Pope: Catholic guide needs updating on death penalty issue
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World Day Against Death Penalty: 5 Countries That Ditched Capital
Punishment
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October 11, 2017
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Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal's apartment
Vatican police have raided a cardinal's apartment where a drug-fuelled homosexual orgy was taking place.
Police entered an apartment at the former palace of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (or Holy Office) last month, not far from the Vatican City.
The occupant of the apartment is alleged to be a priest who serves as a secretary to cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, the head of the Pontifical Council for Legislative Texts and a personal adviser to the Pope.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11886097
Vatican rocked: Police raid drug-fuelled gay orgy at cardinal's
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Australian Cardinal and Aide to Pope Is Charged With Sexual Assault
Australia’s senior Roman Catholic prelate, and one of Pope Francis’ top advisers, has been charged with sexual assault, the police in the Australian state of Victoria said on Thursday.
The prelate, Cardinal George Pell, became the highest-ranking Vatican official in recent years to face criminal charges involving accusations of sexual offenses. The case will test the credibility of Francis’ initiatives to foster greater accountability after abuse scandals that have shaken the church around the world.
“Cardinal Pell has been charged on summons, and he is required to appear at the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court” on July 18, Shane Patton, the deputy police commissioner, said at a news conference.
The charges were served on the cardinal’s legal representatives in Melbourne. Commissioner Patton said there were multiple complainants but refused to provide further details about them, including their ages.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/28/world/australia/cardinal-george-pell-charged-sexual-abuse.html
Australian Cardinal and Aide to Pope Is Charged With Sexual Assault
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Unholy Alliance: General William “Wild Bill” Donovan and Pope Pius XII
One day in July 1944, as the Second World War raged throughout Europe, General William “Wild Bill” Donovan was ushered into an ornate chamber in Vatican City for an audience with Pope Pius XII.
Donovan bowed his head reverently as the pontiff intoned a ceremonial prayer in Latin and decorated him with the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Sylvester, the oldest and most prestigious of papal knighthoods.
This award has been given to only 100 other men in history, who “by feat of arms, or writings, or outstanding deeds, have spread the Faith, and have safeguarded and championed the Church.”
Although a papal citation of this sort rarely, if ever, states why a person is inducted into the “Golden Militia,” there can be no doubt that Donovan earned his knighthood by virtue of the services he rendered to the Catholic hierarchy in World War II, during which he served as chief of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the wartime predecessor to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
In 1941, the year before the OSS was officially constituted, Donovan forged a close alliance with Father Felix Morlion, founder of a European Catholic intelligence service known as Pro Deo.
When the Germans overran western Europe, Donovan helped Morlion move his base of operations from Lisbon to New York.
From then on, Pro Deo was financed by Donovan, who believed that such an expenditure would result in valuable insight into the secret affairs of the Vatican, then a neutral enclave in the midst of fascist Rome.
https://gosint.wordpress.com/2017/06/19/unholy-alliance-general-william-wild-bill-donovan-and-pope-pius-xii/
Unholy Alliance: General William “Wild Bill” Donovan and Pope Pius XII
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May 1st: The Day Slavery System Transferred from Monarchies to the Corporations
Contrary to what most of us consider to be private property, we don’t really own anything, from the real estate property and the car we’ve been driving from and to the workplace. We are mere tenants to the land we paid for from so many years of toil, who still need to pay for “our own property’s” use through taxes, registration fees and licenses to the corporate government, which is at the very top is wholly controlled by the Corporatocracy.
They were able to do this elaborate sleight of hand by conscripting only the best minds of the day into into their fold. The intellectual elite conscripts understand how the mind works, and how it can be fooled. While each of them might belong to a separate, or a highly compartmentalized team, but at the very top, only a few old men are waving the baton.
The relationship between the Jesuits, Knights of Malta, Freemasons, Knights of Templar, and the Rothschild Khazarian Mafia, is fairly well established, and the lines between them has been blurred over time.
So, if Donald Trump is a Freemason, he is also working for the Jesuits and other stakeholders of the Empire…
https://geopolitics.co/2017/05/01/may-1st-the-day-slavery-system-transferred-from-royalties-to-the-jesuits-freemasonry/
May 1st: The Day Slavery System Transferred from Monarchies to the
Corporations
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Mass grave with baby remains found in Ireland
A mass grave containing “significant quantities" of infants' remains has been discovered at a former Catholic mother and baby home in western Ireland.
