JP2 Army - John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army a.k.a. B16 Army

John Paul II Pedophiles, Pederasts, Rapists-Priests Army were like the Nazis born out of the Devil’s bowels an inherently evil all-male hierarchy who thrived under secrecy and cover-up of the 27 years papacy of John Paul II the Great who said and DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO STOP this Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions under his Holy See watch and infallible papal powers. IN LIFE, JOHN PAUL II DID NOTHING TO SAVE CHILDREN, LIKEWISE IN DEATH, HE CANNOT SAVE CHILDREN. Heil Satanas John Paul II

Tuesday, March 30, 2010

When it comes to justice, secularism trumps Catholicism. Sacraments of Penance, Eucharist & Priesthood are worthless in our justice system

The Sacrament of Penance and/or ‘forgiveness’ is fine for venial sins but not for mortal sins. And the worst mortal sin in the latter half of the 20th century is the most heinous crime against children committed by the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army (JPIIPPA). The Sacrament of Penance (also known as forgiveness) may spiritually forgive the pedophile priests, but humanly and morally speaking, it does absolutely nothing for the victims because it does not monetarily compensate them, it cannot heal them and most of all it brings no justice and no jail time to their predators, the criminal pedophile priests. Benedict XVI in his letter to Ireland called for pedophile priests to “to put themselves collectively in a state of penance and purification”, that ‘state’ subtly referring to the Sacrament of Confession which is useless in the secularism’s system of justice. See ‘Forgiveness’ is a gizmo of injustice to victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. To Vaticanista chiesa.espresso Sandro Magister, Baloney! http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/03/forgiveness-is-gizmo-of-injustice-to.html

John Paul II must never be called a “saint” by American lips and in American soil (and in the world) in this generation and all generations to come because he failed to defend and protect one single American child among the tens of thousands victims of his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, aptly named after him because he had the longest papacy to do something to stop it but he didn’t simply because he was callous, indifferent and cold-hearted towards children. He was only concerned with his narcissistic legacy as John Paul II the Great, produced and managed by the Opus Dei at the Vatican. See the John Paul II Millstone , John Paul II Titanic Ship hit not only by American iceberg of priest pedophilia, also Irish iceberg, German iceberg, Austrian...Canadian icebergs.... http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/03/john-paul-ii-titanic-ship-hit-not-only.html

When it comes to justice, secularism trumps Catholicism. That’s right, secularism that is godless, without doctrines, without dogmas, without catechism, without reverential religious rituals, secularism which Benedict XVI hates to his core, has more justice than the Catholic Church with an infallible Pope and Catholic Catechism which were used in the system of cover-up of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army sins by the Catholic Church.

Ironically, it was the secular government and secular lawyers who brought justice to the American victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army and made the American Catholic Church pay 2.2 billion dollars in compensation to victims, and some jail time to a few pedophile priests. The American Cardinals and Bishops continue to fight to keep the records of 6,000 pedophile priests confidential; Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles hides hundreds of them and protect them from going to jail.

The Seat of Power of the Pope and Cardinals and Bishops and priests really is the Sacrament of the Eucharist, which includes the Sacrament of Priesthood and Sacrament of Penance. But the reality is, the Pope and priests do not have power to forgive and the Sacrament of Penance which they use as a means of injustice especially to victims. Benedict XVI’s Pastoral Letter to the people of Ireland will not bring justice and will not heal any of the tens of thousands victims. See 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

The reality is, the Pope and priests do not have power to reincarnate the flesh of Christ in the flour host. We expose 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

We showed with pictures that Benedict XVI and priests cannot reincarnate Christ’s flesh in a 9 seconds of formula because it took the Blessed Mary 9-months pregnancy of Jesus - see Magisterium Benedict VERSUS Holy Mary: Priests' transubstantiation instant reincarnation of Christ VERSUS Mary’s 9 months pregnancy& child birth http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/

You go, Ireland! Make Benedict XVI pay 1 billion euro for his crimes as ‘ General Ratzinger of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in Ireland’ http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/02/you-go-ireland-make-benedict-xvi-pay-1.html

See John Allen the Pied Piper of Benedict XVI toots “Will Ratzinger's past trump Benedict's present?” http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/john-allen-pied-piper-of-benedict-xvi_25.html

Compare the CRIMES and their VICTIMS in America

Victims - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 5,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

USA Priest Pedophilia - 12,000 victims - 6,000 priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

See American litigation against Benedict XVI-Cardinal Ratzinger the head of a Global Web of Childhood Sexual Abuse http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/02/american-litigation-against-benedict.html

NEW: Hundred of cases reported in Austria http://austrianindependent.com/news/General_News/2010-03-30/1860/Hundreds_of_cases_of_clerical_abuse_reported

Hundreds of cases of clerical abuse reported

There have been 566 reports of various kinds of abuse by clergy at the Catholic Church’s ombudsman’s offices this year, it was reported today (Tues).

Vienna archdiocese has had the highest number, 174, followed by Innsbruck diocese with 115. More than half of them can no longer be prosecuted because of the statute of limitations.

Cases of sexual abuse constitute 27 per cent of these, cases of violence 26 per cent. More than half of them require further investigation, according to the media.

The rising number of reports has caused Vienna Archbishop Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, the titular head of the Austrian Catholic Church and chairman of the Austrian Bishops Conference, to react.

He announced during a TV interview on Sunday that former Styrian People’s Party (ÖVP) Governor Waltraud Klasnic would head a commission dealing with victims of Catholic Church abuse, but the news was met with harsh criticism.

Parish priest Rudolf Schermann, who publishes Catholic magazine Kirche In, said yesterday: "I would have preferred an objective atheist." Schermann said no one could expect independent work from Klasnic since she had "strong links" to the Catholic Church.

Social Democratic (SPÖ) juridical issues spokesman Hannes Jarolim branded Klasnic’s nomination "unacceptable. She is not objective in this matter and is not a lawyer," Jarolim said yesterday.

Various hotlines set up by independent platforms to give victims of violence and sexual abuse by Catholic Church clergy a chance to talk about what they experienced have received hundreds of calls over the past few weeks.

A recent Integral Institut poll found 69 per cent of Austrians said the church was lacking in credibility, while another survey revealed that around one million Austrians were seriously considering leaving the Church.

More than 53,000 people left the Catholic Church in Austria in 2009, the highest in the country’s history. Analysts have said that recent developments could result in a new record number this year.

Victims of sex abuse to sue Vatican

The Times (United Kingdom)
Tony Allen-Mills in New York and John Follain in Rome

NEW revelations about Pope Benedict XVI’s alleged role in covering up accusations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy have exposed the Vatican to the risk of lawsuits brought by victims around the world.

Mounting anger at the Catholic Church’s failure to act on predatory priests in the US, Europe and Mexico has plunged the papacy into an institutional crisis described by an American Catholic newspaper last week as “the largest in centuries”.

Yesterday the Vatican denounced the “aggressive persistence” of critics who were attempting to “involve the Holy Father personally in the matter of abuse”. A spokesman told Vatican Radio that the Pope’s record was “above discussion”.

Pope 'is at centre of Vatican abuse cover-up', says Hans Küng

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article7075618.ece

Roger Boyes, BerlinOne of Europe’s leading theological thinkers has accused the Pope of being complicit in a Vatican cover-up of child abuse scandals in the Roman Catholic Church.

“No one in the whole of the Catholic Church knows as much about abuse cases – knowledge that is ex officio, derived from his office,” Hans Küng said in an interview with Swiss television.

Professor Küng – a long-standing critic of the Vatican – said that the Pope’s involvement in hiding clerical molestation of children dated back at least to his 24 years as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Rome .

“This Vatican authority has for a long time centralised [information about] all abuse cases so that they can be concealed, classified as top secret,” the 82-year old Swiss theologian said.

He has been a close observer of Joseph Ratzinger – now Pope Benedict XVI – since they were theology professors at the University of Tübingen in the 1960s. Both were theological advisers to the Second Vatican Council, which concluded in 1965.

Professor Küng’s clinching piece of documentary evidence against his old university colleague is contained in a diocesal letter, dated March 18, 2001, on child abuse, “De delictis gravioribus” (“about serious offences”). Signed by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the document establishes guidelines for dealing with priests suspected of abuse:

“In tribunals established by ordinaries or hierarchs, the functions of judge, promoter of justice, notary and legal representative can validly be performed for these cases only by priests. When the trial in the tribunal is finished in any fashion, all the acts of the case are to be transmitted ex officio as soon as possible to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith," it says.

Professor Küng argues that the Pope is acting hypocritically by calling bishops to order because for the past ten years such offences have been officially regulated behind closed doors.

“He cannot now wag his finger at the bishops and say 'you did not do enough!' He gave the instructions himself – as boss of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and again as Pope.”

The Vatican has argued that it is a serious misunderstanding to cast the 2001 document as part of the Church’s supposed “culture of silence”.

A German church official tried to play down Professor Küng’s utterances, arguing in essence that the theologian has "form” with the Pope.

