Infallible Paedophiles?
© 02-12 Colin Melbourne
According to the 1994 Roman Catholic Catechism its popes and leadership (Magisterium) are infallible:
"Christ endowed the Church's shepherds with the charism of infallibility in matters of faith and morals. The infallibility of the Magisterium of the Pastors extends to all the elements of doctrine, including moral doctrine, without which the saving truths of the faith cannot be preserved, expounded, or observed." Pg. 235, No. 890 Pg. 495, No. 2051
I don't know about you, but I'm fully aware that I'm not infallible. I make mistakes. I need my Saviour all the time, don't you? The Holy Bible declares that all of us are born sinful, wicked to the core, and only God is Perfect, His Name is The Lord Jesus Christ. He is the sole infallible person to have ever walked on earth.
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;... Wherefore, as by one man ( Adam) sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: Holy Bible, Ro. 3:23, 5:12 KJV
But God in His mercy didn't leave us without a way back to Him, He came Himself, the Lord Jesus Christ, and bore our sin, guilt and punishment in our place, so that we can be forgiven, if we will only repent and believe the Good News:
For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him... The blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God. 2 Co. 5:21, Heb. 9:14 KJV
The only way anyone can become righteous, holy, and acceptable to God is through trusting in and receiving Christ as LORD and Saviour, by being genuinely born again. Each sinner who does this, instantly becomes a child of God, a true Saint, bearing the righteousness of Christ as God's Gift. Not infallible, but saved, holy, and blameless through God's Blood, God's Sacrifice, and God's Grace.
... the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe... you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel; Ro. 3:22, Col. 1:21-23
Those who claim to be infallible have a very tough row to hoe. For one thing they have to reconcile their 'infallibility' with an unerring tendency towards vile idolatry, sexual perversion, mass-murder, and rank paedophilia.
The recent publicity given to the exposure of thousands of Roman Catholic clergy indulging in paedophilia in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia, is only a glimpse of the core of wickedness at the heart of Satan's counterfeit of Christianity. Here is an excerpt from an article in the Financial Times that tells of,
A growing international crisis for the Catholic Church, with cases of paedophile priests and allegations of official cover-ups raging from London to Sydney, via Dublin and Hong Kong. No one is predicting an early resolution to a crisis that is sapping the Church's moral and financial resources. In the US, civil suits by victims are estimated to total $1bn, and in the past year more than 300 of the nation's 46,000 priests have resigned or been removed because of sex-abuse claims.
Catholics blame Vatican as crisis deepens. Burns and Griffith. Financial Times, Dec 9 2002
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Make no mistake about this, it's written in the 1994 Roman Catholic Catechism; according to this Cult's teachings, not only is every Pope infallible, but so too are the men who make up the rest of the Catholic Leadership. Here it is:
"In order to preserve the Church in the purity of the faith handed on by the apostles, Christ who is Truth willed to confer on her a share in his own infallibility. By a supernatural sense of faith the People of God, under the guidance of the Church's living magisterium, unfailingly adheres to this faith." Pg. 235, No. 889
The Catechism repeats this ludicrously unbiblical claim:
"The Roman Pontiff... enjoys this infallibility in virtue of his office, when, as supreme pastor and teacher of all the faithful - who confirms his brethren in the faith - he proclaims by a definitive act a doctrine pertaining to faith or morals... This infallibility extends as far as the deposit of divine Revelation itself." Pg. 235, No. 891
Here's the Catechism's demonically-inspired designation of other Catholic Leaders (Magisterium) as infallible:
"The pastoral duty of the Magisterium is aimed at seeing to it that the People of God abides in the truth that liberates. To fulfil this service, Christ endowed the Church's shepherds with the charism of infallibility in matters of faith and morals."
"The infallibility of the Magisterium of the Pastors extends to all the elements of doctrine, including moral doctrine, without which the saving truths of the faith cannot be preserved, expounded, or observed." Pg. 235, No. 890, Pg. 495, No. 2051
Notice that infallibility is claimed specifically in matters of doctrine, faith and morals.
Infallible means never making an error, always performing perfectly. But anybody acquainted with the history of the Roman Catholic 'church' knows that its Popes, Cardinals, and Peregrines, on-down are just as fallible and sinful as the rest of unregenerate mankind.
On the matter of enforced celibacy for example; Popes Sergius III (904-11), John X (914-28), John XII (95][t5-63), Benedict V (964), Innocent VIII (1484-92), Urban VIII (1623-44), and Innocent X (1644-55), as well as countless cardinals, bishops, archbishops, monks, and priests throughout history, have repeatedly violated their celibacy vows, indulging in fornication, adultery, and fathering illegitimate children.
This historical fact caused Pius II to declare that Rome was; "The only city run by bastards",•• meaning the sons sired by the 'Holy Fathers' and cardinals. Catholic historians confirm this too, Jesuit Priest P. de Rosa says;
"Popes had mistresses of fifteen years of age, were guilty of incest and sexual perversions of every sort, had innumerable children, were murdered in the very act of adultery (by jealous husbands who found them in bed with their wives)... In the old Catholic phrase, 'Why be holier than the pope?'"
