Rosary could not defeat JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the 20th Century ... unlike the Battle of Lepanto in the 16th Century

Updated October 16, 2011, 9th anniversary of the Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary

Read our new article Occupy The Vatican... like Occupy Wall Street http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/10/ows-otv-occupy-wall-street-occupy.html

The greatest mystery of the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican is not the 20 Mysteries of the Holy Rosary but rather the mystery of John Paul II the Great who elevated criminal Cardinal Bernard Law as ArchPriest to the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, the ‘Mother of all basilicas in Rome’ -- after Law resigned as Archbishop of Boston because as he publicly confessed, he aided and abetted 80 pedophile priests in Boston. The irony is that the proof of the mysteries of the Rosary and John Paul II's Mystery are lodged in the very same place of the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore where the ‘victory of the Rosary over the Battle of Lepanto’ was prayed by Pius V in 1571 and where Cardinal Law, the Achilles Heel of John Paul II now resides and presides thus Law is the ‘downfall of John Paul II’ in the 21st Century inspite of his 27 years papacy in the 20th Century, read our related article John Paul smelled Devil`s Bowels as roses for 27 years as he deified Father Marcial Maciel and deified Cardinal Bernard Law http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-smelled-devils-bowels-as.html .

Indeed, the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore is the 'Waterloo of John Paul II' because it is the place of the greatest proof of his callous and cold heart as Holy Father and his personal cover-up of the JP2 Army named aptly after him as the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army who was led first and formost by criminal Cardinal Bernard Law who now presides and resides and pray the Rosary everyday is in this basilica. This week a new report says that there are 156 pedophile priests known in Boston, read our exclusive blog JP2 Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

When priest pedophilia first erupted in Boston in early 2002, John Paul II was busy preparing to accomplish the 4 most important milestones of his papacy:

1. his last WYD World Youth Day in Toronto from July 22-28, 2002
2. his last trip (fifth and favorite) to Guadalupe, Mexico with serial pedophile priest, Fr. Marcial Maciel on July 31 to canonize the seer Juan Diego.
3. his most controversial canonization ever of Opus Dei founder St. Josemaria Escriva on October 6, 2002
4. his apostolic letter adding 5 new Mysteries of Light, or Luminous Mystery, to the Holy Rosary on October 16,2002, on the 24th anniversary of his 27 years longest reigning papacy

We have shown how these 4 milestones were actually millstones attached to the neck of John Paul II by St. Michael the Archangel – every step of the way with our 5 blogs.

1. For JP2's WYD World Youth Day -- read the vision of WYD Paris Arrow on the hellish death of John Paul II at the World Youth Day in Toronto here

http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/09/911-decade-and-jp2-millstones-9th.html

2. For JP2's last trip to Guadalupe - read Beloved companions John Paul II and Fr. Marcial Maciel together in their journeys to Guadalupe: http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/01/beloved-companions-john-paul-ii-and-fr.html

3. For Opus dei canonization read Why John Paul II is Opus Dei's Patron Saint: analysis of conference at Holy Cross Pontifical University in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.html

4. For the new Luminous Mysteries of the Rosary read John Paul II Galaxy size ego usurps Mary statues. ‘The Holy Father’ John Paul II ousts Baby Jesus from the arms of His ‘Holy Mother’ Mary! http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/2011/06/john-paul-ii-galaxy-size-ego-usurps.html

Also, Spiritual healing, the Eucharist and the Rosary bring NEITHER JUSTICE NOR SAFETY FOR CHILDREN, the preys of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/05/spiritual-healing-eucharist-and-rosary.html

As we write this update to coincide with the October 16 launch of the Mysteries of Light of the Rosary, October 15 is the first Global Change Day and Catholics should learn from these young Americans and young people all over the globe who will no longer accept and recite a blind 'Amen' (in exchange for 'graces' in the Catholic Church's after-life) or a subservient 'Yes' to monarchs and oligarchs or one-man-rule or multinational monopoly of Wall Street and they want participative democracy and justice, open books and accountability, make the rich of Wall Street and banks and multinational corporations pay taxes , read our related article OWS & OTV Occupy Wall Street & Occupy The Vatican -- October 15 International DAY of ACTION http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/10/ows-otv-occupy-wall-street-occupy.html

The Battle of Lepanto

October 7, 2011, Feast of the Holy Rosary

The Vatican claims that:
At that very moment, at dawn on October 7, 1571—as Vatican Archives later revealed—Pope Pius V, accompanied by many faithful, was praying the Rosary in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. From dawn to dusk the prayers continued in Rome as the Christians and the Muslims battled at Lepanto...

Note that the victory of the Battle of Lepanto in the 16th century, was rather short and swift, lasting only for less than one whole day, and where was the Rosary prayer held? It's none other than the throne of the current High Priest, criminal-Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore.

Obviously that 'Mother of all basilicas of Rome' has lost all its "full of grace" and heavenly Marian powers after the Battle of Lepanto because Cardinal Bernard Law, its sitting "Prince of the Church", - with all his Masses and Rosaries - is a complicit of criminal pedophile priests, read our related article John Paul II is the first member of the ‘Catholic Hall of Shame', Cardinal Bernard Law is the second member http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009/11/john-paul-ii-is-first-member-of.html Theology and John Paul II are heartless and together they made the immoral Fr. Marcial Maciel thrive http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/05/theology-and-john-paul-ii-are-heartless.html .

Read about Cardinals as "Prince of the Church" Catholic Monarchy here http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/07/john-allen-promotes-monarchy-of.html

Read our related article John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army expands into Ireland & John Paul is elevated as "Venerable"... only in the Catholic Church are criminals glorified http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2009_12_01_archive.html

The 16th Century and the 20th Century

Let us put history into proper perspective before we claim the invincible powers of the Rosary by the speediest saint John Paul II read why he is the fast-track saint here http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/05/john-lallen-jrthe-pied-piper-of-john.html who even added 5 more mysteries, the Luminous Mysteries on October 16, 2002, only a few months after priest pedophilia erupted in Boston and after Cardinal Bernard Law confessed he transferred and aided and abetted 80 pedophile priests! And these pedophile priests are still free to roam Boston to prey on more children, read our related article John Paul smelled Devil`s Bowels as roses for 27 years as he deified Father Marcial Maciel and deified Cardinal Bernard Law http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-smelled-devils-bowels-as.html.

-- How come that praying the Rosary for one day "from dawn to dusk" could defeat the army of Muslims in 1541 but John Paul II with his 27 years of papacy in the 20th Century with his with his brilliant 5 Luminous Mysteries could not defeat the most heinous crimes against Catholic children worldwide, the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army, the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, read our related articles in http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

The JP2 Army's most heinous crimes against the weakest and most vulnerable children are now being announced to the whole world by Amnesty International, the Prime Minister of Ireland, Center for Constitutional Rights and SNAP Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests at The Hague, read our related articles http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/hague-is-asked-to-investigate-vatican.html

Statistics of the Battle of Lepanto and the JP2 Army and their victims

The Vatican claims that:
From dawn to dusk the prayers continued in Rome as the Christians and the Muslims battled at Lepanto. When it was all over the Muslims had been defeated. Of some 270 Moslem ships, at least 200 were destroyed. The Turks also lost 30,000 men while Christian casualties numbered between 4,000 and 5,000.

Wow, the Vatican keeps bragging about its victory in the Battle of Lepanto but what it is really revealing is the endless evil powers of the Vatican to murder and kill tens of thousands - centuries after centuries - , from the Crusades to the Battle of Lepanto and to the new form of killing -- the "murder of souls" of hundreds of thousands of children victims of the JP2 Army, John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army in the 20th Century, the powers of the Rosary is a total shame for it has become the tool of murder...the tool of feel-good Catholicism that numb the moral conscience and numb the heart from compunction and compassion as epitomized by John Paul II and Benedict XVI , read our related article The Nazis and the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army were both an inherently evil all-male elite hierarchy born from the Devil's bowels http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/01/nazis-and-john-paul-ii-pedophiles.html

In the 20th Century and dawn of the 21st Century this is the new statistic of the JP2 Army and American crimes which the Rosary could not defeat:

Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

Pearl Harbor - 3,000 victims - 170 planes - Admiral Yamamoto

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

JP2 Army victims around the world http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

Amnesty International Report Vatican “Torture, Inhuman and Degrading Treatment” on tens of thousands of children sexually abused by priests in Ireland http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/amnesty-international-report-vatican.html

The 4 cornerstones of the Vatican: Narcissism, dysfunction, disconnection, elitism http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/nazi-gold-and-vatican-how-rome-saved.html

Ireland condemns Vatican secrecy on Cloyne Diocese pedophile priests. Ireland vis-à-vis USA: the way they deal with crimes by the Vatican http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/07/ireland-government-condemns-vatican.html

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html

The 15,736 victims is from the recent report of the US Catholic Bishops Conference harmed by almost 6,000 pedophile priests. Note that the victims of the JP2 Army are 5 times those of Osama bin Laden's 9-11, read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html


Read our related article The Nazis of Hitler and the Roman Catholic Church of Benedict XVI are similar: They both burn human beings in Auschwitz and in Hell http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2011/02/nazis-of-hitler-and-roman-catholic.html

John Paul II the "Rosary Pope" used the Rosary to cover-up and FEEL-GOOD about his own JP2 Army crimes

Pope John Paul II has called the Rosary his "favorite prayer," after the Mass and the Liturgy of the Hours. In fact he added more mysteries, the Luminous Mysteries on October 16, 2002, on his 25th anniversary as Pope, a few months after priest pedophilia erupted in Boston because Cardinal Bernard Law aided and abetted the JP2 Army of Boston.

