Nazis Were First to Exploit Pedophile Priests to Attack Entire Catholic Church (yup, Nazi card)

[Fuzz]

http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10042304.html

ROME, April 22, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) - "There are cases of sexual abuse that are coming to light every day against a great number of the members of the Catholic clergy. Unfortunately, we are perhaps not talking so much about individual cases but rather a collective moral crisis that the cultural history of humanity may never have known at such a frightful and concerning level. Numerous priests and religious have confessed to the crime. There is no doubt that the thousands of cases that have come to be known to the authorities represent only a small fraction of the true number, since many molesters have been covered and hidden by the hierarchy."

Although the above quote could have appeared in any number of editorials in recent weeks, the statement was made by Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels in 1937, according to Italian journalist Massimo Introvigne.

In an article published recently for Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian Catholic bishops' conference, Introvigne says that Goebbels launched a fierce smear campaign against the Catholic Church following its condemnation of the Nazi regime that same year, attempting to convince the public that the Catholic priesthood was filled with child sex abusers.

Introvigne says that Goebbels' campaign followed the same pattern seen in recent media attacks on the Church. Although it was based on a few real cases that had come to light in 1936, and far fewer that the number of cases currently being discussed from mostly the 1960s and 70s, it exaggerated their extent and attempted to revive them after they had already been resolved, in an attempt to discredit Catholics.

"The cases, which were few, but real, produced a very strong reaction from the episcopate," writes Introvigne. "On June 2, 1936, the Bishop of Münster - Blessed Clemens August von Galen (1878-1946), who was the soul of Catholic resistance to Nazism, and who was beatified in 2005 by Benedict XVI - had a declaration read at all the Sunday Masses in which he expressed 'pain and sadness' for these 'abominable crimes' that "cover our Holy Church with ignominy.'"

The German episcopate soon after published a condemnation of the perpetrators, and implemented what Introvigne called "severe measures" to prevent future crimes. The bishops privately pointed out that the Hitler Youth and the schools had a far bigger problem with child sex abuse.

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[Clintonista2]

1. The very same vatican that refused to denounce the Nazi's during WWII?

And whose leader was a member of the Hitler Youth?

[Warpy]

8. Yeah, I always wondered what they had on old Pius

to make him lick their jackboots even as some of the better nuns and clergy were helping people escape.

This would seem to explain a hell of a lot.

The Vatican now has even more to answer for.

[DURHAM D]

9. Yep - and the same Vatican that provided Papal passports

to those war criminals so they could escape to Central America, South America and other places when their war was going badly.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Provided that the information in the OP is verifiable and true, then it would

explain Rome's silence on the Holocaust as the Vatican was being blackmailed by Berlin.

[REP]

13. Life Site News is like World Nut Daily for fetus fetishists

[MicaelS]

3. OK, so what they're really saying

Is that anyone who attacks the Catholic Church over pedophile priests is a Nazi, right?

[saigon68]

4. Sodomites and their enablers

[divvy]

5. There are plenty of evangelical protestants engaged in sex abuse too.

Lots of republicans as well. Wait, maybe it is simply a function of percentage within the general population. There seems to be plenty of anti-catholic hatred expressed here on DU. People would get banned right and left if a slight fraction of this abuse was directed towards the group that must not be named.

[Quantess]

6. What is "the group that must not be named"?

Tell me, so I can post something critical about them.

[Fuzz]

7. Heh, me too.

[Warpy]

10. Did they have an established organization behind them

that hid them while maximizing their access to children?

Remember, we're not talking about individual pedophiles, they exist in almost every group.

We're talking about an organization that hid them, protected them from prosecution, and sacrificed generations of children in order to keep its own power.

[REP]

11. Life Site News? They're SO objective!

:sarcasm:

[marmar]

12. The smell of desperation from the banks of the Tiber......

nt

[NaturalHigh]

14. I will recommend your post.

My wife and her family are Catholic, and almost every Catholic I have ever met is a wonderful person. The Catholic Church does so many great things, and its charity arm is probably the best in the world. You have to admit, though, that this whole scandal has been really bad.

[REP]

15. Read the TRUTH!!!1! about the Kennedy funeral at Life Site News!

http://www.lifesitenews.com/features/KennedyFuneral/


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Sep 29 LSN Report Archbishop Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Vatican's Apostolic Signatura wrote in an article published September 26 in Crisis Magazine "The person who experiences scandal at public actions of Catholics, which are gravely contrary to the moral law, not only does not destroy unity but invites the Church to repair what is clearly a serious breach in Her life. Were he not to experience scandal at the public support of attacks on human life and the family, his conscience would be uninformed or dulled about the most sacred realities."

"One sees the hand of the Father of Lies at work in the disregard for the situation of scandal or in the ridicule and even censure of those who experience scandal."
Sep 21 LSN Report Archbishop Burke, stated on Sept. 18 in Washington, D.C., "neither Holy Communion nor funeral rites should be administered to" politicians who support abortion or same-sex "marriage." "To deny these is not a judgment of the soul, but a recognition of the scandal and its effects," he said.


So much more at link!!

[The Magistrate]

16. So The Frequent Pedophilia Of Catholic Priests, Sir, Is Nothing New

No one really thought it was, though some elements in the Vatican lately have tried to blame it on 'modern permissive attitudes' and the like....