"Pizzagate" Explodes

[Josi]

Church Pedophiles & Child Sex Trafficking Nests Intersect by The Thousands
February 25, 2019
Do not turn a blind eye. Pedophilia goes far beyond the walls of the church, and spreads much like the plague, infesting local communities and infiltrating daycares, schools, and foster care, while many remain protected by local community leaders and officials. Child sex trafficking and church pedophiles are rampant, and the lists being disseminated by churches across the country, pointing to pedophile priests and clergy, most of which have long been deceased, is a swift way to clean their hands of it, with false transparency. What they don’t want people to know, is just how far this truly reaches, and the fact that teachers, attorneys, police officers, sheriffs, politicians, and even judges are in their “pedophile family,” making sure their secrets are safe, rather than the victims.

This is dark subject matter that is crucial for all to read in its entirety, in order to understand the true scope of what is happening to children across this country. Do not turn a blind eye – people must combat this for the children. This report will illustrate just how deep these nests go, the profoundly disturbing connections, detail of specific cases with numerous additional case links, show how communities are infiltrated, and what to pay very close attention to in one’s surroundings. Many churches are involved, not just the Catholic Church, who has the third highest total number of local congregations in the US, with 17,651 parishes. That said, it is important to touch on the Vatican in this report, due to significant statements and lack of action that has taken place.

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Church Pedophiles & Child Sex Trafficking Nests Intersect by The...

Pedophiles are rampant in churches and communities. They setup child sex trafficking nests and cover for one another. People need to fight for the children.

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To continue on the preceding:

JANET STREET-PORTER: Pope Francis has proved that the Catholic Church is totally incapable of tackling the stomach-churning sexual and financial abuses that are rotting it from the inside out

When Pope Francis was elected he won our hearts when he washed the feet of beggars, chose to live in a simple hostel rather than sumptuous Papal apartments, and opted for a second-hand car - a far cry from his predecessor who wore beautiful hand made slippers costing thousands of pounds.

We wanted Pope Francis to signal a new set of values for the Catholic Church, but sadly that has not turned out to be the case.

Six years on, Francis has just hosted the first Papal conference into sexual abuse, and at the end of four days, you might well ask - why did he bother?

Given that these scandals extend back more than 30 years, the Church has consistently denied the true scale of the problem.

Now, thousands of allegations relating to nuns being raped and young boys forced to carry out sex acts with bishops and priests have surfaced in every country where the Catholic Church has a presence.

In Australia, Cardinal Pell - formerly one of the Papal inner circle of nine and number three in the Vatican hierarchy - has just been found guilty of rape and sexual abuse and will be sentenced this week.

Some of the allegations are extremely troubling - in Italy and Argentina a report in the Washington Post claimed that dozens of children in Catholic schools for the deaf have been abused - one man has pleaded guilty and thirteen more have been arrested.

The blog Hear Our Voices- the Gay Catholic Priests' blog, claims that the Roman Catholic diocese in San Francisco has paid out $87 million to silence victims of sexual abuse by priests in the last 15 years.

The 1.3 billion Catholics who fund the church and regard Francis as their spiritual leader on earth are worth more than this shoddy treatment, which is both arrogant and perverted.

Francis called the conference and said he would 'spare no effort' to clean up the church, but ended by telling the assembled 190 Bishops and Cardinals that the majority of sexual abuse takes place within the family, with relatives, parents or teachers.

He said that sex tourism and freely available pornography online had made the abuse worse.

This argument doesn't hold up - the vast majority of sexual abuse cases in the Catholic Church consist of old men forcing themselves on young boys, and 'celibate' heterosexual priests raping very young girls.

Put simply, men who claim to be acting on behalf of God are using their power to destroy the lives of innocents. Does any crime get much worse than that?

Francis has consistently dragged his feet over allegations of cardinals and bishops he knew personally - it took years to get Cardinal Pell to return to Australia, where he was Bishop of Melbourne and then Sydney from 1996 to 2014.