What use are those "Mysteries of Light" when all that John Paul II did was hide in darkness his own JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army named aptly after him who had 27 years to do and say something to stop it but instead he glorified Cardinal Bernard Law and Fr. Marcial Maciel, his two Achilles Heels??

John Paul II was too busy performing the Sorcery and Magic of the Eucharist, read our related article Benedict VERSUS Holy Mary: Priests' transubstantiation instant reincarnation of Christ VERSUS Mary’s 9 months pregnancy& child birth http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html

The narcissism and grandiosity of John Paul II, Cardinal Bernard Law, Benedict XVI, and Bishop Roger Vangheluwe are nauseating and despicable http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/narcissism-and-grandiosity-of-john-paul.html

Read our related articles

Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

John Paul II 4 million,Ayatollah Khomeini 9 million people at funeral! Cardinal Pell, fanatics cannot beatify the Pope of Pedophiles and Pederasts http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-4-millionayatollah.html

Saint? John Paul II slept in peace at the Vatican knowing that Fr. Marcial Maciel plus thousands of pedophile priests were raping thousands of boys http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/saint-john-paul-ii-slept-in-peace-at.html

Cardinal Bernard Law is an Opus Dei member. Law met Opus Dei while a student at Harvard in the 1950s….... Archbishop William Levada's Hidden Record http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/cardinal-bernard-law-is-opus-dei-member.html

Why John Paul II is Opus Dei's Patron Saint: analysis of conference at Holy Cross Pontifical University in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/why-john-paul-ii-is-opus-deis-patron.html

Diamond bride Mother Angelica’s EWTN acquires Fr. Marcial Maciel’s National Catholic Register: same God and Mammon, same hypocrisy http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/01/diamond-bride-mother-angelicas-ewtn.html

September 11 = 5,000 victims. Belgian Catholic Church = 5,000 victims. John Paul II the Great Pedophile Priests Army keeps marching on in Europe !! http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/06/september-11-5000-victims-belgian.html

Spiritual healing, the Eucharist and the Rosary bring NEITHER JUSTICE NOR SAFETY FOR CHILDREN, the preys of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/05/spiritual-healing-eucharist-and-rosary.html

Totus Tuus Marie pathological lie of John Paul II



See this image of Our Lady of Guadalupe defending and protecting children from the Serpent but John Paul II gave countless thousands of little boys to the Serpent of Sodomy to be sodomized and raped by his John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army for over 26 years during his glorious papacy as John Paul II the Great



The Danish cartoonist of the prophet Mohammed portrayed John Paul II as the Pope of Pedophilia with the inscription "I am not for homosexuality but for pedophilia".

In this Danish cartoonist image, John Paul II is the Sun as the Infallible most powerful Pope of the Catholics with seven rays of the 7 Sacraments, he is in his white papal uniform and his two papal hands pulls up the children"s robes because he enabled and allowed thousands of pedophiles rapists-priests to go on freely sodomizing and raping little boys (and girls) during his longest reigning papacy of 26 years, together with Cardinal Josef Ratzinger his right-hand man. See more on the Danish cartoonist describing about John Paul II on Danish radio http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007/10/john-paul-ii-portrait-by-danish-artist.html.





Saint Michael the Archangel tied a giant millstone to John Paul II's neck at the last World Youth Day speech of JP2 -- Read John Paul II the Pope of Sodomy: Vision of St. Michael the Archangel tying a giant millstone to John Paul II at World Youth Day in 2002 http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html



John Paul II in the Basilica of Guadalupe in Rome



The original image of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico revered by beloved companions John Paul II and Fr. Marcial Maciel who built the Legion of Christ Guadalupe Basilica in Rome where is now buried see http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2008_07_01_archive.html

The Hague: Full text Criminal Charges against Dr. Joseph Ratzinger, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/05/full-text-of-criminal-charges-against.html
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The Rosary Dealt a Crushing Defeat to the Muslims at the Battle of Lepanto...

"Realize the power in your hand with the Rosary, for in your hands you hold the power of God. If you do not recognize the Rosary, can you expect to be recognized by My Son? How much can you expect? Why do you hide My Rosary? It was with a Mother's loving heart that I chose to give you these pearls of Heaven that you reject.

"Woe to all dedicated who seek to remove these from the little ones' hands, for their punishment will be metered in accordance to it!

"Why has sophisticated man cast aside these tokens of My love? Those who remain true to My Rosary will not be touched by the fires. Gather these treasures, My children, for the time will come that you will not find them on the counters of your stores." - Our Lady of the Roses, October 6, 1970


The Story of the Battle of Lepanto...

Almost from the very beginning of Islam, there were wars upon wars between Christians and Muslims. We remember the Crusade wars, seven major and several minor, which lasted for centuries. This is the story of the Battle of Lepanto, which marked the end of the Crusades and was a turning point in the history of Christianity.

Charles Martel's victory at Poitiers definitely stopped the Moslem invasion of western Europe. In the east Christians held firm against attacks of the Muslims until 1453. In that year, Mohammed II threw huge assaults against Constantinople and by the evening of May 29 the Byzantine capital fell. By 1571 the Muslims were firmly installed in Europe. Their ships ruled the Mediterranean Sea from the Strait of Bosporus to the Strait of Gibraltar and constantly preyed on Christian vessels unless they flew the French flag.

Pope Pius V, in the last year of his papacy in 1571, tried to rally the nations of Europe to join in a Holy League to stop and roll back the Moslem enemy which threatened the entire continent. Spain, whose King Philip II was also King of Austria, responded favorably. The Muslims were then engaged in the conquest of Cyprus, an island belonging to the Republic of Venice.

Leading Venetian officials would have preferred to have worked out some peaceful-coexistence agreement with the Sultan, but under the crusading influence of Saint Pius V, they decided to join the Holy League along with the republics of Genoa and Lucca and the dukes of Savory, Parma, Ferrara and Urbino.

The Papal fleet was of course part of the Holy Alliance. Pius V asked Philip to appoint Don John of Austria, the 25-year old son of Emperor Charles V, as commander-in-chief of a planned expedition against the Muslims. After receiving the banner of the Holy League from the Pope, through Cardinal Granvalla, Don John's fleet set sail from Genoa for Naples on June 26, 1571.

Few historians mention that just before the departure, Philip II presented Don John with a picture of Our Lady of Guadalupe which she had caused to be miraculously imprinted on the cloak of the Indian peasant Juan Diego in Mexico 40 years before. Don John placed the picture in the chapel of the admiral-vessel, the Genoese John Andrew Doria, asking for Mary's protection of his expedition.

On September 16, the Christian fleet put to sea. Don John anchored off of Corfu where he learned that the Muslims had leveled entire towns and villages and then retreated to the coast of Lepanto in the Gulf of Corinth.

At dawn on October 7, at the entrance to the Gulf of Patras, the Christian and Moslem fleets finally came face to face for the battle of Lepanto.

The wind and all military factors favored the Muslims, but Don John was confident. He boarded a fast ship for a final review of his fleet. He shouted encouraging words to the men and they shouted back. After Don John returned to his own position, the wind mysteriously changed to the advantage of the Christian fleet. First-hand witnesses wrote about this moment as a most dramatic turn-of-events resulting from an "unknown factor".

At that very moment, at dawn on October 7, 1571-- as Vatican Archives later revealed--Pope Pius V, accompanied by many faithful, was praying the Rosary in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. From dawn to dusk the prayers continued in Rome as the Christians and the Muslims battled at Lepanto. When it was all over the Muslims had been defeated. Of some 270 Moslem ships, at least 200 were destroyed. The Turks also lost 30,000 men while Christian casualties numbered between 4,000 and 5,000.

The Rosary had won a great military victory. Like all truly great military leaders who hate war and love peace, Don John retired after his victory at Lepanto. He died a few years later at the age of 31. Another who took part in the great battle of Lepanto, Miguel de Cervantes, lived longer to write his famous tribute to Christian chivalry, Don Quixote.

The origin of the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary on October 7th ...

