UNITED STATES
Christian Catholicism
Jerry Slevin
As superficial journalists speculate on the next Pope’s nationality with non-stop nonsense, the Roman Holy Empire is falling before their unseeing eyes. The important issue is not who the next pope will be. If the Catholic Church leadership doesn’t restore, pronto, the accountability that Jesus and his early followers demanded, international prosecutors and regulators will do it for them, and soon.
The Pope’s appointment today of a likely well compensated ex-investment banker, also a German lawyer and Knight of Malta, to “clean up” the Vatican Bank is merely the latest example of incompetent tactics in the futile battles among Cardinals taking place daily on the decks of the Vatican’s Titanic. Whomever is elected next Pope will only get to watch the Church sink rapidly, after having taken on dirty water for decades from the obscene child abuse cover-up iceberg. You cannot try to cover-up the rape of hundreds of thousands of children by priests and expect to get away with it forever. Only clueless celibate males sailing on the rudderless Vatican Titanic could fail to understand this.
Pope John XXIII issued in 1962 the main secrecy order on priest child sex abuse. But he also realized that accountabilty had to be restored to save the Church. He took the first step by trying to get the Vatican Cardinals to share power with the worldwide bishops. He died soon therafter and the Vatican Cardinals’ clique rejected power sharing craftily. Since then, they have installed compliant Popes who like the papal prestige and are happy to do the clique’s bidding. But the democratic rule of law has run out of patience with clerical child abusers and Popes no longer have any effective political power, as the re-election of President Obama just proved.The International Sheriff is on his way and the Pope cannot hide with Georgeous Georg in a refurbished convent. His own Cardinals will help nail him, it appears.
But at this point does any of this matter to most Catholics worldwide? While it may seem overly pessimistic to say so soon that the next Pope will likely fail too, it is just being realistic; and yet there is also room for much optimism. The papal resignation is tantamount to an admission of failure and will lead to de-mystification of the papacy quickly. Pope Benedict XVI, soon to again be non-Pontiff, Joseph Ratzinger, and his Vatican clique led by Cardinal Sodano et al., have already set the stage for the next failure. …
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