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Vatican fast-tracks pedophile priest probe
VATICAN CITY (AFP) – The Vatican on Thursday issued new rules on the handling of abuse cases amid a worldwide scandal, ordering quicker investigations of paedophile priests and extending the statute of limitations. Announcing the measures in a bid to fend off accusations of high-level complacency, the Church also classified…
SCOTUS: No immunity for you, Papa Ratzi
SCOTUS is busy with the rulings today and it has now dealt a huge blow to the protectors of child-raping priests in the Vatican as a ruling came down today that could result in Pope Benedict taking the stand. (Raw Story): Allowing a federal appeals court ruling to stand, the…
Leaked Vatican document: Israeli occupation ‘unjust’
A Vatican document leaked on Tuesday calls the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories a “political injustice”, Italy’s ANSA news agency reported. The occupation is a “political injustice imposed on the Palestinians”, the Vatican says, according to extracts quoted by ANSA. “The Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories makes daily life…
Breaking: Benedict’s signature on letter requesting delay of defrocking of pedophile priest
The Pope can’t blame a NYT conspiracy or rumor-mongering this time. Whatever “woes” the Catholic Church is experiencing is a result of the multitude of cases of child-raping priests left free to run amok mount, leaving the church looking more like a crime syndicate than a bastion of faith. And…
1963 letter: Pope Paul VI aware of pedophile priests; Vatican plans immunity defense for Benedict
Finally the media realizes that there is a very long paper trail that goes back decades documenting the Catholic Church’s hierarchy was well aware of its little rape and molestation problem and did nothing except keep matters secret and play the “shuffle the priest around” game. While children were being…
NYT: Pope Benedict tied to coverup of predator priest molestation of 200 deaf boys
How can the Pope extricate himself from this evil? There’s nothing else to call it. The New York Times has extensive coverage and — there’s a document trail a mile long. Top Vatican officials — including the future Pope Benedict XVI — did not defrock a priest who molested as…
Irish Cardinal under cloud of scandal: I will only resign if the Pope asks me to
Oh man, it’s getting ugly now. How do you like the gauntlet that Cardinal Sean Brady, leader of the Catholic Church’s Irish flock, has thrown down at Pope Benedict. Why? It’s because Brady is under his own cloud of abuse scandal, and smells blood in the water now that Papa…
Cardinal: ‘gays and transvestites will never enter the kingdom of God’
Can we go just one flipping week without an ignorant bigot eruption from one of Papa Ratzi’s boyz? Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan, a Mexican cardinal and emeritus president of the Pontifical Council for Pastoral Health (1996-2009), has said in an interview with Pontifex, that homosexuals and transvestites “will never enter…
Papa Ratzi to be bombarded with 5 million condoms
Delicious! Pope Benedict XVI triggered yet another scandal when he criticized the use of condoms in the fight against AIDS in Africa. Now the protests are taking an unusual form: The pontiff is about to receive a deluge of condoms by post — gifts from international members of a Facebook…
Pope Benedict lifts excommunication of Holocaust denier
Can we ever reach the bottom of the sickness and hypocrisy with this man? Here’s yet another reason that the influence of Pope Benedict is meaningful — it extends beyond the spiritual bigotry — it extends into political bigotry, ignorance and gross insensitivity as well. Readers often ask why anyone…
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