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Source: Catholic Church faces hardcore porn shame (New Zealand Herald, Nov 5, 2011)

- Top Catholic publishers found selling porn novels (Irish Independent, Nov. 05, 2011):

Germany’s biggest Catholic-owned publishing house has been rocked by disclosures that it has been selling thousands of pornographic novels with titles such as ‘Sluts’ Boarding School’ and ‘Lawyer’s Whore’ with the full assent of the country’s leading bishops.

The revelations made in the publishing-industry newsletter ‘Buchreport’ concern Weltbild, a company with an annual €1.7bn turnover and 6,400 employees. It is Germany’s largest bookseller after Amazon and wholly owned by the Catholic Church.

Buchreport revealed that Weltbild’s massive assortment of titles available to customers online includes some 2,500 “erotic” books with unmistakably lewd titles including ‘Call Me Slut!’, ‘Take Me Here’ and ‘Take Me Now!’, to name a few. The publisher’s website also pictures the titles’ lascivious dust jackets that feature colour photographs of scantily clad women in high heels and erotic underwear.

Yesterday, Carel Haff, Weltbild’s managing director, was quoted as saying that the revelations had provoked “a very intense and critical dialogue” within the company. He said discussions were under way about possibly limiting the assortment of titles.

Catholic bishops responded with a statement claiming that “a filtering system failure” at the publishing house had allowed the books to stray on to the market. “We will put a stop to the distribution of possibly pornographic content in future,” they said.

But Bernhard Muller, editor of the Catholic magazine ‘PUR’, dismissed the clerics’ reaction.

He alleged that the pornography scandal at Weltbild had been going on for at least a decade with the church’s full knowledge. Mr Muller said that in 2008, a group of Catholics had sent bishops a 70-page document containing irrefutable evidence that Weltbild published books that promoted pornography, Satanism and magic.

But their protests appear to have been completely ignored. Writing in the ‘Die Welt’ newspaper, Mr Muller said most of the bishops refused to respond to the charges.

“The sudden proclaimed astonishment of many church leaders that pornographic material is being distributed by their publishing house is play acting,” Mr Muller said. “Believers have been complaining to their bishops about this for years.” Continue reading »

Tags: Catholic Church, Germany, Global News, Porn, Religion, Sex, Society, Weltbild

- Spain’s stolen babies and the families who lived a lie (BBC News, Oct. 18, 2011):

Spanish society has been shaken by allegations of the theft and trafficking of thousands of babies by nuns, priests and doctors, which started under Franco and continued up to the 1990s.

I first met Manoli Pagador in Getafe, in a working-class suburb of Madrid. She was attending a meeting for people affected by the scandal Spaniards call “ninos robados” – stolen children.

She has three daughters and lots of grandchildren, but she has never got over the loss of her first-born – a son – nearly 40 years ago.

She had come to think she was crazy for believing he was alive, instead of dead and buried as hospital doctors had told her.

“Now,” she said, gripping my hand tightly. “Look around the room at the other women here. All like me. The same background. The same experience. I’m not mad and my family finally believes me.”

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Tags: Babies, Catholic Church, Child Trafficking, Children, Crime, Global News, Religion, Society

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- Mass genocide of Mohawk children by UK Queen and Vatican uncovered in Canada (Examiner, Oct. 8, 2011):

By Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd

BRANTFORD, ON, CANADA – Mass graves of Mohawk children have been uncovered by ground-penetrating radar at the Mohawk Institute, a residential school for Mohawk operated by the Church of England and the Vatican before its closure in 1970.

According to Rev. Kevin Annett, Secretary of the International Tribunal for Crimes of Church and States (www.itccs.org), the Mohawk Institute was “set up by the Anglican Church of England in 1832 to imprison and destroy generations of Mohawk children. This very first Indian [First Nations] residential school in Canada lasted until 1970, and, like in most residential schools, more than half of the children imprisoned there never returned. Many of them are buried all around the school.”