After their stint in Tübingen together, Hans Küng and Joseph Ratzinger went separate ways: Professor Ratzinger, upset at the radical questioning of doctrine during the 1968 student disturbances, moved to the more conservative Regensburg; Professor Küng began openly to question the infallibility of the Pope and urge a discussion about the celibacy of priests.

In 1979 the Vatican stripped him of his right to teach Catholic theology.
But Professor Küng remains a morally powerful figure in Europe – even Tony Blair came to Tübingen to pay his respects – and his highlighting of the 2001 document has fed into a public debate in Germany about how much the Pope knows personally about the abuse cases.

Only 17 per cent of Germans still trust the Catholic Church, according to a study by the FORSA sampling institute. At the end of January, 29 per cent of Germans trusted the Church and 38 per cent trusted the Bavarian-born Pope Benedict.

“Abuse: what did the Pope know?” was the front page headline of Der Tagesspiegel on Thursday – next to a picture of the 2001 document.

It is clear that the Pope certainly knew about the practice of transferring paedophile priests form parish to parish.

As Archbishop Ratzinger, head of the Diocesan Council of Munich, he presided over a meeting on January 15, 1980 that discussed the case of Father Peter Hullermann.
Father Hullermann had forced an 11-year-old to have oral sex and had assaulted three other children. The parents had been persuaded not to press charges and the police had not been informed. Instead he was supposed to be moved out of the diocese of Essen, to Archbishop Ratzinger’s territory in southern Germany.

Archbishop Ratzinger formally approved the transfer and ordered him to undergo therapy. Again, the police were not informed. Within a fortnight however the chaplain was taking on pastoral duties again. Whether the Archbishop knew of this is unclear.

Advice from Father Hullermann's therapist that the priest should not be allowed to work with children, and should be under close supervision, was ignored by the Archbishop's staff.

Over the next two decades, Father Hullermann persistently re-offended. Only once did it come to court: in 1986 he was given an 18-month suspended prison sentence. By this time, Cardinal Ratzinger was established in Rome and presumably was not following the details of Father Hullermann’s career.

Informally, on his regular visits to his brother Georg – choirmaster of the Regensburger Domspatzen – he may have heard reports of abuse. Georg Ratzinger himself says that he had “heard stories” about the boarding school in Etterzhausen that prepared children for the choir. No action was taken.

Through the 1990s, a pattern seems to have established itself in both Cardinal Ratzinger's Vatican department, but also in the dioceses: priests who abused children had sinned, were required to repent and needed help and solidarity from within the Church.

Open trial and imprisonment would hurt the church as an institution. The option of defrocking an offending priest was also only rarely applied. This week's revelations about an American priest who molested up to 200 deaf pupils falls into this category: proceedings leading to a canonical trial against the priest were broken off after he applied for leniency to Cardinal Ratzinger in 1996.

But by 2001 enough accounts of priestly abuse worldwide were reaching Rome to justify the drafting of a diocesal letter and the definition of child abuse as a grave offence.

The letter was, on the one hand, an affirmation of existing practice: that is, internal disciplining of errant priests. And on the other hand, a clear centralisation of information in Rome.

The Vatican wanted not only an overview but also control. Yet critics say that no significant action was taken on the accumulated information. It should have been plain, at least from 2001, that Irish paedophile priests were being moved to US parishes.

That information must have been available to the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. And to its head, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.

Comment on the Pope's coming visit to England:

PF:
Re the pope's state visit -- it will cost a lot of money, the man has apparently covered up child abuse and has definitely made inflammatory statements, his visit should be revoked. It should never have been countenanced in the first place. He should resign and our Prime Minister should make it clear that he is not welcome. Why has the Vatican got a say in the United Nations??? When did the Vatican last send soldiers to face danger in the cause of making the world a better place.

John Paul II must never be called a saint in America, in Ireland, in Germany, in the Netherlands, in Austria, his John Paul II the Great Titanic Ship has been hit by many pedophile priests icebergs. John Paul II had no charity for the tens of thousands of poor suffering children victims of his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army - See John Paul II did not have the charity of Mother Teresa http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/11/john-paul-ii-did-not-have-charity-of.html

Benedict honors John Paul 5 years after death

Pope Benedict XVI arrives for a memorial Mass at St. Peter’s Basilica, at the Vatican, to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Pope John Paul II, Monday, March 29, 20

VATICAN CITY (AP)— Pope Benedict XVI is commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of John Paul II with a Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica.

Many pilgrims from Poland, the late pontiff’s homeland, joined Benedict in prayer Monday evening.

The 84-year-old John Paul died on April 2, 2005, after battling Parkinson’s disease. The commemoration was held a few days earlier because April 2 this year falls on Good Friday, when Benedict will preside over Lenten services at the Vatican and at the Colosseum in Rome.

Immediately after John Paul’s death, faithful were clamoring for his sainthood. But this anniversary comes amid some doubts that a miracle needed for his saint-making will stand up to scrutiny. And there have been questions about John Paul’s record in combatting pedophile priests.

British protesters demand Pope quits over abuse

An anti-Pope protester dressed as a religious leader knees amongst protesters with their banners as they demonstrate outside Westminster Cathedral in London in a demonstration calling for the Pope Benedict XVI to resign, Sunday.

LONDON (AP)— British protesters called on Pope Benedict XVI to resign Sunday as they staged a demonstration over the Catholic Church’s handling of clerical sex abuse cases.

Demonstrators gathered outside Westminster Cathedral to call for action over the scandal, carrying placards displaying messages including "Pope? Nope!" and "Don’t Turn a Blind Eye," though fewer than 50 people joined the rally.

Revelations of the sexual abuse of children by priests at Catholic institutions have swept across Europe, including in the pope’s native Germany.

Benedict has been criticized over a case dating to his tenure as archbishop of Munich, and his actions when head of the Vatican office responsible for disciplining priests.

"The buck stops with him and he should resign," human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said at the London rally. "The pope has played a direct personal role in covering up sex abuse."

However, Benedict won support from Archbishop of Westminster Vincent Nichols who insisted the pope wouldn’t — and shouldn’t — quit.

"The pope will not resign, frankly there is no strong reason for him to do so," he told BBC television. "In fact, it is the other way around. He is the one above all else in Rome that has tackled this thing head on."

Austrian church abuse hot lines log 566 reports

VIENNA — Austria’s Catholic Church says its abuse hot lines have received 566 calls or e-mails this year.

The head of the abuse reporting center linked to the Vienna archdiocese says most of the complaints — 174 in total — were logged by his center.

The statistics carried by the Kathpress Catholic news agency also show that 115 were received by the Innsbruck diocese, 78 were logged in Linz and 63 in Graz-Seckau.

Johannes Wancata said Tuesday it was unclear how many of the reports would turn out to be concrete abuse claims, but that all would be followed up diligently.

Austria is among several European countries hit by an ongoing wave of church abuse claims in recent weeks.

Monday, March 29, 2010

Sacrament of Penance or ‘Forgiveness’ is a tool of INJUSTICE to victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. To Vaticanista chiesa.espresso Sandro Magister, Baloney!

Read our latest article International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin: a compilation. The sorcery of the re-incarnation of God-Jesus Christ by wizards-male-only reiterated in Ireland http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/06/international-eucharistic-congress-in.html

Vatileaks: a compilation. Vatican Leaks and Secrets of Benedict XVI revealed http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/06/vatileaks-compilation-secrets-of.html

Irish Law versus Canon Law on seal of Confession: A compilation. Sacrament of Confession protects criminals and ignores their victims http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/04/irish-law-versus-canon-law-on-seal-of.html

Vatican attacks American nuns: A compilation. USA nuns live Gospel, serve the poor and sick...while Benedict XVI lives in luxury out-of-touch-with-reality in Vatican Bank Tower http://popecrimes.blogspot.ca/2012/04/vatican-attacks-american-nuns.html

The Pope’s Italian Vaticanista, Sandro Magister, (counterpart of American John Allen Jr of All Things Catholic of NCR) just wrote an article of 'forgiveness' (not in his title) to try to save Benedict XVI’s head from the guillotine of the media on the wake of Benedict XVI’s worse cover-up of a pedophile priest (after the German Fr. Hullermann) in Wisconsin who molested 200 deaf boys see B & B Benedict XVI and Cardinal Bertone in 1998 hid a pedophile priest who abused 200 deaf boys http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/03/b-b-benedict-xvi-and-cardinal-bertone.html. One of the mothers said that Benedict XVI is “lying” (see her article below and watch VIDEOS).

Please read our latest post in the John Paul II Millstone: John Paul II Titanic Ship hit not only by American iceberg of priest pedophilia, also Irish iceberg, German iceberg, Austrian...Canadian icebergs.... http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/03/john-paul-ii-titanic-ship-hit-not-only.html

So Italian Vaticanista of chiesa.espresso Sandro Magister in his article “Genesis of a Crime: The Revolution of the 1960’s” is invoking a litany of spiritual measures to save Benedict XVI’s head, especially the words of Jesus in the Gospel and the story of Nineveh in the old Testament. But here’s to you, Sandro Magister: Nonsense, in Italian, Sciocchezza!

