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Pope John Paul II with the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado in 2004. Father Maciel was being congratulated on have committed the most wide ranging achievements in sexual abuse in the Church up to that time.
This week Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday took control of the Legionaries of Christ, a powerful and wealthy Roman Catholic religious order whose founder, a friend of Pope John Paul II, was found to have molested seminarians and fathered several children.
Observato Romano provided the following audio transcription of the meeting:
"Marci, you stronza!; amazing work! You've been such a busy boy!
Hey, do you think you can introduce me to some of those hot young seminarians?
"You know what we used to say back at the diocese when I was your age;--they don't call them SEMENarians for nothing!"
(The Pontiff laughs)
"I can take from here Marciel."
"Am I right? ..Am I right?---Of course I'm right!---I'm infallible!"
(The Pontiff laughs again, heartily)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/02/world/europe/02legion.html?hpwPope John Paul II with the Rev. Marcial Maciel Degollado in 2004. Father Maciel was... more
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The case for bringing the head of the Catholic hierarchy within the orbit of law is easily enough made. All it involves is the ability to look at a naked emperor and ask the question "Why?" Mentally remove his papal vestments and imagine him in a suit, and Joseph Ratzinger becomes just a Bavarian bureaucrat who has failed in the only task he was ever set—that of damage control. The question started small. In 2002, I happened to be on Hardball With Chris Matthews, discussing what the then attorney general of Massachusetts, Thomas Reilly, had termed a massive cover-up by the church of crimes against children by more than a thousand priests. I asked, why is the man who is prima facie responsible, Cardinal Bernard Law, not being questioned by the forces of law and order? Why is the church allowed to be judge in its own case and enabled in effect to run private courts where gross and evil offenders end up being "forgiven"? This point must have hung in the air a bit, and perhaps lodged in Cardinal Law's own mind, because in December of that year he left Boston just hours before state troopers arrived with a subpoena seeking his grand-jury testimony. Where did he go? To Rome, where he later voted in the election of Pope Benedict XVI and now presides over the beautiful church of Santa Maria Maggiore, as well as several Vatican subcommittees.The case for bringing the head of the Catholic hierarchy within the orbit of law is... more
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It's hard to tell if this is true, though what was written in the Foreign Office memo sounded more fake than this (and it turned out to be true). The Vatican might ask Susan Boyle to perform at a public mass when the pope visits in September. We can only hope it'll be the performance where finally Subo and Lady GaGa duet. With the Pope on drums. Okay that last part will never happen, because the popes' hat would fall off if he played drums.
""We hope to be able to discuss the possibility of her participation soon," remarked a spokesperson, who revealed there has been no confirmed agreement with or formal invitation to SuBo."-MetroIt's hard to tell if this is true, though what was written in the Foreign Office... more
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Since in recent weeks my Yahoo! blog has attracted some remarkably angry and hate-filled comments, I thought it was time I tackled something tame and uncontroversial, with no history of inflaming passions. So then: the Pope.
I wouldn't want to be the Pope at the moment. This is just as well, as I'm under-qualified, not being a practising Catholic, or a religious believer, and on top of all this I only recently bought a flat in London and it would be a bit of a hassle to move everything to the Vatican. But even leaving all this aside, Benedict XVI must be starting to feel that the big gig he got in 2005 was something of a poisoned chalice (although that's probably not a metaphor with much weight in the Vatican, since they undoubtedly have actual poisoned chalices in there). Even though he's doing nothing more than minding his own business, honouring Jesus in the way Christ himself would have wanted - by surrounding himself with billions of pounds' worth of treasures - the Pope has been under almost constant attack of late.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/blogs/mark_watson/article/1670/Since in recent weeks my Yahoo! blog has attracted some remarkably angry and... more
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VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has promised "church action" to confront the clerical abuse scandal.
Benedict told his weekly public audience Wednesday in St. Peter's Square that he had told victims of abuse during his recent trip to Malta that he "shared their suffering ... assuring them of church action."
Benedict met Sunday with eight Maltese men who say they were abused by priests as children. The Vatican issued a statement saying Benedict had told the men during the private meeting that the church would do everything in its power to bring justice to abusive priests and would implement "effective measures" to protect children.
