The Universal Shifts of Consciousness

The Poison of Religions

Pink Energy of Love of Invisible Sun with artificial green pentagons superimposed on the Pink Light Beam. Picture is taken by me in Feb. 2010.

Now I am sure that the Holographic Pink colored Beam is a fake to be superimposed and used to cover up the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy of 11th Density to cover the movement of it to the Sun (or to the Ball of Advanced Human Thoughts) and from the Sun (or the Ball like on this picture) into the Earth!  The aim of these phony pentagons is to also cover the Pulsating Fast Movement of this Balanced Energy from 11th Density into the Earth, to fasten the vibration of the Earth and everyone on it! The most important is not the wide Pink strip on the picture, but the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy underneath!!! Picture is taken by me in Feb. 2010.
Pentagon Sun. Invisible Sun with artificial pentagons superimposed on it. Picture is taken in the garden of our Centre by me in Feb. 2010.
Pentagon Sun. Invisible Sun with artificial pentagons superimposed on it. Picture is taken in the garden of our Centre by me in Feb. 2010.

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R.Monroe about Religions
 Religions are Forms of Government
 Sexual and Physical Abuse by Church Leaders Alex Collier about Religions
Internet Articles on Religious Topics

"In Russia there comes the hope of the world --
Not as that sometimes termed of the communistic, or Bolshevik, no; but freedom, freedom!
That each man will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born.
It will take years for it to be crystallised, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world.
Guided by what?"
(Cayce Reading 3976-29, June 22, 1944)
The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts is in my room. Apr. 2010
The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts is in my room. Apr. 2010
R.Monroe about Religions

  Church Signs series

  Sign at the cemetry
Sign at the cemetry

Church Signs series

Church Signs series

Sign at the church

Bishop attacked with broom mid service
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2010/04/05/Bishop_attacked_with_broom_mid_service_448012.html

German police say a man attacked the Roman Catholic Bishop of Muenster with a broom handle during an Easter service in the city's cathedral...
Police say the 44-year-old man stormed through the packed church to the altar.
The man's motive was unclear but comes as Germany's Catholic Church is facing intense criticism over a widening abuse scandal.
 Monday, April 05, 2010 » 11:27am

There are a few videos of R.Monroe on Youtube you can watch and below is the content of one of them:

 #7 Monroe's Out-of-Body (OBE) Paranormal Transformation of Human Consciousness
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI91ETw-jio&feature=related

"Bob, would you tell us what this new Goal is?
R.Monroe: Well, it's not quite that simple. The new Goal that reawakened me out of this was, as happens, I met another friend and this other friend I gave another type of name to simply because of the fact that I couldn't, how to put it? I couln't understand him. It's a Heshe and I didn't want to use Heshe name again. (It was another Androgynous Being, LM). So what I call this new friend was Inspec, short for Intelligent Species, which meant that I wasn't an Intelligent Specie. And a very, very deep and warm relationship developed with this non physical Being. And I never saw him in a physical form: he didn't have a form. It was just an energy. And that went on for a number of years until suddenly, oh, I must say there is another part to that. And I asked where his home was. And he said:"Would you like to go, it's on the way to my home and I would like to show it?
Oh, my, yes, please, please!!!
So he did and that became my new Goal was to become an Inspec (an Androgynouus Being). One of these, because the exquisite...
 All the things that we express that being ideally: Love, Joy, Relationships, all this type of melding and unification was expressed when I went and just on the edges of this Inspec's Home. It was a beautiful, beautiful Goal to be that and that became my Goal: to grow and be an Inspec. And my plans all shifted to go to that state of being and this Inspec gave me so many different beautiful things, such as escorting me into the Future to see my last time around as being human. This kind of thing. Until one day, one night, one afternoon. I've forgotten exactly when. The Inspec, in our particular place, which was outside of Time and Space, said to me:"This is our last meeting." I had a great shock, why? And the Inspec said to me: "Because you are taking another Path. You need to learn along that other Path", and I said:" Well, will we see each other again?" And he says:" Not in this form," and I said:"What have I done?" And he says:"No, you have done nothing wrong, is that you have gone in another direction and you need to learn that other direction and get back to Basics before you can go any further." And in that he, the Inspec, winked out like that. He was gone. And I went back maybe, oh, 25 or 30 times to that meeting place and Inspec was never there. He had really disappeared. So that occasion, another depression, but it did trigger my Left Brain Intellect. See, that was the point! It did trigger my Left Brain Intellect.
Basics, what's meant by Basics? And I started tracking down the Basics of what I have missed. And, apparently, I missed something, something very, very important. And so this is needless to go to all the searching, trying to find what I had missed.
The Basics. And I went to all the human, than that was already procedures (I couldn't work it out, LM).
Took a long time to do. Finally, I came upon this one thing and made the change. And that one thing was that many years ago or about, perhaps, if we go into Time, I would say somewhere in the 60's, because this consciousness, this I, this Mind didn't know what to do with this out-of-body activity. I had no idea what to do with this. So what I did was
I used a phrase, a term, an idea that we had a Total Self. I don't like the word 'soul', because it doesn't seem to fit.
So I thought, I don't know what to do with this. To keep conducting experiments and going from Virginia to California was ridiculous and how many times can you go to Mars and the outer planets? They are just more of the same.
"Wait a minute, the Thing, the Basic that I'd missed, was what I've been riding, this Vehicle! In other words, I've been using this Navigator and this Driver and this Vehicle (our physical body, LM) all these years and
I am not taking the trouble to find out who is been doing the driving? And so, what I did, I finally said: or, as we in America put 'what is under the hood of the thing that I'm driving'? And so I did, I began saying:
"That is the Basic!"(the soul, LM).
I opened the whole new pattern of finding out what that answer was and that's a long thing but in turn moved me in a totally different direction and brought me to the knowledge that anything that I could conceive of now as a goal was inadequate to what the options, the availabilities are after I've Graduated as being human. And that is the limitation that I see that humans place upon. We, and I was a part of it, probably, still am, as a matter of fact, we place upon ourselves by our belief systems. We think that only certain things that we can do, could, after we leave here and our non-physical. We forget these other, very simple patterns; our things are based on local ideas, local ways of thinking...
What we call is only a very human system of measurement. And here all these things and they, suddenly, by this process opened up to me, to discover what the Graduate Human, the Being, who Graduates from this human system of learning, can be. And that's what I mean I say:"Go on the Interstate. The Goals are so spectacular, so far Beyond. Anything that we can't even consider. That they are the prime Targets for that anyone who has a curiosity, which I do, prime targets of the scientists is to get into something where the real action is. You run out of action in Time-Space: there is a limit. There is no limit in this, in this whole spectrum of consciousness that I see (outside Time-Space, LM). That's what I'm talking about. How far it goes?
I don't know how far it goes, but I do know one thing, that one of the routes that you can take, and that was one of my explorations, because I went and explore it, to see these potentials. One is, that one route that you can take and you can see the source of this. This is a lot of the humankind, we all have yearning and we express it in the desire to go Home. We express it in our going outward, in Infinity, looking for other intelligent life, looking for things out in the Universe, all these kind of things. But the real part of it is that we really want to do this Key thing: we are looking for something else. And what we are looking for is the thing that built into us in the beginning and that is that. And we express it in our religions, that we would like to go and meet our Maker. Now, all I can tell you is at the very least, because this can go on for a long, long time. I know how one can get on the Interstate. Go, meet your Maker!
And all I want to do, I have not met that Maker yet, but what I would like to do at some point and that totality of me (and that is another story). We would like to go and 'not prostate ourselves at the foot of our Maker', but , let's say to shake that Maker's hand and say: "What a magnificient Engineer he is, what a beautiful Designer he is, she is, Heshe and go get into a New Game with the Maker. And that's all we want. And it seems endless options that you can take.
You can become a Maker yourself if you want. What you learn here is the Basic tools of being a Maker!"
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 Religions are forms of Government

Religions are form of Government  Road Sign
Religions are forms of Government 
Jews or Jewish is not a Nationality. It is a State of Mind, It is a Religion. It is originated from the Underground Jewish Kingdom, called Agartha with the capital called Shamballa. Their King is called Melchizedek. It has 'over 100 of Subterranian cities, that form the Agartha network' ...(additional info will be posted on More Truth About Jews  and  Hollow Earth  )  
Unfortunately this Jewish State of Mind penetrated too many humans on this Earth and the biggest achievement could be reached if this Jewish State of Mind of this people would change, would evolve into more advanced in terms of Consciousness. It seems that all Earth religions either have been designed or changed by one hand, by the Jewish Rulers of Subterranian Agartha, who has Draconians as their Rulers. Then religions have been spread all over Original and Parallel Earths. Then penetrated non-physical 4th Density. And I don't know what would happen to religions after the completion of the Universal Shift of Consciousness. Russia, like never before, has been poisoned by religions and people like Dmitri Medvedev and Vladimir Putin have been helping to spread that poison. Handsome and a good talker, Dmitri Medvedev was chosen as President of Russia not by chance. It is done to make most Russian females to artificially 'fall in love' with either D.Medvedev or V.Putin. Then it is so much easier to manipulate the minds of all Nationalities and all genders living in Russia. The same is done in many other countries. Females usually are following their Political or Religious Men-Leaders. And if they are female-leaders, then they would be openly supporting all religions, otherwise they'll be out of job.
In any case the Kingdom of Agartha has been crumbling till there'll be nothing left, except barren rock waiting for Earth Planetary Shift of Consciousness in December 2012.
      
I am so glad that the Universal Shift is taking place right now and will culminate at the end of 2013. This is the only force which is capable to break these poisonous religions, which are stopping the progress of our evolution towards reaching the higher densities and our rightful place on higher densties. All religions have been manufectured for us by negative aliens like: Draconians/Reptilians/Sirians/Grays/Jews etc. These negative races, themselves, don't believe in these religions. They've been created for us to keep us under their control. These things are permited by the rules of the Game. And because this Planetary Game is breaking down (it's almost the End of the Game), everything in connection with the Game is breaking down too, inspite of all the attempts of the media to create a different picture for the public (breaking of religions, governments, financial systems and institutions, military and police forces, industries and buisnesses etc).
There is an interesting article I found on Internet more than a year ago (concerning religions and Jews):
albert einstein
Albert Einstein
 
