Via Zerohedge.com
All 34 bishops in Chile have tendered their resignations in the wake of yet another pedophile priest scandal in which high level officials covered up the institutionalized sexual abuse of minors – even threatening officials tasked with investigating sex crimes and the destruction of evidence.
Thirty-one active bishops and three who are signed a document with their offers to resign following an emergency meeting this week with Pope Francis. Francis can accept the resignations one by one, reject them outright or delay a decision.
Calls had mounted for the resignations after details emerged of the contents of a 2,300-page Vatican report into the Chilean scandal leaked early Friday.
Francis had accused the bishops of destroying evidence of sex crimes, pressuring investigators to minimize abuse accusations and showing ‘grave negligence’ in protecting children from paedophile priests.
In one of the most damning documents from the Vatican on the issue, Francis said the entire Chilean church hierarchy was collectively responsible for ‘grave defects’ in handling cases and the resulting loss of credibility that the Catholic Church has suffered. –Daily Mail
“No one can exempt himself and place the problem on the shoulders of the others,” Francis wrote in the document published by Chile’s T13 television and confirmed as accurate Friday by the Vatican.
Responding to the 2,300-page report, Chilean bishops called the contents of the document “absolutely deplorable,” and showed an “unacceptable abuse of power and conscience,” along with sexual abuse.
The bishops asked for forgiveness from the victims, the Pope and all Catholics worldwide.
Pope Francis summoned the entire bishops conference to Rome after he said he made “grave errors in judgement” in the case of Chilean priest Juan Barros – who stands accused of victims of pedophile Rev. Fernando Karadima of witnessing and ignoring their abuse.
But the scandal grew beyond the Barros case after Francis received the report written by two Vatican sex crimes experts sent to Chile to get a handle on the scope of the problem.
Their report hasn’t been made public, but Francis cited its core findings in the footnotes of the document that he handed over to the bishops at the start of their summit this week.
And those findings are damning. –Daily Mail
While some of the pedophile priests and brothers were expelled from their congregations following the discovery of “immoral conduct,” many had their cases “minimized of the absolute gravity of their criminal acts, attributing them to mere weakness or moral lapses,” wrote Francis.
Those same offenders “were then welcomed into other dioceses, in an obviously imprudent way, and given dicoesan or parish jobs that gave them daily contact with minors,” wrote the pope.
The harsh assessment of the quality of seminaries suggests that a possible next step might be a full-on Vatican investigation of Chilean schools of priestly training.
Pope Benedict XVI ordered such an investigation into Irish seminaries after he convened the entire Irish bishops’ conference for a similar dressing-down in 2010 over their dismal handling of abuse cases. –Daily Mail
“The problems inside the church community can’t be solved just by dealing with individual cases and reducing them to the removal of people, though this – and I say so clearly – has to be done,” Francis wrote.
“But it’s not enough, we have to go beyond that. It would be irresponsible on our part to not look deeply into the roots and the structures that allowed these concrete events to occur and perpetuate.”
Francis Knew
For all of the “holier-than-thou” admonishments in his letter, Pope Francis is not without blame. The Associated Press reported earlier this year that Francis drew scorn over his appointment of Barros bishop of Osnoro, Chile, in 2015.
The Associated Press reported earlier this year that Francis did so over the objections of other Chilean bishops who knew Barros’ past was problematic and had recommended he and other Karadima-trained bishops resign and take a sabbatical.
The AP subsequently reported that Francis had received a letter in 2015 from one of Karadima’s most vocal accusers, Juan Carlos Cruz, detailing Barros’ misdeeds. That letter undercut Francis’ claim to have never heard from victims about Barros.
Francis further enraged Chileans and drew sharp rebuke from his top abuse adviser when, during a January trip to Chile, he said the accusations against Barros were ‘calumny’ and said he was ‘certain’ he was innocent.
Not so certain now, are we Pope?
I had read for some years that pope francis was a pedo. The punishment that I would edminester to pedo’s Is not very pleasant.
They need to be made examples of. Their was a fellow that did videos on Pence, Rily and others in the huge pedo ring in indiana.
He has disapered.
Three techniques to restrain the head.
Half Nelson, Full Nelson, and Father Nelson.