Following the great Christian victory at Lepanto, Pope St. Pius V declared that henceforth a commemoration of the Rosary would be a part of the Vatican's Mass on every October 7. His successor, Pope Gregory XIII, went further. In 1573 he established the Feast of the Most Holy Rosary--to be celebrated at all Churches which had specific altars dedicated to the Rosary.

In 1671 Pope Clement X extended observance of the feast to all of Spain.

Only 12 years later in 1683 the Muslims again swept into Europe. With 200,000 men, they laid siege to Vienna. After months of valiant resistance by a small garrison, the city was relieved by an army under John Sobieski, King of Poland. The Rosary, to which the King was dedicated, was again instrumental in a military victory. Pope Innocent XI consecrated September 12 of that year to the Holy Name of Mary. The Moslem hordes were hurled back yet again at Peterwardein in Hungary by Prince Eugene on the Feast of Out Lady of the Snows, August 5, 1716. As a result of this victory, Pope Clement XI extended the Feast of the Rosary to the Universal Church.

"The beads of prayer will be the major instrument for the lessening of the Chastisement upon your country." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 14, 1973

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Why we’re taking the pope to The Hague

UNITED STATES
The Progressive

By David Clohessy, October 4, 2011

As someone who was molested as a child by a trusted parish priest, I’ve had to wait a long time for any real opportunity to see justice done.

But I’m waiting no longer.

On Sept. 13, members of my organization, Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), joined by our attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights, filed an 84-page complaint with the International Criminal Court, detailing how Vatican officials tolerate and enable the systematic and widespread concealing of rape and child sex crimes.

Our filing, according to The New York Times, represents “the most substantive effort yet to hold the pope and the Vatican accountable in an international court for sexual abuse by priests.” read the full article here http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/10/why-were-taking-pope-to-hague.html

Fr. Marcial Maciel was protected by John Paul II. Here's proof that John Paul II has an evil Achilles Heel in Fr. Maciel

Here is a proof that John Paul personally protected Fr. Marcial Maciel his beloved companion to his favorite papal trips to Guadelupe, Mexico. John L. Allen Jr, the Vatican Pied Piper says that he was already in his "twilight" when John Paul II learned about pedophile priests, but that is an outrageous lie, read our analysis of John Allen's NEWSWEEK magazine Fast-Track Saint here http://jp2army.blogspot.com/ It is the first chapter of the JP2 Army blog because John Allen is the best Vatican Pied Piper ever.

Fr. Marcial Maciel could maintain his pedophile activities only through the complicity of the Vatican and especially the immoral Pope John Paul II. This article is very crucial in proving that John Paul II has 2 evil Achilles Heels, Fr. Marcial Maciel on hisi left papal foot, and Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston on his left papal foot. Heil Satanas John Paul II,r ead our related article on his beatification here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

Protected by John Paul II

"Surveillance, seduction, ensnaring and silencing were combined in the legionaries’ organization. The accusers’ statements are heartrending, recounting how a power appealing to spirituality and papal license committed terrible crimes against defenseless people.

González’s book presents not only testimony but also three unpublished files that the author used to reveal a web of complicity stretching from the top of the ecclesiastical institution to its base and backed by political elites. In Rome he consulted the files of the Sacred Congregations for the Religious as well as those of Father Luis Ferreira Correa, the Legion’s vicar general from 1956 to 1957, and Flora Barragán de Garza, the group’s first great benefactor, whom Maciel tried to divest of her possessions. Based on a huge quantity of uncovered, classified and thoroughly analyzed information, the author arrives at this conclusion: “It is certain John Paul II protected the pederast founder [of the legionaries] and did so consciously.”

"The legionaries still trusted that people would turn against the victims instead of condemning Maciel. They were especially confident that time and short memories would dissipate the accusations against their founder. They were even certain that the power they obtained in the Vatican could raise their founder to the altars. These leaders had assimilated the path and the logic Maciel had taught them: make the abominable look like virtue. They wanted to start by canonizing Maciel’s mother, as in the case of Monica, the mother of Saint Augustine.

For the cause of beatification to prosper, it needs connections in the Vatican and lots of money. As they had both, they managed to get the lady on the first rung of the process: she was now “servant of God.” They also aspired to get Maciel’s great uncle, Bishop Rafael Guízar y Valencia, canonized. Certain that canonization of John Paul II, Maciel’s great protector, would also be quick in coming, they expected it to culminate in an official declaration of the saintliness of the legionaries’ founder. They didn’t fear the usual practice of assigning a devil’s advocate to investigate his life, since they’d already seen it put aside in the canonization of Opus Dei founder José María Escrivá. Nonetheless, they were wrong on all counts and it now remains to see if the Maciel scandal, which has become widely known, doesn’t become an insuperable obstacle to Karol Woltyla’s own beatification process."

"Maciel’s pederasty and drug addiction had not occurred in isolation, but was organized and accompanied by a group of like-minded men who protected and abetted him.

Historian Francisco Martín Moreno laments how the Church hid accusations of sexual abuse by the legionaries’ founders and José Martínez de Velasco, a Spanish researcher and author of two books on the legionaries, appears convinced that the Church was complicit in Maciel’s acts.

With the Vatican’s complicity

"Thanks to his rigorous investigations, Fernando González has become a specialist on the subject. In his opinion Maciel’s death won’t put an end to the scandal. What is needed is to get inside his organization to see just how far it was complicit in and abetted the crimes of pederasty, drug use, absolution for accomplices and others, although in 2001 then-Cardinal Ratzinger established a 10-year statute of limitations for the latter crime."

Then in a radio interview with journalist Carmen Aristegui, a former legionary revealed that at age 68 Maciel had gotten a 15-year-old girl pregnant, a serious crime of child abuse punishable by civil law. Other people said Maciel had maintained sexual relationships with various women. A Spanish ex-legionary recalled that Maciel was known to have intimate relationships only with well-off women.

Even Alejandro Espinosa, Maciel’s nephew, alleged suffering sexual abuse by his uncle, and stated that he too had witnessed Maciel’s affairs, remembering how he boasted of his conquests. He named a good number of women whom Maciel had exploited economically and with whom he’d had sexual relationships.

Moreover, up to that point the sexual sphere was the only focus; a fundamental subject—the legionaries’ economic management—continued to be concealed.

Another interpretation of the leaks had to do with Rome’s attempt to uncouple the organization from its founder, to clean up and restructure a religious congregation perceived as valuable. Nonetheless, this strategy didn’t seem to be faring very well.

A Vatican inspection with what results?

In March of this year the Vatican ordered a team of clerics to conduct an inspection of the Legion. They said they aimed for truth and transparency. Once this news became public, Maciel’s successor said members of his institution were troubled and asked for forgiveness from anyone who felt harmed by Maciel’s actions.

It seemed a step forward since they used the word “forgiveness” for the first time, but closer examination of their words suggests they were only seeking forgiveness from those loyal to the organization because the legend had fallen. They said nothing to those wronged by their founder, much less clear a path to repair the serious damage Maciel had caused so many defenseless victim

In the “universal devil” category

Xavier Velasco, a man of letters, published an article in April titled “A bedroom absolution.” It began with the account of an incident that happened 12 years ago when the legionaries’ followers were still convinced they would one day pray to Saint Marcial Maciel. The legionaries had contacted Velasco because they wanted him to announce their institution’s main advantage: while others taught, they formed leaders. Velasco confessed that he was tempted to ask them if instead of forming they didn’t mean “shoe-horning”.

Velasco explained the reasons that had led him to write the article. The first was that “the tarnished cleric from Michoacan, as well as being a child rapist, pedophile, drug addict and father, was one of John Paul II’s confessors.” The second had to do with “a scandalous fault common to many hypocrites, with and without cassocks: forgiving the accomplice. How could the unwary/innocent believer not be encouraged to sin alongside the libertine in a cassock, if he who was going to absolve him absolves the pope? Who would dare to contradict his teachings having once believed in his goodness and seeing him now as a saint? Is there a pious soul in the head of him to whom the Pope confesses his own sins, an extreme hedonist disguised as a shepherd of souls? How to deny, based on the disciple’s silent genuflexed faith, that the graceful accomplice would necessarily leave the place of the incidents even purer than when he entered, after receiving such a huge indulgence? “

The writer went on to reflect that the aggressor connived with his victim for a handful of blessings. He ended by underscoring that the memory of the man who would have been a resplendent new Mexican saint was now likely “to ascend to the category of universal devil.”

Pending responsibilities for the Catholic Church

In the context of the latest revelations about Maciel, a sizable group of people of recognized honor joined with prestigious civil organizations to publish a pamphlet that opened with the question: “When will the Vatican finally stop covering up the crimes of sexual abuse committed by Marcial Maciel?” Given the latest revelations, the objective of those who signed the pamphlet was to get the legionaries and ecclesiastical authorities to publicly distance themselves from what they had previously been complicit in covering up. The signers requested from the legionaries and the ecclesiastical hierarchy a series of things they should have done for some time but that had become imperative in light of what had happened.