Popes instigated, financed, and revelled in genocidal inquisitions throughout Europe and South America accounting for multiplied millions of deaths, far more than Adolph Hitler could ever be blamed for (another Catholic, with whom the Vatican had a secret agreement). Several popes specifically targeted Jews for extermination. Indeed the name of the Borgias has become a by-word for demonic evil. Lucretia Borgia (you've heard of her) was sired by another so-called "Holy Father".
So it should come as no surprise to us today to discover that Roman Catholic Priests and Leaders have been sexually abusing children in their care, and sodomizing seminarians for centuries. Idolatry and sexual immorality go hand-in-glove. A recent report by NBC showed that more than half (58 percent) of all American Catholic seminarians are homosexuals. The latest figures reveal over 4,000 cases of child sex abuse by American Catholic clergy in the last few decades alone.
Nor should we be shocked to learn that, rather than imprisoning and punishing such perverts, the RC hierarchy simply shuffled the culprits around, and covered up their crimes, as it is doing today. They really have no choice, since it is an article of their faith that such Leaders are infallible, even it seems, when they are paedophiles.
Praise God that the dear deluded Catholics are waking up and coming out of Satan's counterfeit of Christianity, and embracing the true and Living God, The Lord Jesus Christ.
If you know people still entangled in the RC Cult, please love them enough to warn them to repent, and come in to Christ today before it is too late. Here's some wonderful tools to help you to show them how they have been deceived.
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•• Bastard, means a child without a named father.
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Updates
The New York Times of 26th. Feb. 2004 reports the shocking level of paedophilia by US Priests:
Two long-awaited studies have found that the Roman Catholic Church suffered an epidemic of child sexual abuse that involved at least 4 percent of priests over 52 years, and peaked with the ordination class of 1970, in which one of every 10 priests was eventually accused of abuse.
The human toll amounted to 10,667 children allegedly victimized by 4,392 priests from 1950 to 2002, but the studies caution that even these numbers represent an undercount. The totals depend on self-reporting by American bishops, the studies note, and many victims have never come forward out of fear, or shame.
Among other things, the John Jay survey found that the 'church' spent more than $572 million on lawyers' fees, settlements and therapy for victims and treatment for the priests. But the report said the figure was prematurely low.
Researchers said in an interview that a more accurate total was about three-quarters of a billion dollars, because the $572 million did not include several recent settlements, like the $85 million paid to victims by the Archdiocese of Boston, and because 14 percent of dioceses and religious orders provided none of the financial information requested by the researchers. [Emphasis added]
March 2004: Australian Anglican paedophile scandal exposed, forcing the resignation of their leader. Note: The Anglican church has been taken over by Catholics since the counter-reformation, idolatry is rampant in Anglican services.
May 2004: Nuns belonging to the Sisters of Mercy order apologize for over two decades of child abuse in Dublin nunneries. Victims reported being beaten with wooden chair legs, and whipped with rosaries.
July 2004: The American Archdiocese of Portland filed for bankruptcy citing the $53 million it has already paid to silence victims of paedophilia abuse, and similar claims pending amounting to a further $100 million. Victims and their relatives are incensed, not only by the actual abuse by their trusted local Roman Catholic clergy, but also by the Vatican's attempts to cover it up.
One victim declared, "Today they have filed for economic bankruptcy, but it is only an attempt to avoid details of the sexual abuse surfacing in the courts. The 'Church' has been morally bankrupt all my life."
The leader of an Austrian Roman Catholic seminary resigned after thousands of paedophile images were discovered on his computers, together with movies of Catholic seminary students indulging in homosexual acts with their teachers.
Sep. 2004: Austrian Catholic seminary shut down following exposure of the homosexual paedophile scandal.
July 2005: US Kentucky Judge orders Catholics to pay out record $120 million to sexual abuse victims. In 2004, a report commissioned by Catholics said more than 4,000 US Roman Catholic priests had faced sexual abuse allegations in the last 50 years in cases involving more than 10,000 children, mostly boys.
BBC reports that since 1950 the Roman Catholic 'Church' has paid out more than $1 billion in hush-money to its paedophile victims.
May 2006: US Catholic priest found guilty in Ohio of murdering a Nun in a satanic ritual. The 71 year old Nun had been strangled, and stabbed 31 times. Her chest wounds formed an inverted cross.
Sep. 2006: Two Florida priests found guilty of embezzling millions of dollars of donations to finance mistresses and lavish lifestyles.
Oct. 2006: BBC exposes Catholic instructions called 'Crimen Sollicitationis', originally drawn up in 1962, that instruct bishops how to cover up cases of priestly paedophilia and child sex abuse. The current Pope Benedict, as Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, personally enforced and endorsed it. It tells them to bind investigating priests, and child victims, in an oath of secrecy. Those who break the oath are excommunicated.
