Vatican Pandora Pedophile Box and “The Myth of the Pedophile Priest” in Zenit.org in 2002

The catchy words of “celibacy, homosexuality, pornography” etc. that are now surfacing, which the Vatican and its papal media army are using for their media spin to divert attention away from Benedict XVI and the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army, are adapted from a manifesto published early in March 2002 by Zenit.org shortly after the eruption of priest pedophilia here in Boston. It was called “The Myth of the Pedophile Priest” which was published online and sent to Zenit’s daily 200,000 email subscribers worldwide (today there are more than 350,000 email subscribers). The article defended Catholic priests and gave the reasons why they must not be labeled as “pedophile priests” because pedophile is a psychiatry clinical term and there are only one or two such rare cases priests which it cited -- those two priests are from Boston, Massachusetts, way to go Boston! Today the Vatican are still reiterating and using this outdated and invalid “Myth of the Pedophile Priest” in their defense of Benedict XVI as his head is wanted by the secular media guillotine and Benedict XVI is as elusive as Osama bin Laden. It’s 2010, we in Boston and throughout the United States, thanks to SNAP and Bishops Accountability, have proven that there are more than 6,000 real -- not myth -- pedophile priests and their victims surpassed those of September 11 in New York. And Ireland, Germany and many countries are erupting with their own legitimate members of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army appropriately named after the pope with the longest papacy who did absolutely nothing to stop 6,000 pedophile priests when he came to USA 5 times, for what really, but for his narcissistic papal self-glory as John Paul II the Great.


Zenit.org is founded and operated by the Legion of Christ and since 2002, when priest pedophilia first exploded here in Boston (and before John Paul II’s final trip to North America for his last World Youth Day in Toronto in July 2002) Zenit tried everything to cover-up their founder Fr. Marcial Maciel from being known as a pedophile priest. Well, obviously they failed because Fr. Maciel is now the most famous member the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army. From 2002 to 2010, it took 8 years for Zenit and the Legionaries to finally concede that Fr. Maciel was their immoral Holy Father and abominable pedophile priest who sodomized his own biological son. His criminal body has no right to be interred inside a basilica. All those delicious theology online in Zenit.org and John Paul II the Great theology books and doctrinal writings could not keep Fr. Maciel and the (JPIIPPA) John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army from coming out of the Vatican Pandora Pedophile Box… yes, the JPIIPPA flew out first from here in Boston in 2002. Go, Boston, Go! See our article “Theology and John Paul II are heartless..."

Zenit.org is really impressive and is the best make-up artist on the planet; they can make criminal Ratzinger appear as the holiest Holy Father Benedict XVI just like they venerate the remains of their founder the immoral abominable Fr. Marcial Maciel at their basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Rome (that’s tantamount to venerating the serial rapist Ted Bundy, yak).

Take a look at Zenit’s sweet holy coverage of Benedict XVI this week and their focus on children, they make the Vatican seems like Heaven on Earth and make all the abused victims of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army like Dust in the Wind (song). No wonder it must take atheists like Dawkins and Hitchens to point out that Benedict XVI is really a criminal and must be arrested for his crimes against humanity should he land in England this September. See our earlier articles in http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/


Zenit’s articles for Sunday May 9, 2010

Vatican Statement on the “Murphy Case”

Vatican: Abuse Scandal a Problem for Society

Vatican Note on Sexual Abuse of Minors

Church's Smallest Members "Playing" Mass

US Prelate: Church Doing More to Keep Children Safe

Italian Priest Uncovers 100 Pedophile Networks

Dublin Child Abuse Report Coming Soon

Benedict XVI to Pray for Abused Children

Pope Unites to UN Appeal for Children

Benedict XVI to Children: Learn Forgiveness

Papal Address on Caring for Sick Children

Vatican Worried for Kids in Tragic Situations

A Million Children to Ask God for Peace


Note that one of them is “Benedict prays for abused children” and Zenit makes their 350,000 email subscribers forget the crimes of Benedict XVI, just like they made the world forget the pedophile priest Fr. Marcial Maciel, see our earlier article “Sins and crimes are not synonymous".

