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But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.
- 1 Timothy 4:1-3

  February 15, 2013
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But the Spirit explicitly says that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and doctrines of demons, by means of the hypocrisy of liars seared in their own conscience as with a branding iron, men who forbid marriage and advocate abstaining from foods which God has created to be gratefully shared in by those who believe and know the truth.

- 1 Timothy 4:1-3

 

I heard another voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, my people, so that you will not participate in her sins and receive of her plagues;

- Revelation 18:4

 

We applied healing to Babylon, but she was not healed

- Jeremiah 51:9

 

The Roman Catholic Church has certainly found herself in the headlines these past few days and weeks around the world. Just a few weeks back we have had another series of reports in the press surrounding the overwhelming problem of Roman Catholic Priests sexually abusing children, this time in the Los Angels diocese. Then this past Monday February 11th the announcement came forth that Pope Benedict XVI was stepping down due to health reasons.

 

Concerning the child molestation scandals The LA Times is continuing their reports on this matter and yet I have doubts that they will dig deep enough to expose how depraved Rome is. Each time another round of information and "data dumps" come forth the public is given the same general information where the leadership tries to pawn the blame off on the lowest possible ranking clergy member, local church or regional diocese or someone who is retired or dead. The line given is that the Vatican, her Cardinals and Bishops did not have knowledge of how widespread, or how to handle this problem.

 

First, we only need to go directly to Scripture to see that the forbidding of marriage is a "doctrine of demons" (1 Tim 4: 1-3) and the reason is that it results in all forms of perversion in, and the control of the clergy. This doctrine of the Church of Rome was first instituted in 1079 AD. Before that, her "priests" etc., were free to marry. This does not deny that there is a spiritual gift of being celibate but one cannot force that gift on a person just as one cannot force the gift of evangelism or pastor/teacher onto a believer.

 

However, bible-believing Christians should understand that the Roman Catholic Church follows what is called the Magisterium. This is the interpretation of Scripture through a man-made lens (made up of the Pope and former popes when they speak/spoke Ex Cathedra - from the "chair" infallibly - and the teachings of Bishops through the years including all the councils and tradition). This means that Roman Catholics practicing their faith as prescribed by Rome cannot go to the Bible via the Holy Spirit to directly hear and understand God's Word, but they must allow the "Magisterium" to interpret it for them. This helps to explain the plethora of false teachings that Rome continues to propagate and why she cannot change them without completely dismantling the entire religion. This is all outlined in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. A few articles are contained in this alert that show many false teachings contrary to Scripture such as worship of the wafer and transubstantiation, Mary worship and Contemplative spirituality are alive and well in the Roman Church.

 

However, I digress.

 

There has been talk for sometime about a document called Criminales Solicitaciones (translated from Latin means "Criminal Solicitation"), published in 1962 by the Vatican detailing how The Roman Catholic Church was to handle this issue of charges of sexual and other forms of abuse against it's priests and nuns. Published in Latin and quite lengthy, a few years back Moriel obtained a copy and Jacob Prasch has mentioned it occasionally in various teachings on the subject. However, I have come across a translated version that I have reproduced below along with its original 'color' commentary by the person who initially re-published it online. This person describes himself as a "recovering Catholic" and the more I read through this commentary the more I think they were once what is described as an "ordinary" or what we would refer to a layman serving in the RC church. The sub-title of the document reads:

 

"For all Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Diocesan Ordinaries 'even of the oriental rite' "

 

It is likely that anyone serving in some level of capacity could have had access to this document, even the English translation below.

 

Why is this important?

 

Because the whole story Rome has been telling the world is a sham. They have known about this for decades and they directed everyone in their ranks to cover it up from the start.

 

If the press would only do their job, they could probably blow this whole thing wide open (like they could with the many other scandals plaguing the world) and save many children from future sexual abuse. Yet, we should not be surprised that they do not when the very media that was originally designed to inform us of tyranny and wolves is now mostly a propaganda ministry; much of it owned and operated by Mystery Babylon the Great. Therefore, heavy judgment will and is already coming down on the propaganda mills in the media and the woman as a whole.

 

Meanwhile, Rome also wants the Middle East carved up and war is the perfect vehicle to divide and conquer. As you will note, the churches that literally and figuratively have faced demolition in the midst of the Islamist and NATO wars are lining up at Rome's door begging for entrance.

 

Also, note articles concerning this false unity as well as a Roman Catholic hospital changing the definition of the unborn when it suits them. This is highly significant because this is one area where many Bible believing and following Christians insist on uniting with Catholics. Even though a depraved and litigious society is forcing this move, what they are revealing in this case is that when the pressure is on, Rome will fold.  

 

Additional is an article from 1992 concerning the statement Pope John Paul II made regarding Evangelical believers, that we are "rapacious wolves." To get the full speech one has to pay a fee to get access to the Vatican Archives but there are a number of references to the speech online that can now be found if anyone wishes to research further. The true church needs to awaken to these facts and stop courting the darkness that is using her. Even in the article you will notice that the pastor interviewed (who is well aware of the statement made about him) considers the Roman church a partner. This fallacy is based on ignorance and is indeed unscriptural.