Grew up Catholic. Still am. My brother is pretty hardcore, but for reasons I can’t fathom seems to think that the Catholic clergy deserves some measure of respect. I’ve tried to explain that the current antipope is a fag and a heretic, and that the kraut is still the real pope (although an obvious chickenshit). I once told this brother that when some bishop first hears of a priest-molester, he should immediately call in the cops. My brother started blathering something canon law. Fuck that noise. Ours is a civil society. Canon law, sharia law, Talmudic law should have no more bearing than the bylaws of the Lions’ Club. These Chilean bishops resigning all at once is probably some strategy to avoid legal jeopardy or weasel out of financial risk. All of these molesters should be sentenced to hard time where hopefully some other inmate will kill them like “Father” John Geoghan up in Massachusetts. The guy who killed him – Joseph Druce – should be declared a saint after he croaks.
This article is worse than hogwash. It is blasphemy! The Catholic Church is the Body of Christ. To insult the Church is to insult Christ, and those who insult Christ are bound for the eternal flames of hell. Many of you here are destined for fire and brimstone.
The insults apply to the Pope and to any of the Bishops (in this case) involved with pedo.
If you think that above comments insult the Church, you are a dimwit – it is the Bishops, Priests, etc. involved with pedo that are insulting ‘The Church’.
Correct. So if I badmouth Israel,its fire/brimstone also?
Go have sex with a racoon you ignorant beast.
I’m going to paraphrase since I’m at work and no Bibles are nearby, but apparently Christ says something like “but those who cause one of the children to lose their faith and go astray, it is better that they tie a millstone around their necks and jump into the sea”. One of you with better access can probably cite the verses.
Roman Lance, do you think that a priest having sex with a child (as is apparently the case throughout history, not a recent development) MIGHT impair their faith? To have someone they have been told to respect and believe in betray their trust and molest them sexually, might lead them to have a poor opinion of the church?
Are you saying we should ignore, tolerate and maintain such priests, that their improprieties will have no effect on their charges?
Roman Lance, is it better to be deliberately ignorant or cut out the infection?
Good one, Roman! I voted you up, since I assume that’s sarcasm. Nobody’s insulting the Church per se- at least I’m not. I’m insulting the fags who run much of it – including the fake pope. Thank God the authority of the Church isn’t dependent upon the moral uprightness of its leaders or we’d be even more fucked than we are.
(Mt 23) Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to his disciples, saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees have taken their seat on the chair of Moses. Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but they do not practice.”
PS – When the first pope was being a hypocrite and acting like a Judaizer, ol’ Paul of Tarsus “opposed him to his face”. See Gal 2:11.
Iska is probably correct about the game in play here. This is not unlike the wave of revelations from (((fake news))) starting last fall about Harv the Hutt’s casting couch and other aspects (by no means the worst) of (((Pedowood culture))) – the whole series of #me too acts of seppuku (no charges of course, just public revelations and resignations). The mass resignation of Chilean bishops is a gambit to make it appear that Franny (who Barnhardt claims is a pedo who prefers Bolivian rent-boys himself) is finally taking action to clean up the ongoing sordid mess (after all the “conservatives” did zilch for decades). It’s really a strategy to toss some folks beneath the bus in order to enable the really bad actors to escape.
religion has always been a usurpation of the peoples joining with their spirituality. catholicism has done as much murder and slavery as islam and stole every “religious celebration” from every “pagan” peoples they could and completely destroyed what they couldnt. The vatican has ransacked temples of information from past civilizations and “stored” it in the vatican vaults to keep the people stupid, playing on peoples’ need to believe in something bigger than themselves. this is actually no different than the imbeciles following “royals” and elevating them to places higher than other people …. people have elevated clergy due mostly to their inherent laziness and belief that studying a book (that was comprised of gospels voted on by the roman council) for years somehow makes them more attuned to a divinity. this of course will trigger the cognitive dissonance of most, as asking questions has always beget the answer to “have faith” and react with scripted responses from sunday christians…
When it comes to murdering, the Muslims make the Catholics look like rank amateurs. Especially the spread of Islam in India.
Thank you, Iska, for pointing out the history of Islamic butchery in India. By comparison, the Roman Catholics have been, er… choir boys.
There’s something real close to home as far as this pope is concerned. All of these bishops fell on their swords because they were told to to prevent someone even more powerful and important from being divulged. This person is perhaps even more important and powerful than the pope; likely it was the person who was instrumental on his installation.
Coal, that is a very interesting theory. You are probably closer to the truth than anyone else, as far as speculation goes.
it also gives francis the chance to appoint 31 more bishops who are politically/personally aligned w/him–