During Holy Week, Benedict XVI and Cardinal Sodano used the card of “Cheap Gossip” to blame the media and on Holy Thursday, the Papal Preacher Cantalamessa used the wild card of Anti-Semitism to defend Benedict, see our earlier article “Anti-Semitism and 3 billion dollars Cheap Change for Cheap Gossip in http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/

Cardinal Levada recently pulled out the trump card of celibacy while a Mexican Bishop used the enticing card of pornography. Cardinal Levada & Mexican Bishop divert attention away from Benedict XVI to celibacy and pornography

“The myth of the pedophile priests” was written by conveniently by a “non-Catholic” which is the modus operandi of Opus Dei who always keep their members secret and use others to perpetuate their propaganda -- like the Jesuits such as the Jesuit Fr. Fessio of Ave Maria University in Naples Florida and Fr. Federico Lombardi of the Vatican Radio who now have to face the world for all the cover-up of the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army which his predecessor Dr. Joaquin Navarro-Valls committed during the 26 years as papal spokesperson and porter of John Paul II.


Opus Dei always wear ‘holy’ masks and you never know if you are talking to a secret member. Opus Dei have two personalities like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde that is why the worst American spy is an Opus Dei member, the double agent Robert Hanssen . Opus Dei destroy their enemies and critiques like the way they silenced the Jesuit Jon Sobrino of El Salvador and they get their critics fired from their secular jobs like Tom Doyle and other ex-Opus Dei members..

Opus Dei use the Eucharist as a means of terror by depriving Catholics from receiving “It” if they do not follow Opus Dei’s political WORLD DOMINATION Agenda, see our article “The Eucharist as a terrorist”

The Opus Dei controls the Vatican and the papacy and the Legion of Christ is under them. The Opus Dei controls the Vatican Bank and only Opus Dei male eunuch members called numeraries can live in the papal quarters. We have been exposing the Opus Dei throughout our weblogs.


Compare the crimes - Victims - criminals - 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 - 6,000 pedophile priests - John Paul II & Benedict XVI & Opus Dei, the new Vatican Trinity


The Opus Dei female symbol for the John Paul II Pedophile Priests Army http://jp2army.blogspot.com/2010/04/opus-dei-female-symbol-for-john-paul-ii.html

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· ZENIT - "The Myth of the Pedophile Priest"

ZE02031121 - 2002-03-11
Permalink: http://www.zenit.org/article-3922?l=english

"The Myth of the Pedophile Priest"

A Researcher Puts Scandals in Context

PITTSBURGH, Pennsylvania, MARCH 11, 2002 (Zenit.org).- Philip Jenkins, a Penn State University professor of history and religious studies, is author of "Pedophiles and Priests: Anatomy of a Contemporary Crisis" (Oxford University Press, 1996). He wrote this article for the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, which published it March 3 under the headline "The Myth of the Pedophile Priest."

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By Philip Jenkins

Every day, the news media have a new horror story to report, under some sensational headline: Newsweek, typically, is devoting its current front cover to "Sex, Shame and the Catholic Church: 80 Priests Accused of Child Abuse in Boston." Though the sex abuse cases have deep roots, the most recent scandals were detonated by the affair of Boston priest John J. Geoghan.

Though his superiors had known for years of Geoghan´s pedophile activities, he kept being transferred from parish to parish, regardless of the safety of the children in his care. The stigma of the Geoghan affair could last for decades, and some Catholics are declaring in their outrage that they can never trust their church again.

No one can deny that Boston church authorities committed dreadful errors, but at the same time, the story is not quite the simple tale of good and evil that it sometime appears. Hard though it may be to believe right now, the "pedophile priest" scandal is nothing like as sinister as it has been painted -- or at least, it should not be used to launch blanket accusations against the Catholic Church as a whole.

We have often heard the phrase "pedophile priest" in recent weeks. Such individuals can exist: Father Geoghan was one, as was the notorious Father James Porter a decade or so back. But as a description of a social problem, the term is wildly misleading. Crucially, Catholic priests and other clergy have nothing like a monopoly on sexual misconduct with minors.

