John Paul II portrait by Danish artist

A picture speaks a thousand words.
(click image to enlarge and scroll down slowly to the next cartoon)

Jan Egesborn was the famous cartoonist of the 12 satirical cartoon of the Prophet Mohamed published in 2005 by Denmark's Jyllands-Posten newspaper which ignited outrage in the Muslim world that caused massive street Muslim demonstrations, Danish embassies ransacked and Danish products boycotted. Since 2005, I have been waiting and praying he would draw something about John Paul II and it is incredible with what he has come up with (and probably his timing is ripe as the beatification of JPII draws near because the Opus Dei are working round the clock to make it happen asap). My prayers have not been in vain. Mange tak! Danke!

Halleluyah! Danish artist Jan Egesborn sent me a very nice email saying I can post his latest cartoon of JPII in my non-profit John Paul II Millstone weblog, freely! The cartoon is very realistic for it depicts the face of John Paul II with his papal mitre and crown as Bishop of Rome, dressed in his papal white uniform as he holds up in his two hands the lower alb (skirt) of two little altar servers hence showing them waist down - naked, and behind him is the flaming fire of hell (where he is now according to the artist) in the form of the sun with its golden rays that reach the 1.2 billion Catholics through his papal encyclicals, writings and speeches that are being used by the Opus Dei to achieve their one goal of WORLD DOMINATION! The inscription of the cartoon is "I am against Homosexuality, but for Pedophilia" - and this is precisely the Achilles Heel of John Paul II ! Thank God, an artist finally depicted what my humble solo weblog has been saying all along. But the Opus Dei cannot touch Jan while many warn me that I am walking on Opus Dei landmines...... yo! 'where angels fear to thread'!

John Paul II Achilles Heel!

"Many think Pope John Paul II is a saint, but he didn't do anything about sex abuse of children by priests in the Roman Catholic church and this is why we think he belongs in hell." Jan said in an interview

Note that it is for one and only one reason why John Paul II is in hell -- he did not do anything -- about priests pedophilia. It isn't about his policies on women or contraceptions, et cetera. No, he is in hell because he did absolutely nada for the children victims. It is amazing that the Dane would think exactly like this American! about the sin of omission of JPII. And our target are both the same - the Achilles Heel of John Paul II and therefore he cannot be a "saint"!

This American, yours truly, is simply asking Americans that John Paul II not be called a "saint" by American lips and in American soil. The Dane goes further and already puts him in hell where it is final and there is no hope for Heaven. (Are the Danes more theologically advanced than the Americans? Judging from this Danish cartoon and the no-American-theologians protest against Cardinal Mahony, it seems like Europe's theologians are bolder and more precise, not kowtowing like American theologian Richard McBrien.)

The Danish artist is targetting the Polish people and here I am asking the American people to never call JPII a "saint" as a way to honor the victims of his papal pedophile priests. There are the John Paul II WYD Youth generation, the John Paul II priests, et cetera John Paul II and therefore there is also the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army JPIIPPA !

3 Letters of John Paul II from Hell

Surrend's website (which Jan founded) of the JPII cartoon also carries the literal interpretations of the Danish JPII cartoon with 3 personal letters of John Paul II describing the hot party he is enjoying in Hell rather than "boring Heaven". The 3 letters are entitled: Music to My Ear, No heartburn, and A Plea From Hell.

In hell, JPII has the pleasure of the company of Nazi Germany's infamous propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels and feared SS commander Heinrich Himmler. "Respectable Polish Catholics, the place from which I address you is fiery hot. At the beginning of my stay at the epicentre of fire I, John Paul II, was a little dismayed by the fact that having been a faithful servant of God, I ended up in hell along with such characters as Goebbels and Himmler..."

The artist's choice of Goebbels and Himmler is so apprpriate because Benedict XVI and Opus Dei and their strategies parallel those of Nazi Germany because they silence anyone who do not kowtow to their WORLD DOMINATION agenda like papal critic Fr. Jon Sobrino, and also, watch how they will "control" the 35th Congregation of the Jesuits in Rome when they will elect their new Father General in January 2008!

Radio Maryia of Poland

Surrend never mention the Opus Dei but cleverly implicates it. In the first letter of John Paul II "Music to My Ear" to the Polish people, he singles out Fr. Rydzyk of Radio Maryia - which is owned and operated by the Opus Dei. The Holy Cross Pontifical University in Rome where all Opus Dei priests attend is a media communication university at the same time. They have thousands of students that they have been and are preparing to take over the Vatican Radio (originally run by the Jesuits), and the new Vatican Television which is to come soon, probably to debut with the beatification of John Paul II, a most spectacualr beatification that will be celebrated with fanfare worldwide especially by the JPII rosary prayer groups.

All Radio Maria, or major media Ave Maria enterprises are owned by the Opus Dei, just like the new Ave Maria University in Florida (where they recently suddenly ousted Jesuit Fr. Fessio after they've used all his firsthand expertise of setting up a Catholic University since the Jesuits have 28 universities in the USA (where the Opus Dei are dying to make a hostile take-over!) The Opus Dei will use the Jesuits in their expertise since they've been around longer than the ODs, and then discard them like thrash, not a surprise as octopus beast of the sea do that to their preys.

Donkey Josemaria Escriba OD

It is quite a coincidence that Surrend would define Fr. Rydzyk as "that hoarse donkey" because St? Josemaria Escriba always described himself as the humble donkey of Christ and he has a collections of donkeys in his office in Rome. But it is known only to the secret members of Opus Dei, that Christ rode on a donkey in his return to Jerusalem as people (and as we sing in the Mass, Hosanna in the Highest) because as Christ's donkey, St? Josemaria and Opus Dei is the "throne" of Christ. (Do you see the most subtle snaky strategy of the Opus Dei yet?. They NEVER come out and say things as they are, they always have to use imageries that ordinary people will never suspect. The donkey in the Holy Family's flight to EGYPT is found in EVERY Opus Dei "center", house (or convents). Read Opus Dei, the investigative work of Michael Walsh, he also mention about the donkeys).

The Danish artist puts John Paul II in Hell, not in Purgatory where there would have been hope for him to enter Heaven.

"Respectable Polish Catholics, the place from which I address you is fiery hot. At the beginning of my stay at the epicentre of fire I, John Paul II, was a little dismayed by the fact that having been a faithful servant of God, I ended up in hell along with such characters as Goebbels and Himmler..." The full 3 letters are in "Vatican Sex" website

The Vatican of course says otherwise. Cardinal Ruini: Everyone is convinced he is a saint, the process will be short.

Opus Dei the Master Key holder of the Vatican

Let us always remember that the Opus Dei controlled the 26 years papacy of John Paul II. No one and nothing came to or went out of John Paul II except though his Opus Dei personal and public papal secretary, Joaquin Navarro-Valls! He was the gatekeeper of the pearly gates of the JPII papacy!

So, America, BOYCOTT ALL John Paul II rosaries, statues, medals and books because he is no saint in America, maybe in Poland but not in our American soil and our American lips.

Let us use our American dollars that will build a SNAP Memorial and Museum and commemorate all American victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army like we do the victims of 9-11.

Compare the CRIMES and their VICTIMS in America

Victims - Attackers - Responsible Leader

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 5,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

USA Priest Pedophilia - 12,000 victims - 6,000 pedophile rapists-priests - John Paul II, Cardinal Josef Ratzinger & Opus Dei St. Josemaria Escriba OD

See our related articles:
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

New book shows un-saint-liness of John Paul II and his major flaws and faults: Crossing the Threshold of Confusion http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-book-shows-un-saint-liness-of-john.html

The Roman Catholic Church is no longer « Holy ». All Catholic churches, sacristies, rectories are not «holy» but potential priestly pedophile places http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/07/roman-catholic-church-is-no-longer-holy.html

Reasons why priest pedophilia is eternal: John Paul II the Great “Saint”, “The Conscience” of the ‘Age of Benedict XVI’, “Holy Father” Marcial Maciel http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/06/reasons-why-priest-pedophilia-is.html

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

Vatican asks victims to see church as ally in fighting abuse is as preposterous if the Legion asked Fr. Maciel’s victims to see Legionaries as allies http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/11/vatican-asks-victims-to-see-church-as.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

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

John Paul II's official spokesman Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls reveals the true reasons why there's the Pope and the Pedophile Scandal http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/04/john-paul-iis-sole-official-papal.html

Zenit.org should shut down – it’s operated by the Legion of Christ whose founder, Fr. Marcial Maciel is member of John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/03/zenitorg-should-shut-down-its-operated.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

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 Paul II Titanic Ship hit not only by American iceberg of priest pedophilia, also Irish iceberg, German iceberg, Austrian...Canadian icebergs.... http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/03/john-paul-ii-titanic-ship-hit-not-only.html

John Paul II clone Cardinal Bertone: SNAP and the Jesuits

Remember Cardinal Bertone's famous speech right after the largest clergy abuse settlement $660 Million in Los Angeles to support and praise his clone-brother Cardinal Mahony?

One of his most famous line was: “I could only hope that the other social agencies would have the same courage to face this problem as the Roman Catholic Church did.”

SNAP refuted and discredited tit for tat all of Bertone's self-glory statements in his speech from his throne in Rome, see below.

But there is another news brewing about Cardinal Bertone: He is the new head of the "La Civiltà Cattolica"! That's right, and based on his famous speech about clergy sexual abuse in America, we now already know what to truly expect from him in his new (additional)post in Rome. Read on.