"The father of relativity, whose previously known views on religion have been more ambivalent and fuelled much discussion, made the comments in response to a philosopher in 1954.
As a Jew himself, Einstein said he had a great affinity with Jewish people but said they "have no different quality for me than all other people."
"The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish.
"No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this," he wrote in the letter written on January 3, 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind, cited by The Guardian newspaper.
The German-language letter is being sold Thursday by Bloomsbury Auctions in Mayfair, London, after being in a private collection for more than 50 years, said the auction house's managing director Rupert Powell.
In it the renowned scientist, who declined an invitation to become Israel's second president, rejected the idea that the Jews are God's chosen people.
"For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions," he said.
"And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people."
And he added: "As far as my experience goes, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."
...Mr Powell said the letter being sold this week gave a clear reflection of Einstein's real thoughts on the subject. "He's fairly unequivocal as to what he's saying. There's no beating about the bush," he said."
-AFP
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In old times it was real easy to manipulate populace, but  at present times it is not, because of the enourmous amount of information pumped into the population of the planet to wake everyone up! How religions are deceiving these days?
They learn to adapt to the place/people's mind set/the situation/the time of the history. The prists in our area, usually, get a few true facts about where we came from, what we are doing here and where we are going. And they will tell these facts to people in the church, but at the end of their speech, they will put their spin on the whole subject. And that Spin is that you still need to worship a man or a woman, called a Creator! This is not right! I will repeat what I already wrote.
 If you have a little sun in you, called Soul/Spirit, this piece of Creative Force, then it makes you automatically a Creator!!!
It doesn't matter if you are a positive or negative being. The difference is only in how much can you create, how big are your Creative powers.
Your Real Value is: How Much You Can Do For The Evolution Of Our Universe.
How Strong is Your Intent for Helping the Universal Shift to move Out Of Physicality, Helping the Earth Planetary Shift and Helping The Creative Force, the Force you are coming from, you are part of? 
The question is: What needs to be done for it?
The answer is: Your Thoughts, Your Intent, Rejection of all the Religions and Your Constant Calming Energy, directed at the whole Earth Life and the Stability of this Planet. All that would help a lot!
Go with this flow and you'll never go wrong, otherwise you are wasting your time on this planet !
The number of women as political leaders in Australia is increasing, the only problem is that they all are religious (like female/male-leaders of other countries). The true leader must trust in herself/himself, her/his own power, not in someone fabricated to believe in! There is no need to worship anybody! If my word is not enough then maybe the opinions of other writers like R. Monroe and Andromedans (through Alex Collier) about the poison of religions would shake you more.
I posted quite a bit about it on their links and on this link. Even Dolores Cannon wrote quite a few thoughts about the poisonous nature of religions in her books (delivered to her by different alien races through her clients) and will be gradually posting them on my site.
The whole Russia is so poisoned by the spread of religions these days, making people of this country (and not just this country) mindless sheep following another sheep, following another sheep. Religions are teaching you not to trust in yourself, in your own power! In Russia, they teach you to follow the Jewish guy on the picture, called Christos on Russian icons (in English he would be called Jesus). In muslim country, their 'god' will be another Jewish guy on their picture, called Muchamed and so on. It reminds me the biggest dictionary with pictures I've got (Webster, made in England). There are pictures of famous people in it and all the faces on these pictures are Jewish. Or if I go to most famous museums of Europe and look at the paintings. What I see? The same picture: Jewish faces I would see on almost every picture. And I visited a lot of museums in my lifetime. That makes me wonder:" Are all famous people need to be of Jewish origin?"
The face of Jesus on an icon in other western countries would be of a handsome white man. I never in my life met a spiritually advanced Jew and I'm not talking about religions. Spirituality has nothing to do with religions and it is annoying to see how religions changed the meaning of the words like Spirituality, Love, Ascension and hundreds of others, the meaning of wonderful books!
Creative Force is the Force, Energy and you are a part of this Energy, because the piece of this Energy, called Spirit, is in you. Creative Force is not a human!
I am astonished that all the excellent writers, males and females, being non-religious, had religious life partners! And not just writers. Almost everyone. You can hardly find a non-religious couple! How things changed in former USSR. 
I would say 95% of Russian females are religious these days, because they think that'll help them to get through the difficult times. They usually led by religious males and political males-leaders of this country Medvedev and Putin, who are actively supporting the spread of religions all over the country (now you can see compulsory religions at school and universities). Religious women and Jewish people are helping to spread this poison to non religious people. Jewish people are well provided for doing it, but most of the women of other nations are doing it for free ('faith'). It seems so strange to see this religious spread inspite of so much knowledge available to us! Religions are poisoning human mind! They've been bringing a lot of negativity, violence and retardation to Humanity.
It wasn't much of an effort for me to stay away from any religion, because my parents never been religious and religion of any kind was prohibited in the former USSR then. But it was different for R.Monroe born in 1915 in USA. Nevertheless his parents were also non religious people, but instead highly educated individuals and that greatly influenced Bob Monroe. There are some Bob's thoughts about his attitude towards religion from his biography, written by Bayard Stockton, p. 274:
" A number of people who listen to Bob talking in various settings during the latter part of 1987 and early 1988 felt sure he (and she, LM) had recently experienced some kind of a spiritual awakening, or that his view of the "spiritual" had changed. Bob's answer is elliptical.
I'll talk about 'spiritual' with anyone, if he/she can define what he/she means by the word. Is it a synonym for growth? The kind of growth I recognize doesn't seem to fit. I do know that the concept of the Ultimate God watching over you is not my department. There is something very much wrong with that picture, to me.
It's like five hundred years from now, the remnants of the human race may revere the automobile. They won't know what it was used for, but they'll know it did something, and they'll worship it."
Replacing Jesus with ET

Church is replacing Jesus with ET

The Colbert Show
The Colbert Show

Vatican Rocket
Vatican Rocket

The Colbert Report on Youtube (in English) www.colbertnation.com
http://www.statidipercezione.blogspot.com/
Refurbished Church
Modified Church
Churches to nightclubs
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2009/11/27/Churches_to_nightclubs_399155.html

The Vatican has warned Italy's bishops against letting deserted churches be transformed into nightclubs if the decision is taken to sell the places of worship.
Archbishop Gianfranco Ravasi, the Vatican's new culture commissar, urged 'the greatest caution' after announcing that Roman Catholic churches with few worshippers could be sold off.
He gave the example of a church in Hungary which was 'transformed into a nightclub and where striptease took place on the altar'.
'Faced with falling number of worshippers, a phenomenon which we are also unfortunately witnessing in the centre of Rome, churches without any artistic value and which need significant work can be sold or destroyed,' he told reporters."

Friday, November 27, 2009 » 02:32pm
modern prist
The prist is working out the price he can ask for the sale of a church at the time of Global Crises.
36 dead in minaret collapse

Collapse of the church in Morocco, 20 Feb. 2010
Churches are not safe as well
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/02/20/36_dead_in_minaret_collapse_431160.html

A minaret has collapsed during prayers, killing 36 people and injuring 71, at a crowded mosque in the old town of the historic Moroccan city of Meknes.
Officials blamed the accident on heavy rain that had weakened the minaret at the Bab Berdieyinne Mosque, according to a statement released by the Interior Ministry.
King Mohammed VI sent the interior minister and religious affairs minister to Meknes, a UNESCO heritage city and one of Morocco's four imperial cities, some 120 kilometres (62 miles) east of the capital Rabat.
The officials visited some of the injured at hospitals in Meknes. The more seriously injured were taken to hospitals in the nearby city of Fes. A team of psychologists was also sent.
MAP, citing official sources, said hospitals had already released 51 people, but were still treating 20 injured victims.
The king has ordered the reconstruction of the mosque, which was built four centuries ago under Sultan Moulay Ismail, who made Meknes his capital.
Heavy rain battered the city on Friday, and more rain has been forecast for the next week.
Saturday, February 20, 2010 » 07:31pm


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Sexual and Physical Abuse by Church Leaders


Girls promised in marriage to cult (Australia)

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Crime/2010/05/21/Girls_promised_in_marriage_to_cult_464671.html

Girls as young as six have been promised in marriage to men linked to a doomsday cult under police investigation, an Adelaide grandmother says.
Lesley Baligod says she fears for the safety of her two granddaughters and other children involved with Agape Ministries, believing cult leaders are trying to flee to Vanuatu.
She says the religious group is preparing for the end of the world and its leaders believe girls should be married by the age of 12.
Ms Baligod said she contacted Families SA two months ago to express her concerns but was eventually told nothing could be done.
'There are 12 children caught up in this cult. Where are they? What has happened to them? What is happening to them as we speak?' she said to reporters in Adelaide on Friday.
Police searching for Agape Ministries leader Rocco Leo now say they believe they know his whereabouts.
They were also looking for his two main assistants after this week raiding 12 properties associated with the cult and uncovering a hoard of explosives, ammunition and weapons.
The raids involved 90 officers and netted 15 guns, slow-burning fuses, detonators, extendable batons and 35,000 rounds of ammunition, some of it high-powered.
Much of the cache was found in shipping containers and police said they believed the Agape leaders were planning to move their organisation offshore.
Investigations also centred on concerns followers had donated large sums of money, with the core group of 40-60 members selling their houses and businesses and handing over the proceeds.
South Australian independent senator Nick Xenophon said he warned the state government about the cult a month ago but got little response.
On Friday, he called for the group's assets to be frozen and for tougher laws to deal with cults.
'Here we have a situation where this group has guns, they believe in the end of the world and there are kids involved,' Senator Xenophon said.
'If that isn't a recipe for a potential disaster, I don't know what is.'
South Australia's Families and Communities Minister Jennifer Rankine said her department was keeping a close eye on members of the Agape group.
Ms Rankine said she was aware of allegations that at least two children had been promised in marriage to older followers but there was no evidence of this and no indication the children were being mistreated.
Ms Baligod said her son became involved with Agape Ministries 17 years ago and the group had tried to recruit her other children.
'He's buried himself in that church,' she said.
'You cannot argue with anybody who is completely brainwashed into a religious cult.
'If you try to say something, their eyes glaze over and they start praying in their head.'
Friday, May 21, 2010 » 11:44pm
BBC makes apology over Queen joke (England)

Tuesday, May 18, 2010 » 02:09pm
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2010/05/18/BBC_makes_apology_over_Queen_joke_463183.html

 The BBC has apologised 'unreservedly' after a radio DJ joked during a live broadcast that the Queen had died.
Danny Kelly, 39, told BBC WM listeners he had an important announcement to make before saying: 'Queen Elizabeth II has now died.'
The DJ played the national anthem as he made the joke during his weekday afternoon slot on Monday, which is broadcast from the corporation's Birmingham base to listeners across the West Midlands.
It's believed the comment was a reference to a fan on the show's Facebook page.
'We can confirm that Danny Kelly made an inappropriate remark about The Queen during his radio show on BBC WM,' a BBC spokesman said.
'Although made as part of a light-hearted piece about social media friends, and corrected on-air immediately after it was made, the comment was entirely inappropriate and the BBC apologises unreservedly for it.
'There was no intention to offend.
'BBC WM takes this comment very seriously. Action is being taken.'
The spokesman could not comment on what action had been taken, or whether the DJ would be on air on Tuesday.
On the BBC WM website Danny Kelly is described as having a 'unique brand of humour'.
A short statement alongside his picture reads, 'You never know what will happen next, but it's guaranteed to put a smile on your face'.
Bishops resign in child abuse scandal
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2009/12/25/Bishops_resign_in_child_abuse_scandal_410674.html

Two more bishops in Ireland have resigned in the wake of a devastating clerical child abuse inquiry.
Eamonn Walsh and Raymond Field bowed to weeks of criticism and pressure.
They announced at Mass services across Dublin that they planned to quit their posts as auxiliaries in the archdiocese.
They are the latest senior clerics to stand down after Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin James Moriarty and Bishop of Limerick Donal Murray resigned over the damning Murphy report.
It exposed the Catholic hierarchy's shocking inaction and cover-up of paedophile priests over decades.
Bishops Walsh and Field announced their resignations in a statement as Midnight Mass took place around the country.
'As we celebrate the Feast of Christmas, the Birth of our Saviour, the Prince of Peace, it is our hope that our action may help to bring the peace and reconciliation of Jesus Christ to the victims/survivors of child sexual abuse,' they said.
'We again apologise to them.'
The bishops added: 'Our thoughts and prayers are with those who have so bravely spoken out and those who continue to suffer in silence.'
The Murphy inquiry, based on a sample 46 priests, revealed a catalogue of paedophilia and subsequent cover-ups over three decades because the Catholic hierarchy was obsessed with secrecy and was effectively granted immunity by the police.
Last night in St Mary's Pro-Cathedral in Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin told Mass-goers that the diocese must now be called to renewal by recognising what happened in the past.
'It has been a painful year. But the Church today may well be a better and safer place than was the Church of 25 years ago when all looked well, but where deep shadows were kept buried.
'The church in Dublin is called to conversion and to renewal.'
Friday, December 25, 2009 » 05:24pm
Church covered up abuse
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2009/11/27/Church_covered_up_abuse_398936.html

The Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse committed by priests because bishops wanted to protect the church's reputation at the expense of victims, an expert commission reported on Thursday after a three-year probe into previously secret church records.
Abuse victims said they welcomed publication of the probe into the mishandling of 1975-2004 child-abuse cases in the Dublin Archdiocese, home to a quarter of Ireland's 4 million Catholics.
But they said government and church leaders still had far to go to compensate for past wrongs.
The government said the investigation 'shows clearly that a systemic, calculated perversion of power and trust was visited on helpless and innocent children in the archdiocese'.
'The perpetrators must continue to be brought to justice, and the people of Ireland must know that this can never happen again,' said the government, which also apologised for the state's failure to hold church authorities accountable to the law.
This is the second major government-ordered report this year exploring how and why Irish authorities permitted widespread abuse of boys and girls at the hands of the Catholic Church throughout most of the 20th century, the gravest scandal in the history of independent Ireland.
Thursday's 720-page report - delivered to the government in July - analyses the cases of 46 priests against whom 320 complaints were filed. The 46 were selected from more than 150 Dublin priests implicated in molesting or raping boys and girls since 1940.
The report named 11 priests because they all were convicted of child abuse. But 33 others were referred to only by one-name aliases, and two others had their names blanked out after the Dublin High Court ruled that publication would prejudice their chances of receiving a fair criminal trial.
Investigators spent three years poring over 60,000 previously secret Dublin church files. They were handed over by Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, a veteran Vatican diplomat appointed to Dublin in 2004 with a brief to confront the scandal once and for all. Among the files were more than 5,500 that Martin's predecessor, retired Cardinal Desmond Connell, tried to keep locked in the archbishop's private vault.
The investigators, led by a judge and two lawyers, said they had no doubt that the 46 priests were responsible for abusing many more than 320 children.
'One priest admitted to sexually abusing over 100 children, while another accepted that he had abused on a fortnightly basis during the currency of his ministry which lasted for over 25 years,' they wrote.
They said it was not their job to confirm the scale of abuse cases, but 'it is abundantly clear ... that child sexual abuse by clerics was widespread throughout the period'.
The commission found that three archbishops of Dublin - John Charles McQuaid (1940-72), Dermot Ryan (1972-84) and Kevin McNamara (1985-87) - did not tell police about clerical abuse cases, instead opting to avoid public scandals by shuttling offenders from parish to parish.
It was not until 1995, seven years into his reign, that then-Archbishop Connell allowed police to see church files on 17 clerical abuse cases. The documents were kept in a secret, locked vault in the archbishop's Dublin residence.
Records show Connell actually had records of complaints against at least 29 priests at the time.
The report rejected the bishops' key claim that they were ignorant of both the scale and criminality of priests' abuse of children. It dug up a documentary trail showing that the Dublin Archdiocese negotiated a 1987 insurance policy for future legal costs of defending lawsuits and compensation claims.
The investigators said McNamara, Ryan and McQuaid knew about at least 17 priests linked to child abuse in their archdiocese when that policy went into effect.
'The taking out of insurance was an act proving knowledge of child sexual abuse as a potential major cost to the archdiocese and is inconsistent with the view that archdiocesan officials were still 'on a learning curve' at a much later date, or were lacking in appreciation of the phenomenon of clerical child sex abuse,' the report said.
In May, the government published an investigation into decades of child abuse in Catholic-run schools, workhouses and orphanages.
That probe also found that thousands of boys and girls suffered rape, beatings and mental abuse by members of Catholic religious orders. More than 12,000 of those victims already have received compensation payments from a government panel exceeding E800 million ($A1.3 billion).
The Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of child abuse committed by priests because bishops wanted to protect the church's reputation at the expense of victims, an expert commission reported on Thursday after a three-year probe into previously secret church records.
Abuse victims said they welcomed publication of the probe into the mishandling of 1975-2004 child-abuse cases in the Dublin Archdiocese, home to a quarter of Ireland's 4 million Catholics.
But they said government and church leaders still had far to go to compensate for past wrongs.
The government said the investigation 'shows clearly that a systemic, calculated perversion of power and trust was visited on helpless and innocent children in the archdiocese'.
'The perpetrators must continue to be brought to justice, and the people of Ireland must know that this can never happen again,' said the government, which also apologised for the state's failure to hold church authorities accountable to the law.
This is the second major government-ordered report this year exploring how and why Irish authorities permitted widespread abuse of boys and girls at the hands of the Catholic Church throughout most of the 20th century, the gravest scandal in the history of independent Ireland.
Thursday's 720-page report - delivered to the government in July - analyses the cases of 46 priests against whom 320 complaints were filed. The 46 were selected from more than 150 Dublin priests implicated in molesting or raping boys and girls since 1940.
The report named 11 priests because they all were convicted of child abuse. But 33 others were referred to only by one-name aliases, and two others had their names blanked out after the Dublin High Court ruled that publication would prejudice their chances of receiving a fair criminal trial.
Investigators spent three years poring over 60,000 previously secret Dublin church files. They were handed over by Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin, a veteran Vatican diplomat appointed to Dublin in 2004 with a brief to confront the scandal once and for all. Among the files were more than 5,500 that Martin's predecessor, retired Cardinal Desmond Connell, tried to keep locked in the archbishop's private vault.
The investigators, led by a judge and two lawyers, said they had no doubt that the 46 priests were responsible for abusing many more than 320 children.
'One priest admitted to sexually abusing over 100 children, while another accepted that he had abused on a fortnightly basis during the currency of his ministry which lasted for over 25 years,' they wrote.
They said it was not their job to confirm the scale of abuse cases, but 'it is abundantly clear ... that child sexual abuse by clerics was widespread throughout the period'.
The commission found that three archbishops of Dublin - John Charles McQuaid (1940-72), Dermot Ryan (1972-84) and Kevin McNamara (1985-87) - did not tell police about clerical abuse cases, instead opting to avoid public scandals by shuttling offenders from parish to parish.
It was not until 1995, seven years into his reign, that then-Archbishop Connell allowed police to see church files on 17 clerical abuse cases. The documents were kept in a secret, locked vault in the archbishop's Dublin residence.
Records show Connell actually had records of complaints against at least 29 priests at the time.
The report rejected the bishops' key claim that they were ignorant of both the scale and criminality of priests' abuse of children. It dug up a documentary trail showing that the Dublin Archdiocese negotiated a 1987 insurance policy for future legal costs of defending lawsuits and compensation claims.
The investigators said McNamara, Ryan and McQuaid knew about at least 17 priests linked to child abuse in their archdiocese when that policy went into effect.
'The taking out of insurance was an act proving knowledge of child sexual abuse as a potential major cost to the archdiocese and is inconsistent with the view that archdiocesan officials were still 'on a learning curve' at a much later date, or were lacking in appreciation of the phenomenon of clerical child sex abuse,' the report said.
In May, the government published an investigation into decades of child abuse in Catholic-run schools, workhouses and orphanages.
That probe also found that thousands of boys and girls suffered rape, beatings and mental abuse by members of Catholic religious orders. More than 12,000 of those victims already have received compensation payments from a government panel exceeding E800 million ($A1.3 billion)."
Lithuanian hill of crosses
Lithuanian hill of crosses: can you imagine the amount of negativity there?

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Alex Collier about Religions
     
Alex Collier has a lot to say about the origins of Christianity in his book "Defending Sacred Ground", p.220-224. There is also a lot of his material on  Alex Collier info   link. This book in electronic form is available on this site under the title "Defending Sacred Ground". Here is the extract from his book:
The Holographic Record of Christianity

Q: Can you be specific on what the Andromedan viewpoint is on Christianity, especially in view of the fact that they
have holographic access to all events that have happened on Earth? I mean, what are some of the specifics?
A: You know, I don't like talking about this, because I was raised a Catholic. I was an altar boy. The truth broke my
heart. You know, to find out that what I thought was reality really wasn't. Where I'm at with it is very personal, but
I'm not counting on anybody to come down and save me. The Andromedan perspective of the whole scenario is really
different that what we've been told.
Q: Well, it's apparent that there were several characters in history with the name Yeshua, translated loosely as
"Jesus". There's Yeshua Ben Joseph, etc. How did all this develop?
A: Okay. Basically what happened was that the Catholic church created a composite character, because at the time
they were expending a lot of resources putting out religious wars. It seemed like a good idea at the time, but like
many things it got perverted. Yeshua Ben Joseph, was a Jewish rabbi who lived from 70BC to 9 BC. He was apparently
crucified at some point, charged with being a thief. Prior to that there was a man by the name of rabbi Hallel who
apparently died in 100BC. Rabbi Hallel was called "The Great Teacher". Many Christians are led to believe that a man
named Jesus was called this, when in fact it was Rabbi Hallel. Now, what happened was that the New Testament
composite character of "Jesus The Christ" was created by the Council of Nicea. Most of the words that are attributed to
this composite character, referred to colloquially as "Jesus", were in fact spoken by Apollonius of Tyana, who the Bible
calls "Paul of Tarsus". Because Rome had their armies scattered all over the place and all these wars were over the
subject of religion, what the Council of Nicea decided to do is essentially create a "State Religion". So, what they did
was combine the religions of the east and the west, both of which were concerned with Sun worship. Those in the
West worshipped Hesos, also called Hess. Those in the East that worshipped the Sun worshipped Krishna, which in
Greek is called Kristos. The very first "Bible" that was put together in 325AD. They took some books that Apollonius of
Tyana had brought back from Burma, called the Codes of the Initiates (which concerned themselves with man's
relationship to the seasons, among other things) containing lessons that were handed down to those particular Holy
Men in India during that particular period in history. The Codes of the Initiates allegedly contained words that were
spoken by Krishna. The very first "Bible" was called the Helios Biblios, which means "The Sun Book". This is what they
did in the very beginning.
Q: When was the Helios Biblios assembled?
A: Between 324 and 355 AD, by the Council of Nicea under Emperor Constantine The Great. Then they slowly
developed a "God", a personage, to replace the Sun, and slowly changed the books, disposing of the material detailing
reincarnation and many of the other teachings. They changed meanings, and every scribe that worked on this thing
kept changing things as belief systems were revised with the prevailing times.
Q: How about things ascribed to the historical "Jesus" such as the Sermon on the Mount?
A: The exact words ascribed to the historical "Jesus" with reference to the Sermon on the Mount were found in a
Turkish museum, authored by a Greek Senator in 64 AD. The Church went out a gathered all the information they
could at various times in history, and they suppressed what they didn't agree with or what they didn't want the people
to know.
Q: Then, who was the healer in this whole scenario?
A: That was Apollonius of Tyana, who the Catholic Church referred to as the "Anti-Christ", despite the fact that he was
also known as Paul of Tarsus, mainly because he encouraged rebellion against Roman tyranny.
Q: And Yeshua Ben Joseph?
A: From what I understand, he was of the royal line, but he tried to create rebellion against Roman tyranny as well.
Now, there was also another Yeshua.
Q: Another Yeshua?
A: Yes. It was a very common name than in Judea. He was a rabbi who was also a rebel, of sorts. He died at Massada
in 64 AD, and his presence at Massada was why Massada was attacked. His name was Yeshua Malathiel. The bottom
line is there was no "Jesus Christ" in history at all. It was a composite character, and history reveals this fact.
Q: Now, Robert Morning Sky revealed that the specific crucifixion that involved a Yeshua was a mock crucifixion, in
that the person did not really die, because he was given an herbal mixture to simulate death, and that Bar Abbas was
in fact the son of the Yeshua concerned here.
A: Yes, if you take the name Bar Abbas, which is a two-word name (not Barrabas, as in the Biblical product of the
Roman Church), and you go back to the ancient Hebrew, it means "Son of the Teacher" or "Son of the Master".
Q: So whose son was Bar Abbas?
A: Yeshua Melethiel.
Q: His son.
A: Yes, and from that grew the lineage in France.
Q: The lineage in France? That is where Alex Christopher's book Pandora's Box picks the trail up. The so-called
"bloodline of Christ" that related to the mission of the Templars.
A: That's right. It related not to Yeshua (Jesus) Malathiel himself, who died at Massada in 64 AD, but to his son, Bar
Abbas, who survived and went to France.
Q: This is also connected with the "blue-bloods" and extraterrestrial genetics?
A: That's exactly right.
Q: So Yeshua Malathiel was a "blue-blood"?
A: Yes, he was, and he was connected to the House of David, and if you go all the way back through the line, through
David, and you get to Moses, who was a human-extraterrestrial "half-breed".
Q: So, was it Yeshua Malathiel who was involved in the "cross scenario"?
A: I don't know for sure. The only place I have heard of the story that Robert is talking about is from a book called
Crucifixion By An Eyewitness (which does not at all imply that Robert got his data from that book, just that the book
mentions it)
But, the Essenes were herbalists and knew how to mix potions and knew about this kind of thing. Of course, the real
secrets about all of this lie in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Q: Which the Israeli government have locked up, or at least most of them, and will only let a few select people see a
few of them.
A: Yes, by the Israeli's and the Roman Church, because what the Dead Sea Scrolls show, according to the
Andromedans, are that "Christianity" and "Judaism" were really one thing, one religion, and they also tell the true
story of who Yeshua was, as we have spoken about here.
Q: Yeshua Malathiel?
A: Right. Rabbi Wise in the 1950's and 1960's did an extensive study of the death warrants and death certificates of
those who were crucified during that time period, as the Romans kept records, and the only Yeshua listed as being
crucified was a man coincidentally named Yeshua Malathiel, who was listed as a traitor and a thief. Mary of the house
of Magdelana was the wife of Yeshua Malathiel. She came from a very well-to-do family who raised doves for sacrifices
put on by the Pharisees at the temples. I think the book Holy Grail talks a little about that, too. The Jewish tradition
was at that time that any man 13 years of age, who was a rabbi, must take a wife and have children. That was the law.
Q: How did the crucifixion scenario arise with Yeshua Malathiel and his son, Bar Abbas?
A: Well, the story behind that is that they took Bar Abbas because they knew that the father, Yeshua, would come
after his son. The story goes on to say that a ransom was paid, and they did a "mock" crucifixion in order to hide the
fact of a payoff to the Romans. Malathiel did not leave the area. He continued to do what he did and died at Massada.
There is apparently a scroll which is in the possession of the Russians that proves this, and the son, Bar Abbas, was
escorted to France with the rest of the family.
Q: So, presuming that somewhere along the line Christians or Jews would read this material, what would you say to
them if they feel concerned by it?
A: Well, all I would say is that true history does not support the idea or the proof that a "Jesus Christ" lived. It does prove that Apollonius of Tyana was real, and the other thing I would say is, "you've been duped"... 
Q: Of course, this is why Gnosticism has been so suppressed throughout history.
A: Yes. These "churches" exist only because people "believe in them" and support them financially. If you take that
away and say, "my relationship is with the Creator, I don't need a middle man", then "there is no need for you." Let's face it, the church is politics and a form of government. The Andromedans share very much the same viewpoint as
some of the Pleaidian groups - that all religions on our planet are forms of government, and they don't see any
difference between government and politics (power-brokering), in their perspective. I mean, people used to have to
pay priests in order to "assure their place in heaven".
Q: Are there any religious systems on this planet that are at all beneficial?
A: There are two religious systems they say have been beneficial, and they were the original form of Buddhism and the original form of Shinto. All the other stuff is designed to hold you back and control you. That is their perception.
Creation of Our Universe

