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Anyone else see anything more on this article?  [message #65506] Fri, 25 March 2011 01:28 Go to next message
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The Irish Times - Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Charges initiated against Pope for crimes against humanity

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”.

[edit to remove swathe of copyright material. Snippets are fine, but wholesale quoting is not. - timmy]

FULL STORY found here:

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

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Re: Anyone else see anything more on this article?  [message #65507 is a reply to message #65506] Fri, 25 March 2011 07:31 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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The story has been building for some time. I assume that it will now take a long time to go through the process that courts follow before being thrown out.


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Timmy, I would hate for that to happen ....  [message #65508 is a reply to message #65507] Fri, 25 March 2011 11:41 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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... a good case could be made for his complicity as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Church (a position he continues to hold I understand, even though he was elevated to Bishop of Rome) in it's continued cover up of the institutionalized child abuse prevalent within the Church.

Upon assuming the position of Prefect, he could not have possibly not known about then becoming known child abuse, and it likely would have been his decision alone to continue the veil of secrecy about the whole damn thing.

HE SHOULD BE MADE ACCOUNTABLE. This regardless of whether he is a titular Head Of State, or de facto Head OF The Church, or not.

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Because there are not "War Crimes against Humanity" and sadly because as head of state he's afforded some legal protections & remedies, a legal observer in the Hague told me this morning that this will go no where.
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