 

Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness? Or what harmony has Christ with Belial, or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever? Or what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; just as God said, "I WILL DWELL IN THEM AND WALK AMONG THEM; AND I WILL BE THEIR GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE. "Therefore, COME OUT FROM THEIR MIDST AND BE SEPARATE," says the Lord. "AND DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN; And I will welcome you. - 2 Corinthians 6:14-17

  
May the Lord bless and keep you,
Scott Brisk  

In This Alert
1- Pedophile Protecting Pope to Resign
2- Pope Benedict to become first pontiff in 600 years to resign
3- Criminales Solicitaciones
4- L.A. church leaders sought to hide sex abuse cases from authorities
5- A heavy millstone - Matthew 18:6
6- To Mystery Babylon the Great
7- Request of Ecclesiastical Communion on the Part of the New Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans
8- Original Report of John Paul II calling Evangelicals and Protestants "Rapacious Wolves"
9- In Malpractice Case, Catholic Hospital Argues Fetuses Aren't People
10- The Happy Priest: The Importance of a Eucharistic Life
11- International Symposium on Mary in Rome
12- More False Teaching ...
13- Key Moriel Resources
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Pedophile Protecting Pope to Resign
Moriel Ministries MORIEL MINISTRIES - By James Jacob Prasch - February 11, 2013

Joseph Ratzinger, alias Benedict XVI, formerly known as "The Rottweiler" from his role as attack dog for his predecessor Carol Wojtyla, alias John Paul II under whose auspices he issued the Criminale Solicitacciones [see below also] instruction of Pope John XXIII has resigned. The uncovered instruction ordering the protection of pedophile sex criminal priests and nuns at the expense of not protecting the little children they were molesting and threatening the little victims with hell if they did not keep their being raped secret did not result in a RICO prosecution in the USA despite 177 out 179 American dioceses and their bishops and arch bishops being found liable for massive damages in court. The Bush Administration squashed civil litigations against Ratzinger on political grounds that as a head of state the pope is immune from any juridical or prosecutorial proceedings by International convention. Similar efforts in the UK to have citizen's arrests of Ratzinger during his papal visit of 2010 were stopped by the British government, thus this gangster who orchestrated an international campaign to shield dangerous child molesters was never brought to justice for obstruction or aiding and abetting fugitives from justice. The systematic rape and sodomizing of small children by Roman Catholic clergy under the protection of the church hierarchy stemmed from Australia and New Zealand to the USA and Canada, to Great Britain, to Germany and beyond, but was found most prolific in Roman Catholic countries such as Ireland, Austria, French speaking Africa, and Brazil.

 

In his youth Ratzinger wore a swastika and fought for Hitler, but went on as a priest and cardinal paying lip service against anti Semitic Jew hatred, yet under his papacy the Vatican has maintained an almost continual anti Israel bias. Ratzinger then went on to become the king of scandal when the endemic pedophilia of Roman Catholicism finally could no longer be hidden and suppressed despite his best efforts to do so. Even the mafia does not allow its embers to engage in child prostitution, child pornography or pedophilia. It rather takes Ratzinger's Roman Catholic Church to go that low. The largest catch of child porn on record, some 40,000 hours, was at the Roman Catholic seminary near Vienna. We are reminded of the words of the Apostle Paul in The New Testament calling mandatory celibacy a 'doctrine of demons' (1 Timothy 4: 1-3), a demonic practice rigidly advocated by the pedophile protecting Ratzinger cum Benedict XVI.

 

Without reference to the true legacy of this evil man who with fewer scruples than a gangster acted to protect the most heinous of criminals to the detriment of the most helpless of victims - small children, many as young as four, the global media will pay homage to this wicked son of the devil and the usual chorus line of religious hypocrites and corrupt politicians will do likewise even addressing him as "holy father". Calling a human "Holy Father" as a religious title is something expressly outlawed by Jesus who taught, "One is our Holy Father who is in heaven". Claims of ex cathedra infallibility, being the heir of Peter, and the Vicar of Christ all stand in stark contradiction to the Christianity taught by Jesus ad the apostles. Peter merely identified himself as a fellow elder and claimed no primacy (1 Peter 5:1) and it was James, not Peter who presided at the first church council in Jerusalem (Acts chapter 15). Indeed, in St. Peter's day it was the pagan emperor of imperial Rome whose title was Pontiff. Translating the papal claim to be Vicar of Christ from its official Latin: Vicarius Cristos into New Testament Greek we have the papal title being "anti kristo" or Anti Christ. It is thus easy to see why for centuries the Roman papacy placed the Word of God on the index of banned books and persecuted, tortured, and murdered those who urged people to read it such as John Wycliife, Savaranola, Jan Hus, and William Tyndale.

 

In USA, throughout Latin America, and as far a-field as The Philippines many former Roman Catholics have renounced these doctrines of demons and embraced scriptural Christianity realizing that they cannot both follow the teachings of Jesus and the contradictory teachings of Rome with its bogus salvation by sacramental ritual, its superstition and idolatry, its anti christ papacy with its hypocrisy and corruption, and its pedophilia. Unable to believe that a godless institution whose clergy on a global scale has raped defenseless children and whose bishops, cardinals, and popes have covered it up, millions have left Roman Catholicism and converted to Christianity choosing Christ over a child molester protecting anti christ like Ratzinger who will like all of us one day stand before the real Holy Father.

 

The speculations about the spurious prophetic predictions allegedly ascribed by tradition to Malachy or Columkille about the last pope being called Peter etc. are not an issue of any major concern nor are speculations if the next pope will be a Latin American or an African.

 

An anti christ is an anti christ no matter what he calls himself r where he comes from. However, the manner in which the media and masses are deluded by these shameless guardians of the perpetrators of pedophilia are shadows of how the ultimate Anti Christ and False Prophet will deceive must if the world.

 

We urge our Roman Catholic friends to stop running away from the undeniable fact and read the Word of God for themselves. Truth will prevail

 

James Jacob Prasch

Original Report Here
http://moriel.org/MorielArchive/index.php/discernment/catholicism/pedophile-protecting-pope-to-resign


Pope Benedict to become first pontiff in 600 years to resign
FOX NEWS [News Corporation/Murdoch] and ASSOCIATED PRESS - February 11, 2013
In a sudden announcement that caught Catholics around the world off guard, Pope Benedict XVI said he will resign at the end of February, becoming the first pontiff to step down in nearly 600 years.
The 85-year-old pontiff made the announcement Monday, saying he no longer had the strength to carry out his papal duties.

