades the Holy See has welcomed ambassadors, signed international treaties and used its status to influence developments at the United Nations.

That the Holy See is often treated as a state is deeply troubling, for several reasons. For one thing, the Catholic Church isn’t truly a sovereign nation; to allow it to play one on the international stage perverts the meaning of statehood.

Moreover, the church’s claim to statehood gives it even more political influence than it would otherwise wield and grants outsized power to only one of the world’s many religions. And its claim is particularly worrisome now that the church — embroiled in a disturbing scandal that has reached from Boston to Berlin — is claiming the sort of immunity enjoyed by prime ministers and presidents.

How did this situation come about? The concept of sovereign statehood first developed in 17th century Europe, where the church was long treated as a quasi-state by Western powers. The Papal States existed within Italy for centuries. At their height, the Papal States comprised most of central Italy and parts of what is now southern France.

But the church’s territorial holdings were lost in battles over time, and by the end of the 19th century the church was essentially landless. Then, in the late 1920s, Vatican City was carved out of Rome via a treaty with Italy. The Holy See and Vatican City are legally distinct, but Vatican City was created to give the Holy See a territorial home and thereby safeguard its independence.

Despite opposition from many quarters, the Reagan administration initiated formal diplomatic relations with the Holy See in the 1980s. Today, nearly every country maintains diplomatic ties, and the Holy See is a “permanent observer state” at the U.N. This persists despite its lack of most of the key legal characteristics of statehood.

It’s true that Vatican City runs a popular post office and mints its own currency. But international law requires that a “state” have four attributes: territory, a permanent population, a functioning government and the ability to engage in international relations. The last requirement largely builds on the others: Whether a state can engage in international relations is decided by whether other states treat it like one.

As to the question of territory, there exists only the small parcel of land known as Vatican City. But as any visitor knows, Vatican City is in the middle of Rome and is little more than half the size of the Mall in Washington, D.C. In any event, the Holy See continues to claim that its international status is based on its religious authority, not its territorial enclave.

To say that Vatican City possesses a permanent population of the sort envisioned by international law is even more of a stretch. Most residents are simply members of the church hierarchy, a body composed solely of men. They number less than the student bodies of many high schools — about 800. As to the Catholics of the world, they are already represented by the governments of other nations.

Vatican City does have a functioning bureaucracy, and so has a government of sorts. Yet it is surely the most unusual government of the world, given its minute size and lack of any standard government functions, such as the administration of justice, education of the young or provision of defense. It even relies on Italy for its water, police and firefighting services.

For decades the strange practice of treating the Catholic Church as a state has been bad for women’s equality, gay rights and reproductive freedom. The Holy See’s fictive statehood allows it to promote its retrograde views on gender and sex in diplomatic settings and during treaty negotiations.

Now, the unfolding sexual abuse scandal reveals another dark side of the Holy See’s claim to statehood: the extraordinary immunities claimed by the pope in the face of conspiracy accusations that span the globe.

Pope Benedict XVI’s predecessor, John Paul II, recognized the tenuous claim to statehood. When Vladimir Putin visited Vatican City some years ago, he offered to invite the pope to Russia. Russian Orthodox leaders opposed the pontiff’s visit, seeing it as an encroachment by Rome on their turf. Putin proposed a solution. As Putin later recalled, he told the pope: “I am ready to invite you as the head of state. I, as the head of state, invite you as the head of state.” The pope replied, “Look out the window. What kind of state do I have here? You can see my whole state right from this window.”

The evil nature of Benedict XVI exposed in Brazil VIDEOS

2011-05-09T16:58:00.007-04:00

There is a man who is speaking out about the evil nature of Benedict XVI before millions of people in Brazil and in the USA and the Vatican cannot excommunicate him or stop him because he is not a Catholic.

Read our new blog:
http://popecrimes.blogspot.com

http://youtu.be/JLHonupCl80

The truth about the evil nature of Pope Benedict XVI exposed in Brazil

Benedict XVI complemented bin Laden's death with JP2 Army! The Battle Hymn of the Republic! Not even the Almighty Vatican could see it coming

2011-05-07T09:17:00.010-04:00

Benedict XVI complemented Osama bin Laden's (and Adolf Hitler’s) death with the beatification of false-saint John Paul II in Rome on May 1. May 1 is now May Day the anniversary of 3 infamous men in history who were leaders of mass murders of souls and bodies in the 20th and 21st century: John Paul II, Osama bin Laden and Adolf Hitler. read the JP2 Army MAY DAY: John Paul II,Adolf Hitler,Osama bin Laden share the same DAY OF INFAMY on MAY 1 = TEL Trio Evil Leaders of mass murders of souls and bodies http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/05/may-day-john-paul-iiadolf-hitlerosama.html Benedict XVI thought he had chosen the perfect day of Divine Mercy Sunday to beatify John Paul II in Rome but half-way around the world, in Pakistan, Osama bin Laden was killed by American Navy Seals in a 40 minute operation. As typical it is for Rome to party while the rest of the world seeks justice, Nero fiddled while Rome burned, now it’s Benedict XVI who fiddles and parties while Catholic churches are burning with the Devil’s Bowels stench of Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army of pedophiles pederasts and rapists-priests. Benedict XVI had that sinister smile on his face as he presided the beatification with a Latin Mass with more than a million fanatic Catholics attending. Benedict XVI committed many pathological lies in his homily – read our analysis of his homily in our sister weblog the John Paul II Millstone, Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html. The biggest lie of Benedict XVI is of course that John Paul II is now a Blessed when in fact he is not in Heaven but in a raging sea of fire as Paris Arrow saw the vision of St. Michael tying a giant millstone to the neck of John Paul II during his last World youth Day in 2002 when he refused to address the priest pedophilia that just erupted in Boston read the vision here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html.

Benedict XVI was John Paul II’s co-partner in crime at the Vatican because as Cardinal Ratzinger he ruled for 24 years since 1981 as Head of the Inquisition (sweetly called Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, after the attempted assassination of JP2) and together like a pair of hands, Cardinal Ratzinger and John Paul both led the cover-up of the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army.

To complement means, A. Something that completes, makes up a whole, or brings to perfection. B. The quantity or number needed to make up a whole. C. Either of two parts that complete the whole or mutually complete each other.

John Paul II’s beatification “brings to perfection” Osama bin Laden’s death and they “mutually complete each other” because both were leaders of the most heinous crimes in the mass murders of souls and bodies in the latter part of the 20th and early part of the 21st century. The JP2 Army murdered the souls of the sodomized bodies of hundreds of thousands of children during the 27 years papacy of John Paul II.

Only a Higher Power than the Vatican and Benedict XVI’s infallible powers -- could arrange this Day of Infamy for Osama bin Laden, Adolf Hitler and John Paul II to together go down in history forever! Hip Hip Hooray! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on

Our weblogs theme song is The Battle Hymn of the Republic because The Higher Power has confirmed our unique comparison of the victims of the JP2 Army with the victims of Osama bin Laden’s army and JP2 Army has four times of the 9-11 attacks. President Obama kept saying the 9-11 had 3,000 and that means the JP2 Army has 4 times the victims of 9-11. We give a low estimate that the JP2 Army has 12,000 victims in the USA alone.

Someone asked us: Anonymous said...

Quick question: What criteria did you use to come up with the number 12,000 regarding victims of clergy abuse? Thank you. It is much too low, but maybe I missed a qualifier (time frame, for example).

Paris Arrow said...

There are 6,000 confirmed pedophile priests in the USA alone (not counting those of Ireland and other countries). They have been pedophiles for decades and were transferred from one parish to another -- just like Cardinal Bernard Law did to 80 pedophile priests in Boston. So to give -- each pedophile priests 2 victims -- is a very low estimate -- because for sure they had multiple victims - and different victims - when they went from one parish to another.

The 27 years papacy of John Paul II and Cardinal Ratzinger -- they were like a pair of hands at the Vatican and were (are) puppets of Opus Dei -- were callous and coldhearted towards children and therefore both have no moral voice whatsoever on any other matter. They have no respect -- no charity -- for children, for women and for the poor. Their doctrines and writings are all empty clanging cymbals as St. Paul said.

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 - 3,000 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

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva. John Paul II followed the Spirituality of St. Josemaria Escriva (so does Benedict XVI). Opus Dei is the most secretive and dangerous cult of the Catholic Church and they now control the Vatican Bank and the Vatican Swiss Banks. Read more in Faces of Rapists-Priests: from Father Marcial Maciel covered-up by John Paul II and the Eucharist. JOIN Signatories` protest against JP2 beatification http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/03/faces-of-rapists-priests-from-father.html

We humbly suggest that SNAP and all survivors of priests-rapes sing this song -- especially these two verses -- in all their demonstrations outside the Catholic churches and courthouses and all related demonstrations and carry images of crosses with the body of a small boy and a small girl, plus their personal photos when they were sexually abused by pedohile priests.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

(Refrain)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat -- we must now fight the JP2 Army forever and the deceptions of the false-saint John Paul II, read the pathological lies of the homily of Benedict XVI at the beatification http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat -- John Paul II is in a raging sea of fire and he is useless for chidlren and youths who chant "JP2 we love you". The truth is John Paul II and Benedict XVI were partners-in-crimes at the Vatican for a quarter of a century. We must end the fairy tale of the Eucharist -- John Paul II and Benedict XVI and all priests and Cardinals and Bishops cannot re-incarnate dead cats and therefore they cannot re-incarnate the crucified Christ

Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet! -- We msut fight for truth and liberty and the oppression of children, women and the poor. The Vatican Bank owns the Swiss Banks that hoard all the evil stolen money of despots and therefore they perpetuate the oppressions of poor countries and poor peoples.

Obviously, we can see the difference between the American secular government and the holy Catholic Church and how their leaders govern. (Secularism is Benedict XVI hand-picked enemy number 1). President Obama ordered the assassination of Osama bin Laden on May 1 and the Navy Seals succeeded in carrying it out and it coincided with the announcement of the death of Hitler of May 1, 1945, that was 66 years ago. Benedict XVI on the other hand as the Holy Father was abusing his papal powers with the speedy beatification of his partner-in-crime John Paul II with the pompous presence of all the other cohorts in crimes Cardinals and Bishops who covered-up the JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army for 27 years – including Cardinal Bernard Law who aided and abetted and transferred 80 pedophile priests from one parish to another in Boston for years.

And to top the Pharisee Benedict XVI, he fired a good bishop in Australia because the poor Bishop was sacked by “Temple Police” of the Vatican Temple for speaking about the ordination of women five years ago, read our related article Temple Police: The Australian is part of the Vatican media empire and the near-future demise of the Vatican Temple http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/05/temple-police-australian-is-part-of.html. Imagine the injustice and tyranny of Benedict XVI who condones Cardinal Bernard Law who should be the one sitting in jail but instead is sitting pretty as the High Priest of the St. Mary Major, the ‘mother of all basilicas in Rome’. The pathological lies of Benedict Xvi keeps surfacing and he is like a rat at the Vatican with nowhere to go because he is, like the Devil, the “Father of lies and he is a thief and he kills” as Jesus said.

The Battle Hymn of the Republic with the images of Christ (and not the image of John Paul II or Benedict XVI who is powerless for the salvation of children but is now the Holy Father of lies, is a murderer of the souls of children sodomized by the JP2 Army, and a thief at the Vatican Bank that hoard the evil moneys of despots of poor peoples from poor countries)

With images of Christ only

The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.

(Refrain)

Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on

I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.

Refrain

He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.

Refrain

In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me:
As he died to make men holy, let us live to make men free
While God is marching on.

Refrain

He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty, He is honor to the brave;
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of wrong His slave,
Our God is marching on.

Refrain

I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
Since God is marching on."

Refrain

Judy Collins with Harlem Boys Choir -- with 2 most common verses which we recommend -- for SNAP and all survivors of Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions by the JP2 Army

Joan Baez -- very singable -- with GUITAR accompaniment

With more verses sung by Donna

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dc1WxbWyek&feature=related

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John Paul II 4 million,Ayatollah Khomeini 9 million people at funeral! Cardinal Pell, fanatics cannot beatify the Pope of Pedophiles and Pederasts http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-4-millionayatollah.html

Prayer to John Paul II: the saint of pedophiles and pederasts, rapists and abusers of children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/prayer-to-john-paul-ii-saint-of.html

Faces of Rapists-Priests: from Father Marcial Maciel covered-up by John Paul II and the Eucharist. JOIN Signatories` protest against JP2 beatification http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/03/faces-of-rapists-priests-from-father.html

Mexico mounts a worldwide campaign against the beatification of John Paul II, they should for they are the people of Our Lady of Guadalupe http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/01/mexico-mounts-worldwide-campaign.html

Carlos Slim,Mexican billionaire, Legion's biggest contributor and Fr. Marcial Maciel's wealthy contributors http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/01/carlos-slimmexican-billionaire-legions.html

Diamond bride Mother Angelica’s EWTN acquires Fr. Marcial Maciel’s National Catholic Register: same God and Mammon, same hypocrisy http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/01/diamond-bride-mother-angelicas-ewtn.html

Beloved companions John Paul II and Fr. Marcial Maciel together in their journeys to Guadalupe: Both were great founders and great deceivers alike http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/01/beloved-companions-john-paul-ii-and-fr.html

So here we show in pictures how John Paul II contrast with Mary who like Rachel weeps for her thousands of little boys (and girls) who were sodomized by the «John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army see our sister weblog http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

This is the image of the woman as the sun Our Lady of Guadalupe defending and protecting children and holding a child up high away from the snares and snatches of the Serpent while John Paul II gave countless thousands of little boys to the Serpent of Sodomy to be sodomized and raped by his John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army for over 26 years during his glorious papacy as John Paul II the Great

The Danish cartoonist of the prophet Mohammed portrayed John Paul II as the Pope of Pedophilia with the inscription "I am not for homosexuality but for pedophilia".

John Paul II is the Sun as the Infallible Most Powerful Pope of the Catholics with seven rays of the 7 Sacraments, he is in his white papal uniform and his two papal hands pulls up the children`s robes because he enabled and allowed thousands of pedophiles rapists-priests to go on freely sodomizing and raping little boys (and girls) during his longest reigning papacy of 26 years, together with Cardinal Josef Ratzinger his right-hand man as Head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007/10/john-paul-ii-portrait-by-danish-artist.html.

Saint Michael the Archangel tied a giant millstone to John Paul II's neck at the last World Youth Day speech of JP2 see John Paul II the Pope of Sodomy: Vision of St. Michael the Archangel tying a giant millstone to John Paul II at World Youth Day in 2002 http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html

A picture speaks a thousand words and so here we show the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe saving young little children from the snares of the Serpent while John Paul II gave freely thousands of children to the Serpent of Sodomy which included his beloved companion Fr. Marcial Maciel a serial pedophile together with thousands of pedophiles rapists-priests as they satiated their lusts on little boys and young pubescent boys hence they will be forever known as the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priest Army -- they are the JP2 Army because they even out-number the 500 men in the Swiss Guard Army at the Vatican see http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

Temple Police: The Australian is part of the Vatican media empire and the near-future demise of the Vatican Temple

2011-05-06T15:14:00.005-04:00

We first revealed how The Australian, the largest newspaper in Australia, is part of the Vatican media empire and Opus Dei global media empire through the subtle vocabulary they use in this article John Paul II 4 million,Ayatollah Khomeini 9 million people at funeral! Cardinal Pell, fanatics cannot beatify the Pope of Pedophiles and Pederasts http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-4-millionayatollah.html Today The Australian came with a fiery voice of despotism in an article "Temple police get their man " - as only despots of the Medieval Age Inquistion can speak - against Bishop Morris who recently resigned because Benedict XVI sacked him for speaking about women's ordination. Well, we would like to remind these boastful "Temple Police" that they are in the good company of the Temple of Solomon.

It is with hateful articles like this (below) written by proud Opus Dei members that will make -- people not to feel sorry when the Vatican Temple in Rome will be destroyed by G-d and not one pillar will be left standing at St. Peter's Square -- just like the Temple of Solomon where it is all but rubbles now exactly as Jesus prophecied it would happen. He also got angry at the Temple Square over the merchants who were thieves and he overturned their tables. The Temple of Solomon was the "holiest" temple of its time and it existed during Christ's time. It was where Christ was presented in "Presentation in the Temple" and where his family made pilgrimages to every year (just like the Vatican is now a pilgrimage site for Catholics) and where he as a young boy, debated with the Holy Priests in the "Lost and Finding the Temple" which the Joyful Mysteries of John Paul II's Rosary meditate upon. Just because Chirst walked in that Temple of Solomon did not mean it was insdestructable, just like the Vatican is not indestructible just because John Paul II and Popes who live there are supposed to be "rocks" like St. Peter. The third Secret of Fatima predicted the total demise of the Vatican that is why they are not publising it or else there would be a Big Ben clock countdown to its demise. But this pathological lie of the beatification of John Paul II make a total mockery of Christ and a total insult to the Pure Blessed Mary the mother of Christ and his least brethrens of hundreds of thousands of victims of the JP2 Army, the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/. You heard it here first in our weblogs about the total demise of the Vatican, the Vatican Bank the worst thief on the Planet Earth where all corrupt moneys of despots are invested and therefore the Vatican and the Pope are the worst perpetuators of oppressions of poor people and the poor Third World countries. Read our related article

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
Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

There is no more “Holy Spirit” in the Vatican because there is now only Opus Dei autocracy and despotism rule. You can pray for divine guidance and ‘Come Holy Spirit’ Veni, Creator Spiritus or for anything you want but God won’t come because there is no more such a thing as “praying for God’s Will” as there is now only Opus Dei WORLD DOMINATION Agenda at the Vatican to follow or you are out and sacked.. One major proof of the despotism of Benedict XVI and the Vatican happened also on May 1 with the sacking of Australia’s Toowoomba Bishop William Morris (for his writing about women ordination) who was spied upon by the “Temple Police” -- who are actually Opus Dei foot soldiers. There is no ‘freedom of speech’ in the Catholic Church and a good Bishop like Morris was forced to resign for speaking up on behalf of women while Cardinal Bernard Law who aided and abetted 80 pedophile rapists-priests in Boston (after being forced by the laity to resign) was elevated by John Paul II and is now sitting pretty as Archpriest of St. Mary Major. Really, it is obvious which of the two deserves to resign. Read the list of theologians silenced by despot Ratzinger as Chief of the Inquisition the sweetly called CDF Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican during his 24 years reign with John Paul II. “But it is deadly. Many theologians have died or suffered from heart attacks and stress because of the unleashing of hatred shouted by those who are sure, because Ratzinger has said it...” 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

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Temple police get their man

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/temple-police-get-their-man/story-e6frg6nf-1226051428753

BISHOP William Morris's fall from grace began when he ditched the Roman collar and put on a tie.

It was an early break from tradition in 1993 for the then newly ordained bishop, and a symbol of the progressive style he brought from his former Gold Coast parish to ultra-conservative Toowoomba.

Not everyone liked it. Some priests and, later, a secret fundamentalist group of Catholics from in and out of the diocese - dubbed the "temple police" - began voicing opposition, sending a stream of letters of complaint to Rome.

On Monday, after an emotional letter from Morris was read out at masses across the Darling Downs, they finally got their man.

