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	Absolute Must Read: Pope Soars to New Heights of Hypocrisy By Vinnie Nauheimer Voice from the Desert December 12, 2009 http://reform-network.net/?p=2430 From the sharp mind and skilled pen of Vinnie Nauheimer. Thanks again, Vinnie. * * * The Pope Soars to new Heights of Hypocrisy! Is it politically correct to call the Pontiff a liar? Doing that would surely raise the ire of good Catholics all over the world eliciting both anger and hate from them. Questions are asked like, “Don’t you know the pope is appointed by God?” This would then be followed by these worn down platitudes: The Catholic Church is no worse than any other church, the RCC has done so much good, the RCC doesn’t even compare to the public schools etc., ad nauseum. How do you get the masses to change their mind about their leader? How does one tell a person that has lived their life according to Catholic Rules that their leader doesn’t follow them? How do change deeply embedded beliefs that are, in this day and age, groundless. You start by showing people the truth, the facts! The Irish Clergy Abuse Scandal is making Papal hypocrisy legendary. Last July, in Australia, oddly enough, for World Youth Day, the pope made the following statement: “These misdeeds, which constitute so grave a betrayal of trust, deserve unequivocal condemnation. “I ask all of you to support and assist your bishops, and to work together with them in combating this evil. Victims should receive compassion and care, and those responsible for these evils must be brought to justice.1” It was a rousing speech that was carried in papers around the world. The pope sounded tough on clergy abuse, but was he really? He said, “Those responsible for these evils must be brought to justice.” To date, not one bishop has been brought to justice. Have we seen anything near as profound from the pope about the events in Ireland which are by all accounts a hundred times worse? No, all we have heard is that he is deeply disturbed. No doubt, because only a deeply disturbed man could let such heinous crimes go unpunished. Since civil authorities across the globe are reluctant to pursue justice, the pope is the only one who has the power authority to administer justice to those bishops and cardinals responsible for perpetuating the evil of sexual abuse of children. One has the right to ask this question of the pope, “How can you, Benedict XVI say those responsible must be brought to justice when you as the head of the RCC have steadfastly refused to hold even one bishop accountable for their criminal acts?” This is especially true after the pontiff has told us that their misdeeds deserve “unequivocal condemnation?” This year in Ireland as last year in Australia, the pontiff has yet to unequivocally condemn even the most flagrant enablers of sexually abusing priests. The incredible hypocrisy of his statement becomes greatly amplified when you consider two things: 1. That it was made in front of the attendees at World Youth Day and 2. It was issued in the presence of Cardinal George Pell. How are we to reconcile the above with this story, which was all over the Australian media a week before the pope’s visit? Australia’s ABC television network revealed on July 7 that Cardinal Pell had written to an alleged victim of sexual abuse, telling him that there had been no other complaints against the priest he accused, on the same day that the prelate wrote another letter acknowledging assaults by the same priest. Does the pope really think the laity is so stupid as not to recognize this blatant hypocrisy? Where are those condemnations now? Will the pope fire a bishop, a cardinal? How is the pope going to bring justice to Ireland? No, not just Ireland, justice to the world, because the clergy abuse scandal is global problem with documented cases in over 28 countries around the world. If one wants to familiarize themselves with the reasons the pope can’t and won’t, read the unifying theory of sexual abuse on this site at http://reform-network.net/?p=2408. Then wait, watch and see if anything is changed in Ireland. They can’t do it because it will break the solidarity (glue) that holds the organization together. Yet in the face of all this hypocrisy, where are laity? Where are the good priests? Where is the global sense of outrage against the murder, rape, sodomization and molestation of children by men of the cloth? Sinead O’Connor, is the only public figure in Ireland to call for the pope to step down. Only when the global church falls in lockstep behind that call will changes be made. To alter a quote of Daniel Patrick Moynihan, “A church that looses its sense of outrage is doomed to extinction.”
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