"After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry," the pope said according to a statement released by the Vatican.
He said he is aware of the "seriousness" of his resignation, but that he did so in "full freedom." He will live out his days on Vatican grounds, according to officials.

The last pope to resign was Pope Gregory XII, who stepped down in 1415 in a deal to end the Great Western Schism among competing papal claimants. The sudden announcement sets the stage for the Vatican to hold a conclave to elect a new pope by mid-March, since the traditional mourning time that would follow the death of a pope doesn't have to be observed. There are several papal contenders in the wings, but no obvious front-runner, according to Vatican watchers.
A Vatican spokesperson told "Fox & Friends" that Pope Benedict "will not take part in conclave" to choose his successor. Officials hope to have a new pope in place in time for the start of Holy Week, on March 14. Although there has been much speculation about Pope Benedict's health, a Vatican spokesman said he is not in any immediate danger. ...

Born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger, Pope Benedict became the 265th pope after being elected by his fellow cardinals on April 19, 2005, at the age of 78 following the death of the popular John Paul II. The ninth German pope and first in nearly 500 years, Benedict was ordained in 1951 and was a major figure at the Vatican stage for decades before his ascension.
Ratzinger chose the name Benedict, which comes from the Latin word meaning "the blessed," in homage to Pope Benedict XV, who was pope during World War I, and Saint Benedict of Nursia, who established the Benedictine monasteries. ...

Edited :: See Original Report Here
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2013/02/11/pope-benedict-xvi-to-resign-at-end-february/print


The College of Cardinals
w- Biographical notes
http://www.vatican.va/news_services/press/documentazione/documents/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_aa_index_elettori_biografie_en.html


Criminales Solicitaciones
Translated from Latin means "Criminal Solicitation".

The headline reads " For all Patriarchs, Archbishops, Bishops, and other Diocesan Ordinaries 'even of the oriental rite' ---Instruction on the manner of proceeding in cases of solicitation----Vatican Press, 1962"

 

[Note: This was translated and commented on by someone who referred to themselves as a "Recovering Catholic". By their knowledge of this document and Roman Catholicism, it is very possible this person is a very knowledgeable layman (what is termed in the sub-title as a "Diocesan Ordinary") that served in the church to some capacity. That would explain how they had access to this document. I have also edited out a number of unnecessary curse words and vulgarities surrounding the issue at hand. It is quite evident that this person translating and commenting on the piece at the time was not saved and very angry about this issue. - Scott Brisk/BE ALERT!]

 

 

Excerpts

 

Article 11 reads,

"11. Because, however, what is treated in these cases has to have a greater degree of care and observance so that those same matters be pursued in a most secretive way, and, after they have been defined and given over to execution, they are to be restrained by a perpetual silence (Instruction of the Holy Office, February 20, 1867, n.14), each and everyone pertaining to the tribunal in any way or admitted to knowledge of the matters because of their office, is to observe the strictest ++7++ secret, which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office, in all matters and with all persons, under the penalty of excommunication latae sententiae , ipso facto [see bottom of the blog for translations] and without any declaration (of such a penalty) having been incurred and reserved to the sole person of the Supreme Pontiff, even to the exclusion of the Sacred Penitentiary, are bound to observe (this secrecy) inviolably. Indeed by this law the Ordinaries are bound ipso jure or by the force of their own proper duty. The other helpers from the power of their oath which they {sic} must always take before they undertake their duties. And these, then, are delegated, are interpolated, and are informed in their absence by means of the precept in the letters of delegation, interpellation, (or of) information, imposing upon them with express mention of the secret of the Holy Office and of the aforementioned censure."

 

Translated into English, the above paragraph says that ANYONE in the Clergy who knows about a kid getting molested by another Clergyman must keep their mouths SHUT about it, forever. It further warns that if you DO spill the beans about a pedophile at the pulpit you will be AUTOMATICALLY excommunicated ... not just kicked out of the priesthood, but excommunicated!

 

(Catholic dogma primer: Sins are categorized into 2 classes: Venial--minor sins like lying, stealing; and Mortal--murder, rape, cheating on your wife, and ... not participating in the Sacraments!

 

If you die with a Mortal sin on your soul, you go to Hell immediately and forever.

If someone is excommunicated from the Church, this means you CANNOT participate in the Sacraments, meaning you will die with a Mortal sin on your soul, and go directly to Hell!

THEY aren't' sending you to hell, it's the Church Laws (that they made up) that send you to hell!)

The underlying message? Rat out another priest, and YOU GO TO HELL!!!)

 

...Wait, it gets better...

 

Article 13 reads:

"13. The oath of keeping the secret must be given in these cases also by the accusers or those denouncing (the priest) and the witnesses. To none of these, however, is there subjection to a censure, unless by chance toward these same persons some censure has been expressly threatened upon by the person himself, for his accusation, his deposition or of his violation (Excussionis?) (of such) by act. The accused, however, should be most seriously warned that even he, with all (the others), especially when he observes the secret with his defender, is under penalty of suspension a divines in case of a transgression to be incurred ipso facto."

 

Translation: You've got to make the VICTIMS swear to keep the fact that they were molested a SECRET, just like the priests do! Do a little digging into the big cases against the Church, that's a very common theme throughout.

 

BUT WAIT! it gets better!

 

Article 52 reads:

"52. These things having been taken care of, there should be a procedure to present the accusation to the person accused, according to formula P, having cautiously and most diligently made sure that the persons of the accused and especially of those denouncing him be not revealed, and, on the part of the accused, that he in no way violate the sacramental seal. Now if something in the surge of speech slips out which seems to savor of either a direct of indirect violation of the seal, the judge [in this document, a "judge" is defined as the presiding bishop of the diocese concerned] should not permit this to be referred to in the Acts by the notary; and if, by chance, it has been inconsiderately (put into the Acts), he should order, as soon as he notices it, to be completely deleted. In every way the judge is to remember that it is never right for him to bind the accused by an oath to tell the truth (Cfr. Canon 1744)"

 

Translation! Pretty mundane, standard, 'if someone slips up and starts naming names, the bishop should strike their testimony from the record'. The last sentence is the kicker ... DON'T MAKE THE ACCUSED SWEAR TO TELL THE TRUTH!!! Ha ha! Brilliant! As long as you LIE, we'll keep looking like we have moral credibility!! ... That'll work perfectly! ... well, as long as people are afraid of you...