Let us point out how deceptive Sandro Magister is using the trump card of forgiveness(or the Sacrament of Penance) in laymen’s terms.

Sandro Magister is the #2 Pied Piper (after John Allen of NCR the number 1 Pied Piper) of Benedict XVI see John Allen the Pied Piper of Benedict XVI toots “Will Ratzinger's past trump Benedict's present?” http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/john-allen-pied-piper-of-benedict-xvi_25.html

Let us show you the deceptive professional journalism of Italian Sandro Magister in this article.

1 First, Magister makes Benedict XVI appear as if he is suddenly doing so many things as Pope to remedy the sex abuse scandals plaguing the Vatican. We put our comments below the phrases

» »Law and grace. Where earthly justice does not reach, the hand of God can. With his letter dated March 19, Benedict XVI has given the Catholics of Ireland an order never before given by a pope of the modern era to an entire national Church.

(Where earthly justice does not reach, the hand of God can. Here Sandro Magister insinuates that Benedict XVI’s hand is God’s hand. He is speaking for Benedict XVI that law and grace is possible, that SECULAR law should forget its way of justice and punishment for criminals and let grace rule. Grace usually means forgiveness, spirituality, all nice feelings of forgive-and-forget, like simply pray the Hail Mary, full of grace, and forget the whole John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army ever happened. Very tricky, Sandro Magister, you're like a serpent sneaking in your Vatican agenda for B16)

» »He told them not only to bring the guilty before the canonical and civil courts, but to put themselves collectively in a state of penance and purification. And not in the privacy of their consciences, but in a public form, before the eyes of all, even of their most implacable and mocking adversaries.

(Benedict XVI told them only because the secular governments and the secular victims are telling him to do so. Ireland had to do its own Murphy and Ryan Reports, Benedict XVI did nothing, the Vatican did nothing except cover-up all those pedophile priests in Ireland for decades.)

» »Fasting, prayer, reading the Bible, and works of charity on all the Fridays from now until Easter of next year. Frequent sacramental confession. Continual adoration of Jesus – " himself a victim of injustice and sin" – present in the sacred host, exposed on the altars of the churches.

(There is nothing new in this list of Benedict XVI. In fact these are all he has been doing with Boston's Cardinal Bernard Law as Archpriest of St. Mary Magiorre in Rome. All these things Benedict XVI mentions are very common, there is nothing new in them because Catholics have been doing these for centuries. Fridays during Lent was eat only fish or in lieu, a Hail Mary or a small act of charity. In fact these are all that Benedict XVI and those pedophile priests have been doing so well that is why their crimes were able to go undetected. All these Catholic rites and rituals mentioned are tools of secrecy of sins and wolves in sheep's clothing cloaks of deceptions to distract the attention of victims and law enforcers.)

» »And for all the bishops, priests, and religious, without exception, a special period of "mission," a long and strict course of spiritual exercises for a radical review of life.

(This is baloney. Spiritual exercises are a forte of Cardinal Bernard Law and Cardinal Mahony and all Bishops guilty of cover-up. Those pedophile priests were great speakers and well versed with spirituality, just like John Paul II the Great, the great writer and speaker and traveler; but in spite all these spiritual exercises and special mission, they were all cold-hearted and indifferent to the victims of pedophile priests. See John Paul II did not have the charity of Mother Teresa http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/11/john-paul-ii-did-not-have-charity-of.html

» »It's a daring step, this one taken by Pope Benedict. Because not even the prophet Jonah believed any longer that God would forgive Nineveh its sins, in spite of the penitential ashes and sackcloth worn by all, from the king to the lowliest beast of burden.

(Whoa! Sandro Magister is now comparing Benedict XVI with Jonah, that if God could forgive Nineveh, God can forgive also Benedict XVI and the Vatican and the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army of the 20th century. Not this time, Magister, not this time, the sins of the Vatican and the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army are worse than Nineveh and Sodom and Gomorrah and the Third Secret of Fatima shall come true with the full destruction of the Vatican. Even Mother Mary cannot stand the sight of Benedict XVI any longer just like she cannot stand the sight of John Paul II see John Paul II betrayed 'Totus Tuus Marie' http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/2007/06/john-paul-ii-betrayed-totus-tuus-marie.html. Benedict XVI is the Papal Midas Touch only counting the trillion dollar Vatican Bank and he is the Bad Shepherd who has grossly neglected children under his watch as Prefect of the CDF and the Vatican.)

» »And today as well, many conclude that the Church remains irremediably under condemnation, even after the letter in which the pope himself expresses shame and remorse for the abomination committed against children by some priests, with the culpable negligence of some bishops.

(This is a very deceptive paragraph of Sandro Magister in that he emphasizes that it is enough that "the pope himself expresses shame and remorse for the abomination committed against children by some priests, with the culpable negligence of some bishops." This 'expression of shame and remorse' is equivalent to the Sacrament of Confession or Penance or Reconciliation in the Catholic Church -- that it is enough to confess ones sins and forgive-and-forget and move-on.)

2 Second, Sandro Magister cites Jesus’ words to forgive ALL sins pedophile priests “if they sincerely repent”

» »And yet God's forgiveness descended even upon Nineveh, and the skeptical Jonah had to face this fact, and Michelangelo painted this very prophet at the top of the wall behind the altar in the Sistine Chapel, to show that God's forgiveness is the key to everything, from the creation of the world to the last judgment.

(The Sistine Chapel makes the Pope and Cardinals live out-of-touch with reality. This is where they elect a new pope and where the brother of Benedict XVI celebrated his 80th birthday see photos in Benedict XVI’s priest brother, Georg Ratzinger admits “slapping” famous Regenesburg choir boys …but, was that all? http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvis-priest-brother-georg.html Sandro Magister is using the art of Michelangelo to invoke “God's forgiveness is the key to everything, from the creation of the world to the last judgment." Michaelangelo's art and the Sistine Chapel are useful only for the pageantry and the tourist account of the Vatican Bank but they are totally useless for us in America and for the victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. In fact the Vatican art treasures couldn't suvive one month at the John Paul II Cultural Center in Washington D.C. which is sinking in the mire http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/08/john-paul-ii-cultural-center-in-mire.html)

(The problem with this forgiveness card is, if 'forgiveness' was used for the 6,000 American pedophile priests, not one dollar of the 2.2 Billion dollars would have been paid out by the American Catholic Church to the victims in the USA. This includes the more than $100 million paid out by Cardinal Bernard Law who was forced to sell his pompous Archbishop's Palace to Boston College.)

» »On Sunday, March 21, while his letter was being read in the churches of Ireland, Benedict XVI commented to the faithful, at the Angelus in St. Peter's Square, on Jesus' forgiveness of the adulterous woman: "He knows what is in the heart of every man, he wants to condemn sin, but to save the sinner and unmask hypocrisy." The hypocrisy of those who wanted to stone the woman, even though they were the first to sin.

(Now Sandro Magister is accusing the media and everyone are running after Benedict XVI’s head with “The hypocrisy of those who wanted to stone the woman, even though they were the first to sin.” He is reminding that we are all sinners and we must not cast any stone to Benedict XVI. This is the loudest pied piping by Sandro Magister in that he is acting like Christ showing us a stone and daring us not to throw the first stone to Benedict XVI. How much is the Vatican Bank paying you, Sandro? Baloney to you. )

» »Ruthless with sin, "beginning with our own," and merciful towards persons. This is the lesson that Joseph Ratzinger wants to apply to the case of Ireland, and, by extension, to the entire Church.

(Sandro Magister is speaking on behalf of Benedict XVI when he says “This is the lesson that Joseph Ratzinger wants to apply to the case of Ireland, and, by extension, to the entire Church.” Problem is, Benedict XVI words no longer hold water, he is a pathological liar like the little boy who cried Wolf 3 times too many see Benedict XVI condemns abuse of children by priests 3 DECADES LATE…Cardinal Ratzinger Pope B16 is a pathological liar http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/02/benedict-xvi-condemns-abuse-of-children.html

(Benedict XVI NEVER defended any child abused by thousands of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, he is a cold-blooded despot and now he is asking mercy through this Italian Vaticanista? Not a chance)

» »On the one hand, the rigors of the law. The price of justice must be paid to the last penny. The dioceses, the seminaries, the religious congregations in which the abuse was allowed to run free have been warned: apostolic visitors will come from the Vatican to uncover what they have done, and even where there is nothing that can be prosecuted under civil law, canonical discipline will punish the negligent.

(The Irish victims asked for 1 billion euro and we have not seen a euro out of the hand of Benedict XVI from his trillion dollar Vatican Bank. Nothing was mentioned to this demand after the 2-days meeting with the Irish Bishops. Sandro Magister is a pathological liar when he writes "The price of justice must be paid to the last penny." He knows that the Vatican Bank will never give out a penny to survivors of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. The American Catholic Church paid more to lawyers to try to pay the least to victims.)

» »But at the same time, the pope is kindling the light of grace. He is opening the door of God's forgiveness even to those guilty of the worst abominations, if they sincerely repent.

