Christian subversion and missionary activities -2

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<!--QuoteBegin-sankara+Jan 31 2007, 04:36 PM-->QUOTE(sankara @ Jan 31 2007, 04:36 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Interesting though, how the church and monasteries conveniently provide safe haven, or sanctuary, for crooks running away from the law. The most famous, of course, is the luxurious 7-star hotel, the Vatican, which regularly hosts paedophile priests wanted by the law in many countries.
[right][snapback]63837[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->None more famous than the Vatican's infamy in helping nazis escape justice after the baddies lost. For example:
(from http://freetruth.50webs.org/ )
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>The Vatican harboured Nazis & helped them escape</b>
<!--QuoteBegin--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"In deep gratitude I recall the help of Catholic priests in my escape out of Europe and decided to honour the Catholic faith in which I became an honorary member"
-- <i>Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal, in 1961 </i>
[translation from Eichmann's original German statement cited in <i>Persilscheine und falsche Pässe</i>, by Ernst Klee]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Croatia's Nazi (Ustashi) leader Pavelic is another example:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Other reports mention Ustashas meeting with Vatican officials or even living in the Vatican. The British Foreign Office reported in January 1947 that Pavelic himself, by that time a wanted war criminal, was living "within the Vatican City."
-- A vow of silence - U.S. News and World Report, March 30, 1998<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->the now famous "La Vista Report" of May 15, 1947, a top-secret U.S. Army Intelligence report documenting the Vatican's role in aiding the escape of numerous high-ranking Nazi war criminals, among them Ante Pavelic, fascist leader of wartime Croatia; Franz Stangel, Commander of Treblinka; Eduard Roschmann, "the Butcher of Riga"; Klaus Barbie, "the Butcher of Lyon"; SS General Walter Rauff, inventor of the mobile gas truck; Adolf Eichmann, "architect of the Holocaust"; and <b>tens of thousands of others.</b>
-- What is the Vatican Hiding, by Barry Lituchy<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd--><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Vatican's continuing secrecy means the evidence is incomplete, but already declassified documents from the archives of the United States and other nations suggest that--with the aid of Croatian Catholic priests--Ustasha plunder made its way from Croatia to Rome, and possibly to the Vatican itself.
-- A vow of silence - U.S. News and World Report, March 30, 1998<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Much Nazi blood money made it into the Vatican, but not out.
Further details here
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Granted it's the difference between petty crime and major crime, but the Greek Orthodox Church comes off much better in the comparison (helping fraudster nuns, instead of the nazis like the Catholic Church did).