Charges initiated against Pope for crimes against humanity

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Source: The Irish Times

PATSY McGARRY, Religious Affairs Correspondent

TWO GERMAN lawyers have initiated charges against Pope Benedict XVI at the International Criminal Court, alleging crimes against humanity.

Christian Sailer and Gert-Joachim Hetzel, based at Marktheidenfeld in the Pope’s home state of Bavaria, last week submitted a 16,500-word document to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at the Hague, Dr Luis Moreno Ocampo.

Their charges concern “three worldwide crimes which until now have not been denounced . . . (as) the traditional reverence toward ‘ecclesiastical authority’ has clouded the sense of right and wrong”.

They claim the Pope “is responsible for the preservation and leadership of a worldwide totalitarian regime of coercion which subjugates its members with terrifying and health-endangering threats”.

Read more: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0223/1224290630240.html

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1. Oh now that's interesting. Nt

[midnight]

2. I wish I wan't so cynical, but nothing will happen... The Pope is

too financial connected...

[Kerrytravelers]

3. And check out this part:

They allege he is also responsible for “the adherence to a fatal forbiddance of the use of condoms, even when the danger of HIV-Aids infection exists” and for “the establishment and maintenance of a worldwide system of cover-up of the sexual crimes committed by Catholic priests and their preferential treatment, which aids and abets ever new crimes”.

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Catholics “threatened by HIV-AIDS . . . are faced with a terrible alternative: If they protect themselves with condoms during sexual intercourse, they become grave sinners; if they do not protect themselves out of fear of the punishment of sin threatened by the church, they become candidates for death.”

There was also “strong suspicion that Dr Joseph Ratzinger, as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of his church and as Pope, has up to the present day systematically covered up the sexual abuse of children and youths and protected the perpetrators, thereby aiding and abetting further sexual violence toward young people”.

It's true that condoms are being taught as "evil" by many (of course not all) Catholics. And the sexual abuse crimes... that goes without saying. These are some of the many reason Mr. kt and I left the Catholic church.

I doubt this will go anywhere, but I admire someone for taking a bold stand against what the church leaders have allowed to happen.

[sarcasmo]

4. Where is the multiple rec button, kick, kick, kick.

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5. This gruesome old Nazi should spend the rest of his

miserable, godforsaken life in prison.