First, they asked for an official public declaration to establish responsibility for the canonical and civil crimes committed by Maciel and to ask for pardon for the extensive damage caused to the sexual abuse victims. They also called on the pope to demand a review of the process conducted against Maciel, in which the honor and reputation of all those called to give evidence under an oath of excommunication would be vindicated for having done so in good faith and telling the truth.

Out of respect for the victims and all Catholics, the ecclesiastical elite were obliged not only to clarify the crimes of pederasty but also to pay compensation for the damage done. The Catholic hierarchy was expected to bring about profound institutional change to avoid more innocent boys and girls falling victim to sexual abuse in the future by priests sheltered, protected and concealed by that same Church. "


"An example of the people over whom the legionaries have influence is the case of Mexican President Fox’s first lady for the six years of his administration. This politician boasted that Maciel was her spiritual guide but demonstrated a behavior far from what could be considered moral. Marta Sahagun de Fox dressed ostentatiously with public money even though most of the population lives in poverty. She was accused of favoring the illicit enrichment of her circle, and in her unrestrained ambition encouraged the serious reversal of democracy Mexico suffers today. Was she distorted by association with Maciel’s thinking, or was it a case of “birds of a feather”?

Wasn't she RC and lived on the Vatican grounds???

"Addiction to money degrades and corrupts because it leads to trading what cannot be traded: love, truth and loyalty. Keeping this in mind, it would be appropriate for the just-initiated Vatican investigation to examine whether Maciel’s organization is not a rotten fruit that should be separated from the rest so it doesn’t spoil everything. "

I don't see that happening do you?


http://www.envio.org.ni/articulo/4016

Karol Wojtyla and the secrets of Vatican finances. The Pope is the CEO of the largest bank in the world, the Vatican Bank and the Swiss Banks

In our new blog, Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils...Benedict XVI Ratzinger Crimes Against Humanity at The Hague http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/ we prove that the Vatican is the most evil power in the world and that the Pope is being used by multinational corporations and despots of poor countries to hoard their ill-gotten wealth. John Paul II traveled around the world where he courted criminals like Pinochet and used his papal diplomatic immunity to carry and hide these dictators ill-gotten wealth at the Vatican Bank, read our related article Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/holy-heist-john-paul-ii-wyd-had-no-role.html

Read our related article Benedict used Hitler as mask at German Parliament. Nazis and Vatican are a “band of robbers” http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/benedict-xvi-uses-hitler-to-divert.html

As long as the Pope is treated like a demi-god as if he is representing God Jesus Christ and as long as Benedict XVI is treated like a ruler of state, there will never be justice for poor peoples and poor countries like El Salvador and no justice to the hundreds of thousands of children who were sexulaly abused by the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions committed by the JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army commited in the last half and last quarter of the 20th century during the longest pontificate in history of John Paul II which was controlled by the Opus Dei.

But God, if he or she is a true god, has enough and Our Lady of Fatima in her Third Secret of Fatima predicted the total demise of the Vatican because she has enough seeing the crimes and sins of Popes not only against poor peoples by stealing thier moneys and hoarding them in Vatican Swiss Banks but against the least of Christ's brethren, the voiceless and helpless children. Hence the Vatican will be destryed like the wealthy Temple of Solomon and not one pillar will be left standing. And all the wealth of Opus Dei and those despots will also disappear like smoke. We are in the 21st century where the Arab Spring is happenning and there is no mention of religion or Jesus Christ because their freedom has nothing to do with Christianity or the Bible but with basic secular human needs of food, shelther, and clthing which the despots ahve hoarded safely in the Vatican Swiss Banks.

Let's see Libya's example, Mummoar Gadhafi has stolen more than 70 billion dollars, but only 2 billion is found in England, 1.2 billion in the USA, so where are the rest of the 70 billion dollars? In the Vatican Swiss Banks, safe with the Pope.

The rulers of this world have their legal interest in seeing the Vatican as a state and the Pope as the Head of state because they can count on him to always have the diplomatic immunity to hoard their ill-gotten wealth. Hence Benedict XVI is now in Germany and the German Chancellor is protecting him, read our related blog Benedict XVI Ratzinger, God's Rottweiler http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/

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Opus Dei World Domination Agenda: more informations about the secretive ways of Opus Dei the real controller of the Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/03/opus-dei-world-domination-agenda-more.html

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Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html

The 15,736 victims is from the recent report of the US Catholic Bishops Conference harmed by almost 6,000 pedophile priests. Note that the victims of the JP2 Army are 5 times those of Osama bin Laden's 9-11, read more http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html

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Karol Wojtyla and the secrets of Vatican finances


Saint Peter's Basilica

Giacomo Galeazzi
Rome

In the controversial history of the Vatican's finances under the pontificate of John Paul II, the page that is less known is that in which Karol Wojtyla replaces the plenipotentiary Marcinkus with the less exposed Donato De Bonis. This happens not, by chance, in 1989. The Cold War is won, so there is no longer an external enemy to justify the ruthlessness of the Lithuanian-American archbishop in the management of the IOR. From the fall of the Berlin Wall onwards, the financial scandals on the other side of the Tiber are no longer the side effects of the Catholic Church’s epoch-making efforts to have Christianity survive in Eastern Europe, but the result of power struggles between the different strings of the Curia that vie for positions of power to the sound of funds raised.

In May 2009, for the first time in the history of the Vatican, thousands of documents on the financial affairs of the Institute for religious works filter through the leonine walls, the impenetrable bank of the Holy See which each year offers its profits for direct management by the Pope. Letters, reports, budgets, minutes, accounting notes, money transfers, letters between the highest authorities from across the Tiber river on how the money is sometimes managed by unscrupulous prelates, bishops and cardinals. Over 4 thousand documents that make up the archive of a privileged witness: Monsignor Renato Dardozzi from Parma, born in 1922, Chancellor of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and, above all, for twenty years one of the few advisors of the cardinals who succeeded to the Secretary of State, from Agostino Casaroli to Angelo Sodano. Dardozzi wanted that after his death, in 2003, his endless archives be made public.

So, after years of research, the investigative book Vatican spa (Chiarelettere) by Gianluigi Nuzzi, is published containing some passages from the Vatican papers that were crucial for those years: from the bribes of the First Republic to the money for Toto Riina and Bernardo Provenzano (Massimo Ciancimino, son of Vito, former mayor of Palermo, in an interview published in «Vatican spa» points out the existence at the IOR of a system of accounts, opened in the name of his father’s figureheads and from which came funds intended for the two bosses of the Mafia ). From the Ambrosiano to Enimont, from bribes to threats: Dardozzi kept documents and notes on all issues, he stored them in yellow classified folders in the archives. In this way a vast historical memory was formed which now reveals how a sort of "private affairs office" inside the Vatican had worked to straighten or silence the most embarrassing and troubled financial affairs in the years of Karol Wojtyla, just after plots by Archbishop Paul Casimir Marcinkus and the Ambrosiano of Roberto Calvi had been appeased. «In 1989, Marcinkus is now indefensible – explains Nuzzi -. To remove him a reform of the IOR is needed in order to set up a commission of cardinals to supervise the Vatican bank and create the figure of Prelate of the IOR. The choice for the new assignment does not fall on an ecclesiastic outside the Curia, but on Monsignor De Bonis who, for a quarter of a century, had worked at the IOR and was the shadow of Marcinkus. At the same time Angelo Caloia, a laic and a decent person, was appointed President. It is Dardozzi himself who goes to Milan to offer Caloia the presidency». In practice, the post-Marcinkus designation of De Bonis is a Solomonic solution.

«The prelate of the IOR is selected from inside the institute and he was already in charge of illegal operations with Marcinkus- points out Nuzzi-. De Bonis was in Geneva with Marcinkus to sign $230 million in checks to liquidate creditors involved in the collapse of the Ambrosiano. When in 1989 Marcinkus falls into disgrace, De Bonis releases an interview to mark his distance from his boss, but in reality it was he who was the "black box" of the IOR». After the fall of the Berlin Wall, therefore, everything changes so that nothing changes in the «holy business».

«The massive mobilization of resources and energy during the Cold War mortgaged the post-Wall for Karol Wojtyla - underlines Nuzzi -. The choices of John Paul II will be affected. The fall of communism leaves the Pope with a series of debts, because in the crucial struggle for the survival of the Church of the East Wojtyla had moved immense resources, through monetary triangular movements especially with the United States, according to the principle of the "lesser evil". Moreover, the Marcinkus system is not dismantled until after the end of the Cold War, also because it represents a powerful tool for feeding channels towards political and business areas». In short, even after 1989, the critical issues within the IOR are too many to eliminate old methods of management and turn it into a normal bank. «This is a unique “off shore” corridor for politicians around the world who want to keep their money away from legal controls - specifies Nuzzi-. The IOR is like a credit card that ensures privileges to be granted in exchange for political backing, legal provisions and, business support». From the archives of Dardozzi emerges that a flow of money, including cash and bonds, was conveyed into a kind of parallel IOR, an off-shore web of screen deposits made ​​out to charities and non-existent beneficial foundations with cynical names ("Foundation for poor children”, "Fight against Leukemi”), a spider web built in secret for years by Bishop Donato De Bonis, former secretary and successor Marcinkus, appointed prelate of the IOR by Casaroli.