 Q: Why would the group consciousness of the Paa Tal (Beings of the 11th Density, LM) come into third density?
A: The Draconian legends, according to the Andromedans, talk about wars with the Paa Tal, who created the human form of physicality."

Concept of the "Rapture" Psychologically Dysfunctional

Alex: There was a time back in 1986, just before I left Malibu, where I was having a talk with the Andromedans about religions, and I remember specifically that Vasais was very curious about religions. I was on that particular day picking on Christianity a little bit, and I had told him that there were a lot of people on Earth waiting to be "raptured". He didn't understand what the word meant, and I explained that it meant the process of being caught up and taken to heaven. I remember that he looked at me, and asked, "where is this heaven supposed to be?", and I said, "it's a place where there are angels, and God is sitting on the throne", you know, the classical definition of what heaven is supposed to be like, and he just looked at me and asked, "many are waiting for this to occur?". I said, "yes". He then said, "this is extremely dysfunctional."
Val: He always has a way with words..
Alex: For all I know, he may have taken that little bit of information back to the Council and....well, they have some protocols that have to be met.
Val: What are you getting at, exactly?
Hypothetical Events Changing Planetary Consciousness

Alex: Maybe the intervention that is occurring is being done in such a way that it satisfies all of the concerns of those in the Andromedan Council, also giving us the highest probability of coming to self-awareness as quickly as possible on our own...
The second highest probability is the proof of dimension, that there is "life after death" and that the soul does not cease to exist.
Val: What might prompt this realization?
Alex: That, I don't know. But, it is within my gut instinct...
Vasais: Creating A New Reality and Different Way of Life

Alex: ... I was having a conversation once with Vasais once about the idea of creating a new reality and a different way of life here. These are some of the thoughts he gave me:
"Create another domain of knowing, communicating and being. In other words, the domain of calling forth or generating your intent needs to be more distinct. Your physics, as you call it, is a good example of this
'calling forth'. There have been men on your planet who have called for new domains of thinking that never existed. They invented it, and they didn't fantasize about it. They didn't pretend. They literally created a
new context for what you now call physics. Your humanity is strong with these kind of examples. No being, however, makes the distinction that this is what they are. I would like to give you an example. Your (concept of) human rights. It isn't so long ago that there was no such concept on your planet. It didn't exist. Your terrans did not have any rights. Only their kings and priest had their rights. But most of you terrans did not have any rights. So, you and other terrans created 'human rights' from nothing. You created the domain that created the "human rights' and then you called it forth. You created language for it. You communicated it.
And this communication that you gave had power, because it was full of intent. It has the power not only to
represent and to invoke, but also to literally bring it into being. This is what your races need to do in order to clearly know yourselves and transform the quality of your lives on your Earth."
Val: That's helpful.
Andromedan View of the "Astral Plane"

Alex: There is something else I wanted to share with you. When I first started talking with him in 1985, there were a lot of questions that I had regarding the astral plane, or "ghosts" and things like that. So, this is dealing with what most metaphysicians would understand as the "astral plane, and those who inhabit it:

"Their reality is one of collapsed consciousness and personal belief systems. They cannot any longer expand in consciousness. They believe they cannot awaken until they are worthy...
Val: This is interesting, because it dovetails a lot with what Robert Monroe had to say in his book Far Journeys (in fact R. Monroe didn't like to compare Journeys out-of-Body with Astral travelling, because of a big difference in them, LM).
"And this worthiness comes only from within, and it must be experienced in their own laws. They are stuck in consciousness. We would suggest to them, if they were to ask for assistance, that it be important to burn away all the religious images, otherwise truth becomes very filtered and squeezed, and you only get a little piece of that truth, and not all of it."
Andromedan View of "Truth" on Earth At This Time

"Truth, on your planet, is a filtered experience understood only through your personal belief systems or concepts. We have discovered that everyone on your world has a different truth, and there have been
cultures-of-truth in every society or civilization. It has kept a continuum of light here on your planet. The truth is not told to everyone because everyone, we feel, is not ready to hear it. There are some who have, and
would take your truths and but them in a box, and then keep their lives detached from it. The problems is that much of your mankind is taking these truths personally instead of seeing it as an objective truth or reality. They would take this truth and make it very egotistical in order to glorify themselves and others, and as we perceive, and through our own experience, a truth is not meant for that at all. They would then create a religion or some kind of dogma again, something which they could remain detached from, yet glorify in the eyes of others. And a truth has nothing to do with your earth religions. The secret, wondrous nature of Spirit has nothing to do with your religions. You are all multi-dimensional. Think that way. In order to think that way, you Terns should turn the way you understand and perceive yourselves and life inside-out, and make all of your belief systems abstract, not personal. Because of your personal attachments, you have cut yourselves off from universal knowledge. You have to have an objective mind to gain true knowledge. You have all cultivated the attitude of a subjective self. The Is-nests does not live inside of all of you, and if you won't
conceive of or believe in your own divinity, how are you going to make the leap into the next levels? How are you going to attract and magnetize true, unconditional respect and love, to you, without thinking in this
way. If you do not participate, you will only be a spectator. You will not watch or participate in the plan for growth and evolution in our galaxy, and not truly experience it yourself."
Val: Could you define a non-personal belief system in terms of what was just said?
Alex: A belief system not based on personal experience. What I have learned is that personal experience is really the only true basis for knowledge that I have.
Val: So he's saying that belief systems, if they exist at all outside personal experience, should be considered to be only abstract in their nature.
Alex: Yes, that's right..."

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Internet Articles on Religious Topics


There are a few of the numerous articles from Internet here about the real nature of all Religions:
Pope condemns sexual abuse within Church
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/05/12/Pope_condemns_sexual_abuse_within_Church_461025.html

Pope Benedict the 16th has begun a four-day visit to Portugal with an unusually strong condemnation of sex abuse within the Catholic Church , although his presence initially failed to attract massive crowds in Lisbon.
In the evening, however, the Pope was expected to draw up to 200,000 to a mass in central Lisbon.
'The biggest persecution of the church' did not come from 'outside enemies, but is born from sin within the church,' the 83-year-old pontiff told journalists on the plane from Rome to Lisbon.
The church needs to relearn penance, Benedict said, explaining that forgiveness did not 'replace justice.'
His trip comes after the Vatican has been convulsed by months of paedophile and abuse scandals in many of its most staunchly Catholic heartlands - from Ireland to Germany.
The Pope had taken a 'strong stance' against covering up sex abuse of children by priests, and expressed the need for the church to cooperate with civilian justice, theologist Anselmo Borges said.
However, Benedict's admission came 'too late,' sociologist Boaventura Sousa Santos complained.
Disillusionment over the ongoing sex abuse scandal may have kept some faithful away from coming to see the pope, locals said near the presidential palace, where less than 400 people showed up to see
Benedict enter the building to pay a courtesy visit to President Anibal Cavaco Silva.
'The lack of people on the streets may be linked to the latest news about paedophilia - as well as a lack of faith among the Portuguese,' said Angelica Guiao, one of the people who came to see the Pope.
'I am disappointed, because the Pope did not even look at us,' Isabel Tavares complained. Some people recalled Benedict's predecessor John Paul II, who attracted bigger crowds.
Before visiting the palace, Benedict attended an official welcome ceremony with Cavaco Silva at the 16th century Jeronimos monastery.
Earlier, thousands of people came to cheer the Pope as he rode in the so-called Popemobile from the airport to the Apostolic Nunciature.
The ongoing abuse scandals have forced the resignation or suspension of several bishops and priests in Ireland, Belgium and most recently, the pontiff's native Germany.
On arrival at Lisbon's Figo Maduro military airport, Benedict stressed the importance of Christianity in the history of Portugal, a country where nearly 90 per cent of residents identify themselves as Catholics, but where church attendance continues to decline.
With the supposed apparition of the Virgin Mary to three Portuguese shepherd children in Fatima 93 years ago, 'heaven itself was opened over Portugal,' Benedict said in the presence of Cavaco Silva, Prime Minister Jose Socrates and church leaders.
Security surrounding the visit was described as the tightest ever in Portugal. It included more than 8,000 security personnel, warplanes, a navy frigate, and a police anti-terrorism unit.
Benedict's itinerary includes visits to Lisbon; the pilgrimage site of Fatima; and the country's second-largest city, Porto.
The highlight of the trip will be the Pope's visit on Wednesday to the Marian shrine of Fatima, marking the 93th anniversary of the first of a total of six alleged apparitions of the Virgin Mary to three Portuguese shepherd children.
Benedict was expected to bring a message of encouragement to the economically troubled country, where unemployment is running at 10.5 per cent and the public deficit has hit 9.4 per cent.
On the plane to Lisbon, Benedict also commented on the global crisis, saying it demanded a global sense of responsibility and that a purely pragmatic economic system without moral foundations would lead to problems that could not be solved.
His visit met with some criticism, with hundreds of activists announcing they would distribute 28,000 condoms in Lisbon. Another group launched a music CD against the 'excessive pomp and consensus' of the papal visit.
Portugal has liberalised abortion and divorce laws and parliament has given preliminary approval to the legalisation of same-sex marriage, albeit without the right to adopt.
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 » 04:48am
Pope announces papal envoy for reform

