Sometimes I think Jesus would rather I be here; I don't think the language bothers him as much as the things I'm criticizing.
I'm sure he would find this appalling, and yeah, little Johnny can stay home, too.
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Organ music: Vatican declined to dismiss priest who abused deaf boys
Well, here he cums, puke, I mean comes.
And why the jerk-off, Glob?
"Clergy abuse threatens to tarnish pope's legacy" by Victor L. Simpson, Associated Press Writer | March 26, 2010
VATICAN CITY --The Vatican is facing one of its gravest crises of modern times as sex abuse scandals move ever closer to Pope Benedict XVI -- threatening not only his own legacy but also that of his revered predecessor....
Oh, you men the SICK OLD DUDE who was AGAINST the INVASION of IRAQ and -- God rest his soul -- thought Bush was the Anti-Christ?
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You know, the guy is supposed to spend seven years setting it up and then moving on and leaving it for the next guy.
Of course, the next guy has morphed into the last guy so it's hard to get a handle on ObaMABUSh.
And if this Pope is run out (or poisoned like JPII's predecessor), we are down to the last one according to the prophecy, right, father?
The impression remains of a woefully slow-footed church and of a pope who bears responsibility for allowing pedophile priests to keep their parishes.
In an editorial on Friday, the National Catholic Reporter in the United States called on Benedict to answer questions about his role "in the mismanagement" of sex abuse cases, not only in the current crisis but during his tenure in the 1980s as archbishop of Munich and then as head of the Vatican's doctrinal and disciplinary office.
It all comes down to the question of what the pope knew and when.
Huh, what, did I hear something about war crimes or 9/11?
The answer will almost certainly determine the fate of Benedict's papacy.
Oh, there IS an effort under way to impeach, well, I guess its DEFROCK the Pope, 'eh?
Agenda-pushing paper been running with it, so something is afoot in the MSM confessional.
As he approaches Holy Week, the most solemn period on the Christian calendar, victims groups and other critics are demanding Benedict accept personal responsibility. A few say he should resign.
I was suspecting such a thing, and now it is confirmed.
Send 'em on up! Let God get busy sorting through 'em.
Maybe Obomber can lay off the Muslim dead for a while so those bodies don't stack up, 'eh?
Some fear the crisis will alienate Catholics from the church, with a survey in Benedict's native Germany already showing disaffection among Catholics while there is deep anger in once very Catholic Ireland.
Well, it's already been that way for a number of years even without the sick sex s***.
As the climate worsens, the Vatican is showing increasing impatience and even anger, denouncing what it says is a campaign to smear the pope.
Well, it is an agenda-pushing newspaper and I'm just wondering what he did to that set of interests.
I don't hear any calls to bring down Judaism over some sick rabbis.
But as attention focuses on Benedict, a perhaps thornier question looms over how much John Paul II, beloved worldwide for his inspirational charisma and courageous stand against communism, knew about sex abuse cases and whether he was too tolerant of pedophile priests.
Oh, yeah, RAKE DOWN the SICK DUDE who was AGAINST the WARS!
Look, I'm not excusing the butt-bumping (as evidenced by the sliding blade above); however, I'm ALMOST IN TEARS a BIT over the attempt now to PISS on the GRAVE of the FORMER POPE!
Look, you want to get 'em to retract the fast-track sainthood, fine. Constant demanding of fealty and sensitivity to a certain select slice of people, yeah, used to it. But C'MON!
Leave the dead guy buried, will ya? He's OUR GUY, not yours!!
John Paul presided over the church when the sex abuse scandal exploded in the United States in 2002 and the Vatican was swamped with complaints and lawsuits under his leadership....
Well, he was on his way out back then!
WE KNOW WHY he was FIGHTING so HARD to LIVE!!!
Weird him croaking soon after Bush met with h... i... m.
Professor Nick Cafardi, a canon and civil lawyer and former chairman of the U.S. bishops lay review board that monitored abuse, said Benedict was "very courageous" to reverse Vatican support for the Legionaries of Christ, a sex scandal-tainted organization staunchly defended by John Paul.
John Paul was already ailing from Parkinson's disease when the U.S. scandal erupted, a factor supporters say may have kept him from initially realizing its scope.
And here the lying, war-promoting, Zionist-run press is dogging him.
Sorry, readers, that's my prism.
While Cardinal Bernard Law became the most high-profile church figure to fall, resigning as archbishop of Boston over the scandal, John Paul gave him a soft landing, appointing him as head of a Rome basilica and keeping him on various Vatican committees.
He's what, scrawling an X across papers at that point while drooling on them?
I'm not trying to be cruel; I disagreed with the guy at times but I did generally like him. At least he said something sometimes.
Oh, nothing came of it?
Well, that happens a lot of times, and I point you to the politicians and papers first!