The system is started in 1987 to ensure a fair handover from Marcinkus, now on on his way down, to De Bonis, who had to be negotiate past experiences with the more private needs of the customers of the nineties. And so the hidden IOR continued to prosper for years, escaping even the current president of the IOR, Angelo Caloia, an expression of white finance from the North. There are 17 main accounts on which De Bonis «works for both by formal delegation", says the report sent by Caloia to Wojtyla in August 1992, when the parallel bank begins to emerge, "and by longstanding practice". Between 1989 and 1993 transactions are conducted on these deposits for more than 310 billion lire, about €275.2 million in present value. But the surprise is with cash movements: according to a conservative estimate, these exceeds 110 billion (€97.6 million in present value).

Then there is the intense trading of government securities: in just two years between 135 and 200 billion cct have transited on these reserved accounts. And these are just estimates made ​​by bank management. Even today there is no certainty about how much De Bonis was able to actually move, since he often resorted to off-the-books administration that left no traces. In this manner the parallel IOR not only administered savings but also bribes to third parties in the nineties, checks for Vatican buildings that ended up with Cardinal Rosalio José Castillo Lara, Wojtyla’s plenipotentiary of Economics, money deducted from donations made by the faithful for Masses for the deceased, deposits for 30-40 billion of the nuns who worked in asylums, to the encrypted bank accounts of contractors such as Ferruzzi, secretaries of the popes such as Archbishop Pasquale Macchi, and especially politicians, starting with the then Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti and the first politician convicted in Italy for association with the Mafia, Vito Ciancimino. It is July 15, 1987 when De Bonis duly signs a request and opens the first account of the newborn off-shore system, Number 001-3-14774-C, with a cash deposit of 494,400,000 Lire and a guaranteed high interest rate of 9 per cent per annum. To ward off even the shadow of suspicion Monsignor abuts the deposit to the Cardinal Francis Spellman Foundation. The choice of name is not accidental: it is that of the powerful and feared cardinal, military ordinariate for the United States, who after the war funded the Democrats from the United States with money that may have been stolen from the Jews by the Nazis.

It was Spellman who accredited Marcinkus with the then Pope Paul VI. If an official of the IOR had wanted to look into the files of the Spellman account, he would have discovered that the files contain no trace of the founding document, nor a memorandum or letter on letterhead. He would have concluded that the choice of foundation was a simple but effective expedient. But no officials in the IOR had similar curiosity. The prelate of the Vatican bank was too powerful and protected by the Cardinals for someone to look into his business. So why all the secrecy? When turning around the classic card for depositing signatures of those who can operate on that account, together with De Bonis there is the name of Andreotti. "I do not remember this account" says today Andreotti in an interview by Gianluigi Nuzzi. The persons (almost all prelates and cardinals) who open an account at the IOR are asked to leave their will and testament in an envelope.

The file of the Spellman Foundation account, photocopied by Monsignor Renato Dardozzi and secured in his archives, shows that of the "operator", in fact De Bonis, who with the medium point black marker which he preferred, wrote on lined paper those illuminating instructions: "Whatever is left after my death, in account 001-3-14774-C, is to be given to His Excellency Giulio Andreotti for charitable works and assistance according to his discretion. With grateful thanks in the blessed name of God. Donato De Bonis, Vatican 15.7.87?. It is not only the documents that say that this is one of Andreotti’s secret accounts administered by De Bonis. The former president of the IOR Angelo Caloia was also convinced of this. In a series of confidential letters on the affairs of the prelate sent periodically to the Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, and reproduced in the book Vatican spa, Caloia says that he’s certain. In the letter dated June 21, 1994, seven years after the Spellman Foundation account was opened, Caloia takes for granted that "the account of the Cardinal Spellman Foundation which the former prelate administered on behalf of Omission contains figures .... ".

"Omission", as emerges from the convergent documents stored in the archives of Monsignor Dardozzi, was the conventional word used by Caloia and other managers of the IOR to encrypt the name of Andreotti. For De Bonis, however, the code selected was "Rome”. For other account holders, who are still in the shadows, other names of cities were agreed upon, such as "Ancona" or "Siena", to be used in written communications. Only a few had to understand. For example the identity of Ancona is still unknown. When questioned by Panorama, Angelo Caloia preferred not to make statements on this issue. A flood of money flows into the account administered by the prelate of the IOR on behalf of Andreotti. Millions of banknotes, billions in cash. The accounting notes kept in the archives of Dardozzi reconstruct all the movements in detail. The account was credited with cct and cash.


From 1987 to 1992 De Bonis physically introduces more than 26 billion into the Vatican and deposits everything in the Spellman Foundation account. At current value the amount corresponds to € 26.4 million. An amount that must be added to the large number of government bonds deposited and withdrawn, for a total of 42 billion Lire, equal to an additional €32.5 million. All in all, in just a few years 46 billion Lire enter the account. But where does all this money come from and who is it for? In "Vatican spa” there is a list of all the beneficiaries who fall into two categories: religious and laic. The first of which are a multitude. If "charity covers a multitude of sins", as stated in the first letter of St. Peter, it is true that alms and donations are periodically distributed from the Spellman account to hundreds of nuns, mothers superior, monks and abbots, institutions, orders and missions. The list of beneficiaries is endless: Hospital Sisters of Mercy, Adorers of the Eucharist, the Ursulines of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Benedictine Oblates of Priscilla, Carmelites of Arezzo. Charity therefore, but not only. The apparent charitable administration of assets remains marginal.



For the cashier of the DC Severino Citaristi, with multiple sentences for the “Tangentopoli” affair, there appears a check for 60 million. Between 1990 and 1991 400 million are withdrawn from the Spellman account at the IOR for the lawyer Edward Ascari, Andreotti’s lawyer in the proceedings initiated in Palermo for association with the mafia. Then 1.563 billion go to a mysterious Spellman Committee with cash withdrawals or parcels of bank drafts of different denominations (from 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 million). Many beneficiaries. A million dollars to the Brazilian Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves, who until 2000 was the prefect of the Congregation of Bishops, while other subsidies are addressed to the then Archbishop of New York, Cardinal John O'Connor, the Croatian Cardinal Franjo Kuharic Archdiocese of Zagreb, up to the auxiliary of Skopje Prizren Monsignor Nike Prela "for Albanian-speaking faithful". Also present were diplomats like Marino Fleri, when he was in Jerusalem ($30,000), Ambassador Stefano Falez, who in 1992 receives sums for the "Slovenian Catholic press”, and Honorary Vice-Consul in New York Armando Tancredi. Money is removed from the fund also for conferences, like the one held in New York in April 1991 for studies on Cicero.





From the " President Andreotti Memorandum" attached to the transfer instructions and from the accounts of the IOR it can be deduced that the account paid out $100,000 for 182 guest rooms at the Plaza and the Sheraton hotel, 225 million for airline tickets, guided tours and transfers. Savings books to the bearer were also deposited with work liquidation and personal savings. There is no reference to politics. A deposit of $40 million contains instructions on Palazzo Montecitorio letterhead, “transfer into Spellman”. On another sheet there is a note "Sen. Lavezzari" in conjunction with the deposit of checks for 590 million lire. Carlo Lavezzari, steel entrepreneur in Lombardy, was a personal friend of Andreotti. Former Democrat Senator, he had his office in Rome on the same floor of the former Prime Minister, in Piazza San Lorenzo in Lucina. Difficult, however, to identify the beneficiaries of the amounts frenetically withdrawn in cash almost every day. The briefcases full of money carried by De Bonis were a habit for employees of the IOR. Each week the monsignor delivered thousands of wads of 100 thousand lire banknotes, with deposits of up to half a billion in cash at a time. He did not disdain cashier checks (from 4 to 500 million), nor foreign transfers, especially from Switzerland. The reports are in Geneva with the Union Bancaire Privée, in Lugano with the Bank of Credit and Commerce SA and Banque Indosuez, while for transactions with the Bank of Lugano account 101-7-13907 opened by the IOR in that Swiss institute for convenience. The turning point of 1992. From the archive of Dardozzi, as told in the book Vatican spa, it emerges that Caloia, who arrived in 1989, begins to suspect the existence of this parallel structure only in the spring of 1992.

He sets up a secret committee and arranges for controls with alarming results which he sends to the special secretary to Pope John Paul II , the most faithful Don Stanislaw Dziwisz, today archbishop of Krakow, for the Pope’s action. But nothing happens. The breakthrough will come only in October 1993 with the explosion of the Enimont issue, a maxi bribe paid to the leader of the First Republic to break the Italian chemistry merger between Eni and Montedison. The “Mani Pulite” pool will knock at the bronze door, obtaining only partial and misleading responses.