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/World/2010/05/02/Pope_announces_papal_envoy_for_reform_457329.html

Pope Benedict XVI has cracked down on the scandal-plagued Legionaries of Christ, announcing on Saturday that a papal envoy will take over and reform the conservative order that has been discredited by revelations its founder sexually abused seminarians and fathered at least one child.
Benedict also ordered a special commission to study the Legionaries constitutions and said a Vatican expert would investigate its lay arm, Regnum Christi.
The decisions were made after five Vatican investigators reported back to Benedict and other Vatican officials about an eight-month global inquiry into the order to determine its future after its founder was so thoroughly discredited by revelations of his double life.
In a statement, the Vatican excoriated the late Reverend Marciel Maciel for creating a 'system of power' built on silence, deceit and obedience that enabled him to lead a double life 'devoid of any scruples and authentic sense of religion' and allowed him to abuse young boys unchecked.
'By pushing away and casting doubt upon all those who questioned his behaviour, and the false belief that he wasn't doing harm to the good of the Legion, he created around him a defence mechanism that made him unassailable for a long period, making it difficult to know his true life,' the Vatican said.
But rather than closing the order down, which some critics had called for, the Vatican assured the Legion's current members that it would help them 'purify' what good remains in the order and would not be left alone as they undergo the 'profound revision' necessary to carry on.
The Pope's response to the Maciel scandal is being closely watched because the Vatican is facing mounting pressure to aggressively confront clerical abuse.
The Maciel case has long been seen as emblematic of Vatican inaction on abuse complaints, since Maciel's victims had tried in the 1990s to bring a canonical trial against him but were shut down by his supporters at the Vatican.
In the end, it was only in 2006 - a year into Pope Benedict XVI's papacy - that the Vatican ordered Maciel to lead a 'reserved life of penance and prayer,' making him a priest in name only.
He died in 2008 at age 87.
The Vatican statement was remarkable in its tough denunciation of Maciel's crimes and deception, but it placed the blame almost entirely on him.
It made no mention of any complicity on the part of Vatican officials who had held up Maciel as a model for the faithful.
The Vatican said the system of power, obedience and silence Maciel created had kept 'a large part' of the Legionaries in the dark about his double life.
That did raise questions about what would become of the current Legionaries leadership since many have questioned how they couldn't have known of his misdeeds.
Maciel founded the Legion in his native Mexico in 1941 and the order's culture was built around Maciel.
His photo adorned every Legion building, his biography and writings were studied, and his birthday was celebrated as a feast day.
Until recently, Legion members took a vow not to criticise their superiors, including Maciel.
The order now claims a membership of more than 800 priests and 2,500 seminarians in 22 countries, along with 70,000 members in Regnum Christi.
It runs schools, charities, Catholic news outlets, seminaries for young boys, and universities in Mexico, Italy, Spain and elsewhere.
Sunday, May 02, 2010 » 05:53am
Malta hosts pope under sex abuse cloud
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/04/18/Malta_hosts_pope_under_sex_abuse_cloud_452399.html

Pope Benedict says the Catholic Church has been wounded by sin, as he flew to Malta on his first foreign trip since a wave of priest sex abuse scandals broke.
'Malta loves Christ who loves his Church which is his body, even if this body is wounded by our sins,' he told accompanying journalists on Saturday in a direct allusion to the scandals.
The pope is scheduled to stay just over 24 hours in the deeply Catholic Mediterranean island country.
Benedict also referred to illegal immigration which has hit this tiny nation hard, with people crossing from Africa to Europe in fragile boats, calling it 'a great challenge for our times, to which we must respond'.
The visit comes amid near-daily allegations of child-molesting priests in Europe or the United States, some homing in on the Pope's role either as head of the Vatican's morals watchdog or earlier as archbishop of Munich.
Under the pressure of increasingly hostile opinion over claims that the Vatican hierarchy including the pope himself helped protect predator priests, Benedict may hold an impromptu meeting with Maltese abuse victims, but far from the media spotlight.
Malta, where one in three children under 16 attend Catholic schools, has itself been hit by allegations of abuse at an orphanage.
The smallest member of the European Union with a population of about 443,000, Malta has also been scandalised by revelations that a suspected pedophile priest has retired here from Canada.
Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi has said the pope will not bow to 'media pressure' to meet with abuse victims, and noted that his program is 'already very tight'.
The Vatican's top official handling sexual and physical abuse allegations against clergy, Charles Scicluna, is expected to meet victims in June.
The Maltese Catholic Church revealed recently that a pedophilia 'response team' it set up in 1999 had received allegations against 45 priests, of which nearly half had been ruled groundless, adding, however: 'For the Church, every case is one too many.'
Fuelling tensions, vandals last week defaced billboards promoting the papal visit, daubing Hitler-style moustaches on images of the embattled German Pope, who turned 83 on Friday and is marking the fifth anniversary of his papacy on Monday.
The Maltese word for 'pedophile' was spray-painted on one of the billboards.
Benedict will pay a courtesy call on President George Abela and meet with young people as well as visiting Rabat, in the centre of the archipelago's main island, where tradition has it that the apostle Saint Paul took refuge in a grotto after his shipwreck on Malta.
Abela called on the Maltese to welcome the Pope with 'enthusiasm and arms wide open', in a radio and television message.
The Vatican's ambassador to Malta, nuncio Tommaso Caputo said, 'We will receive him with joy and gratitude' at a time when the pope is 'suffering' while keeping his 'calm'.
Against this backdrop, the pope faces an uphill challenge in getting across the messages he had planned for Malta - notably on immigration.
Malta, which lies halfway between Sicily and the north African coastline, took in nearly 3,000 boat people in 2008, a record number.
Hundreds remain crowded into detention centres awaiting word of their fate.
Benedict has called several times over the past few months for fair and human solutions on the issue.
Another theme that is close to the pope's heart is the preservation of Europe's Christian heritage.
Malta has one priest for every 490 Catholics, compared with a global average of one in nearly 2,900, according to Church statistics.
Abortion is illegal and not even a matter of debate, though an increasing number of Maltese are in favour of overturning the ban on divorce.
The trip is Benedict's 14th overseas since 2005 and the first this year.
It is also the third time a pope has travelled to the island nation, after John Paul II who visited in 1990 and 2001.
Sunday, April 18, 2010 » 09:06am
Dawkins wants Pope put on trial

Article: Vatican Male Escort !
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http://bigpondnews.com/articles/World/2010/04/12/Dawkins_wants_Pope_put_on_trial_450487.html

Two leading atheists have hired lawyers to investigate if the Pope could be arrested for crimes against humanity, when he visits Britain in September.
Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens believe the Pope should face charges, for the alleged cover-up of sex abuse in the Catholic Church.
Mr Dawkins has described Pope Benedict XVI as a 'leering old villain in a frock whose first instinct when his priests are caught with their pants down is to cover up the scandal and damn the young victims to silence', in the Washing Post
'This former head of the Inquisition should be arrested the moment he dares to set foot outside his tinpot fiefdom of the Vatican, and he should be tried in an appropriate civil - not ecclesiastical - court,' he said.
'That's what should happen. Sadly, we all know our faith-befuddled governments will be too craven to do it.'
A letter written by the Pope in 1985, when he was still a Cardinal, urged that a paedophile priest in the US not be exposed, for the 'good of the universal church'.
Monday, April 12, 2010 » 06:24pm
British tourists as nuns
British tourists as nuns

7:39pm UK, Monday May 25, 2009

A group of British tourists have escaped punishment after being arrested on a Greek island for dressing up in nun costumes.
The 17 men had been held in police custody on Crete since their arrest in the early hours of Sunday morning in the seaside holiday town of Malia.
They appeared in court still dressed in their nun outfits and sexy lingerie to face charges of causing a scandal by provocative acts and misrepresenting a uniform.
But the prosecutor dropped the charges against the men and they were all released, the British Embassy said.
The members of the group were aged from late teens to about 60.Malia has become a resort which is popular with young tourists and is notorious for rowdy and drunken behaviour during the summer.
Fed-up local residents blocked a highway in Crete in 2007 to protest against the antics of drunken tourists.
Misbehaving holidaymakers have also caused problems for the Greek authorities on the islands of Rhodes and Corfu.
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/British-Tourists
Crucifixion causes controversy (Australia)
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/National/2010/04/05/Crucifixion_causes_controversy_448009.html

Organisers of a graphic crucifixion re-enactment in Victoria have vowed to tone down the event next year after police shut it down this Easter.
Police say they shut down the event after being told young children were screaming in distress at the event which was staged in the middle of a shopping precinct in Geelong on Saturday afternoon.
Police say they closed down the event for breaching the peace after people in the shopping district became concerned by the re-enactment, particularly by the man posing as Jesus covered in fake blood..."
Monday, April 05, 2010 » 11:17am
Offenders could serve in monastery
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2010/03/14/Offenders_could_serve_in_monastery_439745.html

Georgian criminals could be swapping prison uniforms for cassocks under a new scheme to allow offenders to serve out their sentences in monasteries.
The project, unveiled by penal and church officials, will allow 'convicts to have the possibility of serving sentences in monasteries instead of prisons', the prisons ministry said in a statement.
A committee made up of representatives of the general prosecutors' office, the prisons ministry and the Georgian Orthodox Church Patriarchate will find and select potential candidates among convicts, the statement said.
It said the scheme is in line with the government's policy of 'liberalising penal prosecution' and 'defining new methods of re-socialisation' of convicts.
The project also appears aimed at addressing severe prison overcrowding in Georgia, a mountainous ex-Soviet republic of 4.4 million people bordering Russia and Turkey.
In a report last year, Prison Reform International said nearly 20,000 people were serving time in Georgian prisons, a 300 per cent increase since 2004, and that many institutions were operating far above their official capacity
Sunday, March 14, 2010 » 07:58am
Bishop attacked with broom mid service
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2010/04/05/Bishop_attacked_with_broom_mid_service_448012.html

German police say a man attacked the Roman Catholic Bishop of Muenster with a broom handle during an Easter service in the city's cathedral.
Police said in a statement on Sunday that 60-year-old bishop Felix Genn defended himself with an incense bowl and was unharmed.
A police spokesman tells the German news agency DAPD that 'courageous church officials and other service attendants restrained the attacker until police arrived'.
After the incident, the bishop continued celebrating the Easter service.
Police say the 44-year-old man stormed through the packed church to the altar.
The man's motive was unclear but comes as Germany's Catholic Church is facing intense criticism over a widening abuse scandal.
 Monday, April 05, 2010 » 11:27am
 
Crucifixion causes controversy
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/National/2010/04/05/Crucifixion_causes_controversy_448009.html

Organisers of a graphic crucifixion re-enactment in Victoria have vowed to tone down the event next year after police shut it down this Easter.
Police say they shut down the event after being told young children were screaming in distress at the event which was staged in the middle of a shopping precinct in Geelong on Saturday afternoon.
Police say they closed down the event for breaching the peace after people in the shopping district became concerned by the re-enactment, particularly by the man posing as Jesus covered in fake blood.
Monday, April 05, 2010 » 11:17am

Pope urges 'moral conversion'
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/04/04/Pope_urges_moral_conversion_447809.html