There have been scores of allegations from survivors but the Pope has consistently remained silent.

The Vatican envoy to France is currently being investigated, accused of sexually molesting a young man at Paris City Hall. In Chile, Bishop Juan Barros was accused of covering up abuse by one of his priests.

The Pope refused to condemn Barros (a friend) and said he was convinced he was innocent.

In the US, after allegations of sexual assault of a teenager by Cardinal Theodore McCarrick were found to be credible, dozens more cases emerged. He finally resigned in July 2018.

The Pope has drawn up 21 'reflection points' for his Cardinals to consider as they attempt to draw up a way of tackling allegations of sexual impropriety.

But how can the Catholic Church be trusted to police itself if some of the perpetrators are the same men in power? It's too little, too late. The Pope promises a battle but has no rules of engagement, no master plan.

He's also unable to stem all the allegations of financial misconduct, tax evasion and shadowy financial manipulation which dog the Church.

The Vatican bank has been consistently accused of being involved (whether knowingly or not) in money laundering.

There is a convoluted management structure and the Pope is outmanoeuvred by the teams of cardinals and advisers who have been in place for decades.

Only recently, the bank was ordered by the EU to repay €4 billion for misusing tax breaks on property.

The former president of the bank for 20 years to 2009 is accused of disposing of real estate and the Vatican is seeking over €50 million in compensation!

A US charity was asked to give a sum 100 times larger than normal towards a Vatican funded hospital.

Following an investigation, 24 people from the hospital management have been indicted for money laundering.

It's clear that the Catholic Church can't be trusted to get it's own house in order.

Francis needs to set up an external inquiry into child sexual abuse, as has happened in countries like the UK, chaired by independent lawyers who gather evidence before handing cases over to the judiciary in the relevant countries.

As for the Vatican businesses and banks, the time has come to bring in external auditors and force through a forensic investigation into corruption.

Priests take a vow of celibacy - and yet 50,000 children of priests have signed up to a global network to discuss their situation.

Should Francis force through a decree allowing priests to have sex? It won't get rid of the paedophiles but it at least might help these children, many of whom do not know their fathers.

Pope Francis can't sit back and continue to play the humble outsider any longer. The Catholic Church is a disgrace. I'm almost glad I was raised an Anglican.

Pope Francis proved Catholic Church is incapable of tackling sex abuse

When Pope Francis was elected he won our hearts when he washed the feet of beggars, chose to live in a simple hostel, and opted for a second-hand car - a far cry from his predecessor.

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Although at least some Catholics are finally responding to the depth and breadth of these horrific abuses, it would seem the majority simply are not willing to actually do anything of any substance about it. Honestly, doesn't one wonder why these churches haven't been burned to the ground in outrage? Are they not temples of Satan (i.e. Brotherhood of the Snake)?!! More than once I've had to stop reading the accounts of what was done to innocent children at the hands of these monsters! But then, how much different is this from the American citizenry seemingly not caring at all that we're on the cusp of attempting to overthrow still yet another sovereign country - #68 in case anyone's counting! And let's not forget the military bases in 80 countries as well! And yet, no one seems the least bit concerned about this or the missing $21 trillion dollars!! Instead, it's Three Cheers for the Red, White, and Blue & 'Thank you for your service'!

And all the while, THIS goes on w/o any official objection whatsoever???

SOMETHING IS TERRIBLY WRONG WITH THE CAROLINE BOSMANS CHILDREN’S CLOTHING LINE

SOURCE: VIGILANT CITIZEN

The website and the Instagram account of this fashion brand are replete with disturbing imagery alluding to the abuse and sexualization of children. Here’s a look at the upsetting world of Caroline Bosmans.

Caroline Bosmans is a luxury brand for children that is highly praised in its native Belgium and around the fashion world. Popular amongst the children of the rich and famous (i.e. P. Diddy), the brand is described as “radical and graphic” by fashionistas. Indeed, although Caroline Bosmans creates garments for toddlers and children, it is all about being edgy and fashion-forward.