In a tersely worded Vatican announcement the next day, Morris, 67, became the first Australian bishop in living memory to be publicly sacked, under the guise of "early retirement", for doctrinal disobedience.

The extraordinary move, pushed by Pope Benedict XVI, was made even more compelling by Morris's refusal to tread the well-worn path of other dumped bishops - who retire for "ill health" - and go quietly.

Instead, Morris - who last year set a brave precedent in taking real action over a sex-abuse scandal at a Toowoomba church school - accused the Pope of running a latter-day Inquisition against him and ruling over bishops through fear.

"It has been my experience and the experience of others that Rome controls bishops by fear, and if you ask questions or speak openly on subjects that Rome declares closed ... you are censored very quickly, told your leadership is defective ... and are threatened with dismissal," he said in a letter to priests in his diocese.

The sacking, which followed last year's dismissal of rebel Brisbane priest Peter Kennedy, has renewed debate on the rigidity of the Catholic Church in the modern world, and of the unwavering rule the Vatican has over clergy.

In the end, it was a 2006 Advent pastoral letter to parishioners that was the undoing of Morris.

The letter raised the option, in the face of a shortage of priests, of ordaining women and married men and recognising the Anglican, Lutheran and Uniting Church orders.

An official account has been obtained by The Weekend Australian of the events leading up to Morris's effective sacking, put together in a report by the bishop's "consultors" - a group of priests appointed under canon law to each bishop.

In their report, the consultors said Morris came to the diocese with an "easy and open approach" - evidenced by his removal of the Roman collar, which immediately rubbed people up the wrong way.

His sartorial style can be seen in a photograph of him with a clown face, sent to The Weekend Australian by his critics.

The consultors' report gives a rare insight into the workings of the Vatican and the unforgiving stance it took against Morris, first demanding his resignation in 2007 - less than a year after the offending letter.

But it also shows that the 2006 letter was a culmination of more than a decade of discord with Rome, stretching back to the 1990s when the Vatican cracked down on the illicit substitution of "general absolution" for the practice of individual confession of sins to a priest.

In the consultors' report, Toowoomba Vicar-General Peter Dorfield noted that, after his appointment in 1993, Morris established guidelines for the use of general absolution. The report said the general absolution issue led to a dispute between the bishop and Cardinal Francis Arinze, the Nigerian-born Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. "Some of this dispute took on a personal aspect", according to the report.

But it was the 2006 letter that brought things to a head.

In 1994, pope John Paul II's Apostolic Letter declared that the conversation about the ordination of women had ended, with the late pope amending the Code of Canon Law in 1998 to make such discussions a punishable offence.

Clergy breaking the rule risked suspension, removal from office and excommunication.

Within weeks of his letter being sent to Rome by one of his detractors, Morris was called to Rome to explain - a request he refused in February 2007 on the grounds he was busy with "serious pastoral reasons".

The following month, Morris was notified that Archbishop Charles Chaput from Denver, Colorado, had been appointed Apostolic Visitor to Toowoomba. He arrived in April, spending his first night with Archbishop John Bathersby in Brisbane.

Curiously, Bathersby claimed this week that he didn't know why Morris had been sacked: "I don't know why it happened, you see, and I would very much like to know."

A native American and member of the Capuchin order of priests, Chaput, now 66, has been an outspoken critic of US President Barack Obama over liberalised abortion laws and bioethics.

After a three-day visit to Toowoomba - where he interviewed supporters and opponents of Morris - Chaput delivered his report to the Congregation of Bishops in Rome in May 2007.

At the same time, according to the consultors' report, Morris was in Rome for a scheduled meeting with three of the Pope's kitchen cabinet - cardinals Giovanni Battista Re, William Levada and Arinze - but it did not go ahead. And Morris has never been shown Chaput's report.

Several months later, in September 2007, Morris got the gist of the report when he received an unsigned memo from the Congregation of Bishops asking him to resign.

Morris was shocked, writing back to Rome asking for time to "reflect" on the memorandum and promising to reply after his October holidays.

But Rome wasn't willing to wait. On October 3, 2007, the Congregation of Bishops upped the ante, stating the request for the bishop's resignation was "being made in the name of the Holy Father".

Morris wrote to Re - head of the Congregation for Bishops - saying he would meet the cardinals in January if he could be accompanied by Bathersby - a longtime friend - and Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson, president of the Australian Episcopal Conference.

The meeting was booked for Morris but Re refused to allow the progressive Bathersby to attend.

Morris was also "discouraged" from bringing a canonical adviser to the meeting in Rome with cardinals Re, Levada and Arinze.

"The bishop also asked to speak with the Holy Father but was told this would only be permitted after he had resigned," the report said.

Morris listened, and a few days later formally wrote to Re saying he would not step down.

After Re responded, again calling on Morris to resign, the embattled bishop wrote a more formal "statement of position" that was sent to the three cardinals. Morris also wrote to the Vatican's Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura - the highest court in the Catholic Church - but was told he could not appeal because "no legal proceedings had taken place".

In October 2008, Re demanded Morris resign by the end of November and, if he didn't, the "bishop would be removed".

Again, Morris refused in writing before penning a Christmas Eve letter to the Pope. It elicited an invitation to meet the pontiff in June the next year, along with Wilson.

"It was obvious that the Pope had been thoroughly briefed as he reiterated the demands of the three cardinals and indicated that the bishop's talents lay elsewhere than as the bishop of a diocese," the report said about the meeting.

"The Pope urged Archbishop Wilson to work with Bishop Morris to find him a suitable national position in the Australian church."

Morris had again refused and, a month later, Re instructed him to submit his resignation "as he had promised the Pope he would do".

"The bishop maintained he had not made such a promise," the report said. He wrote to the Pope in November 2009 saying that, "in conscience", he could not resign.

"On 22 December, 2009, Pope Benedict replied to Bishop Morris requesting that Bishop Morris resign from office and reminding him that there is no appeal from papal decision," the report said.

"The Pope repeated the serious concerns he had with Bishop Morris's position on the ordination of women and recognition of the orders of Anglicans and other churches."

The turning point came in January last year when Wilson travelled to Rome carrying a written proposal from Morris that he would retire in October 2013, when he turned 70 - bishops normally retire at 75.

In the letter, Morris stated that if the proposal were not accepted, he would be willing to go in the middle of this year - after seeing through the mediation process for the sex-abuse case in his diocese.

Re wrote back saying the Pope would accept the "proposal" allowing him to remain in office until this month but made no mention of the sex-abuse case.

"While the bishop's offer was to 'retire', the letter used the term 'resign'," the report said.

With the sex-abuse case dragging on, Morris wrote to the Vatican, and later the Pope, late last year asking for his departure to be delayed until the mediation was finalised.

Morris's appeal for more time was refused and on February 21 the Apostolic Nuncio (Vatican ambassador) to Australia, Giuseppe Lazzarotto, told Morris to resign, informing him that it would be announced on May 2.

Morris again refused, saying it would be an "admission of guilt" to the allegations against him. But he knew his time was up and, in March, he wrote to Lazzarotto accepting "early retirement".

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Bishop's firing makes pope's priorities clear
An NCR editorial
May. 04, 2011
By An NCR Editorial

The Australian Catholic diocese of Toowoomba, encompassing more than 300,000 square miles, has just a relative handful of healthy priests to serve the church’s 35 parishes. So it came as no surprise to Toowoomba’s Catholics when the area’s bishop, William M. Morris, addressed the priest shortage in a candid but still cautious Advent 2006 pastoral letter.

“We do face an uncertain future with regard to the number of active priests in our diocese,” wrote Morris. “Other options,” he wrote, “may well” need be considered. These include:

1.“ordaining married, single or widowed men who are chosen and endorsed by their local parish community;
2.welcoming former priests, married or single, back to active ministry;
3.ordaining women, married or single;
4.recognizing Anglican, Lutheran and Uniting Church Orders.”
For these words, this week the Vatican announced that Pope Benedict XVI has fired Morris. Eighteen years as bishop ended with the stroke of a papal pen. (Click here for original the news story about the Morris firing.)

Some obvious but necessary points need making:

First, it turns out it’s really not that difficult for the pope to give a bishop a pink slip. In the course of the quarter-century clergy sexual abuse cover-up, there’s been considerable handwringing over just this question. Bishops don’t “work for” the pope, we have been told. Bishops are “fathers” to their flock – with all the unconditional love and commitment that entails – not employees subject to the whims, well-intentioned or otherwise, of the boss. Canonical procedures must be followed.

Apparently, that’s just so much hooey. If the pope and his advisers care deeply about an issue about which a bishop has publicly raised questions – such as women priests and optional celibacy – a way can be found to dismiss that bishop.

And – noteworthy because it goes to some underlying issues – a bishop who acts against church teaching and law related to sexually abusive priests apparently need fear no such reprisal.

Philadelphia Cardinal Justin Rigali, for example, continues a life befitting a prince in splendorous surroundings, even as his flouting of church procedures (and perhaps civil law) resulted in nearly 30 diocesan priests facing administrative suspension and heat from local prosecutors.

And not to forget Cardinal Bernard Law, orchestrator of the Boston clergy abuse cover-up. His punishment? An extended Roman holiday and a healthy pension. Meanwhile, Morris gets the door.

The pope’s priorities are clear.

The pervasive intellectual chill in the church reaches beyond the towers of academia (note the recent chastisement of theologian St. Joseph Sr. Elizabeth Johnson) or to those who directly challenge the rules – Maryknoll Fr. Roy Bourgeois’ open support for women’s ordination a most recent case in point. (Bourgeois is facing excommunication for saying what he thinks on the subject.)

Now even those directly in the line of apostolic succession are forbidden to speak freely.

Note that Morris did not offer answers to the provocativelyposed semi-questions on celibacy and ordination he raised that Advent. Instead, employing what one advocacy group terms the “progressive bishop’s style book,” he couched his concerns more obliquely. (No doubt to avoid Rome’s wrath. Lot of good that did him.)

Today, it seems, even such carefully couched queries are completely verboten; such so-called “open questions” (non-doctrinal in every sense of the word) such as the ordination of married men are grounds for dismissal. That the overwhelming majority of clergy (not to mention laypeople) think the failure to even consider options like married priests in the midst of a clergy shortage crisis goes beyond Dilbertesque mismanagement. It is, to employ the psychobabble of the era, completely dysfunctional.

As we prepare to celebrate the feast of the first pope next month, are we still permitted to remind church fathers that Peter was a married man? That this Holy Father was likely a human father? Or should Mrs. Peter and her progeny, like so many nettlesome Stalin-era apparatchiks, be airbrushed from history?

Because of Morris, we know that the dysfunction flows right from the top. Canon law may be more flexible than previously promoted, but a bishop’s dismissal cannot be shuffled to an underling, buried, as in Bourgeois’ case, in a bureaucratic chain of command. No, the canning of a bishop is a task only a pope can command.

And he has made his priorities quite clear.

While the reasons for Morris’ dismissal are relatively clear, the process remains an unholy mess, shrouded in secrecy.

Soon after Morris’ 2006 Advent pastoral was released, Benedict sent Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput to “investigate” the incident, which is a little like sending the fox to investigate the hens. Given his well-known views on the concerns raised by Morris (Chaput is more Catholic than the pope on these issues), we are skeptical that Toowoomba’s bishop got a fair hearing. There’s a relatively small number of right wing Catholics in the diocese (Morris and others call them the “Temple Police”) who have long been after the bishop. That Chaput gave them undue weight and deference seems more than plausible.

You know the type. In the U.S., they are the crowd that takes marching orders from The Wanderer, their time at Mass searching for a violation of a rubric rather than receiving whatever wisdom or grace might come their way. Then, having detected an “Alleluia” where an “Amen” was called for, they write letters to Vatican congregations, hoping for a sympathetic ear to their pathetic pleas.

Their Australian equivalents were, it appears, successful in transforming Morris’ molehill into a mountain.

But, we acknowledge, our skepticism is partly emotional, or perhaps ideological. We’re inclined to give Morris a break because we’re inclined to agree with him that the issues he raises require airing.

But, and here’s the point, we simply don’t know what Chaput found because no one’s talking. Not even Morris has received a copy of Chaput’s report (assuming something has been reduced to writing).

We presume, given the public nature of Morris’ offenses, that Chaput’s findings have something to do with the bishop brainstorming some remedies to the priest shortage in the face of the real crisis in his local church.

Did Chaput find something more dastardly, such as a bishop speaking like an adult to his church? Heaven forbid. We likely will never know. When NCR asked Chaput to respond to a series of questions regarding his apostolic visitation to Morris’ diocese, he declined to answer, explaining that “any apostolic visitation is governed by strict confidentiality. This is for the benefit of all parties involved.”

So are we to believe Morris has benefitted from being tossed out without ever having been allowed to defend himself against Chaput's findings, which were never shared with the Australian prelate? This is the kind of trial and judgement one more often associates with China or Iran. The Catholic church?

The real scandal to the faithful in this matter has nothing to do with the way Morris has conducted himself. It has everything to do with priorities and processes within our church today. It has much to do with the trampling of human rights and professed values of decency and charity by our church’s prelates, in this case including, sad to say, Benedict himself.

This is no way, shall we say, to set a Christian example – or manage the church.

In 2003, Fred Gluck, a former managing partner of McKinsey & Company who currently serves on the board of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management, wrote a memo to church leaders. It’s crafted in managementese, but disregard the jargon for the moment and pay attention to the message.
Wrote Gluck:

•“Your organization [the church] has no effective central point of leadership that can energize the necessary program change.
•“Your leadership is aging and also largely committed to the status quo or even the status ante.
•“Your tradition of hierarchy dominates most of your thinking about management.”
•“Coming to grips with this formidable set of challenges in an organization as historically successful as yours will be a daunting challenge, and can only be accomplished by a comprehensive program of change with strong leadership from the top,” he concluded.
No one in a position of authority paid any discernable attention to Gluck eight years ago. Sadly, we don’t expect that to change.

The pope has made his priorities all too clear.

More of NCR's coverage of the ouster of Bishop William Morris:
•Bp Morris: 'You’ve got to stand in your truth.', Tom Roberts and Josh McElwee, May 5
•Bishop's firing makes pope's priorities clear, an NCR editorial, May 4
•Support for ousted Australian bishop widens, Tom Roberts, May 4
•Australian priests offer support for deposed bishop, Tom Roberts, May 3
•Women's ordination group responds to bishop's ouster, Women's Ordination Conference, May 3
•Pope removes bishop who expressed openness to ordaining women, CNS, May 2

Cardinal Ratzinger ran 27 years papacy of John Paul II and therefore is culpable in the JP2 Army...like Osama bin Laden

2011-05-05T15:08:00.002-04:00

John Paul II ruled for 27 years and he had all the chance to turn the tide of Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by his JP2 Army of Pedophiles and Pederasts Rapists-Priests but he chose not to and covered-it up together with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who was the Head of the Inquisition or CDF since 1981 since the shooting of JP2 at St. Peter's Square -- both powerful men did and said nothing to STOP the infestation of priest pedophilia within the Catholic Church.

May Day: Both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1

Despite the jubilation (mostly) worldwide over the death of Osama bin Laden, the biggest enemy so far this century, it's easy to forget the historic coincidence of the death of the biggest mass murderer of the previous century.

On May 1, 1945, Germany announced that Adolf Hitler was dead, leading to the end of the allied campaign in Europe during World War II. That same date 66 years later, President Obama announced the death of the al-Qaeda leader and international terrorist.

9/11 victims 5,000. JP2 Army 100,000s. May Day: both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1 on John Paul II Beatification Day B-Day

The “Holy Spirit” has blessed our weblogs -- with the confirmation of our unique comparison of the 9⁄11 attacks victims to the JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army victims -- with the May 1 killing of Osama bin Laden to coincide with the B-DAY Beatification Day of John Paul II. That the fate of these two worst leaders - Osama bin Laden and John Paul II - who led two of the most notorious crimes in the latter part of the 20th and early part of the 21st century, would coincide on the same day can only be attributed and planned by a Higher Power. The NY Daily News headline was “Osama Bin Laden, Adolf Hitler both declared dead on May 1”. Osama Bin Laden and Adolf Hitler share a towering reputation for evil – and also an anniversary. (Hitler’s death was in 1945, see photo below) Time NewsFeed also headlined “May Day: Both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1” That was a triple huge confirmation for our weblogs because we have also compared the similarities of Hitler’s Army with the JP2 Army read our related article The Nazis of Hitler and the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army are an inherently all-male hierarchy born out of the Devil’s Bowels http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/01/nazis-and-john-paul-ii-pedophiles.html. Osama led the 9⁄11 attacks against the Twin Towers with 5,000 victims hit by 2 planes within half-hour while John Paul II led the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by his hidden John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army with hundreds of thousands of children raped victims -- thanks to his cover-up during his entire 27 years papacy. Osama’s victims are all physically dead but John Paul II’s many victims are still alive suffering a ‘living hell’. And Benedict XVI and the Vatican’s reply for these poor victims are papal farts and some crocodile tears quickie apology and this pompous B-DAY Beatification Day of John Paul II (with the presence of Cardinal Bernard Law who aided and abetted 80 pedophile priests in Boston.) Every year there is a commemoration of the 9⁄11 victims attended by dignitaries and a memorial is built in Ground Zero in New York City. The victims of the JP2 Army also deserve a monument (in every city where they occurred) and annual commemoration throughout the USA just like the 9⁄11 victims have because their numbers are estimated at 12,000 which is double those of the 5,000 victims of the 9⁄11 attacks. And all other countries affected by the JP2 Army with hundreds of thousands of victims should also do likewise, Ireland, Germany, Netherlands, Australia, etc. We will soon describe the John Paul II Millstone monument (we are trying to make it a practical scale and approvable by the government Parks Department).

We have been posting this “Compare the CRIMES and their VICTIMS in America” since day one in July 2006 and G-d has confirmed it on May 1, 2011. We received many mockeries and OD threats for it but we persevere because we believe in the vision of Paris Arrow of St. Michael tying a giant millstone to the neck of John Paul II and his neck broke and was thrown into a raging sea of fire during the last World Youth Day of JP2 in Toronto in 2002. After that horrific vision at WYD 2002, John Paul II went on to live for 3 more years (Paris Arrow kept waiting for JP2 to do something) but he was unrepentant and without compunction towards victims and instead he elevated Cardinal Bernard Law to St. Mary Major (to papal fart at us Bostonians who forced Law to resign). St. Michael gave John Paul II all the chances to turn the tide of Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions within the Catholic Church but JP2 adamantly refused (he wouldn’t write at length about it among his thousands of speeches and writings) because he was too narcissist and grandiose with his legacy as “John Paul II the Great” to take a look at the plight of poor sodomized children and he did not want their raped stories to be included among his papacy books. Read the vision of Paris Arrow here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html So now G-d has crowned our non-monetary weblogs with this biggest coincidence of the death of Osama bin Laden (and Adolf Hitler) on the pathological lie beatification of John Paul II so we can show and prove that the ultimate corruption and the most evil institution in the world is the Vatican and that Benedict XVI and the papacy are evil despots (wolves dressed in white) and that John Paul II is the FACE and Mask of Power of Opus Dei who now controls the Vatican.

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
Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army.

