News today

Post by **XMEN Gambit** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 8:27 am

Lots of fun stuff happening...

Adobe buys Macromedia (urk?)

Empire Earth II gone GOLD

Get a Governor's Mansion - for free

And, of course, the Catholic cardinals are meeting today to elect a new pope. Did you know that technically they could select any Catholic male?

Spinning Hat · Post by **Spinning Hat** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 11:51 am

Yeah, it's a strange rule, but we all know it's going to be some old as dirt Cardinal.. keepin' it within the family, so to speak.

Ambush Bug · Post by **Ambush Bug** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:34 pm

I dunno about the Adobe/Macromedia merger. I see the good side of it (one-stop document/multimedia center), and the bad side (even harsher license-lawyering, possible price hikes).

Have to wait and see on this one, I think.

Jester · Post by **Jester** » Mon Apr 18, 2005 10:39 pm

I think there is an age restriction. Over 60 I think.

XMEN Ashaman DTM · Post by **XMEN Ashaman DTM** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 3:27 am

I don't know about an age restriction, but to be honest, I don't think it will be a Cardinal. Maybe an Archbishop or a preist, but I don't know. I do know that very few of the Popes in the last couple hundred years were chosen from the ranks of the Cardinals.

Sharpster · Post by **Sharpster** » Tue Apr 19, 2005 6:43 pm

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger addresses pilgrims after being chosen as Pope Benedict XVI

I don't think it will be a Cardinal. Maybe an Archbishop or a preist, but I don't know.

Asha loses

XMEN Ashaman DTM · Post by **XMEN Ashaman DTM** » Wed Apr 20, 2005 7:31 pm

Nice.

X Rogue · Post by **X Rogue** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:02 pm

I wonder what JPII would say about Ratzinger being in the Hitler Youth.

FaLLGuY · Post by **FaLLGuY** » Fri Apr 22, 2005 5:11 pm

Something I found to add to the Nazi thing.

He like little boys too maybe.

Tue Apr 19th, 2005 at 15:43:27 PDT

Although discussion has raged since this afternoon regarding Benedict XVI and his past Nazi affiliations, I find his present to be slightly more worrisome. As Tim Boucher points out in this blog entry:

Ratzinger is also the author of a May 2001 letter to bishops stating that the "Crimine solicitationies" law (regarding strict secrecy in sex abuse cases) is still in effect.
The law to which Ratzinger's letter referred was issued by Pope John XXIII 40 years ago (a link to the PDF of the document can be found in Boucher's entry). The law itself is chilling, as it describes a mandatory condition of secrecy for both the perpetrators and victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests.

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The 69-page Latin document bearing the seal of Pope John XXIII was sent to every bishop in the world. The instructions outline a policy of 'strictest' secrecy in dealing with allegations of sexual abuse and threatens those who speak out with excommunication.
They also call for the victim to take an oath of secrecy at the time of making a complaint to Church officials. It states that the instructions are to `be diligently stored in the secret archives of the Curia [Vatican] as strictly confidential. Nor is it to be published nor added to with any commentaries.'

[...] Bishops are instructed to pursue these cases `in the most secretive way... restrained by a perpetual silence... and everyone... is to observe the strictest secret which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office... under the penalty of excommunication'.

Lawyers point to a letter the Vatican sent to bishops in May 2001 clearly stating the 1962 instruction was in force until then. The letter is signed by Cardinal Ratzinger, the most powerful man in Rome beside the Pope and who heads the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - the office which ran the Inquisition in the Middle Ages.
We can believe what we wish about Benedict XVI's youthful nationalism or lack thereof. What we do know from his letter is that as recently as 2001, he supported and encouraged the drawing of a curtain of secrecy over widespread sexual abuse by clergy. A friend forwarded this link to me today.

The accusers say Vatican-based Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, who heads the Vatican office to safeguard the faith and the morals of the church, quietly made the lawsuit go away and shelved it. There was no investigation and the accusers weren't asked a single question or asked for a statement. He was appointed by the pope to investigate the entire sex abuse scandal in the church in recent days. But when approached by ABCNEWS in Rome last week with questions of allegations against Maciel, Ratzinger became visibly upset and actually slapped this reporter's hand. "Come to me when the moment is given," Ratzinger told ABCNEWS, "not yet." "Cardinal Ratzinger is sheltering Maciel, protecting him," said Berry, who expressed concerns that no response was being given to the allegations against the man charged with sex abuse. "These men knelt and kissed the ring of Cardinal Ratzinger when they filed the case in Rome. And a year-and-a-half later, he takes those accusations and aborts them, just stuffs them."
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