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SNAP dying days?

To live on or to fade now - The Question for SNAP's survival

Shakespeare said: To be or not to be, that is the question. Will SNAP be or not be? Will SNAP be a faint memory of the past survived by a handmade quilt of faces of victims preserved by mothballs in Grandma's cedar chest in the attic? Will SNAP fade like the Inquisition? Perhaps SNAP can learn from the Jesuits on how to survive after a global Suppression from the hands of Popes and Kings and governments! That Suppression was literal annihilation, all their schools, properties and houses were confiscated by the Pope and the Vatican and the Jesuit were left penniless and had to leave countries they served voyaging (not in cruise ships but small boats) in the high seas, many died on the way.

SNAP and the JESUITS have somethings IN COMMON: Bertone and Opus Dei

The reason I am posting this is to show THE PLAN for WORLD DOMINATION of Opus Dei and how they do that through various powerful persons - but never never under the obvious name or banner of Opus Dei. Opus Dei never implicate its name or itself in politics and public agencies. They always work underground through secret members or "Cooperators" or "friends" who are already brainwashed by Opus Dei's WORLD DOMINATION agendas.

For example, their subtle cunning snake strategy was recently demonstrated in the Voice of the Faithful's national convention through Fr. Richard McBrien, one of the giant American theologians, see October 22, 2007 post. And now they are proceeding with their World Domination agenda by putting an Octopus Dei tentacle leash on the Jesuits. They are already doing that to the good Jesuit servants of the poor like Jon Sobrino
and now they are doing it to the Jesuits in Rome and guess who will take care of that "enslavery"...... Cardinal Bertone, a secret member of Opus Dei!

So, as proven in Cardinal Bertone's rebuking remarks against clergy abuse victims (therefore against SNAP), we already know what he is capable of and what to expect he'll do to the poor Jesuits who suffered through a quarter of a century of Suppression. The victims of clergy sexual abuse also suffered for a quarter of century of Suppression from John Paul II......but the Jesuits have suffered 4 times that because it took a century to gather themselves back in other parts of the world (which shows the relevance of the Spiritual Exercises of Ignatius) All their Jesuit schools, properties and houses were confiscated by the Vatican and they were literally left with nothing, no wealth, no insurance, NADA! It was total annihilation from the Pope to whom they pledged obedience! ...... But the Jesuits' Suppression today is in another subtle form because now will suffer even much more under the Opus Dei. It is amazing how evil mutates in every century!

And the real question is: The Jesuits survived but will (or how will) SNAP survive? The Jesuits survived the Suppression of Popes and Kings in the 18th century and resurrected to be the largest religious group in the 21 century (Opus Dei is so jealous of them that they are trying hard to catch up by ordaining as many priests as possible!) But will SNAP survive the suppression of two Popes, John Paul II and Benedict XVI, and the Opus Dei? Will SNAP disappear like the ending of a movie on the JPIIPPA John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army?

What will SNAP do or say when Opus Dei keep pounding and suppressing them through Cardinal Bertone: Hey, we've paid you and SETTLED ALL the clergy abuse in USA, now shut up and move on!

Will SNAP suddenly snap and die?

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http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idarticle=10677

Cardinal Bertone addresses US sex abuse crisis

Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone praised the US Catholic hierarchy's response to sex abuse scandal while scorning those who turned it into a business opportunity.

Thursday, August 09, 2007

A particularly candid Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone spoke yesterday afternoon about the situation surrounding the sex abuse scandal in the United States. The Church’s second in command praised the Church’s response and reserved some critical words for those who have seized on the scandal as an opportunity for profit.

“The Church in the US has suffered deeply, has responded with dignity, and invites everyone to truly commit to a reversal of this situation,” said Bertone.

“While I was still at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and then as the Archbishop of Genoa, I accompanied the American Church through this trial, this period, and I repeat that they faced this trial with dignity and courage.” (What a loser! "Dignity and courage"?, how about "OBSTRUCTION of JUSTICE and COVER-UP of the most heinous crime against American children in the 20th century!)

However, the Cardinal was particularly upset with those who have turned the situation into a means of making a profit. “The business aspect, the financial aspect, has nothing to do with cleaning up the reality of the situation. It is an unbearable business that has been created here in the United States…it’s unbearable and also disgraceful.”

The Cardinal also seemed to speak with some indignation about the way that the Church has been singled out as a target. He said that, “the proportion of priests who are involved in this scandal is very small given that there are 44,000 priests in the United States.”

“I could only hope that the other social agencies would have the same courage to face this problem as the Roman Catholic Church did.”

The Secretary of State also showed that he was concerned that a comprehensive solution is provided to the sex abuse problem and continued to point out how the most analysis of the Church’s response is slanted.

“I ask if the other organizations have provided financial compensation for the victims…have they taken care of the victims and those who have been guilty? We cannot abandon the victims or dismiss the guilty as lost.”

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SNAP's tit for tat Retaliation to Cardinal Bertone!

Here is SNAP's press release that REFUTED ALL of Cardinal Bertone's statements especially his self-glory "I accompanied the American Church through this trial ...with dignity and courage"

For immediate release:
Thursday, Aug. 9, 2007

Sex abuse victims respond to #2 Vatican official's new remarks

Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests

Every time an insensitive church bureaucrat makes hurtful public comments like this, it rubs more salt into the already deep and still fresh wounds of American Catholics and sex abuse victims.

Tens of thousands of brave men and women still suffer today because of horrific abuse as kids by priests and callous betrayal by bishops. Several hundred of them are exposing predators, protecting kids and seeking justice. By their courage, they are doing a service to the church. They deserve compassion and praise, not vilification. Their decisive, admirable efforts to alert parents about pedophile priests deserve recognition, not rebuke.

The Catholic church hierarchy has not been 'singled out' by anyone. It is, however, an institution with the most widely documented history of repeatedly protecting predators, shunning victims, deceiving parishioners, stonewalling prosecutors, and stiff-arming journalists, all so that the reputations of top church officials could be safeguarded.

Vatican officials have done virtually nothing to protect the vulnerable. We hope, however, that some day soon they'll at least stop re-victimizing the wounded. (That means, you, Cardinal Bertone! You and Benedict XVI Cardinal Ratzinger and Joaquin Navarro-Valls - you are the foremost Vatican officials who did NOTHING for clergy abuse victims as you were too busy cooking up the sainthood of Josemaria at the saint-factory of the Vatican! Bold emphases added))

(SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, is the nation’s oldest and largest support group for clergy abuse victims. We’ve been around for 17 years and have more than 7,000 members across the country. Despite the word “priest” in our title, we have members who were molested by religious figures of all denominations, including nuns, rabbis, bishops, and Protestant ministers. Our website is SNAPnetwork.org)


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The Jesuits in Rome under Octopus Dei leash!

"La Civiltà Cattolica" Now Has an Extra Director – In the Vatican

It's cardinal Tarcisio Bertone. Since he became secretary of state, he has taken much more active control over what is written for the journal. Deleting, modifying, adding. Sometimes commissioning entire articles – like this one, for example, about priests who "desert" and then "come back"

by Sandro Magister




ROMA, September 24, 2007 – In a few days, "L'Osservatore Romano" will have a new director. But there's news at "La Civiltà Cattolica," too.

The news is that the Vatican secretariat of state, since cardinal Tarcisio Bertone became its head, has once again taken up much more direct management of what is printed in "La Civiltà Cattolica," after a period during which its control was nothing more than a formality.

"La Civiltà Cattolica" is, in fact, a very special magazine, ever since it was founded in 1850 at the behest of Pius IX.

It is produced by an "assembly of writers," all Jesuits, who live in community together in Rome. And every one of its issues, before being printed, passes through inspection by the Vatican authorities, page by page.

It is published on the first and third Saturday of each month. When the drafts for a new issue are ready, twelve copies are brought to the Vatican: one for the pope, one for the secretary of state, and the rest for the curia offices dedicated to the subject matter of the various articles.

On the Monday before the first and third Saturday of each month, the director of "La Civiltà Cattolica" goes to the Vatican. And he is given guidelines on the drafts under examination, divided into three categories.

The "grade A" guidelines are not discussed. They are binding orders. For example: this article is to be suppressed, and to this other will be added this conclusion, this paragraph will be rewritten as follows.

The "grade B" guidelines are discussed during that meeting, and modifications are agreed upon right then and there.

The "grade C" guidelines are left to the judgment of the magazine's director, who is free to arrive at his own decision.

"La Civiltà Cattolica" is not, therefore, an official organ of the Holy See. But it is known that what it publishes "is not in disagreement with the directives of the Holy See on the various topics it examines." And this is enough to certify its importance and to make it obligatory reading for anyone who wants to study the viewpoints of the Catholic Church...


With Pope John Paul II and with Casaroli as secretary of state, the draft revision meetings with the director of "La Civiltà Cattolica" continued to be held by the heads of internal and external affairs for the Church, who, from 1979 to 1988, were Eduardo Martínez Somalo and Achille Silvestrini.

But since April of 2005 there's been a new pope, Benedict XVI, and since September of 2006 a new secretary of state, cardinal Bertone. And the latter has returned to taking an active, personal interest in what is written in "La Civiltà Cattolica." He does not only read the drafts of the articles, in some cases scrapping or modifying them. Sometimes he comes to the point of ordering that an article be written about a specific topic, and providing the appropriate documentation.

