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20th July 2013, 11:28
Fascist Pope Criminalizes the Reporting of Sex Crimes
Saturday, 20 July 2013 09:48
Posted by David Icke
Pope Criminalizes the Reporting of Sex Crimes
Written by Justin Dodd July 17th 2013
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VATICAN CITY — Few eyebrows were raised last week when Pope Francis brought the
Vatican’s legal system up to date by criminalizing leaks of official information and
formalizing laws against sex crimes. But now that the laws have been made public, a
closer look revealed that the pope has made it illegal to report sex crimes against
children.According to the new laws, revealing or receiving confidential Vatican
information is now punishable by up to two years in prison, while newly defined sex
crimes against children carry a sentence of up to twelve years. Because all sex crimes
are kept confidential, there is no longer a legal way for Vatican officials to report sex
crimes.
“We didn’t mean for this to happen, obviously,” lamented Vatican foreign minister
Monsignor Dominique Mamberti. “It’s quite the papal pickle that His Holiness has placed
upon our heads. Sex crimes are more illegal than ever, but technically it’s illegal to
report them.” Mamberti said that the simultaneous passing of each law is merely a
coincidence and insisted that the Church is not trying to protect itself against further
embarrassment, but critics outside the Vatican are skeptical.
“They know exactly what they’re doing,” claims Fabrizio Perona of Italy’s La Repubblica
newspaper. “They just thought nobody would notice. The Church wants to impress the
world by getting tough on sex crimes, but they criminalized leaks, which is the only way
anybody would ever discover their crimes. It’s genius, if you stop and think about it.”
Mamberti says plans are already being made to eliminate the loophole, but change often
comes slowly to antiquated Vatican law, which is based on the 1889 Italian code. “We’re
not going to let a dangerous law like this stand, but people need to understand that this
is the Vatican, and there is a process here. Voting, incense, prayer. We ask the minors
at risk to please be patient with us.”
Fortunately, only clergy and lay people who live and work in Vatican City are subject to
the new legislation, which differs from the canon law governing the universal Catholic
Church. As the Holy See moves to clarify the law, Mamberti has warned would-be
offenders within Vatican walls that they “are still subject to the most watchful eye of all:
the eye of God. His judgment is greater than—oh, who am I kidding? For now, there is
nothing we can do.”
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Pope's bank clean-up man 'found stuck in lift with rent boy'
Michael day...Milan
Friday 19 July 2013
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8710995.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/pope-ford-focus-ap.jpg
As the man charged with cleaning out the stables at the scandal-struck Vatican bank,
Monsignor Battista Ricca will need Machiavellian cunning, good fortune and a whiter-
than-white record to have even a fighting chance.
But Pope Francis’s new banker appears to possess none of these attributes after it was
reported yesterday that he was found stuck in a lift with a rent boy. Msgr Ricca, as
Francis’s new primate with responsibility for the troubled financial institution, known
officially as the IoR (Institute for Religious Works), is supposed to usher in new
transparency and badly needed reforms after years of financial scandal.
Earlier this month, a major report from finance police and magistrates warned that a
lack of checks and controls by the IoR and the Italian financial institutions it had
dealings with made the Vatican’s bank a money-laundering hot spot.
It is claimed that Msgr Ricca, 57, impressed Francis with the way he ran three key
residences used by cardinals, bishops and priests visiting Rome. But detailed claims
have emerged detailing how in 1999, Ricca took a Vatican diplomatic posting in Uruguay
and moved his lover, Patrick Haari, a Swiss army captain, in with him, to the outrage of
church figures and locals in the conservative South American nation. Captain Haari was
forced out by the hardline Polish nuncio Janusz Bolonek in 2001.
But there were more problems for Ricca when he was attacked in a cruising ground that
year, and soon after firemen had to rescue him from a broken lift, in which he was
trapped with a youth known by local police. The weekly news magazine L’Espresso
claims that Msgr Ricca was able to get the position as IoR prelate because the
supposedly powerful “gay lobby” in the Vatican airbrushed his colourful CV.
Gay sex scandals at the Vatican have made the headlines before. In 2010 it emerged
that one of Pope Benedict’s ceremonial ushers and a member of the Vatican choir were
involved in a gay prostitution ring.
Vatican spokesman Padre Federico Lombardi sought to dismiss the claims about Msgr
Ricca’s private life. “What has been claimed about Msgr Ricca is not credible,” he said.
Msgr Ricca himself has not yet responded to the allegations. But La Repubblica noted
that the Vatican had emphasised that his appointment as prelate for the IoR was
technically an interim one, thus raising the possibility that the job might not last long.