The world-traveling John Paul has been put on a fast track for sainthood by Benedict in response to popular demand.
Well, we can't have that, can we?
Cardinal Jose Saraiva Martins, the emeritus head of the Vatican's saint-making office, said this week that historians who studied the pope's life didn't find anything problematic in John Paul's handling of abuse scandals.
For Benedict, a quiet intellectual who will be 83 next month, the scandal must be trying.
Well, not as trying as, well, a certain insertion in a certain area, Father, why have you forgotten me?
Until recently, Benedict had received high marks for his handling of sex abuse -- seen as a bright spot amid turmoil over his remarks linking Islam to violence and his rehabilitation of an ultraconservative bishop who denies the Holocaust.
That part after the clip didn't make my printed paper.
Related: Father, Why Have You Forgotten Me?
Of course, the geezer did visit Palestine (and got the criticism for it).
Shortly before his election as pope in 2005 he had denounced "filth" in the church -- widely viewed as a reference to clerics who abused children. He proclaimed a policy of zero tolerance for offenders and met and prayed with victims while traveling in the United States and Australia.
Well, that never works for anything.
Can we try a "zero-tolerance" policy for the mass-murdering wars anyway, though?
Benedict won praise for moving against the Legionaries of Christ, the conservative order once hailed by John Paul that fell into scandal after it revealed that its founder had fathered a child and had molested seminarians.
The Vatican began investigating allegations against the Rev. Marcial Maciel of Mexico in the 1950s, but it wasn't until 2006, a year into Benedict's pontificate, that the Vatican instructed Maciel to lead a "reserved life of prayer and penance" in response to the abuse allegations -- effectively removing him from power.
This is even before the old guy so why dump it all on him!?
But reaction changed as the abuse scandal moved across Europe and into Benedict's native Germany in recent months, touching the pontiff himself with a case dating to his tenure as archbishop of Munich. The former vicar general of the Munich archdiocese has absolved the pope of responsibility in the case of the Rev. Peter Hullermann, accused of abusing boys.
While then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was involved in a 1980 decision to transfer Hullermann to Munich for therapy, Ratzinger's then-deputy took responsibility for a subsequent decision to let the priest return to pastoral duties. Hullermann was convicted of sexual abuse in 1986.
However, the New York Times reported Friday that Ratzinger was copied in on a memo stating Hullermann would be returned to pastoral work within days of beginning psychiatric treatment. The archdiocese insisted Ratzinger was unaware of the decision and that any other version was "mere speculation."
(Zzzzzzzzzzzz, snort, what, huh, oh. Happens a lot in church)
That was where my printed edition cut it.
All right, let me take communion:
French bishops rallied around Benedict in a letter on Friday, saying while they deplored clerical sex abuse, the issue "is being used in a campaign to attack you personally."
Still, it is in Germany where Benedict's popularity has taken a real hit.
A poll in Stern magazine released this week shows only 39 percent of Germany's Catholics trust the pope, down from 62 percent in late January. Some 34 percent trust the Catholic church as an institution, down from 56 percent in January. The margin of error was 2.5 percentage points.
Welcome to the club, I guess.
Rainer Kampling, a professor of Catholic theology at Berlin Free University, says the idea that the pope might resign -- slipping polls not withstanding -- is hardly realistic. "The pope is not a politician," he said.
But it doesn't mean they can't try.
Herbert Kohlmaier, chairman of an Austrian Catholic group that has criticized Benedict, also said a resignation shouldn't be expected. "They certainly won't let a symbolic figure like that go."
While church law allows for the resignation of a pope, there are few precedents over the church's two millennium history. The last was by 15th-century Pope Gregory XII, and that was not over scandal but rather a schism in the church.
Well, pumping poopers is a schism, isn't it?
Yeah, you webbers got dicked around by the BG:
"Don't blame pope, Vatican says; 'No knowledge' of pedophile's reassignment" by Rachel Donadio, New York Times | March 27, 2010
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany (left), now Pope Benedict XVI, prayed alongside Pope John Paul II during Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican in 2002. (Paolo Cito/Associated Press/File)
The look has a "just die already so I can become Pope look," doesn't it?
ROME — The Vatican yesterday reaffirmed its position that the future Pope Benedict XVI “had no knowledge’’ of a decision to allow a known pedophile priest to resume pastoral duties when the pope was archbishop in Munich in 1980....
I don't want to sit through another sermon, readers, especially one from these guys.
In a blog post last night, Cardinal Sean O’Malley addressed the pope’s recent letter about clergy sexual abuse to the church in Ireland, saying he was surprised by its length and “very moved’’ by its content. O’Malley acknowledged the letter has drawn criticism — many Catholics felt it failed to acknowledge the pope’s role or that of the Vatican in failing to stop abusive priests — but he said it was an important step toward healing....