Preliminary scanning by ground penetrating radar adjacent to the now closed main building Mohawk Institute has revealed that “between 15-20 feet of soil” was brought in and put over the mass graves just before the Mohawk Institute closed in 1970 in order to camouflage the mass graves of Mohawk Children and avoid prosecution for genocide and crimes against humanity under the Geneva Conventions, the International Criminal Court, and cooperating national courts.

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Tags: Canada, Catholic Church, Children, Crime, Dictatorship, Geneva Conventions, Genocide, Global News, Government, Mohawk, New World Order, Politics, Queen Elizabeth, Religion, Society, U.K., Vatican

-  “An outrage that must be stopped” (Catholic California Daily, August 29, 2011):

Catholics asked to mobilize against bill that would allow children as young as 12 to get STD vaccinations without parental consent

A bill once thought dead that would allow minors to bypass their parents and consent to vaccinations and other means to prevent them from being infected by a sexually-transmitted disease has come back to life in the California legislature. The measure is strongly opposed by the state’s Catholic bishops.

AB 499, sponsored by Assemblywoman Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, is likely to come up for a vote sometime this week in the state Senate, where it is widely expected to pass. (The state Assembly approved AB 499 on May 12.) It would permit children 12 years old and up to consent to Gardasil vaccinations and other methods to prevent sexually-transmitted diseases without telling their parents.

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Tags: Catholic Church, Children, Dictatorship, Fascism, Gardasil, Global News, Government, Health, HPV, New World Order, Politics, Society, U.S., Vaccination, Vaccine

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- Vatican Warned Irish Bishops Not to Report Child Abuse (AP)

- Belgian abuse victims sue Holy See (Sydney Morning Herald/AFP, June 3, 2011):

DOZENS of victims of a child-sex scandal in the Belgian Catholic Church are launching legal action against the Holy See, the first such suit in Europe.

Lawyers and victims said on Wednesday at a news conference that a summons was on its way to Rome, as well as to Belgian bishops, to appear before a civil court for failing to stop sexual abuse by priests and church workers. Lawyers said the group of some 80 plaintiffs was growing by the day.

”The Pope is the head of the Holy See,” said lawyer Walter Van Steenbrugge.

”He neglected to intervene himself and to give instructions, which meant that abuse was liable to continue and the damage was able to increase.”

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Tags: Abuse, Catholic Church, Global News, Religion, scandal, Sex, Vatican

- Priest Sex-Abuse Case Hits Church of Pope’s Adviser (TIME, May 19, 2011):

(GENOA) — The latest sex-abuse case to rock the Catholic Church is unfolding in the archdiocese of an influential Italian Cardinal who has been working with Pope Benedict XVI on reforms to respond to prior scandals of pedophile priests.

Father Riccardo Seppia, a 51-year-old parish priest in the village of Sastri Ponente, near Genoa, was arrested last Friday, May 13, on pedophilia and drug charges. Investigators say that in tapped mobile-phone conversations, Seppia asked a Moroccan drug dealer to arrange sexual encounters with young and vulnerable boys. “I do not want 16-year-old boys but younger. Fourteen-year-olds are O.K. Look for needy boys who have family issues,” he allegedly said.

Genoa Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco, who is the head of the Italian Bishops Conference, had been working with Benedict to establish a tough new worldwide policy, released this week, on how bishops should handle accusations of priestly sex abuse.

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Tags: Abuse, Catholic Church, Crime, Pope Benedict XVI, Religion, Sex, Vatican

- Dutch priest belonged to paedophile club (New Zealand Herald – AP):

May 21 (AP) — The head of a Catholic religious order in the Netherlands has confirmed one of his subordinate priests served on the board of an organisation that promotes paedophilia.

Herman Spronck, head of the Dutch arm of the Salesian order, said in a statement Friday the priest served on the board of the “Martijn” organization, which is widely reviled but not illegal.