However, there’s a problem. The world of fashion is sick and twisted. Adding children to the mix is often a recipe for “what the hell is wrong with them”. A prime example is the children’s brand NUNUNU which, as seen in my article Something Is Terribly Wrong With Céline Dion’s “Genderless” Clothing Line, is simply revolting: References to child abuse, the sexualization of children and even all-out satanism.

Sadly, the marketing around Caroline Bosman sends out the same disturbing vibes. Nearly all of the pictures place children in bizarre, oppressive and unpleasant contexts in which lots of telling symbolism is added. Adding to the bad vibes, all of the children in their promotional pics appear to be either sad, upset, traumatized or … dead. In short, the brand is a reflection of the occult elite’s sickening sub-culture of preying on children.

Here are some examples.

Visitors to the official website of the brand are greeted with a bunch of pics that sum up the brand: Mixing children with the weirdness of the fashion world.

(A dryer and chickens ???? Can't make out the design on the child's dress.)
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A kid dressed in drag held by a man dressed in drag. Nobody seems to be enjoying this moment.

A favorite pastime of the elite is dressing up children as “sexy”, fully grown women (see my article about Desmond Is Amazing).

[Please access website link for the next sequence of pics - truly disturbing! They continue on into the more obvious ones of a sexual abuse nature - not going to show those as they are upsetting and could not possibly have anything to do w/ marketing childrens clothing]

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www.blacklistednews.com

This article contains a string of pictures depicting bruised, traumatized, and seemingly dead children as 'fashion' models in addition to being in positions of a sexual nature. Not surprisingly, examples of the all-seeing eye, the one eye symbolism as well as MKUltra symbols of rainbows and lost identity are part of the 'artistic' selling strategy . Who in their right mind would dress a child like this - a very fashionable rat print?!! And please note, the hat appears to have the classic MKUltra mickey mouse ears - hard to see, but there:

The Joe Biden special:

This child’s entire head is covered with hands. They love putting their hands on kids.

With this in mind,

there's this:

Another pic of a child that looks dead. On the children’s shirts and pants are the words “Eat People”. The elite is obssessed with cannibalism.

Again, do real people actually buy this clothing for their children? And if so, why aren't they being locked up?!! Why aren't all the people connected to this locked up?!!

As Gurdjieff put it (paraphrasing), you can't expect a particular phenomenon to change until everything changes. In other words, I don't see any hope getting this evil to stop until a big change happens, something on a large scale has to happen.

Yes, one wonders just what will it take to bring this evil to an end!

 

[angelburst29]

The move comes amid a series of Catholic Church child abuse scandals in the US and other countries in recent years.

February 27, 2019 - US state seeks abuse records from over 400 Catholic churches, institutions (Nebraska)
US state seeks abuse records from over 400 Catholic churches, institutions

In December, the Illinois attorney general said that almost 700 clergymen in the state have been accused of child sexual assault. (File/AFP)

Nebraska’s Justice Department said Tuesday that it has subpoenaed records on sexual abuse of children from over 400 Catholic churches and institutions in the US state.

“The subpoenas request all records or information related to any child sexual assault or abuse that has occurred by those employed or associated with each church or institution, whether previously reported or not,” spokeswoman Suzanne Gage said in a statement.

The Justice Department “believes that subpoenas are necessary in order to ensure all reports of impropriety have been submitted to the appropriate authorities,” Gage said. “It is our goal that all reports of abuse are subject to complete law enforcement review and investigation as warranted.”

The same month, authorities of the Jesuit order overseeing at least 40 US states released the names of more than 240 members who have been credibly accused of abuse — including dozens of priests with multiple allegations.

And in August, a devastating US report on child sex abuse claimed more than 300 “predator” priests abused more than 1,000 minors over seven decades in the state of Pennsylvania.

