John L. Allen Jr showers Cardinal Castrillon’s sex abuse cover up with roses that make the Devil's bowels smell good on Ratzinger Benedict XVI and JP2
One of the biggest proofs that John Paul II knew about pedophiles rapists-priests was from Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, then head of the Congregation for the Clergy. Hoyos knew all about the clergy pedophile priests around the world and he relayed all these facts to John Paul II but who was too callous and was obssessed only with his legacy and books as John Paul II the great.
The other most important proof that John Paul II knew about pedophile priests was Cardinal Bernard Law who admitted to transferring more than 80 pedophile priests in Boston. Then there is Fr. Marcial Maciel, his beloved companion in his papal trips to his favorite Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. We will post more proofs as now that Benedict XVI and the Vatican work overdrive to beatify and canonize John Paul II in 2011. John Paul II must not be called a "saint" by American children in Ameircan soil and by all children around the world because he never tried even once to stop pedophile priests from raping thousands of boys around the USA and the world.
See our related articles:
John L. Allen glorifies U.S. bishops' thinker-in-chief propaganda the Catholic Church's totalitarian ways http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/11/premier-vaticanista-john-l-allen-jr.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
Commentary on John L. Allen Jr 'Benedict XVI and Tom Doyle on the crisis' in All Things Catholic http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/12/commentary-on-john-l-allen-jr-benedict.html
John L Allen Jr. cements Benedict’s pathological lies http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/12/john-l-allen-jr-cements-benedict-xvis.html
John Paul II the Pope of Sodomy. Vision of Paris: St. Michael the Archangel tied a giant millstone to John Paul II's neck at World Youth Day in 2002 http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html
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 - 6,000 priests - John Paul II,
Benedict XVI & Opus Dei (Vatican Trinity)
Cardinal Hoyos presiding at a TLM Traditional Latin Mass (because he is a member of Opus Dei who celebrate Mass only in Latin, surrounded by lots of ego stroking gold. Unfortunately his is an ego that need no more stroking.
Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos
Vatican denounces Cardinal Castrillon’s sex abuse cover up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sptchxo4ato&feature=player_embedded
Resd the full letter here:
http://www.romereports.com/palio/Vatican-denounces-Cardinal-Castrillons-sex-abuse-cover-up-english-1955.html
April 16, 2010. The Vatican has confirmed a letter that shows a former top Holy See official praised a French Bishop for not turning in a priest accused of sex abuse.
The letter dated September 8, 2001, was written by Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, then head of the Congregation for the Clergy.
Cardinal Castrillon also delivered a copy of the letter, in which he praised French Bishop Pierre Pican, to bishops world wide.
Castrillon wrote: “I congratulate you for not having turned in a priest to the civil administration, and I am delighted to have a colleague in the episcopate who, in the eyes of history and all the other bishops of the world, will have preferred prison rather than to turn in its son-priest.”
The bishop, who retired in March of 2010, received a suspended sentence for failing to report Father Rene Bissey who raped and sexually abused a dozen boys over the course of 10 years.
He was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
The bishop acknowledged he knew about the allegations from the mother of one of the victims, so it was not a case of secret of confession.
In a statement Vatican spokesperson Federico Lombardi said the letter confirms the opportunity of the 2001 decision that transferred the handling of sex abuse cases in the Church from local dioceses and Cardinal Castrillon Hoyo’s office, to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which was headed by Joseph Ratzinger at the time.
The Vatican says the letter is proof that sex abuse cases needed to be handled in a “rigorous and consisted manner” by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Cardinal Castrillón must feel trapped
by John L Allen Jr on Apr. 23, 2010
All Things Catholic
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/cardinal-castrillon-must-feel-trapped
John L. Allen Jr deceptive ways again at work as the Pied Piper of the Vatican
In his usual deceptive ways John L. Allen Jr. describes and brainwashes Catholics through his short - but conclusive - phrases by ridiculing Sinead O'Connor (the Irish sex abuse victims who is outspoken against John Paul II and the Irish Priests sex abuse scandal) John Allen’s main media spin strategy that makes his Catholics readers feel good about Cardinal Castrillón is to make fun of singer Sinead O'Connor versus He wrote in All Things Catholics:
“Today, even if he weren't almost 81, Castrillón would have about as much chance of becoming pope as Sinead O'Connor”.
His summary of the whole thing make even Reuters, AP and CNN journalists heads spin - with subtle sublingual catch phrases - by making Hoyos look nice and sweet, here are some of them: (Our comments are in parenthesis)
(Right at the beginning n his article he praises the Cardinal:)
Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos must feel trapped in a "Twilight Zone" episode (Our comment: This has subtly sent Allen's readers googling Twilight Zone and he had cunningly made them forget all the fact about Hoyos), in which, in a flash, the whole course of his life has turned out differently. Now 80, not long ago Castrillón was a consummate Roman powerbroker, a man admired for the nerves of steel that once allowed him to stand up to drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. Novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez at one point hailed his fellow Colombian as "this rustic man, with the profile of an eagle." (After reading this first paragraph, Catholics would have fallen in love with the Cardinal and forget what is in the rest of the article about regarding the incriminating letter he wrote to teh French Bishop)
To be sure, even bishops inclined to share those concerns would hardly extol Castrillón's letter -- especially because there's no word of compassion in it for the victims of the French priest, and no condemnation of the broader phenomenon of sexual abuse within the church. (John Allen is master of deceits and devious manipulation as he uses big vague words on "phenomenon of sexual abuse", very mild term of "sexual abuse" combined with phenomenon".
Still, the letter points to an important insight about where things stand in the church with regard to the crisis: By now, there's wide consensus that crimes by a priest should be reported to the police, but how and by whom remains contentious. (John Allen makes the Vatican "look good" and make his Catholic readers "feel good" about this scandal about Castrillón. John L. Allen deceives readers as if the Vatican is already "reporting to the police" when in fact they have never done and does not and will not do so up to now, and there is no Catholic Registry of Pedophile Priests to warn parents and children of priests-predators in their midst.)
Ratzinger and Castrillón
Finally, a footnote about the impact of the Castrillón episode: Ironically, resurrecting that 2001 letter may have doomed Castrillón, but it could actually help Pope Benedict XVI.
One has to ask, why didn't the Vatican tell Ratzinger's story?
(John L. Allen is trying to segue the attention away from Cardinal Ratzinger and blaming the huge (vague) Vatican.
At least part of the answer, I suspect, is because to make Ratzinger look good, they'd have to make others look bad -- including, of course, Castrillón, as well as other top Vatican officials. Lurking behind that concern is a deeper one, which is that to salvage the reputation of Benedict XVI it might be necessary to tarnish that of Pope John Paul II. Wow, John Allen really spins the heads of millions of Catholics on who is to blame by these tricky puzzle of name game!)
In this case, however, Castrillón has inadvertently licensed the Vatican and church officials around the world to use him as a foil, effectively waiving a cardinal's traditional immunity from criticism. (Here John Allen makes Castrillón becomes the scapegoat for Ratzinger and John Paul II)
That's important to keeping the record straight, because the truth is that the real choice in Rome over the last ten years vis-à-vis the sex abuse crisis was never between Ratzinger and perfection -- it was between Ratzinger and Castrillón. (John Allen makes everything sounds so doctrinally sound and sweet in his snaky choice of comparisons as he media-spin "between Ratzinger and perfection". What the trillion dollars Vatican Bank can buy for the soul of John L. Allen Jr, the highest paid journalist on the planet and most deceptive. See his speech on http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/11/premier-vaticanista-john-l-allen-jr.html his unlimited access to the Popes and the Vatican ...but victims of pedophile priests could never access John Paul II and Benedict XVI, they couldn't even demonstrate at St. Peter's Square which should belong to ALL Catholics in the world).
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According to premier Vaticanist John L. Allen Jr (when he was predicting the next pope in 2005) Cardinal Dario Castrillón Hoyos was, like John Paul II was against Liberation Theology, and he presented John Paul II's first public statement on the pedophile priests crisis during a March 2002 news conference - and he came off as defensive and combative, broadly hinting that the situation was an "American problem."
Dario Castrillón Hoyos, 75 in 2005, Colombia
Currently head of the Vatican office for clergy, Castrillón Hoyos served as secretary general of CELAM, the Latin American bishops' conference, from 1983 to 1991, giving him a wide network of contacts across the continent. As a pastor in Colombia, Castrillón Hoyos earned high marks for defense of the poor, including his willingness to challenge the country's notorious drug barons. He is traditional doctrinally. He was a fierce opponent of liberation theology, an effort among progressive Latin American Catholics to place the church on the side of progressive social movements. Castrillón has been elegized by one of the 20th century's foremost novelists, Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, who described him as "this rustic man with the profile of an eagle." Castrillón alienated some Americans during the sexual abuse crisis of 2002. It fell to him to present the pope's first public statement on the crisis during a March news conference, and he came off as defensive and combative, broadly hinting that the situation was an "American problem."
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/conclave/top_candidates.htm
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The Buck Stops at the Top
January 17th, 2011 · 8 Comments
In my book Sacrilege, I said that they way tl abusehat American bishops mishandled allegations of abuse was so uniform that it looked like it was the result of a more or less explicit policy set by the Vatican.
Here is what an Irish documentary is reporting:
In a January 1997 letter to each Irish bishop, marked “strictly confidential”, the Vatican said it would support the appeal of any priest defrocked by the Irish church in connection with child sex abuse. It did so in a number of cases, leading to a threat of resignation by one Irish archbishop.
At a 1999 meeting in Rome the Irish hierarchy was reminded collectively by a top Vatican official that they were “bishops first, not policemen”.
The programme claims the Vatican and Pope Benedict himself failed to apply the norms of canon law to the issue of child abuse, one of the pope’s major criticisms of Ireland’s bishops. The Vatican failed to do so where two US priests were concerned and the pope did so in 2005 where Fr Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, was concerned.
In his letter to the Catholics of Ireland last March, Pope Benedict said to his “brother bishops’’ that “you and your predecessors failed, at times grievously, to apply the long-established norms of canon law to the crime of child abuse”.
The Vatican opposed a recommendation in the Irish Bishops’ “Green Book” guidelines on child protection, published in January 1996, which said all allegations of clerical child sex abuse should be reported to the civil authorities.
The programme, by reporter Mick Peelo, also shows a “strictly confidential” letter sent to Irish bishops by the Vatican a year later, in January 1997, which expressed “serious reservations of a canonical and moral nature” about the mandatory reporting of such crimes to civil authorities.
An Irish bishop confirmed to the programme, on condition of anonymity, that he made a note at the time describing this letter as “a mandate to conceal the crimes of a priest”.
The programme also reports that at a 1998 meeting with Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy (1996 until 2006), then archbishop of Dublin Desmond Connell thumped a table in frustration as the cardinal insisted it was Vatican policy to defend the rights of an accused priest above all.
This was all under the pontificate of John Paul II, whom Benedict will beatify in a few months.
Castrillón Hoyos had also written a letter to a bishop praising him for not reporting an abuser to the police. Castillón Hoyos sent copies to all the bishops of the world.
The Vatican has confirmed a letter that shows a former top Holy See official praised a French Bishop for not turning in a priest accused of sex abuse.
The letter dated September 8, 2001, was written by Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillón Hoyos, then head of the Congregation for the Clergy.
Cardinal Castrillón also delivered a copy of the letter, in which he praised French Bishop Pierre Pican, to bishops world wide.
Castrillón wrote: “I congratulate you for not having turned in a priest to the civil administration, and I am delighted to have a colleague in the episcopate who, in the eyes of history and all the other bishops of the world, will have preferred prison rather than to turn in its son-priest.”
The bishop, who retired in March of 2010, received a suspended sentence for failing to report Father Rene Bissey who raped and sexually abused a dozen boys over the course of 10 years.
This was the policy under the soon-to-be Blessed John Paul.
I do not think that Benedict or other Vatican officials realize that these facts are available world-wide on the Internet, and will be brought out repeatedly when John Paul is beatified and then canonized: “Vatican Declares Pope Who Enabled Child Abusers to be Saint.”
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Colombia cardinal defends church's abuse policies
By LUISA FERNANDA CUELLAR (AP) – 15 hours ago
http://enlightenedcatholicism-colkoch.blogspot.com/2010/04/cardinal-hoyos-speaks-again-now-its.html
Friday, April 23, 2010
Cardinal Hoyos Speaks Again. Now It's The Masons
BOGOTA — A senior cardinal defended the Roman Catholic Church's practice of frequently not reporting sexual abusive priests to the police, saying Thursday it would have been like testifying against a family member at trial. (Theological constructs about the brotherhood of priests is not recognized in secular law. Same thing with the brotherhood of the Masons or the Mafia.)
Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos also said in a radio interview that Pope Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was involved in a 2001 decision to praise a French bishop for shielding a priest who was convicted of raping minors.
Castrillon said last week in Spain that he showed the letter to then-Pope John Paul II, who authorized him to send it to bishops worldwide.
On Thursday, he said the letter was the product of a high-level meeting at which Ratzinger was present. (If true, this is not good for the Pope and the defenders of his 'filth' crusade.)
"It was a meeting of cardinals. Therefore the current pope (Benedict XVI), who at that time was a cardinal, was present. The pope (John Paul II) was never at those meetings. However the Holy Father was indeed present when we spoke about this matter in the council, and the cardinals ruled." (Which Cardinals? The ones with envelopes from the Legion?)
At the time the letter was drafted, Castrillon was prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy and president of the Pontifical "Ecclesia Dei" Commission.
The cardinal also accused unnamed insiders and enemies elsewhere of feeding the sex abuse scandals hurting the Catholic Church.
"Unfortunately there are ... useful idiots inside (the church) who lend themselves to this type of persecution," Castrillon told RCN, using a term for people duped into sympathizing with a foe of their interests. "But I'm not afraid to say that in some cases it's within the Masons, together with other enemies of the church." (And most especially those always unnamed gay Masons in the media.)
The other most important proof that John Paul II knew about pedophile priests was Cardinal Bernard Law who admitted to transferring more than 80 pedophile priests in Boston. Then there is Fr. Marcial Maciel, his beloved companion in his papal trips to his favorite Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. We will post more proofs as now that Benedict XVI and the Vatican work overdrive to beatify and canonize John Paul II in 2011. John Paul II must not be called a "saint" by American children in Ameircan soil and by all children around the world because he never tried even once to stop pedophile priests from raping thousands of boys around the USA and the world.
See our related articles:
John L. Allen glorifies U.S. bishops' thinker-in-chief propaganda the Catholic Church's totalitarian ways http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/11/premier-vaticanista-john-l-allen-jr.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
Commentary on John L. Allen Jr 'Benedict XVI and Tom Doyle on the crisis' in All Things Catholic http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/12/commentary-on-john-l-allen-jr-benedict.html
John L Allen Jr. cements Benedict’s pathological lies http://pope-ratz.blogspot.com/2010/12/john-l-allen-jr-cements-benedict-xvis.html
John Paul II the Pope of Sodomy. Vision of Paris: St. Michael the Archangel tied a giant millstone to John Paul II's neck at World Youth Day in 2002 http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2006/08/john-paul-ii-pope-of-sodomy.html
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 - 6,000 priests - John Paul II,
Benedict XVI & Opus Dei (Vatican Trinity)
Cardinal Hoyos presiding at a TLM Traditional Latin Mass (because he is a member of Opus Dei who celebrate Mass only in Latin, surrounded by lots of ego stroking gold. Unfortunately his is an ego that need no more stroking.
Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos
Vatican denounces Cardinal Castrillon’s sex abuse cover up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sptchxo4ato&feature=player_embedded
Resd the full letter here:
http://www.romereports.com/palio/Vatican-denounces-Cardinal-Castrillons-sex-abuse-cover-up-english-1955.html
April 16, 2010. The Vatican has confirmed a letter that shows a former top Holy See official praised a French Bishop for not turning in a priest accused of sex abuse.
The letter dated September 8, 2001, was written by Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, then head of the Congregation for the Clergy.
Cardinal Castrillon also delivered a copy of the letter, in which he praised French Bishop Pierre Pican, to bishops world wide.
Castrillon wrote: “I congratulate you for not having turned in a priest to the civil administration, and I am delighted to have a colleague in the episcopate who, in the eyes of history and all the other bishops of the world, will have preferred prison rather than to turn in its son-priest.”
The bishop, who retired in March of 2010, received a suspended sentence for failing to report Father Rene Bissey who raped and sexually abused a dozen boys over the course of 10 years.
He was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
The bishop acknowledged he knew about the allegations from the mother of one of the victims, so it was not a case of secret of confession.
In a statement Vatican spokesperson Federico Lombardi said the letter confirms the opportunity of the 2001 decision that transferred the handling of sex abuse cases in the Church from local dioceses and Cardinal Castrillon Hoyo’s office, to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which was headed by Joseph Ratzinger at the time.
The Vatican says the letter is proof that sex abuse cases needed to be handled in a “rigorous and consisted manner” by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Cardinal Castrillón must feel trapped
by John L Allen Jr on Apr. 23, 2010
All Things Catholic
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/cardinal-castrillon-must-feel-trapped
John L. Allen Jr deceptive ways again at work as the Pied Piper of the Vatican
In his usual deceptive ways John L. Allen Jr. describes and brainwashes Catholics through his short - but conclusive - phrases by ridiculing Sinead O'Connor (the Irish sex abuse victims who is outspoken against John Paul II and the Irish Priests sex abuse scandal) John Allen’s main media spin strategy that makes his Catholics readers feel good about Cardinal Castrillón is to make fun of singer Sinead O'Connor versus He wrote in All Things Catholics:
“Today, even if he weren't almost 81, Castrillón would have about as much chance of becoming pope as Sinead O'Connor”.
His summary of the whole thing make even Reuters, AP and CNN journalists heads spin - with subtle sublingual catch phrases - by making Hoyos look nice and sweet, here are some of them: (Our comments are in parenthesis)
(Right at the beginning n his article he praises the Cardinal:)
Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos must feel trapped in a "Twilight Zone" episode (Our comment: This has subtly sent Allen's readers googling Twilight Zone and he had cunningly made them forget all the fact about Hoyos), in which, in a flash, the whole course of his life has turned out differently. Now 80, not long ago Castrillón was a consummate Roman powerbroker, a man admired for the nerves of steel that once allowed him to stand up to drug kingpin Pablo Escobar. Novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez at one point hailed his fellow Colombian as "this rustic man, with the profile of an eagle." (After reading this first paragraph, Catholics would have fallen in love with the Cardinal and forget what is in the rest of the article about regarding the incriminating letter he wrote to teh French Bishop)
To be sure, even bishops inclined to share those concerns would hardly extol Castrillón's letter -- especially because there's no word of compassion in it for the victims of the French priest, and no condemnation of the broader phenomenon of sexual abuse within the church. (John Allen is master of deceits and devious manipulation as he uses big vague words on "phenomenon of sexual abuse", very mild term of "sexual abuse" combined with phenomenon".
Still, the letter points to an important insight about where things stand in the church with regard to the crisis: By now, there's wide consensus that crimes by a priest should be reported to the police, but how and by whom remains contentious. (John Allen makes the Vatican "look good" and make his Catholic readers "feel good" about this scandal about Castrillón. John L. Allen deceives readers as if the Vatican is already "reporting to the police" when in fact they have never done and does not and will not do so up to now, and there is no Catholic Registry of Pedophile Priests to warn parents and children of priests-predators in their midst.)
Ratzinger and Castrillón
Finally, a footnote about the impact of the Castrillón episode: Ironically, resurrecting that 2001 letter may have doomed Castrillón, but it could actually help Pope Benedict XVI.
One has to ask, why didn't the Vatican tell Ratzinger's story?
(John L. Allen is trying to segue the attention away from Cardinal Ratzinger and blaming the huge (vague) Vatican.
At least part of the answer, I suspect, is because to make Ratzinger look good, they'd have to make others look bad -- including, of course, Castrillón, as well as other top Vatican officials. Lurking behind that concern is a deeper one, which is that to salvage the reputation of Benedict XVI it might be necessary to tarnish that of Pope John Paul II. Wow, John Allen really spins the heads of millions of Catholics on who is to blame by these tricky puzzle of name game!)
In this case, however, Castrillón has inadvertently licensed the Vatican and church officials around the world to use him as a foil, effectively waiving a cardinal's traditional immunity from criticism. (Here John Allen makes Castrillón becomes the scapegoat for Ratzinger and John Paul II)
That's important to keeping the record straight, because the truth is that the real choice in Rome over the last ten years vis-à-vis the sex abuse crisis was never between Ratzinger and perfection -- it was between Ratzinger and Castrillón. (John Allen makes everything sounds so doctrinally sound and sweet in his snaky choice of comparisons as he media-spin "between Ratzinger and perfection". What the trillion dollars Vatican Bank can buy for the soul of John L. Allen Jr, the highest paid journalist on the planet and most deceptive. See his speech on http://jp2m.blogspot.com/2010/11/premier-vaticanista-john-l-allen-jr.html his unlimited access to the Popes and the Vatican ...but victims of pedophile priests could never access John Paul II and Benedict XVI, they couldn't even demonstrate at St. Peter's Square which should belong to ALL Catholics in the world).
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According to premier Vaticanist John L. Allen Jr (when he was predicting the next pope in 2005) Cardinal Dario Castrillón Hoyos was, like John Paul II was against Liberation Theology, and he presented John Paul II's first public statement on the pedophile priests crisis during a March 2002 news conference - and he came off as defensive and combative, broadly hinting that the situation was an "American problem."
Dario Castrillón Hoyos, 75 in 2005, Colombia
Currently head of the Vatican office for clergy, Castrillón Hoyos served as secretary general of CELAM, the Latin American bishops' conference, from 1983 to 1991, giving him a wide network of contacts across the continent. As a pastor in Colombia, Castrillón Hoyos earned high marks for defense of the poor, including his willingness to challenge the country's notorious drug barons. He is traditional doctrinally. He was a fierce opponent of liberation theology, an effort among progressive Latin American Catholics to place the church on the side of progressive social movements. Castrillón has been elegized by one of the 20th century's foremost novelists, Colombian Gabriel García Márquez, who described him as "this rustic man with the profile of an eagle." Castrillón alienated some Americans during the sexual abuse crisis of 2002. It fell to him to present the pope's first public statement on the crisis during a March news conference, and he came off as defensive and combative, broadly hinting that the situation was an "American problem."
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/conclave/top_candidates.htm
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The Buck Stops at the Top
January 17th, 2011 · 8 Comments
In my book Sacrilege, I said that they way tl abusehat American bishops mishandled allegations of abuse was so uniform that it looked like it was the result of a more or less explicit policy set by the Vatican.
Here is what an Irish documentary is reporting:
In a January 1997 letter to each Irish bishop, marked “strictly confidential”, the Vatican said it would support the appeal of any priest defrocked by the Irish church in connection with child sex abuse. It did so in a number of cases, leading to a threat of resignation by one Irish archbishop.
At a 1999 meeting in Rome the Irish hierarchy was reminded collectively by a top Vatican official that they were “bishops first, not policemen”.
The programme claims the Vatican and Pope Benedict himself failed to apply the norms of canon law to the issue of child abuse, one of the pope’s major criticisms of Ireland’s bishops. The Vatican failed to do so where two US priests were concerned and the pope did so in 2005 where Fr Marcial Maciel, founder of the Legionaries of Christ, was concerned.
In his letter to the Catholics of Ireland last March, Pope Benedict said to his “brother bishops’’ that “you and your predecessors failed, at times grievously, to apply the long-established norms of canon law to the crime of child abuse”.
The Vatican opposed a recommendation in the Irish Bishops’ “Green Book” guidelines on child protection, published in January 1996, which said all allegations of clerical child sex abuse should be reported to the civil authorities.
The programme, by reporter Mick Peelo, also shows a “strictly confidential” letter sent to Irish bishops by the Vatican a year later, in January 1997, which expressed “serious reservations of a canonical and moral nature” about the mandatory reporting of such crimes to civil authorities.
An Irish bishop confirmed to the programme, on condition of anonymity, that he made a note at the time describing this letter as “a mandate to conceal the crimes of a priest”.
The programme also reports that at a 1998 meeting with Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy (1996 until 2006), then archbishop of Dublin Desmond Connell thumped a table in frustration as the cardinal insisted it was Vatican policy to defend the rights of an accused priest above all.
This was all under the pontificate of John Paul II, whom Benedict will beatify in a few months.
Castrillón Hoyos had also written a letter to a bishop praising him for not reporting an abuser to the police. Castillón Hoyos sent copies to all the bishops of the world.
The Vatican has confirmed a letter that shows a former top Holy See official praised a French Bishop for not turning in a priest accused of sex abuse.
The letter dated September 8, 2001, was written by Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillón Hoyos, then head of the Congregation for the Clergy.
Cardinal Castrillón also delivered a copy of the letter, in which he praised French Bishop Pierre Pican, to bishops world wide.
Castrillón wrote: “I congratulate you for not having turned in a priest to the civil administration, and I am delighted to have a colleague in the episcopate who, in the eyes of history and all the other bishops of the world, will have preferred prison rather than to turn in its son-priest.”
The bishop, who retired in March of 2010, received a suspended sentence for failing to report Father Rene Bissey who raped and sexually abused a dozen boys over the course of 10 years.
This was the policy under the soon-to-be Blessed John Paul.
I do not think that Benedict or other Vatican officials realize that these facts are available world-wide on the Internet, and will be brought out repeatedly when John Paul is beatified and then canonized: “Vatican Declares Pope Who Enabled Child Abusers to be Saint.”
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Colombia cardinal defends church's abuse policies
By LUISA FERNANDA CUELLAR (AP) – 15 hours ago
http://enlightenedcatholicism-colkoch.blogspot.com/2010/04/cardinal-hoyos-speaks-again-now-its.html
Friday, April 23, 2010
Cardinal Hoyos Speaks Again. Now It's The Masons
BOGOTA — A senior cardinal defended the Roman Catholic Church's practice of frequently not reporting sexual abusive priests to the police, saying Thursday it would have been like testifying against a family member at trial. (Theological constructs about the brotherhood of priests is not recognized in secular law. Same thing with the brotherhood of the Masons or the Mafia.)
Colombian Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos also said in a radio interview that Pope Benedict XVI, formerly Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, was involved in a 2001 decision to praise a French bishop for shielding a priest who was convicted of raping minors.
Castrillon said last week in Spain that he showed the letter to then-Pope John Paul II, who authorized him to send it to bishops worldwide.
On Thursday, he said the letter was the product of a high-level meeting at which Ratzinger was present. (If true, this is not good for the Pope and the defenders of his 'filth' crusade.)
"It was a meeting of cardinals. Therefore the current pope (Benedict XVI), who at that time was a cardinal, was present. The pope (John Paul II) was never at those meetings. However the Holy Father was indeed present when we spoke about this matter in the council, and the cardinals ruled." (Which Cardinals? The ones with envelopes from the Legion?)
At the time the letter was drafted, Castrillon was prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy and president of the Pontifical "Ecclesia Dei" Commission.
The cardinal also accused unnamed insiders and enemies elsewhere of feeding the sex abuse scandals hurting the Catholic Church.
"Unfortunately there are ... useful idiots inside (the church) who lend themselves to this type of persecution," Castrillon told RCN, using a term for people duped into sympathizing with a foe of their interests. "But I'm not afraid to say that in some cases it's within the Masons, together with other enemies of the church." (And most especially those always unnamed gay Masons in the media.)
posted by Paris Arrow | Sunday, January 23, 2011
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