There is no more “Holy Spirit” in the Vatican because there is now only Opus Dei autocracy and despotism rule. You can pray for divine guidance and ‘Come Holy Spirit’ Veni, Creator Spiritus or for anything you want but God won’t come because there is no more such a thing as “praying for God’s Will” as there is now only Opus Dei WORLD DOMINATION Agenda at the Vatican to follow or you are out and sacked.. One major proof of the despotism of Benedict XVI and the Vatican happened also on May 1 with the sacking of Australia’s Toowoomba Bishop William Morris (for his writing about women ordination) who was spied upon by the “Temple Police” -- who are actually Opus Dei foot soldiers. There is no ‘freedom of speech’ in the Catholic Church and a good Bishop like Morris was forced to resign for speaking up on behalf of women while Cardinal Bernard Law who aided and abetted 80 pedophile rapists-priests in Boston (after being forced by the laity to resign) was elevated by John Paul II and is now sitting pretty as Archpriest of St. Mary Major. Really, it is obvious which of the two deserves to resign. Read the list of theologians silenced by despot Ratzinger as Chief of the Inquisition the sweetly called CDF Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith at the Vatican during his 24 years reign with John Paul II. “But it is deadly. Many theologians have died or suffered from heart attacks and stress because of the unleashing of hatred shouted by those who are sure, because Ratzinger has said it...” 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

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

Listen up people, Catholics and WYD young men and women, DO NOT BUY STATUES, medals and souvenirs of John Paul II but give your money to the Red Cross who are immediately on the scene in all disaster areas in the world. Give your Catholic moneys to the Doctors without Borders, for water wells in Africa, the homeless in your area, etc. Do not give your money to the Catholic Church because the Vatican owns the Swiss Banks where all despots like Mubarak, Kadhafi, name it, are safely invested and therefore the Vatican is the ultimate perpetrators of poor peoples and poor Third World countries. The political status of the Vatican must end because all those Papal Nuncios have diplomatic immunity and therefore are the perfect conduit of corrupt moneys of wealthy corrupt people in the world. Read our related article Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/holy-heist-john-paul-ii-wyd-had-no-role.html

John Paul II ruled for 27 years and he had all the chance to turn the tide of Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by his JP2 Army of Pedophiles and Pederasts Rapists-Priests but he chose not to and covered-it up together with Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who was the Head of the Inquisition or CDF since 1981 since the shooting of JP2 at St. Peter's Square -- both powerful men did and said nothing to STOP the infestation of priest pedophilia within the Catholic Church.

Osama bin Laden also in white like Pope John Paul II

Read full article in our sister weblog The John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html

Priest 's $18,000 groceries a year... eating the lifestyle of the rich and powerful sorcerer of God's flesh and blood

2011-05-05T14:52:00.006-04:00

John Paul II lived in the lap of luxury at the Vatican so does Benedict XVI now live in the lap of luxury and so do all priests sorcerers of Christ flesh and blood.

http://www.savestmarys.net/following-the-money-trail/

Outraged Readers React

By St. Marys
on October 3, 2010
Here's just one. Requested that we attribute this piece as, "Submitted by another disgusted St. Mary's parishioner."

$18,000 in the Real World

What St. Mary's has endured the past couple years has been an education to say the least, but on a personal level, the recent disclosure of Fr. Ed Namiotka's annual grocery expenses has hit our household hard. While we fully realize that diocesan priests do not take a vow of poverty, neither do the laity. And yet I don't know anyone who spends anywhere near $19,000.00 a year on groceries for only two to three people.

Why does this matter to me? A couple of reasons.

First, we're in the midst of a recession. At our house, we fell on hard times not long before people started using the "R" word. My husband lost his job and with it, our health insurance. Now, because we try to live our lives a certain way, his former job was not one that brought in a tremendous income, either. He worked for a non-profit organization, believing the work he did for it did some good in the world.

After he lost that job, believe it or not, it was tough to find a even "crappy," menial work. It seemed that we were both considered "overqualified" for work at places like Wawa and Walmart. Finally he got one of those part-time jobs (because making you "full-time" means they have to give you insurance), and to make matters worse, it was a third-shift (overnight) position. We decided he should take it because we thought that eventually, he'd get a "real" job. But despite many interviews, for which he'd have to stay up all "night," nothing panned out. The jobs just weren't out there. So what started out as a job taken to fill-in-the-gaps for a month or two turned into a year.

We never saw each other. He slept by day, while I homeschooled and took care of the kids. I woke him up in time for me to go to work in the afternoon. He was paid not much better than minimum wage. We were barely surviving, but we took our ability to survive at all, to not lose our house and still (barely) eat as a sign of God's providence.

At that time, excluding my meager income, we were living off of approximately $13,500 a year. Throw in my part-time income and we came close to (still under) Ed Namiotka's annual grocery expenses. And that was for a family of four.

Now I'm not complaining about that year. We held onto our house. We still ate. We cashed in all our savings and retirement money and prepaid our mortgage and utilities for a few months, anticipating what was to come. But despite the hard times of that year, we felt that God's hand was on us, seeing us through it all. Things have been meager ever since because my husband started his own business, which we believed was the direction God wanted us to go. But when you have a new business, money doesn't come right away. You have to build up a clientele. And we really still don't have any savings to fall back on, like we used to.

So what bothers me? What bothers me is that two to three priests are eating a year's income. What bothers me is that it's not like they're even paying for this food. That bill is being footed by the people of Queen of Angels Parish in Landisville (Buena), and now, it seems, us.

As if that wasn't enough, Namiotka put it in a new kitchen with fancy granite countertops and high end stainless steel appliances only last year. Needless to say, our own kitchen has tile counter tops, and we like them fine. We don't have a microwave or dishwasher.

What else bothers me? All these extravagant expenses are happening at a time when Namiotka is telling us that we simply cannot afford to keep all our churches and cannot afford the things we need at St. Mary's. At the same time, he has hired a "personal assistant" whose salary is presumably coming from us (although neither Namiotka nor Kathy Mensinger, the assistant, will give us an answer on this). Namiotka is spending more than $18,000 per year on groceries at a time when many parishioners are truly struggling to keep afloat and feed their families.

But no matter to Namiotka. He's got a new car, a new kitchen, and he's eating just fine.

Let Them Eat Cake

By
St. Marys
on October 2, 2010

What makes the food expense of the rectory at Queen of Angels even more outrageous is the fact that the rectory is located in Landisville, where a whopping 24.6% of the population lives BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL. Click here for more details. The median household income before taxes is only $30,625/yr (not remarkably better than Camden), compared to nearly $20,000/yr. food expenses at Fr. Ed Namiotka's rectory.

"For many, as I have often told you and now tell you even in tears, conduct themselves as enemies of the cross of Christ. Their end is destruction. Their God is their stomach; their glory is in their "shame." Their minds are occupied with earthly things." Philippians 3:18-19.

This Little Priesty Went to Market
By
St. Marys
on October 1, 2010
FOOD EXPENSES for the Rectory at Queen of Angels in Buena, Fr. Ed Namiotka, Pastor (each of these figures is for the fiscal year ending in June):
2010: $18,531.24
2009: $18,272.44
2008: $19,937.45
During these time periods, Fr. Namiotka was living in the rectory with 1 or 2 other priests.

I believe it was St. Jerome, whose feast day we celebrated yesterday, who said,
"A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts."

Benedict XVI commits his biggest pathological lie of the Beatification of John Paul II

2011-05-01T17:41:00.001-04:00

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John Paul smelled Devil`s Bowels as roses for 27 years as he deified Father Marcial Maciel and deified Cardinal Bernard Law http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-smelled-devils-bowels-as.html
Top Worst Sins and Crimes of Popes in History http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/top-worst-sins-and-crimes-of-popes-in.html

Cardinals petitioned for JP2 fast track the same way Cardinals and Bishops petitioned for St. Josemaria Escriva canonization under financial duress http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/cardinals-petitioned-for-jp2-fast-track.html

The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html

John Paul II 4 million,Ayatollah Khomeini 9 million people at funeral! Cardinal Pell, fanatics cannot beatify the Pope of Pedophiles and Pederasts http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-4-millionayatollah.html Ecerpt:

The John Paul II earthquake faults is being felt as far away as the Land Down Under in Australia where a retired priest listed a litany of JP2 faults before the beatification of John Paul II in Rome where 1 million of fanatic Catholics are expected to attend. 4 million fanatic Catholics attended JP2 funeral in 2005 where they chanted and held giant strategic banners of Santo Subito. Father Eric Hodgens who wrote the scathing JP2 article in the quarterly magazine of the National Council of Priests of Australia is a retired old priest which means he is not one of those young Catholic fanatics “WYD JP2 Generation” who go around the world every two or 3 years chanting “JP2 we love you”. Father Hodgens wrote that John Paul II had a "lust for power . . . taken to monumental proportions." Read the rest of the article here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-4-millionayatollah.html

Opus Dei origin of "the Great" John Paul II. Opus Dei tentacles in USA, Chile, Nicaragua, Philippines, Cuba, and others http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/opus-dei-origin-of-great-john-paul-ii.html

Navarro-Valls in New York Times interview: A psychiatrist with a penchant for media manipulation. Two open letters sent to Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/navarro-valls-in-new-york-times.html

Why John Paul II is Opus Dei's Patron Saint: analysis of conference at Holy Cross Pontifical University in Rome
http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.html

ODAN Letter to Pope JP2 to protest Josemaria Escriva canonization. Facts and Irregularities of Escriva's canonization
http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/odan-letter-to-pope-john-paul-ii-to.html

Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/holy-heist-john-paul-ii-wyd-had-no-role.html

Opus Dei response to Priestly Sex Scandal in 2002 and they are still saying the same things today.... http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/opus-dei-response-to-priestly-sex.html

Self-flagellation of John Paul II: the Opus Dei Connection http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/self-flagellation-of-john-paul-ii-opus.html

Cardinal Bernard Law is an Opus Dei member. Law met Opus Dei while a student at Harvard in the 1950s….... Archbishop William Levada's Hidden Record http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/cardinal-bernard-law-is-opus-dei-member.html

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Letter to Benedict XVI: STOP the beatification of John Paul II. Letter from a survivor - with the courage and stance of Martin Luther http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/04/letter-to-benedict-xvi-stop.html

Opus Dei Pope Benedict XVI promoter of false Saint John Paul II = the antiChrist is the promoter of the falseChrist http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/04/opus-dei-pope-benedict-xvi-promoter-of.html

John L. Allen Jr. precursor of the Vatican says it may refuse the Oregon Judge request

2011-04-23T15:18:00.005-04:00

The strategy of John L. Allen is always in his short and sweet title to knock down the search for true justice by victims of rapists-priests. So in his latest article he simple titles it, "Vatican may resist judge's order for documents", and no matter what other things he talks about in his article, his title is the final word and final answer relayed by the Vatican. That is why John L. Allen is the highest paid journalist on the planet earth, paid for by the Vatican Swiss Banks to suppress and oppress all victims of the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priest Army

Archbishop Diarmuid Martin said that he now sleeps better at night knowing that the most notorious Irish pedophile priest Tony Walsh is in prison “and not walking the streets of Dublin”. Tony Walsh was caught and jailed and thus is no longer free to walk in the streets of Dublin and sodomize more boys. But John Paul II and Cardinal Ratizinger and the Opus Dei slept in peace at night at the Vatican palaces during the 26+ years papacy of John Paul II while hundreds of thousands of little boys across the United States of America, Ireland, Germany, across Europe and around the world were successively raped by the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions by thousands of pedophile priests hence are aptly called the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. John L. Allen Jr the premier Vaticanista also slept in peace in Rome as he wrote his weekly column called “The Word from Rome” as he walked in and out freely and with unlimited pass into the Papal apartments and the Vatican offices but Tom Doyle could not even get in, not once, and those victims of pedophile priests from around the world who gathered to make their voices heard (who are asking the United Nations to call pedophilia as « crime against humanity”) were sent away from St. Peter’s Square by Italian Police and Benedict XVI refused to meet with them for one minute but Benedict XVI gave a standing ovation to topless acrobat men inside the Vatican Christmas papal show...

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Why John Paul II is Opus Dei's Patron Saint: analysis of conference at Holy Cross Pontifical University in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.html

John L. Allen Jr supports Fr. Marcial Maciel and the Legion of Christ through his headline: 'True believers' on Maciel still kicking http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/john-l-allen-jr-supports-fr-marcial.html

John L. Allen Jr showers Cardinal Castrillon’s sex abuse cover up with roses that make the Devil's bowels smell good on Ratzinger Benedict XVI and JP2 http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/01/john-l-allen-jr-showers-cardinal.html

Oregon judge orders Vatican and Benedict XVI to show files in abuse case http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/04/oregon-judge-orders-vatican-to-show.html

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Vatican may resist judge's order for documents

UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter

Apr. 22, 2011
By John L Allen Jr

A ruling on Thursday from a federal judge in Oregon marks the first time that an American court has ever issued an order requiring the Vatican to hand over documents in a sex abuse case.

Whether that actually happens, however, depends on how the Vatican responds, including whether it tries to persuade either the Oregon judge or an appeals court that it shouldn’t have to comply.

U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman on Thursday granted a limited number of requests for discovery put forward by attorney Jeffrey Anderson, representing a man who says he was abused by Andrew Ronan, a former Servite priest who was laicized in 1966 and who died in 1992.

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, the main advocacy group in the United States for victims of clerical abuse, hailed the order as a “historic achievement.”

Benedict XVI says JP2 will lead people back to church...what? the same JP2 Wolf dressed as Shepherd who led the most heinous crimes against children?

2011-04-22T17:03:00.007-04:00

Update with Good Friday TV manipulation by Benedict XVI and the Vatican

Oregon judge orders Vatican and Benedict XVI to show files in abuse case http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/04/oregon-judge-orders-vatican-to-show.html

John Paul II by Danish cartoonist of Mohammed with inscription "I am against homosexuality but for pedophilia"

On Holy Thursday, in the all-just-for-show Vatican-Hollywood style once-a-year spectacle of washing of 12 feet of Opus Dei chosen men, a mock-up of Christ's gesture of humility (when He washed the feet of his Apostles, Benedict XVI has little humility compared to Christ's humility), Benedict XVI said the beatification of John Paul II would be “a chance to remember a man of great faith”, that JP2 will “rejuvenate” and lead people back to the church, and that “we must not forget that today too there are radiant examples of faith, people who give hope to the world." Benedict XVI, here’s the thing about Faith and Hope which you keep pounding about John Paul II St. Paul clearly brings them to zilch and nought because St. Paul clearly states in 1 Corinthian 13:1-13: “If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing.” John Paul II the great with all his papal knowledge, Theology of the Body, countless letters, encyclicals, books and homilies are “brought to nothing” by St. Paul. All American children must never call John Paul II "Blessed" or "Saint" in solidarity with the 12,000 American children sexually abused,r aped and sodomized by priests. All children of the world must never call John Paul II ‘blessed’ or ‘saint’ out of deference and in solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of victims in Europe and across the globe of the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

The fact is John Paul II had only faith and hope for adults and nothing for children. The fact is John Paul II did not have any Charity for children, sure he kissed them for his photo-ops (only those well-dressed wealthy children chosen by Opus Dei), but that is all he did for 27 years as pope, kissing for one-second those “lucky” children. John Paul II never spoke once in their defence in the most heinous crimes against children, the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions, which occurred under his Holy See watch hence they are aptly called the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. John Paul II never dirtied his papal hands like Mother Teresa in the streets of Calcutta who took care of the dying and the ill. John Paul II never took care of the ill-souls of victims who have been sodomized and raped by priests for years.

St. Paul said in 1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak in human and angelic tongues 2 but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal.

2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing.

History does not lie and it has forever recorded that John Paul II was all-talk and a no-charity-action-pope who was only wallowing in his narcissistic pompous papal regalia show everywhere he went around the world and in his lifestyle of the rich and famous at the Vatican Palace. JP2 travelled with his beloved companion, Father Marcial Maciel Dellgado knowing that he was one of the most notorious serial pedophile priests – he ever met -- who abused two of his won biological sons. John Paul II had no moral conscience towards the victims of Father Marcial Maciel and to the victims of the 80 pedophiles priests in Boston covered-up by Cardinal Bernard Law.

Benedict also said that “the 84-year-old pope has often warned against creeping secularism which he has said is as bad as religious fanaticism”. But, again here’s the thing, John Paul II was the “secular” Head of State of the Vatican and the WYD World Youth Day he founded is the most fanatic cult for young people who chant “JP2 we love you” which can only equal the Hitler Youths who chanted “Heil, Heil, Hitler”! Read our related article, Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/holy-heist-john-paul-ii-wyd-had-no-role.html

Pope Benedict said, "Have not we -- the people of God -- become to a large extent a people of unbelief and distance from God?" Well, here’s the thing, the people of God believe in God… but they do not believe in the self-proclaimed representatives of God especially the priests who claim to be able to reincarnate the flesh of Christ in 9-seconds by reciting the formula of the Transubstantiation. If Mary the purest of God’s creature needed an Archangel to make her impregnated – and then carry Christ to 9 months full term -- , there is no way that you sinful priests can reincarnate God’s flesh even if your formulas are more holy than Harry Potter magic formulas. Read our related weblog, Mary versus John Paul II, and see that John Paul II and Benedict XVI can not say “let there be light” and cannot say either, “Let there be Christ” in the sorcery of the Eucharist. http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html

See the Faces of Rapists-Priests: from Father Marcial Maciel covered-up by John Paul II and the Eucharist. JOIN Signatories` protest against JP2 beatification http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/03/faces-of-rapists-priests-from-father.html

Read the questions about book, the Threshold of Hope, which was allegedly not written by John Paul II in Navarro-Valls in New York Times interview: A psychiatrist with a penchant for media manipulation. Two open letters sent to Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/navarro-valls-in-new-york-times.html

Benedict XVI to beatify John Paul II is “brought to nothing” by St. Paul http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2009_11_01_archive.html

ODAN Letter to Pope JP2 to protest Josemaria Escriva canonization. Facts and Irregularities of Escriva's canonization http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/odan-letter-to-pope-john-paul-ii-to.html

Prayer to John Paul II: the saint of pedophiles and pederasts, rapists and abusers of children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/prayer-to-john-paul-ii-saint-of.html

The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html

New book on John Paul II ‘Why He's a Saint’ is a pack of lies http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/01/new-book-on-john-paul-ii-why-hes-saint.html

John Paul II miraculously cures his German barber of hernia in Rome… as the John Paul II Pedophile Priest Army jolts Germany http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/03/john-paul-ii-miraculously-cures-his.html

Mexico mounts a worldwide campaign against the beatification of John Paul II, they should for they are the people of Our Lady of Guadalupe http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/01/mexico-mounts-worldwide-campaign.html

The Roman Catholic Church is no longer « Holy ». All Catholic churches, sacristies, rectories are not «holy» but potential priestly pedophile places http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/07/roman-catholic-church-is-no-longer-holy.html

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

Why John Paul II is Opus Dei's Patron Saint: analysis of conference at Holy Cross Pontifical University in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.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

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Update April 22, 2011
GOOD FRIDAY

Benedict XVI is all empty-talk about Suffering During Good Friday TV Show

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Benedict XVI, right, prepares to answer questions on Italian state TV, on Friday, April 22, 2011. Pope Benedict XVI in a prerecorded appearance on Italian state TV, replied to some of a few thousand questions submitted by Catholics and non-Catholics alike. Good Friday is the solemn day when Christians reflect on the suffering and crucifixion of Christ. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano,

Benedict XVI is capitalizing the television to perpetuate his abuse of his papal powers as he empty-talks about suffering during Good Friday TV show in preparation for his hijack of the beatification of John Paul II. What does Benedict XVI know about suffering as he lives in the lap of luxury in the ivory tower of the Vatican Palace? The Vatican Opus Dei manipulators staged a one-minute question and answer period with selected Opus Dei selected persons and that should prove that Benedict XVI knows something about suffering? Benedict XVI was Head of the CDF Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for 24 years and together with John Paul II they ignored the sufferings of hundreds of thousands of victims of the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army and now he speaks for one minute to a Japanese (who represent the Japanese people) in a mock-up televised show in the grandeur of the Vatican Palace and he is supposed to be an expert on suffering? The deceptions of Benedict and the Vatican Opus Dei media are like the Emperor without clothes and their days are numbered because the Vatican and the Pope are really causing the sufferings of the Arab world because the Vatican Swiss Banks keep the money of despots like Mubarak and Gadfahi...God and Mammon will no longer sleep together in the 21st Century, not in the Vatican or in the Vatican Swiss Banks...