 

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STRASBOURG, France - A man has been charged with ordering videos of rapes and sexual assaults, some of them on children, broadcast live from the Philippines, a French prosecutor said on Saturday (March 2).

March 2, 2019 - Man charged for streaming Philippines child rape videos
Man charged for streaming Philippines child rape videos

The system involved broadcasting the assaults live and charging people to view them.PHOTO: REUTERS

The suspect, a 55-year-old former police officer according to L'Est Republicain newspaper, was being held for conspiracy to commit rape and sexual assault on someone under 15 years of age, Francois Perain, prosecutor in the eastern city of Nancy, told AFP.

French officials were tipped off by the investigators at the US Department of Homeland Security of the activities of a French national between 2017 and 2018, said Perain.

They had picked up the trail after equipment seized in a raid on a suspect in the Philippines yielded evidence of the live-streamed sexual assaults.

The system involved broadcasting the assaults live and charging people to view them and the victims, some of whom were children, said the prosecutor.

Using online chatrooms, clients placed orders specifying the profile of the victim and how they wanted them to be assaulted, and paid US$15 (S$20) to US$60.

Although some videos are broadcast pre-recorded, others are broadcast live so the person who ordered it can influence what happens in real time, said Perain.

The suspect, admitted to investigators that he had paid for such videos but said very few of them had involved minors, the prosecutor added.

 

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A French court convicted the Roman Catholic archbishop of Lyon on Thursday of failing to act on allegations of sexual abuse of boy scouts in his diocese, handing Cardinal Philippe Barbarin a six-month suspended jail sentence.

French cardinal found guilty of sex abuse cover-up

Barbarin was found guilty of failing between July 2014 and June 2015 to report allegations of abuse in the 1980s and early 1990s by a priest due to go on trial later this year.

Barbarin, who was not in court for the verdict, would contest the decision, his lawyers said. “We’ll see you here in a few months time for an appeal,” defense lawyer Jean-Felix Luciani told reporters outside the courtroom.

Barbarin denied concealing allegations that Father Bernard Preynat abused dozens of boys more than a decade before he arrived in the Lyon diocese in 2002. Preynat has admitted sexual abuse, according to his lawyer.

Lyon prosecutors had previously investigated Barbarin but dropped the probe in mid-2016 without a detailed explanation. However, an association of alleged victims called Parole Liberee (Freed Word) used a provision of French law to compel the cardinal to stand trial.

French cardinal convicted of covering up child sex abuse says he will resign
France's archbishop of Lyon said on Thursday he would submit his resignation to Pope Francis after he was found guilty of failing to report allegations of sex abuse committed by a priest in his diocese.

On Ash Wednesday, pope says wealth is 'dust in the wind'
Pope Francis told Catholics on Wednesday that success, power and material possessions are fleeting and will disappear "like dust in the wind" as he marked the start of the penitential Christian season of Lent.

Danish police charge 14 for sharing Morocco murder video on social media
Danish police have charged 14 people for sharing a video on social media purportedly showing the murder of a Scandinavian woman in Morocco last December.

 

[Voyageur]

Seems there has been a bit of a row from Thursday developing between political parties in Canada (and the media) over the opposition leaders (now stated as not hearing what this guy in the public forum had said) reactions to a citizen in Ontario asking Pizzagate type questions tied to the Clinton Foundation etc.

Conspiracy Theory is the outcome.

Scheer says he didn't hear question about Clinton 'pizzagate' lie during town hall | CBC News

Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer said today he "didn't hear" a question about an infamous — and debunked — conspiracy theory connecting former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to a child sex ring during a town hall event in Kitchener, Ont. last night.

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It seems obvious, although possibly not, that Mr. Scheer could hear what the guy was saying and he back-peddles on the points below:

 

[Pierre]

A French court convicted the Roman Catholic archbishop of Lyon on Thursday of failing to act on allegations of sexual abuse of boy scouts in his diocese, handing Cardinal Philippe Barbarin a six-month suspended jail sentence.

