As we near Good Friday, it looks like the Vatican is about to be potentially crucified, but unlike Christ, deservedly so. The media seems to be finally getting over a fear of appearing anti-religion simply because it is reporting on the truth. The foul stench emanating from Rome intensifies almost by the hour. Among more details receiving long over due attention are documents that show the centralized conspiracy to cover up abuse cases goes back to the early 1060's and earlier. Popes implicated in the conspiracy involve John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, and of course God's Rottweiler, Benedict XVI. These men are increasingly being shown to have acted like Mafia Dons heading up an international crime syndicate and dishing out orders to their soldiers within the mob. Page 3 of a 2004 class action complaint against the Vatican details a 1962 directive issued by then Pope John XXII that demanded utter secrecy and cover up of rampant sexual abuse of children and youths. As Google News is reporting, Pope Paul VI was like wise fully informed of the sexual abuse problem and largely ignored advice to remove predator priests and to defrock them. The irony in all this is that countless individuals like myself were taught to hate ourselves and view ourselves as disgusting by the very Church hierarchy that was advancing an organized conspiracy to cover up criminal conduct by predators preying on the young and vulnerable. Here are highlights from Google News:*
The head of a Roman Catholic order that specialized in the treatment of pedophile priests visited with the then-pope nearly 50 years ago and followed up with a letter recommending the removal of pedophile priests from ministry, according to a copy of the letter released Wednesday.
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In the Aug. 27, 1963 letter, the head of the New Mexico-based Servants of the Holy Paraclete tells the pope he recommends removing pedophile priests from active ministry and strongly urges defrocking repeat offenders.
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The letter, written by the Rev. Gerald M.C. Fitzgerald, appears to have been drafted at the request of the pope and summarizes Fitzgerald's thoughts on problem priests after his Vatican visit.
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Fitzgerald opens the five-page letter by thanking the pope for an audience the day before and says he is summarizing his thoughts at the pope's request on the "problem of the problem priest" after 20 years working in to treat them.
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He tells Paul VI that treatment for priests who have succumbed to "abnormal, homosexual tendencies" should include psychiatric, as well as spiritual, counseling — but goes on to warn about the dangers of leaving those individuals in ministry.
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The letter was released in Los Angeles by attorneys who represented more than 500 victims of clergy abuse in their record-breaking $660 million settlement with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2008. It's among thousands of pages of clergy abuse documents that are to be released as a condition of the settlement after review and approval by a judge overseeing the process. The letter released Wednesday is different from a 1957 letter made public last year in which Fitzgerald seeks help from the Bishop of Manchester, N.H. in finding a placement for a priest leaving the treatment program.
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A September 12, 1952 letter to the bishop of Reno demonstrates that the problem of predatory priests long pre-dated the 1963 audience with Pope Paul VI.
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The head of a Roman Catholic order that specialized in the treatment of pedophile priests visited with the then-pope nearly 50 years ago and followed up with a letter recommending the removal of pedophile priests from ministry, according to a copy of the letter released Wednesday.
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In the Aug. 27, 1963 letter, the head of the New Mexico-based Servants of the Holy Paraclete tells the pope he recommends removing pedophile priests from active ministry and strongly urges defrocking repeat offenders.
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The letter, written by the Rev. Gerald M.C. Fitzgerald, appears to have been drafted at the request of the pope and summarizes Fitzgerald's thoughts on problem priests after his Vatican visit.
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Fitzgerald opens the five-page letter by thanking the pope for an audience the day before and says he is summarizing his thoughts at the pope's request on the "problem of the problem priest" after 20 years working in to treat them.
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He tells Paul VI that treatment for priests who have succumbed to "abnormal, homosexual tendencies" should include psychiatric, as well as spiritual, counseling — but goes on to warn about the dangers of leaving those individuals in ministry.
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The letter was released in Los Angeles by attorneys who represented more than 500 victims of clergy abuse in their record-breaking $660 million settlement with the Archdiocese of Los Angeles in 2008. It's among thousands of pages of clergy abuse documents that are to be released as a condition of the settlement after review and approval by a judge overseeing the process. The letter released Wednesday is different from a 1957 letter made public last year in which Fitzgerald seeks help from the Bishop of Manchester, N.H. in finding a placement for a priest leaving the treatment program.
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A September 12, 1952 letter to the bishop of Reno demonstrates that the problem of predatory priests long pre-dated the 1963 audience with Pope Paul VI.
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I again have to ask myself, why do members of the Catholic laity continue to show deference to these morally bankrupt monsters? I simply cannot understand the mindset.
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