Vatican says pope target of ‘hate’ campaign

[IndianaGreen]

Source: MSNBC

Vatican says pope target of ‘hate’ campaign

Blames allegations of abuse cover-up on groups with anti-Catholic agenda

By FRANCES D'EMILIO

updated 2 hours, 10 minutes ago

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican heatedly defended Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, claiming accusations that he helped cover up the actions of pedophile priests are part of an anti-Catholic "hate" campaign targeting the pope for his opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.

Vatican Radio broadcast comments by two senior cardinals explaining "the motive for these attacks" on the pope and the Vatican newspaper chipped in with spirited comments from another top cardinal.

"The pope defends life and the family, based on marriage between a man and a woman, in a world in which powerful lobbies would like to impose a completely different" agenda, Spanish Cardinal Julian Herranz, head of the disciplinary commission for Holy See officials, said on the radio.

Herranz didn't identify the lobbies but "defense of life" is Vatican shorthand for anti-abortion efforts.

Also arguing that Benedict's promotion of conservative family models had provoked the so-called attacks was the Vatican's dean of the College of Cardinals, Angelo Sodano.

"By now, it's a cultural contrast," Sodano told the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano. "The pope embodies moral truths that aren't accepted, and so, the shortcomings and errors of priests are used as weapons against the church."


Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36199052/ns/world_news-europe/

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What a scumbag! The only "moral truth" is that this Pope protected pedophiles.

[Incitatus]

1. yeah, people tend to hate when you let someone molest kids and get away with it. nt

[roguevalley]

29. he never should have been Pope. He was head of the Inquisition,

he was the pope's shit stick, that is, he did all the beat downs for JP II and he was a soldier in the army for Hitler. He may have had to be a Hitler youth but he had a choice to be in the army and he didn't turn it down. He's the worst thing ever. Maybe it was a little joke about 'Is the Pope Polish?' but "is the pope a nazi?" turns the stomach more than usual. My great grandpa would split a gut.

My condolences to every Catholic on this list who is good and loves their faith. This must be so hard. But remember, you are the church. This guy is just a passing phase.

[Xenotime]

44. Ha! Exactly!

[izquierdista]

2. Well, they are right on this one

There is a lot of hate out there for pedophiles, their enablers and defenders.

[Cognitive_Resonance]

3. The Vatican is playing the victim. Really sick. nm

[glinda]

32. The Vatican has Karl Rove working for them as it is his playbook.

[RKP5637]

4. More attempted brainwashing propaganda spin out of the Vatican. n/t

[LaStrega]

5. "The pope defends life and the family..."

And apparently the sexual abuse of children, or at the very least, protection of those who would commit such atrocities.

[AlbertCat]

9. "The pope defends life and the family..."

Just not children....

[TankLV]

6. Awwwe - poor (former) Nazi...

[AlbertCat]

7. Won't god protect him?

[David__77]

8. Yes, and they compared it with racist anti-Semitism already.

Their propagandists are clueless if their goal is to actually win public opinion outside the hard core of the church.

We could really be seeing the undoing of the church...

[Lionel Mandrake]

12. The undoing of the Roman church would be wonderful.

I hope you are right about that.

Many worthy causes, from women's rights to saving ecosystems, would benefit from the destruction of this church.

[glinda]

33. Yea. Like the rise of the Evangelicals and nutbaggers.

[David__77]

36. You raise a good point.

The vacuum caused by the disarticulation of Catholicism in the US could be filled by things just as bad or even worse than right-wing Catholicism. There must be a progressive alternative. Ideally, the Catholic church would be captured from within for liberation theology and truly embrace social justice. Short of that, alternatives must emerge forcefully, both secular and religious.

[Haole Girl]

10. Whaa!

What cry babies.

Ugh.

[Better Believe It]

11. So molesting and raping boys is merely "shortcomings and errors of priests"

Well, I guess that's no big deal.

[AlbertCat]

21. So molesting and raping boys AND GIRLS is merely "shortcomings and errors of priests"

Do'nt forget the girls!


These are a bunch of men (and women) who have dropped out of normal society and still wear clothes from the frigin' 10th century! Who cares what they think?

