Must Read Maureen Dowd On Inquisition For The Pope
March 31, 2010
Maureen Dowd never lacks punch when she writes. Today’s column is no different, and makes for a must read.
The church gave up its credibility for Lent. Holy Thursday and Good Friday are now becoming Cover-Up Thursday and Blame-Others Friday.
If church fund-raising and contributions dry up, Benedict’s P.R. handlers may yet have to stage a photo-op where he steps out of the priest’s side of the confessional and enters the side where the rest of his fallible flock goes.
Or maybe 30-second spots defending the pope with Benedict’s voice intoning at the end: “I am infallible, and I approve this message.”
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If we take away the sham veneer of Pope or Cardinal, we’re left with Joseph Ratzinger, who not only supported pedophile priests and covered up their crimes – he wrote and enforced Vatican policy on this for 20 years before he became Pope. This has long been discussed in the press, including the BBC’s “Sex Crimes and the Vatican” documentary back in 2006.
(9/29/06) “A secret document which sets out a procedure for dealing with child sex abuse scandals within the Catholic Church” called “Crimen Sollicitationis was enforced for 20 years by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he became the Pope…. was written in 1962 in Latin and given to Catholic bishops worldwide who are ordered to keep it locked away in the church safe.
It instructs them how to deal with priests who solicit sex from the confessional. It also deals with “any obscene external act … with youths of either sex.” It imposes an oath of secrecy on the child victim, the priest dealing with the allegation and any witnesses. Breaking that oath means excommunication from the Catholic Church.
[news.bbc.co.uk]
(9/30/06) “Five years ago [Ratzinger] sent out an updated version of the notorious 1962 Vatican document Crimen Sollicitationis – Latin for The Crime of Solicitation – which laid down the Vatican’s strict instructions on covering up sexual scandal. … Father Tom Doyle, a Vatican lawyer until he was sacked for criticising the church’s handling of child abuse claims, says: “What you have here is an explicit written policy to cover up cases of child sexual abuse by the clergy and to punish those who would call attention to these crimes by the churchmen.”
[www.thisislondon.co.uk]
Women priests are excommunicated from the Catholic church, just for being women. Pedophile priests and popes are harbored, honored, and given Catholic funeral masses.
Joseph Ratzinger should be extradited, in turn, to the many nations where he’s supported and covered up sex crimes, if a global tribunal isn’t set up to deal with him and his ilk.
Amongst other things, the U.S. should revoke the Catholic Church’s tax-exempt status until (1) Joseph Ratzinger is excommunicated and (2) the Catholic church has unsealed all cases, ceased to harbor pedophiles, turned over accused priests & priests’ names to law enforcement, dealt with all victims fairly as determined by a court of law, and re-written church policy re any sort of abuse and shown that it is being enforced.
On Fr. Murphy, the abuser of deaf children in Wisconsin, Dowd does not get her facts straight. And the NYT was NOT reliable on this story. Of course, their reporting is repeated in many other places, but that does not make it true.
Please read the following and then form a reasoned judgment:
http://corner.nationalreview.com…
(This can be verified by reading the documents on the NYT’s own website, carefully.)
http://catholicanchor.org/wordpress/?p=601
Let’s begin by getting the facts straight.