Wishful thinking!

Does anyone know if Herr Ratzinger has withdrawn “Crimen” and his own “De Delictis Gravioribus” (May 18, 2001).

These two despicable and satanic pieces of papal and curial Church legislation have provided the foundation of a horrendous, religious, moral, political and criminal conflagration. They have inspired clerical deceit, physical and moral death and decay of peoples’ lives and faith, lies, mental reservations, episcopal cover ups, loss of billions of dollars of parishioners contributions, the closing of Catholic schools and churches, public scandal and outrage, and mockery of the Roman Catholic religion.

Unless and until these two evil, outrageous and reprehensible Vatican prescriptions are withdrawn and publicly burned or buried, and the author of the second resign, there will be no peace, no true admission of guilt by the pope, cardinals and bishops, no episcopal forthrightness, no closure to the upheaval in the Catholic Church or in the lives of all who have been hurt, harmed and affected by the imposition of these two morally putrid documents.

The sole reason the bishops are loathe to “come clean” is the Damocles Swords of “Crimen” and “De Delictis Gravioribus” that Herr Ratzinger is holding, even today, over their heads.

Do not believe the lies that these documents concern only the internal form a/k/a Confession. They are the fundamental driving force behind the debacle we are witnessing today.

Fat chance of Gomez doing anything of the sort. His MO: “I will procrastinate! If pressured, I will procrastinate even more! Regardless of what anyone says, I will still procrastinate! Besides, I have more important work to do now.”

This is nothing more than your typical “in your face” Cult reaction to the whole sordid clerical and episcopal mess sitting in the pope’s front yard. Anyone can see this appointment was Law’s call and his spiteful way of evening matters up, at least in his own mind, with those who ousted him.This appointment is going to backfire because Law has his own enemies in the Cult Curia and Papa Ratzinger won’t be around to defend him.

You have to beg an Archbishop to do his duty? What is this world coming to? Oh, the humanity of it all!

“He has yet to take any significant, effective steps to better safeguard kids anywhere on the planet.” Don’t hold your breath. He will go to his grave carrying this load of guilt to preserve the office of pope. “What does it profit a man . . .” You finish the text.

When I joined this church
As a brash young priest,
Well, I said to myself,
“Now, brash young priest,
Don’t get any ideas.”
Well, I stuck to that,
And I haven’t had one in years.
I play it the bishop’s way;
Wherever he puts me
There I’ll stay.
But what is your point of view?
I have no point of view.
Supposing the bishop thinks . . .
I think so too.
Now, what would you say . . .?
I wouldn’t say.
Your face is a clerical face.
It smiles at bishops
Then goes back in place.
The church’s decor?
Oh, it suits me fine.
The bishop’s letterhead?
A valentine.
Anything you’re against?
Unemployment.
When they want brilliant thinking
From priests like me,
That is no concern of mine.
Suppose a priest of genius
Makes suggestions?
Watch that genius get suggested to resign.
So you play it the diocesan way?
All diocesan policy is by me OK.
I’ll never rise up to the top.
But there’s one thing clear:
Whoever the diocese fires,
I will still be here.
Oh, you certainly found a home!
It’s cozy.
Your brain is a clerical brain.
The seminary washed it,
Now I can’t complain.
Hey, the diocesan newspaper!
Oh, what style, what punch!
The church’s bulletin!
Ev’ry week the same grunch:
Do you have any hobbies?
I’ve a hobby; I play golf with Bishop Bratt
Bishop Bratt! And do you play it nicely?
Play it nicely . . . still, he beats me
In every game, like that!
Why?
’Cause I play it the diocesan way.
The bishop’s policy is by me OK.
Oh, how can you get anywhere?
Junior, have no fear;
Whoever the diocese fires,
I will still be here.
You will still be here.
Year after year after fiscal,
Never take a risk-al year!

Geez, I didn’t know Jesus had all this legalese in mind, when He first called his Apostles! It seems I must have missed something between "suffer the little children… and “de delictis gravioribus…”

“We look forward to hearing from you.” Well, good luck with that!

He is a Cult Elder. Why would you expect him to behave other than the way he does?

Re: Smolich letter. . . and we thought Svengali was just a fictional character.

There will be no laicizing of Msgr. Lynn because Bishop Chaput knows full well that Msgr. Lynn’s actions were guided by Cardinal Bevilacqua.

At the end of the day, Bevilacqua was Lynn’s conscience, as it is expected to be in the Roman Catholic Cult, where every subordinate sacrifices his/her conscience to a higher superior.

Bevilacqua sacrificed his conscience to the pope; Lynn sacrificed his conscience to Bevilacqua.

This is how it must be if the Cult is to continue and maintain power.

To laicize Lynn will be to break the chain of hierarchical control, and send a message to all Chaput’s priests, that they will not receive his support even if they do what he wants, and when the chips are down, they too may be laicized for following his orders. This is contradictory to the hierarchical Cult structure and is self-destructive of Cult power.

As the Cult structure now exists, there is no chance of Msgr. Lynn being laicized against his will.

This is what happens when loyalty to a Cult trumps loyalty to common decency.

No mystery, whatsoever!

It is Herr Ratzinger who is the mystery. He sat on untold numbers of cases, well aware this inhuman, disgusting behavior against children was in progress by his beloved priests and bishops, and did nothing to stop it! Nothing! He was obsessively concerned with the image of his Cult and blew off all paternal care for the victims of his clergy’s sexual abuse. What’s mysterious about this?

If this man thinks that by confessing his gross sins of omission before some lap dog Vatican chaplain is sufficient to purify his soul, he has to be psychologically unbalanced. His apologies are insulting and worthless. Not until he publicly admits his personal culpability and sinfulness will victims finally find peace.

His sins are public in nature, and need to be confessed openly in the public forum. Only in so doing can this man hope to obtain forgiveness from his victims and from his God.

Come on! Just the “Twelve Apostles!!!!” You’ve got to be kidding!

Restrict the bishops’ power?!! In what universe will that ever happen? They firmly believe they are all endowed with creeping papal infallibility. How do you convince a psychotic he is not Neapolean?

If a bishop is willing to pay money to predator to clergy to “get lost,” what chance is there of bishops doing what you suggest? Answer: Zero

Basically, he is saying: “The Cardinal was my conscience.”

I’m betting Chaput will do whatever needs to be done to protect the Institution, now, with an eye to upcoming civil law suits.

The Catholic hierarchy is and has always been a law unto itself. The pope, cardinals, bishops continue to think they are living in the age of Constantine.