In recent months he has blocked at least two articles. One dealt with the situation of the Church in China: Bertone ordered that it not be printed, to prevent it from interfering with the letter on the same topic that Benedict XVI was preparing to publish.
http://chiesa.espresso.repubblica.it/articolo/169450?eng=y

John Paul II squashes Voice of the Faithful via Fr. Richard McBrien

It is not a surprise, that Voice of the Faithful (one of the original defenders of clergy abuse victims in Boston) has now kowtowed to the Opus Dei -- through Fr. Richard McBrien, their main speaker in their recent (floundering membership and funds) meeting . What a joke, the American Opus Dei puppet mouthpiece and Cardinal Mahony ghost writer delivering a major speech at the Voice of the Faithful national convention.

It was a good sign that SNAP president David Clohessy and other survivors dared speak up against the "Voice" that has changed its tune and now prefer to holler instead about some unforseeable century of "married priest" (barking at a 2,000 years eunuch dogma)- and abandon their original cause for the victims of clergy sexual abuse of the 20th century under the John Paul II the Great quarter of a century papacy. Perhaps if VOTF are to financially survive they'll have to eat out of the the Opus Dei billionaire tentacles.

"What must seem like a bombshell to Rhode Island citizens may seem to [Voice of the Faithful] members as yet another disturbing revelation in a long litany of them," said David Clohessy, national director of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, who said he was a victim of abuse and who joined a dozen other protesters on the sidewalk outside the convention center".

Fr. McBrien past barkings against John Paul II up to 2005

Fr. McBrien used to be a lion who roared and critiqued JPII and the papacy, but now he has become a meek elephant tied and captured by the Octopus Dei tentacle. Fr. McBrien is a permanent columnist for Cardinal Mahony's The Tidings and sings praises to Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei. What else would you expect him to say to the Voice of the Faithful except what Cardinal Mahony "instruct" him to say so.

McBrien never praised John Paul II, the whole world knew it. As the Globe and Mail took consensus on JPII in July 2002 for his (last) trip to North America, it reported:
At the same time, another widely known U.S. Catholic theologian, Notre Dame's Rev. Richard McBrien, puts John Paul's name neither on his list of outstanding popes nor on his list of "good or above average" ones.

On April 4, 2005 on the death of JPII, "Yet Rev. Richard McBrien, University of Notre Dame professor of theology, though ranking John Paul II as historically significant, did not include him in his list of good or outstanding popes in his book Lives of the Popes".

Fr. McBrien in Opus Dei's website 2006 (still a rebel against Opus Dei)

Opus Dei's own website qouted Fr, McBrien connecting him to the Da Vinci Code:

Dan Brown’s novel portrays Opus Dei as a powerful force for regression, which is exactly how the prelature is seen by Vatican II-era progressive Catholics, whose hopes for reform (such as the admission of women into the priesthood and a more liberal policy on contraception) have long been frustrated. As John Paul neared death, Father Richard McBrien, of the University of Notre Dame, a consistent liberal voice, said that one of his complaints against John Paul was his affinity for Opus Dei. “Opus Dei is as close to a fascist organization [as there is] in the Catholic Church,” he told me last year. “They’re a very, very definite, militant, ultra-conservative group in the Church, who are basically trying to undo the work of the Second Vatican Council. In this Pope, they had a willing ally, because there was a quid pro quo. They gave him a lot of money and a lot of support for his efforts, going way back, to support the Solidarity movement in Poland. And they had a great influence in John Paul’s pontificate.”

That deeply critical view of Opus Dei is reflected by Brown in “The Da Vinci Code,” except that Brown’s quid pro quo involves an Opus Dei bailout of the Vatican bank, repaid, in part, by fast-tracked sainthood for Father Escrivá...

Fr. McBrien today, a herald servant for Opus Dei 2007

So like the Voice of the Faithful whose focus he is redirecting, today Fr. McBrien has sold his soul to Mahony and the Opus Dei. Opus Dei "courted" McBrien and they succeeded. If Josemaria could court Franco and Pinochet, McBrien is peanuts!

You want proof? No hardcore evidence, you say? Again, it is always the Octopus Dei very subtle snake ploy. Recently in Mahony's The Tidings, on June 22, 2007, in a column entitled "Converts to Catholicism" Fr. McBrien put American Opus Dei Fr. McCloskey (photo) in the same caliber as Bishop Sheen. But he did not give the actual name of this "Opus Dei" priest, only a slight mention of the (powerful) office he runs in Washington DC (the nation's capital! Where else? The Opus Dei always control politicians of the top echelon right in the heart of the nation. You will not find them wasting their time and dirtying their elite hands in the farmland of Iowa!)

Fr. McBrien beatified (OD herald and mouthpiece) a living Opus Dei priest alongside Bishop Sheen in this professional journalistic manner:

"Bishop Sheen is no longer with us, and there is no Catholic comparable to him who functions in the same capacity. But a priest in Washington, D.C., who runs the Catholic Information Center there and is a member of Opus Dei, has been doing an impressive job of drawing fellow conservatives into the Church." (Bold emphasis added)


Interpretation: There is no American Catholic at par with Bishop Sheen except Opus Dei priest Fr. McCloskey, the most powerful Opus Dei priest in the USA!


This is a typical Opus Dei tentacle strategy as they secretly put their SAINT(?) Josemaria at par with SAINT(?) John Paul II in the world.

And through Fr. McBrien, they place a living Opus Dei priest at par with Bishop Sheen in America.

Bishop Sheen = Fr. McCloskey

Opus Dei Fr. McCloskey = Bishop Fulton Sheen

This Opus Dei saintly recipe in the saint-factory at the Vatican is recipe for theological diarrhea!

Just like the way they put Bishop Sheen at par with St. Theresa the Little Flower, the Doctor of the Church! Catholic brainwashing in action!

Bishop Sheen = St. Theresa

Bishop Sheen = Fr. McCloskey

Fr. McCloskey = Bishop Sheen = St. Theresa

What an Octopus Dei narcissism! What an Octopus Dei tentacle media spin!

Do you get the picture yet of Opus Dei a.k.a. Octopus Dei?

Opus Dei is quashing Voice of the Faithful by letting them focus only on the issue of marriage for priesthood (keep barking at the wrong tree) - and nothing for the clergy abuse victims.

Opus Dei will make SNAP disappear like a sniff in history.

All organization like Voice of the Faithful, as ALL theologians have, will abandon SNAP and clergy abuse victims!

The only OXYGEN left for SNAP to survive - and thrive - is to be the voice of the Achilles Heel of John Paul II and the hundreds of thousands of victims of his JPIIPPA John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army worldwide.

America is the first and last bastion of justice for the victims of JPIIPPA as $2.3 Billion was paid to victims thanks to the secular (not church) lawyers who sacrificed their time and personal money.

Now Bishop Brom by order of Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei want Catholics in San Diego to donate $25 million (the only amount missing? a small change in San Diego's $6 Billion+ coffer)) to complete its $200 million penalty. What a snake ploy of Octopus Dei as it fools Catholics again through its media spin - as it owns LA TIMES and major media outlets in the USA and worldwide.

Lord, save us from the Octopus Dei tentacles, the new dinosaurs MASTER of the Vatican and the world.

WORLD DOMINATION is the only obsession of Josemaria through the FACE of John Paul II


Wake up, SNAP! Wake up, America!


Benedict and SNAP do not mix. So Opus Dei sends McBrien to quiet down the Voice of the Faithful and make the group become another "servant" of the Octopus Dei, thus, also taking down SNAP with them.

The only way you at SNAP are to remain "breathing" with some oxygen - thus relevance - is to protest the canonization of John Paul II and hold an annual vigil on behalf of clergy abuse victims -- on April 2 (JPII liturgical feastday) - and on October 16, his 26 years papacy anniversary.

SNAP, if you do these protests annually and call on the Achilles Heel of JPII -- SNAP will remain VITAL to children around the world - especially the tens of thousands of cases in Third World countries that will never come to light because Opus Dei are bribing the judges and lawyers - just like they have bought Fr. Richard McBrien's soul! Imagine how "easy" it is to buy the souls of those Third World countries lawyers and judges who have no theological backbone like Fr. McBrien.

Use SNAP to BOYCOTT ALL John Paul II medals, statues, rosaries, etc. This protest is your LAST CHANCE for some oxygen in the clergy sexual abuse movie that is ending and fading......as a new movie starring JPII and Josemaria is unfolding subtly......

Links: SNAP statements in Cardinal Bertone's response to clergy abuse

The difference between the Jesuit Jon Sobrino and Fr. Richard McBrien is this: Sobrino refused to kowtow to Opus Dei and therefore was silenced by the Ops Dei Bishop in El Salvador and is now forbidden to teach even to the poor whom he has served and loved all his life as a missionary from Spain.

While Richard McBrien kowtowed to Opus Dei, got a lucrative job at the Tidings of Mahony and party with the $1Billion a year income from oil revenue which the LA Archdiocese inherited from a wealthy mistress of a California heir -- which Mahony gets to manage and ship to the Vatican Bank in Rome. No wonder, not one theologian dared criticize Mahony on the clergy abuse, they have all been bought like Fr. McBrien!

