Posted on 04/10/2010 11:49:41 PM PDT by Steelfish
April 11, 2010 Richard Dawkins: I Will Arrest Pope Benedict XVI Marc Horne
Atheist campaigner Richard Dawkins RICHARD DAWKINS, the atheist campaigner, is planning a legal ambush to have the Pope arrested during his state visit to Britain “for crimes against humanity”.
Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, have asked human rights lawyers to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
The pair believe they can exploit the same legal principle used to arrest Augusto Pinochet, the late Chilean dictator, when he visited Britain in 1998.
The Pope was embroiled in new controversy this weekend over a letter he signed arguing that the “good of the universal church” should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys. It was dated 1985, when he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases.
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Seconded. Both are terrible writers, and IBTZ to the DUmmy troll.
I think the media is ignorant, possibly intentionally ignorant, of most if not all things Catholic. In the current controversy they throw around a term like 'defrocked' as if it had real meaning and care not to understand the organizational structure of the Church. I mean, isn't the priesthood like any other 'job' one can be fired from and isn't it easier to imagine the Church as GM with its various units and divisions all answering to a CEO?
As it's been pointed out many times on FR, the majority of 'cases' involve young men not prepubescent boys but why bother pointing out the distinction when we live in a culture that keeps pushing off the responsibilities of adulthood indefinitely . . . with gay men, the best exemplars of this new mode of living, celebrated by the elites. As the last 'sexual taboo' in modern society, the sexual abuse of children serves their purposes whereas priestly pederasty doesn't.
Confusion reigns.
“...I have my opinion. I respect yours, you should respect mine.”
Hard to respect you or your opinion when you tell lies about people, just like the liberal media.
Ignorance is what caused you to commit spiritual suicide. You’ve no one to blame but yourself.
So was Marx. Look what that led to. BFD.
The little troll has left the big tent. The circus is over.
IATZ
As a Catholic I'm sorry to have to say this, but the blame lies on two past Popes: Paul VI and John Paul II. And the sorry bunch of loser bishops they appointed to the episcopate. Thankfully, Benedict is doing a better job on all counts than his predecessors.
Go to hell.
Swiss Guards: We will shoot twice and go home.
Can you show me where the Pope supports globalism?
Been backwards and forwards over that . . . there’s a whole thread on the encyclical with the shocking paragraph.
I don’t care to revisit all that.
Perhaps Dr E has the link handy.
Search could also dig it up relatively easily, I’d think.
Violent towards nonbelievers? Where, when?
Are you referring to the document called..Jesus Christ, the Bearer of the Water of Life? It reflects on the New Age.
In re the Chinese crushing Uigher Muslims, credit where credit is due. However in the broad scope of history it is the Christians and Christian nations that have kept Muslims back from world domination.
The Uigher thing was a small uprising within Chinese borders. Not a takeover of other nations, shipping lanes/commerce, etc.
I don’t think so.
. . . Progresso . . . or some such may have been in the title.
Searching “encyclical” might do it.
An earlier Pope has a quote in the list ref’d in my tagline:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81
Of course the . . . ‘rabid cliques’ hereon rationalize all such away quite conveniently.
Doesn’t wash for the rest of us.
“Richard Dawson is just another fundamentalist religious fanatic.”
Oh that’s true - and he’d hate hearing that - which makes it doubly good.
That was some question that was posted to Malichi Martin youtube.
Martin had the gift of discernment
Malachi Martin on The New World Order Pt2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hb-ciFbdj4
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