Notice that Barbarin was not sentenced for pedophilia or even non-denunciation of pedophile acts but non-denunciation of allegations of sexual abuse.

The double standard is stunning when, for example, a politician like Cohn-Bendit, the leader of the 1968 'sexual revolution', bragged on the national TV about his pedophile exploits and was never auditioned by the police.

Cardinal Barbarin was one of the main driving forces behind the vast demonstrations in France against gay marriage. So, I'm wondering if his sentence is not just a political move where the nihilistic/materialistic/individualistic ideologues (among whom Cohn Bendit) currently ruling the country eliminated one of their fiercest opponent.

 

[goyacobol]

It seems obvious, although possibly not, that Mr. Scheer could hear what the guy was saying and he back-peddles on the points below:

Voyageur,

I don't know if he heard the Pizzagate part or not. I think what bothered me the most was the MSM/Fake News calling the Pizzagate incident "Fake News" in their questioning. Maybe it was selective hearing on Scheer's part due to the dilemma of realizing you are in big trouble with most people if you question MSM programming. He just seemed to repeat himself rather than back-pedaling.

Sadly, it looks like "the programming is complete" as far as Pizzagate goes anyway.

Some crimes are being prosecuted now even in the Catholic church so maybe some day the Pizzagate incident will be investigated for real but I don't hold my breath waiting.

 

[Voyageur]

I think what bothered me the most was the MSM/Fake News calling the Pizzagate incident "Fake News" in their questioning.

Indeed, this was the point inferred (conspiracy theory the outcome). It was a slam-dunk for the media to apply the trigger words, and as for Scheer, he was not about to get entangled in it so ignorance was his only out.

 

[angelburst29]

Ballarat was the sort of regional Australian town where mothers with Irish surnames prayed their eldest sons would enter the priesthood, and fathers would reach for their soft brim hats whenever Catholic clergy walked by.

Soul searching: Australia loses faith as sexual abuse cases mount

FILE PHOTO - A view of the gate of St Patrick's College, where Cardinal George Pell attended school, in Ballarat, Australia, February 27, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Barrett/File Photo

It’s now the sort of place that is losing its faith, compounded by the imprisonment of one of its most famous sons, Cardinal George Pell, who was sentenced on Wednesday to six years in jail for sexually abusing two choir boys in the 1990s.

Allen Stephens, a 76-year-old Ballarat resident, said Pell’s conviction was evidence of a broken institution. “The whole community of church-goers is diminishing dramatically,” said Stephens, who like many of his era was baptized as a child but is not active in the church.

“The abuse has certainly hastened the lack of interest in the church.” Disillusionment with the Catholic church in Ballarat is reflective of a wider national trend, according to researcher IBISWorld, fueled by an inability by traditional Christian groups to attract younger people as well as anger over the spate of sexual abuse cases that have come to light in recent years.

“Traditional churches are beginning to consolidate, with many churches with low attendance numbers merging with other nearby churches,” IBISWorld said.

Catholicism remains Australia’s largest religious affiliation at 22.6 percent of the population, census data shows, but that is down from above 27 percent a quarter of a century ago.


Former Vatican treasurer Pell jailed for six years for 'brazen' sexual attack on choir boys
Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years in jail on Wednesday for sexually abusing two choir boys in Melbourne in the 1990s, and will be registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life.

 

[goyacobol]

It is tragic and yet I think better for humanity that the religions of the world are being unmasked for the pedophile crimes so long covered-up.

Angelburst29 listed another investigation involving Polish Catholic clergy and pedophilia past and present.

WARSAW (Reuters) - As many as 382 children were sexually abused by clergy in Poland between 1990 and 2018, according to findings presented on Thursday by the Polish Catholic Church in one of the most devout countries in Europe.