John Paul II is NOT Jesus Christ: BOYCOTT his medals and statues and JPII souvenirs

October 16, 1978 - October 16, 2007: the 29th anniversary of JPII papacy

The Vatican stands to profit $1BILLION from the imminent canonization of John Paul II and sale of his religious JPII souvenirs. A John Paul II medal cost 5 cents made-in-china and they'll sell it for $5 or $10 in the USA. A John Paul II statue cost 50 cents to manufacture and they'll sell it for $10 or $20.

America, BOYCOTT ALL John Paul II souvenirs and give your money to our homeland poor or to the poor in Africa and Third World countries. John Paul II is not Jesus Christ and he has no power now that he is dead and his John Paul II relics cannot heal the 12,000 American victims of his JPIIPPA John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army.

America, do not send your hundreds of millions of dollars to Rome, do not spend on JPII souvenirs that will only go to the Vatican Bank that already has billions and it is now owned and operated by the Opus Dei. Who will pocket the $1 Billion profit -- the Opus Dei. That is why they are in a hurry to canonize John Paul II so they can partner him with Josemaria Escriba and lionize both as the infallible saints of God! The only power John Paul II has is whatever Benedict and Opus Dei concoct and brainwash Catholics with - his books, writings and speeches, rosaries, relics, medals and statues.

Let us always remember:

Victims - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 5,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

USA Priest Pedophilia - 12,000 victims - 5,148 priests - John Paul II + Benedict XVI + Josemaria OD (the new Roman Catholic Trinity!)


A Holy See Insider says that it's possible Benedict XVI http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/ will beatify John Paul II on April 2, 2008 on the anniversary of his death which is considered his liturgical "feastday" with a worldwide JPII Rosary vigil or on October 16, 2008, the 30th anniversary of his election as pope which would pound on papal infallibility.

The Vatican has billions that came from the Nazi coffers as these Jewish Holocaust survivors are demanding from the Vatican Bank in a lawsuit based in San Francisco- http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com/home.html

"The plaintiffs seek an accounting and restitution of the Nazi Croatian Treasury that according to the US State Department was illicitly transferred to the Vatican Bank...after the end of the war". http://www.vaticanbankclaims.com/links.html

See John Paul II cannot heal http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html

See the Opus Dei owns the Vatican http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007_06_01_archive.html

See the Opus Dei Empire worldwide hidden cunningly in the guise of non-religious names http://www.odan.org/foundations.htm



The Power and the Glory: Inside the Dark Heart of Pope John Paul II's Vatican

http://www.amazon.com/Power-Glory-Inside-Heart-Vatican/dp/0786719567/ref=si3_rdr_bb_product/102-4137105-1039328

John Paul II Bishops are 70% GAY!

Priests claim 70 percent of U.S. bishops are gay

“On March 21, 2006, Stephen Brady of Roman Catholic Faithful drove from Illinois to Fort Lauderdale to meet with Christifidelis members from All Saints Parish and parishioners from several other parishes -- St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Vincent and St. Augustine's. The subject of Brady's visit was to discuss strategies for dealing with the ‘gay subculture’ that has infiltrated the Miami archdiocese (as well as many other dioceses across the U.S.), abuse of parish monies, corruption, and non-adherence to Catholic teaching.

“According to a group of priests who remain faithful to Rome, 90 percent of our priests in the Miami archdiocese are non-celibate gays who steal and who own luxury properties. They are known to the hierarchy, and they are bringing their agenda into all levels of the archdiocese. The number seems extremely high, but over and over again, the underground of heterosexual priests say the figure is accurate.

“This 90 percent figure, according to these priests, is in the parishes, grammar schools, hospitals, nursing homes, the chancery, high schools and colleges. One priest told us if the non-celibate gays were removed, we would have only ten Catholic churches in union with Rome. What we see is not what is. The good priests who keep in contact with me say that 70 percent of the U.S. bishops are homosexual. Five of the South Florida bishops are homosexual. This is very difficult for the heterosexual priests in the archdiocese.

“Brady suggested the following:

“When you get evidence, do a press release. He will help us do this.

“Obtain your parish’s directory. Brady then will print on a postcard the message we want to get across, and he will have it mailed from Roman Catholic Faithful headquarters in Illinois. This way, the archdiocese knows that Roman Catholic Faithful is behind the endeavor. Brady has been very successful in getting bishops and priests removed.

“Mr. Brady said, ‘Follow the garbage.’ Pick up their garbage. They are arrogant and they will put it out at the church, the rectory and their luxury homes. This is how Brady found a bishop on a pornographic Web site.

“One of the priests in a Miami parish is in a photo with his penis hanging out from his shorts. This priest is now out on bail for sexually abusing a minor -- and there is more to come.

“Another priest runs nude on a beach in Miami.”

Related link:

http://www.hli.org/homosexuality_not_molestation.pdf

John Paul II GAY Kiss ... Cardinal Spellman was notoriously GAY...70% of U.S. Bishops are gay!

Thank you for this gay photo, Holy See Insider!





Link: John Paul II Cardinal Egan is GAY! Cardinal Spellman was notoriously GAY!
http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/10/john-paul-ii-ego-monuments-worldwide.html


Opus Dei cardinal is president of the Disciplinary Commission of the Roman Curia now investigating the gay Vatican Monsignor interviewed on recent Italian TV. http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1015/vatican.html
What a double standard! Cardinal Egan can by gay in the USA together with the thousands of gay pedophile priests while this Opus Dei Cardinal lounging amidst the splendor of the Vatican doesn't give a hoot to the Americans victims of John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army!

Sex, lies and videotape: turmoil at the Vatican http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,2191311,00.html

Watch the Vatican Monsignor's TV interview http://www.la7.it/blog/post_dettaglio.asp?idblog=15&id=1065

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Suspended Vatican Priest Draws Up List of Homosexual Bishops and Clerics

October 19, 2007 2:05 p.m. EST
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7008883289
Gerlie Anobong - AHN News Writer

Vatican, Rome (AHN) - A high profile Vatican cleric dismissed after he was exposed on broadcast media making advances to a young man apparently had a list of homosexual priests and bishops in the Roman Catholic Church's principal body, reports said on Friday.

Sixty-year-old Father Tommaso Stenico had "a detailed dossier" of all the homosexual Vatican clerics with a list of names and incidents involving these priests and bishops working at the Curia, according to a reporter in the news weekly.

Stenico, who was also engaged in a Catholic television station Telepace, drew up the said list out of disgruntlement at having waited in a long period to be honoured as bishop.

The publicized act of Stenico was shot through a hidden camera in his office proclaiming himself an "active homosexual" and was aired on October 1 in an Italian television station, showing two men with their faces blurred.

Meanwhile, Stenico claimed he had been cornered and had falsely said he was homosexual just "in order to unmask those who really are".

The Vatican suspended the priest last week and started a church inquisition

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Suspended Catholic cleric has Vatican gay list


Agence France-Presse
Last updated 11:16pm (Mla time) 10/19/2007

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view_article.php?article_id=95567

ROME -- A high profile Vatican cleric suspended after he was shown on television making advances to a young man allegedly had a list of homosexual priests and bishops in the Roman Catholic Church's governing body, Italy's Panorama weekly reported Friday.

Father Tommaso Stenico, 60, had "a detailed dossier" of all the homosexual clerics at Vatican "with a list of names and circumstances implicating a certain number of priests and even bishops working at the Curia," Ignazio Ingrao, reporter for the conservative news weekly said.

Stenico also sent his superior Cardinal Claudio Hummes a report denouncing the moral degradation within the Curia, which could make the Vatican "tremble," Ingrao said.

According to Panorama, Stenico, who also worked for a Catholic television station Telepace and owns a white BMW car, also drew up the list out of resentment at having waited so long to be named a bishop.

A hidden camera in his office showed the priest, who worked in a Vatican department managing the 400,000 Roman Catholic priests around the world, declaring himself an "active homosexual" and making sexual advances to a young man.

On October 1, Italian television station La7 aired footage from the encounter showing the two men with their faces blurred.

Stenico argued he had been trapped and had falsely stated he was homosexual "in order to unmask those who really are."

Last week, the Vatican suspended the priest and opened an investigation.

Should Stenico be found guilty of homosexuality, which the Roman Catholic church bans, he risks being defrocked.
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Priests claim 70 percent of U.S. bishops are gay

“On March 21, 2006, Stephen Brady of Roman Catholic Faithful drove from Illinois to Fort Lauderdale to meet with Christifidelis members from All Saints Parish and parishioners from several other parishes -- St. Elizabeth of Hungary, St. Vincent and St. Augustine's. The subject of Brady's visit was to discuss strategies for dealing with the ‘gay subculture’ that has infiltrated the Miami archdiocese (as well as many other dioceses across the U.S.), abuse of parish monies, corruption, and non-adherence to Catholic teaching.


“According to a group of priests who remain faithful to Rome, 90 percent of our priests in the Miami archdiocese are non-celibate gays who steal and who own luxury properties. They are known to the hierarchy, and they are bringing their agenda into all levels of the archdiocese. The number seems extremely high, but over and over again, the underground of heterosexual priests say the figure is accurate.

“This 90 percent figure, according to these priests, is in the parishes, grammar schools, hospitals, nursing homes, the chancery, high schools and colleges. One priest told us if the non-celibate gays were removed, we would have only ten Catholic churches in union with Rome. What we see is not what is. The good priests who keep in contact with me say that 70 percent of the U.S. bishops are homosexual. Five of the South Florida bishops are homosexual. This is very difficult for the heterosexual priests in the archdiocese.