The ceremonial Way of the Cross at the Roman Coliseum is all for show and Benedict XVI is all-talk and no action. An Oregon judge has ordered the Vatican to release secret files of a victim who was sexually abused by a pedophile priests and the world watch what Benedict XVI will do that more relevant question which -- he alone -- can answer (and not some Japanese earthquake propaganda he is using for his own narcissism and grandiosity. Read our related article The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html

Pope Benedict XVI (C) blesses the faithful as he leads the Way of the Cross on Good Friday in this April 22, 2011 photo in front of the Colosseum in Rome. Andreas Solaro/AFP/Getty Images

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=13433386&page=2

Pope Talks of Suffering During Good Friday TV Show

By NICOLE WINFIELD Associated Press
VATICAN CITY April 22, 2011 (AP)

Pope Benedict XVI consoled a 7-year-old Japanese girl, reassured a mother about her ailing son's soul and advised a Muslim woman that dialogue was the way to peace in Ivory Coast.

In a push to engage the world online, the pontiff fielded their questions during an unusual Good Friday appearance on Italian TV. It was hardly a casual or spontaneous chat: Seven questions were selected from thousands that poured in via RAI television's website, and Benedict recorded his answers last week.

He seemed a bit stiff, sitting all alone in a big white chair behind his desk inside the Apostolic Palace as an unseen interviewer read out the letters to him.

But the teacher and pastor in the 84-year-old Benedict came through as he fielded the questions, which all dealt with suffering and Jesus' death, which Christians recall on Good Friday, and his resurrection, celebrated on Easter Sunday.

The first question came from young Elena, who asked the pope why she felt so afraid after Japan's earthquake shook her house and killed so many children.

"Why do children have to be so sad?" the girl asked. "I'm asking the pope, who speaks with God, to explain it to me."

Speaking simply as if Elena were right there, Benedict responded that he too wondered why so many innocent people suffer, but that she should take heart in knowing that Jesus had suffered too.

"You can be sure that in the world, in the universe, there are many people who are with you, thinking of you, doing what they can for you to help you," Benedict said.

"Be assured, we are with you, with all the Japanese children who are suffering."

He then turned to a question from an Italian mother, Maria Teresa, who worried about her son, Francesco, who has been in a vegetative state since Easter 2009. She asked if Francesco's soul still remained.

"He feels the presence of love," Benedict told her, praising her for keeping her vigil as a "true act of love."

"I encourage you, therefore, to carry on, to know that you are giving a great service to humanity with this sign of faith, with this sign of respect for life, with this love for a wounded body and a suffering soul," he said.

Monsignor Paul Tighe, the No. 2 in the Vatican's social communications office, said the decision to have the pope participate in the televised event stemmed from the realization that Benedict must engage more with the public to ensure his message is received.

"This is a very simple beginning of what you could call interactivity," Tighe said in a recent interview. "It's launching something new for us."

In the past, Benedict has taken preselected questions from carefully chosen Catholics, responding live in St. Peter's Square, such as when he meets annually with university students. He also regularly answers questions submitted beforehand by journalists when flying to foreign countries and has fielded questions from groups of priests.

But the Good Friday session was the first time he had taken questions from the general public — and not necessarily even the Catholic public.

"The advantage of this is it opens up the possibility to people who couldn't hope or aspire to having a direct meeting with the pope, but through the Internet can put their questions there," Tighe said.

That was certainly the case for Bintu, a Muslim woman who greeted the pope in Arabic and asked him in French for his advice on bringing peace to Ivory Coast, which has been wracked by political violence.

"How many innocents have lost their lives!" she said. "How many mothers and how many children traumatized!"

Benedict told her he was grieved that he could do so little, saying he had tasked the head of the Vatican's justice and peace office, Cardinal Peter Kodwo Turkson, to try to mediate between the country's opposing factions.

"The only path is to renounce violence, to begin anew with dialogue, with the attempt to find peace together, with a new concern for one another, a new willingness to be open to one another," the pontiff said.

The broadcast spliced the pope's responses with commentary from Italian religious affairs experts, as well as video footage of the people asking their questions.

It was a very feminine-focused event, with three of the questions coming from women and a fourth about Mary.

Benedict continued that theme with the more traditional Good Friday event — the nighttime Way of the Cross procession at Rome's Colosseum, in which the faithful re-enact the final hours of Christ's life. The meditations for each station of the cross were composed by an Italian nun, Sister Maria Rita Piccione, and the artwork accompanying them were designed by another nun.

Piccione said she didn't know why she had been selected. The only communication she ever had with the pope, she said in a newspaper interview, was when she sent him a letter last year offering her support for the "persecution" he and the church were going through in the midst of the clerical abuse scandal.

Benedict didn't refer directly to the scandal but spoke generally about sin and how Good Friday recalls that Christ died for all humankind's sins. He looked tired after the nearly two-hour procession, the bulk of which he spent kneeling in prayer. But he seemed to hold up well as he headed back to the Vatican, where he will preside over an Easter Vigil late Saturday and Sunday's Easter Mass.

While the Q&A session departed from the Vatican's Good Friday routine, elsewhere in the world ancient Christian practices marked the solemn day.

In Jerusalem, Christian pilgrims filled the cobblestone alleyways of the walled Old City to commemorate Jesus' crucifixion there two millennia ago. Thousands of international visitors and local Christians retraced Christ's last steps down the Via Dolorosa, Latin for the "Way of Suffering." The route ends at the ancient Church of the Holy Sepulcher, revered as the site of Jesus' crucifixion, burial and his resurrection on Easter Sunday.

"All my life I've been waiting for this wish — I've been wishing for one day to come here in Jerusalem to worship. I wanted to step where my lord stepped," said Roshan Futsom, a pilgrim from Toronto.
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Associated Press writer Matti Friedman in Jerusalem contributed to this report.

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April 21, 2011

Pope warns of falling belief in West

VATICAN CITY
Reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/21/us-pope-holythursday-idUSTRE73K3EB20110421

By Catherine Hornby

The water’s fine, but maybe don’t come in

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict lamented the widespread abandonment of faith in the West on Holy Thursday before he washed and dried the feet of 12 men to mark Christ's gesture of humility to his apostles on the night before he died.

The German-born pontiff said it sometimes seemed as if people in Western countries had grown bored of their own history and culture and the heartlands of Christianity were rejecting religion.

But he hailed strong examples of the faithful, such as his predecessor John Paul, whose beatification on May 1 is expected to attract hundreds of thousands to Rome and is seen by many in the Church as a chance to rejuvenate the institution.

"Have not we -- the people of God -- become to a large extent a people of unbelief and distance from God?" Pope Benedict said during a service in St. Peter's Basilica in which he blessed oils to be used in Catholic rites.

"Is it perhaps the case that the West, the heartlands of Christianity, are tired of their faith?"

He later poured water over the right feet of 12 men sitting on raised platforms and dried them. That ritual was held in the Basilica of St John's in Lateran, the Pope's cathedral in his capacity as bishop of Rome, while donations were collected for victims of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

Both services were to mark Christ's founding of the priesthood at the Last Supper on the night before he died.

Celebrating the sixth Easter season of his pontificate, the pope said the beatification of his Polish predecessor, John Paul II, would be a chance to remember a man of great faith.

"For all the shame we feel over our failings, we must not forget that today too there are radiant examples of faith, people who give hope to the world," Pope Benedict said.

The 84-year-old pope has often warned against creeping secularism which he has said is as bad as religious fanaticism.

One of the main themes of his papacy has been what the Church calls the "re-evangelization" of Europe, an attempt to urge people to return to their religious roots despite living in highly secularized societies.

BIG EVENT

The leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics has had a difficult struggle to rebuild the image of the Church after a scandal over the sexual abuse of children by priests reported in several countries.

Many in the Church establishment hope the beatification, bestowing on John Paul the title "blessed," will reinvigorate the institution and encourage people to return to the faith.

It is set to be the biggest event in Rome since the death of the charismatic and highly popular pope in 2005, when millions came to view his body or attend his funeral.

Vatican officials expect at least 300,000 people -- including tens of thousands from his native Poland -- to come

to the Italian capital for the three days of events celebrating his last step before sainthood.

On Good Friday, Pope Benedict will preside at services in the Vatican and then lead a traditional torch-lit Via Crucis, or Way of the Cross, around the ruins of Rome's ancient Colosseum.

Italian television will air a question and answer session with the pope on Friday, in which he will respond to queries sent in from people all over the world.

A Vatican newspaper published one of his answers on Thursday, in which he tells a mother who's son has been in a vegetative state for several years that his soul is still in his body and he can still feel the presence of love.

Holy Week services at the Vatican culminate on Easter Sunday, the most important day in the liturgical calendar, when the pope delivers his twice-yearly "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) blessing and message.
(Editing by Sophie Hares)

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Code Words, Cover-Up: Gallup Clergy Sex Abuse File Now Online

GALLUP (NM)
Gallup Independent
By Elizabeth Hardin-Burrola
April 21, 2011
(See the Hageman file.)

It's all about code words, according to Patrick J. Wall. Wall, a canon lawyer and former Catholic priest and Benedictine monk, was in Winslow on Wednesday talking about the diocese of Gallup's recently released personnel file on the late Clement A. Hageman, whom diocesan officials have admitted was a pedophile priest.

The 156-pages of documents, while filled with references to the priest's chronic alcoholism, are also filled with church code words for sexual abuse, Wall said. Some of those references aren’t even subtle - "guilty of playing with boys" and the Latin phrase "cum pueris," which means "with boys" – while others are more euphemistic - ''the other trouble," "old transgressions,” and "his difficulty."

"There's enough in this file you could write a whole story alone on code words,"
Wall said.

Bevilacqua role with pedophile priest bared

2011-04-22T16:34:00.005-04:00

Barbara Blaine of SNAP

Philly.com

Bevilacqua role with pedophile priest bared

February 23, 2011|

By DAVID GAMBACORTA
Turns

http://romancatholicworld.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/cardinal-bevilacquas-role-with-pedophile-priest-in-diocese-of-brooklyn-feb-23-2011-the-philadelphia-inquirer-bevilacqua-role-with-pedophile-priest-bared.pdf

Turns out the old saying is true - the devil really is in the details.

Decades-old evidence of a pedophile priest whose crimes were covered up by church leaders came to light yesterday in the form of long-buried memos from the Diocese of Brooklyn.

Two names figure prominently on the haunting pages from the past.

The first is Romano J. Ferraro, a former priest who is serving a life sentence in Massachusetts for raping a child there, and who had a well-documented penchant for abusing children in New York.

The second is Anthony Bevilacqua, who, as an auxiliary bishop in Brooklyn in the late 1970s and early 1980s, knew all too well about Ferraro's fondness for preying on children, and dealt with it, according to the memos, by simply having Ferraro transferred to a church in St. Louis, where he alledgedly abused three boys.

When Ferraro later tried to return to Brooklyn, Bevilacqua ordered his underlings to tell the serial sexual predator "to seek an assignment outside the diocese," according to one memo.

In another, Bevilacqua wrote that Ferraro refused to sign an agreement that called for him to be removed from the priesthood if he committed any more sexual misdeeds.
"It's a depressing scene all around," said Terence McKiernan, president of www.BishopAccountability.org, which features a detailed account of Ferraro's life as a pedophile priest.

"Ferraro abused children wherever he went," McKiernan said. "Some of that abuse wouldn't have happened if Bevilacqua had blown the whistle and called the cops when he had a chance."

The memos echoed what a Philadelphia grand jury asserted earlier this month - that Bevilacqua, a cardinal and retired archbishop of Philadelphia, was well-versed in the art of preventing abusive priests from facing justice.

"He was more savvy than most," said David Clohessy, executive director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP). "If this is what they wrote down and saved, can you imagine what they considered too radioactive to write down, or what was shredded?"

SNAP released the documents yesterday and called for grand juries to form in Brooklyn and Pittsburgh, where Bevilacqua reportedly covered for another abusive priest.

The memos were obtained in 2009 by Miami attorneys Adam Horowitz and Jessica Arbour, who represented a man who sued Ferraro in 2006. The man claimed that the priest sexually assaulted him in the late 1960s when Ferraro worked as a chaplain on a Navy Base in Key West.

Ferraro was dishonorably discharged by the Navy in 1971 after allegations of abuse came to light, according to BishopAccountability. org.

Two years later, he began working at a parish in Brooklyn.

He landed in trouble almost immediately. In a July 1, 1973 letter written by Ferraro to Francis Mugavero, the then-bishop of Brooklyn, he mentioned seeing a psychologist and causing the bishop "anxiety" and "possible embarrassment to the diocese and the church."

In that same letter, Ferraro said that Bevilacqua, then a priest, had urged him to get help.

Four years later, a copy of a letter detailing Ferraro's attempts to get two young boys to talk about masturbation following a Mass that was held in one of the boy's homes was supposed to have been sent to Bevilacqua.

All told, Ferraro was reportedly accused of molesting at least four boys at various parishes in New York in the 1970s.

In two memos from December 1980, Bevilacqua wrote that Ferraro had promised to sign a statement "that he would be laicized if he ever was involved in another homosexual incident."

"He felt that he would not like to sign it because it was acting under threat," Bevilacqua wrote.

A few weeks later, Bevilacqua wrote another memo. He had arranged a new home for Ferraro: the archdiocese of St. Louis.

And the horror story continued.

Link to this story: http://articles.philly.com/2011-02-23/news/28620734_1_abusive-priests-david-clohessy-survivors-network

(VIDEO) Oregon judge orders Vatican and Benedict XVI to show files in abuse case

2011-04-22T16:26:00.008-04:00

Updated April 26, 2011

Last year, it was the New York Times that shook Benedict XVI and the Vatican and he had no choice but to defend himself and he acted like a spectacle fool especially at St. Peter's Square during Holy Week saying that the New York Times expose of him was Cheap Gossip, Cardinal Sodano second the motion him and the papal preacher did the same thing. Read our coverage here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/anti-semitism-card-vatican-defense.html

and

http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-york-times-church-office-failed-to.html

Well this Holy Week this year, it is the Oregon Judge who is shaking and ordering Benedict XVI to reveal those secret files at the Vatican archives about a man who was sexually abused by a priest. We shall see how foolish will be his response this time during Holy Week.

Read our related articles:

The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable

Benedict XVI slaps faces of victims by sending Cardinal Regali as his envoy to the Czech Republic…while 37 Philadelphia rapists-priests are active http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/04/benedict-xvi-slaps-faces-of-victims-by.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. The Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and therefore is the group most responsible for the cover-up of the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army!

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Press Conference: Unprecedented ruling requires Vatican to answer for clergy abuse cover-up

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At a news conference on Monday in St. Paul, prominent clergy abuse attorneys Jeff Anderson and Mike Finnegan, along with constitutional law scholar and attorney Marci Hamilton, will provide analysis and background around a groundbreaking order and opinion issued on Thursday in John V. Doe v. Holy See.

Unprecedented ruling requires Vatican to answer for clergy abuse cover-up in U.S. courtroomST. PAUL (MN)
Jeff Anderson & Associates

What: At a news conference on Monday in St. Paul, prominent clergy abuse attorneys Jeff Anderson and Mike Finnegan, along with constitutional law scholar and attorney Marci Hamilton, will provide analysis and background around a groundbreaking order and opinion issued on Thursday in John V. Doe v. Holy See.

The historic order, that a clergy sex abuse case against the Vatican can proceed to discovery of records and documents in the Vatican and eventually the questioning of a high ranking Vatican official, is the latest action forward in the almost decade long case of John V. Doe v. Holy See.

Earlier in the case, the Holy See claimed sovereign immunity from the suit and moved the court to dismiss the case. However, both the Federal District Court and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Holy See’s motion. As a result, the Holy See petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court t hear the case on appeal. The U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition. With Thursday’s ruling, the case now moves to an unprecedented level requiring the Holy See to produce documents and answer plaintiff’s questions.

When: Monday, April 25 at 12 Noon CDT

Where: Jeff Anderson & Associates, 366 Jackson Street, Suite 100, St. Paul, MN

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Vatican Ordered to Release Records for Sex-Abuse CaseOREGON
Courthouse News Service

[court ruling]

By DEE MOORE

PORTLAND, Ore. (CN) - In a rare legal feat, a man who claims to have been sexually abused by a Catholic priest in the 1960s can conduct discovery on the Vatican, a federal judge ruled.

The order compelling the Vatican to produce documents in the 11-year old lawsuit marks an unheard-of step in sex-abuses cases against the Catholic Church. While archdioceses in the United States have been found liable in similar cases, this case boldly seeks to take the matter all the way to Rome, holding the governmental body of the denomination accountable, and not just the North American arm of the vast organization.

The plaintiff, who sued anonymously as John Doe, seeks to hold the church accountable through the Holy See for the abuse he says he suffered at the hands of the Rev. Andrew Ronan who died in 1992.

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Judge orders Vatican to show files in abuse case

OREGON
Bellingham Herald

By NIGEL DUARA - Associated Press

PORTLAND, Ore. A federal judge in Oregon ruled Thursday that the Vatican must respond to certain requests for information from a man who says he was molested by a priest in the 1960s.

The man known in court documents as John V. Doe filed suit eight years ago. He seeks to hold the Vatican liable for the abuse he said he suffered from the Rev. Andrew Ronan, who died in 1992.

U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman ruled that Doe is entitled to limited discovery related to whether the priest was an employee of the Vatican.

The Vatican has denied that it was Ronan's employer, citing the facts it found in files from other related Catholic organizations in the case.

Mosman ruled that Ronan may have been under the control of a U.S. Catholic organization, but said in the order that such a system doesn't preclude Ronan from also being an employee of the Vatican.

Doe's attorney, Jeff Anderson, of St. Paul, Minn., said the order goes further than any previous case by forcing the Vatican to turn over documentation. "It's the first time anyone's laid a glove on them to the extent they had to turn documents over," Anderson said.

In his ruling, Mosman cited "significant factual disputes" as to whether the Holy See had the right to control and fire Ronan, and ruled that Doe is entitled to some limited discovery.