Bishop Artur Mizinski, secretary general of the Episcopal Conference of Poland, Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski deputy head of the Episcopal Conference of Poland, Archbishop Stanislaw Gadecki, head of the Episcopal Conference of Poland, Archbishop Wojciech Polak, primate of Poland, priests Adam Zak and Wojciech Sadlon attend a news conference in Warsaw, Poland, March 14, 2019. Agencja Gazeta/Adam Stepien via REUTERS

The report follows investigations into widespread abuse of minors by clergy in other countries - notably in Chile, the United States, Australia and Ireland - that have shaken the Roman Catholic Church to its foundations.

“This is an especially painful, tragic issue as it is connected with consecrated people, who devoted themselves to serving the church, other human beings. They have social trust and this social trust was so tragically violated,” Archbishop Marek Jedraszewski said at a news conference.


Polish bishops last year asked victims of past clerical abuse for forgiveness and began collecting data to “identify the causes of these deeds and assess their scale”.

The report said as many as 198 of the victims were below the age of 15.

Last month the Polish charity “Have no fear”, which supports abuse victims, delivered its own report to Pope Francis in which it calculated - purely on the basis of media reports collated since the mid-1950s - that at least 384 minors had been sexually abused by clergy in Poland.

Activists say the real figure is probably much greater.

The charity has called for the creation of a panel to investigate the real scale of the problem, securing access to Church documents regarding the abuse of minors, and dismissing bishops found responsible for covering up sexual crimes.

In Poland, Catholic priests enjoy high social prestige and victims of sexual abuse by clergy are often suspected by devout Poles of making up false accusations, even long after the offender in question has been jailed.

Poland remains one of Europe’s most devout countries. Nearly 85 percent of Poland’s 38 million-strong population identify as Roman Catholics and around 12 million attend mass every Sunday.


Teenagers killed in Sao Paolo school shooting
But Polish Church authorities have yet to reach a consensus on how to address the issue of sexual abuse.

An arm of the Church has filed a lawsuit in the Supreme Court seeking to annul a 1 million zloty ($263,000) payment ordered by a lower court to a woman who, as a 13-year old child, was repeatedly raped by her local priest.

The case was a landmark ruling in granting compensation and an annuity to a victim of sexual abuse by a Catholic priest in Poland.

Reporting by Marcin Goclowski; Editing by Gareth Jones and Toby Chopra

Also in Pennsylania another reported sexual abuse by a priest is in the news:

https://www.abc27.com/

Former Harrisburg priest charged with molesting 2 boys

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• Myles Snyder

Posted: Mar 14, 2019 10:19 AM EDT
Updated: Mar 14, 2019 01:46 PM EDT


John Allen
HARRISBURG, Pa. (WHTM) - A former priest in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Harrisburg has been arrested on charges he molested two children.
John G. Allen, 75, of York, abused the victims between 1997 and 2002 while they served as altar boys for St. Margaret Mary’s Alacoque Church in Harrisburg, the Dauphin County District Attorney's Office said.
Allen was arrested Thursday morning on four counts of indecent assault and two counts of corruption of minors.

The district attorney's office said it began investigating Allen when the diocese reported the allegations made by one of the victims in October. The second person came forward last month.
Allen is accused of grabbing one boy's buttocks on multiple occasions between 1999 and 2002 when the child was 10 years to 13 years old.
The other victim says Allen fondled him on multiple occasions between 1997 and 1999 when he was between 12 and 14 years old.
Allen was removed as pastor of St. Margaret Mary’s Church in 2002 after a man reported to the diocese that Allen abused him as a boy. Pope Benedict XVI formally removed him from the priesthood in 2006, at the request of the diocese.
Allen was named as an abuser by a statewide grand jury that investigated clergy in six Pennsylvania dioceses. He also was among 37 priests identified as abusers by the Harrisburg diocese last year.
In a statement, the diocese said every allegation of child sexual abuse concerning Allen has been reported by the diocese to multiple law enforcement authorities.
"We condemn John Allen’s actions and we fully support law enforcement and we cooperated with them on this case," the statement reads.