 

Article 59 reads:

"59. The appeal having been made, the judge must transmit an authentic copy of the original itself of all the Acts of the case to the Holy Office, as quickly as it can be done, adding information as necessary or as he has judged to be opportune. (Canon 1890)"

 

Translation? THE POPE HAS KNOWN ABOUT EVERYTHING THE WHOLE TIME. And PROMOTED the worst offenders! Remember Cardinal Law of Boston infamy? Shuttled to the Vatican so he can't be prosecuted in the USA. I think the message the Vatican is sending is 'ha ha, victims!'

 

Article 70 reads:

 

"70. All these official communications shall always be made under the secret of the Holy Office; and, since they concern the common good of the church to the greatest degree, the precept of doing these things obliges under serious sin (
sub gravi)"

 

 

Translation: 'Dude! if this gets out, no one will believe in us anymore!! You are SO going to Hell if you screw this up for us!!'

 

Under Title V, subtitled "THE WORST CRIME" (it's really in all caps),  

 

Article 71 reads:

"71. By the name of the worst crime is understood at this point a signification of any obscene external deed, gravely sinful, in any [sic] perpetrated by a cleric or attempt with a person of his own sex."

 

It's further defined in  

 

Article 73, which reads:

"73. To have the worst crime, for the penal effects, one must do the equivalent of the following: any obscene, external act, gravely sinful, perpetrated in any way by a cleric or attempted by him with youths of either sex or with brute animals (bestiality)"

 

Translation: when you hear bishops/priests whining about how much of a "gray area" this stuff is, THEY'RE LYING. It's spelled out right there! any obscene deed OR AN ATTEMPT to do such deed with a member of his own gender is this "criminal solicitation" that they're trying to cover up.

They're not stupid, they're just criminals with a LOAD of money and arrogance.

 

Finally, we come to the section where the Vatican has laid out the formula for the process of the secret investigations. They have scripted out every step, including samples of cross examinations, and a formula for absolution (forgiveness in the eyes of God) of this sin.

 

What I write next is the oath sworn by all priests involved in said secret investigation, and (they hope) the victims. It's titled "Formula A--THE FORMULA FOR TAKING AN OATH TO EXERCISE ONE'S OFFICE FAITHFULLY AND TO OBSERVE THE SECRET OF THE HOLY OFFICE" [again, their caps, not mine]

 

"In the name of the Lord  

I......appearing before......and touching the most holy Gospels of God placed before me, swear and promise to exercise my duty faithfully.....Likewise, under the pain of excommunication latae sententiae ipso facto and to be incurred without any declaration, from which outside of the moment of death, I can be absolved by no one except by the Holy Father, excluding even the Cardinal of the Penitentiary, and, under other most serious penalties, at the disposition of the Supreme Pontiff to be inflicted upon me in the case of transgression, I promise sacredly, vow and swear, to observe inviolably the secret in all matters and details which will take place in exercising the aforesaid duty, excepting precisely those matters at the end and at the completion of this negotiation (or of these negotiations) which can be legitimately published. Further, I shall observe this secret absolutely and in every way with all who have no legitimate part in the treatment of this same matter (or, who are not constricted by the same sworn bond); nor (will I ever), directly or indirectly, by means of a nod, or of a word, by writing, or in any other way and under whatever type of pretext, even for the most urgent and most serious cause (even) for the purpose of a greater good, commit anything against this fidelity to the secret, unless a particular faculty or dispensation has been expressly given to me by the Supreme Pontiff."

 

Let me just reiterate the particularly damning sentences in this oath:

"Likewise, under the pain of excommunication latae sententiae ipso facto and to be incurred without any declaration, from which outside of the moment of death, I can be absolved by no one except by the Holy Father." shorter version --'if I tattle, I'll go to HELL!'

 

-snip-

 

Further, I shall observe this secret absolutely and in every way with all who have no legitimate part in the treatment of this same matter (or, who are not constricted by the same sworn bond); nor (will I ever), directly or indirectly, by means of a nod, or of a word, by writing, or in any other way and under whatever type of pretext, even for the most urgent and most serious cause (even) for the purpose of a greater good, commit anything against this fidelity to the secret...."

 

Shorter version: 'I won't tell, EVER, even if it means more kids get raped. We've got to protect the Church's reputation! It's MORE IMPORTANT that we have mindless sheep shuffling in every Sunday and depositing 10% of their meager incomes and obeying every one of our increasingly insane demands! If they know we're raping their children, they won't believe in us anymore!'

 

Congratulations if you made it this far! The actual document is 39 pages long and full of Catholic Church legalese, and REALLY boring to read. I hope this enlightens you a little bit. If you read this and decide never to set foot in a Catholic Church again, or patronize a Church-owned business again, then I will have done my part.

 

Basically, what I'm trying to show is the inherent evil in the [Roman Catholic] Church. It's not because 'some evil people have corrupted Mother Church'. The Church STARTED OUT EVIL. It's been a perversion since it took over the Roman Empire! ...

 

TRANSLATIONS OF THE LATIN PHRASES:

All translations can be found at Latin word look-up. Several Latin words have multiple meanings, so it's left to the Latin student (not me!) to interpret the meanings more accurately than I can, but I'll do my best as to what I think it says ...

