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"People are being attacked for taking positions that do not support sexual behaviour between people of the same sex. When they express their moral beliefs or beliefs about human nature ... they are stigmatised, and worse -- they are vilified, and prosecuted. These attacks are violations of fundamental human rights and cannot be justified under any circumstances. States can and must regulate behaviours, including various sexual behaviours. Throughout the world, there is a consensus between societies that certain kinds of sexual behaviour must be forbidden by law. Paedophilia and incest are two examples." - Vatican spokesbigot Archbishop Silvano Tomas.
Yup, the Vatican wants your existence to be "forbidden by law."
Once upon a time, Joseph Ratzinger had an organ donor card. But now that's he's the pope, his organs are too holy to transplant.
In 1999, six years before he was elected to the papacy, then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger disclosed that he always carried an organ donor's card with him and encouraged the practice as "an act of love." Vatican officials say that after a pope dies, his body belongs to the entire Church and must be buried intact. Furthermore, if papal organs were donated, they would become relics in other bodies if he were eventually made a saint.
Over the last seven days....
California: Pastor Tommy Gene Daniels held on $6M bail for six felony counts of molesting girls as young as five years old.
Massachusetts: Father Gary Mercure on trial for molesting two altar boys.
South Carolina: Pastor Daniel Belcher charged with embezzling $200,000 from a former employer.
Britain: Catholic Church settles lawsuit filed by three brothers molested by the same priest. Amount undisclosed.
Pennsylvania: Pastor Jeffrey Lynn Crosley charged with two counts of child molestation.
New York: Father Christopher Turczany resigns over sex-offender volunteer.
Kentucky: Episcopal Diocese and Boy Scouts sued for covering up child molestation.
Britain: Pastor David Morrison convicted of operating immigration fraud scam.
Delaware: Father Cornelius J. Breslin charged with embezzling $350,000 from his parish.
Massachusetts: Rev. Charles Abdelahad charged with rape and assault.
Wisconsin: Vatican refuses lawsuit filed on behalf of students molested at school for the deaf.
Britain: Imam Mohammed Hanif Khan convicted of molesting two boys.
Washington DC: Father Garrett Orr charged with two counts of child molestation.
Florida: Friar William C. Wert charged with child molestation.
Texas: Archdiocese of San Antonio settles molestation suit for $1M.
This Week's Winner
New York: Sister Mary Turcotte of the Apostles of Infinite Love convent has confessed that she was not raped by a big scary black man, as she told police, but had invented the attack in order to cover up a consensual fling with a convenience store worker she'd snuck in the back door of the convent. Upon Turcotte's description, the NYPD had distributed a sketch of a tall, heavy black man in his 40s.
In a just-revealed 1997 letter, a Vatican representative for the soon to be sainted Pope John Paul II warned Ireland's bishops not to report pedophile priests to the police.
The letter, obtained by Irish broadcasters RTE and provided to The Associated Press, documents the Vatican's rejection of a 1996 Irish church initiative to begin helping police identify pedophile priests following Ireland's first wave of publicly disclosed lawsuits. The letter undermines persistent Vatican claims, particularly when seeking to defend itself in U.S. lawsuits, that the church in Rome never instructed local bishops to withhold evidence or suspicion of crimes from police. It instead emphasizes the church's right to handle all child-abuse allegations, and determine punishments, in house rather than hand that power to civil authorities. Signed by the late Archbishop Luciano Storero, Pope John Paul II's diplomat to Ireland, the letter instructs Irish bishops that their new policy of making the reporting of suspected crimes mandatory "gives rise to serious reservations of both a moral and canonical nature."The Vatican is refusing to comment on the letter.
Emperor Palpatine has waived the traditional five year post-death waiting period and is moving to have Pope John Paul II named a saint. Because he was a miracle worker. Literally.
The pope on Friday signed off on the miracle needed to beatify Pope John Paul II, and set May 1 as the date to honor one of the most beloved popes of all times as a model of saintliness for the church. Pope Benedict XVI said in a decree that a French nun's recovery from Parkinson's disease was miraculous, the last step needed for beatification. A second miracle is needed for the Polish-born John Paul to be made a saint. The May 1 ceremony, which Benedict himself will celebrate, is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to Rome — a major morale boost for a church reeling from a wave of violence against Christians and fallout from the clerical sex abuse scandal.Victims of abuse at the hands of Catholic clergy are denouncing the beatification, noting that thousands of incidents of child molestation were covered up by Catholic authorities during John Paul's reign.