(Again, Sandro Magister does not mix his words; he is clearly speaking out in laymen’s term on behalf of Benedict XVI asking the laity to forgive the pope and he makes it appear like God’s forgiveness for all the John Paul II Pedophile Priests…no jail time, only repentance. This is the fallacy of the Sacrament of Confession and that’s all that Benedict XVI requires: repentance, no monetary compensation and no jail time. What a Holy Crap!)

(If all the court houses in the USA and in the world followed Benedict XVI's and God’s forgiveness to those guilty of worst abomination, all our jails would be empty and there would be no need for judges and lawyers, imagine what a chaos that would be. Benedict XVI’s and the Catholic Church’s sense of justice is totally nonsense and it Magic of Forgiveness like the Magic of the Mass see Magisterium Benedict VERSUS Holy Mary: Priests' transubstantiation instant reincarnation of Christ VERSUS Mary’s 9 months pregnancy& child birth http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/

» »As for the foremost accusers, those most armed with stones to throw at the Church, none of them is without sin. It is a stretch for those who exalt sexuality as a pure instinct, free from any constraint, to object when it is abused.

(Again, Sandro Magister is reminding that we are all sinners and that we have no right to throw stone to Benedict XVI who is like the adulterous woman.)

(Listen Magister, if all the USA lawyers accepted this Christ-like argument of yours, the Catholic Church would not paid 2.2 billion dollars of compensation to 12,000 American victims of 6,000 of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the USA. You have lived too long in Italy and you are also out-of-touch with reality like the Pope that you serve. If all we did in Bosotn and in the USA was "forgive" the pedophile priests, those pedophile priests would have kept on committing sodomy with Holy ES at biblical proportions see Biggest Vatican stories of the decade: John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army committed Holy ES Eucharist-and-Sodomy of Biblical proportions http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/01/biggest-vatican-stories-of-decade-john.html.)

(Your Vatican prescription is: sodomize and forgive, sodomize and forgive. Sandro Magister, you can enjoy you days at the Vatican and in Italy, but your sense of Benedict XVI justice does not hold water under secular law. You may be paid by the trillion dollar Vatican Bank together with John Allen of All Things Catholics, but secular law shall prevail in Italy and for the victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army at the Vatican -- just like it did for the entire country of the USA from Boston to LA. You and John Allen cannot save Beneidct XVI from the guillotine of the media; Benedict XVI is now a RATzinger lost in the Vatican sex scandal maze with nowhere to run http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvi-is-now-ratzinger-lost-in.html

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Genesis of a Crime. The Revolution of the 1960's

The scandal of pedophilia has always been there, but it was magnified by the cultural revolution of half a century ago. Benedict XVI makes the claim in his letter to the Catholics of Ireland. Two cardinals and a sociologist comment

by Sandro Magister
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/1342641?eng=y

ROME, March 25, 2010 – Law and grace. Where earthly justice does not reach, the hand of God can. With his letter dated March 19, Benedict XVI has given the Catholics of Ireland an order never before given by a pope of the modern era to an entire national Church.

He told them not only to bring the guilty before the canonical and civil courts, but to put themselves collectively in a state of penance and purification. And not in the privacy of their consciences, but in a public form, before the eyes of all, even of their most implacable and mocking adversaries. Fasting, prayer, reading the Bible, and works of charity on all the Fridays from now until Easter of next year. Frequent sacramental confession. Continual adoration of Jesus – " himself a victim of injustice and sin" – present in the sacred host, exposed on the altars of the churches. And for all the bishops, priests, and religious, without exception, a special period of "mission," a long and strict course of spiritual exercises for a radical review of life.

It's a daring step, this one taken by Pope Benedict. Because not even the prophet Jonah believed any longer that God would forgive Nineveh its sins, in spite of the penitential ashes and sackcloth worn by all, from the king to the lowliest beast of burden.

And today as well, many conclude that the Church remains irremediably under condemnation, even after the letter in which the pope himself expresses shame and remorse for the abomination committed against children by some priests, with the culpable negligence of some bishops.

And yet God's forgiveness descended even upon Nineveh, and the skeptical Jonah had to face this fact, and Michelangelo painted this very prophet at the top of the wall behind the altar in the Sistine Chapel, to show that God's forgiveness is the key to everything, from the creation of the world to the last judgment.

On Sunday, March 21, while his letter was being read in the churches of Ireland, Benedict XVI commented to the faithful, at the Angelus in St. Peter's Square, on Jesus' forgiveness of the adulterous woman: "He knows what is in the heart of every man, he wants to condemn sin, but to save the sinner and unmask hypocrisy." The hypocrisy of those who wanted to stone the woman, even though they were the first to sin.

Ruthless with sin, "beginning with our own," and merciful towards persons. This is the lesson that Joseph Ratzinger wants to apply to the case of Ireland, and, by extension, to the entire Church.

On the one hand, the rigors of the law. The price of justice must be paid to the last penny. The dioceses, the seminaries, the religious congregations in which the abuse was allowed to run free have been warned: apostolic visitors will come from the Vatican to uncover what they have done, and even where there is nothing that can be prosecuted under civil law, canonical discipline will punish the negligent.

But at the same time, the pope is kindling the light of grace. He is opening the door of God's forgiveness even to those guilty of the worst abominations, if they sincerely repent.

As for the foremost accusers, those most armed with stones to throw at the Church, none of them is without sin. It is a stretch for those who exalt sexuality as a pure instinct, free from any constraint, to object when it is abused.

The tragedy of some priests and religious, Benedict XVI has written in the letter, was in part that they gave in to these widespread "ways of thinking and assessing secular realities without sufficient reference to the Gospel," to the point of justifying the unjustifiable.

A lapse that certainly cannot be attributed to Ratzinger as bishop and pope, not even by his staunchest adversaries, if they are sincere.

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The commentary reproduced above is published in "L'espresso" no. 13, 2010, on newsstands March 26.
Benedict XVI's letter to the Catholics of Ireland:

English translation by Matthew Sherry, Ballwin, Missouri, U.S.A.
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> How to Pilot the Church in the Storm. A Lesson
Benedict XVI has taught it to the faithful in a general audience, against those who call for a new beginning for Christianity, without hierarchy or dogmas. The secret of good governance, he said, is "above all to think and to pray"

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> The Legion Awaits a New General. And Trembles
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by Sandro Magister
ROME, March 27, 2010 – For two days now, all the official records of the Holy See from 1865 to 2007 have been freely available on the internet, in pdf format, on the Vatican website:
> Acta Sanctae Sedis, 1865-1908
> Acta Apostolicae Sedis, 1909-2007
Also available online are the twelve large volumes of the records and documents of the Holy See relative to the period of the second world war, from 1939 to 1945, the collection requested by Paul VI in 1964 and compiled between 1965 and 1981 by the Jesuit historians Pierre Blet, Angelo Martini, Burkhart Schneider and Robert A. Graham:
> Actes et documents du Saint Siège relatifs à la Seconde Guerre Mondiale
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Mother of Sex Abuse Victim Says Pope Is 'Lying'

WISCONSIN
ABC News
By Russell Goldman and Clark Bentson
March 25, 2010

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/TheLaw/pope-defrock-priest-admitted-molesting-deaf-boys/story?id=10200159

Senior Vatican officials, including the current pope, refused to punish a priest who sexually assaulted as many as 200 deaf boys over the course of three decades, despite calls for disciplinary measures from two American bishops.

Documents from a lawsuit brought by the priest's now adult victims against the Milwaukee Diocese, and initially obtained by the New York Times, record the Rev. Lawrence Murphy admitting to diocese officials in the 1990s that he molested dozens of boys while working at St. John's School for the Deaf in St. Francis, Wisc., for 25 years from 1950 to 1975.

The documents also include letters during the 1990s from two Wisconsin bishops to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, asking for permission to prosecute Murphy in a church trial. Ratzinger at the time headed the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, the church's disciplinary office.

The office initially authorized a secret church trial for Murphy, but the trial was halted after the priest wrote a letter to Ratzinger asking for mercy.

Sex scandals have been roiling the Catholic Church for nearly a decade, but the Milwaukee case is the closest the scandals have come to tainting the Pope. The Murphy revelations also come as the Pope's handling of sex scandals in Germany and Ireland has been questioned.

"The goal of Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict, was to keep this secret," said Peter Isely, Milwaukee-based director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, during a protest today outside the Vatican.

"We need to know why he (the pope) did not let us know about him (Murphy) and why he didn't let the police know about him and why he did not condemn him and why he did not take his collar away from him," Isely said.

In Milwaukee, the mother of one of the abused boys, accused the Pope of "lying" through his apologies and said the Church needed to be held accountable.

"There should be no institution that is not accountable for what they do, that is able to hide behind the faith. You know the Catholic Church is very powerful and that should not be," Lynn Pilmaier told reporters. "The Pope, you know, he is lying. I mean his false apologies."

Vatican Defends Pope's Handling of Pedophile Priest

Behind her SNAP supporters spread out photographs of abused children on the sidewalks.