Pope Benedict XVI has urged mankind to undergo a 'spiritual and moral conversion' during his traditional Easter Sunday message as pedophile priest scandals rock the Roman Catholic Church.
'Humanity needs... a spiritual and moral conversion,' the 82-year-old Pope said. 'It needs... to emerge from a profound crisis, one which requires deep change, beginning with consciences.'
The urging came as the Roman Catholic Church is buffeted by pedophile priest scandals, which cast a pall over Easter Sunday and heightened anticipation of the traditional 'Urbi et Orbi' message.
As Christians celebrated the day when Christ is believed to have been resurrected, the Pope was under pressure to speak out on the scourge.
But Easter mass kicked off with an unusual greeting from the dean of the College of Cardinals, who told the Pope: 'The people of God are with you and do not allow themselves to be impressed by the idle chatter of the moment.'
Cardinal Angelo Sodano was reprising the same phrase the Pope used a week ago when he urged Christians 'not be intimidated by the idle chatter of prevailing opinions'.
In Paris meanwhile, the archbishop of the city and head of the Catholic Church in France, Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, said there was a 'smear campaign aimed at the Pope'.
'And yet it was Cardinal Ratzinger who, as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, encouraged bishops to take action against pedophilia by systematically informing Rome of such cases,' he told Le Parisien newspaper.
However the top bishops in both Belgium and Germany issued forthright condemnations of the Church's role in covering up for predator priests in their Easter homilies.
Belgium's Andre Joseph Leonard, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel, said the Church had mismanaged the crisis 'with a guilty silence'.
German Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, for his part, said: 'Today particularly we must set out together and examine inconceivable events, awful crimes, the Church's dark aspects as well as our shadowy sides.'
Sunday, April 04, 2010 » 08:55pm
 
Pedophile priest scandals casts a shroud
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/04/04/Pedophile_priest_scandals_casts_a_shroud_447799.html

The pedophile priest scandals rocking the Roman Catholic Church cast a pall over Easter Sunday, heightening anticipation of Pope Benedict XVI's 'Urbi et Orbi' message.
The traditional speech 'to the city and the world' is among few occasions for the leader of some 1.1 billion Catholics to address a global audience, and he often uses the spotlight to condemn war and poverty.
But as Christians celebrated the day when Christ is believed to have been resurrected, the Pope is under pressure to reiterate his condemnation of predator priests.
The top bishops in both Belgium and Germany set the tone, issuing forthright condemnations of the Church's role in covering up for predator priests in their Easter homilies, provided to the media in advance.
Belgium's Andre Joseph Leonard, archbishop of Mechelen-Brussel, will say the Church has mismanaged the crisis.
'With a guilty silence, it often gave preference to the reputation of certain men of the Church over the honour of the abused children,' his homily reads.
He will point to a recent letter from the Pope to Irish Catholics as an example of what needs to be done.
Germany's Archbishop Robert Zollitsch, for his part, will say: 'Today particularly we must set out together and examine inconceivable events, awful crimes, the Church's dark aspects as well as our shadowy sides.'
The text of the homily, posted on his diocesan website, adds: 'The Church must not be inactive: we need a new beginning.'
The scandals have been gaining momentum relentlessly, putting the Vatican on the defensive.
In the United States on Saturday, fresh allegations emerged in court documents that Cardinal William Levada - now the head of the Vatican department in charge of disciplining predator priests - had reassigned an alleged child molester in the 1990s without warning his parishioners.
The Pope headed the same department - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - from 1981 to 2005, and himself faces allegations that he helped to protect predator priests both in that role and when he was archbishop of Munich.
The crisis took a new twist on Friday when the Pope's personal preacher evoked a parallel between attacks on the pontiff and anti-Semitism.
Jewish groups and those representing victims of abuse by Roman Catholic priests condemned Father Raniero Cantalamessa for quoting the comments, which he said were made in a letter from a Jewish friend, in his Good Friday sermon.
Cantalamessa issued an apology on Sunday, telling the Italian daily Corriere della Sera: 'If I inadvertently hurt the feelings of Jews and paedophilia victims, I sincerely regret it and I apologise.'
The child abuse scandal has drawn harsh critism even from other top religious leaders.
Rowan Williams, spiritual leader of the world's 70 million Anglicans, apologised for comments recorded during the week in which he said the Irish Catholic Church had lost 'all credibility'.
Diarmuid Martin, the archbishop of Dublin, said he was 'stunned' by Williams's comments.
The Pope himself faces allegations that, as archbishop of Munich and later as the Vatican's chief morals enforcer, he helped to protect predator priests.
Leading prelates have rallied around the Pope, and the Vatican newspaper Osservatore Romano has published messages of support from around the world.
The paper denounced the 'slanderous attacks and the defamation campaign surrounding the drama of abuse by priests.'
It cited the archbishop of Paris, Andre Vingt-Trois, calling it 'an offensive aiming to destabilise the Pope and through him the Church.'
Sunday, April 04, 2010 » 08:40pm
Anglican leader slams Catholic church
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/04/04/Anglican_leader_slams_Catholic_church_447554.html

The leader of the world's Anglicans has expressed 'deep sorrow and regret' for saying the Catholic Church in Ireland is 'losing all credibility' over the pedophile priests scandal.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams apologised on Saturday to Diarmuid Martin, the Archbishop of Dublin and one of Ireland's most senior Catholics, for 'difficulties which may have been created' by the remarks.
Martin had earlier said he was 'stunned' by Williams' 'unequivocal and unqualified' comments, which were made in a BBC radio interview to be broadcast on Monday.
Williams telephoned Martin to say that 'nothing could have been farther from his intention than to offend or criticise the Irish Church', according to a statement released by the Archbishop of Dublin.
A spokeswoman for the Archbishop of Canterbury confirmed he had spoken to Martin and said he 'had no intention of criticising or attacking' the Catholic Church.
She added: 'The Church in Ireland continues to work tirelessly to deal with the scandal of abuse.'
Relations between the two churches have been strained since last October when Pope Benedict XVI offered disgruntled Anglicans an easier route to conversion to Catholicism.
Williams, the spiritual leader of more than 70 million Anglicans worldwide, said in the interview that the Irish Catholic Church's disarray over the child sex abuse scandal is a 'colossal trauma'.
'I was speaking to an Irish friend recently who was saying that it's quite difficult in some parts of Ireland to go down the street wearing a clerical collar now,' Williams said.
'And an institution so deeply bound into the life of a society suddenly becoming, suddenly losing all credibility -- that's not just a problem for the Church, it is a problem for everybody in Ireland.'
Martin said the timing of the comments on Easter weekend had been particularly unhelpful.
'In all my years as Archbishop of Dublin in difficult times I have rarely felt personally so discouraged,' he said.
Ireland, a strongly Catholic country, has been shaken by two major investigations in the last year detailing child sex abuse by priests stretching back decades -- and Church leaders' complicity in covering it up.
The head of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, has faced calls to resign after it emerged he had persuaded two child victims of abuse to agree not to talk about their experiences.
Williams' comments are likely to raise suspicion between the two churches ahead of the Pope's scheduled visit to Britain in September.
Allegations of abuse by priests have since emerged in other countries, including the Pope's native Germany.
Sunday, April 04, 2010 » 05:20am
Pope at centre of child abuse storm
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/03/28/Pope_at_centre_of_child_abuse_storm_445006.html

The child abuse scandal rocking the Catholic Church has homed in on Pope Benedict who's been labelled 'the biggest sinner' in one newspaper.
As allegations pile up of sexual molestation by priests in the scandal that's opened up in the US and Europe, the media's expressed outrage, accusing the church of failing to report the crimes and failing to protect children.
The Tribune de Geneve newspaper quotes a Swiss national who says this makes the Pope the biggest sinner in the church.
But Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi says the authority of the Pope and the commitment of its morals watchdog, once headed by Benedict,
will come out of this strengthened
Sunday, March 28, 2010 » 03:43am
Boozing Jesus image outrages in India
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/02/22/Boozing_Jesus_image_outrages_in_India_431933.html

Christians in India's northeast are outraged after a picture showing Jesus Christ holding a beer can and a cigarette was discovered in primary school textbooks.
The image appeared in a handwriting book for children in church-run schools in the Christian-majority state of Meghalaya, where it was used to illustrate the letter 'I' for the word 'Idol'.
'We are deeply shocked and hurt at the objectionable portrayal of Jesus Christ in the school book. We condemn the total lack of respect for religions by the publisher,' Shillong diocese Archbishop Dominic Jala told AFP on Monday.
Police said they were hunting for the owner of the New Delhi-based publisher, Skyline Publications, who faces charges of offending religious sentiment, local police superintendent AR Mawthoh told AFP.
The Roman Catholic Church in India has banned all textbooks by Skyline, while Protestant leaders called for a public apology.
The state government also denounced the publication.
'We strongly condemn such a blasphemous act. Legal action has been initiated against the publisher,' M Ampareen Lyngdoh, an education minister in the Meghalaya government, said.
English-language daily The Shillong Times said Skyline had apologised for 'hurting people's religious sentiments', but had offered no explanation as to how the error occurred.
Efforts are underway to recall all copies of the book, the publisher was quoted as saying.
AFP was unable to reach Skyline for comment.
Christians account for 2.3 per cent of India's billion-plus Hindu-majority population. The main concentrations are in the northeast, the eastern state of Orissa and in the southern states of Kerala and Goa.
In 2008, anti-Christian riots in Orissa left more than 100 people dead, according to Christian groups, after missionaries were accused of killing a Hindu holy man.
Monday, February 22, 2010 » 06:21pm
Pope washes priests' feet in ceremony
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/04/02/Pope_washes_priests_feet_in_ceremony_446973.html

Pope Benedict XVI says Catholics are called to a 'constant examination of conscience' but has made no mention of the scandals rocking his church before he washed the feet of 12 priests in a ceremony marking Holy Thursday.
The pontiff is celebrating Holy Week - the most solemn period in the Catholic calendar - as allegations that the church covered up clerical sex abuse spread across Europe, including his native Germany, and the United States.
The feet-washing ceremony in St John Lateran Basilica in Rome symbolises humility and commemorates Jesus' last supper with his 12 apostles on the evening before his crucifixion.
Wearing a white apron, Benedict poured water from a golden pitcher over one bare foot of each of the priests, who were seated in a row. With the water dripping on a golden basin, the Pope dried the feet with a white cloth.
The pontiff did not directly address the scandals during the Mass that included the feet-washing ritual. He said Jesus, in his prayer after washing the feet of the apostles, 'challenges us to a constant examination of conscience'.
'At this hour the Lord is asking us: are you living, through faith, in fellowship with me and thus in fellowship with God?' the Pope said. 'Or are you rather living for yourself, and thus apart from faith?'
'As we meditate on the Passion of the Lord, let us also feel Jesus' pain at the way that we contradict his prayer, that we resist his love,' Benedict said.
The Pope has several appearances until Easter Sunday, when the faithful celebrate Jesus' resurrection. He will preside over the Way of the Cross procession at the Colosseum on Good Friday - commemorating Jesus' suffering in the hours before his crucifixion - and then celebrate a late-night Easter Vigil on Saturday.
In a Mass in St Peter's Basilica earlier on Thursday, the Pope had urged priests to be 'men of peace' and oppose violence. The Mass was described by the Vatican as a sign of strict union between the pontiff in his role of pastor of the world's 1 billion Catholics and his fellow priests.
The sex abuse scandal comes atop years of allegations and court cases involving clergy abuse in schools, seminaries and other church institutions from Australia to Canada. Benedict himself has come under fire for his handling of clergy abuse cases during his tenure as archbishop of Munich and as head of the Vatican office dealing with disciplining priests.
Victims are demanding the Pope take responsibility for what they say were decades of systematic cover-ups by church hierarchy of clergy abuse. Church officials insist Benedict has cracked down on sex abuse both as pontiff and in his tenure as a top Vatican cardinal.
Friday, April 02, 2010 » 07:50am
German Catholics angry at pope's silence
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/World/2010/03/16/German_Catholics_angry_at_popes_silence_440575.html

