{"id":694875,"date":"2010-03-18T14:37:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/?p=7114"},"modified":"2010-03-18T14:37:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T18:37:32","slug":"the-catholic-church-is-an-international-criminal-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/694875","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic church is an international criminal organization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now been fully exposed as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/national-news\/monsignor-would-not-report-paedophile-to-gardai-2102871.html\" >a criminal organization that\u00a0systemically\u00a0damages children everywhere it operates<\/a> and uses its power, influence and\u00a0secrecy\u00a0to protect its leadership beyond any other ideal. Take children out of that equation and I&#8217;ve just provided a blanket description of every other international organized crime cabal. It&#8217;s high time for the international court system to dig into, and dig into hard, the Vatican, and criminally charge and punish the pedophiles &#8212; and their protectors in the church, including the Pope &#8212; to the fullest extent of the law.<\/p>\n<p>This statement from Monsignor Maurice Dooley\u00a0in Ireland could be &#8220;exhibit A&#8221; for the prosecution on why to pursue this matter criminally. Catholic omerta, the pedophilic priest&#8217;s best friend (emphasis\u00a0mine in the blockquote):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mgr Dooley was asked what action he would take if a paedophile priest approached him now to confide his crimes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>I would not tell anyone<\/strong>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That is his responsibility. I am considering only my responsibility. My responsibility is to maintain the confidentiality of information which I had been given under the contract of confidentiality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There must be somebody else aware of what he is up to, and he could be stopped. It is not my function.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would tell (the priest) to stop abusing children,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But <strong>I am not going to go to the police or social services in order to betray the trust he has put in me<\/strong>,&#8221; said Mgr Dooley who was speaking on\u00a0<a title=\"British Broadcasting Corporation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/topics\/British+Broadcasting+Corporation\">BBC Radio<\/a> Ulster.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2010\/03\/the-current-vaticans-death-throes-ctd-1.html\" >the Daily Dish<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7114\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7114\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7114\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7114\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7114\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7114\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7114\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7114\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7114\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/davidkirkpatrick.wordpress.com\/7114\/\" \/><\/a> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?w=780\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s now been fully exposed as a criminal organization that\u00a0systemically\u00a0damages children everywhere it operates and uses its power, influence and\u00a0secrecy\u00a0to protect its leadership beyond any other ideal. Take children out of that equation and I&#8217;ve just provided a blanket description of every other international organized crime cabal. It&#8217;s high time for the international court system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2563,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-694875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ULF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2563"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=694875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/694875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=694875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=694875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=694875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}