Benedict's words Wednesday are his first public comment on the scandal, although he called for repentence last week.VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI has promised "church action" to... more
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Hey All!
Has anyone else noticed the spam of "look at X Celeb wearing X item" on current laterly?
personally im kind of annoyed that current has allowed users to spam crap about celebrities all day,
right now in the news feed i can see 4 of the top 10 articles been about celebrities, and to be honest im kind of annoyed that current is becoming a womans gossip website :/
-Charlize Theron Lil’ Cameltoe leaving the gym in West Hol...
-Miley Cyrus See Through Top
-Kristen Stewart In A See Through Dress
-Top 10 Celebrity Babes with Mouth Watering Cleavages
for the record miley cyrus is a underage 16 year old girl right? so isnt that kind of creepy to post?here look at a underage girls see through top.... i mean considering in other articles we are discussing the popes problem with little children isnt it hypocritical to allow postings about underage girls in revealing clothes?
when we have real news articles like these:
-Giant Ash Cloud Grounds London Flights
-We're living in broken Britain, say most voters
the spam is taking away space where real news should be.
i dont care what overpaid bimbo is wearing a bikini today, if i want to see that ive got google images ha
i come to current for REAL news. can we keep it that way?Hey All!
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John, Paul, George, Ringo – and Benedict
Vatican newspaper tribute to the Beatles strikes an odd note at a troubled time for Rome
By JERE HESTER
Updated 8:45 PM PDT, Tue, Apr 13, 2010
The headline on the fake news story in a circa 1978 issue of National Lampoon, if memory serves, went something like this: "John Paul Elected Pope; George Ringo Miffed."
The joke was good for a laugh, but not just because of the wordplay: the absurdity of juxtaposing the biggest youth pop culture phenomenon of all time with old-time religion in a magazine born of the counterculture took the gag beyond a one-liner.
The farcical news story came to mind this week as the Vatican's official newspaper offered its own almost equally surreal declaration that John, Paul, George and Ringo are finally okay with the folks who gave us Matthew, Mark, Luke and John – even if England’s Fab Four were wildmen who might have dabbled in the “satanic.”
"It's true, they took drugs; swept up by their success, they lived dissolute and uninhibited lives," L'Osservatore Romano declared in a weekend tribute to the Beatles. "They even said they were more famous than Jesus and put out mysterious messages, that were possibly even satanic…
"But, listening to their songs, all of this seems distant and meaningless," the newspaper said. "Their beautiful melodies, which changed forever pop music and still give us emotions, live on like precious jewels."
The lofty pronouncement is a mixed blessing that raises some admittedly disparate questions: Who cares what they think? What took them so long? And don’t they have more important issues to deal with right now?
The first thing that inevitably comes up in discussions of the Beatles and Christianity is John Lennon’s 1966 remark that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. That he intended the statement as a commentary on youth and religion, and not as a boast, didn't stop some very un-Christian-like behavior, such as death threats and record bonfires in the U.S. Bible Belt.
The Beatles embarked on various spiritual journeys as a group and individuals, searching for meaning in meditation and Eastern religion, among other places. But their simple message of peace and love, delivered in song, is hard to argue with, no matter what your faith or lack thereof.
The tribute, timed to the anniversary of the group’s breakup 40 years ago, follows praise from the paper in recent years for Revolver and the White Album, and what amounted to forgiveness for Lennon’s comments. That’s all well and fine, though Lennon didn’t need – and probably would have scoffed at – absolution for speaking his mind.
That it took the Vatican decades to catch up with the positive impact of the Beatles serves as a reminder how out of touch Rome can be at times – especially as the papacy is embroiled in a controversy far more serious than whether or not a pop group was a force for good.
"Didn't the Vatican say we were satanic or possibly satanic – and they've still forgiven us?” Ringo Starr told CNN. “I think the Vatican, they've got more to talk about than the Beatles."
Perhaps he has a point. Or maybe he's miffed the tribute came from a Vatican headed by Pope Benedict – and not Pope George Ringo.