“Brady suggested the following:

“When you get evidence, do a press release. He will help us do this.

“Obtain your parish’s directory. Brady then will print on a postcard the message we want to get across, and he will have it mailed from Roman Catholic Faithful headquarters in Illinois. This way, the archdiocese knows that Roman Catholic Faithful is behind the endeavor. Brady has been very successful in getting bishops and priests removed.

“Mr. Brady said, ‘Follow the garbage.’ Pick up their garbage. They are arrogant and they will put it out at the church, the rectory and their luxury homes. This is how Brady found a bishop on a pornographic Web site.


“One of the priests in a Miami parish is in a photo with his penis hanging out from his shorts. This priest is now out on bail for sexually abusing a minor -- and there is more to come.


“Another priest runs nude on a beach in Miami.”


Related link:

http://www.hli.org/homosexuality_not_molestation.pdf

John Paul II and the Vatican Billions:BOYCOTT JPII memorabilia

WAKE UP, AMERICA! America, think before you spend those US Dollars on useless John Paul II souvenirs and relics that cannot heal. John Paul II did not care - therefore cannot heal - any of the 12 thousand American children abused by his own JPIIPPA John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/, So why should we as Americans feed his papal narcissistic self-glory as a saint. The Opus Dei want him canonized as a saint so they can claim infinite infallibility by hammering it upon us: "SAINT John Paul II said it so, (SAINT Josemaria said it so) therefore do it or you are not a good Catholic!" The only way to protest John Paul II beatification and imminent canonization is by our American dollars - WE MUST BOYCOTT ALL John Paul II books, rosaries, medals and memorabilia.

"Saint" John Paul II CANNOT heal his own victims http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007_03_01_archive.html

Every year we commemorate 9-11 in New York which claimed 5,000 victims within an hour. Every year we should also commemorate the 12,000 American victims claimed by the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army (which he successfully covered-up) within his 26 years JPII papacy. We commemorate what happened in an hour; why can't we commemorate what happened during a quarter of a century? Are those church JPIIPPA victims less worthy than the WTC victims? WAKE UP, AMERICA! The American victims of John Paul II is double - 7,000 more than - the victims of Osama ben Laden!

Victims - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 5,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

USA Priest Pedophilia - 12,000 victims - 5,148 priests - John Paul II + Benedict XVI + Escriba OD (the new Roman Catholic Trinity! Ripley's Believe it or Not!)

The Vatican has $$$$$$ Billions - owned and operated and managed by the Opus Dei! (The Jesuits are all tied on a leash, by the Octopus Dei tentacle leash! Believe it or not! So donate your American dollars to the good works of the Jesuits in El Salvador and the Jesuit Refugee Service . http://www.jesref.org/home.php where millions of people have no homes, no food, and no clothings. http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/08/benedict-xvi-vicar-of-christ-and-jon.html

When will we ever learn about the WORLD DOMINATION of Opus Dei? The answer, my friend, is not 'blowing in the wind' but is within each of us... and mostly the answer is within our American Dollars. Let us keep our money for own homeland security instead of sending them to the Vatican in Rome and more precisely to the Opus Dei -- they cannot protect and defend us -- just like they couldn't protect and defend, for over a quarter of century, those thousands of American children, altar boys and girls victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army!

The Opus Dei will be the sole profiter of $1 BILLION John Paul II canonization memorabilia. Do we as Americans want to add more to their Octopus Dei banks and hidden billions?

"Jesus, the founder of Christianity, was the poorest of the poor. Roman Catholicism, which claims to be His church, is the richest of the rich, the wealthiest institution on earth.

"How come, that such an institution, ruling in the name of this same itinerant preacher, whose want was such that he had not even a pillow upon which to rest his head, is now so top-heavy with riches that she can rival - indeed, that she can put to shame - the combined might of the most redoubtable financial trusts, of the most potent industrial super-giants, and of the most prosperous global corporation of the world?

"It is a question that has echoed along the somber corridors of history during almost 2,000 years; a question that has puzzled, bewildered and angered in turn untold multitudes from the first centuries to our days.

"The startling contradiction of the tremendous riches of the Roman Catholic Church with the direct teaching of Christ concerning their unambiguous rejection, is too glaring to be by-passed, tolerated or ignored by even the most indifferent of believers. In the past, indeed, some of the most virulent fulminations against such mammonic accumulation came from individuals whose zeal and religious fervor were second to none. Their denunciations of the wealth, pomp, luxury and worldly habits of abbots, bishops, cardinals and popes can still be heard thundering with unabated clamor at the opening of almost any page of the chequered annals of western history. (bold emphasis mine)

"But, while it was to their credit that such men had the honesty to denounce the very church to which they had dedicated their lives, it is also to the latter's discredit that she took no heed of the voices of anguish and anger of those of her sons who had taken the teaching of the Gospel to the letter and therefore were eager that the Roman Catholic system, which claimed to be the true bride of Christ, be as poor as one she called master. When she did not silence them, she ignored them or, at the most, considered them utterances of religious innocents, to be tolerated as long as her revenue was not made to suffer.

"Whenever that happened the Vatican did not hesitate to resort of the most prompt and drastic coercion to silence anyone capable of setting in motion forces, within or outside her, likely to divest her of her wealth.

"The employment of suppressive measures went from the purely spiritual to physical ones; the ecclesiastical and lay machineries were used according to the degree and seriousness of the threat, and this to such an extent that in due course they became so integrated as to operate at all levels, wherever the two partners deemed themselves imperiled...


Read the full article "The Historical Genesis of the Vatican's Accumulation of Wealth" http://www.cephasministry.com/catholic_vaticans_billions_1.html


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For daily vetted coverage of the ongoing overt criminal arrogance of less than 3,500 old and self conceited miters and red hats on this globe in the Roman Catholic Church:

www.bishop-accountability.org/abusetracker

If by "border line corrupt" you mean the continued aiding and abetting of known fugitive pedophiles, to hide and be paid by laity, across international borders, like Urell in Canada, hundreds in Mexico, dozens in Ireland, and thousands elsewhere, then I accept your statement of "border line corrupt".

Brown, Mahony, Barnes, Brom, Curry, Walsh, Steinbock, Weigland, Rivera, Egan, George, Law, O'Malley, to name only a few, should all be behind BARS for LIFE.

Obstruction Of Justice has a new standard, that makes the MOB look like amateur hour, and it's new name is, the Roman Catholic Church Curia (or perhaps always was).

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/ex-cathedra/peepee-match-between-john-manl/#comment-285873

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John Paul II & Opus Dei own much of the World

As the Opus Dei prepares the speediest beatification of their Holy Father John Paul II, the ultimate responsible leader in priest-pedophilia, they at the same time are preparing the massive sale of hundreds of millions of his books, relics, rosaries and papal souvenirs. Even if they put on the facade that they'll give some to charity, what they pocket in will only add more to their Opus Dei world empire. http://www.odan.org/foundations.htm . (Note that they disguise their Opus Dei "centers" or convents and rectories by using secular names, not religious or saints' names. They have only one saint, Josemaria Escriba, and their own OD dead members that they are now manufacturing at their saint-factory at the Vatican!)

As this lawyer says: "The Church may preach of another world, but their real interest is THIS WORLD! And, already, as Benedict, the present Managing Director and ex-soldier (of God and Hitler) knows only too well, the Vatican owns much more of the world than anybody else."

So America, think before you spend those dollars on useless John Paul II souvenirs. John Paul II did not care for the thousands of American children abused by his own JPII pedophile-priests, therefore we too should not care for his self-glory as a saint. We must protest his beatification and canonization with everything we've got - especially WE MUST BOYCOTT ALL John Paul II books and memorabilia.

Let us think about our American homeland instead of the Vatican real estate of the Opus Dei; Do not send your American dollars to Rome!

Think of the "preferential options for the poor" in the gospel and donate to the good works of the Jesuits in El Salvador and the Jesuit Refugee Service . http://www.jesref.org/home.php where millions of people have no homes, no food, and no clothings. http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/08/benedict-xvi-vicar-of-christ-and-jon.html.

BOYCOTT ALL John Paul II memorabilia and give your hundreds of millions of dollars instead to our poor brothers and sisters in Christ in El Salvador, Latin America and Africa.

Victims - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 5,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

USA Priest Pedophilia - 12,000 victims - 5,148 priests - John Paul II + Benedict XVI + Escriba OD (the new Roman Catholic Trinity! Ripley's Believe it or Not!)

And here's one more victim of the Octopus Dei tentacles! East Timor!

Why Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei want East Timor

From: http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/10/benedict-xvi-wants-to-steal-east-timor.html


"Left Wing, Right Wing' divides are illusory. In a country that has not had several hundred years of advanced capitalism, these classifications, are , to my mind, rather rhetorical. Besides, the real enemies can use these distinctions to their advantage. You will find that the real long term enemy of the people, the real, long term division maker, are the Western colonizers. I do not mean the multi-nationals that can be controlled (sometimes) by intelligent governments; I mean the one INTERNATIONAL that no single government can control -- The Catholic Church and the Christian conquest it serves.