The Vatican will be required to answer written questions within 60 days related to its process of defrocking, its policies regarding sexual abuse and its regulation of priests' conduct, among other requests made by Doe, but Mosman limited all of the discovery to files involving Ronan.

Mosman also granted Doe's request that the Vatican produce documents related to its practices and policies regarding sexual abuse and punishment, removal, relocation and treatment of priests, but again limited them to Ronan's specific case.

Jeffery Lena, an attorney for the Vatican, said the implications of the decision are still unknown.

"As a factual matter, Ronan was not a Holy See employee, and the Holy See was not aware of Ronan's misconduct until after Ronan had abused the plaintiff," Lena said in a statement released to The Associated Press on Thursday night.

He declined to comment further.

The Vatican has argued it wasn't responsible for Ronan or his multiple transfers. Amid allegations of sexual abuse, court documents say, Ronan was transferred from Ireland to Chicago and then to Portland, where Doe said the abuse occurred.

In papers filed last summer, Vatican lawyers said hundreds of documents from Catholic officials showed that U.S. officials of the priest's order "knew of Ronan's propensities and transferred Ronan," but the Holy See "had no prior knowledge regarding Ronan" and no role in moving him.

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The Vatican has been served with court papers stemming from decades-old allegations of sexual abuse against a now-deceased priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf, attorneys for the accuser and the Vatican said Tuesday.

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COURT: Jesuits settle NW abuse claims for $166 million

In one of the largest monetary payouts nationwide in the Roman Catholic Church’s sexual abuse crisis, and the largest one by a religious order, the Jesuit order in the Northwest has agreed to pay $166.1 million to about 500 abuse victims as part of its bankrutpcy settlement.

The settlement between the victims and the order’s Oregon Province, the Northwest chapter of the Jesuits, also asks the order to provide a written apology to the victims and to share documents with them such as their personal medical records.
Many of the abuses happened to Native American or Alaska Native children. Some were living in remote Alaskan villages when they were abused, others on reservations or in Christian boarding schools into which the federal government had forcibly placed them in an attempt to assimilate them into the dominant culture.

Vatican sanctions Belgian bishop who abused nephew

http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/04/21/1980255/judge-orders-vatican-to-show-files.html#ixzz1KHqiH7Tg

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U.S. Federal District Court order is first ever compelling Vatican to produce documents in clergy abuse cover-up case

April 21, 2011

UNITED STATES
Jeff Anderson & Associates

[the court opinion]

(St. Paul, Minnesota USA) For the first time ever, the highest officials of the Catholic Church in Rome are being forced by a U.S. judge to turn over documents about clergy sex abuse and cover ups.

Late today, an Oregon judge ruled that a child sex abuse case against the Vatican can proceed to discovery of records and documents in the Vatican that pertain to a predator priest and his connections to the Vatican.

In his order United States District Judge Michael W. Mosman wrote:“Here, Plaintiff has proffered evidence that tends to show the Holy See knew of Ronan’s propensities and that in some cases, the Holy See exercised direct control over the conduct, placement, and removal of individual priests accused of similar sexual misconduct.”

Jeff Anderson, the attorney for the plaintiff in John V. Doe v. Holy See said today that Judge Mosman’s order is a “historic step in getting to the bottom of the world-wide tragedy of clergy sex abuse of children.”

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Judge: Clergy abuse victim entitled to “jurisdictional discovery” in John V. Doe v. Holy See

http://andersonadvocates.com/Posts/News-or-Event/787/US-Federal-District-Court-order-is-first-ever-compelling-Vatican-to-produce-documents-in-clergy-abuse-cover-up-case.aspx

(St. Paul, Minnesota USA) For the first time ever, the highest officials of the Catholic Church in Rome are being forced by a U.S. judge to turn over documents about clergy sex abuse and cover ups.

Late today, an Oregon judge ruled that a child sex abuse case against the Vatican can proceed to discovery of records and documents in the Vatican that pertain to a predator priest and his connections to the Vatican.

In his order United States District Judge Michael W. Mosman wrote: “Here, Plaintiff has proffered evidence that tends to show the Holy See knew of Ronan’s propensities and that in some cases, the HolySee exercised direct control over the conduct, placement, and removal of individual priests accused of similar sexual misconduct.”

Jeff Anderson, the attorney for the plaintiff in John V. Doe v. Holy See said today that Judge Mosman’s order is a “historic step in getting to the bottom of the world-wide tragedy of clergy sex abuse of children.”

John V. Doe v. Holy See is in the United States District Court for the District of Oregon. Earlier in the case, Holy See claimed sovereign immunity from the suit and moved the court to dismiss the case. However, both the Federal District Court and the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Holy See’s motion. As a result, the Holy See petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case on appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court denied the petition. As a result of the Judge’s order today the case now moves to a new level requiring the Holy See to produce documents and answer plaintiff’s questions.

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Oregon ruling could affect Milwaukee priest abuse case
Court order to Vatican may affect Murphy case

By Annysa Johnson of the Journal Sentinel
April 26, 2011 |(6) Comments

A federal judge in Oregon has ordered the Vatican to produce documents involving a now-dead priest accused of sexually assaulting a boy in the 1960s, a first-of-its kind ruling that could set a precedent for a similar case in Milwaukee.

U.S. District Judge Michael W. Mosman, who issued the narrow decision, said the documents were needed to determine whether Father Andrew Ronan was an employee of the Vatican at the time of the abuse - a key question in deciding whether the court has jurisdiction to hear the case on its merits.

"The Plaintiff has proffered evidence that tends to show the Holy See knew of Ronan's propensities and that, in some cases . . . exercised direct control over . . . priests accused of similar sexual misconduct," Mosman said.

Lawyers for the Oregon victim, identified in court records as John V. Doe, called Thursday's ruling groundbreaking and said it addresses the same issues raised in the Milwaukee case involving the late Father Lawrence Murphy, a serial pedophile believed to have molested hundreds of deaf boys over decades.

"It's huge. That's the very claim we're making in Milwaukee, and it's a door that's never been opened before," said St. Paul, Minn., attorney Jeffrey Anderson.

Whether Mosman can compel the Vatican to produce the records was not clear Monday.

"The relationship between sovereign nations is so much more political than legal," said Lisa Laplante, a visiting professor who teaches international law at Marquette University Law School. "Is the U.S. going to go after the Holy See for not handing over discovery documents? I kind of doubt it.

"It's not like in the U.S., where the government can compel cooperation," she said.

Vatican attorney Jeffrey Lena did not immediately return telephone calls and emails seeking comment. He told The Associated Press that the implications of the decision are not yet known.

"As a factual matter, Ronan was not a Holy See employee, and the Holy See was not aware of Ronan's misconduct until after Ronan had abused the plaintiff," Lena said in a statement.

Mosman gave the Vatican 60 days to answer a series of questions and produce all documents related to Ronan, as well as general documents detailing its policies on such matters as the removal, relocation and treatment of priests.

Mosman rejected the requests for a number of other documents, including those involving priests not named in the case.

"Some of these broad requests appear to be based on little more than a hunch that might yield valuable or embarrassing information about the Holy See and other instances of sexual abuse," he said.

The Vatican maintains that it is protected from prosecution by sovereign immunity. However, U.S. law limits that protection in cases where a foreign entity has a commercial interest or has engaged in a wrongful act.

Mosman said the Holy See has refused to say whether it knew of Ronan's abuse or played a role in his training, education, transfers or removal. It has pointed instead to documents provided by Ronan's order showing that it was his employer. But Mosman ruled that one did not preclude the other - a finding that could be relevant in the Milwaukee case where the Archdiocese of Milwaukee had employed Murphy.

Benedict XVI slaps faces of victims by sending Cardinal Regali as his envoy to the Czech Republic…while 37 Philadelphia rapists-priests are active

2011-04-19T17:21:00.008-04:00

At the height of the Liturgical year of the Holy Week, the Successor of Peter keeps on making a spectacle fool of himself by showing his callousness and cold-heartedness towards the hundreds of thousands of victims of the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army, and now he papal farts at the current victims of the 37 rapists-priests of Philadelphia under the watchful eyes of Cardinal Regali.

During Holy Week last year, Benedict XVI made a spectacle fool of himself at St. Peter’s Square by announcing that it is “Cheap Gossip” what the New York Times was exposing of his personal in the cover-up of pedophile priests. Read our related article here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-york-times-church-office-failed-to.html And now on the eve of the Beatification of John Paul II, he makes a spectacle fool again of himself by appointing Cardinal Regali as his papal envoy to the Czech Republic in June. Isn’t’ there a Beatles song called The Fool on the Hill? That should be Benedict XVI’s theme song, “the fool on the hill, the Vatican hill”.

Benedict XVI is following the exact footsteps of his predecessor John Paul II who proved that he was the greatest autocrat ruler on earth and that his papal powers are absolute and final especially when he elevated the disgraced Cardinal Bernard Law as Archpriest of the St. Mary Major. John Paul II wanted to prove that he was the boss over the laity and after we Bostonians successfully forced Cardinal Law to resign, John Paul II slapped our faces – papal farted at victims -- by promoting Cardinal Law to be the High Priest of the ‘mother of all basilicas in Rome’. John Paul II was obsessed with his legacy as John Paul II the Great and that no Cardinal and no priest must resign under his 27 years papacy. Cardinal Bernard Law confessed in public that he transferred and covered-up 80 pedophiles rapists priests in Boston, he went to do the usual Vatican penance formula of “prayer in a nuns’ monastery” (which Bishop Roger Vangheluwe in Belgium is now doing after he confessed to sodomizing his nephew for 13 years, not one but two nephews read our related article The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html

So in this Holy Week, same as in last year’s Holy Week (read our coverage Anti-Semitism card & the Vatican defense circus for Benedict XVI the guilty despot of 1.2 billion Catholics the people in denial http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/anti-semitism-card-vatican-defense.html), Benedict XVI is making a spectacle fool of himself at the Vatican Hill as he appoints Cardinal Justin Regali of Philadelphia as his special envoy to the Czech Republic considering that Regali has covered-up and is protecting more than 37 active rapists-priests. Cardinal Justin Regali said nothing about them and covered-up his team of pedophiles priests (because of the Seal of the Sacrament of Confession which protects predators and criminals) so it had to take a secular (Benedict XVI’s archenemy is secularism) lay-people (not canon priests lawyers) grand jury in Philadelphia to reveal 37 rapists-priests to the public and force Philadelphia’s Cardinal Justin Regali to suspend 26 priests of them, read our related article Philadelphia’s 37 rapists-priests under Cardinal Justin Regali’s cover-up document: Archdiocese of Philadelphia – Prohibition to Release Information http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/03/philadelphias-37-rapists-priests-under.html. That‘s a lot of priests to suspend in one shot especially in this much-needed Holy Week and Easter services. But priests who are suspended from active ministry are still free to prowl and sodomize innocent children.

The only time rapists-priests can no longer harm children is when they are in jail, a secular jail, not in some monastery or convent or public church where they continue to dress as holy shepherds while in reality they are wolves predators of gullible children. There should also be a Catholic Registry of Pedophiles and Pederasts Priests. The band-aid solution of prayers, medals and kissing crucifixes and bowing to statues and an hour of psychological treatment will not protect children and will not prevent rapists-priests from prowling and sodomizing more children.

Read our related articles

Benedict XVI to 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

No, Benedict XVI, you are not forgiven. No, Archbishop Hart of Australia, your apology is rejected http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/07/no-benedict-xvi-you-are-not-forgiven-no.html

Rome celebrations of Benedict XVI and 15,000 priests who are wizards worse than Harry Potter http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/06/rome-celebrations-of-benedict-xvi-and.html

The « 'reverence' for priests » harbours and perpetuates priest pedophilia. 9 Apostolic Visitors to Ireland to re-enforce (fairy tale) Holy Communion http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/06/reverence-for-priests-harbours-and.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

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

Benedict XVI's endless pathological lies: John Paul II sainthood and "Child abuse won't happen again"...but he could not buy Fr. Maciel's victims http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/01/benedict-xvis-endless-pathological-lies.html

Clericalism: Benedict XVI ask us to "love priests in spite of their weaknesses" -- meaning put priests above the laity and above the law http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/07/baloney-benedict-xvi-you-ask-us-to-love.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

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NATIONAL SURVIVOR ADVOCATES COALITION (NSAC) STATEMENT

PHILADELPHIA (PA)
National Survivor Advocates Coalition

We deplore Pope Benedict’s naming of Cardinal Justin Rigali as his special envoy to a church celebration in the Czech Republic in June.

Is there no shame at the Vatican even in Holy Week?

We apologize to the survivors for the hurt this slap in the face inflicts on them today.

We call upon Catholics in Philadelphia to show their response to this new affront by closing their wallets to the Easter collection.

Honoring a Cardinal who left credibly accused priests in ministry and even when forced by major publicity to remove them withheld their names can’t be the message of Holy Week.

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SNAP responds to the Pope's new appointment for Rigali

April 18, 2011

By Shannon McDonald
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/component/flexicontent/item/17573-snap-responds-to-the-popes-new-appointment-for-rigali&Itemid=23

Pope Benedict has named Philadelphia's Cardinal Justin Rigali as a special envoy to a church celebration in the Czech Repubilc in June. Members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests are crying foul.

Rigali will head to the Czech Republic June 18 for the bicentennial celebration of the birth of St. John Nepomuceno Neumann.

SNAP likens the decision to rubbing salt in wounds. "Vatican officials are either incredibly stupid - and no one believes that – or incredibly callous," reads a statement from SNAP.

The advocacy group says the Pope should have chosen a different cardinal to represent the church, given the current charges against Rigali and says the decision to send him emphasizes the gap between what the Catholic Church says and does regarding child sex abuse cover-ups.

Feed the Feed: Should the Pope send someone else to the Czech Republic?

Comments

# Laws need to change — Judy Block-Jones 2011-04-18 14:42
This pontifical act by the pope makes it clear that the better you are at keeping their predator priests moved around and/or kept in parishes and have access to children, the more you cover up their horrible sex crimes against kids, the more you ignore the laws of the land, and the more you are able to continue to get away with it, AND especially if you are able to keep doing this without getting yourself in jail..
YOU get promoted, honored, and given to luxurious life styles, by the POPE..

Can anybody understand HOW this is allowed to continue to happen? Can anyone see what the heck is wrong with this picture? Can anyone see that it is time to change the archaic statute of limitations for sex crimes, so that these enablers can be put behind bars? THEN and only THEN will the pope not be able to continue to give these church officials honors... Even the pope would have a hard time getting him out of jail.

Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Associate Director, 636-433-2511
snapjudygmail.com
"Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests"
http://www.snapnetwork.org/

# Rigali - Regale - Regalia — SKIADVOCAT 2011-04-18 14:45
What an outrage! Let's honor and/or recognize the leader of one of the largest Catholic archdioceses in the United States whose leadership has been the target of three Grand Jury Investigations by the District Attorney of the City of Philadelphia. Hollywood could never write this script; only Satan can be responsible for such evil, hypocrisy, hubris and deceit.

And, even as we struggle with this insult to the victims of clergy sexual abuse and their families, the Philadelphia Catholic faithful are greeted with yet another arrest of an employee in the Archdiocesan high school system. This coach/athletic director at Archbishop Carroll H.S. in Radnor, PA has been charged by the Montgomery County D.A.’s office with Unlawful Contact or Communication with a Minor, Promoting Prostitution, Corruption of Minors, Attempted Corruption of Minors, and related offenses.

According to Montgomery County D.A. Risa Vetri Ferman, “The coach suggested he could be this boy’s ‘sugar daddy.’”

With such immediate concerns re the safety and protection of the children in our archdiocese, one would think that Cardinal Rigali should remain here, meet with the faithful, and tell parishioners specifically what is being done to protect our young Catholics. We all know that such an action will not happen; what will happen is that Cardinal Rigali will travel as a special envoy to the Czech Republic this June. At the Czech church celebration, Cardinal Rigali will regale all in his regalia !

# Who else could go? — Thatgirl122 2011-04-18 15:09
I understand that the pope would consider it logical to send the current archbishop cardinal of Philadelphia to the celebration of the first bishop of the archdiocese. But the move comes across as completely tone-deaf and disrespectful in an atmosphere where that very archdiocese is under fire for a tradition of abuse by the ordained and hierarchy against vulnerable children and their faithful families.

John Neumann had ties to Baltimore, New York and Pittsburgh during his ministry in the USA as well as to Philadelphia. Maybe the pope could have sent someone from those areas rather than Rigali who is in the legal and media hot seat.

On the other hand, from what I have seen of at least 20 years of unfolding scandals for the Roman Catholic Church, the only likely difference between sending Rigali from Philly or Zubik from Pittsburgh is whether or not a Grand Jury has been empaneled yet.

Sending Rigali under current circumstances, would certainly besmirch the reputation of the very man the Czechs are trying to celebrate. Is that any way to honor a saint? By sending a representative who is using every imaginable legal and psych-ops tactic to systematically hide, transfer and cover up for rapists of children?

# If it looks like a duck... — Anne Costa 2011-04-18 15:24
Here we go again with the same denial,hubris and lack of integrity on display for all the world to see. With the appointment of Cardinal Rigali as Special envoy we see again the massive discoonect of the Church heirarchy with the virtues of Truth and righteousness. Why would we expect anything different?? True repentance requires contrition, humility and a desire to avoid future sin. Church leadership is coming up short on all three.

# The Pope is clueless — softran 2011-04-18 16:34
Is Pope Benedict the victim of poor staff work? Haven't his advisors briefed him on the extraordinarily serious clergy sex-abuse situation in Philadelphia?

This appointment of Cardinal Rigali as a special envoy is more than surprising. It's shocking and very, very stupid.

# What are the Pope and Vatican hierarchy smoking? — Jeb Barrett 2011-04-18 17:05
I do hope the willful and reckless disregard for the mental, physical and spiritual pain, and the welfare of children and also vulnerable adults will be embraced, believed and acted upon by those who call themselves Catholics or Christians of any variety. All people of any kind of faith, belief or trust in a transcendent power should be screaming "No, not another one! Don't you realize what this guy has done? Wake up, sleepers, feel the shame you are supposed to feel and stop honoring those responsible for continuing and criminal cover-up of sexual assault by priests, deacons, nuns, teachers, coaches, etc. working for and representing the once Holy Catholic Church." I can't imagine what drug makes it possible to live with such unquestionable guilt, but it must be strong. Whatever it is, someone needs to pull the plug on it, cut off the supply, so we can see some honestly, integrity and accountability. I am horrified by the appointment of Rigali to any kind of function, and totally outraged by the scheduled beatification of John Paul on May 1st. This man did as much harm as any pedophile in not investigating, covering up, not removing from priesthood and not reporting sexual abuse by his clergy to civil authorities. The RCC should be truly ashamed of ignoring these men's records.

# When will they begin to understand that human beings were affected by these men — nurse 2011-04-18 17:09
The appointment of this "Cardinal" Rigali as a special envoy only brings up more of the same old horrors that the catholic (?) church and its band of disconnected protected old men continue to display to the world. This pope is so insulated from the world as it really is that it is pathetic. As a victim of these "men of God" I am shocked, saddened and of course not surprised. They will never learn. Why should they have to change when they have the third world countries to believe in them.