German Catholic groups have hit out at the pope's silence over a snowballing paedophilia priest scandal rocking his native country's Church.
The scandal 'affects people, whether they are religious or not,' said Dirk Taenzler, head of the Federation of German Catholic Youth (BDKJ), in the Berliner Zeitung daily.
'The Holy Father should make a statement about this.'
He added that the German Catholic Church, which has been hit by allegations of child sex abuse dating back decades on an almost daily basis in recent weeks, was in the midst of one of its 'biggest identity crises since 1945'.
Christian Weisner from the German chapter of reform movement We Are Church said meanwhile that the pope 'has not yet realised the full extent of the unease' caused.
The recent statement from the Vatican alleging a campaign to target the pope 'is the worst possible communication strategy thinkable,' Weisner told the Munich regional daily TZ.
'Many Catholics who are faithful to the Church regret the fact that Benedict XVI has failed to express a single word of sympathy,' Weisner added.
The Catholic Church has been engulfed in a scandal since January when a Jesuit-run school in Berlin admitted systematic sexual abuse of pupils by two priests in the 1970s and 1980s.
Since then, there have been allegations at some two-thirds of the country's 27 dioceses as more victims come forward.
With the Catholic Church hit by similar scandals in other countries, Benedict has spoken out several times since the start of his papacy in 2005 on the issue.
In February, he described child abuse as a 'heinous crime' and a 'grave sin'. But he is yet to comment directly on the scandal rocking his home country, critics say.
One of those implicated is a boarding school attached to Regensburg cathedral's choir. The pope's elder brother, Georg Ratzinger, who ran the choir for 30 years, has denied all knowledge of sexual abuse.
On Friday the dioceses of Munich and Freising said that the pope, when he was archbishop there, had approved in 1980 giving a suspected paedophilia priest Church housing in the diocese for 'therapy'.
Two years later, by which time the pope had been transferred to the Vatican, the priest was given pastoral duties in the town of Graefing. He committed sexual abuse and was given a suspended jail sentence in 1986.
The vicar-general at the time on Friday assumed 'all responsibility' for the 'bad mistake'. The priest concerned is reportedly still employed by the Church.
Vatican spokesman Federico Lombardi went on the offensive on Saturday.
'It is clearly evident that in the past few days there are some who have sought - with a dogged focus on Regensburg and Munich - elements to personally implicate the Holy Father in questions of abuse,' he said.
'It is clear that these efforts have failed,' he said on Radio Vatican.
'The Church's credibility has been badly shaken,' said Wolfgang Thierse, deputy speaker of the German parliament and a board member of the Central Committee of German Catholics, or ZdK.
'The Church should be more honest and more severe with itself, and that goes for the pope too,' he said on public television channel ZDF.
Senior Church figures in Germany meanwhile called for priestly celibacy to be reviewed, a tradition Benedict defended on Friday as a 'the sign of full devotion' and of an 'entire commitment to the Lord'.
The Church 'should reflect on whether there are ... conditions that favour abuse,' the Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily cited ZdK head Alois Glueck as saying, citing loosening celibacy regulations as 'one way'.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010 » 09:16am
Xenophon wants Scientology inquiry
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/National/2010/03/14/Xenophon_wants_Scientology_inquiry_439743.html

Independent senator Nick Xenophon plans to make a fresh bid for a Senate inquiry into Scientology.
Labor and coalition senators joined forces last week to vote against Senator Xenophon's motion to set up an inquiry into the tax-free status of religious groups.
But the South Australian senator who addressed a forum on cults in Brisbane yesterday, says he plans to make another bid for an inquiry when the Senate sits this week.
This time he'll propose terms of reference specifically dealing with the Church of Scientology.
Senator Xenophon says he doesn't have a problem with what people believe, but how they behave and he says Scientology has all the hallmarks of a cult environment.
Claims of forced abortions imprisonment in boot camps and separation of Scientologist families were aired last week on the ABC's Four Corners program.
Sunday, March 14, 2010 » 07:54am
 Church criticises confession phone line
 
Tuesday, March 02, 2010 » 11:17am
 
A pay telephone line for French Roman Catholics to confess their sins has drawn criticism from bishops.
'For advice on confessing, press one. To confess, press two. To listen to some confessions, press three,' says a soothing male voice, welcoming the caller to 'Le Fil du Seigneur', or 'The Line of the Lord' service.
'In case of serious or mortal sins - that is, sins that have cut you off from Christ our Lord, it is indispensable to confide in a priest,' warns the 0.34 euros a minute service.
The Conference of French Bishops, which groups the country's Catholic leaders, warned in a statement on Monday that the line had 'no approval from the Catholic Church in France'.
The site was set up this month at the beginning of the Christian fasting period of Lent by a group of Catholics working for AABAS, a small Paris company that provides telephone messaging services, its creator told AFP.
It does not offer absolution for sins, which only a priest can provide, said the creator, Camille, who asked for her second name not be cited because she had received threats about the service.
'The idea is to confess sins which are not capital sins, but minor sins, directly to God,' she said, adding that the line received about 300 calls in its first week.
Callers do not talk to a person but are offered an 'atmosphere of piety and reflection,' where they can listen to prayers, music and other people's confessions and can opt to record their own.
The bishops said telephone services had a role to play in lending an ear to the aged, isolated or those with disabilities, but 'it is unacceptable to allow confusion over the notion of confession'.
'For the Catholic faithful, confession has a sacramental meaning and requires the real presence of a priest.'
Camille said part of the money received for the calls goes to charity.
The service costs 0.34 euros ($A.51) a minute plus a connection charge for mobile phones, though a cheaper non-charity line costs 0.12 euros.
The line says on its website that it aims to encourage youngsters to confess at a time when church attendance is 'in free-fall'.
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2010/03/02/Church_criticises_confession_phone_line_435062.html
UK church holds mobile phone blessing

phonemania

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2010/01/12/UK_church_holds_mobile_phone_blessing_416648.html

A British church held an unusual ceremony when a vicar blessed the mobile phones of workers in the City of London financial district.
The special service on Monday at the St Lawrence Jewry church, which dates back to 1136, was attended by around 80 people who held their phones and other gadgets in the air while vicar David Parrott blessed them.
The idea came from a historic tradition where workers would bring the tools of their trade such as ploughs to be blessed on the first Monday after people return to work following Christmas.
'We decided to have the service with a modern twist - I prayed for the people who support the technology, who use it,' Parrott said.
'As I prayed for God's blessing on the technology, they were holding their phones in the air.'
Worshippers were even allowed to keep their phones switched on during the service, given the nature of the blessing, Parrott said.
'On this occasion, I specifically invited people to keep their mobile phones on, but put them on to silent,' he added
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 » 02:29pm

Sexy Church Billboard Shocks Onlookers (New Zealand)

Sexy Billboard 

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2009/12/17/Sexy_church_billboard_shocks_onlookers_407468.html

A biblical billboard has provoked controversy in Auckland, New Zealand.
The saucy billboard shows Joseph looking down dejectedly and Mary looking sad, with a caption saying
'Poor Joseph. God is a hard act to follow.'
Opinion is equally divided with about 50 percent saying they love it and about 50 per cent finding it was offensive.
The billboard has already raised the wrath of the traditional values pressure group Family First.
The Catholic Church says the image is inappropriate and disrespectful.
Thursday, December 17, 2009 » 02:10pm
Giant NZ church ad shocks onlookers
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2009/12/18/Giant_NZ_church_ad_shocks_onlookers_407791.html

A billboard depicting Jesus' mother looking dejected after unsatisfying sex with Joseph has given Kiwi Catholics a nasty pre-Christmas surprise.
The huge ad erected in Auckland shows the unhappy couple in bed accompanied by the slogan: 'Poor Joseph. God was a hard act to follow.'
In the fresco-style work, Joseph looks down red-faced while an anguished Mary looks to the heavens.
The billboard, which has been vandalised by angry Christians who say it is blasphemous, was erected by progressive Christian church, St Matthew's
Its vicar, Archdeacon Glynn Cardy, said it was a cutting-edge strategy to engage non-believers.
'Progressive Christianity is distinctive in that not only does it articulate a clear view, it is also interested in engaging with those who differ.
'Its vision is one of robust engagement.'
But the city's Catholic diocese said the implication that Mary and Joseph had just had sex was 'disrespectful' and 'offensive' to Christians.
Spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer said it was particularly inappropriate given the inference was wrong.
'Our Christian tradition of 2,000 years is that Mary remains a virgin and that Jesus is the son of God, not Joseph,' she said.
But statistics show New Zealanders may need such edgy advertising to help spark interest in religion.
The 2006 Census showed that 32.2% - or 1.3 million Kiwis - profess to have no religion, an increase of 270,000 on the previous survey.
A recent atheist fundraising campaign to put controversial 'No God' posters on buses was overwhelmed with donations.
Organiser Simon Fisher said the campaign, which mimics one that ran in Britain, was designed to break religious taboos.
'Religion should not be a taboo subject that no one brings up at dinner parties,' he wrote on the NZ Atheist Bus website
Friday, December 18, 2009 » 10:15am

 Religions can take any new form, like viruses and they are coming from underground negative civilizations, named Agartha. Church of Scientology is one of those religions. And here is a small article about the criminal activity of that Church from Australian Bigpond (meaning 'Pacific Ocean'). Only that could be said about any church!
Rudd concerned about Scientology (Australia)
 
Wednesday, November 18, 2009 » 12:14pm
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/Politics/2009/11/18/Rudd_concerned_about_Scientology_395452.html

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd says he has concerns about the Church of Scientology but wants to see what material independent senator Nick Xenophon has before committing to a parliamentary inquiry.
Senator Xenophon told parliament on Tuesday there was criminal activity within the church and has called for a Senate inquiry into Scientology's tax exempt status.
Senator Xenophon has also called for police to investigate the church after being contacted by a number of former Scientologists who accused the organisation of shocking crimes.
Senator Xenophon said their correspondence implicated the organisation in a range of crimes, including forced imprisonment, coerced abortions, physical violence, and blackmail.
Asked about the senator's claims, Mr Rudd described them as 'grave allegations'.
'Many people in Australia have real concerns about Scientology,' Mr Rudd told reporters at Bungendore in NSW on Wednesday.
'I share some of those concerns. Let us proceed carefully and look carefully at the material he has provided before we make a decision on further parliamentary action.'
Asked about the Church of Scientology's tax exempt status, Mr Rudd said he was advised the High Court had dealt with the matter back in the 1980s.
'I am so advised, but I stand to be corrected,' he said.
'Therefore the true question is the actual nature of the operations that involve Scientology now.
'I don't want to rush into any judgment on this, other than to say he's (Senator Xenophon) raised concerns and made some serious allegations.'
Senator Xenophon told reporters on Wednesday that he would be meeting with colleagues about the possibility of setting up a Senate inquiry into the church.
'It is important there be a Senate inquiry into the Church of Scientology and that is why over coming days I will be holding discussions with colleagues on both sides of the Senate chamber so there can be some consensus on the terms of reference,' he said.
Nationals senator Barnaby Joyce said while he didn't know much about the Church of Scientology, he respected Senator Xenophon as a balanced and considered individual..."
Grieving family urges Scientology probe
 
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2009/11/23/Grieving_family_urges_Scientology_probe_397609.html
 