Can't say as I'm surprised; they just want this to go away.
Related: O'Malley's Odyssey
I give him some points for trying, as well that replacing that s*** Law.
What an embarrassment to Boston.
Then the NYT and BG lift the AP verbatim for the rest of it?
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"As archbishop, Benedict focused on doctrine, not priests; More effort spent on dissidents than predators" by Katrin Bennhold and Nicholas Kulish, New York Times | March 28, 2010
C'mon, not again (although this is in my Sunday Glob)!
MUNICH — As archbishop, Benedict expended more energy pursuing theological dissidents than sexual predators. Already in the early 1980s, one could catch a glimpse of a future pope preoccupied with combating any movement away from church tradition....
His management decisions are now the central focus of the widening scandal in the church in Germany....
Hannes Burger, 72, who covered the church, including Benedict’s time as archbishop, for the Munich-based daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung [and] interviewed the future pope several times before he went to Rome:
“He held beautiful sermons and wrote beautifully, but the details he left to his staff. He was a professorial bishop, with Rome as his goal.’’
Sort of like a George Bush bishopcy?
Three decades ago it was common practice in the church to ignore or cover up cases of molestation, or, in severe cases, to transfer priests to faraway parishes.
Must be reading too many AmeriKan newspapers.
Even outside the church, both victims and law enforcement authorities were less likely to take decisive steps to expose and combat abuse.
Yeah, well, don't bash state authority.
But Benedict’s track record in handling such cases under his direct control has assumed new relevance because he presides over a church troubled by scandal....
In fact, in his efforts to combat child abuse in 2010, Benedict faces a dilemma over how to handle the same kind of institutional secrecy that was practiced by his own archdiocese in 1980. The future pope himself chose “co-workers of the truth,’’ as the motto for his time as archbishop.
The case is alarming, wrote the German newspaper Die Zeit last week, not “because Ratzinger was guilty of an exceptional offense.’’
“It is the other way around: It is significant because the archbishop acted as probably most other dignitaries in those years,’’ it wrote. “In 1980 Joseph Ratzinger was part of the problem that preoccupies him today.’’
Kind of ironic, 'eh?
His time in Munich was marked by confrontations with the local clergy, theologians and priests who worked there at the time say.....
Andreas Englisch, a leading German Vatican specialist and the author of several books on Benedict, said that transferring a problem priest was “such a difficult decision’’ that it would necessarily have required his opinion.
“I think the guy who handled it would have gone to his archbishop and said, ‘This case of transferring a priest is not common, and we should really have an eye on him,’ ’’ Englisch said.
Referring to Benedict, he added, “I don’t think that he really knew the details; I don’t think he was really interested in the details.’’
Well, I don't want to know about it either, but something stinking and what's the first thing you do? Put light on it so you can see where it is coming from.
“As they say in the legal profession, you either knew or you should have known,’’ said the Rev. Thomas P. Doyle, who once worked at the Vatican Embassy in Washington and became an early and well-known whistle-blower on sexual abuse in the church. “The archbishop is the unquestioned authority in that diocese. The buck stops there.’’
Good for all cases except USraeli war criminals.
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Yeah, I do have a one-track mind, don't I, readers?
"Top Vatican cardinal backs pope amid scandal" by Alessandra Rizzo, Associated Press | March 28, 2010
The Vatican insists that the authority of Pope Benedict XVI, shown in his Vatican library, hasn’t been weakened. (Mimmo Chianura/Getty Images/Vatican Pool)
I have to admit, he is a creepy looking f***er.
VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said yesterday that recent attacks on the church over its handling of clerical sex abuse cases have been harmful, but insisted that the pope’s authority had not been weakened....
Still in denial, 'eh?
Revelations of the sexual abuse of children by priests at Catholic institutions have swept across Europe and into Benedict’s native Germany. The pope has come under fire for a case dating to his tenure as archbishop of Munich and another when he was head of the Vatican office responsible for disciplining priests.
Revelations, under fire, something big going down.
Cardinal Walter Kasper, a top Vatican official, acknowledged in an interview published yesterday that church authorities had on occasion maintained silence over cases of sex abuse....
The cardinal, however, called for a cleanup and said the church must be more alert and brave in dealing with any sex abuse. He said a growing awareness of the problem makes the path of renewal “irreversible.’’
“We need a culture of attentiveness and courage, and a housecleaning,’’ Kasper, also a German, said in the interview.
No, that does not mean a baptismal enema!!!!
Until recently, Benedict had received high marks for his handling of sex abuse.
Taking a much harder stance than his predecessor, John Paul II, Benedict disciplined a senior cleric who had been championed by the Polish pontiff and dismissed others under a new policy of zero tolerance.
But reaction changed after.....
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Oh, the MSM-provided verses are over!
Be another kind of palm later this afternoon, readers -- like with a basketball.
