Catholic Church

Looks like same old shit from the new Pope…somethings never change and it looks like he is showing no interest is addressing the legacy of boy buggering priests, instead focussing on evil bankers.

Pope Francis has attacked the “dictatorship” of the global financial system and warned that the “cult of money” was making life a misery for millions.

He said free-market capitalism had created a “tyranny” and that human beings were being judged purely by their ability to consume goods.

Money should be made to “serve” people, not to “rule” them, he said, calling for a more ethical financial system and curbs on financial speculation.

Countries should impose more control over their economies and not allow “absolute autonomy”, in order to provide “for the common good”.  Read more »

Police in NSW colluded with the Catholic Church to cover up the actions and crimes of their pedo priests.

They should spend less time persecuting poofters and more time cleaning up their own house.

A ”Catholic mafia” within the ranks of Newcastle police colluded with church leaders to cover up sex abuse in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese, an inquiry into the abuse has been told.

Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox told the inquiry on Monday that while on leave his office had been raided, he and other police had been pulled off investigations into the alleged cover-up of child sex abuse and a colleague told him about a ”Catholic mafia” within the ranks of Newcastle police.

”I just didn’t trust other police,” he said.  Read more »

Father Gerald Murray says gays are oppressing and victimising Catholics…and here is me all out of tissues:

Father Murray joined Megyn Kelly on Fox earlier this week to insist that the gays are the real bigots, and that their real intent is to oppress and victimize Catholics (and Christians generally):

‘You can caricature Christian teaching and call it bigotry and that’s reasonable speech on the left these days. This nonsense that we want to disadvantage blacks, when we say that homosexual activity is sinful, to call that equivalent to denying them their basic rights — no, we’re telling them if you want to live a good life, you have to follow what Jesus said.’

Jesus said nothing about gay people, Father Murray. Not one word. I’m no student of the Bible but even I know that.

Undaunted, Father Murray continued:  ‘Basically, this is an attack on our freedom to preach what we believe.’  Read more »

It appears that despite the new Pope the Catholic Church in Australia is back to its old ways of ignoring or helping through silence to cover up their legacy of child sex abuse:

Catholic Church leaders in Australia are showing “ignorance and arrogance” and little “will to know”, the Victorian inquiry into how the churches handled sex abuse heard on Thursday.

Caroline Taylor, professor of social justice at Edith Cowan University, said church leaders, judges and lawyers too readily followed misleading stereotypes about child sex abuse.

She said grooming was still rife, that predators were very clever with new technology and particularly targeted the children of very devout families.  Read more »

The Pope is said to be ‘gleefully’ abandoning tradition and doing things like washing Muslim prisoners feet. No mention yet on him moving to stop the Vatican policy of covering up child abusing priests and assisting them with evading the long arm of the law by shifting them and promoting the…but hey…at least he is washing muslim prisoner’s feet:

 Pope Francis continued his gleeful abandonment of tradition by washing the feet of a young Muslim woman prisoner in an unprecedented twist on the Holy Thursday tradition.

While popes have for centuries washed the feet of the faithful on the day before Good Friday, never before had a pontiff washed the feet of a woman. That one of the female inmates at the prison in Rome was also a Serbian Muslim was also a break with tradition.  Read more »

The Pope isn’t going to live in luxury apparently..but the questions remain about whether or not he will do anything about the boy buggering inside the Catholic Church:

Pope Francis has announced he will be staying in the Vatican’s guesthouse, rather than moving into the vast palace used as the official papal residence.

Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi said the new pontiff would remain in the 120-room guesthouse among other members of the clergy “until further notice”.

“He is trying out this type of simple living with other priests,” Father Lombardi said, without saying when, or even if, the Pope would move into the papal residence.

“This morning he let his fellow cardinals know that he will keep living with them for a certain period of time.”

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The Catholic Church has some pretty strict rules, especially for the clergy. No marriage or relationships, no rooting and no poofters.

You can imagine what happen if you doing all of them can’t you…you’d be a Cardinal for sure.

Cardinal Keith O’Brien had a long-standing physical relationship with one of the men whose complaints about his behaviour sparked his downfall as leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland.

The man left the priesthood in the middle of the last decade but rejoined and is living on the continent in a post the cardinal helped him secure.

The complainant is known to have been in regular telephone contact with Cardinal O’Brien until recently and was a frequent visitor to St Benets, his official residence in Edinburgh’s Morningside.

It is understood the cardinal confessed to the relationship after it was recently revealed there had been several complaints to the Vatican about his sexual behaviour towards priests in the 1980s. It is thought to be part of his reference to his sexual conduct as “a priest, a bishop and a cardinal”.  Read more »

Melissa Iaria suggests the church should rid itself of celibacy:

The Catholic Church should get rid of celibacy as a way of preventing clergy from preying on children, an inquiry has been told.

Former clinical director of the Victorian Institute of Forensic Health, Professor Paul Mullen, says celibacy has no basis in theology and is just a form of discipline in the priesthood.

Prof Mullen added the issue is a financial one for the church.

“I’ve have heard a Catholic bishop say that the reason celibacy is maintained is that they could not afford to pay priests, they couldn’t afford to pay them pensions, they couldn’t afford to pay them enough if they had a wife and children,” he told the Victorian parliamentary inquiry on Friday.

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Criticism is mounting about the new pope Francis I. It is looking like they really have selected another ratbag. A mate joked the other day when I mentioned they’d selected an Argentinean…oh yet another nazi at the head of the Catholic Church.

The Pope has been accused of failing to stand up to the brutal military junta that slaughtered tens of thousands of Argentines in its so-called Dirty War.

Critics say Jorge Mario Bergoglio did little to help those who disappeared when the country was under right-wing military rule – and too much to criticise the left-wing opponents of the generals.

He has even been accused of turning a blind eye to the rounding up and torturing of his own Jesuit priests, something he strongly denies.  Read more »

Looks like the new pope has a few issues.

What one did not hear from any senior member of the Argentine hierarchy was any expression of regret for the church’s collaboration and in these crimes. The extent of the church’s complicity in the dark deeds was excellently set out by Horacio Verbitsky, one of Argentina’s most notable journalists, in his book El Silencio (Silence). He recounts how the Argentine navy with the connivance of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now the Jesuit archbishop of Buenos Aires, hid from a visiting delegation of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission the dictatorship’s political prisoners.  Read more »