 

latae sententiae: hidden opinion, or broad way of thinking

 

ipso facto"this itself is fact"

 

a divinis :coming from divine inspiration

 

 


L.A. church leaders sought to hide sex abuse cases from authorities
LOS ANGELES TIMES [Tribune Company] - By Victoria Kim, Ashley Powers and Harriet Ryan - January 21, 2013
Shhh the RC lie
Victim explains what he was told to do: "Shhh ... be quiet"

Fifteen years before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and a top advisor plotted to conceal child molestation by priests from law enforcement, including keeping them out of California to avoid prosecution, according to internal Catholic church records released Monday.
The archdiocese's failure to purge pedophile clergy and reluctance to cooperate with law enforcement has previously been known. But the memos written in 1986 and 1987 by Mahony and Msgr. Thomas J. Curry, then the archdiocese's chief advisor on sex abuse cases, offer the strongest evidence yet of a concerted effort by officials in the nation's largest Catholic diocese to shield abusers from police. The newly released records, which the archdiocese fought for years to keep secret, reveal in church leaders' own words a desire to keep authorities from discovering that children were being molested.

In the confidential letters, filed this month as evidence in a civil court case, Curry proposed strategies to prevent police from investigating three priests who had admitted to church officials that they abused young boys. Curry suggested to Mahony that they prevent them from seeing therapists who might alert authorities and that they give the priests out-of-state assignments to avoid criminal investigators. ...
The memos are from personnel files for 14 priests submitted to a judge on behalf of a man who claims he was abused by one of the priests, Father Nicholas Aguilar Rivera. The man's attorney, Anthony De Marco, wrote in court papers the files show "a practice of thwarting law enforcement investigations" by the archdiocese. It's not always clear from the records whether the church followed through on all its discussions about eluding police, but in some cases, such as Garcia's, it did.

Mahony, who retired in 2011, has apologized repeatedly for errors in handling abuse allegations. In a statement Monday, he apologized once again and recounted meetings he's had with about 90 victims of abuse. ...
The confidential files of at least 75 more accused abusers are slated to become public in coming weeks under the terms of a 2007 civil settlement with more than 500 victims. A private mediator had ordered the names of the church hierarchy redacted from those documents, but after objections from The Times and the Associated Press, a Superior Court judge ruled that the names of Mahony, Curry and others in supervisory roles should not be blacked out. ...

Edited :: See Original Report Here
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-church-files-20130122,0,3114631.story

 


A heavy millstone
- Matthew 18:6

Cardinal Mahony used cemetery money to pay sex abuse settlement
LOS ANGELES -  Pressed to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars to settle clergy sex abuse lawsuits, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony turned to one group of Catholics whose faith could not be shaken: the dead.
Under his leadership in 2007, the Archdiocese of Los Angeles quietly appropriated $115 million from a cemetery maintenance fund and used it to help pay a landmark settlement with molestation victims.
The church did not inform relatives of the deceased that it had taken the money, which amounted to 88 percent of the fund. Families of those buried in church-owned cemeteries and interred in its mausoleums have contributed to a dedicated account for the perpetual care of graves, crypts and grounds since the 1890s.
Mahony and other church officials also did not mention the cemetery fund in numerous public statements about how the archdiocese planned to cover the $660-million abuse settlement. In detailed presentations to parish groups, the cardinal and his aides said they had cashed in substantial investments to pay the settlement, but they did not disclose that the main asset liquidated was cemetery money.
In response to questions from the Los Angeles Times, the archdiocese acknowledged using the maintenance account to help settle abuse claims. It said in a statement that the appropriation had "no effect" on cemetery upkeep and enabled the archdiocese "to protect the assets of our parishes, schools and essential ministries." ...
LOS ANGELES TIMES [Tribune Company] - By Harriet Ryan - February 10, 2013
Read Full Report: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2013/02/10/182552/cardinal-mahony-used-cemetery.html


Pope appoints Boston Priest to Lead Oversight of Sexual Abuse Claims at Vatican
Also: The Butler did it ... but Benedict pardons him
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday appointed as the Vatican's new sexual crimes prosecutor a priest who handled clergy sexual abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church in Boston at the height of the scandal and for years afterward.
The pope also pardoned his former butler, who was serving a prison term after leaking confidential documents in the Vatican's most embarrassing security breach in decades.
The Vatican said the new prosecutor, the Rev. Robert W. Oliver, the top canon lawyer at the Archdiocese of Boston under Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley, would be the "promoter of justice" at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican's doctrinal office that reviews all abuse cases. ...
Father Oliver was among the canon lawyers brought in to advise Cardinal Bernard F. Law on sexual abuse cases in Boston, where the church's abuse scandal erupted anew in 2002. ...
Father Oliver helped write the archdiocese's new abuse prevention policy in 2003. He has been serving as the top canon lawyer for the archdiocese and as a visiting professor of canon law at Catholic University of America in Washington.
Advocates for abuse victims in the Boston archdiocese criticized his record on Saturday. Anne Barrett Doyle, co-director of Bishop Accountability, a watchdog group that maintains an archive of abuse cases and documents, said in an interview, "Reverend Oliver is a champion of accused priests, which obviously does not bode well for the job he will do as promoter of justice." ...
The Vatican also said Saturday that Benedict had pardoned his former butler, Paolo Gabriele, 46, who had been sentenced to prison after admitting to leaking confidential documents that formed the basis of a tell-all book on alleged misdeeds, financial mismanagement, back-stabbing and infighting within the Vatican. ...
NEW YORK TIMES [NYTimes Group/Sulzberger] - By Laurie Goodstein and Rachel Donadio - December 22, 2012

