Christian Subversion And Missionary Activities - 6

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http://www.spiegel.de/international/germ...76,00.html

03/09/2010

The World from Berlin

Abuse Investigation Needed 'Without a Moment's Delay'



[color="#0000FF"]The child-abuse scandal that broke out in Germany in late January has now spread across the country.[/color] As shocked German politicians argue over whether to lift the statute of limitations or impose civil penalties, newspaper commentators are unanimous in their call for swift and concerted action.



At first, it seemed like an isolated incident of abuse at one Catholic school in Berlin. But now, in little over a month, it has ballooned into a massive scandal, with reports of molestations and beatings stretching back decades -- in all types of private institutions and all over Germany. Shocked by the scope and terrible nature of the scandal, Germans are clamouring to find the appropriate response.

[color="#800080"](The appropriate response is: ban christianism. Or at least ask to be excommunicated)[/color]

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(Found via Hitchens' The Great Catholic Cover-Up, itself via Rajeev2004)





Extract from Hitchens' own article:

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. [color="#0000FF"]But that crime was the reporting of the rape and torture.[/color] 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 … [color="#0000FF"]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.[/color] 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 [color="#0000FF"]latter stipulation as an obstruction of justice[/color]. "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 [color="#0000FF"]Legion of Christ[/color], 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 [color="#0000FF"]Father Maciel had been praised by the then-Pope John Paul II as an "efficacious guide to youth."[/color] 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 [color="#FF0000"]responsible for enabling a filthy wave of crime.[/color] 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.

Shortly after the link to spiegel.de (on the bush-fire of revelations of christian abuse in Germany) comes this important comment referring to Hitchen's article, giving the full meaning of the pope's injunction:

Pjotr Abrassimov

That clause specifying that incidents of child rape must not be reported until ten years after the victim's 18th birthday is an unbelievable outrage. At least [color="#0000FF"]in his native Germany[/color], the statute of limitations on child abuse cases specifies exactly that time frame: [color="#0000FF"]Child abuse can be prosecuted up to ten years after the victim turns 18. They apparently didn't even have the decency to disguise their intentions by a less obvious phrase.[/color] How do they keep getting away with this?

Answer: Just like that.



And another comment on the German situation:

Anne Coughlin

Germany is having its moment of revelation. This crisis is a wave sweeping across the US, Ireland, into Germany. Imagine when it hits Italy and the [color="#FF0000"]third world[/color] where clergy held unquestionable authority for so long. There should be a Nuremberg Trial of the Catholic Church for crimes against humanity. It is an utterly corrupt institution. Open the doors and windows, let the sun shine in, and let this dinosaur fall of its own dead weight.

This is a serious problem, because such predatory behaviour is "nurtured": some abuse victims who remain quiet become abusers later in life.



In unconverted countries, christians are attacking heathen children in the christian schools, orphanages and (medical and other) facilities that have mushroomed everywhere. The jeebus-poison spreads.