Read more ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/popes-bank-cleanup-man-found-stuck-in-lift-with-rent-boy-8721296.html
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/87397-fascist-pope-criminalizes-the-reporting-of-sex-crimes
Saturday, 20 July 2013 09:48
Posted by David Icke
Pope Criminalizes the Reporting of Sex Crimes
Written by Justin Dodd July 17th 2013
http://www.newslo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Francisco-645x325.png
VATICAN CITY — Few eyebrows were raised last week when Pope Francis brought the
Vatican’s legal system up to date by criminalizing leaks of official information and
formalizing laws against sex crimes. But now that the laws have been made public, a
closer look revealed that the pope has made it illegal to report sex crimes against
children.According to the new laws, revealing or receiving confidential Vatican
information is now punishable by up to two years in prison, while newly defined sex
crimes against children carry a sentence of up to twelve years. Because all sex crimes
are kept confidential, there is no longer a legal way for Vatican officials to report sex
crimes.
“We didn’t mean for this to happen, obviously,” lamented Vatican foreign minister
Monsignor Dominique Mamberti. “It’s quite the papal pickle that His Holiness has placed
upon our heads. Sex crimes are more illegal than ever, but technically it’s illegal to
report them.” Mamberti said that the simultaneous passing of each law is merely a
coincidence and insisted that the Church is not trying to protect itself against further
embarrassment, but critics outside the Vatican are skeptical.
“They know exactly what they’re doing,” claims Fabrizio Perona of Italy’s La Repubblica
newspaper. “They just thought nobody would notice. The Church wants to impress the
world by getting tough on sex crimes, but they criminalized leaks, which is the only way
anybody would ever discover their crimes. It’s genius, if you stop and think about it.”
Mamberti says plans are already being made to eliminate the loophole, but change often
comes slowly to antiquated Vatican law, which is based on the 1889 Italian code. “We’re
not going to let a dangerous law like this stand, but people need to understand that this
is the Vatican, and there is a process here. Voting, incense, prayer. We ask the minors
at risk to please be patient with us.”
Fortunately, only clergy and lay people who live and work in Vatican City are subject to
the new legislation, which differs from the canon law governing the universal Catholic
Church. As the Holy See moves to clarify the law, Mamberti has warned would-be
offenders within Vatican walls that they “are still subject to the most watchful eye of all:
the eye of God. His judgment is greater than—oh, who am I kidding? For now, there is
nothing we can do.”
- See more at: http://www.newslo.com/pope-criminalizes-the-reporting-of-sex-crimes/#sthash.qJNxgR8h.dpuf
Read more ...
http://www.newslo.com/pope-criminalizes-the-reporting-of-sex-crimes/
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Pope's bank clean-up man 'found stuck in lift with rent boy'
Michael day...Milan
Friday 19 July 2013
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article8710995.ece/ALTERNATES/w460/pope-ford-focus-ap.jpg
As the man charged with cleaning out the stables at the scandal-struck Vatican bank,
Monsignor Battista Ricca will need Machiavellian cunning, good fortune and a whiter-
than-white record to have even a fighting chance.
But Pope Francis’s new banker appears to possess none of these attributes after it was
reported yesterday that he was found stuck in a lift with a rent boy. Msgr Ricca, as
Francis’s new primate with responsibility for the troubled financial institution, known
officially as the IoR (Institute for Religious Works), is supposed to usher in new
transparency and badly needed reforms after years of financial scandal.
Earlier this month, a major report from finance police and magistrates warned that a
lack of checks and controls by the IoR and the Italian financial institutions it had
dealings with made the Vatican’s bank a money-laundering hot spot.
It is claimed that Msgr Ricca, 57, impressed Francis with the way he ran three key
residences used by cardinals, bishops and priests visiting Rome. But detailed claims
have emerged detailing how in 1999, Ricca took a Vatican diplomatic posting in Uruguay
and moved his lover, Patrick Haari, a Swiss army captain, in with him, to the outrage of
church figures and locals in the conservative South American nation. Captain Haari was
forced out by the hardline Polish nuncio Janusz Bolonek in 2001.
But there were more problems for Ricca when he was attacked in a cruising ground that
year, and soon after firemen had to rescue him from a broken lift, in which he was
trapped with a youth known by local police. The weekly news magazine L’Espresso
claims that Msgr Ricca was able to get the position as IoR prelate because the
supposedly powerful “gay lobby” in the Vatican airbrushed his colourful CV.
Gay sex scandals at the Vatican have made the headlines before. In 2010 it emerged
that one of Pope Benedict’s ceremonial ushers and a member of the Vatican choir were
involved in a gay prostitution ring.
Vatican spokesman Padre Federico Lombardi sought to dismiss the claims about Msgr
Ricca’s private life. “What has been claimed about Msgr Ricca is not credible,” he said.
Msgr Ricca himself has not yet responded to the allegations. But La Repubblica noted
that the Vatican had emphasised that his appointment as prelate for the IoR was
technically an interim one, thus raising the possibility that the job might not last long.
Read more ...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/popes-bank-cleanup-man-found-stuck-in-lift-with-rent-boy-8721296.html
http://www.davidicke.com/headlines/87397-fascist-pope-criminalizes-the-reporting-of-sex-crimes