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To: Dr. Eckleburg

Dude...that’s just bogus. Flat out bogus. And silly. And it’s pretty silly to think that it could even be true.

So, maybe you should stop repeating it.


18 posted on 04/12/2010 9:18:26 PM PDT by mockingbyrd (Remember in November.)
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To: mockingbyrd
"Dude," read Crimen Sollicitationis yourself and learn something (paying close attention to paragraphs 11, 13 and 42A.

Or try this...

POPE LED COVER-UP OF CHILD ABUSE BY PRIESTS

...In 2001, while he was a cardinal, he issued a secret Vatican edict to Catholic>) bishops all over the world, instructing them to put the Church's interests ahead of child safety.

The document recommended that rather than reporting sexual abuse to the relevant legal authorities, bishops should encourage the victim, witnesses and perpetrator not to talk about it. And, to keep victims quiet, it threatened that if they repeat the allegations they would be excommunicated...

Five years ago he 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. It was regarded as so secret that it came with instructions that bishops had to keep it locked in a safe at all times. Cardinal Ratzinger reinforced the strict cover-up policy by introducing a new principle: that the Vatican must have what it calls Exclusive Competence. In other words, he commanded that all child abuse allegations should be dealt with direct by Rome.

Patrick Wall, a former Vatican-approved enforcer of the Crimen Sollicitationis in America, tells the programme: "I found out I wasn't working for a holy institution, but an institution that was wholly concentrated on protecting itself..."


22 posted on 04/12/2010 9:32:35 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
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