Tuesday, 21 December 2010
The Pope
Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict's claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn't considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s.
In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI also claimed that child pornography was increasingly considered “normal” by society.
“In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,” the Pope said.
“It was maintained — even within the realm of Catholic theology — that there is no such thing as evil in itself or good in itself. There is only a ‘better than' and a ‘worse than'. Nothing is good or bad in itself.”
The Pope said abuse revelations in 2010 reached “an unimaginable dimension” which brought “humiliation” on the Church.
Asking how abuse exploded within the Church, the Pontiff called on senior clerics “to repair as much as possible the injustices that occurred” and to help victims heal through a better presentation of the Christian message.
“We cannot remain silent about the context of these times in which these events have come to light,” he said, citing the growth of child pornography “that seems in some way to be considered more and more normal by society” he said.
But outraged Dublin victim Andrew Madden last night insisted that child abuse was not considered normal in the company he kept.
Mr Madden accused the Pope of not knowing that child pornography was the viewing of images of children being sexually abused, and should be named as such.
He said: “That is not normal. I don't know what company the Pope has been keeping for the past 50 years.”
Pope Benedict also said sex tourism in the Third World was “threatening an entire generation”.
Angry abuse victims in America last night said that while some Church officials have blamed the liberalism of the 1960s for the Church's sex abuse scandals and cover-up catastrophes, Pope Benedict had come up with a new theory of blaming the 1970s.
“Catholics should be embarrassed to hear their Pope talk again and again about abuse while doing little or nothing to stop it and to mischaracterise this heinous crisis,” said Barbara Blaine, the head of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests,
“It is fundamentally disturbing to watch a brilliant man so conveniently misdiagnose a horrific scandal,” she added.
“The Pope insists on talking about a vague ‘broader context' he can't control, while ignoring the clear ‘broader context' he can influence — the long-standing and unhealthy culture of a rigid, secretive, all-male Church hierarchy fixated on self-preservation at all costs. This is the ‘context’ that matters.”
The latest controversy comes as the German magazine Der Spiegel continues to investigate the Pope's role in allowing a known paedophile priest to work with children in the early 1980s.
Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/popersquos-child-porn-normal-claim-sparks-outrage-among-victims-15035449.html#ixzz1A8whQRrI
3 comments:
Eldon's teaching's has worked for me for the past 15 years, YES 15 YEARS.
There is lots of haters out there.
Eldon keep doing what you doing. Helping the people of Canada, these dark evil fish brains have been programed, there ancestor's have been programed, its not there fault. Some of us seems to be born like that lol fish brains or even better Zionists, anty human.
May your light shine on all of us.
You truly are a life saver.
I feel privileged and thank God to have been enlightened by your resurch.
God bless you as you are the only one how knows about the right teaching. If anyone has not been successful its because they have made a mistake somewhere and so they throw the book at them.
Foer example if you say you understand, you go under there jurisdiction, you should say, I don't stand under nothing how ever I comprehend.
If you accept any piece of paper from them even a business card and don't throw it back at them and say I REFUSE YOUR OFFER and wave all benefits, you go under there jurisdiction.
If you say you are a free man or a person you go under there jurisdiction.
Of they say the name on your birth certificate and you don't say, I don't consent to be identifyed by any names and REFUSE YOUR OFFER and wave all benefits, you go under there jurisdiction and become there slave, then you have to qork, give them your frouts of your labor or get some shakels on and go in jail, like a slave.
As I toock exemption, did my homework, I have been successful in the court of law and NO Judge was able to do anything. This is for all you unbelievers that are just scared.
Don't forget, they can not touch your will. You don't have any power only when you think you don't have power, remember that and now go do your homework as a true Canadian, on detaxcanada.org. For your pears and dears, your self and specialy for the land of Canada.
It's time to liberate this land from these pirates.
Good work Elfon.
Good work Eldon, I have had tremendous success for the past 15 years. Thanks to you and your work. I pray for you and all your branch of family.
May your light shine on all Canadians, as goodness always prevails.
Eldon's teaching's has worked for me for the past 15 years, YES 15 YEARS.
There is lots of haters out there.
Eldon keep doing what you doing. Helping the people of Canada, these dark evil fish brains have been programed, there ancestor's have been programed, its not there fault. Some of us seems to be born like that lol fish brains or even better Zionists, anty human.
May your light shine on all of us.
You truly are a life saver.
I feel privileged and thank God to have been enlightened by your resurch.
God bless you as you are the only one how knows about the right teaching. If anyone has not been successful its because they have made a mistake somewhere and so they throw the book at them.
Foer example if you say you understand, you go under there jurisdiction, you should say, I don't stand under nothing how ever I comprehend.
If you accept any piece of paper from them even a business card and don't throw it back at them and say I REFUSE YOUR OFFER and wave all benefits, you go under there jurisdiction.
If you say you are a free man or a person you go under there jurisdiction.
Of they say the name on your birth certificate and you don't say, I don't consent to be identifyed by any names and REFUSE YOUR OFFER and wave all benefits, you go under there jurisdiction and become there slave, then you have to qork, give them your frouts of your labor or get some shakels on and go in jail, like a slave.
As I toock exemption, did my homework, I have been successful in the court of law and NO Judge was able to do anything. This is for all you unbelievers that are just scared.
Don't forget, they can not touch your will. You don't have any power only when you think you don't have power, remember that and now go do your homework as a true Canadian, on detaxcanada.org. For your pears and dears, your self and specialy for the land of Canada.
It's time to liberate this land from these pirates.
Good work Elfon.
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