John Pilmaier from Milwaukee, left, and Peter Isely of the SNAP bureau (Survivors Network of those...

John Pilmaier from Milwaukee, left, and Peter Isely of the SNAP bureau (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) show pictures of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger now Pope Benedict XVI, left, and of father Lawrence Murphy, as they stage a press conference in front of The Vatican Thursday, March 25, 2010. SNAP members denounce Benedict's handling of the case that involved father Murphy, who died in 1998, accused of molesting some 200 deaf boys as he worked at the former St. John's School for the Deaf in St. Francis from 1950 to 1975. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's deputy at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,ruled that the alleged molestation had occurred too long ago and that the accused priest, Rev. Lawrence Murphy, should instead repent and be restricted from celebrating Mass outs

(Pier Paolo Cito/AP Photo)Isely and three other protests were held by Italian police for more than two hours because they didn't have a permit for the news conference.

"We've spent more time in the police station than Father Murphy did in his life," Isely said after his release.

The Vatican released a statement today defending its decision to not prosecute Murphy. The Vatican did not say what role the Pope played in that investigation as head of the office.

The Vatican's statement also noted that Murphy solicited sex in the confessional, a church ritual in which members confess their sins to a priest and seek forgiveness.

Murphy "violated the law and, more importantly, the sacred trust that his victims had placed in him," the Vatican statement said. It added, however, that the church did not complete the process to defrock Murphy because he "was elderly and in very poor health, and ? was living in seclusion and no allegations of abuse had been reported in over 20 years."

Murphy died in 1998.

According to the court documents made public today, then Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland wrote to Ratzinger's office explaining he had just learned of the accusations against Murphy and seeking advice on how to handle the situation.

The congregation's second in command, Cardinal Tarciscio Bertone, now the Vatican's secretary of state, told the Wisconsin bishop to begin a secret trial. In a personal appeal to Ratzinger, Murphy wrote, "I have just recently suffered another stroke which has left me in a weakened state. I have repented of any of my past transgressions, and have been living peaceably in northern Wisconsin for 24 years. I simply want to live out the time that I have left in the dignity of my priesthood."

"I ask your kind assistance in this matter," he wrote the man who would be pope within a decade.

Pope's Office Halted Secret Trial of Pedophile Priest

Bertone then sent a letter to the diocese to stop the secret trial.

The archbishop then handling the case, Bishop Raphael Fliss, objected, saying in a letter to Bertone that "I have come to the conclusion that scandal cannot be sufficiently repaired, nor justice sufficiently restored, without a judicial trial against Fr. Murphy."

The victims of Murphy remain angry over the revelations.

"The pope knew about it. He handled sex abuse cases. He should be accountable. He did nothing," said Arthur Budzinski , 61, during a news conference today in Milwaukee. Budzinski said he was abused by Murphy when he was 12 years old and was ignored by police and later Vatican officials when he came forward.

Budzinski said the abuse made with him withdraw as a child, causing him to become "embarrassed and very depressed."

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Thursday, March 25, 2010

B & B Benedict XVI and Cardinal Bertone in 1998 hid a pedophile priest who abused 200 deaf boys

Th Vatican sex abuse scandals are getting worse and getting closer to the person of Benedict XVI. Our weblogs are paying off because readers, Catholics, secular governments and the whole world will not give the pope and the Vatican a free pass this time.

Please read our latest posts in our sister weblogs Benedict XVI Ratzinger, God's Rottweiler, especially our response to the much awaited Pastoral Letter of Benedict XVI to the Irish people.

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

Jesuits are bad examples as Pope Loyalists; Fr. Federico Lombardi is puppet Public Secretary http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/jesuits-are-bad-examples-as-pope.html

John Allen the Pied Piper of Benedict XVI toots “Will Ratzinger's past trump Benedict's present?” http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/john-allen-pied-piper-of-benedict-xvi_25.html

Photos of the out-of-touch with reality pompous life of Benedict XVI at the Vatican http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/photos-of-out-of-touch-with-reality.html

Holy Crap! What “rigor”? Due to Pope's rigor, sex abuse victims are rendered justice, writes Italian bishop who is out-of-touch with reality http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/holy-crap-what-rigor-due-to-popes-rigor.html

Benedict XVI’s priest brother, Georg Ratzinger admits “slapping” famous Regenesburg choir boys …but, was that all? http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvis-priest-brother-georg.html

Timeline of Benedict XVI’s personal cover-up of a German pedophile priest when he was Archbishop of Munich, Germany http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/timeline-of-benedict-xvis-personal.html

Jon Stewart features HOLY SH*T Benedict XVI personal cover-up of German paedo priest & his personal usher GAY prostitution ring at the Vatican http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/jon-stewart-features-holy-sht-benedict.html

The John Paul II Millstone

John Paul II Titanic Ship hit not only by American iceberg of priest pedophilia, also Irish iceberg, German iceberg, Austrian...Canadian icebergs.... http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/03/john-paul-ii-titanic-ship-hit-not-only.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

B & B Benedict XVI & Bertone, nice pals with another B, Bernard Law of Boston.

We first disclosed who Cardinal Bertone is at the John Paul II Millstone weblog John Paul II clone Cardinal Bertone: SNAP and the Jesuits http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007/10/john-paul-ii-clone-cardinal-bertone.html

Today is the feast of the Annunciation and we are posting our latest posts in Benedict XVI Ratzinger God's Rottweiler. But this news fresh out of Wisconsin of 200 deaf and blind boys is really heartwrenching - they were abused for years and in 1998 Cardinal Ratzinger did NOTHING to stop this pedophile priest. These victims went directly to the office of the CDF of which Ratzinger was Prefect and he did NOTHING for them. We are right in our analysis of Benedict XVI that he is a cold blooded despot and a pathetic liar.

Vatican Declined to Defrock U.S. Priest Who Abused Boys

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/world/europe/25vatican.html

The New York Times

The Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy, with hands together, at St. John’s School for the Deaf
in Wisconsin in 1960.
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN
Published: March 24, 2010

Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as many as 200 deaf boys, even though several American bishops repeatedly warned them that failure to act on the matter could embarrass the church, according to church files newly unearthed as part of a lawsuit. The internal correspondence from bishops in Wisconsin directly to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the future pope, shows that while church officials tussled over whether the priest should be dismissed, their highest priority was protecting the church from scandal.

The documents emerge as Pope Benedict is facing other accusations that he and direct subordinates often did not alert civilian authorities or discipline priests involved in sexual abuse when he served as an archbishop in Germany and as the Vatican’s chief doctrinal enforcer.

The Wisconsin case involved an American priest, the Rev. Lawrence C. Murphy, who worked at a renowned school for deaf children from 1950 to 1974. But it is only one of thousands of cases forwarded over decades by bishops to the Vatican office called the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, led from 1981 to 2005 by Cardinal Ratzinger. It is still the office that decides whether accused priests should be given full canonical trials and defrocked.

In 1996, Cardinal Ratzinger failed to respond to two letters about the case from Rembert G. Weakland, Milwaukee’s archbishop at the time. After eight months, the second in command at the doctrinal office, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, now the Vatican’s secretary of state, instructed the Wisconsin bishops to begin a secret canonical trial that could lead to Father Murphy’s dismissal.

But Cardinal Bertone halted the process after Father Murphy personally wrote to Cardinal Ratzinger protesting that he should not be put on trial because he had already repented and was in poor health and that the case was beyond the church’s own statute of limitations.

“I simply want to live out the time that I have left in the dignity of my priesthood,” Father Murphy wrote near the end of his life to Cardinal Ratzinger. “I ask your kind assistance in this matter.” The files contain no response from Cardinal Ratzinger.

The New York Times obtained the documents, which the church fought to keep secret, from Jeff Anderson and Mike Finnegan, the lawyers for five men who have brought four lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. The documents include letters between bishops and the Vatican, victims’ affidavits, the handwritten notes of an expert on sexual disorders who interviewed Father Murphy and minutes of a final meeting on the case at the Vatican.

Father Murphy not only was never tried or disciplined by the church’s own justice system, but also got a pass from the police and prosecutors who ignored reports from his victims, according to the documents and interviews with victims. Three successive archbishops in Wisconsin were told that Father Murphy was sexually abusing children, the documents show, but never reported it to criminal or civil authorities.

Instead of being disciplined, Father Murphy was quietly moved by Archbishop William E. Cousins of Milwaukee to the Diocese of Superior in northern Wisconsin in 1974, where he spent his last 24 years working freely with children in parishes, schools and, as one lawsuit charges, a juvenile detention center. He died in 1998, still a priest.

Even as the pope himself in a recent letter to Irish Catholics has emphasized the need to cooperate with civil justice in abuse cases, the correspondence seems to indicate that the Vatican’s insistence on secrecy has often impeded such cooperation. At the same time, the officials’ reluctance to defrock a sex abuser shows that on a doctrinal level, the Vatican has tended to view the matter in terms of sin and repentance more than crime and punishment.