 

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Philippe Barbarin, the French Roman Catholic cardinal convicted this month of failing to report sexual abuse allegations, met Pope Francis on Monday after saying he planned to resign as archbishop of Lyon.

Convicted French cardinal meets pope after saying he would resign

FILE PHOTO: Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, Archbishop of Lyon, walks inside the courthouse during a break on the last day of his trial, charged with failing to act on historical allegations of sexual abuse of boy scouts by a priest in his diocese, at the courthouse in Lyon, France, January 10, 2019. REUTERS/Emmanuel Foudrot/File Photo

The Vatican’s daily list of papal audiences confirmed that the meeting took place but gave no details. It did not say if the pope had accepted any resignation.

Barbarin, 68, the highest-profile cleric to be caught up in the child sex abuse scandal inside the French Church, was handed a six-month suspended prison sentence on March 7.

Barbarin is appealing against the verdict. But after the hearing, he said he planned to travel to the Vatican and hand in his resignation.


Costa Rica's Church seeks forgiveness after priests accused of abuse
The Catholic Church in Costa Rica on Friday asked for forgiveness following recent accusations that three of its priests sexually abused minors, amid a clerical abuse scandal that has ravaged the institution's credibility around the globe.

The bishops met this week to discuss how to address the pedophilia accusations, which were reported by local media, against the three priests. Two of those accusations are being investigated by the Public Prosecutor’s Office.

Two men have accused San Jose Archbishop Jose Rafael Quiros, who presides over the Episcopal Conference, of helping to protect Mauricio Viquez, one of the priests accused of sexual abuse.

A Costa Rican judge ordered in February an international warrant for Viquez’s arrest after he abandoned the Central American nation. Quiros said at the time he did not know of Viquez’s whereabouts.

Costa Rican police on March 7 carried out raids on church offices in San Jose and retrieved documents.

Quiros, along with six other bishops, said in a statement, “We are now more aware of the grave problem that the sexual abuse of minors constitutes.”

 

[angelburst29]

I surmise, the Catholic Church is behind this measure - to fine and jail journalist and their corresponding media outlets, for their coverage of this high profile case? I think, the Pope is only going to stir the pot more - if they start going after journalists?

Australian prosecutors are seeking jail and fines for dozens of journalists and media outlets for alleged contempt of court over their coverage of Cardinal George Pell's child sex abuse trial last year, a court summons showed on Tuesday.

Australian prosecutors seek jail for media over Pell trial coverage

FILE PHOTO - Vatican Treasurer Cardinal George Pell is surrounded by Australian police and members of the media as he leaves the Melbourne Magistrates Court in Australia, July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Mark Dadswell/File Photo

The Director of Public Prosecutions in Victoria has asked the state’s Supreme Court to send journalists to jail or impose fines for breaching a suppression order on coverage of the trial, aiding and abetting overseas media’s contempt of court, and “scandalizing the court”.

The court has set April 15 for a first hearing on the application. The summons included 23 journalists and 13 news outlets. No foreign media or journalists were named.

Last year, the County Court of Victoria imposed a suppression order on reporting of the trial of former Vatican treasurer Pell to prevent prejudicing the jury in that case and a second trial on older child sex offences that had been set for March.

A jury in the first trial found Pell guilty on Dec. 11 of abusing two choir boys. After the verdict, some Australian media ran headlines flagging that an unnamed high-profile person had been convicted of a serious crime that could not be reported.

In February, Judge Peter Kidd sentenced Pell to six years jail. Pell is the most senior Catholic worldwide to have been convicted for child sex abuse.

No Australian media named Pell or the charges in their reporting in December although some overseas media, including the Daily Beast and the Washington Post, named the cardinal and reported he had been found guilty of sexually assaulting two choir boys.

The gag order, which had applied across Australia “and on any website or other electronic or broadcast format accessible within Australia”, was only lifted on Feb. 26 when the charges for the second trial were dropped.

Journalists summoned for contempt of court include reporters from Nine Entertainment Co, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, Macquarie Media, and several News Corp publications.