[Mad_Dem_X]

41. People tend to forget that girls are also being molested

It's just as heinous a crime when the victim is a little girl.

[Better Believe It]

42. The priests don't have nearly as many opportunties to molest girls, that's why we mainly hear don't

hear about the girls that are also victims.

[Tutonic]

13. Takin a page out of Michael Steele's playbook? Point the finger

away from yourselves? The Pope has got game...yo da man Pope Ben!

[troubledamerican]

14. Neocon Playbook Rule #1

Rule #1: We Are Always The Victim. Never Miss An Opportunity To Claim Victim Status.

[myrna minx]

15. Wow.

:wow:

[troubledamerican]

16. Video (short): The Day The Church Was Truthful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VABSoHYQr6k

Parental discretion is advised.

[appal_jack]

17. Fuck You Nazi Rat-Zinger Benedict-Arnold Pedophile Coddler Pope-Ass

And fuck your hidebound church that preaches and enshrines repression, hierarchy, and misogyny too!

-app

[me b zola]

18. Well thats rich. n/t

[aquart]

19. Victimhood!

[Solly Mack]

20. Typical behavior for an abuser - everybody is at fault but them

[DavidDvorkin]

22. Dig, dig, dig

Keep shoveling, guys.

By the way, it's not the Middle Ages any more.

[cap]

39. I told my husband that I thought the Pope's pointy mitre hat was poking through

and coming out the other side of the earth in China! I wonder if it's possible to dig yourself into deep space.

[DavidDvorkin]

43. Hah!

[Soylent Brice]

23. translation:

[ZombieHorde]

34. Awesome. nt

[Jamastiene]

24. Hate the sin, love the sinner.

Turnabout is fair play. We don't hate the Pope. We just hate the cover-up, the sin.

That felt good.
:evilgrin:

[bulloney]

25. So the pope thinks HE'S a victim?

Not the children who were molested by the priests of whom he's apparently complicit in the cover up?

Not the women whom his institution considers second class citizens?

Not the pro-choicers his institution makes a special effort to condemn every election?

Not the scientists who were condemned because they discovered the Vatican's positions were wrong (i.e.-Galileo and other victims of the Inquisition)?

Not the victims of the Crusades of which the Vatican was complicit?

Give me a break!!

[DonCoquixote]

26. You wish, Johnny Rat

The Modern Church has rarely shown the willingness to do what it demands it's followers do: reflect, repent, and restore. It was bad enough when the previous pope merely neglected the abuses, but you, Benedict, have your hands DIRTY, personally.

You Johnny, will probably end up like Julius II, the man who built St. Peter's Basilica, the Sistine Chapel,and all it's wonders, only to ignore the fact that many throughout the world where getting sick of the corruption, especially a former priest named Martin Luther. We are nailing the 95 theses to your door, Johnny, your move.

[Politicub]

27. He's been misunderstood ever since he was in the Nazi youth

I can just hear him asking, "Why don't people understand my superior, aryan ways?"

"The children who were molested were filled with original sin. Grasp my family friendly conservative moral truths and be set free."

[Democrats_win]

28. "Hate what is evil..." Romans 12:9

I'm dissapointed in this church because I thought they finally learned that they needed to be open about their pedophile problems. I knew they'd still have pedophile problems but at least they promised to be more open about it and they promised to care about the victims. Now we see that is no longer the case. Truly, what we are seeing from the vatican is nothing but evil. This is rotten and sad.

[salguine]

30. FUCK JOEY RATZ AND FUCK THE WHOLE FUCKING VATICAN.

[LiberalFighter]

31. Sending all my hate to the Pope.

[Canuckistanian]

35. First it was 'gossip'

Then they tried to play the "we're persecuted like Jews in Nazi Germany'.

Now it's a "hate campaign".

They don't sound too humble for "servants of Christ", do they?

[Vidar]

37. No doubt, but has richly earned it.

[panzerfaust]

38. How about "Truth Campaign?"

[Stuart G]

40. It won't work this time..cause...it seems that

every few days we hear new.."old stories".
.New incidents of the Pope's refusal to deal with this in one way or another.
More examples seem to follow, and more denials follow..

These old men can say whatever they want...It just won't work this time..