Monday, February 18, 2013

Pope Benedict Faces Arrest Warrant

The Rev. Charles Engelhardt, left, and former teacher Bernard Shero. A jury on Wednesday convicted the pair on child-sex charges.
Roman Catholic (RC) priest Charles Engelhardt & RC teacher Bernard Shero convicted sexual predators

Below is a database that contains court cases against Roman Catholic priests charged with sexual abuse in the U.S.
http://www.ranker.com/list/christian-priests-convicted-for-sexual-abuse/robert-wabash

Friends, based on the information below I would not be surprised if the Pope is not dead or murdered before the end of February.

The International Tribunal Into Crimes by Church & State (ITCCS) reported February 14, 2013 that "Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, has scheduled a meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano for Saturday, February 23 to discuss securing protection and immunity from prosecution from the Italian government, according to Italian media sources."
How would the Italian government which is the most Catholic government in the world, issue an arrest warrant for a sitting Pope?
"Ratzinger's meeting follows the reported receipt by the Vatican of a diplomatic note from an undisclosed European government on February 4, stating its intention to issue an arrest warrant for Ratzinger, who resigned from his pontificate less than a week later."
Since the Vatican is officially a sovereign nation, delivering an arrest warrant on a Pope could prove very tricky. Perhaps the only way in which an arrest warrant could be served on a Pope is if it came through the Italian government.
Pope Benedict XVI is paying a visit to the Italian President to ask him for "protection and immunity from prosecution from the Italian government". The date of this visit is February 23, five full days before Benedict leaves office. Thus, at the time Benedict visits the Italian President, he will still be sitting on the Throne of Peter and still carrying diplomatic immunity. However, on March 1, Benedict becomes a former Pope and takes back his name, Joseph Ratzinger; at that moment, Ratzinger might be more vulnerable to an arrest warrant.
However, remember the premise: Benedict resigned very quickly after receiving this diplomatic note from this unidentified European government. Likely, Benedict wanted to spare the Catholic Church the spectacle of its sitting Pope being indicted for international sex crimes.
"In response to the February 23 meeting, the ITCCS, through its field Secretary, Rev. Kevin Annett, has written to President Napolitano, asking him to refrain from assisting Ratzinger in evading justice. The ITCCS letter states, in part:
"I need not remind you, Mr. President, that under international law and treaties that have been ratified by Italy, you and your government are forbidden from granting such protection to those like Joseph Ratzinger who have aided and abetted criminal actions, such as ordering Bishops and Cardinals in America and elsewhere to protect known child rapists among their clergy. Your obligation to the Vatican through the Lateran Treaty does not negate or nullify the requirements of these higher moral and international laws; nor does it require that you give any protection or immunity to a single individual like Joseph Ratzinger, especially after he has left his papal office'."
Legal machinery is said to grind slowly, but finely. For hundreds of years, Roman Catholic priests have been sexual predators, working primarily through the confessional. What happens when women are commanded, under penalty of eternal damnation, to confess to a man their deepest sexual thoughts and sins? Former priest, Charles Chiniquy, continually dealt with this problem. He personally heard the confessions of over 200 priests. All but 21 admitted falling prey to Satan's devices in this area. You will see how sexual exploitation has dogged the Roman Catholic priesthood for over 1,500 years, and is carried over into the exploitation of even young boys!
This Headline News article is one of the most important we have ever posted because it demonstrates that the crime of cover-up of sexual crimes by priests rises as high as the Throne of Peter itself. Yet, no one has been able to touch the Pope because he is protected by such a labyrinth of laws and diplomatic arrangement, that he has heretofore been untouchable. Some Cardinals facing sex trials in their home town have suddenly been "promoted to the Vatican", where they enjoy diplomatic immunity.
The global international Catholic Church will be very damaged by these legal charges of sex crimes against women and children. How can the "Mother Church" recover quickly enough that the next Pope could preside as the global leader of Roman Catholicism?
I may be wrong, but it seems like the new Pope must be markedly different than the old men the Vatican has traditionally elected to the Throne of Peter. He probably will be much younger, very energetic, very charismatic and with a history free of the sex charges swirling over the head of virtually every Bishop and Cardinal. The new Pope must be free of sex charges himself, but also free of the charge of protecting known sex offenders while in the office of Bishop and Cardinal.
Such a new Pope could energize Catholics worldwide and cause non-Catholics to at least give the man a chance to prove who he really is.



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