My research of cases over the past 20 years indicates no evidence whatever that Catholic or other celibate clergy are any more likely to be involved in misconduct or abuse than clergy of any other denomination -- or indeed, than nonclergy. However determined news media may be to see this affair as a crisis of celibacy, the charge is just unsupported.

Literally every denomination and faith tradition has its share of abuse cases, and some of the worst involve non-Catholics. Every mainline Protestant denomination has had scandals aplenty, as have Pentecostals, Mormons, Jehovah´s Witnesses, Jews, Buddhists, Hare Krishnas -- and the list goes on. One Canadian Anglican (Episcopal) diocese is currently on the verge of bankruptcy as a result of massive lawsuits caused by decades of systematic abuse, yet the Anglican church does not demand celibacy of its clergy.

However much this statement contradicts conventional wisdom, the "pedophile priest" is not a Catholic specialty. Yet when did we ever hear about "pedophile pastors"?

Just to find some solid numbers, how many Catholic clergy are involved in misconduct? We actually have some good information on this issue, since in the early 1990s, the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago undertook a bold and thorough self-study. The survey examined every priest who had served in the archdiocese over the previous 40 years, some 2,200 individuals, and reopened every internal complaint ever made against these men. The standard of evidence applied was not legal proof that would stand up in a court of law, but just the consensus that a particular charge was probably justified.

By this low standard, the survey found that about 40 priests, about 1.8 percent of the whole, were probably guilty of misconduct with minors at some point in their careers. Put another way, no evidence existed against about 98 percent of parish clergy, the overwhelming majority of the group.

Since other organizations dealing with children have not undertaken such comprehensive studies, we have no idea whether the Catholic figure is better or worse than the rate for schoolteachers, residential home counselors, social workers or scout masters.

The Chicago study also found that of the 2,200 priests, just one was a pedophile. Now, many people are confused about the distinction between a pedophile and a person guilty of sex with a minor. The difference is very significant. The phrase "pedophile priests" conjures up images of the worst violation of innocence, callous molesters like Father Porter who assault children 7 years old. "Pedophilia" is a psychiatric term meaning sexual interest in children below the age of puberty.

But the vast majority of clergy misconduct cases are nothing like this. The vast majority of instances involve priests who have been sexually active with a person below the age of sexual consent, often 16 or 17 years old, or even older. An act of this sort is wrong on multiple counts: It is probably criminal, and by common consent it is immoral and sinful; yet it does not have the utterly ruthless, exploitative character of child molestation. In almost all cases too, with the older teen-agers, there is an element of consent.

Also, the definition of "childhood" varies enormously between different societies. If an act of this sort occurred in most European countries, it would probably be legal, since the age of consent for boys is usually around 15. To take a specific example, when newspapers review recent cases of "pedophile priests," they commonly cite a case that occurred in California´s Orange County, when a priest was charged with having consensual sex with a 17-year-old boy. Whatever the moral quality of such an act, most of us would not apply the term "child abuse" or "pedophilia." For this reason alone, we need to be cautious when we read about scores of priests being "accused of child abuse."

The age of the young person involved is also so important because different kinds of sexual misconduct respond differently to treatment, and church authorities need to respond differently. If a diocese knows a man is a pedophile, and ever again places him in a position where he has access to more children, that decision is simply wrong, and probably amounts to criminal neglect. But a priest who has a relationship with an older teen-ager is much more likely to respond to treatment, and it would be more understandable if some day the church placed him in a new parish, under careful supervision.

The fact that Cardinal Law´s regime in Boston seems to have blundered time and again does not mean that this is standard practice for all Catholic dioceses, still less that the church is engaged in some kind of conspiracy of silence to hide dangerous perverts.

I am in no sense soft on the issue of child abuse. Recently, I published an expose of the trade in electronic child pornography, one of the absolute worst forms of exploitation, and my argument was that the police and FBI need to be pressured to act more strictly against this awful thing.

My concern over the "pedophile priest" issue is not to defend evil clergy, or a sinful church (I cannot be called a Catholic apologist, since I am not even a Catholic). But I am worried that justified anger over a few awful cases might be turned into ill-focused attacks against innocent clergy.

The story of clerical misconduct is bad enough without turning into an unjustifiable outbreak of religious bigotry against the Catholic Church.