Saturday, February 16, 2019

THE POPE AND HIS PEDOPHILES - IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH THE MOST EVIL INSTITUTION IN WESTERN CIVILIZATION?

IT'S TIME ALL CATHOLIC CHURCHES POST WARNINGS ON PEDOPHILE PRIESTS ON THEIR FRONT DOORS!


French Authorities Investigate Pope’s Ambassador for Homosexual Assault



France probes sexual assault claim against Vatican envoy
AFP/File
49
2:45

The Paris public prosecutor has opened an investigation into charges that the Vatican nuncio to France, Archbishop Luigi Ventura, repeatedly molested a junior mayoral aide sexually during a speech last month.

The Paris mayor’s office filed a complaint against the 74-year-old prelate on January 24, alleging he had sexually fondled the young man three times during an address by Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo to diplomats at the City Hall on January 17.
“During these proceedings, a city employee was subjected to sexual touching three times, with hands insistently pressed to the buttocks, one time in front of witnesses,” Le Mondereported Friday.
Archbishop Ventura has served as ambassador for 10 years and the allegations come amidst a wave of sexual abuse accusations in the clergy as well as a major book by a French journalist alleging a significant presence of actively gay priests and bishops in the Vatican. The book, titled In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy, asserts that some 80 percent of Vatican prelates are homosexual.
The Paris public prosecutor, Rémy Heitz, reportedly opened his judicial investigation the day after the complaint was filed.
The young man who reported the alleged harassment works at the General Delegation for International Relations (DGRI) at City Hall.
French media have suggested that the Vatican diplomat could appeal for immunity to avoid prosecution.
The Vatican press office responded with a brief statement noting that the Holy See had learned of the investigation from media reports and that the Vatican “awaits the results of the investigations.”
News of the alleged abuse comes at a bad time for the Vatican, following a series of reports asserting that clerical sexual abuse is overwhelmingly homosexual in nature.
The Catholic Church in Belgium released a report on clerical sex abuse this week showing that 76 percent of priests’ victims were males, which echoes patterns of chiefly homosexual abuse in other countries.
A sexual abuse commission in Germany published a study  last September documenting more than 3,500 cases of clerical sex abuse involving “mostly male minors” between 1946 and 2014.
The most comprehensive report on clerical sex abuse ever undertaken in the United States, the 2004 John Jay report, found that 81 percent of the victims of clerical sex abuse were male and 78 percent of all victims were post-pubescent.
Follow Thomas D. Williams on Twitter 

Vatican Defrocks Theodore McCarrick Over Homosexual Abuse



US cardinal Theodore Edgar McCarrick arrives for a meeting on the eve of the start of a conclave on March 11, 2013 at the Vatican. Cardinals will hold a final set of meetings on Monday before they are locked away to choose a new pope to lead the Roman Catholic …
JOHANNES EISELE/AFP/Getty Images
451
3:38


The Vatican announced Saturday that former-cardinal Theodore McCarrick will be laicized after finding him guilty of serial homosexual abuse.