The list includes high-profile radio commentator Ray Hadley and the editor-in-chief of the Australian Financial Review, Michael Stutchbury.

Hadley’s employer, Macquarie Media, declined to comment on the allegations as they are now subject to legal proceedings.

“Nine and the named employees deny the allegations but as the matter is now before the courts, Nine will not comment further at this time,” a Nine spokeswoman said.

Nine is owner of a television network as well as Fairfax Media and the newspapers The Age and the Australian Financial Review named in the summons.

News Corp, which had several newspapers and journalists named in the summons, said: “We will vigorously defend all charges and resolutely stand by our editors and journalists.”

Under the state of Victoria’s open courts law, breaches of suppression orders can result in jail time of up to five years and fines of nearly A$100,000 ($71,000) for individuals and nearly A$500,000 for companies.

 

[angelburst29]

This new legislation enacted by the Pope, is just "a paper Band-Aid" that will do little to combat "Centuries" of sexual abuse within the Church. It amounts to a common clause legality (Civil Law) that the Pope and Catholic Church can use to hold up in the air, as some kind of proof, the Pope is addressing the problem - while the Church tries to distance itself, from mounting exposure in World-wide sexual abuse claims that continue to surface.

I also find the Pope's actions and behavior intriguing, as he tours African Nations, promoting inter-religious dialogue and the spread of "a moderate form of Islam"? Is he promoting a Latinized form of Islam towards Catholic doctrine, aimed at control and financial gain?

Pope enacts new legislation to prevent child abuse in Vatican

Pope Francis on Friday enacted sweeping new legislation to protect children from sexual abuse within the Vatican and other Holy See institutions in Rome as well as by its diplomatic corps worldwide.

Pope visits Italy's 'flying house' to sign papal document

Pope Francis signed a new document on young people during a visit on Monday to a site that some Catholics believe was the house of Jesus Christ's mother, flown by angels from the Holy Land to Italy's Adriatic coast.

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Pope accepts resignation of Chilean cardinal accused of covering up abuse
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati as archbishop of Santiago, the highest-ranking member of the Catholic Church in Chile, who has been caught up in the country's sex abuse scandal.

Chile court orders Catholic Church to compensate victims in sex abuse case

A Chilean appeals court ruled on Wednesday that the Catholic Church should pay compensation to three victims in a sex abuse case involving former Santiago parish priest Fernando Karadima, a decision that could open the floodgates to similar lawsuits.

Chile court opens door for more Church sex abuse victims to seek damages
Chile's Catholic Church should prepare itself for an onslaught of new civil suits from victims seeking compensation for past cases of sexual abuse, a lawyer who successfully sued the Archdiocese of Santiago said on Thursday.

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Pope, in Morocco, hopes to boost King's moderate Islam vision
Pope Francis makes a lightning trip to Morocco this weekend to promote inter-religious dialogue and support efforts by the North African country's King Mohammed VI to spread a moderate form of Islam.

Pope to visit Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius in September
Pope Francis will visit the African nations of Mozambique, Madagascar and Mauritius in September, the Vatican said on Wednesday.

It was getting out of hand - Pope explains ring kissing mystery

The mystery of why Pope Francis repeatedly withdrew his right hand as a long line of people bowed and tried to kiss it this week has been resolved - he did not want to spread germs. (But it's OK to kiss Babies?)

Women at Vatican magazine quit to protest 'male control'

The all-female staff of the Vatican newspaper's monthly magazine on women's issues have resigned abruptly en masse, saying the new editor was trying limit their autonomy and put them "under direct male control".

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Finnish police uncover child abuse video network
Finnish police have uncovered a child abuse ring in which suspects filmed boys as young as six being sexually abused in Finland and then distributed and exchanged footage over the internet, the National Bureau of Investigation said.

 

[Ruth]

This is really weird, and it does mention the Podestas and "Pizzagate". I'm not sure if this video has been posted previously, my apologies if it has.