Dardozzi writes to the lawyer Franzo Grande Stevens, legal advisor of the IOR: "Do not tempt" the judges who want to shed light on the money that passed through the Vatican for politicians. In this manner, half of the cct of the parallel IOR will remain well outside the range of investigators. Of course without hesitation because, as Marcinkus used to repeat, you do not administer the Church with Hail Marys.

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06/ 9/2011
Paul Marcinku’s trajectory from the land of Al Capone to the Vatican Bank scandal


Paul Marcinkus

ANDREA TORNIELLI
http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/inquiries-and-interviews/detail/articolo/marcinkus-ior-chink-banco-ambrosiano-281/
VATICAN CITY

Paul Casimir Marcinkus, nicknamed “Chink,” never looked the part of the pious priest. Archbishop and president of the Vatican Bank, the Italian magistracy tried in vain to put him behind bars for the Banco Ambrosiano crash. The archbishop at the center of one of the most clamorous Vatican scandals died in February 2006 in Arizona, where he had retired as a curate.

Born in 1922 to a family of Lithuanian immigrants in Cicero, the suburb of Chicago noted for producing Al Capone, Paul Casimir had five siblings, and his father earned a living washing office building windows. His calling arose quickly enough - at thirteen years of age, he enrolled in a Diocesan school, and at eighteen transferred to the major seminary of St. Mary of the Lake in Mundelein, Illinois, where he studied philosophy and theology. In ‘47 he was ordained and sent to a neighborhood parish, serving young families on the southwest side of Chicago. Just one year later, Marcinkus was transferred to the Diocesan tribunal, and two years later to Rome to study canon law. In 1952, while in London for research, he received a letter from the Vatican inviting him to spend two months at the English branch of the Secretary of State. In fact, the professors from Gregorian University had brought Paul’s name up to Pius XII’s factotum, Monsignor Giovanni Battista Montini, the future Paul VI. That trial period became definitive - little by little, Marcinkus became the Roman point of reference for all Americans.

During the Second Vatican Council, he worked to secure the best prices on transoceanic flights for bishops and arranged their stays in Roman hotels In ‘63 he built Villa Stritch (dedicated to a cardinal in Chicago), a million-dollar complex designed to host American prelates. He became its first rector.

His true career coincides with the Pope’s first apostolic travels. In 1964 Paul VI, whom Marcinkus had helped to learn English, asked him to arrange the trip to India for the Eucharistic Congress. His organizing abilities were shown to be formidable, so much so that from then on he organized all of the pontiff’s travels - from New York to Fatima, from Uganda to Chile. Everyone began to call him “the Pope’s Faithful Servant,” and his work as bodyguard to Paul VI earned him the nickname “Gorilla” - a fitting one, given the American prelate’s hulking stature. In 1969 the Pope consecrated him bishop and sent him to run the Vatican Bank, despite the fact that Marcinkus had no knowledge of banks or finance. A few years later, in 1972, his name was brought up in relation to the scandal over forged securities the Vatican had acquired from the mafia. The FBI conducted an investigation into the Vatican connection. The agents entered the sacred rooms and interrogated the closest colleagues of the then-Substitute Secretary of State, Monsignor Giovanni Benelli, who from then on would become an enemy of Marcinkus.

The prelate from Cicero was cleared of the accusation, but the event marks the start of his bad reputation. These are the years when, because of his powerful supporters, Michele Sindona has easy access to the Vatican, as does his protégé, Roberto Calvi, oft-mentioned president of Banco Ambrosiano, who quickly enters into business with the Vatican Bank under Marcinkus. With the growth of his power, “Chink” also sees an increasing number of enemies. For example, Patriarch of Venice Albino Luciani was deeply indignant about the rather too-detached ways of the Vatican Bank president. In the mid-seventies, he had some disagreements with Marcinkus related to Banco San Marco and the sale of the Catholic Bank of Veneto to Banco Ambrosiano. It is said that he came to Rome to demand an explanation for the action taken without the knowledge of the Venetian bishops, and was unceremoniously shown the door by “Chink”. Monsignor Marcinkus would deny the event.

In fact, according to many reputable sources, Pope Luciani made it known immediately after his election that he intended to remove the American prelate from management of the Vatican Bank “because a bishop should not be running a bank.” Certain unscrupulous transactions at Ambrosiano were well-known even before the election of Karol Wojtyla. But John Paul II took a liking to Marcinkus, promoting him to Archbishop (1981) and naming him Pro-President of the Pontifical Commission for the Vatican City State. In addition to finance, the American prelate busied himself with the trivialities of life in the smallest state in the world. Both blue-collar workers and professionals still remember him with great affection - he would climb scaffolding to bring a bricklayer something to drink, sensitive to their needs, ready to help anybody in trouble.

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We propose a monument for the victims of pedophile priests in Boston where it all erupted in 2002 and where Cardinal Bernard Law, the left foot Achilles Heel of John Paul II, publicly confessed that he transferred 80 pedophiles priests from one parist to another. Cardinal Bernard Law is the biggest proof that John Paul II knew of the phenomenon of pedophile priests that haunted him until his death in 2005, read our related article John Paul smelled Devil`s Bowels as roses for 27 years as he deified Father Marcial Maciel and deified Cardinal Bernard Law http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-smelled-devils-bowels-as.html . Imagine how many hundreds 80 pedophile priests must have had from one parish to another, read our related article about how 20 pedophile priests had hundreds of victims in Ireland http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/05/ireland-20-pedophile-priests-abused.html and Canada http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2011/05/canada-22-priests-hundreds-of-victims.html.

9/11 was the biggest attack against Americans in American soil since the attack in Pearl Harbour in 1941. The 9/11 attack had 3,000 victims; Pearl Harbour had also 3,000 victims. Now why did 3,000 victims caused so much changes among politicians and Americans and the world at large but the confirmed 15,736 American children victims of the JP2 Army, the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army does not change a thing on how Catholics see John Paul II, but in fact they are deifying him as the fastest fast-track saint in history? These 15,736 American victims seems to be fading in memory because unlike the 9/11 victims, their names are not engraved in stone but in some archives that will gather dust in history and the fast sainthood of John Paul II will totally obliterate them in history, read our exclusive blog JP2 Army, John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/.

9/11 changed America and the world forever. The way Americans and people see each other changed forever. The way we travel and the security in airports changed forever. The Homeland Security department was created for our safety in the USA. As a consequence of 9/11, President George W. Bush started the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and spent the biggest ever in the American economy costing not only trillions of dollars but also thousands of lives of young men who also left countless widows and young babies and children. Where a picture speaks a thousand words, the Danish cartoonist drew cartoons depicting Mohammed and Muslims worldwide protested and set a bounty for the head of the Danish cartoonist. The 9/11 former site of the World Trade Center now holds a permanent memorial and museum for the 3,000 victims who were killed; their names are carved forever in a long wall. The Freedom Tower is almost finished. 9/11 will never be forgotten and will always be commemorated every year on its anniversary. The commemoration of 9/11 will always be attended by Presidents and dignitaries from around the world. 9/11 is the new epic American holocaust comparable to the Jewish Holocaust in its ceremonies. We need likewise an epic commemoration of the most heinous crimes against Catholic children worldwide covered-up by both Cardinal Josef Ratzinger and John Paul II for over a quarter of a century, read our blog Benedict XVI Ratzinger: God's Rottweiler http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/. and our related article on the sorcery of the Eucharist http://stella0maris.blogspot.com/2010/01/magisterium-benedict-versus-holy-mary.html


Let us not forget that a decade after 9/11, there is suddenly the Arab Spring as the entire region of the Arab countries in the Middle East and Africa are bringing down all their despots and Kings – as peacefully as they can – without the help of the Americans and the Vatican and the Bible or the name of Jesus Christ! Read our related article Holy Heist! John Paul II WYD had no role with Arab youths who liberated Egypt from Mubarak who stole then deposited billions into Vatican Swiss Banks http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/holy-heist-john-paul-ii-wyd-had-no-role.html. So think of all the thousands of victims 80 pedophile priests in Boston had...or the thousands of victims 600 pedophile priests in Los Angeles whom the former Cardinal Mahony covered-up.

Read our related article 9/11 victims 3,000. JP2 Army 100,000s. May Day: both Hitler and bin Laden Announced Dead on May 1 on John Paul II Beatification Day B-Day http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html

10 months after 9/11, Paris Arrow (pen name to protect author from the Vatican Mafia) attended the last World Youth Day of John Paul II in Toronto Canada. There she saw this vision of St. Michael tying the most gigantic millstone to John Paul II’s neck, dragged him until his neck broke and then cast him into a raging sea of fire...while the young Catholic WYD chanted "JP2, we love you". Anyone who cannot understand this can watch the other ending of the movie SALT with Angelina Jolie (which was not shown in the movie theatre but is in the DVD now available. When Jolie caught the bad guy who maltreated her as a child and other soviet little boys and girls, she is dressed completely in black (like a Muslim woman or a nun)with a long black veil and she stands by the edge of the sea. The bad guy is all tied up connected to a rectangular rock and Jolie push him to the sea.