Hester is founding director of the award-winning, multi-media NY City News Service at the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is the former City Editor of the New York Daily News, where he started as a reporter in 1992. Follow him on Twitter.John, Paul, George, Ringo – and Benedict
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A mayor in Malta has called for a statue to be taken down before the Pope visits his town this weekend. The artwork in question, the 'Colonna Mediterranea', is a sculpture by local artist Paul Vella Critien, and since 2006 has stood at a roundabout in Luqa, near to Maltaís international airport. Pope Benedict XVI is due to be driven past it when he visits Malta on April 17th and 18th.
John Schembri, the mayor of Luqa, has described the sculpture as 'vulgar' and 'embarrassing', and has demanded it's removed as 'it is not the most fitting way in which to greet the Pope.'
The government says they've got no plans to get ride of the statue, whilst Critien called detractors of it 'ignorant' and' stupid' and said it wasn't a giant penis, but an ancient Egyptian symbol..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/malta/7586234/Vulgar-phallic-sculpture-should-be-pulled-down-for-Popes-Malta-visit-mayor-says.htmlA mayor in Malta has called for a statue to be taken down before the Pope visits his... more
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RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”.
Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
The pair believe they can exploit the same legal principle used to arrest Augusto Pinochet, the late Chilean dictator, when he visited Britain in 1998.
The Pope was embroiled in new controversy this weekend over a letter he signed arguing that the “good of the universal church” should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys. It was dated 1985, when he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases.
Benedict will be in Britain between September 16 and 19, visiting London, Glasgow and Coventry, where he will beatify Cardinal John Henry Newman, the 19th-century theologian.
Dawkins and Hitchens believe the Pope would be unable to claim diplomatic immunity from arrest because, although his tour is categorised as a state visit, he is not the head of a state recognised by the United Nations.
They have commissioned the barrister Geoffrey Robertson and Mark Stephens, a solicitor, to present a justification for legal action.
The lawyers believe they can ask the Crown Prosecution Service to initiate criminal proceedings against the Pope, launch their own civil action against him or refer his case to the International Criminal Court.
Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, said: “This is a man whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence.”
Hitchens, author of God Is Not Great, said: “This man is not above or outside the law. The institutionalised concealment of child rape is a crime under any law and demands not private ceremonies of repentance or church-funded payoffs, but justice and punishment."
Last year pro-Palestinian activists persuaded a British judge to issue an arrest warrant for Tzipi Livni, the Israeli politician, for offences allegedly committed during the 2008-09 conflict in Gaza. The warrant was withdrawn after Livni cancelled her planned trip to the UK.
“There is every possibility of legal action against the Pope occurring,” said Stephens. “Geoffrey and I have both come to the view that the Vatican is not actually a state in international law. It is not recognised by the UN, it does not have borders that are policed and its relations are not of a full diplomatic nature.”RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope... more
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Mayor John Schembri on Malta wants to save Pope Benedict XVI from the shame of confronting a gigantic phallic symbol when Benedict visits Malta this weekend, even thought the artist says it's a "not a phallic symbol but a modern representation of a symbol dating back to ancient Egypt."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8617305.stmMayor John Schembri on Malta wants to save Pope Benedict XVI from the shame of... more
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The Pope is facing allegations he was responsible for delaying Church action against a paedophile priest - the first time he has been accused so directly.
LINK : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8612457.stmThe Pope is facing allegations he was responsible for delaying Church action against a... more
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The future Pope Benedict XVI resisted pleas to defrock a California priest with a record of sexually molesting children, citing concerns including "the good of the universal church," according to a 1985 letter bearing his signature.
The correspondence, obtained by The Associated Press, is the strongest challenge yet to the Vatican's insistence that Benedict played no role in blocking the removal of pedophile priests during his years as head of the Catholic Church's doctrinal watchdog office.
The letter, signed by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was typed in Latin and is part of years of correspondence between the Diocese of Oakland and the Vatican about the proposed defrocking of the Rev. Stephen Kiesle.
The Vatican refused to comment on the contents of the letter Friday, but a spokesman confirmed it bore Ratzinger's signature.
