Damned Catholics

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Any club like that must have hats... the sillier the better!

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Everyone know god wants you to wear a hat

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Child sex abuse: Failure to report crimes to be made illegal

this might worry a few pedo priests!

People who work with children in England will be legally required to report child sexual abuse or face prosecution under government plans.
The move - which is subject to a consultation - was recommended last year by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA).
The home secretary has vowed to "right one of the greatest injustices seen in Britain in modern times".


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65152581?a...gn=KARANGA

[Fake Messiah]

They are warring. In some countries like Germany and Belgium, laypeople are taking charge of the Catholic Church and its rules. They think they know better than the Vatican and are bringing gay marriages and women priests.

The Vatican is kind of helpless because Germans are probably their main income.

German Synodal Path has paved the way for reform of Catholic Church practices regarding same-sex couples and lay preaching

Three years ago, at the end of January 2020, a service in the same building marked the beginning of the first assembly of the Synodal Path: a long conversation between Christian laity and bishops to make the Catholic Church, which had been heavily shaken by a series of abuse scandals, more credible and fit for the future.

Right from the start, the core idea was to work through the reasons for abuse and sexual violence in the church to prevent them occurring in future. In other words, the bishops also wanted to come to terms with the pitfalls of clerical power and abuse of power.

But then many other issues came up: Achieving gender justice in the church; making it possible for women to be ordained for church offices; practicing respect instead of exclusion with regard to sexual minorities; allowing the participation of congregations in church decisions. It was said again and again that this was a modernization process to bring the Catholic Church into the present.

At the last plenary assembly of the Synodal Path, there were official representatives from Australia, the Philippines, Tanzania, Peru, Belgium, Finland, Sweden and Italy.

It is increasingly clear that the sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church have a worldwide dimension. Victims have spoken out on every continent. And this has plunged the church into crisis in many regions.

In Germany, the Synodal Path has passed a total 15 resolutions, some of which have very concrete effects. Employees whose lifestyles do not conform to church guidelines can no longer be dismissed, for example, if they enter into a same-sex civil partnership or remarry after a divorce.

The Catholic Church also wants to recognize gender diversity. The training of clergy is to be reformed. And soon, in many places, women will be allowed to preach. The fact that there will now also be blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples has been celebrated as a success — although some courageous clergymen have already been practicing this for a while.

Pope Francis and the Vatican have been repeatedly critical of the consultative process of the Catholic Church in Germany and its controversial measures.

On occasion, the Vatican has been seen to have been instrumentalized by archconservative German bishops. But it is not new that the Vatican is wary of the Catholic Church in Germany, as it is financially strong and tends to be considered theologically liberal.

During the meeting in Frankfurt, Bishop of Antwerp Johan Bonny described how the Catholic bishops of Belgium had confronted the Vatican. In the Belgian Catholic Church, church blessings for same-sex couples have been possible since last year — although a good year earlier the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith expressly forbade such blessings.

https://www.dw.com/en/catholic-church-ge...a-64971479

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Ireland’s shame: forensic archeologists begin the gruesome task of uncovering & identifying almost 800 babies buried in a sewer chamber of a home for unmarried women run by the Bon Secours Sisters.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/socia...baby-home/

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Ireland’s shame: forensic archeologists begin the gruesome task of uncovering & identifying almost 800 babies buried in a sewer chamber of a home for unmarried women run by the Bon Secours Sisters.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/socia...baby-home/

It's ok if they prayed for the babies before they threw them away

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Pope Francis has FIRED. . . A predator priest? Nope. A corrupt bishop? Nope. A guy who criticized him

Pope sends Benedict XVI’s former aide back to Germany in latest sign of falling out

Pope Francis has fired the longtime aide to the late Pope Benedict XVI from his Vatican job and ordered him to return to his native Germany, the final chapter in a very public falling out that culminated with the aide’s tell-all memoir that was highly critical of Francis.

Speculation about Gaenswein’s future had swirled following Benedict’s Dec. 31 death and deepened a week later with the publication of the archbishop’s memoir, “Nothing But the Truth: My Life Beside Pope Benedict XVI.”

In the book, Gaenswein recounted his life serving Benedict but also acting as prefect of the papal household under Francis. He revealed palace intrigues, settled old scores and cast Francis in a deeply unfavorable light, puncturing the carefully curated notion that the cohabitation of two popes, one active and one retired, had been a happy one.

Published during a tense mourning period after Benedict’s death, the book became one of several lines of attack against Francis by allies of the more doctrinaire late German pope.

In reality, Gaenswein had stopped actively working as prefect of the papal household in 2020 following the publication of a previous book that got him in trouble with Francis.

Francis immediately sidelined Gaenswein, sending him away from the papal household with the excuse that he needed to care more full-time for Benedict, even while allowing him to keep the title as prefect.

https://apnews.com/article/pope-benedict...dc3bdf4509

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Maria Lvova-Belova, war criminal wanted by the Hague for kidnapping children from Ukraine (genocide) was visited by the Vatican's Cardinal Matteo Zuppi in Russia.



https://au.topnews.media/2023/06/30/matt...moscow-nv/

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Children tied to beds, nuns who flogged themselves, filthy homes: Was Mother Teresa a cult leader?

The Missionaries of Charity was a hive of psychological abuse, say former members

Johnson spent 20 years in Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity before leaving through official channels in 1997. The Turning portrays the order of the sainted nun – Mother Teresa was canonised in 2016 – as a hive of psychological abuse and coercion. It raises the question of whether the difference between a strict monastic community and a cult lies simply in the social acceptability of the operative faith.

A Calcutta-born physician named Aroup Chatterjee made a second career lambasting the cruelty and filth in the homes for the poor that Mother Teresa ran in his city.

They and other critics argued that Mother Teresa fetishised suffering rather than seeking to alleviate it. Chatterjee described children tied to beds in a Missionaries of Charity orphanage and patients in its Home for the Dying given nothing but aspirin for their pain. “He and others said that Mother Teresa took her adherence to frugality and simplicity in her work to extremes, allowing practices like the reuse of hypodermic needles and tolerating primitive facilities that required patients to defecate in front of one another,” the New York Times reported. (Hygiene practices reportedly improved after Mother Teresa’s death, and Chatterjee told the Times that the reuse of needles was eliminated.)

The former sisters describe an obsession with chastity so intense that any physical human contact or friendship was prohibited; according to Johnson, Mother Teresa even told them not to touch the babies they cared for more than necessary. They were expected to flog themselves regularly – a practice called “the discipline” – and were allowed to leave to visit their families only once every 10 years.

Viewed through a contemporary, secular lens, a community built around a charismatic founder and dedicated to the lionisation of suffering and the annihilation of female selfhood doesn't seem blessed and ethereal. It seems sinister.

One sister quotes Mother Teresa saying, "Love, to be real, has to hurt." If you heard the same words from any other guru, you'd know where the story was going."

https://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-styl...-1.4573449