This was Paris Arrow’s vision of John Paul II after his last speech at the WYD in 2002. It is also the 9th anniversary of that vision and so many developments have happened at the Vatican as exposed in our related articles below. But the most important revelation coming to light is the Achilles Heel of John Paul II, Fr. Marcial Maciel, the serial pedophile priest who sodomized even his own biological son. Read about the 2 Achilles Heels of John Paul II here JP2 Achilles Heel Fr. Maciel sued by his own son posthumously: Judge Upholds Key Elements In Maciel Sex Abuse Case in Connecticut http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/09/jp2-achilles-heel-fr-maciel-sued-by-his.html

The vision of Parris Arrow of the John Paul II Millstone

The vision of Paris Arrow happened on July 28, 2002 during the last WYD speech of John Paul II as St. Michael the Archangel bent over and whispered in John Paul II's ear, "Repent, and tell your JP2 Army John Paul II Priest Pedophiles Rapists-Army to stop NOW, do it in front of these young people from around the world." John Paul II replied, "Never, I shall never mar my papacy, I shall be called the Greatest Pope on earth, infallible and impeccable." St. Michael said, "You have a few months left to live, your time is running out, I have given you all the chances...now tell these world youth the truth of what you have covered-up for over a quarter of a century."

John Paul II replied to St. Michael, “I am John Paul II the Great and listen to these youth chant 'John Paul 2, we love you' and that is how they will remember me, and not for some little boys who can barely speak about their sodomy experiences." St. Michael said: "You have hidden and enabled thousands of pedophile priests but the truth shall come out and set free all these children you have oppressed . Since you have a callous heart and refuse to repent, I now tie this giant millstone to your neck and cast you to the sea for as Jesus said, “Temptations, stumbling blocks, enticements are surely to come, but whoever causes one of these little ones to sin, it would be better that a giant millstone would be tied around their neck and they would be thrown into the heart of the sea.” Mark 9:42-50, Luke 7:1-4, Matthew 18:6-10. You John Paul II the Great have caused countless thousands of children to sin with your thousands of pedophile priests for over a quarter of a century during your longest reigning papacy...

St. Michael tied a thick rope around John Paul II's neck that was connected to the giant millstone measuring 8 feet by 3 feet thick... He then pulled the giant millstone with a rope tied on the other end and it glided easily on the ground and John Paul II fell to the ground from his papal throne and chair. He kept grumbling, ‘I am John Paul II the Great! I am John Paul II the Great!’ as he was pulled to the ground and his white robe became splattered with dark mud. He became very dark and covered with his own blood as his flesh was rubbed and cut by the spiky ground. Then his neck broke as he approached a sharp cliff with a raging sea of roaring fire below. St. Michael pushed the giant millstone and John Paul II followed it with his broken neck and limp body into a raging sea of roaring fire and St. Michael said: Jesus said ‘Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy’ but you John Paul II as pope for the longest time in history did not show any mercy to any of these most helpless little children raped by the Priestly Sodomy of Biblical Proportions of your John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army so now go ‘in that place where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth’ where you belong with the Devil, the father of darkness as you yourself has been the “Holy Father of darkness” of this Age of Pedophiles Rapists-Priests of Biblical Proportions worse than the time of Sodom and Gomorrah...the blood and the 'murder of the souls' of these countless boys and girls will forever be in your hand like the Mark of Cain on your forhead...Go join the Devil, you Holy Father of lies, murder and theft of the Vatican Bank where corrupt heads of state hide their monies by starving and killing their people..."

Originally posted in http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html

Read our related article during the MAY 1 beatification of John Paul II, apparently the most callous hearted pope in the 20th century who did nothing to save and protect children under his Holy see watch as Holy Father for 27 years Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/heil-satanas-jp2-patron-saint-of.html

Saint? John Paul II slept in peace at the Vatican knowing that Fr. Marcial Maciel plus thousands of pedophile priests were raping thousands of boys http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/saint-john-paul-ii-slept-in-peace-at.html

Read our new blog on the developments, after the May 1 beatification of John Paul II the Great at the Vatican: Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils...Benedict XVI Ratzinger Crimes Against Humanity at The Hague http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/

Read our blog on the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army and John L.Allen Jr.Pied Piper of John Paul II deceives Catholics with his essay Fast-Track Saint in Newsweek -- with Vatican lunacy & Satanic timeline http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

Read our exclusive blog on the partner of pedophile cover-up at the Vatican, Cardinal Ratzinger God's Rottweiler http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/

The/9/11/Decade

Follow Al Jazeera's special coverage of the events that have occured in the 10 years since Spetember 11, 2011

http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/spotlight/the911decade/

WYD & America, wake up and see the Victims in USA - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

Pearl Harbor - 3,000 victims - 170 planes - Admiral Yamamoto

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 3,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

JP2 Army - 15,736 victims - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity

Opus Dei controlled the 27 years papacy of John Paul II and is therefore the foremost guilty party who aided and abetted and covered-up the John Paul II Pedophiles Rapists-Priests Army. Opus Dei wrote most of John Paul II’s books and writings and to ensure their perpetuity as “All things Catholic”, they want JP2 to be beatified and canonized now by Benedict XVI so as not to take any chances on other future popes. The FACE of Opus Dei is John Paul II and the PHANTOM Spirit of Opus Dei is their founder St. Josemaria Escriva, read our related article John Paul II, Patron of Pederasts and Opus Dei – analysis of Joaquin Navarro-Valls’ reasons for JP2 beatification at Opus Dei conference in Rome http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/04/john-paul-ii-patron-of-pederasts-and.html

The 15,736 victims is from the recent report of the US Catholic Bishops Conference harmed by almost 6,000 pedophile priests. Note that the victims of the JP2 Army are 5 times those of Osama bin Laden's 9-11, read more here http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/05/911-victims-5000-jp2-army-100000s-may.html



Watch the other alternate ending of SALT in the speacial feature, where Angelina Jolie threw the child predator with a rectangular stone (millstone) tied to him into the sea.

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Title: Deliver Us from Evil

Description: Moving from one parish to another in Northern California during the 1970s, Father Oliver O'Grady quickly won each congregation's trust and respect...

Film Synopsis:

Deliver Us From Evil follows Father O’Grady through the years as a priest in Northern California, where he committed his atrocious crimes. After being convicted of his charges and serving seven years in a California State Penitentiary, Father O’Grady was deported back to his native land of Ireland.

This is where Amy Berg, an American film maker interviewed him in 2005. The documentary uses trial documents, videotaped depositions, and interviews with theologians, psychologists, activists and lawyers.

All of whom suggest that church officials were aware of the atrocities O’Grady committed, but that they actively tried to conceal them as well.

The Title of the movie refers to a line in the ‘Lord Prayer’ also known as the ‘Our Father’ and recieved many mixed movie reviews to the claims that are made.



TRAILER http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi2870477593/

Pied Piper John Allen defends Vatican mythology

The Vatican Pied Piper and highest paid journalist on the planet earth is again making it fun to read about the JP2 Army John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army of the 20th century. We highlight in bold his major pathological lies in his recent article The Policy Myth versus 'Accountability with Teeth' in his weekly Vatican-owned column All Things Catholic. Now he pokes fun on victims of pedophile priests by making light of the Vatican crimes by branding them as 'The Policy Myth'.