I don't think anyone on the planet, if he reads even the latest statements of Benedict XVI, the latest great White Father and Infallible One of the West, can doubt the messianic intentions of the Christian west. The Church may preach of another world, but their real interest is THIS WORLD! And, already, as Benedict, the present Managing Director and ex-soldier (of God and Hitler) knows only too well, the Vatican owns much more of the world than anybody else. It's capacity and willingness to spark off a war, whether in Korea, Vietnam, or East Timor is surely not to be doubted any more.By the time the Pope and Opus Dei are finished with East Timor and Sri Lanka, only ex-priests and ex-nuns will get a job there!

You have to live in a Catholic country to appreciate how the Leprechauns do God's work!

Seamus Breathnach
01.09.2007
www.irish-criminology.com

Read more and full article on East Timor http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/10/benedict-xvi-wants-to-steal-east-timor.html

John Paul II & the Vatican strategy

Cardinal Mahony paid it off $660 million last July. Bishop Brom of San Diego $200 million in August. Orange County $6.7 million in October (final remainder of its $100 million settlement from last year). Miami $26.1 million last April. Why the sudden rush of pay-offs and settlements with victims? The answer is clear: Benedict XVI and the Opus Dei and the Vatican want to settle ALL the clergy abuse cases once and for all and move-on with the speedy beatification and canonization of John Paul II. They want these cases done and over with so they can make a ceremonial apology to the victims - with some significant representatives present (God forbid someones from SNAP), and close the lid on the coffin and bury the clergy sex history beneath the archives of church history.

John Paul II apologized to more than 100 victims of papal fallibility and church errors, the Inquisition, Galileo, etc. but not once did he apologize to the victims of his JPIIPPA John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army because he did not see this (in his own words) "worst evil" brewing right before his nose and eyes under his 26 years papacy, that is a quarter of a century. Nonetheless as the cover-upper of the worst crime in modern church history, John Paul II will become a saint. But we in America will not call him "saint" in our soil and not spend our millions of dollars $$$$$$ on JPII religious relics and trinkets.

If we have any compassion and solidarity with our own people, we'd rather give our millions to charity in our own homeland and not to Rome, or send our hard earned dollars to Third World countries instead of adding to the bank accounts of the already filthy-rich Octopus Dei who owns the Vatican.

The clergy sex abuse in USA cost the church $2.3 Billion, and whose money were those, we the people. Ireland surprisingly paid 3.2 billion since 1970. Worldwide it "cost about 11.2 Billion in the past 45 years, paid out by the Church, trying to keep this ongoing sexual assault of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN under wraps. .."

As this writer (below) says: "The ONLY WAY to stop the continued enabling and pimping by the miters and red hats, and force their removal, is to stop ALL DONATIONS OF ANY KIND OR IN ANY CATEGORY by all the 1.1 Billion laity, paying 100% of the bills, until they are each removed."

Victims - Attackers - Responsible Leaders

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

WTC & 9/11 attacks - 5,000 victims - 19 Muslims - Osama bin Laden

USA Priest Pedophilia - 12,000 victims - 5,148 priests - John Paul II + Benedict XVI + Escriba OD (the new Roman Catholic Trinity! Ripley's Believe it or Not!)



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The Overtly Corrupt Holy See

This Roman Catholic is neither blind, nor anyone's fool, about the overtly corrupt Holy See.

Brown, Mahony, Brom, Barnes, Steinbock, Curry, Weigland, Walsh, Rivera, Egan, George, Law, O'Malley, and most of the less than 3,500 global red hats and miters' CABAL, must be removed from office, to account for their over criminal multi decades of ENABLING!

Brom's stunt today, in San Diego, asking all San Diego Diocese priests to donate a month's salary to the settlement costs, is but one more ploy that is so outrageous, as to prompt a response as: "AFTER YOU Robert Brom forfeit your pension, salary, job, and all earthy hidden, real, known, or embezzled assets, as well as returning all the felons you are hiding overseas from justice,to prevent them from testifying against you!".

Additionally, each of the above, MUST be canonically censored, like pedophile founder Maciel of the Legionnaires of Christ (or Francis MacIntyre was in LA, or Timothy Manning skating only by death avoided - with his late Vicar General, Benjamin Hawkes, a major pedophile ring leader, and like the still yet to be disbanded Chicago Archdiocese Boy's Club (another major priest pedophile ring).

Additionally, all the above, must be sentenced for LIFE to remote, hard labor, bad food, cold, dark, monasteries, or if they refuse, swiftly, and irrevocably, EXCOMMUNICATED!

The $2.3 billion dollar number mention by a fellow commenter, is for the USA only, and the 'official or admitted to $$$ number'.

I have tracked and documented at least $11.2 Billion USD globally, from published and vetted reports ($3.2 Billion USD alone in tiny Ireland since 1970), in the past 45 years, paid out by the Church, trying to keep this ongoing sexual assault of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN under wraps.

The ONLY WAY to stop the continued enabling and pimping by the miters and red hats, and force their removal, is to stop ALL DONATIONS OF ANY KIND OR IN ANY CATEGORY by all the 1.1 Billion laity, paying 100% of the bills, until they are each removed.

Any representations that the US NCCB Charter of Protection (a total PR stunt) is in any way protecting children in the USA, is a total FRAUD.
Your children are STILL in real danger!

Any representations 'this is wrapping up' or 'behind the Church now', even makes The Devil Himself blush in envy; it's not even begun!

We might each ask ourselves, how STUPID can these individual miters or red hats be, to have allowed this to go on so long? Was it arrogance that they were, or are,or will remain, 'untouchable'?

The answer, I believe, resides in Brother Occumm's Razor, "Invariably the simplest answer tends to be the correct one." This is a wonderful indicator toward real TRUTH, in religion and/or science. I make my living in hard formulation science.

I strongly suspect, in all my reading of the primary court documents of thousands of cases, the JJ Report, verbal conversation with hundreds of clergy, up to, and including, Cardinals, the 'answer' really is more rooted in BLACKMAIL; as in the bishops, archbishops, and cardinals themselves have each been compromised,(sexually, financially, and/or criminally), and therefore, 'looked the other way', and continue to 'look the other way'. A path of least resistance.

Such paths invariably lead to HELL.

Edmund Burke reminds each of us, "The only condition for EVIL to exist, is for good men (or women) to do nothing." That quote, my fellow laity, is on a metal plaque, near the remains of a mass grave of Jewish bones, Gypsy bones, and brave Roman Catholic clergy bones, on the German-Polish border. The grave was put there by NAZI's "just following orders".

There are STILL many hundreds, to several thousands, of ordained pedophiles, and child sexual rapists, sodomizers, oral copulators, mental torturers, physical maimers, and yes, even murderers and kidnappers, as well as extortioners, in active ministry in the USA, and globally, in the Roman Catholic Church, as well as actively being hidden (as in the case of Urell in Canada, or O'Grady, on the run again, from DELIVER US FROM EVIL, the 2006 US Academy Award Best Documentary nominated film you can watch for free at www.youtube.com on Mahony's overt criminal guilt), in foreign countries (Ireland and Mexico are but only 2, of over 120, that are documented).

These harbored fugutives from justice are still being paid, hush monied, pensioned, salaried, annutied, or "angeled", from laity paid for revenues (primarily to prevent their testimony against the miters and red hats who have actively enabled them through COUNTLESS transfers, to prey again).

The latest updated joke (taken originally from Jay Leno's Late Night Show)is:

"Yes, things are getting so heated-up, as to the direct complicity and cooperation of Joseph Ratzinger, former CDF Prelate, in the global ongoing sexual scandal cover up, the Anglicans, in negotiations with the Curia, are considering a 'trade' for Benedict XVI th, for a couple of their gay bishops, and some first round draft choices..."

There is something else, you, my fellow laity, need to know; the false and deflecting attempt to blame this all on the "Lavender Mafia", or gay celibate ordained, is another RED Herring.

Are their many good and gracious gay celibate ordained in the Roman Catholic Church in the USA and elsewhere today? YES. Numbers vary, on whom you listen to, or believe, but it's probably about 20%, give or take 5%, or about double that of the general population average.

Are these priests, monsignors, bishops, arch bishops, and cardinals, that are celibate gays, all criminals or pedophiles? No, but they are more likely to be blackmailed as a result, even when celibate, and true to their vows and service to us laity, if not our Creator.

And fellow laity, there are some among the gay ordained that are sexually active, as are many straight ordained, and both also in the criminal element of the priesthood, and Curia, also.

As a matter of fact, the nephew of the current Pope is GAY, and runs a bar in Munich, openly proud of his Uncle, with many pictures on the walls of his business of his Uncle.

In point of fact, this is not about sexuality that GOD created, it's about premeditated criminality.

Christ's prophetic warning to each of us remains: "They who are without sin, cast the first stone!"

As Jesus squatted down at eye level to the prostitute, taking her hand, having probably been scribbling the names of those ready to throw stones at her, each male name in the sand, for each other to SEE, and each, sheepishly dropping their stone and shirking away, he remarked, with no tone of judgment:

"Go, and sin no more", which to this day echoes in each of our souls.

We are ALL sinners.

Sin requires forgiveness (not politically or legally calculated 'apologies' like that out of the Teflon Mahony playbook), but not without admission of guilt, and JUST penance for harm committed, PRIOR to absolution.

The Curia are overtly criminal sinners in this regard, and have been for a very long time, and must each individually pay in these evil deeds, in this life, if they have even the slightest chance of reaching the next, they each once professed and claimed to defend.

There will be no peace in any Kingdom without justice.

Amen.

