GLOBE (U.S.) says Benedict only has weeks to live

From a different tabloid: GLOBE (U.S.) says Benedict only has weeks to live

Posted By: MrFusion [Send E-Mail]
Date: Sunday, 3-Mar-2013 18:10:12

In Response To: "Gay sex rings, 'The Filth' corrupting the Vatican...Why the Pope REALLY quit" (Susoni)

On pages 16-17 in the March 4 edition of the GLOBE, my favorite supermarket tabloid, it is reported that the former Pope has "congestive heart disease and atrial fibrillation," and "could suffer a stroke at any moment." With regard to the scandals in the Church, GLOBE says he was "shattered by the scale of the problems - and by his cruel realization that he couldn't save his beloved Church from the fallout" and implies that the stress contributed to the worsening of his heart problems. "Gay sex rings, 'The Filth' corrupting the Vatican...Why the Pope REALLY quit" Posted By: Susoni [Send E-Mail] Date: Sunday, 3-Mar-2013 15:15:45 Speculation???? Hmmmm Me thinks this is political spin.. or spiel.. to cover the Mafia/banking/sex scandals. .. Whichever fits... I've known a few pious nuns and priests (wonderful people!!) and I've known a few priests who were gay as can be.. (No, I'm not Catholic but my husband was.) The thing that rankles is the lies, the abuse of the innocent and unsuspecting, and then we have the cover up of crimes more heinous then we could ever imagine. He 'quit' to save the Church?? Doubtful.. The 'church' has been corrupt for a thousand years or more.. Susoni ***************************************************************** Resignation isn’t in Benedict’s vocabulary. The real reason he has quit is far more spectacular. It is to save the Catholic Church from ignominy: he has voluntarily delivered himself up as a sacrificial lamb to purge the Church of what he calls ‘The Filth’. And it must have taken courage. Here is the remarkable thing you are seldom told about a papal death or resignation: every one of the senior office-holders in the Vatican – those at the highest level of its internal bureaucracy, called the Curia – loses his job. A report Benedict himself commissioned into the state of the Curia landed on his desk in January. It revealed that ‘The Filth’ – or more specifically, the paedophile priest scandal – had entered the bureaucracy. He resigned in early February. That report was a final straw. The Filth has been corroding the soul of the Catholic Church for years, and the reason is the power-grabbing ineptitude and secrecy of the Curia – which failed to deal with the perpetrators. Now the Curia itself stands accused of being part of The Filth. Benedict realises the Curia must be reformed root and branch. He knows this is a mammoth task. He is too old, and too implicated, to clean it up himself. He has resigned to make way for a younger, more dynamic successor, untainted by scandal – and a similarly recast Curia. Benedict was not prepared to wait for his own death to sweep out the gang who run the place. In one extraordinary gesture, by resigning, he gets rid of the lot of them. But what then? The Curia are usually quickly reappointed. This time it may be different. It involves scores of departments, like the civil service of a middling-sized country. It has a Home and Foreign Office called the Secretariat of State. There’s a department that watches out for heresy – the former Holy Inquisition which under Cardinal Ratzinger dealt with, or failed to deal with, paedophile priests. --------------- The former president of the Vatican Bank, Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, once told me that the Curia is a ‘village of washerwomen. They wash clothes, punch ’em, dance on ’em, squeezing all the old dirt out’. Confidant: The Pope with his secretary Georg Ganswein Confidant: The Pope with his secretary Georg Ganswein But who was he to talk? In that same interview Marcinkus admitted he appropriated $250 million from the Vatican pension fund to pay a fine, levied by the Italian government, for financial misdemeanours. Amazingly, he saw nothing wrong with that. Not surprisingly, some of the bureaucrats let off steam in unpriestly ways. Some are actively gay men who cannot normalise their lives with a partner because of Catholic teaching. They frequent discreet bars, saunas and ‘safe houses’. On another level there are individuals known to have a weakness for sex with minors. It appears the people who procure these sexual services have become greedy. They have been putting the squeeze on their priestly clients to launder cash through the Vatican. There is no suggestion that the bank has knowingly collaborated. ------------------ Last autumn Benedict ordered three trusted high-ranking cardinals to investigate the state of the Curia. This was the report that was delivered to him just weeks ago. It was meant for Benedict’s ‘eyes only’ but details of a sex ring and money-laundering scams last week reached the Italian weekly Panorama. Then the daily La Repubblica ran the story. The timing of the report has coincided with fresh allegations of priestly sexual abuse in Germany. Meanwhile, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles and Cardinal Sean Brady of Ireland have been accused of covering up paedophile abuse. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2287074/Pope-resigns-2013-Gay-sex-rings-The-Filth-corrupting-Vatican--Pope-REALLY-quit.html#ixzz2MVdo9nnb