Yes "Cardinal" Rigali is "special" He was deemed special when he abused these children, he was deemed special when he ran home to Il Papa so Il Papa would protect him. When will this band of old men really address the issues and stop rewarding these men for the atrocities done to children.

It IS time to remove the statute of limitations on child/teen sexual abuse by the clergy and by anyone. The mere fact that children/teens have no legal ability to assent to sexual behavior with an adult should repulse and repel any other adult in authority. There is a shortage of priests now and without a doubt will be more of a shortage in the future as who, in their right mind, would want to be part of this fraternity of insulated, cruel, and massively disconnected to the world group?

# Their 'special" club — PaddyM 2011-04-18 17:33
Why do these "men" protect each other? Is it a rite of passage to have"sex"with young boys? Why can't the Pontif step up and police the ranks?

# Child Abuse — johndt 2011-04-18 17:50
In all dysfunctional families with child abuse parents deny all abuse and use their might to get their own way. Here you have galloping spiritual pride coupled with malignant self love.

# Cardinal Rigali at the bicentennial of St. John Neumann — mporiordan 2011-04-18 23:27
At the bicentennial of St. John Neumann we recall what Pope Paul VI said in his homily at Bishop Neumann's canonization in 1977: "John Neumann’s pastoral zeal was manifested in many ways. . . . He helped children to satisfy their need for truth, their need for Christian doctrine, for the teaching of Jesus in their lives. He did this both by catechetical instruction and by promoting, with relentless energy, the Catholic school system in the United States. . . .

And who can fail to admire all the loving concern that John Neumann showed for God’s people, through his priestly ministry and his pastoral visitations as a Bishop? He deeply loved the Sacrament of Reconciliation: and like a worthy son of Saint Alphonsus he transmitted the pardon and the healing power of the Redeemer into the lives of innumerable sons and daughters of the Church. He was close to the sick; he was at home with the poor; he was a friend to sinners. And today he is the honor of all immigrants, and from the viewpoint of the Beatitudes the symbol of Christian success." http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/homilies/1977/documents/hf_p-vi_hom_19770619_en.html May God, at his intercession, send us leaders worthy of him.

# THE ARCHDIOCESE OF PHILADELPHIA — Maureen Turlish 2011-04-19 07:24
In February, 2011 a second Grand Jury Report on the Archdiocese of Philadelphia was released and it shows just how little has actually been done by the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, AKA Cardinal Justin Rigali, regarding known sexual predators - rogue priests.

FIVE ARRESTS WERE MADE AS A RESULT OF THAT RELEASE.

Msgr. William Lynn for the ENDANGERMENT OF CHILDREN,

TWO OTHER PRIESTS INCLUDING BRENNAN AND ENGALHARDT OSFS, ONE DEFROCKED PRIEST, AVERY AND ONE LAY TEACHER, SHERO.

Then Justin uses LEGALEZE to say that there are no "admitted, etc.," sexual predators in ministry.

Then Justin removes twenty, more or less, priests from ministry. He doesn't publicly name them or say in what parishes they are.

Then, a little later on, he romoves three more. Still no names.

BUT THEY ARE ALL ALLOWED TO WALK AROUND IN THEIR CLERICALS AND SO PASS THEMSELVES OFF AS "GOOD PRIESTS."

Then, with the Archdiocese of Philadelphia going absolutely down the tubes and the most sacred week of the liturgical years begins -

Instead of being removed as Philadelphia's cardinal archbishop for WHAT HE HAS DONE AND WHAT HE HAS FAILED TO DO since the release of the 2005 Philadelphia Grand Jury Report -

and to say NOTHING about the 2011 Philadelphia Grand Jury Report -

Pope Benedict XVI has chosen Justin Rigali as his special envoy to the bicentennial celebration of the birth of St. John Neumann being held in the Czech Republic in June.

What chutzpah!

Sister Maureen Paul Turlish
Victims' Advocate
maturlishmdsnd@ yahoo.com

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US bishops to discuss Philadelphia abuse scandal

PHILADELPHIA (PA)
Catholic Culture
April 20, 2011

When the US bishops meet in June, they will discuss “whether there was some sort of the breakdown of the system” in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, according to Bishop Blase Cupich of Spokane, chairman of the bishops’ Committee for the Protection of Children and Young People.

Cardinal Justin Rigali has placed 26 priests on leave following the release of a February grand jury report that found that dozens of priests credibly accused of the abuse of minors remained in ministry.

Letter to Benedict XVI: STOP the beatification of John Paul II. Letter from a survivor - with the courage and stance of Martin Luther

2011-04-15T17:00:00.003-04:00

This letter was written by a Florida city commissioner and a survivor of clergy sexual abuse and he is writing a book entitled,
"Wear a Collar, Rape a Child: Surviving Centuries of Sin Committed by Mother Church Demanding There Be No Sainthood for Pope John Paul II,"

Kudos to you!

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Guest Column: Clergy sex abuse survivor says no sainthood for Pope John Paul
II

FLORIDA
North Florida Herald
http://northfloridaherald.com/news/religion/article_759a4646-670b-11e0-993c-001cc4c03286.html

By Robert Wilford

North Florida Herald

Robert Wilford is an Alachua city commissioner and a survivor of clergy sexual abuse. This is his letter to the current Pope.

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Most Holy Father:

"Here stand I. I can do no other. So help me God!"

These courageous words proclaimed at the Diet of Worms in 1521 are attributed to Martin Luther when he was directed by this church's legislative body to deny or defend his teachings or suffer the consequences of excommunication as a heretic from the Roman Catholic Church.

I, too, must take Martin Luther's stance and challenge your inexplicable actions in seeking to have Pope John Paul II canonized as one of the church's saints.

John Paul's dastardly behavior, in not addressing the clergy sexual abuse issue confronting his church while he was the leader of the world's Catholics, disqualifies him from this exalted position.

Herefore, it is blasphemy to the Nth degree on your part as the current leader of Catholicism to propose canonization for this unworthy pope.

Saints do not shirk their responsibility in doing what is right no matter the consequences.

John Paul FAILED MISERABLY in performing up to the level of a saint by protecting sexual predators while ignoring the needs of victims of the heinous crimes committed by priests.

A saint should have courage to say: "We, the popes, cardinals, bishops, and priests of the Roman Catholic Church have been grievously and sinfully wrong since the very beginning of the church's history in protecting predator priests at the expense of the victims of clergy sexual abuse.

"Humbly, in the sight of God, we openly admit our culpability and, in professing our shame, ask for forgiveness from our Creator and all humanity for the unspeakable sins we have committed throughout our history as a church against victimized children and their families."

John Paul FAILED MISERABLY for not cleansing his church from its centuries of sin committed against humankind!

As a survivor of four years of clergy sexual abuse in the early 1960s and author of a book, not yet published, entitled, "Wear a Collar, Rape a Child: Surviving Centuries of Sin Committed by Mother Church Demanding There Be No Sainthood for Pope John Paul II," I conclude that Pope John Paul had at least three opportunities during his tenure to do what was ethically, morally, and pastorally right in addressing the clergy sexual abuse crisis confronting the Roman Catholic Church.

The first opportunity for John Paul to cleanse his church presented itself in America in the mid 1980s with the revelation of a clergy sexual abuse crisis in Louisiana. There is no doubt in my mind that John Paul should have seized this opportunity to speak to the world's Catholics and tell them that the Vatican would be forever proactive in ridding the church of pedophiliac (victims normally under the age of 12) and ephebophiliac (victims normally between the ages of 12 and 17) priests through laicization, and that the children are indeed precious in the sight of Jesus.

John Paul was SHAMEFULLY silent! He FAILED MISERABLY in not seizing the day for justice for victims of clergy sexual abuse and for Catholicism itself!

A second opportunity presented itself in the 1990s highlighted primarily by the Massachusetts clergy sexual abuse scandal of deceit and cover-up under the unconscionable leadership of Cardinal Law of the Archdiocese of Boston.

Instead of taking the ethical, moral and pastoral high ground in exercising the Vatican's God-given responsibility to protect the church's children from being sodomized by priests, John Paul was despicable in his actions by condoning the criminal acts that were committed by Cardinal Law of which I am sure the pope knew had been ongoing for at least a decade.

He unthinkably continued to put the needs of Cardinal Law, the church's bishops, and even sexually abusive priests, above those of victims of clergy sexual abuse.

John Paul stayed SHAMEFULLY silent! He FAILED MISERABLY in not seizing the day for justice for victims of clergy sexual abuse and for Catholicism itself!

Armed with a third opportunity in 2002 to heal his church, John Paul instead refused to admit that the magnitude of the clergy sexual abuse dilemma confronting Catholicism was invoking a worldwide crisis, and it was not just an American phenomenon.

Thousands of reports of clergy sexual abuse and billions of dollars in settlements had been made, and John Paul still failed to lead his church out of chaos.

John Paul remained SHAMEFULLY silent! He FAILED MISERABLY in not seizing the day for justice for victims of clergy sexual abuse and for Catholicism itself!

In 1993, I reported the priest who sexually abused me to the Diocese of Birmingham, the Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, several American bishops, America's cardinals, and to Pope John Paul II himself.

During a 2-year battle in attempting to have this ephebophile removed from the priesthood, I was ignored by the leaders of my church, and this priest remained in ministry at the Chancery in Birmingham.

Then, in 2002, only after I challenged this abusive priest's ministry once again and, after my story was printed in The Decatur Daily (Alabama) and several other victims of this priest came forward as a result of my revelation, he was finally forced into retirement in June 2002.

This wayward priest died in 2010.

I urge you to reconsider your proposal in having Pope John Paul II canonized as one of the church's saints. You are doing an unspeakable disservice to Catholicism in proposing John Paul receive status as a saint.

Will you have the ethical, moral, and pastoral courage to do what is right? I pray that you will.

Sincerely,

Robert W. Wilford

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Comment:

This letter to Pope Benedict XVI was also forwarded to twenty American cardinals and a number of American Bishops including Bishop Galeone, Diocese of St. Augustine, and Bishop Kinney, Diocese of St. Cloud, Minnesota, who was the former chair of the Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Abuse for the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops back in 1993. ...just thought your readers would like to know this information

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Why John Paul II is Opus Dei's Patron Saint: analysis of conference at Holy Cross Pontifical University in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.html

Opus Dei's USA mouthpiece Bill Donohue is paid $400,000 to belittle the New York Times and anyone against Opus Dei World Domination Agenda

2011-04-11T16:47:00.012-04:00

This is what the trillion dollars Vatican Opus Dei Bank can buy -- lots of wasted millions of dollars to knock down anyone seeking justice in the Catholic Church because the Opus Dei goal is absolute control and absolute obedience from Catholics in the guise of "holiness". John L. Allen Jr is the highest paid journalist and his millions are safely stashed in the Vatican Swiss Banks in the Alps. Read our related articles below but here is the 26 million dollars Catholic League Opus Dei asset in the USA alone -- for Phil Donahue to rattle some condemnations -- to the New York Times and others every now and then.

Read our related article "No mandate from the Times"... oh really, why don't you tell that to the Boston Globe who ousted Cardinal Bernard Law in Boston http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/01/no-mandate-from-times-oh-really-why.html

John L. Allen Jr praise for Catholic Church Sexual Abuse in Ireland http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-l-allen-jr-praise-for-catholic.html

Prayer to John Paul II: the saint of pedophiles and pederasts, rapists and abusers of children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/prayer-to-john-paul-ii-saint-of.html

Why John Paul II is Opus Dei's Patron Saint: analysis of conference at Holy Cross Pontifical University in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.html

Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/holy-heist-john-paul-ii-wyd-had-no-role.html

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Why Donohue’s $400,000 salary is a public scandal

Posted on December 21st, 2010 by James
in

- Bill Donohue
- Catholic League
- finances
This week, Catholics United released some shocking information about the finances of the Catholic League (CL) and its president, Bill Donohue. Although the numbers speak for themselves, some may wonder why it’s important. Here’s the information that we released to the media:

$399,196 – Bill Donohue's total salary and benefits package in 2009.
$26,200,000 – The Catholic League's total cash and assets.
$943,516 – The amount of money the CL pocketed after expenses in 2009.
$1,350,000 - The amount of money the CL pocketed after expenses in 2008.
$203,727 – CL vice president Bernadette Brady's total salary and benefits package.
$335,914 – The annual rent on the CL’s Manhattan high-rise office.
$57,826 – The CL’s office supply expenses in 2009.

For anyone familiar with the non-profit sector, these numbers are astonishing. The Catholic League's "non-profit" work involves little more than sending out inflammatory press releases and conducting PR stunts in the name of defending Catholicism. And this is ironic because Bill Donohue's work "defending Catholicism" and his frequent appearances in the media make little mention of core principles of Catholic social teaching, such as solidarity and the preferential option for the poor.

Bill Donohue has literally gotten rich by cashing in on neglecting the poor.

One of the defining virtues of the Catholic faith is its strong emphasis on direct service. Catholics run food pantries, homeless shelters, medical clinics and orphanages across the country. We do so because we take Jesus Christ’s teaching to love our neighbor seriously. Because of this mission-focused work, Catholics know the value of a dollar and how to stretch it so that it has the biggest effect. And that’s why the finances of the Catholic League are so shocking. These numbers reveal that Donohue is a rich New Yorker who is out of touch with the reality of millions of his fellow Catholics who work and live with poverty.

Donohue doesn’t talk about the need for comprehensive immigration reform or the effects of poverty on families because it doesn’t make for good TV - and that's bad for business. This helps to illustrate why there is a crisis in American Catholicism. Young Catholics are abandoning their faith in droves because they are tired of people like Bill Donohue and his fabricated culture war. Young Catholics don’t want a faith defined by Bill Donohue’s divisive politics. Young Catholics want a faith that reminds us that life is about something greater than ourselves.

Comments

Bill Donohue The Overpaid Political Shill
Posted on January 1st, 2011 by Jane Yavis

Once I was able to realize the motives of Bill Donohue and identiry a political pattern that started late in the 1990's - my choice to read his poitically motivated feedbacks was to re-confirm my every fear. Mr. Donohue was the man what he referred to as the "Anti-Catholic" Media that was chosen to speak for the church,,,, and then I realized,,,, Yes Only an anti-catholic Media would choose him to speak for the church. I firmly believe the actions of Bill Donohue, his defense and friendships with the many "Evangelical" politicians who have converted (Deal Hudson for just one) and the way our Church is being dragged into Political Issues in the name of Religion will be the death of our church. Standing arm in arm with any politician, a single spot on a political stage can sell us doen the river forever.

On several occasions, I notified the Catholic League of outright anti-Catholicism,,,starting with the Don Imus mimick of our Cardinal,,,, then the mimick of our church and its teachings - (All was OK if it ended with an attack against either Hillary Clinton or Nanc Pelosi.

MY greatest and continuing outrage and something that EXPOSED the Catholic League for exactly what it is was the Outright Public Support of Rick Santorum and President Bush had when they fund-raised, ensorsed, supported and came to Philadelphia during the 2004 Republican Primary to stump for the LOOSING in the Polls CHOICE Specter, over the then WINNING in the Polls LIFE Toomey. There was not so much as a peep regarding that action from any member of the Catholic League,,,, or for that matter any Politically connected Church Spokesperson,,,,,, and that "Code of Silence" has never been broken. His feedbacks are political in nature, and the poor sick sould has devended Dr.Laura AND mel Gibson (at least three times for Mel)-- This is the best the Church has??

Bill Donohue represents everything the church does not stand for,,,, he is arrogant,,, a name caller,,, literally stalks those he feels is unworthy of Communion, Threatens Muslims, calls Nuns "Lady and dame", refers to a pedophile as a homosezual,,,,call for boycotts in order to have Customers greeted in a manner proper to an Angry Bully,,, AND actuall SOLD MOTHER TERESA "T" Shirts for a Protest Rally attended by Evangelical Politicians whil CATHOLICS were with the Biship praying.

On several occasions I ask out loud for the leaders of other evangelical denominations t o speak agains those claiming to represent their denomination..... WHere is the leadership of our Church. Donohue has accepted himself as the spokesperson for the Church and the Pope,,,, and no one seems to have the courage to say it isn't so.

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The Spinmeister

UNITED STATES
National Survivor Advocates Coalition
http://mnsnap.wordpress.com/vinnie/

By Vinnie Nauheimer

One of the sad truths that history teaches us is that hand in hand with a great evil comes the great spinmeister. Whether the Minister of Propaganda is drawn into the vortex of evil or is intrinsically evil himself can be debated like the chicken and the egg. The answer is irrelevant, but the fact that they feed the evil and are responsible for the perpetuation of evil will always be relevant.

The twentieth century has given us two extraordinary spinmeisters: Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, and Squealer the Pig in George Orwell’s Classic book “Animal Farm.” The first part of the twenty-first century has given us, in my opinion, another: William Donohue, the president of the Catholic League.

Mr. Donohue recently published a brilliant PR piece in the form of a paid advertisement in the NY Times. This is right out of Goebbels’ playbook, “Goebbels’ Principles of Propaganda” Number 6: “To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.” thus the paid advertisement in the NY Times. Subterfuge, distortions, omissions and denial were intricately woven to portray the church as the object victim in what is now considered the Global Clergy Abuse Scandal. Such a fine piece of work cannot and should not go unnoticed. Mr. Donohue is indeed a master manipulator of language.

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda, knew the importance of a scapegoat. Hitler is reported to have said of Goebbels that his success was due to both his mastery of language and intellect. Mr. Donohue has both these qualities as does Squealer in Animal Farm. Goebbels chose for his scapegoat the Jews and subsequently through the force of language and sheer intellect, led an entire nation to believe that the source of their problems were the Jews. Although Donohue mentions the clergy abuse problem among Rabbis, he was careful not to go too far for fear of being branded anti-Semitic.

Goebblel’s eighteenth dictum in his principles of propaganda is as follows: “Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.” The scapegoat selected by Donohue is none other than the pariah of the Catholic Church, Homosexuals! Notice how the clever Donohue never uses the words homosexual priests together in the entire length of his essay! (see dictum 18 above) Notice how deftly Donohue omits the preposterous presumption that there would ever be homosexual priests in an organization that considers homosexual acts to be depraved. (http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2004/ 0407sbs.asp ) Blame without an in depth examination is the trademark of a great spin doctor. Throw it out, let it stick to the wall and then move on. Donohue defines the clergy abuse scandal as a homosexual problem. The beauty of ignoring the relevance of homosexual priests is that it avoids embarrassing questions such as: Why does a church so profoundly anti-gay ordain so many gay priests?, Why upon discovering the homosexual acts with minors, did it actively protect these priests and what do theses actions say about the sexuality of the hierarchy? Donohue believes he has found his true calling. He is single handedly shielding his church from the homosexual horde that seeks to undermine his church and those that promote them.