The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, was shown the documents and was asked to respond to questions about the case. He provided a statement saying that Father Murphy had certainly violated “particularly vulnerable” children and the law, and that it was a “tragic case.” But he pointed out that the Vatican was not forwarded the case until 1996, years after civil authorities had investigated the case and dropped it.

Father Lombardi emphasized that neither the Code of Canon Law nor the Vatican norms issued in 1962, which instruct bishops to conduct canonical investigations and trials in secret, prohibited church officials from reporting child abuse to civil authorities. He did not address why that had never happened in this case.

As to why Father Murphy was never defrocked, he said that “the Code of Canon Law does not envision automatic penalties.” He said that Father Murphy’s poor health and the lack of more recent accusations against him were factors in the decision. The Vatican’s inaction is not unusual. Only 20 percent of the 3,000 accused priests whose cases went to the church’s doctrinal office between 2001 and 2010 were given full church trials, and only some of those were defrocked, according to a recent interview in an Italian newspaper with Msgr. Charles J. Scicluna, the chief internal prosecutor at that office. An additional 10 percent were defrocked immediately. Ten percent left voluntarily. But a majority — 60 percent — faced other “administrative and disciplinary provisions,” Monsignor Scicluna said, like being prohibited from celebrating Mass.

To many, Father Murphy appeared to be a saint: a hearing man gifted at communicating in American Sign Language and an effective fund-raiser for deaf causes. A priest of the Milwaukee Archdiocese, he started as a teacher at St. John’s School for the Deaf, in St. Francis, in 1950. He was promoted to run the school in 1963 even though students had disclosed to church officials in the 1950s that he was a predator.

Victims give similar accounts of Father Murphy’s pulling down their pants and touching them in his office, his car, his mother’s country house, on class excursions and fund-raising trips and in their dormitory beds at night. Arthur Budzinski said he was first molested when he went to Father Murphy for confession when he was about 12, in 1960.

“If he was a real mean guy, I would have stayed away,” said Mr. Budzinski, now 61, who worked for years as a journeyman printer. “But he was so friendly, and so nice and understanding. I knew he was wrong, but I couldn’t really believe it.”

Mr. Budzinski and a group of other deaf former students spent more than 30 years trying to raise the alarm, including passing out leaflets outside the Milwaukee cathedral. Mr. Budzinski’s friend Gary Smith said in an interview that Father Murphy molested him 50 or 60 times, starting at age 12. By the time he graduated from high school at St. John’s, Mr. Smith said, “I was a very, very angry man.”

In 1993, with complaints about Father Murphy landing on his desk, Archbishop Weakland hired a social worker specializing in treating sexual offenders to evaluate him. After four days of interviews, the social worker said that Father Murphy had admitted his acts, had probably molested about 200 boys and felt no remorse.

However, it was not until 1996 that Archbishop Weakland tried to have Father Murphy defrocked. The reason, he wrote to Cardinal Ratzinger, was to defuse the anger among the deaf and restore their trust in the church. He wrote that since he had become aware that “solicitation in the confessional might be part of the situation,” the case belonged at the doctrinal office.

With no response from Cardinal Ratzinger, Archbishop Weakland wrote a different Vatican office in March 1997 saying the matter was urgent because a lawyer was preparing to sue, the case could become public and “true scandal in the future seems very possible.”

Recently some bishops have argued that the 1962 norms dictating secret disciplinary procedures have long fallen out of use. But it is clear from these documents that in 1997, they were still in force.

But the effort to dismiss Father Murphy came to a sudden halt after the priest appealed to Cardinal Ratzinger for leniency.

In an interview, Archbishop Weakland said that he recalled a final meeting at the Vatican in May 1998 in which he failed to persuade Cardinal Bertone and other doctrinal officials to grant a canonical trial to defrock Father Murphy. (In 2002, Archbishop Weakland resigned after it became public that he had an affair with a man and used church money to pay him a settlement.)

Archbishop Weakland said this week in an interview, “The evidence was so complete, and so extensive that I thought he should be reduced to the lay state, and also that that would bring a certain amount of peace in the deaf community.”

Father Murphy died four months later at age 72 and was buried in his priestly vestments. Archbishop Weakland wrote a last letter to Cardinal Bertone explaining his regret that Father Murphy’s family had disobeyed the archbishop’s instructions that the funeral be small and private, and the coffin kept closed.

“In spite of these difficulties,” Archbishop Weakland wrote, “we are still hoping we can avoid undue publicity that would be negative toward the church.”

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Warned About Abuse, Vatican Failed to Defrock Priest; SNAP responds

Statement by Peter Isely of Milwaukee, Wisconsin - SNAP Midwest Director (in Rome today) For immediate release: Thursday, March 25, 2010

Newly-disclosed church records prove that the world’s two most powerful Catholic prelates refused to rein in a serial predator even though three US bishops begged them to act. Because these documents are relatively recent, the crimes so egregious, the victims so vulnerable and the Vatican inaction so clear, this disclosure is particularly damaging to Benedict and Bertone.

Benedict has told bishops to "recognize the extent and complexity of the (abuse) problem" and "admit grave errors of judgment were made and failures of leadership occurred." He’s said "All this has seriously undermined your credibility and effectiveness."

"It cannot be denied that some of you (bishops) and your predecessors failed, at times grievously, to apply the long-established norms of canon law to the crime of child abuse,” Benedict has written. “Serious mistakes were made in responding to allegations." He’s said that bishops should “remedy past mistakes” and “guarantee that they do not happen again.”

These papal admonitions apply to the pope as well. He must follow his own advice. He must “come clean,” about this case and others he has mishandled, especially as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF).

Several years ago, speaking about the abuse crisis, he told Irish bishops “It’s important to establish the truth of what happened.” Perhaps most important, it’s time for Benedict to do this, starting with his own cover ups. And if he refuses, how can he ever hope to hold others accountable for recklessness, deceit and callous misdeeds since he himself was involved in recklessness, deceit and callous misdeeds?

I feel passionate about the Times’ disclosures. I’ve spent hours with these extraordinarily brave victims of Fr. Murphy. I’ve met the Wisconsin church officials who tried to little about Murphy yet could and should have done so much more so much sooner. I know that tremendous suffering could have been prevented or ameliorated if any church official, even just one, would have been brave enough to act.
But it hurts even more to know, clearly, that even the top Catholic officials didn’t act, to either protect the vulnerable or heal the wounded.

It’s important to know how involved the Pope was with Fr. Hullerman, and other predator priests, nuns, seminarians and brothers, when he headed the Munich archdiocese. It’s important to know how the Pope and his highest aide, Cardinal Bertone, handled the Murphy case. But even more, it’s important to know how the Pope handled hundreds of cases across the world more recently, as head of the Vatican bureaucracy where all abuse reports were quietly sent.

That’s what he must do. The Pope, if he is to have any credibility whatsoever in this crisis, must voluntarily release records of how he himself handled hundreds of clergy sex crimes and cover ups as head of CDF. He can’t tell his managers across the globe “Be more open with abuse” unless he’s willing to lead by example.
Some claim that Ratzinger’s 2001 world-wide memo to bishops insisting on secrecy in clergy abuse cases was misinterpreted. These records show that, even before 2001, Ratzinger’s practice and priority was secrecy. More important, the stunningly consistent behavior of bishops across the globe proves that secrecy with clergy sex crimes remains ‘job one’ in the Catholic hierarchy even now, from the top down.
Statement by David Clohessy of St. Louis, Missouri - SNAP executive director (in Missouri today)

"These records prove that the world's two top Catholic officials did nothing about a serial predator despite repeated pleas from three US bishops. The reason was because then-Cardinal Ratzinger and then-Cardinal Bertone were afraid of publicity. The year was 1998. The obvious result was that more kids were molested. The likely result was that more kids were molested. And now, the likely result will be that any papal words about getting tough with predators or being open about abuse will be meaningless, because church staff will see that the Pope himself, just a dozen years ago, opted for secrecy and inaction with an admitted predator."

Let's be clear about Ratzinger and Bertone: They did nothing. They didn't call police, warn citizens, contact parents, defrock the predator, or insist that Wisconsin bishops do anything other than keep quiet.

If they refuse to act against a pedophile who admits molesting 34 kids, imagine their indifference and inaction with pedophiles who admit nothing and molest fewer. If they rebuff three bishops, imagine how they respond to lay Catholics and victims.
Let's be clear about the Wisconsin bishops: They are no saints either. They delayed for years, contacting the Vatican only when lawsuits were threatened. Before, after, or instead of seeking Rome's advice, they could and should have done their civic and moral duty by calling police. None of them apparently ever did.

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Fr. Lombardi explains Vatican response to sexual abuse by Wisconsin priest

Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi.
Vatican City, Mar 25, 2010 / 10:10 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The New York Times printed an article on Wednesday in which they alleged that in the 1990s the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), then Cardinal Ratzinger, did not respond to letters of a Wisconsin bishop on the matter of a sexually abusive priest. In an official response to the Times for the article, Fr. Federico Lombardi addressed the specific case and the CDF response.