The discovery, announced by investigators Friday, follows a probe by a historian in 2014 who found the death certificates for nearly 800 children who died at the home in Tuam, County Galway, between its opening in 1925 and closure in 1961.
The government-appointed Mother and Baby Homes Commission said the remains were found in at least 17 of 20 underground chambers during excavations between November and February. The chambers appeared to be related to the treatment of sewage or waste water, it said.
A small number of the remains of up to 35-week-old fetuses, and babies and toddlers aged up to 3, were taken for analysis.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/03/03/mass-grave-baby-remains-found-ireland/98683548/
Mass grave with baby remains found in Ireland
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The Forgotten Maggies - Official Documentary Magdalene Laundries (2009)
Directed and Produced by Steven O’Riordan with Ger Boland co-producing, The forgotten Maggies focuses on the human rights aspect surrounding the Magdalene Laundries, including testimonies from women and an exploration of the High Park exhumation where 155 Magdalene women were exhumed in 1993.
The Forgotten Maggies - Official Documentary Magdalene Laundries (2009)
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Sex In A Cold Climate - The Magdalene Laundries (1998)
Steve Humphries' Sex in a Cold Climate , a documentary denouncing the Magdalene Asylums, which were operated by Catholic nuns in Ireland for over 100 years, caused an uproar when it was televised in England in March 1998 as part of Channel Four's Witness series. An estimated three million people watched the documentary, one of the highest figures ever recorded for the series. A help line was set up, which received calls from almost 450 women who had experienced abuse and trauma through the Magdalene Asylums and the Catholic Church. The documentary was blacklisted by the Irish network RTE and to this date has never been officially aired in Ireland.
Sex In A Cold Climate - The Magdalene Laundries (1998)
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Slave Labour: Magdalene Laundries disgraced Irish Catholic women
For almost 150 years thousands of women in Ireland were sent to live in Catholic institutions, punished for crimes like having a child out of wedlock or petty theft, and forced to work in laundries run by the Church. But this dark past is not Ireland's alone. In a 16x9 exclusive, we discover Canadian laundries and speak to a woman who says she was born into slave labour.
Slave Labour: Magdalene Laundries disgraced Irish Catholic women
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The Ratlines
Adolf Eichmann, “the architect of the Holocaust,” escaped from Europe after World War II and remained hidden for 15 years before being captured. Germany holds a cache of sealed files detailing this history and is fighting to keep it secret despite critics’ objections. Some observers believe the documents would shed embarrassing additional light on German-Vatican collusion on the “ratlines,” an already proven postwar operation to protect Nazi leaders. Following are a few excerpts from the 1992 book Unholy Trinity , written by Mark Aarons and John Loftus, describing this important chapter in German-Vatican history.Read full article »»
The Ratlines
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Hitler 'wanted to steal' Turin Shroud
The Turin Shroud, said to be the burial cloth of Christ, was secretly hidden in a Benedictine abbey during the Second World War because the Vatican feared that Adolf Hitler wanted to steal it.
In an interview with an Italian magazine, Diva e Donna, Father Cardin said: "The Holy Shroud was moved in secret to the sanctuary in the Campania region on the precise orders of the House of Savoy and the Vatican.
"Officially this was to protect it from possible bombing (in Turin). In reality, it was moved to hide it from Hitler who was apparently obsessed by it. When he visited Italy in 1938, top-ranking Nazi aides asked unusual and insistent questions about the Shroud."
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Hitler 'wanted to steal' Turin Shroud
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Pope aide claims under-fire Vatican is victim of ‘conspiracy’
The Vatican has rejected fresh allegations linking Pope Benedict XVI to a cover-up of paedophile priests, even as international media reports accused the Church of moral bankruptcy and questioned the pontiff’s authority to continue to lead it.Read full article »»
L’Osservatore Romano , the Vatican newspaper, said in an editorial that Pope Benedict had always handled such cases with “transparency, purpose and severity.” It accused the international media of acting “with the clear and ignoble intent of trying to strike Benedict and his closest collaborators at any cost”. One of the Pope’s top aides, Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, said there was “a conspiracy” against the Church.
