points us to support for the Pope from an unlikely source - an editorial in Pravda online, which is available in English translated from Portuguese. I have taken the liberty of smoothing out the English idiom and omitting some statements that are not relevant to the argument.
To confuse the wood with the trees ...
Adapted from
March 30, 2010
Much of the news coming out, in the effort to disguise ideological propaganda, contains the fundamental error of mistaking the wood with the trees ... especially when the aim is to denigrate. That is, from an isolated case, preferably rough outlines, then generalized in order to induce the reader to think that the whole is of the same nature.
This generalization obviously has ideological connotations and follows a political agenda that seeks to deconstruct traditional society and all its secular institutions and to impose a New World Order after the manner of the sinister interests of the international oligarchy, the same ones that handle the financial markets and through them, largely control the global economy.
We refer to cases of pedophilia within the ranks of the Catholic Church recently publicized by international news agencies.
Indeed recent reports of pedophilia involving priests raise suspicion about their validity, even among non-Catholics like us. Although disagreeing with the doctrine of the Catholic Church in some respects, we recognize the importance of their role in our history to defend the ethical values that shape our Judeo-Christian culture and their social merit, on behalf of those who have been victims of the usury and greed of
the international oligarchy - which is after all more interested in destroying Catholicism and religion in general, as they constitute a serious obstacle to achieving its goal, which is to reduce mankind to the status of robotic slaves.
We emphasize beforehand that it we are not defending pedophilia, that by defending the Catholic Church we are not justifying the actions of dishonorable men who have forgotten all of their most basic obligations as priests, as well as respect for others, especially the weak, as is an orphan who does not have the affection of a true family.
One aspect that makes us suspicious of the "good faith" of these stories is that they focus exclusively on cases of pedophilia of Catholic clergy, when we know that addiction cuts across all religions and organizations. We find it in all social strata and even within families.
The pedophile is in principle someone very close to the victim and who has their confidence, that is, not a stranger ... and may even be a father, uncle, etc..
When it is argued that priests are more prone to abuse because the celibacy that is required of them raises the level of temptation toward sexual abuse, it seems to be forgotten that pedophile offenders are not always single and are often seen as "good" heads of the family, so the person apparently seems normal.
Another detail that suggests that a campaign of demoralization of the Catholic Church is underway is that news of pedophilia by some of its priests appears like mushrooms sprouting every morning, giving the impression that the number of victims and pedophiles are as many as a hive of bees. In fact, although the victims are many, but the alleged abusers are only a tiny minority of priests.
If we take into account the statistics in the USA, the number of victims in Catholic institutions compared with others, particularly in secular schools where it is much higher, the ratio is 1 to 157, during the period from 1950 to 2002. The numbers also show that as child abuse is an extensive social phenomenon that is not restricted to a specific sector of society.
The case of the Casa Pia de Lisboa should also be pointed out. The Portuguese government orphanage - founded in the late eighteenth century, by the Manager of Police, a man who had the confidence of the Marquis of Pombal - has been exposed as 'a case of pedophilia in progress. More suspects have been accused of sexual abuse of minors than in all the cases mentioned recently in the media to tarnish the image of the Catholic Church
Ten defendants have now been indicted by the public prosecution service. It is said that the "sexual binge" at the Institute involves many people, some 'quite big', going back to the 1980s. Many of the victims, now adults, are not willing to go through the torment of police investigations and still less the public shame that they were involved in the scandal at all.
In fact, in these cases, not all complaints are genuine. There are those who take advantage to extort money, for instance. It may be difficult to ascertain how much is true and where lies begin.
The fury of the anti-clerical secular lobby has gone as far as to revive old cases like that of Father Lawrence Murphy, back in 1975, to address the current Pope insidiously and in this way, the Roman Catholic Church itself.
On March 25, the
New York Times published an article that accused Benedict XVI of covering up for a priest from Milwaukee in 1995 when the Pope was still Cardinal and responsible for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
It must be motivated by a very strong hatred of Catholicism to raise this issue 35 years later...
The complaint is all the more insidious since the primary function of this body [CDF} is to monitor doctrinal deviations and heresies, so nothing to do with acts that violate the chastity of the clergy.
[The writer obviously does not know that since 2001, the CDF was also given jurisdiction for the canonical investigation and adjudication of sexual crimes against minors by the clergy.]
[There follows a brief paragraph about the case which has some facts wrong.]
We do not believe that the New York newspaper was unaware of the facts.
[No, they were not - as shown by the documents that they themselves posted to 'support' their case. But they chose to ignore facts that do not fit the narrative dictated by their agenda - shamelessly brazen in their certainty that few readers would bother to check out the documents and simply take the reporter's word for it. When journalism was still an honorable profession and not so thorougly corrupted by ideology and a sense of power, that might have been OK. But not now. There ought to have been a blizzard of protests from readers expressing their indignation at the lack of correspondence between the story reported and the actual documents - because the blatant untruth is an insult to common intelligence!]
But from here, one can only conclude that bad faith exists and a defamatory smear campaign has been articulated against the world Catholic hierarchy.
And it is understandable. The current Pontiff, consistent with the principles of the Catholic Church, has shown
tenacious resistance to unnatural and divisive proposals by secular elements seeking to impose their vision of a sexist, hedonistic society, reducing man to his animal nature, to deny its spiritual dimension.
These elements, usually organizations, obviously have not arisen by "spontaneous generation," nor do they live on air ... They have been created and are supported by the cunning of supposedly philanthropic foundations like the Rockefeller family, whose financial interests are linked to a wide range of economic sectors ranging from banking, oil, pharmaceuticals, military industry, etc., and global media which carry out an agenda dictated by the global elite to which they belong... [The writer indulges his own propaganda here and in a subsequent paragraph which I will omit.]
Therefore, there is an intention in this kind of reporting that goes far beyond the desire to inform - if the same phenomenon is not reported for other institutions.
Further, a balanced assessment of the responsibility for pedophilia among Catholic priests should note the outcome of canonical and civil cases actually brought against these clerics, and not simply advertise the accusations, which may not all be genuine, as we all know in processes of this kind.
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