For three days leading up to soldier Edward McBride's suicide, his family say he was bombarded by telephone calls and texts from Church of Scientology members.
The family believe the church played a major role in his death but have spent the past two years without answers or recourse.
Now they've urged the federal government to initiate an inquiry into the controversial religious group, under fire following recent allegations of blackmail, sanctioned beatings, forced abortions and financial fraud.
Independent senator Nick Xenophon last week made a scathing parliamentary attack on Scientology, accusing it of using religion as a front for criminal activities.
He wants the organisation to be investigated by parliament - a call which has so far won the backing of the Australian Greens, but not the government or opposition.
Senator Xenophon and Greens leader Bob Brown on Monday flanked Mr McBride's brother Stephen as he appealed directly to the prime minister to support a formal inquiry.
Police investigating his younger brother's death in 2007 had been stymied by the church, which failed to provide personal audit files as requested, Stephen McBride said.
'Every time I think of Scientology I still get a real bad aftertaste in my mouth,' he told reporters in Canberra.
'There's something just not right about it.'
Mr McBride was adamant the church contributed to his brother's suicide, with the coroner reporting the telephone messages contained intimidating statements, such as 'this behaviour is unacceptable' and 'you have missed your interview'.
He had spent $25,000 on Scientology courses in his time with the church.
'The bombardment of 19 telephone messages backed him into a corner with no room to breathe,' Mr McBride said.
'We've been through hell the last two years - please don't let my brother's death be in vain.'
Senator Xenophon has yet to win the support of the government, despite Prime Minister Kevin Rudd saying last week he also had concerns about Scientology.
'It doesn't seem the numbers are there yet, but I will continue to build my case,' he said, adding this was not a crusade against freedom of religion.
'This is a hell of a week and I think we are distracted with other issues, but I think it's inevitable there will be an inquiry one way or the other.'
Senator Brown, who labelled Scientology a cult, said he would be angry if the government and coalition quashed any move for an inquiry.
Monday, November 23, 2009 » 09:30pm

Discrimination in Church to Be Allowed (Australia)

Sunday, September 27, 2009 » 07:56am
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/National/2009/09/27/Discrimination_in_church_to_be_allowed_376705.html

The Victorian government is expected to announce religious groups will be allowed to discriminate against gays and single mothers in a controversial compromise reached on workers' rights.
Attorney-General Rob Hulls has approved of a plan to let church-run organisations refuse employment to anyone they believe undermines their beliefs, The Sunday Age says.
The newspaper says the plan will allow church groups to discriminate on grounds of sex, sexual orientation, marital status and parental status, but in return these groups will cease being able to discriminate on the basis of race, age, disability, political beliefs, breastfeeding and physical features.
The expected changes to Victoria's equal opportunity laws come several weeks before a report by a state parliament committee into the issue is due to be released.
The changes have angered critics, but church leaders applauded the decision.
Melbourne Catholic Archbishop Denis Hart told the paper the move strikes 'a fair and correct balance'.
Under the new plans, a church group will have to prove why someone must meet certain religious beliefs if that person is refused employment.
But the ones will remain on the victim to make an official complaint before any action is taken."
Judge bans 'I Believe' licence plates (warsheepers' days are numbered, LM)

Thursday, November 12, 2009 » 12:29pm
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2009/11/12/Judge_bans_I_Believe_licence_plates_393101.html

A US federal judge has ordered South Carolina not to issue cross-adorned 'I Believe' licence plates, ruling it violates the constitutional separation of church and state.
US District Judge Cameron Currie ruled on Tuesday that the state legislature - which last year voted unanimously to approve the licence plates that also include a cross in front of a stained glass window - had clearly given favoured government treatment to a single faith in violation of the constitution.
'Whether motivated by sincerely held Christian beliefs or an effort to purchase political capital with religious coin, the result is the same,' Currie wrote in a 57-page order. 'The statute is clearly unconstitutional and defence of its implementation has embroiled the state in unnecessary (and expensive) litigation...'

Jesus was gay - Elton John

an English singer

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/02/20/Jesus_was_gay_-_Elton_John_431161.html

British pop superstar Elton John has stirred controversy in a magazine interview by claiming Jesus Christ was 'gay'.
'I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems,' John said in an interview posted on the website of US celebrity news magazine Parade on Friday.
'On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel.
'Try being a gay woman in the Middle East - you're as good as dead.'
The Catholic League, the largest US Catholic rights group, condemned the comments.
'Jesus was certainly compassionate, but to say he was 'super-intelligent' is to compare the son of God to a successful game-show contestant,' league president Bill Donohue said in a statement.
'More seriously, to call Jesus a homosexual is to label him a sexual deviant.
'But what else would we expect from a man who previously said, 'From my point of view, I would ban religion completely'?'
Saturday, February 20, 2010 » 07:16pm

Pope slams Irish bishops over scandal

http://bigpondnews.com/articles/TopStories/2010/02/17/Pope_slams_Irish_bishops_over_scandal_430019.html

Pope Benedict XVI has rebuked Irish bishops over a pedophilia priest scandal and urged them to restore the Church's credibility, the Vatican says.
The Pope called child abuse a 'heinous crime' and a 'grave sin' as he held the second of two days of talks with two dozen bishops seeking to limit damage over the scandal, a Vatican statement said on Tuesday.
'All those present recognised that this grave crisis has led to a breakdown in trust in the Church's leadership.'
The Pope faulted 'the failure of the Irish Church authorities for years to act effectively over cases of sexual abuse against young people,' the statement said.
'The bishops spoke frankly of the sense of pain and anger, betrayal, scandal and shame expressed to them on numerous occasions.'
The bishops vowed to cooperate with Irish courts investigating sexual abuse charges, the Vatican added.
The Irish delegation was led by Cardinal Sean Brady, primate of all Ireland, who in December met Benedict along with Dublin Archbishop Diarmuid Martin over the crisis after two judicial reports into the abuse.
Support groups in Ireland and the United States slammed the talks, saying the Pope should go to Ireland to apologise for the abuse.
'The Irish people and the victims are entitled to expect firm actions from the Pope,' Irish Survivors of Child Abuse group (SOCA) founder John Kelly told AFP.
'We are entitled to expect that the Pope make those who committed crimes or covered up crimes, including bishops, be made accountable,' he said.
'The words coming out at the moment seem to be positive. Whether they will act upon them and whether they will go far enough is another matter. We need to see the words turned into action,' Kelly added.
A US group dismissed the Vatican talks as a 'carefully orchestrated public relations move.'
'Does anyone honestly think that the very same men who ignored and concealed child sex crimes for decades will... suddenly be part of the solution, instead of part of the problem?' asked Barbara Dorris of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests.
She deplored a 'centuries-old, deeply rooted culture of self-serving secrecy perpetuated by a rigid, ancient, all-male monarchy.'
The Vatican has admitted that the abuse scandals in Ireland, the United States, Australia and elsewhere are a 'hard and humiliating challenge'. Vatican experts said the level of attention to the scandal was unprecedented.
One Irish priest has admitted to sexually abusing more than 100 children, while another accepted that he had abused minors on a fortnightly basis over 25 years.
Ireland's crisis was followed in January by a scandal in Germany, where an elite Jesuit school in Berlin admitted repeated sexual abuse of teenagers by teachers in the 1970s and 1980s.
Four Irish bishops tendered their resignations over the scandal but only that of former Limerick bishop Donald Murray, who was deputy bishop of Dublin from 1982 to 1996, was effective as of the Vatican visit.
One of the four, James Moriarty of Kildare and Leighlin, was at the talks on Monday.
Brady told Radio Vatican that the meetings had been 'very carefully' prepared and were 'but one step on a very long road.'
He added: 'When we return home, we hope this will launch a process of repentance, renewal and reconciliation for everyone's good.'
The Vatican said Benedict, 82, planned to issue a pastoral letter to Ireland's Catholics over the scandal.
The letter will be aimed at 'restoring confidence' among Irish Catholics and to offer 'concrete and effective' ways to prevent a recurrence, a Vatican expert wrote in the leading Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010 » 05:22pm


This seems to be an invisible to the eye, an artificial holographic pink rectangular, imitating pink energy of Unconditional Love, 22 Feb. 2010
This seems to be an invisible to the eye, an artificial holographic pink pentagon superimposed on the Balanced White Energy. I now feel that the Holographic Pink colored Beam (tail) is a fake to be superimposed and used to cover up the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy of 11th Density to cover the movement of it to the Sun (or to the Ball of Advanced Human Thoughts) and from the Sun (or the Ball) into the Earth!  The aim of these phony pentagons is to also cover the Pulsating Fast Movement of this Balanced Energy from 11th Density into the Earth, which fasten the vibration of the Earth and everyone on it! The most important is not the wide Pink strip on the picture, but the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy, which I've personally seen a few times !!!
22 Feb. 2010. The Close-Up of it is below.

Pink energy of the Highest Order, of Unconditional Love, 24 March 2010
24 March 2010. I now feel that the Holographic Pink colored Beam (tail) is a fake to be superimposed and used to cover up the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy of 11th Density to cover the movement of it to the Sun (or to the Ball of Advanced Human Thoughts) and from the Sun (or the Ball) into the Earth!  The aim of these phony pentagons is to also cover the Pulsating Fast Movement of this Balanced Energy from 11th Density into the Earth, which fasten the vibration of the Earth and everyone on it! The most important is not the wide Pink strip on the picture, but the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy, which I've personally seen a few times !!!

Pink Energy of the Highest Order, of Unconditional Love, our Centre, 24 March 2010
Our Centre, 24 March 2010. I now feel that the Holographic Pink colored Beam (tail) is a fake to be superimposed and used to cover up the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy of 11th Density to cover the movement of it to the Sun (or to the Ball of Advanced Human Thoughts) and from the Sun (or the Ball) into the Earth!  The aim of these phony pentagons is to also cover the Pulsating Fast Movement of this Balanced Energy from 11th Density into the Earth, which fasten the vibration of the Earth and everyone on it! The most important is not the wide Pink strip on the picture, but the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy, which I've personally seen a few times !!!

Pink Energy of the Highest Order, of Unconditional Love, our Centre, 24 March 2010
Our Centre, 24 March 2010. I now feel that the Holographic Pink colored Beam (tail) is a fake to be superimposed and used to cover up the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy of 11th Density to cover the movement of it to the Sun (or to the Ball of Advanced Human Thoughts) and from the Sun (or the Ball) into the Earth!  The aim of these phony pentagons is to also cover the Pulsating Fast Movement of this Balanced Energy from 11th Density into the Earth, which fasten the vibration of the Earth and everyone on it! The most important is not the wide Pink strip on the picture, but the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy, which I've personally seen a few times !!!

Photos in Space

Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy of Balance from 11th Density! More of pictures on  New Earth and Old Earth

MIG-25 - Earthviews - To the edge of Space - 92.500ft
White Beam of Balance from 11th Density (with phony Yellow coloring) is going through the Sun into Earth and showing on the water!

The Pink Energy of the highest 11th Density is penetrating our Earth in the places of Portals! 24 March 2010
I turned my camera 90 degrees to have a vertical picture and this is the reason why the white moving and pulsing Advanced Energy Beam is directed away from Earth, but nevertheless, it is a very good picture of this Beam. There is also a Close-Up of this picture below! I now feel that the Holographic Pink colored Beam (tail) is a fake to be superimposed and used to cover up the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy of 11th Density to cover the movement of it to the Sun (or to the Ball of Advanced Human Thoughts) and from the Sun (or the Ball) into the Earth!  The aim of these phony pentagons is to also cover the Pulsating Fast Movement of this Balanced Energy from 11th Density into the Earth, which fasten the vibration of the Earth and everyone on it! The most important is not the wide Pink strip on the picture, but the Moving and Pulsating narrow White Beam of Advanced Energy, which I've personally seen a few times !!!

The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts is in my room. Apr. 2010
The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts is in my room. Apr. 2010
The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts is in my room. Apr. 2010
The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts is in my room. Apr. 2010

The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts is in my room. Apr. 2010
The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts is in my room. Apr. 2010

The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts is in my room. Apr. 2010
The mixture of Sun and the Ball of Advanced Thoughts is in my room. Apr. 2010








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