Russ Bianchi

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/ex-cathedra/statement-by-john-manly-on-set/



October 9, 2007 11:20

Hello fellow bloggers and RC laity.

First of all, make sure your security features are in place, on your in-box e-mails, or web sites, as the latest TEFLON MAHONY playbook page being implemented is the spoofing of those (like me) broadcasting factual information on the ongoing criminal activities of the Curia on the internet.

What is 'spoofing'? It's when junior partners of law firms working for the Diocese of Orange or Archdioceses of Los Angeles (at 100% laity expense) attach your personal e-mail address to a worm, virus, or spam programs, off-shore (out of the USA to avoid prosecution) to have your in-box flooded with several thousands pieces of spam per day.

The premediated attempt (it failed against me but caused a FEW DAYS OF DOWN TIME fixing it) IS THE MITERS AND RED HATS DESPERATE ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN ANY DISCLOSURE AND FACTUAL INFORMATION on their multi decade enabling, and obstruction of justice, in the mental torture, physical maiming, kidnapping, extortion, suiciding, murder, sexual assault, rape, oral copulation, and sodomy of many tens of thousands of children, and still aiding and abetting many hundreds of fugitives from justice in Canada, Mexico, Ireland and globally, to stop testimony against them, the miters and red hats.

Remember, Mahony successfully shut down most coverage of his ongoing criminality by threatening the LA Times editors, daily, with liable suits and flooding their desks with long winded denunciations, and line by line demand for 'corrections; on articles run, costing these editors so much time, as to cause them to just stop covering Mahony Crime Incorporated.

We recommend for FREE at www.youtube.com DELIVER US FROM EVIL, the 2006 US Academy Award Best Documentary nominated film on Fr. O'Grady, now on the run again, having been chased out of his rural house in Ireland where Rog Mahal Mahony annuitied him, in exchange for not testifying against Mahony's criminal enabling, in the Diocese of Stockton.

This same M-O was used recently by Tod 'Boy' Brown with Urell, swiftly sent to Canada, again obstructing justice, and a clear Contempt Of Court.

In the boxing world, M. Ali coined the phrase 'Rope-A-Dope', and ladies and gentlemen, that's exactly what the miters and red hats continue to do, game the courts and obstruct justice while billing the laity for 100% of all of this.

Any representation the USNCCB Charter of Protection (a total PR Stunt) is protecting your children is a FLAT OUT LIE; there are still many hundreds of known pedophiles in active US ministries being protected by the Church, and still enabling/transferring them, while thousands exist in daily attacks of children outside the USA.

For daily vetted global coverage of the on-going multi Billion Dollar (all laity paid for) criminal cabal, we recommend:

www.bishop-accountability.org/abusetracker

What is the solution?

DONATE NO MOINIES for ANY cause in ANY AMOUNT until Mahony, Brom, Brownm Barnes, Curry, Steinbock, Weigland, Walsh, Rivera, George, Egan, Law, O'Malley, etc., to name only a few, are removed from office like pedophile founder of the Legionnaires of Christ, Maciel, canonically censored, placed under house arrest for LIFE (preferably in a cold, dark, remote, bad food and hard labor monastery) or if they refuse, swiftly and irrevocably EXCOMMUNICATED.

Edmund Burke reminds us all: "The only condition for EVIL to exist, is for good men (and women) to do NOTHING!"

Respectfully submitted,

Russ Bianchi

http://blogs.ocweekly.com/navelgazing/ex-cathedra/mater-dei-writes-a-lot-says-no/

John Paul II & St? Josemaria October anniversary and Mother Teresa

The gigantic statue of Josemaria Escriva at St. Peter's Square with the pose of Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal.
(http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html)



Why is it that Enron's responsible leaders are in jail, Martha Stewart went to jail, Conrad Black was brought to trial, was found guilty and is awaiting his sentencing...but Cardinal Bernard Law is an Archpriest in Rome, Cardinal Mahony lives in his palace in Los Angeles, and Bishop Brom and all the other Bishops guilty of cover-up of the worst crime in church history are not in jail but rather living as Princes of the Church in their Bishops' Palaces? Why are the priests guilty of clergy sexual abuse not in jail (except for a few handful)? Why are none of these pedophile priests excommunicated or "notified" like Jesuit Jon Sobrino.
( http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007_05_01_archive.html) Does this mean that those pedophile priests got their doctrines on the divinity of Jesus Christ correctly exactly the way John Paul II said it and wanted it, and therefore they could sodomize and sexually abuse thousands of children as they said Mass daily? Therefore doctrines and dogmas are more important than charity and justice?
(http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007_08_01_archive.html ) All these can be answered with two words - Opus Dei! The Opus Dei controls the Vatican and the Church and state governments.

If we have any sense of justice left in the separation between Church and State in America -- Cardinals Law, Mahony, Bishop Brom et al should all be arrested, brought to trial immediately and jailed like any other citizen. Why are none of them in jail? Are they not citizens of the land like everybody else, like those leaders of Enron, Martha Stewart and Conrad Black? The Opus Dei's Midas touch seems to be working (for now) because so far people adulate the Pope as "THE Holy Father", Cardinals and Bishops as "Good Shepherds" or "reincarnations" of Christ the Shepherd (like the Dalai Lama is a reincarnation of the Buddha!)

The Opus Dei Midas Touch is very cunning as a laywer crime investigator said:
"On behalf of the church, Opus Dei subverts all secular government, Bar and Bench, Civil Service, Police, Hospitals, and most importantly, schools."
"The portrait of Opus Dei as a gang of guitar-strumming flower-people hanging around a university campus, is for the birds. Why do they want to recruit professional students in such numbers? What happens to the weak-minded and the inadequate who join to fulfill some social need that they cannot otherwise fulfill? And when they are promoted as Party Leaders, Judges , Bankers, Lawyers, Engineers, what is it that Opus Dei expects of them?"
(http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2007/10/john-paul-ii-da-vinci-code-opus-dei.html)

"From its origins, Opus Dei has worked in academic circles, nurturing a highly educated elite. Spurred on by the organisation’s message of sanctification through work, members aspire to the highest positions in society. The professions in which Opus Dei is strongest, particularly in Europe and South America,(and North America) are the media, medicine, the judiciary, education (especially at the university level), and, above all, high finance and politics." (http://www.catholicsforchoice.org/pubs/publications/1997opusdeithepopesrightarm.asp)

Today the Opus Dei celebrate worldwide the canonization of their founder Josemaria Escriba. The speed of his canonization and the fast growing number of 85,000 members Josemaria has attracted in Opus Dei's short lifespan until now may be bewildering, but not really. If Josemaria attracted 300,000 people at St. Peter's Square for his canonization, and John Paul II had 4 million people for his funeral, well, Ayatollah Khoumeni attracted 6 million people for his funeral. So the Muslims still "beat" them in numbers. And the Apostleship of Prayer that the Jesuits started and were mandated by Jesus himself when he appeared to a nun in Paray has 4 millions members worldwide.

MOTHER TERESA

But is there really a competition of numbers going on? Or is there a competition at all. Looks like it. And it is the Opus Dei who wants to outnumber everyone. WORLD DOMINATION is the Opus Dei's mantra. Every member's "apostolate" is to recruit another rich professional member; no,it isn't to help the poor like the JRS Jesuit Refugee Service does. Helping the poor is not a priority with the Opus Dei - that is why they placed Mother Teresa's website in their main OD webpage -- to give the illusion they care for her and the poor. But if we look at Mother Teresa's history, it is the Jesuits who have (and still does) helped her at the onset when she was discerning to leave the convent, it was a Jesuit Archbishop who approved her departure and new order, and it was a Jesuit who helped find her first house (convent). But these are not mentioned in Mother Teresa's website - because to the Opus Dei, the Jesuits must not be in the same place where they are. In their quest for WORLD DOMINATION, they seek to suppress the Jesuits and repeat the Jesuit Suppression in their cunning Octopus Dei style.

As the Opus Dei celebrate the speediest canonization of Josemaria Escriba, some poor nuns in Los Angeles are being evicted from their house to pay for Mahony's sins. Go figure "the sins of the Holy Fathers John Paul II and Josemaria Escriba have been visited upon the Sisters"! It is easy for Opus Dei to preach about Mother Teresa because she is famous and Opus Dei wants to piggyback ride on her fame but they really don't do anything for her and her nuns on a firsthand basis - it is the Jesuits who have been saying Mass daily and serving as spiritual directors for her nuns for so many years. By the way, the letters in her new book (that was at the cover of Time magazine) were written to her Jesuit spiritual director. The Jesuit are so humble they don't even post this in any of their websites. Fr. James Martin mentioned it for a split second in his appearance at the Colbert Report.
(http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/67899/detail/)

So it's a big deal that the Opus Dei handpick Moher Teresa for their website but it's no big deal that some 3 poor nuns (not famous as Mother Teresa) in Los Angeles will soon lose their humble property to be sold to pay for Mahony's $660 million sin. And Opus Dei doesn't give a hoot about them because they are not Mother Teresa's nuns.

"Yet Opus Dei admits at most only to providing spiritual support, for example, by posting chaplains to work at educational institutions or nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) run by Opus Dei members." (Catholics for Choice, op. cit.)