According to a Vatican statement, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) issued a “decree finding Theodore Edgar McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington, D.C., guilty of the following delicts while a cleric: solicitation in the Sacrament of Confession, and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and with adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power.”
The decree was issued on January 11 at the conclusion of a penal process, the Vatican said, imposing on him “the penalty of dismissal from the clerical state.”
Having examined McCarrick’s defense, the CDF confirmed the prior decree and notified McCarrick of the decision on February 15, 2019.
Pope Francis has recognized the “definitive nature” of this decision, the Vatican statement added, meaning that no further appeals will be admitted.
As expected, the ruling was announced prior to next week’s Vatican summit on clerical sex abuse. Pope Francis has invited the heads of all the national bishops’ conferences around the world to participate in the meeting.
Last July, Pope Francis accepted McCarrick’s resignation from the college of cardinals following revelations of sexual impropriety and abuse spanning decades.
The first accusation of sexual abuse became public on June 20, 2018 when the Archdiocese of New York released a statement announcing “credible and substantiated” allegations of abuse by McCarrick when he was a priest of the New York archdiocese.
Two other accusations of abuse of minors later surfaced, as well as numerous charges of sexual harassment of seminarians and priests. All of the former cardinal’s alleged victims were males.
The question remains regarding when Pope Francis found out about McCarrick’s abuse and why he waited so long to act on it.
An August 25, 2018 report from a high-ranking Vatican official alleged that the pope had learned of McCarrick’s misdeeds at least as early as 2013 — since the official personally informed him — and yet lifted sanctions against McCarrick and rehabilitated him as an advisor in naming new American bishops.
When journalists asked the pope whether these allegations were true, and when indeed he had learned the facts about McCarrick, the pope neither confirmed nor denied the report, adopting instead the strategy of “no comment.”
The pope encouraged journalists to investigate the case, but so far has refused to answer their questions.
On October 7, the Vatican prefect of the Congregation of Bishops confirmed allegations that Pope Benedict XVI had curbed McCarrick’s activities due to concerns about his behavior.
“The former Cardinal,” wrote Cardinal Marc Ouellet, “had been requested not to travel or to make public appearances, in order to avoid new rumors about him.”
In a 2014 article in the Washington Post, journalist David Gibson said that McCarrick was “one of a number of senior churchmen who were more or less put out to pasture during the eight-year pontificate of Benedict XVI.”
All of this changed under Pope Francis, the article suggested.
“But now Francis is pope, and prelates like Cardinal Walter Kasper (another old friend of McCarrick’s) and McCarrick himself are back in the mix, and busier than ever,” Gibson wrote.
“Francis, who has put the Vatican back on the geopolitical stage, knows that when he needs a savvy back channel operator he can turn to McCarrick,” he wrote.
Follow Thomas D. Williams on Twitter 

Vatican Whistleblower Says Summit on Abuse Fails to Address Root Causes



Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano
Edward Pentin
16
2:45

The former papal nuncio to the United States has declared that the upcoming Vatican summit on clerical sex abuse seems doomed to failure because of an unwillingness to address the root causes of the crisis, notably the extensive homosexual network in the Church.

“Why does the word ‘homosexuality’ never appear in recent official documents of the Holy See?” asked Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò in a recent symposium. “This is by no means to suggest that most of those with a homosexual inclination are abusers, but the fact remains that the overwhelming majority of abuse has been inflicted on post-pubescent boys by homosexual clerics.”
“It is mere hypocrisy to condemn the abuse and claim to sympathize with the victims without facing up to this fact honestly. A spiritual revitalization of the clergy is necessary, but it will be ultimately ineffectual if it does not address this problem,” the archbishop stated.
In his statement, Viganò also wondered aloud why Pope Francis continues to elevate “notorious” homosexuals to positions of influence if he really intends to tackle the problem.
“Why does Pope Francis keep and even call as his close collaborators people who are notorious homosexuals?” Viganò said. “Why has he refused to answer legitimate and sincere questions about these appointments? In doing so he has lost credibility on his real will to reform the Curia and fight the corruption.”
A new book on the extensive homosexual presence in the Vatican is due for release on February 21, the first day of the Vatican meeting on clerical sex abuse.
In his explosive 576-page exposé, titled In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy, French journalist Frédéric Martel — who is openly gay and an LGBT activist — accuses the Catholic Church of hypocrisy for opposing gay marriage and adoption when so many of its own clerics are active homosexuals.
Martel asserts that 80 percent of Vatican clergy and prelates are gay, many of them actively so, a figure he claims to have arrived at after four years of research in which he interviewed more than 1500 experts and Church insiders — including 41 cardinals — in 30 different countries.
In his statement, Archbishop Viganò also asked why the Vatican summit will deal exclusively with the abuse of minors.
“These crimes are indeed the most horrific, but the crises in the United States and Chile that have largely precipitated the upcoming summit have to do with abuses committed against young adults, including seminarians, not only against minors,” Viganò said. “Almost nothing has been said about sexual misconduct with adults, which is itself a grave abuse of pastoral authority, whether or not the relationship was ‘consensual.’”
Recent reports suggest that clerical sex abuse over the last decades has been overwhelmingly homosexual in nature, with at least three out of four victims being male.

No comments: