Tag Archives: Vatican

SUPREME COURT: The Vatican Is Not Immune To U.S. Pedophilia Lawsuits

Wow. The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from the Vatican, which was attempting to shield itself from child molestation lawsuits in the United States. The U.S. Supreme Court refused on Monday to consider whether the Vatican has legal immunity over the sexual abuse of minors by priests in the United States, allowing a lawsuit filed in 2002 to go …

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Pope Prays For Forgiveness For Sexual Molestations By Priests

The beauty of Catholicism is that perpetual clean slate. Pope Benedict begged forgiveness from God and victims of child sexual abuse by priests on Friday and vowed that the Catholic Church would do everything in its power to ensure that it never happens again. Benedict made his comments, some of his clearest ever about the scandal that has swept the …

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BRITAIN: Gay Activist Peter Tatchell To Host Show About Papal Visit

UK television network Channel 4 has hired famed gay activist Peter Tatchell to host an hour-long documentary examing the Pope’s upcoming visit to Britain. And the nation’s Catholics are very displeased. Ann Widdecombe, the Tory politician who famously converted to Catholicism, said: “I think this will confirm the view that there probably already is in the Vatican that this is …

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White House To SCOTUS: The Vatican Should Be Immune To U.S. Lawsuits

The White House has issued a brief to the Supreme Court backing the Vatican’s claim that they should be immune from child molestation lawsuits brought in the United States. The Supreme Court is considering an appeal by the Vatican of an appellate court ruling that lifted its immunity in the case of an alleged pedophile priest from Oregon. In a …

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Vatican Threatens To Cancel UK Papal Visit Over Mocking Government Memo

The Vatican is threatening to cancel the Pope’s upcoming visit to Britain after the publication of an internal memo suggesting some fabulous activities for Palpatine during his visit. The memo was sent out in March following a “brainstorm” session by four junior Foreign Office staff who make up the Papal Visit Team. The “official” memos suggests the Pope opening an …

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This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days… Kentucky: Pastor Prince Wilbert Woolfolk sentenced to 20 years for raping a teenage girl.Virginia: Presbyterian missionary Eun Tae Lee charged with embezzling $700K from his church.Massachusetts: Father William Ventura busted in Craigslist prostitution sting.New York: Rabbi Baruch Lebovits sentenced to 10-32 years in prison for molesting teenage boy.Colorado: Father Paul Montez accused of stalking teenage …

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No Gay Marriage For Italy

Italy’s highest court has issued its ruling and the news isn’t good. The Constitutional Court judged the requests related to gay unions “not admissible” and “unfounded,” according to an e- mailed statement today. Courts in the northern cities of Trento and Venice had asked the court in Rome to rule on the matter. The motivation for the decision will be …

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Second Highest Vatican Official Blames Pedophilia Scandal On Gay Men

The Pope’s number two man, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, whose home archdiocese has recently imprisoned priests for molesting young girls, is blaming the Catholic Church’s problem with child fuckers on gay men. The Vatican’s second-highest authority says the sex scandals haunting the Roman Catholic Church are linked to homosexuality and not celibacy among priests. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican’s secretary of …

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This Week In Holy Crimes

Over the last seven days… Alabama: Pastor Bertha Wright arrested on 16 felony counts of Oxycontin prescription fraud.Texas: Pastor Lester Cody pleads no contest to sexually assaulting a minor.Texas: Youth Pastor Matthew Overstreet charged with sexually assaulting a minor.Missouri: Father Patrick Grady pleads guilty to possession of child porn and trying to buy sex from a female minor.Illinois: Deacon George …

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Vatican Priest: Catholics Are Being Persecuted Like The Jews

A Vatican priest stepped in it yesterday when he compared the global rash of child molestation investigations to the systemic persecution of Jews. Speaking in St. Peter’s Basilica, the priest, the Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa, took note that Easter and Passover fell during the same week this year, and said he was led to think of the Jews. “They know from …

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Vatican: The Pope Has Immunity From Testifying In Any Pedophilia Trial

According to a Vatican spokesperson, Ill Papi Nazi has immunity from being called to testify in any pedophilia trial because Vatican City is a sovereign nation and Ratzinger is its head of state. Dalla Torre outlined the Vatican’s strategy to defend the pope from being forced to testify in several lawsuits concerning sexual abuse which are currently moving through the …

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Vatican Molestation Cover-Up Scandal Spreads To Miami

The Catholic Archdiocese of Miami is being sued. And you know why. The Archdiocese of Miami, along with top Vatican authorities, knew as far back as 1968 that the Rev. Ernesto Garcia-Rubio, a priest later defrocked amid child sex-abuse allegations, had a troubled past in Cuba before transferring to South Florida, lawyers representing victims claimed Monday. The lawyers say the …

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Priest Off!

(Tipped by JMG reader John)

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The Devil Lives In The Vatican

According to the Catholic Church’s top exorcist, Satan himself lives in the Vatican. Father Gabriel Amorth has conducted 70,000 exorcisms in the last 50 years and says he needs to do a few inside the palace as well. In the last few months, the Catholic Church have been rocked by a series of sex scandals in Ireland, Holland and, most …

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Sinead O’Connor: Burn Down The Vatican

“A true Christian is someone who, in any given situation, is supposed to ask themselves what would Jesus do, then try to do that. How an organisation which has acted, decade after decade, only to protect its business interests above the interests of children can feel it has the right to dictate to us what Christians should do is beyond …

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Gay Prostitution Scandal Hits Vatican

I can’t fucking wait to hear how Ill Papa tries to wriggle out of THIS one! “Put on some music, swallow a Viagra, and adelante!” That’s the headline in Europe today following reports that a papal aide used an intermediary in an elite Vatican choir to solicit young male choristers and seminarians for prostitution. Police wiretaps are expected to result …

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Inserito Scidulam

The Vatican’s ATM is in Latin. Other fascinating Vatican tidbits are at the link, such as the fact that Vatican City has the highest crime rate in the world thanks to the pickpockets that prey on tourists.

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Top Ten Vatican Albums Of All Time!

The Vatican has issued its Top Ten Albums of All Time. SRSLY. The Beatles, Oasis, Pink Floyd, Michael Jackson and U2 may be one step closer to paradise. But Bob Dylan is still “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.” The Vatican has previously denounced rock music as the devil’s work but in a surprise change of tune on Sunday the Holy See’s …

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Whip It, Whip It Good

A new biography of Pope John Paul II reveals that he used to get into some serious self-whipping. Kinky! In the book, Oder wrote that John Paul frequently denied himself food — especially during the holy season of Lent — and “frequently spent the night on the bare floor,” messing up his bed in the morning so he wouldn’t draw …

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Ill Papa: Gays Endanger Humanity

Pope Benedict Palpatine has issued another insulting attack on gays, saying that homosexual marriage endangers all of humanity. Oh noes! Pope Benedict XVI on Monday called laws ignoring the difference between the sexes an “attack” on creation just days after Portugal moved to legalise gay marriage. Creatures, including humans, “can be protected or endangered”, the pope, 82, told the Vatican …

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