CATHOLIC SEX ABUSE
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NEWSFLASH
February, 2011: Two German lawyers have initiated charges in the International Court against Pope Benedict accusing the Catholic Church of crimes against humanity. In particular they raised the Church's attitude regarding paedophile priests, charging the Church with the establishment and maintenance of a worldwide system of coverup of the sexual crimes committed by Catholic priests and their preferential treatment, which aids and abets ever new crimes.
Pray for the Pope. Only he can undo the heresy of Pope Gregory VII, excommunicating all married priests, and preventing the marriage of Catholic priests - the underlying the wave of Catholic Sex Abuse and paedophilia, in particular, that is bringing the Church to its knees.
To cast the first stone...
"If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."
John 8:7
It will no doubt anger some of my Protestant brothers and sisters, but I would like to come out in defence of Roman Catholic priests. It in no way absolves them of the Roman Catholic sex abuse cases, but the root cause of the Catholic Church sex scandals lies not with the individual priests but with Pope Gregory V11.
"It was in 1074 that an ambitious man named Hildebrand, who had become Pope Gregory VII by irregular means the previous year, excommunicated all married priests."
And with 1000 years of Popes who should have known better, but through their silence have become part and parcel of the Catholic Church sex scandal. Will Pope Benedict be the man to break with the scandalous Roman Catholic sex rules that have brought the whole of Christendom into such shame?Let us pray for the man. It's a heavy burden to admit that for a thousand years you and your forebears have missed the plot, and to return to the tradition of the first millennium. To the honest and Godly tradition concerning Christian marriage. The alternative? More and more revelations of predatory Roman Catholic sex abuses cases. If you are a Christian, would you commit yourself to pray for this man every day, whether you are a Catholic or not? I'm going to - he's the man who could save the Roman Catholic church. And Christendom. It's that important.
This is where the buck should stop...
"The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their desserts: but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do?"
William Makepeace Thackeray
The Facts
America has had its series of Catholic Church sex scandals, and the recompense that it is now paying (estimated at three billion dollars) is threatening to break the financial back of the Church. At least six American dioceses have filed for bankruptcy. Just one diocese, Burlington in Vermont, has put up for sale its administrative building and 26-acre leisure facility, Camp Tara Holy Cross on Lake Champlain, needing a further loan for its 18 million dollar payout to 26 victims. 2010, and now it's Europe's turn.
The Vatican
In 1996 an advisory committee of Irish bishops drew up a new policy that included mandatory reporting of suspected paedophiles within the priesthood to the police.In response, Archbishop Luciano Storero, Pope John Paul's chief representative to Ireland wrote to the Bishops expostulating a shade too loudly that their policy of 'mandatory reporting' gave rise to serious reservations of both a moral and a canonical nature. Critics interpret this as a deliberate intervention on the part of the Vatican to dissuade the Irish bishops from turning paedophilic priests over to the police. In effect a cover-up...
March 2010: Addressing the victims of abuse, the Pope Benedict wrote: "You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry." "Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated... I openly express the shame and remorse that we all feel." He said those guilty of abuse must "answer before God and properly constituted tribunals for the sinful and criminal actions they have committed".
Ireland
Ireland has had its problems. In the last few months three bishops have resigned after the way in which they shielded paedophiles became public knowledge. One of them was Bishop John Magee, private secretary to three popes...Update (5 June 2010) Top-level Catholic sex probe in Ireland: Archbishop of Westminster, Murphy-O'Connor, must deal with official reports of decades of rape, coercion and sexual abuse by predatory clerics whose activities, in the words of one report, were "obsessively" concealed by the church hierarchy.
"... two scathing Irish government reports released last year revealed decades of systematic sex abuse of tens of thousands of Irish children and a widespread cover-up of the problem.
"Be Sure Your Sins Will Find You Out."
The Netherlands
In my own country, over 100 Dutch priests ...
