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Vatican finance chief summoned to Australia child abuse inquiry!

Newchurch of Rot still covering up for pervert priests and their enablers... just ask Novus Ordo 'Bishop' Juan Barros!! 
How many innocent lives could have been Spared if Newcardinal Pell did not cover up and transfer the pervert, pedophile priest around?? Newchurch has not learned anything or simply does not care, look to the Chile scandalous Newbishop Juan Barros and again, hand picked by Anti-pope Bergoglio! 

Vatican finance chief George Pell was today called to give evidence at an inquiry into sex abuse as one of Pope Francis' commissioners for the protection of children accused him of being "almost sociopathic".

Formerly the top Catholic cleric in Australia, Cardinal Pell has become embroiled in the probe in his homeland which last week heard evidence from pedophile priest Gerald Ridsdale, who abused at least 50 boys over two decades.

Pell, who accompanied Ridsdale to court in 1993 when he admitted widespread abuse, has repeatedly denied knowing about any of the offenses, helping move the priest to another parish or that he tried to bribe a victim to keep him quiet.

That victim was his nephew, David Ridsdale, who alleged he confided in family friend Pell about the assaults and that he was asked by him what it would cost to buy his silence.

Other victims had demanded Pell, who was appointed by Pope Francis in February 2014 to make the Vatican's finances more transparent, return to give evidence to The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

The cardinal said last week he was willing to do so and on today the commission officially requested he appear in person when the inquiry next meets in the Victorian town of Ballarat, at a date to be determined.

"The chair has received a letter from Cardinal Pell indicating that he is prepared to come to Australia to give evidence," the commission said in a statement. "The royal commission will ask him to give evidence in the second of the Ballarat hearings."

Peter Saunders, who was hand-picked by the Pope six months ago to be one of the church's commissioners for the protection of children, said Pell not only had a moral obligation to return but should be removed from his Vatican role.

He alleged in an interview with Australia's Channel Nine that Pell had acted with "callousness, cold-heartedness, almost sociopathic I would go as far as to say, this lack of care", in his approach towards abuse victims.

"Given the position of George Pell as a cardinal of the church and a position of huge authority within the Vatican, I think he is a massive, massive thorn in the side of Pope Francis's papacy if he's allowed to remain," added Saunders, a British survivor of child sexual abuse.

"And I think it's critical that he is moved aside, that he is sent back to Australia, and that the Pope takes the strongest action against him."

A statement issued by Pell's office said the allegations were "false and misleading".
"From his earliest actions as an archbishop, Cardinal Pell has taken a strong stand against child sexual abuse and put in place processes to enable complaints to be brought forward and independently investigated," it said.



Velvet Tongue (Spiritual Abuse) by Virgin Black

A thousand tears, a thousand eyes
My friends and I, we cry
Religion has raped us
Forever we rehearse the song
That strips our throats to blood
We bare our souls in transparency
But our velvet tongues will never please their ears
But are you holding on?
I'm holding on
Look at us dying
A field of human crucifixes, weathered and fading
Heaven hears nothing as the priests are wailing
And they're crushing our souls
We feel our lives
Sifting through our hands
But we're holding on
Look at my face
Look at God in my eyes
We stand.



Benedict’s resignation

Benedict’s resignation an example for future Popes: Frederico Lombardi (Vatican spokesman)

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Benedict XVI’s decision to resign in February, paving the way for the election of Pope Francis, has
set an example for future pontiffs, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi said Friday. 
The German-born Joseph Ratzinger, whose papacy was tarred by cases of child sex abuse by priests and other scandals, was the first leader of the Roman Catholic Church to relinquish his position in over 600 years.
 Benedict, who turned 86 in April, said he was too old to carry on. “It is a choice that left a mark on this year and will continue to leave a mark on the Church’s future epochs. Indeed, I think it will have consequences for future pontificates. It opened a way, let’s say a possibility,” Lombardi said on Vatican Radio.
 He said Benedict acted with “great lucidity and great humility” to give the Church a leadership of “renewed vigour,” which under Francis “actually happened in an impressive and unexpected way.” In the first nine months of his papacy, Francis has laid the groundwork for major financial and administrative reforms and worked hard to present the Church as compassionate and forgiving, rather than punitive and doctrinarian.
 Lombardi said that Francis’ style of preaching should “expand and become the norm throughout the Church,” whereas ” for the moment it is something that we see in Rome and that is very concentrated around his person.” 
 The Vatican said the number of followers across Francis’ nine Twitter accounts in various languages now exceeds 11 million. As of next month, small groups of Roman parishioners will be allowed into the Vatican to attend the pope’s morning masses in the Chapel of Santa Marta.
 -Sap