To Mystery Babylon the Great
What fellowship has light with darkness?
Catholic, Protestant Churches Sign Historic Baptism Agreement
Leaders representing the Roman Catholic Church and some American Protestant denominations have signed an agreement in Texas to recognize each other's baptisms.
After about six years of dialogue, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Reformed Church in America, Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Christian Reformed Church in North America, and the United Church of Christ signed a document recognizing each other's liturgical rites of baptism.
The five denominations signed the "Common Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Baptism," affirming the baptism agreement on Tuesday evening at a prayer service held at St. Mary's Cathedral in Austin.
"Together we affirm that, by the sacrament of Baptism, a person is truly incorporated into the body of Christ (I Corinthians 12:13 and 27; Ephesians 1:22-23), the church. Baptism establishes the bond of unity existing among all who are part of Christ's body and is therefore the sacramental basis for our efforts to move towards visible unity," reads the document.
"We rejoice at the common faith we share and affirm in this document. We understand that the journey toward full, visible unity depends on openness to the grace of God and humility before the initiatives of God's Spirit among us." ...
THE CHRISTIAN POST - By Michael Gryboski - January 30, 2013
Read Full Report: http://www.christianpost.com/news/catholic-protestant-churches-sign-historic-baptism-agreement-89172/

Catholic Church only true church, Vatican says
The Vatican issued a document Tuesday restating its belief that the Catholic Church is the only true church of Jesus Christ.
The 16-page document was prepared by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a doctrinal watchdog that Pope Benedict used to head.
Formulated as five questions and answers, the document is titled "Responses to Some Questions Regarding Certain Aspects of the Doctrine on the Church."
It says although Orthodox churches are true churches, they are defective because they do not recognize the primacy of the Pope. ...
CBC NEWS [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation/Government of Canada (Crown Corporation)] - July 10, 2007
Read Full Report: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2007/07/10/vatican-church.html

 


Request of Ecclesiastical Communion on the Part of the New Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans

Here is the translation of the request by the newly elected Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans, Louis Rapha�l I Sako, to Pope Benedict XVI.

January 31, 2013

Most Holy Father,
The Synod of the Chaldean Church, convened by Your Holiness in Rome at the House of Spiritual Exercises of Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio of the Passionist Fathers from January 28, 2013, and chaired in Your name by His Eminence Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, Prefect of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, after invoking the Holy Spirit and praying for the intercession of the Most Holy Mother of God, in an atmosphere of peaceful sharing, as convened in its last meeting, has elected me Patriarch of the Chaldean Church and, succeeding His Beatitude, Eminence Cardinal Emmanuel III Delly, who, with courage and zeal led the Chaldean Church in a critical juncture in its history, I have taken the name of Louis Rapha�l I Sako.

In accordance with the ecclesiastical customs and the Canons of the Eastern Churches, I implore of Your Holiness, the "Ecclesiastica Communio", promising to be faithful to Our Lord in the announcement of the Good News and to work for unity and harmony, as well as to lead with zeal and dedication Your flock entrusted to me.

To Your Holiness, Supreme Pastor of the Universal Church and the Successor of St. Peter, Prince of the Apostles, I express my loyalty, reverence, obedience and filial devotion, and beg your Apostolic Blessing upon my humble person in the new mission, upon the Pastors and all the faithful of the Chaldean Church, which, with courage, hope and living testimony faces everyday life both in our homeland and in the diaspora.

To your beloved person I express heartfelt thanks for the Paternal care and pastoral concern expressed particularly towards the Chaldean Church.

Louis Rapha�l I Sako,
Patriarch of Babylon of the Chaldeans

ZENIT NEWS AGENCY [Innovative Media] - Translation by Peter Waymel - February 4, 2013
http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/request-of-ecclesiastical-communion-on-the-part-of-the-new-patriarch-of-babylon-of-the-chaldeans

 


Original Report of John Paul II calling Evangelicals and Protestants "Rapacious Wolves"
Santo Domingo Journal: Shepherds, or Wolves? Whatever, Flocks Grow
NEW YORK TIMES [NYTimes Group/Sulzberger] - By Peter Steinfels - October 27, 1992
To believe Pope John Paul II, Bienvenido Alvarez-Vega is one of the Protestant "rapacious wolves" who are increasingly stealing Latin Americans from the Roman Catholic flock.
After the Pope used that phrase in a speech to a meeting here of Latin American bishops in mid-October, Mr. Alvarez talked about religion in his roomy office at the Santo Domingo daily paper El Siglo.

Wearing a pink shirt and casual slacks, Mr. Alvarez did not look either rapacious or wolflike. But as an articulate, university-educated Pentecostal Christian who directs one of the Dominican Republic's major newspapers, he certainly represents the dramatic progress of evangelical Protestantism in lands that have been historically Catholic.
Adherents of Protestant evangelical or Pentecostal churches, often with roots in the United States like Mr. Alvarez's Assemblies of God or the Church of God based in Cleveland, Tenn., are estimated at 18 to 21 percent of the population in Brazil, 16 percent in Chile and 20 percent in El Salvador. Estimates for Guatemala range from 18 to 33 percent. The estimate for Latin American generally is 6 to 7 percent. A Topic for the Bishops

This growth, a major item on the agenda of the Latin American Episcopal Conference meeting here in October, has been bitterly attacked by many Catholic leaders. They have portrayed what they call "sects" as everything from Communist infiltrators to agents of Yankee capitalism, the Pentagon and the Central Intelligence Agency.
One passage of the Pope's official text echoed this vision of a well-orchestrated, well-financed religious invasion by outsiders: "We must not underestimate a certain strategy whose objective is to weaken the links that unite the countries of Latin America and in this way erode the strength born of unity. Important economic resources are allocated toward this goal, to finance proselytizing campaigns aimed at destroying Catholic unity." ...

