Vatican's new theme song.

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If there's something strange
in your neighborhood
Who ya gonna call?
JEFF LENA

If there's something weird
and it don't look good
Who ya gonna call?
JEFF LENA

An invisible man [Hey, we didn't write the g*ddamn lyrics]
sleeping in your bed
Who ya gonna call?
JEFF LENA

I ain't afraid of no ghosts
I ain't afraid of no ghosts
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When money talks, God listens.

In his time, the late Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado was the greatest fundraiser of the modern Roman Catholic church. He was also a magnetic figure in recruiting young men to religious life in an era when vocations were plummeting. Behind that exalted façade, however, Maciel was a notorious pedophile, and a man who fathered several children by different women. His life was arguably the darkest chapter in the clergy abuse crisis that continues to plague the church.

What's this? For decades, a powerful pedophile bought the silence & protection of the Vatican?

The saga of the disgraced founder of the Legion of Christ, a secretive, cult-like religious order now under Vatican investigation, opens into a deeper story of how one man's lies and betrayal dazzled key figures in the Roman curia and how Maciel's money and success helped him find protection and influence. For years, the heads of Vatican congregations and the pope himself ignored persistent warnings that something was rotten in the community where Legionaries called their leader Nuestro Padre , "Our Father," and considered him a living saint.

The charismatic Mexican, who founded the Legion of Christ in 1941, sent streams of money to Roman curia officials with a calculated end, according to many sources interviewed by NCR: Maciel was buying support for his group and defense for himself, should his astounding secret life become known.

Ordination, pedophilia, bigamy, bribery, criminal conspiracy. What next, canonization?

This much is well established from previous reporting: Maciel was a morphine addict who sexually abused at least 20 Legion seminarians from the 1940s to the '60s. Bishop John McGann of Rockville Centre, N.Y., sent a letter by a former Legion priest with detailed allegations to the Vatican in 1976, 1978 and 1989 through official channels. Nothing happened. Maciel began fathering children in the early 1980s -- three of them by two Mexican women, with reports of a third family with three children in Switzerland, according to El Mundo in Madrid, Spain. Concealing his web of relations, Maciel raised a fortune from wealthy backers, and ingratiated himself with church officials in Rome.

Money paved way for Maciel's influence in the Vatican
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Holy sh*t runs down hill too.

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What's Ratzinger up to today?

• In 1980 as archbishop of Munich and Freising, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger unwittingly approved housing for a priest accused of child abuse. A former deputy later said he made the decision.
• Cardinal Ratzinger failed to act over complaints during the 1990s about US priest Lawrence Murphy, who is thought to have abused some 200 deaf boys in Wisconsin.
• Cardinal Ratzinger allowed a case against Arizona priest Michael Teta to languish at the Vatican for more than a decade despite repeated pleas for his removal.
• Cardinal Ratzinger resisted the defrocking of California priest Stephen Kiesle, a convicted offender, saying "good of the universal Church" needed to be considered.

So who does he blame?

The Pope's supporters say he has been unfairly blamed for cases handled by junior staff, and that he has been proactive in addressing child abuse.

Hey, Your Eminence, whatever happened to those Golden Rules?

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

"Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."

Doesn't that mean that a top Vatican Cardinal is supposed to protect God's innocents from child rapists of the cloth?

Doesn't that mean that the Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for some 20 odd years answers to the Almighty for the safety & well-being of sexually abused innocents under his watch, and for the compassion & justice & recompense they so rightly deserve?

And how exactly does facilitating the systematic cover-up of ordained pedophiles reaffirm the historic doctrine and mission of the Church to proclaim the Gospel, Cardinal Ratzinger?

Pope Benedict hit by new Church child abuse allegations
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Holy Money of Christ!

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Fr. Marcial Maciel Degollado (March 10, 1920 – January 30, 2008), the grand-nephew of a recently canonized Mexican saint & a prodigious pederast, pedophile, & bigamist, operated a powerful fundamentalist cult, the Legion of Christ & its bastard child Regnum Christi, deep within the culpable hallowed bowels of Holy Mother Church for over 65 years. God bless his buggering soul.

One of the critical legacies of Pope John Paul II was his unwavering support for the biggest institutional force in the greater conspiracy to commit and hide sex abuse in the Catholic Church. I'm referring to the Legion of Christ, a creepy, vast, enormously wealthy church within a church, run by pederast, pedophile, bigamist and con artist, Marcial Maciel. Maciel, who was addicted to morphine, abused (at least) twenty seminarians and had (at least) two wives, and several children. The Legion at its peak had resources of $33 billion. His chief enablers and supporters were, of course, the theocons, who got a thrill up the leg observing this strictly orthodox leadership cult, combining the political and social attitudes of the 1950s with the oomph of modern day evangelical growth and money.

Compulsive child-rapist Fr. Maciel was also a favorite of Pope John Paul II and the theocons, Richard John Neuhaus, Jeb Bush, Rick Santorum, Bill Bennett, Bill Donohue, & Mary Ann Glendon.

Richard John Neuhaus was a staunch supporter and dismissed all the charges against Maciel with "moral certainty." Jeb Bush and Rick Santorum spoke at Legion conferences. Bill Bennett spoke at Legion events and said, "I am fortunate enough to know and trust the priests of the Legionaries of Christ. ... The flourishing of the Legionaries is a cause for hope in a time of much darkness." Bill Donohue supported Maciel against now-substantiated charges of abuse. But in some ways, Maciel's most disturbing enabler was Mary Ann Glendon, Harvard Law Professor and former ambassador to the Vatican.

With the Legion's $33 billion, this ordained mass molester, in the name of Christ, bought sacrosanct silence for his crimes, if not absolution for his abominations, from consecrated Cardinals. Holy Mother of Christ, where's the Wrath of the Almighty when you need Him?

So this multiple rapist and bigamist essentially got away with his crimes because he bought silence from key Vatican officials, at the very least by ingratiating himself by donating huge amounts to the church and at the very most by directly bribing key officials with envelopes stuffed with cash.

And Cardinal Ratzinger knew it and waited another 4 years? Ya gotta be kidding me, Il Papa!

Benedict XVI knew all of this. To his credit, he was clearly troubled by it, and never accepted its compromising money. But given the authority to pursue Maciel in 2001, Ratzinger held off for four years until Maciel's protector, John Paul II, was incapacitated and near death. Which means to say: Ratzinger knew what had gone on, and allowed a clear molester and bigamist to remain a pillar of John Paul II's church for years.

Jesu H. Christe, is nothing sacred?

The Vatican's Watergate: Follow The Money


VowsOfSilenceFilm.com

Vatican Communiqué regarding the current circumstances of the Legion of Christ and the Regnum Christi Movement

Vatican Communiqué on Legionary Founder
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"The coverup of vile, criminal acts." ~ Bob Schieffer

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Where's the moral highground?



Where's the outrage?


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