“Of course we reject this and distance ourselves from this personal initiative” on the part of the priest, Spronck’s statement said.

“Membership in such organizations does not fit with the ethos of the Salesian order.”

However, RTL Nieuws, which broke the story, published interviews both with Spronck and the priest, identified as 73-year-old “Father Van B.,” in which they defend some paedophile relationships.

“Society thinks these relationships are harmful. I disagree,” RTL quoted Van B. as saying. He served on Martijn’s board from 2008 until 2010, when the organization’s founder was arrested for alleged possession of child pornography. That case is ongoing.

RTL quoted Spronck as saying that “formally I always say that everyone must obey the law. But these relationships do not necessarily have to be damaging.”

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Tags: Catholic Church, Crime, Global News, Holland, Pedophile, Religion, Society

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- Seymour Hersh: Many Within Joint Special Operations Command ‘Are All Members Of, Or At Least Supporters Of, Knights Of Malta’, ‘Many Of Them Are Members of Opus Dei’ … ‘It’s A Crusade, Literally’

(from left to right) Tom Ricks of Foreign Policy magazine and The Washington Post, along with fellow FP editors Joshua Keating and Blake Hounshell all rushed to discredit Hersh and the contents of his January 17th, 2011 speech.

It seems unusual for a staid, respected publication (one that has received three National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) to start treating a celebrated journalist (who himself has won two National Magazine Awards in just this past decade) as if he were nothing more than a paranoid crank.

It seems unusual, but it’s exactly what the staff of Foreign Policy has done to Seymour Hersh, following a lecture the venerated reporter gave at Georgetown University’s campus in Doha, Qatar. You may know Hersh as the dogged investigator who exposed the My Lai Massacre during Vietnam. You may know him as the staff writer for The New Yorker who published some of the earliest pieces on Abu Ghraib in May 2004. You might even know him as the man derided and then vindicated for claiming that Dick Cheney was running a secret assassination squad right out of the Vice President’s office. (In truth, the squad was and is a bipartisan affair, initiated under Clinton and still operative under Obama.)

Yet, given the Foreign Policy staff’s derisive commentary on Seymour’s January 17^th talk, you would think he was some credulous rube midway through his first Dan Brown novel.

Hersh “delivered a rambling, conspiracy-laden diatribe here Monday,” Blake Hounshell reported on the magazine’s Passport blog. His delusional fantasia: The existence of ties between the U.S. Military’s Joint Special Operations Command and a secretive Catholic order called the Knights of Malta. As Hounshell elaborates:

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Tags: Catholic Church, CIA, Global News, Government, Islam, Knights of Malta, Knights Templar, Politics, Religion, Seymour Hersh, Society, U.S.

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Louche bash: Father Michael Seed

- Blair’s priest parties with transvestite ‘nuns’ (Daily Mail)

He is the best-known Catholic priest in ­Britain after Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, the former Archbishop of Westminster.

So it was only fitting that Father Michael Seed, 53 — the man who helped convert former Prime ­Minister Tony Blair to Catholicism — should mark 25 years in the priesthood with a mass at the Church Of The Immaculate Conception in Mayfair earlier this month.

So far, so acceptable. I can reveal, however, that Seed also had a second, rather less devout celebration — a ­champagne-fuelled party with entertainment provided by ­transvestites dressed as nuns.

A close friend of Father Seed’s arranged the bash at the Pigalle Club — housed in a pink basement in London’s Piccadilly and known for racy floor shows — to mark the anniversary of the well-connected priest’s ordination into the Franciscan Friars Of The Atonement.

The 200 guests, many of them ­fellow clergymen, were startled to be greeted at the door by four burly transvestites, who took their coats.

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Tags: Catholic Church, Church, Global News, Religion, Society

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Tags: Banking, Books, Catholic Church, Fascism, Global News, Government, Nazi Germany, Nazis, Politics, Society, U.S., Vatican