POPE RESIGNS – GOOD RIDDANCE

We’ve had out first black POTUS and now I think it high time the Catholic church gets with the times and appoints a black pope.

And, why not? Bill Clinton would be a great candidate.He could put the straight back in pedophilia ….although , I must admit he didn’t have much luck turning Hilliary.

After a few weeks of reflection he just couldn’t handle the shame of what Alabama did to them in the National Championship game.

The pope is the most insignificant form of Christianity that there has ever been unleashed upon the GOD fearing & GOD loving people in the world. It is never mentioned in the Bible for any such church to be called ‘catholic’. It is a crooked & scandalous institution created by the war mongering, bloodthirsty savages, inhuman bestial torturers, ‘the Romans’. They were responsible, alongside the Jewish high priests, in the crucifixion and death of our Holiest of Holys Lord and Saviour JESUS CHRIST. The pagan Romans initiated this false institution when appeared hopeless for them to control the masses, consisting of Christian slaves, began to voice their hatred against their deranged Roman masters. Prior to Romes acceptance of the Church they were outright going after Christians to murder and silence them. They went as far as to stage mock battles in the colosseum in which Christians were murdered by their roman persecutors and killed by wild animals also. Even when the Carholic church was formed they had also gone after the Christians because they preached the righteous truth to all believers.The popes had written death warrants against the righteous Christians.The history of the corrupt Catholic church has continued to this day with the Romans favorite past time of the men having sex with young boys and girls, molesting and raping them all. Mountains of evidence continues to grow as each day passes of Catholic priests heavily involved in this sick atmosphere of molesting children, mostly young boys, and raping them and in some cases bringing death upon these helpless children. All this was covered up by the bishops and cardinals and the popes also. They merely circulated these perverted monsters so they could continue to prey amongst many other children. Many Nuns were also involved in this satanic behavior by remaining silent as the children cried suffered and died. May GOD have mercy upon their souls. [img]AztecAbe[/img]

go ahead & have at it everyone. things will really get ugly should the next pope be petrus romanus.

b.r.

What many observers have not realized, yet, is that Benedikt just modernized ancient church policy with good example and set a line where a pope should resign nowadays… at the same time de-sensationalizing the act of resigning of a pope…

I am a serious Bible student. Some of my colleagues say I shouldn’t speak out here, but all you people need help. I don’t hate RCs. They are in bondage and need to be helped. I do hate the despicable, filthy RC church. Any official in its hierarchy should know the history of this church, and there’s absolutely no excuse before God for any of these people. One of the longer commentaries here described its sordid history well. Up until about 150 years ago, the RC church was even worse than it is today. “And I heard another voice from heaven say, ‘get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins, and if you don’t want to receive part of her plagues.”— Revelation 18:4. Don’t leave because of this church being against gay marriage or abortion. Those are the ONLY things they’ve got right. There are so many other reasons to leave, so many things this church has wrong, I don’t know where to begin. I’m sure it’s not easy for a parishoner to leave, with the family ties and all, but Jesus said that anyone not willing to leave their family, if that’s what it takes, is not worthy of him. “This means everlasting life, their taking in of knowledge of you, the only true God, and the one you sent forth, Jesus Christ.” — Jesus’ words from John 17:3. So Bible knowledge is extremely important. The fallible pronouncements of a human priest or pope is not going to get it. If you’ve noticed, the RC Church hates the Bible. Oh, they’ll give it lip service, but that’s all. Keep in mind that God doesn’t think the way you do. Any arrogant person eliminates themself, as they are blinded to the sense of all this. Enough for now.

You anti-pope folks are all wrong. I just heard a Cardinal sing the Pope’s praises, so it must be true. He said the Pope is a man of vision, a great humanitarian, a man of compassion, a man that has served and protected his flock for decades, is deserving of praise and adoration, and is taking this noble decision of resigning as he feels he cannot serve his flock in his frail condition, and is thus truly a man of the people.

Seriously, can you believe that shit? The Catholic Church is rddled – and I mean fucking riddled – with low-life scum priests. They cannot acknowledge any wrong-doing by any of the priesthood. But boy, they sure know how to cast stones at folks using birth control or divorcees. But having sex with little boys doesn’t draw a mention, and is covered up when discovered.

It is truly despicable. The entire priesthood should be defrocked, and a total restart to the Church is in order. The rot runs to deep to be excised.

Yo – I would indeed then defrock all priests and start over. Half-measures will not work.

The following by Christopher Hitchens:

“On March 10, the chief exorcist of the Vatican, the Rev. Gabriele Amorth (who has held this demanding post for 25 years), was quoted as saying that “the Devil is at work inside the Vatican,” and that “when one speaks of ‘the smoke of Satan’ in the holy rooms, it is all true—including these latest stories of violence and pedophilia.” This can perhaps be taken as confirmation that something horrible has indeed been going on in the holy precincts, though most inquiries show it to have a perfectly good material explanation.