Consider the outlandish proposition that the victims are not children! In this case Mr. Donohue makes a blanket statement that would make both Goebbels and Squealer turn green with envy. “let’s get it straight—they weren’t children and they weren’t raped” This statement is made with authority. It is confusing and meant to confuse, which was the hallmark of Squealer. The spinmeister speaks as if he is the first and last word on what constitutes a child; speaking from authority is a benchmark of a great spin doctor. Without saying what they were, he implies that the abused weren’t children. Notice how the propaganda leaves out ages. The readers say to themselves well if they weren’t children, they must have been older. Does older mean its okay? Does it make a difference if a child was ten, thirteen or fifteen when they were assaulted by their priest? Though the former may be termed a child and the latter an adolescent among those who utilize psychobabble (Spinmeisters) to make the act more palatable to their audience, does the rape, sodomization or molestation make the crime any less heinous? A good propagandist knows it does and employs the tactic every chance they get.

Goebbels seventh law part d.: states that the propaganda must be boomerang proof. Donohue does a masterful job of omitting young girls from the equation by insisting the clergy abuse scandal is all about homosexuality. By minimizing the number and nature of crimes against female minors he makes his argument about homosexuals boomerang proof. Quoting numbers such as over 80% of the abuse cases were of a homosexual nature he sets the parameters of clergy abuse. Once this is ingrained in the readers head, they will completely ignore the fact that the Vatican itself states that worldwide 30% of the cases of sexual abuse by priests is of a heterosexual nature and 10% is other. Donohue skips by this so fast that one never has the time to ponder either what the 10% other is or the fact that thirty percent plus ten percent equals forty percent so it is mathematically impossible to have over 80% of the sexual abuse be of a homosexual nature. Like Squealer and Goebbels, he knows that if he is ever called on it in the future, he can say he included the numbers, but in true fashion, he expects no one to call him on his numbers and if somebody did, he would dismiss them with the wave of a hand.

Who could possibly deny the brilliance of framing his argument as a dalliance among priests? A mere touch, a palpable touch nevertheless. “Minimization of the act” is the operative mandate. The acts of raping, sodomizing and molesting minors are considered felony crimes in most countries, Donohue never goes there. He avoids the criminal aspect like the plague for it would not do well to have anyone associate the Catholic Church with criminal activity or see the words criminal priest in a sentence. Like Squealer, Donohue utilizes his command of language to justify the unjustifiable acts of priests who abused children and the hierarchy who covered up these acts. He has the traits of a lap dog and a pit bull: blind allegiance to his church and the tenacity to never let go. Bringing in teachers and other organizations says to the public: yes, we have a few problems, but there are other groups such as the schools, other religions, etc that have problems too. “Its not only our problem” is another minimization tactic that is hard to rebuff. To his credit, Donohue cleverly avoids the global scale of Roman Catholic Clergy Abuse because it serves no purpose to let people know that there are credibly abused priests in over thirty countries around the world. Schools aren’t global and don’t move priests, bishops and cardinals around the world at will so Donohue localizes the issue to minimize it.

One cannot overrate the need for minimization of clergy abuse. A church that professes to be the one true church, whose priests are chosen by God, whose pope is the spiritual descendant of Christ and whose stated mission is to speak for the poor and vulnerable simply cannot either be associated with or guilty of sexual abuse. Donohue knows this and it is in this framework he tirelessly expends his energy.

In the neighborhood where I grew up, we had an expression when someone was trying to con us. It was, “Stop pulling my chain!” In the spirit of that expression, I nominate William Donohue for the “Pull It Sir Award.” for his first rate propaganda. This BOOH is for you!

Opus Dei Pope Benedict XVI promoter of false Saint John Paul II = the antiChrist is the promoter of the falseChrist

2011-04-08T17:06:00.009-04:00

There is no question that Ratzinger is an Opus Dei man. He even made sure that the canonization of Escrivá would be considered an infallible papal act. Soon after his election, on September 14, 2005, he "enthroned", with an official blessing ceremony, Escriva's statue in the Vatican.

Cardinal Ratzinger said, “I am personally convinced that the constant presence in the press of the sins of Catholic priests, especially in the United States, is a planned campaign, as the percentage of these offenses among priests is not higher than in other categories, and perhaps it is even lower. … Less than 1% of priests are guilty of acts of this type. … Therefore, one comes to the conclusion that it is intentional, manipulated, that there is a desire to discredit the Church.” (Zenit News Agency, “Cardinal Ratzinger Sees a Media Campaign Against Church,” December 3, 2002, http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=28487, printed 09/06/05.

Read our related articles in our sister weblog the John Paul II MIllstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/:

Prayer to John Paul II: the saint of pedophiles and pederasts, rapists and abusers of children

http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/prayer-to-john-paul-ii-saint-of.html

Please sign your names to protest the beatification of John Paul II here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/03/faces-of-rapists-priests-from-father.html

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The M+G+R Foundation

The Manifestation of the AntiChrist

BACKGROUND

As you may already know from our writings, there will be an AntiChrist and a FalseChrist (0). In the Book of Revelations, somehow, they were melded into one by name but not by description and/or function. That melding of manifestations under one name was not a "Priory of Sion type of conspiracy"; that information was not supposed to be known and understood until now [Daniel 12:9]. Nonetheless, Mary slightly lifted the corner of the veil in La Salette (1) about the difference between the AntiChrist and the FalseChrist:

"The seasons will be altered, the earth will produce nothing but bad fruit, the stars will lose their regular motion, the moon will only reflect a faint reddish glow. Water and fire will give the earth's globe convulsions and terrible earthquakes which will swallow up mountains, cities.... Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.

"The Church will be in eclipse, the world will be in dismay. But now Enoch and Eli will come, filled with the spirit of God. They will preach with the might of God, and men of good will will believe in God, and many souls will be comforted. They will make great steps forward through the virtue of the Holy Spirit and will condemn the devilish lapses of the Antichrist.

Woe to the inhabitants of the earth! There will be bloody wars and famines, plagues and infectious diseases.... There will be thunderstorms which will shake cities, earthquakes which will swallow up countries. Voices will be heard in the air. Men will beat their heads against walls, call for their death, and on another side death will be their torment. Blood will flow on all sides. Who will be the victor if God does not shorten the length of the test? All the blood, the tears and the prayers of the righteous, God will relent. Enoch and Eli will be put to death. Pagan Rome will disappear. The fire of Heaven will fall and consume three cities. All the universe will be struck with terror and many will let themselves be led astray because they have not worshipped the true Christ who lives among them. It is time; the sun is darkening; only faith will survive. (1)

In addition, if you carefully review Chapter 13 of the Book of Revelations you may begin to discern its true meaning for the End of These Times; however, keep in mind what we have discussed about Biblical Literalism and Symbolism (2) (3) before trying to force-fit the pieces.

DETAILS

On May 28th, 2006, Joseph Ratzinger, also known as Benedict XVI, stated the following at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau: (4)

"In a place like this, words fail. In the end, there can only be a dread silence, a silence which is a heartfelt cry to God -- Why, Lord, did you remain silent? How could you tolerate all this?"

"Where was God in those days? Why was he silent? How could he permit this endless slaughter, this triumph of evil?"

Had these questions been posed by anyone else besides a Roman Catholic - most specifically, by the Supreme Leader of the Roman Catholic Church Administration - they would have been reasonable. Ratzinger's quotations from Psalm 44 would have also been reasonable if used by anyone else - but NOT by the one who claims to be the Pope of the Roman Catholics, who calls himself the Successor of Peter, and who presumes to be "Christ on Earth".

How dare he blaspheme against God before the whole world, using as a backdrop the holocaust the Roman Church Administrators allowed?

Since 1846 (1) God has been trying to get the leaders of the Church He founded to heed Him, lest horrors upon horrors would befall humanity. Those whom Ratzinger claims to be his predecessors failed miserably. God then tried again, starting in 1917 in Fátima, and gave the Church Administrators (5) ample time (6) and awesome signs to prevent the preventable - World War II. Once again, God was ignored, (7) yet Ratzinger dares to ask "Where was God"? (8)

We shall tell him in His Holy Name. God was in the same place He will be when He allows the Passion, Crucifixion and Death of the Mystical Body of Christ, the Church. (9)

God, in the Person of the Father, placed man in charge of His Creation; God, in the Person of Jesus, came to explain why the world was not functioning in the manner He intended and to establish an organization that would assist His people in coming back to Him as the prodigal son did (10); God, in the Person of the Holy Spirit was sent to help us along the way.

Those who Ratzinger claims as his predecessors made a business of the Word of God (11) and have literally pushed mankind to the edge of the abyss. Thus, God, left with no other option, will allow the Passion, Crucifixion and Death of the Mystical Body of Christ to take place, so that it may then Resurrect and be Pure and Holy (9) as He intended it to be.

Ratzinger's blasphemous words constitute the last straw that God needed to fulfill the Pronouncement miguel de Portugal delivered (12) , in God's Holy Name, upon The Vatican at mid morning of December 31, 2000, while standing in St. Peter's Square.

May God have Mercy (13) on the innocent who, deceived by wolves dressed as sheep, (14) continue their march to the slaughterhouse. To them we say - Take refuge in the fundamentals of the Catholic Faith - it is not the Catholic Faith that is at fault (15) . It has been the Administrators of that Faith (16) who have become the representation of what John the Evangelist clearly warned us against in Chapter 17 of the Book of Revelations and now is being manifested, just as announced in Chapter 13 of said Book.

The Roman Catholic Church Administrators have been amply warned (17) . The words of Matthew 24: 15-22 say it all.

It is ironic that 66 years ago (18) , on May 28, after eighteen days of ceaseless German bombardment, Belgium surrendered unconditionally to the Nazis. This is the same Belgium which a united Europe chose years later as its headquarters, after the continent rose from the ruin that the malfesance of the Roman Catholic Church Administration had visited upon it. Should we be surprised that the Fathers of the European Union did not want to mention the Christian heritage of Europe in its Constitution? With the well-known record (19) of such heritage, they politely prefer to forget about it.

Who else but the antiChrist himself - the precursor of the falseChrist (20) - would dare to raise his voice with words of reproach to the True and Living God? It is just a matter of fulfilling pending prophecies (21) .

EPILOGUE

For those who like to look into number symbolism and to break ancient codes, we shall share the following apparent coincidences as a matter of curiosity.

Note: The existence of these apparent coincidences is NOT the reason why we now announce that Ratzinger has assumed the position of the antiChrist.

1. It appears that the number of the beast - the antiChrist - is 616 and not 666. The Papyrus 115 of the Oxyrhynchus Collection (22a) (part of an ancient manuscript of the Book of Revelations kept in Oxford) indicates this. (22b)

2. Ratzinger assumed the name Benedict XVI (16).

3. The first Benedict, Benedict I (1) occupied the Throne of Peter in the 6th Century (575-579) - 6th Century = 600. 600 + 16= 616

4. After Benedict XV (15), there have been six real Popes - Pius XI, Pius XII, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I and John Paul II - then Ratzinger. That is: Six (6), and then Sixteen (16) = 616

5. The antiChrist is the promoter of the falseChrist and there is no question that Ratzinger is an Opus Dei man. He even made sure that the canonization of Escrivá would be considered an infallible papal act. Soon after his election, on September 14, 2005, he "enthroned", with an official blessing ceremony, Escriva's statue in the Vatican. (23)

6. Benedict - Benedictus means "Blessed One" - "Anointed One"

We are sure that there are many, many other symbolic connections but we do not need them to have the necessary confirmation:

The man who claims to be the representative of Christ on Earth -- the man who, for all practical purposes, the Faithful believe to be the "living Christ" -- has raised his voice and reproached Almighty God for what occurred due to the blatant disobedience of past popes. Anyone who may need more proof than this must then suffer what awaits them as the one last effort by God to have their Eyes and Ears (24) opened.

Who dares to raise his voice to God with reproaches if not satan himself?

Who is like unto God?

This is the battle cry of Michael the Archangel which we must, and will, echo until the End.

NOTES_____________________________________

(0) The FalseChrist
(1) The Message of Lasalette 1846
(2) Biblical Literalism and Symbolism - Part I
(3) Biblical Literalism and Symbolism - Part II
(4) Quotations from the Full Text of Ratzinger's blasphemy at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by The Australian Jewish News
(5) Popes from 1903 through 1939
(6) Chronolgy of the 1917 Apparitions in Fátima
(7) The Vatican ignored the critical requests through Fátima
(8) Ratzinger dares to ask "Where was God?" He should have known!
(9) The Gates of Hell will not prevail against the Church, but some conditions do apply.
(10) Learn how and why a prodigal son is helped back Home.
(11) How Mammon replaced God in the Treasury of the Church of Rome
(12) Pronouncement miguel de Portugal delivered
(13) The Divine Mercy of God
(14) Learning how to spot wolves dressed as sheep
(15) Our position about the Catholic Faith
(16) Administrators of that Faith - An Index
(17) The Roman Church has been amply warned
(18) 66 years ago in History
(19) A sample of the Christian Heritage in Europe
(20) The precursor of the falseChrist
(21) Fulfilling pending prophecies
(22a) Story behind the Oxyrhynchus Collection
(22b) Papyrus 115 of the Oxyrhynchus Collection
(23) The "enthronement" of Escrivá's statue in the Vatican
(24) Those who have Eyes to See and Ears to Hear

Document Published on June 4, 2006 - Pentecost Sunday

Copyright 2006 - 2009 by The M+G+R Foundation. All rights reserved.

Benedict XVI should resign including all other Bishops who were complicit in the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions

2011-04-04T16:48:00.000-04:00

"What can Benedict do to resolve the sexual crisis of Catholicism?" author Richard Sipe and Joe Rigert, write on the Australian Catholica website:

What can Benedict do to resolve the sexual crisis of Catholicism? At the very least he could open up for discussion and study the antiquated sexual teachings on such common practices as birth control, use of condoms and sex outside of marriage. Further, he could lead the way to making celibacy optional for priests and allow women in the ministry. (Would women have taken part in, or allowed, the sex abuse scandal?) And he might call for a representative church council to consider all of these basic reforms.

But it is unlikely that any of these reforms will happen as long the aging pope and the old men of the Vatican persist on retaining their power and control. They must be willing to share their authority and then undertake a Sexual Copernican Shift in their basic assumptions about sexual teaching and discipline, a shift recognizing that our core sexual nature is a bio-diverse reality, not a theological construct. Only then will the pope and his men begin to address the crisis now inundating the church.

And now we get to the hard part, the need for a courageous act. The pope could initiate this change by resigning from the papacy and calling for the resignation of all the other bishops, like him, who were complicit in the abuse scandal. (In Ireland, the archbishop of Dublin proposed such action, and five bishops offered to resign.) Other popes have quit. In centuries past nine of the 265 Roman Catholic popes have resigned or been forced out of office for the good of the church. The most recent was Gregory XII who abdicated in 1417 to help settle the claims of three competitors for the papacy.

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http://www.podles.org/dialogue/fighting-old-battles

Fighting Old Battles

April 4th, 2011

As the years pass by, I try to guard against the less attractive aspects of aging. On one hiking trip I heard my (female) guides discussing the problems that LOMP caused among male hikers. I asked what that was, and they explained it was Late Onset Male Pregnancy. That was the last straw – I went on a vegan diet.

I have also observed that people continue to fight the battles of their youth even after conditions have changed completely or the battles have been won. My late father in law could not believe that European communism had fallen. He thought it was all, including the suicides of several convinced Communists, a ruse.

I have tried to guard against this phenomenon in myself in the question of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. I wish the battle were won, that the Church had cleaned house and was fully determined never to let such corruption occur again.

However Benedict’s failure to act against egregious enablers among the hierarchy– Cardinal Sodano and Bishop McCormack spring to mine – is a bad sign, and then came Philadelphia. Rigali thought he could ignore the pledges he had made in the Dallas charter and leave two dozen priests in ministry who had highly convincing accusations against them. After discussing the situation with those close to it, all I could think is that episcopal arrogance was untouched – Rigali thought that he could create a smokescreen and everyone (including the auditors) would believe what he said, because after all, he was a Cardinal.

The entire process of reform and audits is largely meaningless, a mere paper exercise – bishops do what they want to do, and what they want to do is continue in business as usual. The auditors and review boards see only what the bishops let them see; somehow in some inexplicable way everything looks perfect. However the grand juries disagree. Until a bishop (or preferably a Cardinal) enjoys the hospitality of some state penal institution, nothing will really change.

The situation among religious orders in even worse. Because of their national and international structure, it is harder for a local district attorney to investigate them.

So the battle continues, and it is too soon to declare victory.

1 david clohessy // Apr 4, 2011 at 7:45 am

You are absolutely right Lee.

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

2 John Farrell // Apr 4, 2011 at 8:00 am

Well said.

3 Mary // Apr 4, 2011 at 12:04 pm

Leon you are absolutely correct on the Church abuse topic , but let’s not give a free pass to the “communism is dead crowd ” Please!

Our Lady told us at Fatima that communism would spread it’s errors.It has ,no matter how much we want to be believe it is the
“New Springtime” for the Church and world.

Communism appealed to the masses because it imbedded in the psyche that equality meant we all have our share of the pie equally. But that will always be a lie. It is what Freemasonry hailed as the solution from the time of the French Revolution.Our Founding Fathers also seemed to spout the same but who really sees our Constitution as the wonderous thing we were taught it was now?

The truth is no matter what governance one exists under ,we are not all equal. We are only considered so to God. Just as in the Catholic Church structure, the arrogance of the majority of elites rests on manipulation of the masses. They have lost their Faith because they do not take to heart what Christ taught.So whether you call it the globalist agenda, freemasonic /communism , capitalism, fascism or distributism.

It all washes out the same in the end as long as those in authority sense they are somehow better, more intellegent and free to manipulate the populace for their own personal gain.

If the values of the ruling classes are not based on Love of God and neighbor, society is doomed to repeat and repeat the errors of communism.

Sadly the Heirarchy of the Church, and Cardinal Ratzinger in particular , did not put the “lowly” individual victims at the forefront for care and love. Instead, he wrote letters praising Bishops for not turning in the abusive clerics to legal authorities and at the same time refused to defrock even when one Bishop pleaded him to do so as evidenced in court documents.He cited it was for the good of the Church.What church? Certainly NOT the Mystical Body of Christ!

How is this different from the lies the people in Japan are currently hearing about the radiation threat to their health? How is it different from the propaganda we have been dealt by our own governing leaders? Or for that matter the globalists billionaires who invest in GMO Monsanto, drug companies and big oil corporations or who profit from gold mines and diamond mines at the expense of the endigenous wage slaves?

They sit on the boards of big corporate power, they join The Club of Rome, The Bilderburg Group, The CFR , the CNP and the Trilateral Commission. They form and profit from the big UN Departments of Sustainable Development, yet everything gets worse. The wars erupt, oil and radiation accidents kill off life, and people cannot find employment.

The manipulators for profit and power are here to stay.Our only recourse is to expose them as the liars, frauds and murderers they are and to PRAY that God intervenes to save us.

A rose by any other name smells the same and when it stinks money instead of God given natural nourishment is at it’s roots.

One year after Benedict's Malta visit -- no progress which proves Benedict XVI is a pathological liar

2011-04-03T09:29:00.000-04:00

Benedict XVI only farts at victim faces of the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army and he is spending all his time preparing for the beatification of John Paul II in Rome this May 1, 2011 and securing the trillion dollars Vatican Swiss Banks so that in case he dies it cannot be traced to the Vatican but to the Opus Dei lay members. Read our related articles in sister weblogs the John Paul II Millstone http://jp2m.blogspot.com/

Faces of Rapists-Priests: from Father Marcial Maciel covered-up by John Paul II and the Eucharist. JOIN Signatories` protest against JP2 beatification

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Church still to give its account to God and the people – Lawrence Grech

MALTA
The Malta Independent

by Annaliza Borg

The first anniversary of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Malta will be marked in two weeks’ time, yet Lawrence Grech, one of a number of alleged victims of abuse by priests who grew up at St Joseph Home in Santa Venera, said that no progress towards any form of reconciliation has since been made by the Church.