Pope aide claims under-fire Vatican is victim of ‘conspiracy’
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Pope orders Vatican probe into Irish church, blasts bishops, takes no Vatican blame for abuse
Pope Benedict XVI's unprecedented letter to Ireland apologizing for chronic child abuse within the Catholic Church has failed to calm the anger of many victims, who accused the Vatican of ducking its own responsibility in promoting a worldwide culture of coverup.
Benedict's message Saturday - the product of weeks of consultation with Irish bishops, who read it aloud at Masses across this predominantly Catholic nation - rebuked Ireland's church leaders for "grave errors of judgment" in failing to observe the church's secretive canon laws.
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Pope orders Vatican probe into Irish church, blasts bishops, takes no
Vatican blame for abuse
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International Probe Targets Secretive Catholic Group
But while Opus Dei, the other controversial conservative Catholic order, was made famous in Brown's "The Da Vinci Code," the Legion of Christ is virtually unknown to most Americans – at least on the surface.
"Dan Brown got the wrong group," said Genevieve Kineke, an orthodox Catholic who was a member of Regnum Christi, the legion's lay movement, from 1992 to 2000 and writes a blog about her experiences. "The Legion of Christ is the scary cult embedded in the bosom of the mother church. Not Opus Dei."
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International Probe Targets Secretive Catholic Group
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Report damns Irish Catholic Church for covering up ‘evil’ sex abuse
The Catholic Church in Ireland covered up widespread allegations of "evil" child sex abuse by priests for decades, according to a damning report released on Thursday.
Four archbishops routinely protected abusers and failed to inform police of the allegations, according to a three-year investigation into the Dublin Archdiocese, the country's largest.
The judicial probe discovered that the archbishops did not report abuse to police until the 1990s as part of a culture of secrecy and an over-riding wish to avoid damaging the reputation of the Church.
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Report damns Irish Catholic Church for covering up ‘evil’ sex abuse
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Britain knew about extermination of Jews, Vatican claims
The Vatican's official newspaper has accused Britain and the United States of having detailed knowledge of Hitler's plans to exterminate the Jews but of failing to do anything to halt the Final Solution.
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British and American inaction was in contrast to the efforts made by the wartime Pope, Pius XII, who tried to save as many Jews as he could through clandestine means, L'Osservatore claimed in a lengthy article titled "Silence and omissions at the time of the Shoah (Holocaust)".
The editorial is the Vatican's latest effort to rehabilitate the reputation of Pope Pius, whose reluctance to denounce the Nazis publicly prompted accusations of anti-Semitism and earned him the title "Hitler's Pope".
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Britain knew about extermination of Jews, Vatican claims
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Opus Dei lets film director in on some of its secrets
New film to explore history of controversial Catholic sect and its leader
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The British film-maker Roland Joffe, who made his mark with his religious drama The Mission about crusading Jesuits in the Brazilian jungle, is to tackle an even more controversial chapter in the history of Catholicism: Opus Dei. Joffe is to recreate the life and miracles of Jose Maria Escriva de Balaguer, the Spanish priest who founded one of the most influential and secretive organisations within the Catholic church, and was canonised in 2002. The film seems set to stir up more controversy, following in the wake of several screen hits tapping into public fascination with tales of Opus-inspired crimes and conspiracies, which have set Vatican chasubles aflap.
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Opus Dei lets film director in on some of its secrets
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Vatican plots battle with Dan Brown over Da Vinci Code sequel
It was described as a “phantasmagorical cocktail of inventions”, a “masonic plot” and a “ potpourri of lies”. Now a nervous Vatican is braced for the sequel to The Da Vinci Code and the return of its nemesis, Dan Brown.
Angels & Demons is the latest Brown thriller to be turned into a film, and already the Catholic Church is agonizing over how best to respond: to urge the faithful to boycott the film, or to ignore it? The Vatican and the Italian Catholic Church condemned The Da Vinci Code in its book and film version, but some church officials argued that the campaign against it merely boosted the public’s curiosity by giving it the “oxygen of publicity”.
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Vatican plots battle with Dan Brown over Da Vinci Code sequel
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April 21, 2009
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