The Saint? Josemaria cunning and deception rules again the day and is being paid for by these poor nuns. Opus Dei pride themselves to have "women members" that the Jesuit do not have. But the Jesuits serve all women nun congregations and millions of lay women in their retreat houses, universities and schools. The JRS Jesuit Refugee Sesrvice alone serves countless of refugee women. So what if the Opus Dei have wealthy women members but they don't care about these poor nuns? What a timing on the 5th anniversary of the canonization of Escriba, while the wealthy Opus Dei members feast and party in their million dollar mansions with the Pope, Cardinals Law, Mahony, Brom et al, these nuns and the poor people they serve are being evicted. Go figure!

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AP SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is selling a convent that has housed an order of nuns for more than four decades to help pay for a record-breaking sex abuse settlement.
Three nuns from the Sisters of Bethany order have until Dec. 31 to move out, though an earlier departure ''would be acceptable as well,'' the archdiocese's vicar general said in a letter to the nuns.


'We all have to share'. ''We're just so hurt by this,'' said Sister Angela Escalera, the order's local superior. ''And what hurts the most is what the money will be used for, to help pay for the pedophile priests. We have to sacrifice our home for that?''
In July, the archdiocese announced a record $660 million settlement with clergy abuse victims. Of that, as much as $373 million will be paid by the archdiocese, with the rest coming from insurers and various religious orders.

To help cover the bill, the archdiocese plans to sell up to 50 non-parish properties, including its administrative headquarters. The convent is the first property outside of those central offices to be identified as among those to be sold.

The decision to sell the convent was difficult but necessary, said Tod M. Tamberg, an archdiocese spokesman.

''The pain is being spread around,'' Tamberg said. ''We're losing our headquarters here, and none of the employees got a pay raise this year. This is just part of making it right with the victims, and we all have to share in the process even though none of us -- the nuns, myself -- harmed anybody.''

The Santa Barbara County assessor's office lists the convent property's value at $97,746, though it will likely sell for more. Smaller, older homes nearby start at about $700,000, according to local real estate Web sites.

Escalera said the sisters have been overwhelmed by offers of help, including temporary housing.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-nuns7sept07_pg,1,1432730.photogallery



Gonzalez, left, and Escalera read the letter from the archdiocese telling them they were being evicted. "We're just so hurt by this," said Escalera, who has lived in the convent since 1964.
(Spencer Weiner / LAT)


Escalera, 69, who is retired and partly disabled, had hoped to live out her days in the convent in east Santa Barbara -- until the archdiocese decided to sell it.
(Spencer Weiner / LAT)




Alfredo Rodriguez thanks Sister Angela Escalera for helping with the paperwork to allow his wife in Mexico to join him in the U.S. Escalera and the two other nuns at the Sisters of Bethany convent help poor, mostly immigrant residents is east Santa Barbara.
(Spencer Weiner / LAT)



Gonzalez, left, helps Escalera, 69, up a flight of stairs at the convent, which was built by Sisters of Bethany in 1952. The archdiocese gave the nuns four months to move out before the building is sold. ( And Benedict XVI whose portrait is by the stairs couldn't care less for the nuns!)
(Spencer Weiner / LAT)


Sister Consuelo Cardenas, left, and Gonzalez attend evening Mass in the chapel at the Sisters of Bethany convent. The Archdiocese of Los Angeles has said it will sell up to 50 non-parish properties to help pay the priest sexual abuse settlement.
(Spencer Weiner / LAT)


Escalera says the most hurtful part of the proposed sale of her convent is that the proceeds will be used to pay for the misdeeds of pedophile priests.(Spencer Weiner / LAT)


The Sisters of Bethany convent is next to Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church in Santa Barbara.
(Spencer Weiner / LAT)


Opus Dei New York Palace






http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2007/07/benedict-xvi-latin-mass-and-opus-dei.html

"Why should [the nuns] pay for the sins of the morons who did this? Why can't they sell something else?"

L.A. Archdiocese plans to sell the Santa Barbara site to help pay its priest abuse settlement. The nuns will likely have to leave the city where they've served the poor.

By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 7, 2007

SANTA BARBARA -- For 43 years, Sister Angela Escalera has lived and often worked out of her order's small convent on this city's east side, helping the area's many poor and undocumented residents with translation, counseling and other needs.

Now retired and partly disabled at 69, the nun thought she would live out her days here, in the community where she is still an active volunteer and in the dwelling that was built for the order in 1952.

Nuns Evicted

But she and the other two nuns at the Sisters of Bethany house recently received word that their convent, which is owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles, will be sold to help pay the bill for the church's recent, multimillion-dollar priest sex abuse settlement.

The nuns have four months to move out, according to a letter from the archdiocese. The notice, which was dated June 28 but not received until the end of August, asked the women to vacate the property no later than Dec. 31 -- and noted that an earlier departure "would be acceptable as well." Signed by Msgr. Royale M. Vadakin, the archdiocese's vicar general, the letter offers the nuns no recourse but thanks them for their understanding and cooperation during a difficult time.

"We're just so hurt by this," Escalera, the order's local superior, said this week. "And what hurts the most is what the money will be used for, to help pay for the pedophile priests. We have to sacrifice our home for that?"

Tod M. Tamberg, spokesman for the archdiocese, said Thursday that the decision to sell the Santa Barbara property was difficult but necessary.

In July, the archdiocese announced a record, $660-million settlement with the victims of hundreds of clergy abuse cases. At least $250 million and up to $373 million of the total will be paid directly by the archdiocese, with the rest coming from insurers and various religious orders.

The archdiocese has said it will sell up to 50 non-parish properties, including its administrative headquarters on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, to cover the bill. Apart from those central offices, the Santa Barbara convent is the first property to be publicly identified as among those to be sold.

"The pain is being spread around," Tamberg said. "We're losing our headquarters here, and none of the employees got a pay raise this year. This is just part of making it right with the victims, and we all have to share in the process even though none of us -- the nuns, myself -- harmed anybody. All of us as a church have to pay for the sins of a few people."

But in Santa Barbara, where the beige stucco convent and its veiled nuns in navy blue habits have long been fixtures of the east-side landscape, the news was trickling through the community this week, sparking concern and some anger.

On Wednesday morning, as Escalera spoke with several visitors, a woman knocked at the door. Carmen F. Torres, who lives nearby and attends the Catholic church adjacent to the convent, said she had just heard the news.

"I didn't want you to feel abandoned," Torres told the nun in Spanish, adding that she was hoping to raise money for the sisters by renting a small home she owns in Texas.

"We need to see what we can do to help you."

Torres called the decision to sell the convent unjust, given the nuns' long history of care and service to their low-income community. Other supporters spoke even more strongly.

"It's outrageous," said Sally Sanchez, a community activist who added that she had known Escalera since 1964, when each had just arrived in Santa Barbara from the Los Angeles area. "Why should [the nuns] pay for the sins of the morons who did this? Why can't they sell something else?"

Tamberg said the nuns had lived rent-free in the archdiocesan-owned building, which he said was a fairly unusual arrangement, with most religious orders nowadays owning their own houses. He -- and the nuns -- said that if they had to leave Santa Barbara, they would probably move into their order's convent in Los Angeles, which is not owned by the archdiocese.

Although they do not pay rent, the three women have largely supported themselves, using the money they earn from outside jobs and disability income to pay for their utilities, for maintenance on their home and for their food and other needs. They and other sisters of their order were honored for their years of service to the community at a June luncheon that was attended by Santa Barbara Mayor Marty Blum.

Escalera, whose energy belies her years, is a former notary public and social worker who retired from Catholic Charities in 2003 but still works as a volunteer each afternoon, mainly assisting residents with immigration and translation problems. A diabetic who has developed balance and other health problems in recent years, she uses a walker and receives a state disability stipend.

Sister Consuelo Cardenas, 55, is a native of Colombia who works full time as a religious education coordinator for a nearby parish, Our Lady of Sorrows, in Santa Barbara. She has lived at the convent about 25 years, a span broken briefly by a return to Colombia.

The third nun, Sister Margarita Antonia Gonzalez, 49, was born in El Salvador and has lived at the Santa Barbara facility about four years. She is the sisters' housekeeper and cook and assists with Mass at the adjacent church, Our Lady of Guadalupe.

The convent, which looks much like an ordinary house from the outside, has a warren of small rooms and sits on about a quarter of an acre. It includes a living room, dining area and chapel. Its bedrooms each have room enough for a single bed, a desk and a wash basin. The front garden, with an avocado tree and a stone fountain, was a surprise gift to the sisters from community members many years ago.

The Santa Barbara County assessor's office lists the property's value at $97,746, although it seems likely to sell for more, if a sale goes through. Even the small, older homes near the convent start at about $700,000, according to the Zillow real estate appraisal website.

As she sat this week in the convent's simple living room, where paintings of biblical scenes and framed photographs of the order's founders line the walls, Escalera said she was still wrestling with her feelings about the letter, shifting between pain, anger and resignation. She said she remained upset that the archdiocese had not contacted the nuns directly but had chosen instead to send a letter to the convent in Los Angeles, which then notified the Santa Barbara sisters. "We're not even worth a phone call," she said. "That's one of the things that hurts so much."

She and the other sisters said that they were grateful for the support from many in the community, but that they knew they could not afford to pay for a rental in Santa Barbara on their own, making it likely that they would be forced to leave the area.

Escalera, looking weary after a stream of visitors, said, however, that she could not consider the future yet.

"I'm not ready right now," she said. "I'm still trying to think it through. I do trust in God and I will accept his will. . . . But if something happens to change this, that would be wonderful."



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