Concerning the most recent revelations about the steady complicity of the Vatican in the ongoing—indeed endless—scandal of child rape, a few days later a spokesman for the Holy See made a concession in the guise of a denial. It was clear, said the Rev. Federico Lombardi, that an attempt was being made “to find elements to involve the Holy Father personally in issues of abuse.” He stupidly went on to say that “those efforts have failed.”

He was wrong twice. In the first place, nobody has had to strive to find such evidence: It has surfaced, as it was bound to do. In the second place, this extension of the awful scandal to the topmost level of the Roman Catholic Church is a process that has only just begun. Yet it became in a sense inevitable when the College of Cardinals elected, as the vicar of Christ on Earth, the man chiefly responsible for the original cover-up. (One of the sanctified voters in that “election” was Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, a man who had already found the jurisdiction of Massachusetts a bit too warm for his liking.)

There are two separate but related matters here: First, the individual responsibility of the pope in one instance of this moral nightmare and, second, his more general and institutional responsibility for the wider lawbreaking and for the shame and disgrace that goes with it. The first story is easily told, and it is not denied by anybody. In 1979, an 11-year-old German boy identified as Wilfried F. was taken on a vacation trip to the mountains by a priest. After that, he was administered alcohol, locked in his bedroom, stripped naked, and forced to suck the penis of his confessor. (Why do we limit ourselves to calling this sort of thing “abuse”?) The offending cleric was transferred from Essen to Munich for “therapy” by a decision of then-Archbishop Joseph Ratzinger, and assurances were given that he would no longer have children in his care. But it took no time for Ratzinger’s deputy, Vicar General Gerhard Gruber, to return him to “pastoral” work, where he soon enough resumed his career of sexual assault.

It is, of course, claimed, and it will no doubt later be partially un-claimed, that Ratzinger himself knew nothing of this second outrage. I quote, here, from the Rev. Thomas Doyle, a former employee of the Vatican Embassy in Washington and an early critic of the Catholic Church’s sloth in responding to child-rape allegations. “Nonsense,” he says. “Pope Benedict is a micromanager. He’s the old style. Anything like that would necessarily have been brought to his attention. Tell the vicar general to find a better line. What he’s trying to do, obviously, is protect the pope.”

This is common or garden stuff, very familiar to American and Australian and Irish Catholics whose children’s rape and torture, and the cover-up of same by the tactic of moving rapists and torturers from parish to parish, has been painstakingly and comprehensively exposed. It’s on a level with the recent belated admission by the pope’s brother, Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, that while he knew nothing about sexual assault at the choir school he ran between 1964 and 1994, now that he remembers it, he is sorry for his practice of slapping the boys around.

Very much more serious is the role of Joseph Ratzinger, before the church decided to make him supreme leader, in obstructing justice on a global scale. After his promotion to cardinal, he was put in charge of the so-called “Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith” (formerly known as the Inquisition). In 2001, Pope John Paul II placed this department in charge of the investigation of child rape and torture by Catholic priests. In May of that year, Ratzinger issued a confidential letter to every bishop. In it, he reminded them of the extreme gravity of a certain crime. But that crime was the reporting of the rape and torture. The accusations, intoned Ratzinger, were only treatable within the church’s own exclusive jurisdiction. Any sharing of the evidence with legal authorities or the press was utterly forbidden. Charges were to be investigated “in the most secretive way … restrained by a perpetual silence … and everyone … is to observe the strictest secret which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office … under the penalty of excommunication.” (My italics). Nobody has yet been excommunicated for the rape and torture of children, but exposing the offense could get you into serious trouble. And this is the church that warns us against moral relativism! (See, for more on this appalling document, two reports in the London Observer of April 24, 2005, by Jamie Doward.)

Not content with shielding its own priests from the law, Ratzinger’s office even wrote its own private statute of limitations. The church’s jurisdiction, claimed Ratzinger, “begins to run from the day when the minor has completed the 18th year of age” and then lasts for 10 more years. Daniel Shea, the attorney for two victims who sued Ratzinger and a church in Texas, correctly describes that latter stipulation as an obstruction of justice. “You can’t investigate a case if you never find out about it. If you can manage to keep it secret for 18 years plus 10, the priest will get away with it.”

The next item on this grisly docket will be the revival of the long-standing allegations against the Rev. Marcial Maciel, founder of the ultra-reactionary Legion of Christ, in which sexual assault seems to have been almost part of the liturgy. Senior ex-members of this secretive order found their complaints ignored and overridden by Ratzinger during the 1990s, if only because Father Maciel had been praised by the then-Pope John Paul II as an “efficacious guide to youth.” And now behold the harvest of this long campaign of obfuscation. The Roman Catholic Church is headed by a mediocre Bavarian bureaucrat once tasked with the concealment of the foulest iniquity, whose ineptitude in that job now shows him to us as a man personally and professionally responsible for enabling a filthy wave of crime. Ratzinger himself may be banal, but his whole career has the stench of evil—a clinging and systematic evil that is beyond the power of exorcism to dispel. What is needed is not medieval incantation but the application of justice—and speedily at that.”