"Institute Magdala: At least 100 priests in the Netherlands have a clandestine relationship – sexual and serious – with a woman. Accepted in small circles it includes withal younger and old priests alike."
Reported in daily newspaper Spits (Monday 14.08.2006)
PRIEST IN MY BED ... a short story from STONES IN MY CLOG.
Belgium
"Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks (heeds) not his own counsel."
Hamlet
This week Belgium's longest serving bishop, Bishop of Bruges, Roger Vangheluwe, resigned, confessing publicly: “When I was still just a priest, and for a certain period at the beginning of my episcopate, I sexually abused a minor from my immediate environment.”
Yes, Bishop, hang your head, you've brought the whole of Christendom into disrepute, but it's your Pope who is really to blame... that's where the buck should stop.
Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard, archbishop of Belgium, speaking of AIDS, said:"Mistreating the deep nature of human love always ends up spawning catastrophes at all levels."
Austria
Austria has also been rocked by its Roman Catholic sex abuse cases. Cardinal Hans Groer was forced to resign as Archbishop after it came to light that he had molested young boys at a monastery in the 1970's.
Norway
Bishop Georg Mueller has resigned after admitting that he, a Roman Catholic priest sex abused a minor.
South Africa
A senior Roman Catholic priest in Mthatha, South Africa, has been arrested for allegedly raping a 20-year-old man, the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) said on Monday (24-01-2011).The priest, 68, a foreigner, was arrested on Sunday and applied for bail in the Mthatha Magistrate's Court on Monday, said NPA regional spokesman Luxolo Tyali. The priest arrived in South Africa towards the end of 1998. He runs a youth home which offers street children a way to live together and further their education.
In conclusion...
What are we to say? That the hundreds of people who have recently come forward, accusing priests of raping and sexually abusing them whilst the Bishops, knowingly, turned nothing more than a blind eye, have all lied? Or is this just the tip of the iceberg of what has been happening for a thousand years since the reign of Pope Gregory VII?Is it that the Roman Catholic church attracts young men with a tendency to paedophilia? No! Rather, surely, it is the Catholic sex rules, the forbidding of young men to enjoy their God-given instincts and rights, that has turned some of them into sexual perverts. And where does the buck stop? With the Popes, each and every one of them in the second millennium. These Catholic Church sex scandals are not going to go away. Gradually all will be revealed: from every corner of the globe cases of Catholic church sex abuse are going to come to light, it will be shouted from the rooftops, until...
NEPOTISM
noun: Favoritism shown to relatives and friends, especially in business or political appointments. ETYMOLOGY:From Italian nepotismo, from Latin nepos (grandson, nephew). Ultimately from the Indo-European root nepot- (grandson, nephew) that is also the source of the words nephew and niece. The word originated from the practice of popes in the Roman Catholic Church to confer important positions to their sons. Since a pope had taken the vow of chastity, his son was euphemistically called a nephew. A Word a Day
A MARRIED PRIESTHOOD
... until a Pope, will it be Pope Benedict?, has the courage to overthrow a millennium of shame, a millennium of Catholic sex abuse, and return to the godly tradition of the first millennium: a married priesthood. Or will the church simply slide into oblivion under a mire of Catholic church sex scandals? Is it any wonder that for three straight years the Vatican has declared a loss. Which Pope is going to have the balls, excuse the language, to overthrow the tradition of a thousand years. Let us pray that it will be Pope Benedict.
AIDS - an inherent justice?
"I do not see AIDS as a punishment, at most a sort of inherent justice..."
Archbishop Andre-Joseph Leonard
Me'thinks the Bishp is not strong on lateral thinking! This kind of pharisaical self-righteous comment adds nothing to the debate on HIV-AIDS. Those spouses infected by an unfaithful partner, Bishop? Those newly-born infected by their mothers? Have you considered them? When you've got your own house in order, then we'll take you seriously, my Lord!
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