Disgusting Behavior from Vatican
"VATICAN CITY- Attacks on Pope Benedict and the Catholic Church over a sexual abuse scandal are comparable to the most shameful anti-Semitism, a preacher told a Vatican Good Friday service attended by the pontiff.
This week's celebrations leading up to Easter Sunday have been clouded by accusations that the Church in several countries mishandled and covered up episodes of sexual abuse of children by priests, some dating back decades.
Shaken by the crisis, the Vatican has accused the media of an "ignoble" attempt to smear the pope at all costs.
Cantalamessa, noting that this year the Jewish Passover and Christian Easter fell during the same week, said Jews throughout history had been the victims of "collective violence" and drew a comparison with current attacks on the Church over the scandal."
These people are the filthiest of perverted scum. You know they have been engaging in this deviant, criminal behavior without the slightest remorse, for centuries, and have used their power to silence their victims. This massive pervasive practice of child rape in the Catholic church is now being revealed; so they compare the people who are trying to stop their disgusting, criminal behavior to Nazi butchers.
Name calling, of course, is of little account, when compared to preying on children. Still, it sort of rounds out our picture of just how depraved and immoral the Catholic church really is.
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The Catholic Organization has always been about power, and not about the words of their prophet, Jesus.
In addition to the misery and horror perpetrated on innocent children, think about how those bastards made a hard life even harder and more miserable for the Irish--the women who bore dozens of children because it would have been a mortal sin not to.
Meanwhile, as these families struggled to feed and clothe these children, the priests who enforced the insane anti-birth control rule on them, were practicing the worst sort of sin there is.
I hate them all for the misery they brought to so many people while holding themselves up as paragons of righteousness and purity.
Why anyone would continue to associate with that criminal organization after these sickening revelations is a mystery to me.
The Catholic Church, as an organization, cared more about its reputation than it did the lives of helpless children.
I can't think of much that is more evil than that.
Rev. Cantalamessa, you really messed up today. I know you didn’t mean to insult anyone when you compared the current attacks on the Catholic Church and Pope Benedict with the persecution of the Jews, but you did, and you did it big time. It seems that you are ignoring a few important points: first of all, there is no comparison because the Church persecuted the Jews for no other reason than their Jewishness, which the Church found intolerable, while the current attacks on the Church and the Pope—I wouldn’t quite call it “persecution”—are well deserved as the Church seems to have an endemic child abuse problem compounded with on obstruction of justice problem. This is not the first time this happens. It’s best to not even talk about the Middle Ages. Hopefully the Pope will make use of his power and swiftly remove any offenders from the Church and hand them over to the civil authorities for prosecution, as would be the case with any child molester. The attacks on the Pope are well deserved too. He was responsible for some of these cases before he became pope and he not only did not punish these priests, he moved them to other places where they were able to molest children again! So, it’s hard to feel sorry for the Church or the Pope these days. You also seem to have forgotten that of the 365 days of the year, this is the least appropriate day to make such comparison with the persecution of the Jews. Should I remind you of the forced conversion of the Jews, instituted by the Church centuries ago? Should I remind you of the incitement to violence in the faithful every Good Friday after sermons and Passion Plays? Should I remind you of the accusation of deicide which prompted countless acts of Christian violence toward Jews? Or the Good Friday prayer which asked God to lift the veil of the blind, perfidious Jews?
It makes me wonder about your boss, Pope Benedict, too, because one needs to ask oneself the uncomfortable question of why he didn’t stand up as you were making this innapropriate comparison and distance himself and the Church from your comments. But then, maybe one should not be so surprised about this given his recent track record regarding the sexual predator priests, or his treatment of the whole Bishop Williamson affair, or his reinstating the Good Friday prayer referenced above, or his rush canonization process for the problematic wartime Pope Pius XII. In a way, seeing Pope Benedict looking at the floor today as you uttered those words reminded me of his predecessor, Pope John Paul II, who also stood silently by the Syrian dictator Bashar Assad in 2001 as Assad let loose an antisemitic rant that was broadcast in the entire Christian world. Assad, like the Catholic Church before him, presented Jews as enemies of God. Also like Christians before him, Assad used the Christian blood libel of Jews as Christ-killers. Pope John Paul II did not see fit to stop him right then and there and thus appeared to implicitly accept Assad’s vitriolic statements.
Perhaps this issue of silent popes is also endemic in the Church. After all, Pope Pius XI and his successor Pope Pius XII both stood by silently as the Nazis slowly and inexorably dehumanized, demonized, and exterminated millions of Jews during the Second World War.
To wrap it up, Rev. Cantalamessa, as the sole and direct preacher to the pope I think you yourself need some advicing. I would encourage you to think about these things, and next time you sit with Pope Benedict advice him better.
Gabriel Wilensky
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I want to point out that, even if you forget all of the history, and all of the antisemitism, you are still left with the fact of a bunch of people who feel so entitled and so self-righteous that public revelations of their bestial behavior are equally wrong in their eyes to the extermination of millions of people.
These people have not one shred of right to tend to the morality of others, and if the Church does not expel them all in the very, very near future, it should, in my opinion, be stripped of every penny of its property around the world, and its hierarchy should be left to wander the world destitute, until they meet the fate that awaits the absolute dregs of humanity.
As should all hate-mongering religions (synonymous with "all religions"), no waiting for change.
These divisive, scum-ridden organizations are responsible for more sanctimonious hate than all other sources throughout our collective history.