May 2007: Los Angeles Catholic Archbishop announced they are selling their main office and 50 buildings to buy-off victims of paedophile abuse by priests. Sixty million dollars was paid last year to settle just 43 cases, and there are another 500 pending. These are likely to cost an estimated one billion dollars to settle. Remember that figure is just for one archdiocese in one country.
Sep. 2007: Victims of Roman Catholic paedophile priests receive 198 million dollars compensation for their sexual abuse... in the San Diego diocese alone.
Apr. 2009: A Paraguayan Catholic Bishop fathered an illegitimate child with a 17 year old girl in 2002. Bishop Fernando Lugo initially denied, then admitted, he was the child's father when warned a paternity suit based on DNA evidence would be filed.
He also admitted he fathered another illegitimate child in San Pedro with one of his parishioners. Lugo decided to run for President, and Pope Benedict declared he would always be a bishop under Catholic Church law. Later, the infallible Pope changed his mind, and the ex-Bishop is now President of Paraguay.
May. 2009: Decades of sexual abuse by Irish Catholic priests preying on children in their care has finally been publicly exposed.
Systematic physical, mental, and sexual abuse, of thousands of child victims has taken place in Ireland for decades. The official report found that rape and violence was endemic in Catholic institutions.
Catholic paedophile priests are protected by a secret deal with the Irish Government.
Hundreds of Catholic nuns and priests caught abusing girls and boys were guaranteed protection in an official cover up. The identities of the 800 paedophiles and abusers is still being kept secret after they were moved to new positions in Irish Catholic institutions.
It is estimated the current inquiry will result in at least a 1.8 billion Euro compensation claim.
Dec. 2009: Irish Catholic Nuns make record payoff for decades of child abuse and molestation.
The "Sisters of Mercy" offer 200 million US dollars to compensate the current crop of 14,000 children it abused, raped and tortured. The Irish Government reported that all the 18 Catholic Orders of Nuns and Priests investigated covered up; systematic rape, child molestation, beatings, neglect, and cruelty on a massive scale.
March 2010: Pope's brother in child abuse scandal. Jesuit schools in Germany, including one in Bavaria run by Georg Ratzinger, brother of the Pope, are investigating allegations of decades of sexual and physical abuse of children in their care. Similar reports in Holland also surface, with 200 cases of paedophilia by Roman Catholic priests reported in a few days of setting up a victims support group.
May 2010: God calls the papacy the Mother of harlots with good reason. Italian priests' secret mistresses ask Pope to scrap celibacy rule: Dozens of women living in sexual relationships with Italian priests beg the Pope to end the celibacy doctrine. This was advocated by a Cardinal in March as a possible means of curbing rampant paedophilia by the Vatican's leaders and priests around the world. Pope Joe Ratzinger (aka. Benny) sternly rebuked his Cardinal for the suggestion. So now their whores chime in.
June 2010: Germany's chief Roman Catholic, Archbishop Zollitsch, is under investigation by Prosecutors for allegedly covering up more cases of priestly paedophilia. It is said he re-instated a priest accused of paedophilia in the same monastery where the original offences allegedly took place.
In the last seven days, over 200 former students of a Jesuit school in Germany complained they had been sexually abused by the Catholic priests who were teaching them.
June 2010: A famous Italian Catholic priest, Pierino Gelmini, who set up a worldwide drug-rehabilitation network, has been officially charged by Italian prosecutors with serial paedophilia of boys in his care. Recently, hundreds of similar cases in Italy have been reported to Church authorities, and many more have been covered up in accordance with Pope Benedict's policies.
The current Archbishop of Naples, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, is under investigation on corruption charges. The Vatican's chief "evangelist" is suspected of directing kickbacks in corrupt state construction deals via the Vatican's vast property empire.
July 2010: A "sting" operation by an Italian magazine exposed Roman Catholic priests visiting homosexual brothels, and paying to sodomize male prostitutes there. The next day the priests conducted their "Mass" ritual as normal. The report quotes a clergyman saying that 98% of Rome's priests were sodomites. This follows the March 2010 revelation that a Vatican chorister arranged for one of Pope Benedict's personal aides to have a sex session with a male prostitute. A 2002 American survey confirmed that 25-50% of Catholic seminarians, and their teachers, were homosexuals.
Aug 2010: Belgium's top Catholic, Archbishop Daneels caught on tape trying to cover up another paedophile scandal. In the tapes the victim pleads for help to bring the culprit, Bishop Roger Vangheluwe, to justice. The Archbishop claimed he could not report the matter to either Catholic authorities or the police. Following exposure both Catholic Prelates have since resigned.
March 2011: United States Jesuit Paedophile Priests Pay 166 million dollars to victims: Catholic priests pay compensation to children raped and sexually abused in their schools across five US Western states over 50 years. Most of the children were Native Americans in remote villages where "problem priests" were sent by their Bishops.
Oct. 2011: US Kansas City Roman Catholic Bishop charged with covering up continuing paedophile abuse. Waited months before finally admitting to police, he had hundreds of images proving a Catholic priest was sexually abusing American children, as young as two years old, in their care.
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