According to the Times' article, Fr. Lawrence C. Murphy started working at the St John’s School for the Deaf in 1950. During his time there, civil and Church authorities were allegedly aware that he molested boys in the school.

He was moved from the Diocese of Milwaukee to the northern Wisconsin Diocese of Superior in 1974, where he continued working with children in parishes and even a juvenile detention hall.

After nearly two decades had passed and repeated complaints were received from victims about Fr. Murphy’s actions, Archbishop of Milwaukee Rembert G. Weakland began to investigate the cases in 1993. As part of the investigations, he hired a social worker to interview Fr. Murphy, during which he admitted to molesting around 200 boys.

The Times reported that, in 1996, after information had come to light that the priest had made solicitations in the confessional, thus violating the Sacrament of Penance, the archbishop referred the case to the Vatican.

Archbishop Weakland sent two letters about the violations to Cardinal Ratzinger, who was prefect of the CDF at the time. After eight months, he received orders from Cardinal Ratzinger's second-in-command, Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, instructing the U.S. bishops conference to carry out a canonical trial behind closed doors.

The investigations ended abruptly, they report, when Fr. Murphy sent a letter to the Vatican protesting the trial claiming that he had repented, his health was poor and the statute of limitations had passed.

Archbishop Weakland continued to call for the defrocking of the priest until a final meeting in the Vatican in May, 2008.

The New York Times stated that, “even as the pope himself in a recent letter to Irish Catholics has emphasized the need to cooperate with civil justice in abuse cases, the correspondence seems to indicate that the Vatican’s insistence on secrecy has often impeded such cooperation.”

"At the same time," the report continues, "the officials’ reluctance to defrock a sex abuser shows that on a doctrinal level, the Vatican has tended to view the matter in terms of sin and repentance more than crime and punishment.”

Fr. Federico Lombardi released his full response to the New York Times about the “Murphy Case” to members of the press in the Holy See’s Press Office on Thursday. The Vatican spokesman's response was only cited in part in the article from the New York Times.

He underscored that “Father Murphy violated the law and, more importantly, the sacred trust that his victims had placed in him.”

Fr. Lombardi related that victims reported abuses to the civil authorities in the mid-1970’s, but “according to news reports, that investigation was dropped.”
The CDF was made aware of the matter nearly two decades later, he pointed out, adding that the examination of how to address the question canonically was initiated, since the case involved a violation of the Sacrament of Penance.

Fr. Lombardi emphasized in his reply, “It is important to note that the canonical question presented to the Congregation was unrelated to any potential civil or criminal proceedings against Father Murphy.”

“In such cases, the Code of Canon law does not envision automatic penalties, but recommends that a judgment be made, not excluding even the greatest ecclesiastical penalty of dismissal from the clerical state," he explained.

Responding to the question of punishment, Fr. Lombardi referred to the fact that the abusive priest was "elderly and in very poor health, and that he was living in seclusion and no allegations of abuse had been reported in over 20 years." This led to the CDF suggestion to Milwaukee's archbishop of "restricting Father Murphy's public ministry and requiring that Father Murphy accept full responsibility for the gravity of his acts."

Fr. Lombardi notes that the priest died about four months afterward, "without further incident." He was 72 years old.

Concerning the suggestion of a link between the "non-reporting" of child abuse to civil authorities and the application of the Vatican document Crimen sollicitationis, which establishes Church policy against priests who violate the sanctity of the Sacrament of Penance by making advances in the confessional, Fr. Lombardi stated that "there is no such relationship."

"Indeed, contrary to some statements that have circulated in the press, neither Crimen nor the Code of Canon Law ever prohibited the reporting of child abuse to law enforcement authorities," he insisted.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Timeline of Benedict XVI’s personal cover-up of a German pedophile priest when he was Archbishop of Munich, Germany

Please read the details in Benedict XVI -Ratzinger, God's Rottweiler

Timeline of Benedict XVI’s personal cover-up of a German pedophile priest when he was Archbishop of Munich, Germany http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/timeline-of-benedict-xvis-personal.html

Benedict XVI’s priest brother, Georg Ratzinger admits “slapping” famous Regenesburg choir boys …but, was that all? http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvis-priest-brother-georg.html

Holy Crap! What “rigor”? Due to Pope's rigor, sex abuse victims are rendered justice, writes Italian bishop who is out-of-touch with reality http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/holy-crap-what-rigor-due-to-popes-rigor.html

UPDATES "Suffer through" in Walk in Oregon Trail in The Garden of Roses; more deceptions http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/updates-suffer-through-in-walk-in.html

Monday, March 15, 2010

John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army erupts in Switzerland and the Vienna Boys Choir and continues to jolt 20 of the 27 dioceses in Germany, Norway

Ever since John Paul II performed his second miracle making him closer to sainthood, his John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army has been erupting at an alarming rate in Europe. When he (allegedly) miraculously cured his German barber of hernia in Rome, there was the multiple shocks in Germany at the Jesuit prestigious Canisius school and then at the Ettal Benedictine Monastery. The names of Benedict XVI and the Benedictines of Germany are now forever tarnished with priest pedophilia. Benedict XVI chose the name of St. Benedict XVI to imitate him in his unique evangelization of Europe. But now Benedict XVI, instead of evangelization, has set a brushfire of John Paul II Pedophile Priests in Europe.

Christ is fed up with the secret crimes of Benedict XVI as Cardinal Josef Ratzinger, as head of the CDF condoned and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army during the 26 years of John Paul II’s papacy. Like an earthquake fault, the shocks of the crimes of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army are now being revealed one after another. There is simple nowhere for Benedict XVI to hide at the Vatican, he is a RATzinger lost in the Vatican sex scandal maze http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvi-is-now-ratzinger-lost-in.html

Please read our latest posts in our sister website, Benedict XVI –Ratzinger, God’s Rottweiler

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

Benedict XVI is Papal Humpty Dumpty. Pope showed wisdom and firmness against abuses as CDF prefect, says Msgr. Scicluna is preposterous! http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvi-is-papal-humpty-dumpty.html

Benedict XVI met with Germany’s Archbishop for 45 minutes to solve the 45+ years crimes of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in Germany http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvi-met-with-germanys.html

Benedict XVI is now a RATzinger lost in the Vatican sex scandal maze with nowhere to run http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvi-is-now-ratzinger-lost-in.html

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

Benedict XVI as Archbishop in Germany was personally involved in the cover-up of a pedophile priest http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvi-as-archbishop-in-germany.html

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

Who’s responsible & to blame: The Devil or Benedict XVI-Cardinal Ratzinger? Satan as scapegoat for Vatican's chaotic sex scandals

Abbot says 60 cases of abuse in Swiss Catholic church
SWITZERLAND
Earth Times
Geneva - Catholic priests allegedly abused 60 people in Switzerland, an abbot told a local paper Saturday, saying that the church was investigating. In an interview, Abbot Martin Werlen said he had been informed that 60 people were claiming to be victims of sexual abuse by clergy members.
If the allegations were to be found true, it would be up to the victims to decide on further legal steps, according to the Mittelland-Zeitung, cited by the SDA news agency.

The abbot of Einsiedeln, who is part of a Bishops Conference investigating such charges, confirmed that confessions would be kept in confidence.

Swiss media: 60 people report abuses by priests
SWITZERLAND
The Associated Press

GENEVA — Around 60 people have reported being victims of abuse by Catholic priests in Switzerland, a Swiss abbot said in an interview published by a newspaper Saturday.
Abbot Martin Werlen of the Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln said some of the allegations were reported to the Swiss Bishops Conference's commission on abuses, according to Swiss daily Neue Zuercher Zeitung. Werlen indicated that others were reported to different dioceses.

Werlen, who is a member of the commission on abuses at the Bishops Conference, did not specify where the alleged cases occurred or when they might have happened.

Swiss Catholic Church investigates 60 claims of sex abuse
SWITZERLAND

Deutsche Welle
The new wave of sex abuse allegations currently plaguing the Catholic Church has reached Switzerland. A Swiss abbot said victims, not the church, should be the ones to press charges.
The Catholic Church in Switzerland is investigating sixty claims of sexual abuse by priests, the Swiss news agency SDA reported.

Abbot Martin Werlen of the Benedictine Abbey of Einsiedeln told the newspaper Mittelland-Zeitung that the church is looking into the claims. The church itself will not press charges, Werlen emphasized, and intends to advise victims to do so themselves.
Posted Abuse tracker at 8:35 AM

Vienna Boys' Choir does not rule out past abuse cases
AUSTRIA
Earth Times
Vienna - The Vienna Boy's Choir said Friday it could not rule out cases of abuse in the past, reacting to allegations by two former members. The Austrian cultural icon is the most prestigious institution among the schools, Catholic monasteries and parishes that have been faced with accusations of physical and sexual abuse in the past days.
Two former choristers have told the daily Der Standard of sexual harassment and harsh disciplinary measures by teachers, and one of the alleged vicitms said he had been molested by another boy.
The management of the choir said it would be hard to clear up the issue because the incidents reportedly happened in the 1960s and 1980s, but added that "we are aware that there may have been cases of abuse in the past."