The fact that up until last Monday (the last time the alleged victims came face-to-face with them at court) the priests were still wearing clerical garb is very disturbing for the alleged victims, who want the ugly chapter in their lives closed once and for all.

“The church cannot remain silent for any longer and must give its account to God and to the people,” Mr Grech told The Malta Independent on Sunday earlier this week.

Benedict XVI is useless to Fatima, the libertion of the Arab world, the earthquakes of Japan. All he cares about is to beatify criminal John Paul II

2011-03-16T20:19:00.007-04:00

As we pointed out in February, John Paul II was completely useless to the Arab youths in Egypt who ousted peacefully the 30 year old despot Mubarak. There was not a single chant of Santo Subito and JP2 we love you in the streets of Cairo. This proves that John Paul II is completely useless to the world's search for freedom and justice. In fact John Paul II is the most criminal pope who led the cover-up of the most heinous crimes against children in the 20th century that is why they are aptly called forever as the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army read the data here http://jp2army.blogspot.com/ Read our related article Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/holy-heist-john-paul-ii-wyd-had-no-role.html A historical fact is that 3 days after Mubarak fled Egypt, Benedict XVI was served with his "crimes against humanity" at the international court of the Hague which will prepare his trip to Germany later this year read http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/02/criminal-charges-against-dr-joseph.html

When Benedict XVI went to Fatima last year we posted this article Benedict XVI & Bertone, liars of Fatima? http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/cardinal-ratzinger-and-cardinal-bertone.html

Read 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

MR. John Paul II and MRS. Josemaria OD celebrate June Wedding anniversary worldwide
http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html

The Nazis of Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church of Benedict XVI are similar: They both burn human beings in Auschwitz and in Hell http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/02/nazis-of-hitler-and-roman-catholic.html

John Paul II versus Our Lady of Guadalupe: The contrast between two Catholic Suns http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/

Reasons why Opus Dei covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army for decades: Words of Opus Dei Joaquin Navarro-Valls http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/04/reasons-why-opus-dei-covered-up-john.html

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 (Vatican Trinity, Opus Dei controlled the 26 years papacy of John Paul II and therefore was responsible in the cover-up of the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army )

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The Irrelevant Third Secret of Fatima

by Marie Henrie
http://www.pagesofmary.com/

Today, I see the annihilation of a nation akin to the bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. The pictures are a startling comparison. As I write, people are fleeing from Tokyo in fear of radioactive fallout from "clean energy" nuclear plants that were hit by the wrath of nature's geological events. Meanwhile, our bishops advise us to change light bulbs and use plastic bags for Lent, instead of the scripturally prescribed remedies of prayer and fasting.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=9508

Jesus have Mercy on the Japanese nation! Have Mercy on us all!
Is the Third Secret of Fatima Just a Memory Now?

Memories of a Faithful Church

Thinking back on Fatima and what we were told in parochial school back in the fifties and sixties, I recall the words reminiscent then as I watch the news unfold in sorrow now.

"Various nations will be annihilated."
"...the Holy Father will have much to suffer"

"In 1982 the last surviving Fatima seer, Lucia, who is now a cloistered nun living in Coimbra, Portugal, was asked if an attempted consecration by John Paul II had sufficed. She replied that it didn't suffice, because Russia wasn't mentioned and the world's bishops did not participate in it. Another attempted consecration in 1984 likewise did not mention Russia or involve the participation of many of the world's bishops. Sr. Lucia stated immediately afterward that this consecration, too, had failed to meet Our Lady's requirements.

http://www.fatima.org/whyfatima.htm

I also remember hearing that " Bishop will be against bishop and cardinal against cardinal." Yet, to date, I only read those references recently, in relation to the
Akita (Japan) prophecy! The Akita prophecy, in part, contains the following:

"The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate Me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres … churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Secrets_of_F%C3%A1tima

I also recall that we were given an exact date that Pope John XXIII would re-lease the Third Secret, in 1960. We were anxious and excited to hear what the pope would say, but much to our disappointment, Sr. Cecily, our school principal, came o, the PA system, only to tell us the pope decided not to re-veal it, resulting in a collective sigh which eminated down the hallways out of each classroom.

The Vatican Fiddled

In the Year 2000, the Vatican decided to reveal the Third Secret, putting an end to speculation, in the hopes that the collective minds and memories of the older generation had failed or perhaps went to the grave. Perhaps the Vatican hoped we had forgotten that the previously revealed visions of Fatima were accompanied by a dialogue of explanation to the three children, delivered by Our Lady.

Or perhaps the Vatican assumed that responsibility was better usurped by Cardinal Bertone himself.

We were informed that Fatima was a thing of the past and that the "bishop in white" who was killed in the alleged third secret vision was really the soon-to-be canonized John Paul II who escaped death due to his devotion to the Blessed
Mother.

http://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_con_cfaith_doc_20000626_message-fatima_en.html

Miraculous pictures were circulated by someone, in order to solidify this in our collective psyche.

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/p/photo-pope-virgin.htm

Yet, even the popular nun-turned-television-personality, Mother Angelica,
publicly doubted that we received the whole Third Secret

"As for the Secret, well I happen to be one of those individuals who thinks we didn't get the whole thing. I told ya! I mean, you have the right to your own opinion, don't you, Father?

There, you know, that's my opinion. Because I think it's scary ..." Shortly after that declaration, Mother Angelica was completely ousted ....... in 2001.

http://www.catholictradition.org/Mary/fatima43.htm

Today, the Third Secret is supposed to be history, left in the memory banks of the much maligned Catholic "conspiracy theorists" who are often dubbed "Traditionalists," instead of just the Faithful Catholics which they have been.

While Nero Fiddled, Rome Burned, and while the Vatican Fiddled ...

Today,
we enjoy the New Springtime of the church
and have Crossed the Threshold of Hope!

Today,
we have Opus Dei to show us how to sanctify our lives
through our work ... or the lack thereof , since millions
of peoples worldwide have been demonstrating and riot-
ing due to lack of hope because of no jobs.

Today,
communism is dead, despite the globalization process
which could bring with it a new global governance.

Today,
abortions continue and families are ripped apart by divorce
along with the added twist of a newly redefined family .

Today,
homelessness has reached epic numbers and children go to bed
hungry in what people still refer to as the greatest nation on earth.

http://www.endhomelessness.org/content/article/detail/3668

http://www.afaceaface.org/blog/2011/02/07/hunger-in-america-2011-united-states-hunger-and-poverty-facts-and-statistics/

Today,
the rise in global catastrophes cannot be denied.

Today,
we watch in horror,
as a nation undergoes earthquakes, tsunami, and radiation!

The Vatican has been making plans for Pilgrims

"The appeal of converting some of the Church-owned
properties into hotels is clear."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1552644/Vatican-evicts-tenants-to-make-hotels.html

"Several thousand residents in Rome who face eviction from their rented homes by the Roman Catholic Church this week have accused church bodies of indulging in a speculative frenzy".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2007/oct/30/religion.italy

Big plans for the beatification are underway. A vial of the pope's blood was saved as a future relic, as was a blood stained cassock. "A vial containing blood drawn from Pope John Paul II shortly before he died will be installed as a relic in a Polish church soon after his beatification this year."

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/41102085/ns/world_news-europe/

http://www.smh.com.au/world/popes-blood-to-be-built-into-altar-20110118-19vcn.html

http://wn.com/Blood-stained_cassock_from_John_Paul_II%27s_attempted_assassination_exhibited_in_Krakow

Sadly, I am left to wonder if anyone in the Vatican has the same memories that I have about Fatima. Do they see the changes in our world and the church as I do? Or could they be intoxicated on the blood of the martyrs and the saints and all the money they bring to Vatican City? I wonder if they changed the light bulbs in St Peter's Basilica? Or if the numerous gift shops provide cloth bags for the tourist pilgrim?

The Nazis of Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church of Benedict XVI are similar: They both burn human beings in Auschwitz and in Hell

2011-02-23T15:15:00.014-05:00

On February 14, 2011, 3 days after Mubarak resigned and fled Egypt, Pope Benedict XVI had a surprise (Valentine gift) from the International Court of Law in Germany, a 51 pages criminal charges against him, all written in German and in English (at last it was not in Latin, read excerpts below). Soon as Benedict XVI thinks he is done and over with the ‘clergy sexual abuse of minors’ and is about to fall asleep in peace in his papal chambers at the Vatican Palace that rivals the monarchs of Europe, another lawsuit pops up against him. When the Vatican rejected the FedEx delivery of an American lawsuit against Benedict XVI, those Santo Subito were jubilant, read more …Benedict XVI the Liar strikes again as Vatican rejects American lawsuit by Terry Kohut who was raped with other 200 deaf boys by a rapist-priest http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/02/benedict-xvi-liar-strikes-again-as.html The more Benedict XVI hurries to beatify John Paul II, the more pedophiles rapists-priests are unearthed in Europe. Read the new dicovery of 1,000 members of the JP2 Army in the Netherlands http://jp2army.blogspot.com/ Saint? John Paul II slept in peace at the Vatican knowing that Fr. Marcial Maciel plus thousands of pedophile priests were raping thousands of boys http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/saint-john-paul-ii-slept-in-peace-at.html And as the Arab youths in Egypt and the Arab world topple down one dictator and king after another, it is now up to the Catholic youths of World Youth Day to reject the Saint?John Paul II because in life for 26 years he never protected and saved children from pedophiles rapists-priests and therefore in death children must not be praying to him. Read our coverage on the new revolutions by the Arab youths in the Middle East -- Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/holy-heist-john-paul-ii-wyd-had-no-role.html

When Cardinal Ratzinger penned Dominus Jesu to which John Paul II attached his papal signature to, it was unequivocal when he said that “Out side the Catholic Church there is no salvation”. Even Protestant Christians protested that they were left out of the Catholic salvation to Heaven. The Jesuit Jon Sobrino soon penned “Outside the poor there is no salvation” meaning without service to the poor of Christ and with only one’s mere words of charity, there is no salvation. Soon and shortly enough, he was “silenced” by Cardinal Ratzinger and he was forbidden to teach in Catholic universities and Catholic venues because Liberation Theology theologians like Sorbino challenged the wealthy monarchial lifestyle of the Pope living in the Vatican Palaces amidst wealth and out-of-touch with reality. Sobrino also criticized without fear the papal trips of John Paul II to poor countries such as El Salvador. JP2 only used the poor children and poor people as backdrops and papal props and was completely out-of-touch with their real lives. See our coverage on Jon Sobrino here http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/04/anti-semitism-card-vatican-defense.html

The Roman Catholic Church of Benedict XVI and John Paul II condemn human beings to be burned in Hell if these persons are not baptized and no not believe in the Roman Catholic Church. It may not be so dramatic now in this life because we cannot see Hell as people saw Auschwitz and Hitler’s Nazi regime. But the concepts are similar and Hell is even worse than Auschwitz because it is eternal damnation without any salvation. So if we are to follow Benedict XVI and John Paul II infallible teachings, we have a problem because there are now more than 6.6 billion human beings and only 1.1 billion are Roman Catholics. That means 5.5 billions of human beings are doomed to go to burn in Hell according to the Popes and to the Catechesis of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Criminal Charges against Dr. Joseph Ratzinger, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church on grounds of Crimes against Humanity According to Art. 7 ICC Statute

http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/02/criminal-charges-against-dr-joseph.html

Excerpts from the Criminal Charges
against
Dr. Joseph Ratzinger,Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
on grounds of
Crimes against Humanity
According to Art. 7 ICC Statute

February 14, 2011

To the Prosecutor
The International Criminal Court

http://www.kanzlei-sailer.de/pope-lawsuit-2011.pdf

According to the binding doctrine of the church, leaving the church leads to the
eternal punishment of hell. This is what it says, for instance, in the book by Josef
Neuner and J. Dupuis, “The Christian Faith in the Doctrinal Documents of the
Catholic Church,” 2001. Margin Note No. 1005, p. 421:

“The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes and preaches that ‘no
one remaining outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans’ but also Jews,
heretics or schismatics, can become partakers of eternal life; but they will go
to the ‘eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels,’ unless before the
end of their life they are joined to it (the Church).”

According to Can. 1364, in conjunction with Can. 751 of the Corpus iuris
Canonici (C.I.C.), to leave the church leads to excommunication, which, in turn,
according to No. 1463 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, represents a
“particularly grave sin” that, according to No. 1861 of the Catechism, results in
the “eternal death of hell.”

2. Psycho-terror

Among other things, the following applies to members of the church (Neuner, J.
and Roos, H. “The Teaching of the Catholic Church as Contained in Her
Documents,” Mercier Press Ltd., 1967, Margin Note No. 91, p. 63):
“If any one shall not receive as sacred and canonical the Books of Holy
Scripture, entire with all their parts, as the Holy Synod of Trent has
enumerated them, or shall deny that they have been divinely inspired –
anathema sit.”

“Anathema sit” literally translated from the Greek-Latin formulation means:
“may he be damned.”

According to this, anyone who does not acknowledge the threats of punishment
in the Old Testament as the word of God is also “damned.” For example:

“If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the
adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death …” (Lev. 20:10)

“If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed
an abomination; they shall surely be put to death …” (Lev. 20:13)

“The man who acts presumptuously by not obeying the priest who stands
to minister there before

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Read our related articles:

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

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Hell and Our Lady of Fatima

When Our Lady of Fatima appeared to the three children in 1917 she added a small prayer to the Rosary and showed the children a vision of Hell: ‘O my Jesus, forgive us our sins! Deliver us from the fires of hell! Have pity on the souls in purgatory, especially the most abandoned’.”

Our Lady of Fatima showed the Children a Horrific Vision of the
Souls of the Damned in Hell being Tormented by Frightful Demons.

The Terrifying Vision of Hell, July 13th, 1917

Our Lady told the Children, "Sacrifice yourselves for sinners and say many times, especially when you make some sacrifice: `O Jesus, it is for Thy love, for the conversion of sinners and in reparation for sins committed against the Immaculate Heart of Mary."

Lucia Santos then narrates what happened next:

“She opened Her hands once more, as She had done the two previous months. The rays [of light] appeared to penetrate the earth, and we saw, as it were, a vast sea of fire. Plunged in this fire, we saw the demons and the souls [of the damned]. The latter were like transparent burning embers, all blackened or burnished bronze, having human forms. They were floating about in that conflagration, now raised into the air by the flames which issued from within themselves, together with great clouds of smoke. Now they fell back on every side like sparks in huge fires, without weight or equilibrium, amid shrieks and groans of pain and despair, which horrified us and made us tremble with fright (it must have been this sight which caused me to cry out, as people say they heard me). The demons were distinguished [from the souls of the damned] by their terrifying and repellent likeness to frightful and unknown animals, black and transparent like burning coals. That vision only lasted for a moment, thanks to our good Heavenly Mother, Who at the first apparition had promised to take us to Heaven. Without that, I think that we would have died of terror and fear."

Our Lady then gravely spoke these words:

"You see Hell, where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them God wishes to establish in the world the devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If they do what I will tell you, many souls will be saved, and there will be peace... But if they do not stop offending God... He is going to punish the world for its crimes by means of war, of hunger, and of persecution of the Church and of the Holy Father."

*See the forewarned by Our Lady of Fatima, terrible persecution of the True Catholic Church (2008 A.D.) fully documented here.

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The main entrance to extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau

Selection on the Jewish ramp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau, May/June 1944. To be sent to the right meant labor; to the left, the gas chambers.

Children and an old woman on the way to the death barracks of Auschwitz-Birkenau

Auschwitz

Auschwitz (German) was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. It was the largest of the German concentration camps, consisting of a labor camp and 45 satellite camps. From spring 1942 until the fall of 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over Nazi-occupied Europe. The camp's first commandant, Rudolf Höss, testified after the war at the Nuremberg Trials that up to three million people had died there (2.5 million exterminated, and 500,000 from disease and starvation), a figure since revised to 1.1 million, around 90 percent of them Jews. Others deported to Auschwitz included 150,000 Poles, 23,000 Roma and Sinti, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and tens of thousands of people of diverse nationalities.[5] Those not killed in the gas chambers died of starvation, forced labor, lack of disease control, individual executions, and medical experiments.[6]
On January 27, 1945, Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet troops, a day commemorated around the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In 1947, Poland founded a museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, which by 1994 had seen 22 million visitors—700,000 annually—pass through the iron gates crowned with the infamous motto, Arbeit macht frei ("work makes you free"). For a complete history go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auschwitz_concentration_camp .

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Vote Pro-Choice and Go to Hell

http://menstrualpoetry.com/vote-prochoice-hell

Oh, the Catholic church is at it again with their preposterous shenanigans. Catholic bishops, being the men who form the delusions of speaking directly with god and informing others of his word, are going down their list of damnation and letting us all know that the latest memo says that reproductive rights trump everything.

Bishops have not only taken a poll, saying that all politicians who believe in a woman’s right to choose are going to hell, but if you vote for them, you have a seat reserved right next to them.

“It is important to be clear,” the bishops said in a 44-page statement titled “Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship,” “that the political choices faced by citizens not only have an impact on general peace and prosperity but also may affect the individual’s salvation.” Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, chairman of the committee that drafted the statement, put those high-minded sentiments into plain English earlier this month. Support for a candidate who “espouses policies that are gravely immoral” is possible “only under exceptional circumstances that are hard to imagine,” he told the Cathedral Club of Brooklyn.”

But that isn’t all! Not only do these bishops condemn you to hell if you vote for a politician who upholds women’s rights, but you are also helping us follow in the footsteps of the Nazis:

“In our country we have, for the most part, allowed the party of death and the court system it has produced to eliminate, since 1973, upwards of 40 million of our fellow citizens without allowing them to see the light of day,” wrote Rockford, Ill., Bishop Thomas Doran in 2006. “No doubt, we shall soon outstrip the Nazis in doing human beings to death.” He continued, “We know…that adherents of one political party would place us squarely on the road to suicide as a people.”

Note: “The party of death” sure is clever and ranks up there on my list of “Funny things Catholics say for kicks while in the process of using scare tactics for conversion.”

I cannot even imagine how those who have family who had been tortured and killed during the Holocaust feel about now being compared to those who performed the torture and killing of their ancestors by a group of people who protect pedophiles and actually aided the Nazis. I suppose we have come a long way, however, since the Catholic church is now actually admitting that the Holocaust even happened; but the hypocrisy that spews from the mouths of these people every time they deem something immoral is becoming a bit more than I can handle.

The moral of this story, and the new law that god told the bishops to relay to all of us peons who do not get to speak with him directly, is that now to gain entry into heaven, even if we do everything else so-called “correctly,” if we vote pro-choice, we’re spending eternity in hell. Nice. I wonder what else god has in store for us in the coming years.

“This just in: All people who are interested in spending eternity in heaven with the pedophile priests all must wear clown noses and hop on one foot for an entire year.”