See full article posted on the Be Alert! Blog
http://morielbealertblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/original-report-of-john-paul-ii-calling.html

Or

Original Report Here
http://www.nytimes.com/1992/10/27/world/santo-domingo-journal-shepherds-or-wolves-whatever-flocks-grow.html


In Malpractice Case, Catholic Hospital Argues Fetuses Aren't People
THE COLORADO INDEPENDENT - By John Tomasic - January 23, 2013
Lori Stodghill was 31-years old, seven-months pregnant with twin boys and feeling sick when she arrived at St. Thomas More hospital in Ca�on City on New Year's Day 2006. She was vomiting and short of breath and she passed out as she was being wheeled into an examination room. Medical staff tried to resuscitate her but, as became clear only later, a main artery feeding her lungs was clogged and the clog led to a massive heart attack. Stodghill's obstetrician, Dr. Pelham Staples, who also happened to be the obstetrician on call for emergencies that night, never answered a page. His patient died at the hospital less than an hour after she arrived and her twins died in her womb.

In the aftermath of the tragedy, Stodghill's husband Jeremy, a prison guard, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit on behalf of himself and the couple's then-two-year-old daughter Elizabeth. Staples should have made it to the hospital, his lawyers argued, or at least instructed the frantic emergency room staff to perform a caesarian-section. The procedure likely would not have saved the mother, a testifying expert said, but it may have saved the twins.

The lead defendant in the case is Catholic Health Initiatives, the Englewood-based nonprofit that runs St. Thomas More Hospital as well as roughly 170 other health facilities in 17 states. Last year, the hospital chain reported national assets of $15 billion. The organization's mission, according to its promotional literature, is to "nurture the healing ministry of the Church" and to be guided by "fidelity to the Gospel." Toward those ends, Catholic Health facilities seek to follow the Ethical and Religious Directives of the Catholic Church authored by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Those rules have stirred controversy for decades, mainly for forbidding non-natural birth control and abortions. "Catholic health care ministry witnesses to the sanctity of life 'from the moment of conception until death,'" the directives state. "The Church's defense of life encompasses the unborn."

The directives can complicate business deals for Catholic Health, as they can for other Catholic health care providers, partly by spurring political resistance. In 2011, the Kentucky attorney general and governor nixed a plan in which Catholic Health sought to merge with and ultimately gain control of publicly funded hospitals in Louisville. The officials were reacting to citizen concerns that access to reproductive and end-of-life services would be curtailed. According to The Denver Post, similar fears slowed the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth's plan over the last few years to buy out Exempla Lutheran Medical Center and Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center in the Denver metro area.

But when it came to mounting a defense in the Stodghill case, Catholic Health's lawyers effectively turned the Church directives on their head. Catholic organizations have for decades fought to change federal and state laws that fail to protect "unborn persons," and Catholic Health's lawyers in this case had the chance to set precedent bolstering anti-abortion legal arguments. Instead, they are arguing state law protects doctors from liability concerning unborn fetuses on grounds that those fetuses are not persons with legal rights. ...

Edited :: See Original Report Here
http://coloradoindependent.com/126808/in-malpractice-case-catholic-hospital-argues-fetuses-arent-people

 


But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves. - 2 Peter 2:1

The Happy Priest: The Importance of a Eucharistic Life

Eucharist Worship
Eucharist Worship
Attending Mass not just on Sunday, but every day of the week, will give you an indescribable power to soar through and over the challenges of life.  Over and over I have spoken to many people who attend daily Mass and they continually affirm that they could never live without it.  This is why we must have a daily Eucharistic life.  Each time we have contact with our Eucharistic Lord, we become one with him.  We assimilate him into our being.  Holy Communion becomes a communion of two persons and thus, transformation takes place.  
CATHOLIC ONLINE (Catholic.org) - By Fr. James Farfaglia - August 18, 2012

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX  [...] Jesus remains with us in the tabernacle of every Catholic Church.  His Real Presence is celebrated and adored in the monstrance placed in every chapel dedicated to Perpetual Adoration.  He is truly with us.
Every time we gaze upon him, every time Our Lord and Savior comes to us through Holy Communion, he gives us the graces that we need to put into practice his way of life so that we may gain eternal life in heaven.  
 
As Blessed John Paul II so eloquently teaches us in his first encyclical letter, Jesus reveals man to himself.  Jesus is the perfect man who shows us exactly how we must live out our daily lives.  Jesus embodies every human and spiritual virtue. The true disciple of Jesus must take him as the model and make his teaching the criterion for every human thought and action undertaken.
"The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly - and not just in accordance with immediate, partial, often superficial, and even illusory standards and measures of his being - he must with his unrest, uncertainty and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.  He must, so to speak, enter into Him with all his own self, he must 'appropriate' and assimilate the whole reality of the Incarnation and Redemption in order to find himself."  (Blessed Pope John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis)
 
Each time we come to the Eucharist, it is Jesus himself who not only shows us how to live our lives, but who also provides us with the divine grace to live out the gospel teachings in our daily existence.   
This is why we must have a daily Eucharistic life.  Each time we have contact with our Eucharistic Lord, we become one with him.  We assimilate him into our being.  Holy Communion becomes a communion of two persons and thus, transformation takes place. ...

Attending Mass not just on Sunday, but every day of the week, will give you an indescribable power to soar through and over the challenges of life. ...
Saint John Bosco once said, "Visits to the Blessed Sacrament are powerful and indispensable means of overcoming attacks of the devil. Make frequent visits to Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament and the devil will be powerless against you."

Center your life on the awesome gift of the Eucharist.  
Dr. Scott Hahn, the famous former Protestant minister that converted to Catholicism wrote in his conversion story one of the most beautiful testimonies about the Eucharist that I have ever read.  Here are his words, written in his book that he co-authored with his wife Kimberly.

"Then one day, I made a 'fatal blunder' - I decided that it was time for me to go to Mass on my own.  Finally I resolved to darken the doors of Gesu, Marquette University's parish.  Right before noon, I slipped quietly into the basement chapel for daily Mass.  I wasn't sure what to expect; maybe I'd be alone with a priest and a couple of old nuns.  I took a seat as an observer in the back pew.
All of a sudden lots of ordinary people began coming in off the streets; rank-and-file type folks.  They came in, genuflected, knelt and prayed.  Their simple but sincere devotion was impressive.