Vienna Boys Choir member makes sex abuse claim
AUSTRIA
Croatian Times
Marija Andric
The world-famous Vienna Boys' Choir has been hit by claims of sexual and physical abuse.
Boys were forced to shower naked in front of teachers, groped while on bus tours and force-fed, according to a German doctor and former member of the choir.
The doctor, now 33 and living in Berlin, also claims he was forced to perform oral sex by an older student.

Sex abuse scandals
EUROPE
France 24
[with video]
By Abby D'ARCY HUGHES / Anne MAILLIET / Brice BOUSSOUAR
Over the last weeks not a day has passed without fresh allegations against more Catholic schools in Germany. The scandal quickly spread to Hamburg, Bonn and Munich. There are now allegations of abuse in 20 of the 27 dioceses in Germany and the victims number in their hundreds.

Berlin's Canisius college, an elite jesuit school, was where the first allegations of sexual abuse were made public.

One of the men who broke the scandal was Thomas. He was only 13 years old when he was subjected to sexual abuse. It took him 30 years to muster up the courage to talk about it and to accuse two of his former teachers, both of them priests. After Thomas spoke up, hundreds of other victims came forward.
March 15, 2010

Paedophilia cases shake Catholic church worldwide

France 24
The paedophilia scandal that has gripped the Catholic Church in Germany, and crept into the halls of the Vatican, follows a series of similar revelations around the world in recent years. A review of some of the most striking cases.
By FRANCE 24 (with wires)

The United States
Catholic sex abuse cases gained widespread public attention from 2002, in particular in the United States, where it was revealed that thousands of instances of child abuse went unreported by the church hierarchy for decades. In 2002 Bernard Law, one of the top US cardinals, was forced to resign as archbishop of Boston over accusations that he had failed to denounce paedophile priests.

A 2004 investigation found that some 4,400 priests had engaged in sexual abuse of minors in the country between 1950 and 2002, and that the abuse had affected some 11,000 children. The church in the US has paid out millions of dollars to compensate victims and also to avoid drawn-out trials.
Canada
Hundreds of cases were revealed in the country at the end of the 1980s, before the scandal broke in the US. The church in Canada and the government also paid out hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation to victims of child abuse in 2002.

Austria
Accusations of sexual harassment led to the resignation of Cardinal Hans Hermann Groer as archbishop of Vienna in 1995. An Austrian priest was also found guilty of years of child abuse in a Salzburg monastery.

Australia
In July 2009, Pope Benedict XVI met and apologised to victims of sexual abuse on an official visit to Australia. Scandals in the country included sexual abuse in the 1970s and 1980s in a Catholic school in the town of Bathurst, west of Sydney.

Ireland
This year, in February, Pope Benedict XVI publicly rebuked Ireland’s bishops after a series of sex abuse scandals that rocked one of the most staunchly Catholic countries in Europe. Among cases, one priest admitted to sexually abusing over 100 children, while another said he had abused minors regularly over 25 years.

A total of 14,500 Irish children are reported to have been victims of abuse by clergy, who systematically sought to cover up paedophilia cases for at least 50 years.

Germany
Child abuse scandals emerged in March, involving 19 of the country's 27 dioceses. They revealed that two priests abused pupils in a Jesuit school in Berlin in the 1970s and 1980s. Parallel allegations cited incidents of abuse in the 1950s and 1960s, and possibly later, in a cathedral school in Regensburg, where the brother of the current pope was choir master.

Other countries in which the church has been hit by such scandals include Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Mexico and Senegal.

New sex abuse cases hit Catholic Church

http://theforeigner.no/pages/news/new-sex-abuse-cases-hit-catholic-church/

Seven more incidents reported in the last seven days.

The Norwegian Catholic Church has been told of seven new cases of sexual offences against minors in the past week.

“We have very little concrete information for now. It’s either up to those who subjected to abuse or their family members who must decide whether to go to the police,” Rønnaug Aaberg Andresen, head of the Church’s professional advisory committee tells Adresseavisen.

None of the new cases involved Georg Müller, now disgraced former Bishop-prelate of Trondheim.

There are now a total of 18 reported incidents, including three against underage girls, two of them sisters.

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* Priest's victim's compensation covered up

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Saturday, March 13, 2010

Benedict XVI was the 5-Star General of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in Germany and he is now on the run

Please go and must-read our latest posts in our sister weblog, Benedict XVI-Ratzinger, God’s Rottweiler

Benedict XVI met with Germany’s Archbishop for 45 minutes to solve the 45+ years crimes of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in Germany http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvi-met-with-germanys.html

Benedict XVI is now a RATzinger lost in the Vatican sex scandal maze with nowhere to run http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvi-is-now-ratzinger-lost-in.html

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

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

Benedict XVI as Archbishop in Germany was personally involved in the cover-up of a pedophile priest http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/03/benedict-xvi-as-archbishop-in-germany.html

Pope will struggle to survive abuse scandal

VATICAN CITY
Irish Independent
By John Cooney
Saturday March 13 2010

A depressing week for Pope Benedict dramatically escalated last night into an unprecedented papal crisis when he was directly implicated in a cover-up of a German paedophile priest when he was Cardinal Archbishop of Munich 30 years ago.
The latest revelations are so potentially damaging to the reputation of then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger that speculation was mounting last night that they could severely, perhaps even irreparably, damage his moral authority as Pope Benedict XVI.

It was being speculated that the German Pope could conceivably have to recognise that his position as supreme pontiff could become untenable -- and do what was until now considered impossible, resign from the Petrine throne.

Dismay

Benedict got a first-hand readout of the scope of the scandal yesterday in his native land from the head of the German Bishop's Conference, Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, who reported that the pontiff had expressed "great dismay and deep shock" over the scandal, but encouraged bishops to continue searching for the truth.

Less than a month after the Pope's summit meeting in Rome with the Irish bishops, at which he ordered them to step united in line behind the papal throne, the abuse issue is no longer "an Irish problem", as one senior Vatican cardinal crassly claimed. Clerical child abuse is now a German problem. It has become a Dutch problem. It is also an Austrian problem.

This Europe-wide dimension, on top of similar scandals and cover-ups in the United States, the Philippines and Mexico, to name but a few, makes it Rome's problem. To paraphrase former US president Harry Truman, the buck stops on the Pope's desk, as the spiritual leader of over one billion Catholics worldwide.

In the Pope's homeland of Germany the number of alleged victims nationwide has soared to 300 since the scandals first broke last month in a Jesuit-run boarding school in Berlin.

The Dutch church has climbed to 350 complaints just a week after the Salesians first admitted they were investigating claims that three pupils in a school were abused in the 1960s. In Austria, the Benedictine arch-abbot of St Peter's in Salzburg has resigned after admitting he abused a 12-year-old boy 40 years ago.

Worse still for Pope Benedict, the public spotlight has zoomed in on his older brother (86), Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, who denies that the issue of sexual abuse came to his notice when he was master of Germany's most illustrious group of choir boys in Regensburg from 1964 until 1994.

A former singer in the choir has alleged it was well known among the boarders that a headmaster of the school, now dead, would summon two or three of the boys from their dormitories to come up to his room, where abuse would take place.

"The issue of sexual abuse never came up but if I had known with what exaggerated brutality he (the former headmaster) had proceeded, then I would have said something," Mgr Georg said on Tuesday.

Questions

Questions are being asked about how the Pope dealt with abusive clergy when he was Cardinal Archbishop of Munich-Freising from 1977 to 1982, before he moved to Rome to head the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.

Cardinal Ratzinger's central role in handling abuse cases as 'the Vatican Rotweiller' has come back to haunt him as Pope Benedict, principally his 2001 confidential directive to bishops "on more serious crimes". This gave the Doctrinal Congregation control over how the church handles cases of sexual abuse of minors by priests.

This week Vatican spin-doctors robustly presented this directive as an important advance in making sure priest perverts were brought to justice.
The Vatican spokesman, Fr Frederico Lombardi, stressed it dealt with how canon law treated cases, and insisted this was not a substitute for civil law, which deals with the offence separately.

However, the media has interpreted the directive as a ban on bishops reporting serious accusations to civil authorities. The rub is that a personal letter from Cardinal Ratzinger to bishops accompanying the 2001 document said complaints against paedophile priests were covered by "pontifical secret", to be handled by bishops in strict confidentiality. Thus, the charge of "cover-up" against the Pope.

The Irish bishops at their Wednesday news conference in Maynooth backed the Vatican interpretation and accused the media of misrepresentation of Benedict. The Bishop of Dromore, John McAreavey, said it was clear to the bishops at their Rome summit that the 2001 letter "in no way precluded church authorities from their civil obligations, especially in regard to reporting and cooperating fully with the civil authorities."

The Irish bishops may have made the wrong call. Only hours after the Pope's meeting with Cardinal Zollitsch, the world's attention switched to his involvement in the 'Fr H' cover-up. Benedict is now in the eye of the biggest sex abuse crisis to hit the Vatican. Whether he can survive is doubtful -- if the Catholic Church he rules is also to survive.

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