Damned Catholics

[Minimalist]

Poor frankie.  Life is a shit sandwich and every day is another bite.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34723819

Vatican leaks lift lid on Pope Francis's financial fight

"The Vatican is still very far from what Francis wants the Church to be - a poor church for the poor," Mr Fittipaldi says.
"In fact, I write about a very rich Church that manages money in a very ambiguous way, very far from what Francis would like. The Pope is trying to succeed, but there's strong resistance to him.
"One thing is what the Pope and the media say, but behind him there is a Church that does not want to renounce its economic might and its handling of money. That's why the book is called Greed."

[Minimalist]

Dear Durango Police:


If I were you  I'd start by looking in the Vatican.


http://apnews.excite.com/article/2015110...beb56.html

Police: Man dressed as priest sought for Halloween assault

Sgt. Deck Shaline tells The Durango Herald ( http://goo.gl/TmzyKa ) the suspect, who was dressed as a priest for Halloween, punched the victim and knocked him unconscious, then kicked him in the head several times early Sunday morning. The suspect was seen after the assault entering a bar accompanied by another man who was dressed as the pope.

[Minimalist]

Figures.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34889540

The Vatican has charged five people, including two journalists and a top priest or monsignor, over the leaking and publication of secret documents.

The books, "Merchants in the Temple" by Mr Nuzzi and "Avarice" by Mr Fittipaldi, included details of alleged corruption, theft and uncontrolled spending in the Holy See.

Go after the whistle-blowers not the crimes they exposed.  The RCC is the most corrupt organization in history.

[Minimalist]

This one deserves its own thread.... which perhaps it shall get.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/records-...-evidence/

Records reveal Minnesota priests raped hundreds of kids for decades — and church buried the evidence

The documents show that the abbey moved priests from parish to parish when abuse allegations where levied against them, covering up the problem and keeping secrets within their own ranks. There are 14 more priests associated with the abbey whose records have yet to be produced.

Sure...no systemic abuse by these holy fuckballs.

[Minimalist]

Hmm...ironic coming from this scumbag.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/pope-fra...-violence/

Pope Francis: God ‘must never be used to justify hatred and violence’

Right, asshole.

Charles A. Bolton (Ex-Roman Catholic priest):

What has turned my soul against Roman abuse of power is the way in which it has tortured and burned such saints of God as Joan of Arc, hundreds of the Albigensian martyrs in France in the 12th century, the Knights Templar, John Huss [Czech Jan Hus], the Dominican Savonarola, the Dominican Giordano Bruno, [and] the Anglican bishops Cranmer, Ridley, and Latimer. The Inquisition has promoted at least two wholesale massacres: [hundreds of] thousands of Protestant Waldensians in northern Italy, and thousands of Protestant Huguenots by the massacre of St. Bartholomew in France. More than 30,000 of the most cultured Protestants of France were put to the sword on the night of St. Bartholomew, August 24, 1572.  At the news [of this brutal, bloody massacre], the Pope had cannons fired, proclaimed a jubilee, ordered a Te Deum of thanksgiving to be sung, and struck a special medal to commemorate the glorious ‘victory’.

[Minimalist]

Oh, come now.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnew...reets.html

Vatican in row with residents over cobbled streets

Locals living around the city-state have formed an action group to fight the commercialisation of the area, which has seen cheap tourist restaurants and gaudy shops selling religious trinkets multiply and expand onto pavements of the neighbourhood’s ancient passageways in recent years.

As the capital prepares for the arrival of tens of millions of pilgrims during the Catholic Holy Year, which begins next week, the campaigners have vowed to stop the character of the area, named Borgo Pio, being further eroded by 24-hour supermarkets, street vendors offloading souvenirs and increased vehicle traffic.

Really,  people.  You've got the fucking church right there and you're worried about the "character" of the area?  Give it up already.

[Minimalist]

Actually, your assholiness, it is not complicated at all.*

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/pope-fra...he-church/

Pope Francis admits: Use of condoms to stop AIDS is a ‘complicated’ issue for the Church

* Provided you are not living in the 11th century.

[Minimalist]

Fucking catholics still don't get it.  It's time for the Justice Department to open up a RICO case against these cassock-wearing perverts.

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/san-dieg...e-hotline/

San Diego priest who covered up sex assault placed in charge of sex abuse hotline

A group representing victims of sexual abuse at the hands of Catholic priests has blasted the San Diego Catholic Diocese for appointing a priest who admitted to destroying documents detailing sexual assaults to oversee their sex abuse hotline.

Likening him to “an admitted embezzler [who] shouldn’t oversee bank accounts,” Melanie Sakoda of SNAP (Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests) said Fr. Steven Callahan shouldn’t be allowed to “oversee abuse reports.”

[vorlon13]

Jesus fucking christ, at some point do concerned governments have to call in air strikes on catholic facilities to get their fucking attention ??

[Minimalist]

WE can't.  We've used up all our bombs on rock piles in Syria.