Read our new blog Pope Crimes & Vatican Evils...Benedict XVI Ratzinger Crimes Against Humanity at The Hague http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/

Read our extensive analysis of John Allen’s article in NEWSWEEK Magazine last May in the way he cunningly like a snake deceive people in the USA and around the world

John L.Allen Jr.Pied Piper of John Paul II deceives Catholics with his essay Fast-Track Saint in Newsweek -- with Vatican lunacy & Satanic timeline http://jp2army.blogspot.com/

John L. Allen Jr supports Fr. Marcial Maciel and the Legion of Christ through his headline: 'True believers' on Maciel still kicking http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/john-l-allen-jr-supports-fr-marcial.html

Opus Dei control the Vatican Bank and multinational corporations that control the world's finances... with Knights of Malta. VIDEOS of Vatican Evils http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/08/opus-dei-control-vatican-bank-and.html

Premier Vaticanista John L. Allen Jr describes his unlimited access into the Vatican and Papal apartments http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/11/premier-vaticanista-john-l-allen-jr.html

John L. Allen glorifies U.S. bishops' thinker-in-chief propaganda the Catholic Church's totalitarian ways http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/01/john-l-allen-glorifies-us-bishops.html

VATICAN BLAME GAME: John Jay College blame '60s & '70s. Benedict XVI blames the Devil so priests can reincarnate God-Jesus but they can't on dead cats http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/john-l-allen-jr-supports-fr-marcial.html

Heil Satanas JP2 Patron Saint of Pedophiles, Pederasts Rapists-Priests! John Paul II is the same yesterday and today-- he cannot protect children http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/john-l-allen-jr-supports-fr-marcial.html

Freak thunderstorm lashed at Benedict XVI & fanatic World Youth Day pilgrims in Madrid, forcing him to cut short his speech VIDEOS, PHOTOS http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2011/02/john-l-allen-jr-supports-fr-marcial.html

Ireland ambassador to fake Vatican country: €600k not enough? Why not send Fat Cat to Rome for plum job ... http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/09/ireland-ambassador-to-fake-vatican.html

Vatican Titanic Ship hits icebergs in New York and Ireland !!! http://popecrimes.blogspot.com/2011/07/vatican-titanic-ship-hits-icebergs-in.html

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The Policy Myth versus 'Accountability with Teeth'

ROME/UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter

by John L Allen Jr on Sep. 09, 2011 All Things Catholic

Mythology is not only loads of fun, but often highly profitable. For proof, look no further than this: Dan Brown has written a book about the Vatican, which was pure fantasy; I’ve also written a book about the Vatican, which, if I do say so myself, has a fairly decent grasp of the basic realities. Care to guess which one sold better?

Yet mythology is also dangerous, never more so than when it fosters misleading diagnoses of serious problems. We’ve seen two good examples recently vis-à-vis the Vatican, both involving the sexual abuse crisis.

The bit of mythology in play, which we might call the “Policy Myth”, is the following: When Rome says “jump,” everyone in the Catholic Church responds, “how high?” If there’s a problem in the church, therefore, it must be due to some Vatican policy (either explicit or secret); to resolve the problem, the trick is to get the Vatican to issue new marching orders.

As the Italians would say, Magari! If only it were as simple as flipping a switch in Rome, and all would be well. Catholicism, however, is a remarkably decentralized system with regard to everything other than doctrine, so the correlation between Roman instructions and application on the ground is rarely exact. Putting the focus on policy obscures what is often the far more decisive question of accountability for how it’s implemented.

The two instances where the Policy Myth has cropped up most recently involve a lawsuit in Oregon, and a highly public standoff between the Vatican and the Irish government.

The Oregon case

In late August, the Vatican released what it said were all the documents in its possession related to the case of Fr. Andrew Ronan, a onetime Servite priest born in Armagh, Ireland, who was laicized in 1966, after serving both in Ireland and America, and who died in 1992. In 2002, an American who says that Ronan abused him in 1965 filed suit in federal district court in Oregon, naming the Vatican as a defendant.

The heart of the suit, as conceived by attorney Jeffrey Anderson, is that every priest in the Catholic Church is a Vatican employee. The case has already made legal history, in that it’s the first instance in which an American judge has approved limited requests for discovery, meaning requests for documents and other information, despite the Vatican’s status as a sovereign entity under international law.

For sure, the documents released last month don’t cast church officials in an especially flattering light. Servite leaders in Ireland became aware of Ronan’s sexual misconduct with seminarians in 1959, triggering a transfer to the United States but no other measures that might have kept further victims out of harm’s way. In 1966, officials were still hoping that Ronan could leave the priesthood, at his own request, “quietly and without any open scandal.”

What the documents also show, however, is that prior to 1966, when a petition for laicization reached Rome (and was swiftly granted), the Vatican had heard of Andrew Ronan exactly once: In 1953, when the Servites requested a routine exemption from church law to allow him to serve as a novice master despite being under the established age. There’s no indication the Vatican was even aware of Ronan’s 1959 transfer from Ireland to America, or of confidential correspondence among Servite officials about Ronan’s propensity for what one 1963 letter described as “this perversion.”

From the record, it seems that failure to deal more aggressively with Ronan was not really a breakdown in policy so much as prudential judgment. Indeed, when Ronan’s name was floated for a seminary assignment in 1963, a Servite provincial wrote the order’s top official to insist that giving Ronan the job would be “contrary to all precepts of the church.”

What this means in terms of the Vatican’s legal exposure, I’m not competent to say. Analytically, however, the problem with thinking that the Ronan case is primarily about Vatican policy is that it takes everyone else involved off the hook. It also suggests the abuse could have been prevented if only the Vatican had a different set of policies, which, as we will see below, isn’t necessarily so.

The Row between Ireland and the Vatican

Last Saturday, the Vatican released an unusually detailed 11,000-word statement in response to criticism by Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, which came in the wake of a critical government report on the rural Cloyne diocese. It found that abuse allegations were mishandled in Cloyne as recently as 2009, despite pledges of “zero tolerance” from the bishops.

Kenny laid much of the responsibility at the Vatican’s doorstep, saying on July 20 that the report illustrates “the dysfunction, disconnection, elitism … the narcissism that dominates the culture of the Vatican to this day.”

Central both to Kenny’s criticism and the Vatican reply is a 1997 letter from the papal nuncio, or ambassador, to the Irish bishops, relaying comments from the Congregation for Clergy in Rome. The letter advised the Irish bishops that some elements of a draft set of sex abuse guidelines the bishops had developed in 1996, including support for “mandatory reporter” policies on child abuse, could conflict with canon law.

That letter has been repeatedly cited as affording cover to church officials who swept abuse cases under the rug. The Vatican, however, said the letter was not intended to prevent the bishops from reporting child abuse to the police, but to make sure that possible conflicts with church law would not allow abusers to evade ecclesial punishment on a technicality.

Whatever gloss one adopts, here’s the key point: The breakdowns in Cloyne continued well after the Vatican had adopted tough new policies on abuse, including an expectation of cooperation with police and prosecutors. The basic failure in Cloyne was not a lack of policy from Rome, therefore, but rather the stubborn unwillingness of a bishop and the coterie around him to implement it.

The most astute observation came from Dublin’s outspoken Archbishop Diarmuid Martin –who, to be clear, is nobody’s idea of a lapdog for Rome or an apologist for the church’s record on the abuse crisis. With reference to the leadership in Cloyne under former Bishop John Magee, Martin dismissed the idea that a “smoking gun” in the Vatican could explain their choices.

“The fact is that these same people … continued to reject the clear norms approved by Pope Benedict when they were published,” Martin said. “They were people who regarded only their own views and would take no note of study documents, of framework documents or even of approved papal norms.”

(Magee, by the way, served as a private secretary to three popes -- Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II. Perhaps that helps explain why he and the people around him felt free to follow their own lead, flouting not only the policies of the Irish bishops but also the new dispensation from Rome.)

Policy and Accountability

Here we arrive at the nub of what makes the Policy Myth dangerous. The Vatican can issue all the edicts and amendments to canon law it wants, but that’s no guarantee, and never has been, that they’ll be faithfully implemented.

Roma locuta est, causa finita est may be a terrific legal epigram, but it only goes so far in capturing real-world Catholic practice.

Formal policy, of course, is critically important. New norms adopted by the Vatican since 2001 represent a step forward, as do the policies adopted by various bishops’ conferences. Yet as Martin put it, policies remain words on paper without an “on-going process of independent monitoring and reviewing of day-to-day practice.”

Bottom line: Both the Ronan case and the dispute between Ireland and the Vatican do indeed illustrate a serious problem in the church, but it’s not a problem of policy. It’s a problem of oversight and accountability. If the rule of astute statecraft is “trust but verify,” one would have to say that outside the strictly doctrinal realm, Catholicism is long on trust but sometimes woefully short on verification.

Smart bishops today get this. They know that when a church official anywhere mishandles important matters, such as charges of abuse, it damages their collective credibility – especially in a 24/7 global media environment, in which a scandal in an obscure place like Cloyne, with a total Catholic population the size of some American parishes, can become a worldwide cause célèbre.

That’s why Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the U.S. bishops’ conference, says in a forthcoming book-length interview with me that he would welcome new systems of “accountability with teeth” for bishops and other officials. Such checks and balances wouldn’t inhibit the teaching authority of bishops, he says, but enhance it, by giving people more confidence in the system.

In an interview just before his appointment to Philadelphia, Archbishop Charles Chaput struck a similar note: “We should have accountability for our actions in the church, and bishops should be as accountable as priests and laity,” he said. “I’m sympathetic to the idea that there should be real consequences, with teeth, to acting contrary to the law of the land, the discipline of the church, or the moral law of God.”

Forces interested in genuine reform would do well to press such leaders to put their money where their mouth is, fleshing out what “accountability with teeth” would look like – especially in a church with more than 5,000 bishops, as well as scores of religious communities and other jurisdictions, but just one pope. That effort, and not a fruitless quest for some magic bullet in Vatican policy, is where the action is.

American lawyers and Irish politicians alike, take note.

[John L. Allen Jr. is NCR senior correspondent. His e-mail is jallen@ncronline.org.]