In the November 1985 letter, Ratzinger says the arguments for removing Kiesle are of "grave significance" but added that such actions required very careful review and more time. He also urged the bishop to provide Kiesle with "as much paternal care as possible" while awaiting the decision, according to a translation for AP by Professor Thomas Habinek, chairman of the University of Southern California Classics Department.
But the future pope also noted that any decision to defrock Kiesle must take into account the "good of the universal church" and the "detriment that granting the dispensation can provoke within the community of Christ's faithful, particularly considering the young age." Kiesle was 38 at the time.
Kiesle had been sentenced in 1978 to three years' probation after pleading no contest to misdemeanor charges of lewd conduct for tying up and molesting two young boys in a San Francisco Bay area church rectory.
As his probation ended in 1981, Kiesle asked to leave the priesthood and the diocese submitted papers to Rome to defrock him.
In his earliest letter to Ratzinger, Cummins warned that returning Kiesle to ministry would cause more of a scandal than stripping him of his priestly powers.
"It is my conviction that there would be no scandal if this petition were granted and that as a matter of fact, given the nature of the case, there might be greater scandal to the community if Father Kiesle were allowed to return to the active ministry," Cummins wrote in 1982.
While papers obtained by the AP include only one letter with Ratzinger's signature, correspondence and internal memos from the diocese refer to a letter dated Nov. 17, 1981, from the then-cardinal to the bishop. Ratzinger was appointed to head the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith a week later.
California church officials wrote to Ratzinger at least three times to check on the status of Kiesle's case. At one point, a Vatican official wrote to say the file may have been lost and suggested resubmitting materials.
Diocese officials considered writing Ratzinger again after they received his 1985 response to impress upon him that leaving Kiesle in the ministry would harm the church, Rev. George Mockel wrote in a memo to the Oakland bishop.
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Protests are growing against Pope Benedict XVI's planned trip to Britain, where some lawyers question whether the Vatican's implicit statehood status should shield the pope from prosecution over sex crimes by pedophile priests.
More than 10,000 people have signed a petition on Downing Street's web site against the pope's 4-day visit to England and Scotland in September, which will cost U.K. taxpayers an estimated 15 million pounds ($22.5 million). The campaign has gained momentum as more Catholic sex abuse scandals have swept across Europe.
Although Benedict has not been accused of any crime, senior British lawyers are now examining whether the pope should have immunity as a head of state and whether he could be prosecuted under the principle of universal jurisdiction for an alleged systematic cover-up of sexual abuses by priests.
Universal jurisdiction — a concept in international law — allows judges to issue warrants for nearly any visitor accused of grievous crimes, no matter where they live. British judges have been more open to the concept than those in other countries.
Lawyers are divided over the immunity issue. Some argue that the Vatican isn't a true state, while others note the Vatican has national relations with about 170 countries, including Britain. The Vatican is also the only non-member to have permanent observer status at the U.N.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100404/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_popeProtests are growing against Pope Benedict XVI's planned trip to Britain, where... more
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In Easter sermons that revealed penitence, shame and shortcomings, archbishops in Armagh, Dublin, Edinburgh, Vienna and Westminster asked congregations for their forgiveness and urged them not to abandon the church because of past sins.
But there was no apology from Rome, as Benedict XVI maintained a steadfast silence about the crisis in his annual Urbi et Orbi – To the City and the World – address.
would you trust the pope with your children??
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/04/pope-defiant-child-sex-abuseIn Easter sermons that revealed penitence, shame and shortcomings, archbishops in... more
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Just in time for Easter Sunday! Here is an except from the Vatican Easter speech (translated into English, of course). The Pope does forget to mention the hundreds of thousands of children who were raped in God's Holy Name (amen), but does manage to talk about nearly everyone else in the world.Just in time for Easter Sunday! Here is an except from the Vatican Easter speech... more
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The Catholic League President has stepped into the church’s molestation scandal to make things worse. With the Pope’s mitre caught in the wringer, he takes a page from the Karl Rove political playbook - blame everyone except yourself. Catholicism has officially become a "no fault" religion.The Catholic League President has stepped into the church’s molestation scandal... more
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