Then a bell rang and a priest walked out toward the altar.  I remained seated; I still wasn't sure if it was safe to kneel.  As an evangelical Calvinist, I had been taught that the Catholic Mass was the greatest sacrilege that a man could commit - to re-sacrifice Christ - so I wasn't sure what to do.
I watched and listened as the readings, prayers and responses - so steeped in Scripture - made the Bible come alive.  I almost wanted to stop the Mass and say, 'Wait.  That line is from Isaiah; the song is from the Psalms.  Whoa, you've got another prophet in that prayer'.  I found numerous elements from the ancient Jewish liturgy that I had studied so intensely.

All of a sudden I realized, this is where the Bible belongs.  This was the setting in which this precious family heirloom was meant to be read, proclaimed and expounded.  Then we moved into the Liturgy of  the Eucharist, where all my covenant conclusions converged.
I wanted to stop everything and shout, 'Hey, can I explain what's happening from Scripture?  This is great!'  Instead I just sat there, famished with a supernatural hunger for the Bread of Life.

After pronouncing the words of consecration, the priest held up the Host.  I felt as if the last drop of doubt had drained from me.  With all of my heart, I whispered, 'My Lord and my God.  That's really you! And if that's you, then I want full communion with you.  I don't want to hold anything back' (Rome Sweet Home, pp. 87-88).

Edited :: See Original Report Here
http://www.catholic.org/hf/faith/story.php?id=47297

 


International Symposium on Mary in Rome

ZENIT NEWS AGENCY [Innovative Media] - By Ann Schneible - October 4, 2012
ROME - An international symposium, dedicated to the study of Mary and her cultural and theological significance throughout history, commenced today at the Centro Russia Ecumenica in Rome.

The objective of the two-day event, entitled "Mary, Sign of Faith (and Only Hope)", is to explore the cult of Mary in order to explore her role in leading Christians towards greater devotion to Christ. Participants today had the opportunity to hear from a wide variety of experts, such as author Leonie Caldecott on the history of Marian images beginning with pre-Reformation England, as well as from historian Michael Hesemann on the historical person of Mary.

Edmund Mazza, history professor at Azusa Pacific University in Los Angeles, California, is the primary organizer for this symposium event. He told ZENIT that the conference was conceived in response to Pope Benedict XVI's all for Marian conferences, a call which came through the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. It was of particular importance within the context of the forthcoming Year of Faith.

"It is important to look at Mary as a model, as a sign of faith," he said. "We're on our way to God, we don't see the beatific vision yet, so we need symbols, we need signs to take us on the road. And it's very important that we turn to Mary because as Louis de Montfort, the great doctor of the Church once said, it's through Mary that Jesus came into the world, and it's through Mary that Jesus will reign in the world. She had a role to play at the beginning when He first came, and she has a role to play now as we approach the end times." ...

... Due to her unique role within salvation history, Mary is seen as central to evangelization. "Of course," Mazza continued, "any attempt at evangelization has to start with Mary because Mary was the first evangelizer. She held up little Baby Jesus and showed the Wise Men, and he was the light to the Gentiles. She helped Jesus work His first miracle when he began his public ministry." ...

"There are promising signs that we can renew our faith in Jesus and get closer to Him by knowing Mary. I like to say: No Mary, no Jesus; know Mary, know Jesus." ...

"I think if we want to solve he worldwide crisis," Mazza said, "we have to actually start with Mary, because when God wanted to solve the worldwide crisis, He sent the angel Gabriel to Mary, and that is how the New Testament begins. Whenever God wants to renew the world, He does it through Mary."

Edited :: See Original Report Here
http://www.ewtn.com/vnews/getstory.asp?number=121709

 


More False Teaching and Belief in Rome ...
Pope prays lectio divina at Rome's Major Seminary
[Ed Note: From the Lectio Divina Homepage: "Ordinarily lectio is confined to the slow perusal of sacred Scripture, both the Old and New Testaments; it is undertaken not with the intention of gaining information but of using the texts as an aide to contact the living God." This is a form of Contemplative or Centering Prayer and the idea is to use the Scripture as a repetitive mantra to turn off your mind as is done in Eastern religous practices (that is what this actually is), rather than to gain understanding, knowledge, incite, direction and wisdom, et al, from the word as we should.]
Pope Benedict XVI kept a traditional yearly appointment on Friday evening, when he visited Rome's Major Seminary to offer a lectio divina with the students, faculty and staff. The biblical text proclaimed during the reading was a brief passage from the 1st Letter of Peter - verses 3-5 of the Letter's first chapter: Listen:  
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy we have been born anew to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, and to an inheritance which is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ...
THE VATICAN TODAY - Report by Vatican Radio - February 9, 2013
Read Full Report: http://www.news.va/en/news/pope-prays-lectio-divina-at-romes-major-seminary

Pope Denies the Resurrection of the Body
In his best known book on systematic theology entitled Introduction to Christianity, the current pope, Joseph Ratzinger, explicitly denies the resurrection of the body. He wrote: "It now becomes clear that the real heart of faith in the resurrection does not consist at all in the idea of the restoration of bodies, to which we have reduced it in our thinking; such is the case even though this is the pictorial image used throughout the Bible."
By denying the fundamental biblical truth of the resurrection of the body, the pope is in serious error for not knowing "the Scriptures, nor the power of God" (Matt. 22:29). It is a grave heresy, whose tendency is to "overthrow the faith of some" (2 Tim. 2:18). We know "He that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you" (Rom. 8:11).
PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL > News from Evangelist Mike Gendron - By Mike Gendron - October 2012
Read Full Report: http://archive.constantcontact.com/fs064/1103609831924/archive/1111094011311.html

 


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