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“Joe the Pope” and his Dysfunctional Crime Family aka The Bishops

Since I am following a number of events in the Catholic Dysfunctional Church of late, here is a mixed bag of thoughts, facts, observations and opinion.

What strikes me is the passivity of the Laity to these bishop overseers.  That in the Kansas City case, this Father Ratigan was allowed to run around and still be exposed to children and manage to snap nude (semi-nude actually Bill Donohue, that doesn’t count. Right?) pictures of little girls apparently right under the noses of their parents.  

There is of course one parental law suit where all the sordid details paint the picture of a totally heartless, willfully blind Bishop Finn, once on a fast track to a red hat.

I say heartless, meaning he doesn’t have a heart.  He went into the seminary at age 12 and has no social skills.  A female principal at St. Patrick’s school hand delivered her letter of warning (CYA letter) to the chancellery one full year before the civil authorities had to step in to protect these children from Father Ratigan.  That a female principal’s alarm did not apparently register anything in Finn’s eunuch brain.  Whatever.  

They are stonewalling everybody.  They know that the precedent of a RC bishop resigning with a criminal indictment would encourage other District Attorneys to go after this new American ENEMY WITHIN, the Roman Catholic Church crime family hierarchy - the Bishops. 

Finn stays. He is a Bishop.  He is a Made Man.

Looking at the National Catholic Reporter online newspaper, they have one article where Cardinal Pell looks down his nose at this new C- (C minus) high school Latin hack translation of the Mass - Missal and called it children’s literature, meaning it has big words in it and that the Laity should look them up in some theology dictionary. Snide condescending bastard. 


English is the language of the 21^st Century Global Culture. This third rate translation builds more walls against the rest of the Christian world and confuses dogma to the man and woman in the pews still bothering to attend the Catholic faith.

Pell is one to talk about children’s literature and children.  Stood by his pedophile priest house-mate back in the 1990s.  Mates forever and all that over and above the paid for white washed allegations of his youthful days as a seminarian/counselor in a summer boy’s camp.  

Pell.  Another Made Man in the RC crime empire. Whatever.

There is another article in the NCR about a bunch of bishops in Australia gathering to reconcile, to get with the party line, why they had to whack Bishop Bill Morris of Toowoomba Diocese.  

He didn’t like wearing a collar in tropical heat and his one real sin against the crime brotherhood of bishops was that he admitted and even commented on a survey of his flock that stated that they did not disapprove of the concept of Women Ordination.  They had to bring in a Yank hit man to whack Morris, Bishop Charles Chaput of Denver.

 

Charles is famous for signing off on the throwing of two little girls out of  Bill Breslin’s RC Sacred Heart of Jesus school in Boulder Colorado because their mothers were lesbians.  The school could not teach standard hate doctrine to the girls.  They might notice or question the discrepancy between their reality, reality in general actually, and RC doctrine.

I, rather cynically, feel that if the two children in question had been boys and theirs Dads had been a gay couple, this would have never made it to the national news.  That we all know that the reason it was an issue is because of the vagina thing, the unmentionable thing.  

RC priests don’t know what "it" is or how to deal with "it". 

Dysfunctional towards half the human race and they sit in their robes and tell us Jesus said this and Jesus meant that.  Fairy tales from fairies?

There was the weirdest statement I ever heard.  It was from Bishop, now Archbishop Chaput, a reward for whacking Bishop Morris no doubt and trashing a lesbian couple too.  At his installation in the fortress cathedral in Philadelphia - “Of course, my appointment to Philadelphia is an arranged marriage, and the Holy Father is the matchmaker….”.

Chaput has been brought in to keep the lid of the cauldron on tight, regarding the mess of Cardinal Justin “Big Frank” Rigali who was the crime boss of crime bosses in his day, the way he let children be buggered in the St. Louis, Missouri and the Philly Archdiocese, which is where I was raised and received 12 years of Catholic education.  

This is why I am so upset.  That I somehow was once associated with this crime family.  I now know what it is like to be Italian American and being despised because of the “Mafia”.  I was once a Catholic but don’t link me to that pedophile loving protecting church.  

This is not the Catholic Church of my youth, my parents, grandparents.

Anyway, Chaput in his opening statement in the Cathedral made reference to his forced and or arranged marriage ordered by the Don of Dons, Joe the Pope, being the matchmaker.  Yuk! 

In my point of view, arranged marriages are such a primitive form of torture and the basis of spousal abuse on a planetary scale.  That the human race on a planetary scale has centuries to go before men and women are equal and also equal to the true message of Jesus.

What ever happened to 1 Timothy 3:2 where a bishop is supposed to be married to a real woman?  This allegorical married to the church bullshit is what all this celibate but not chaste buggery is all about.

Anyway, we all know where Archbishop Chaput stands on buggery.

He and hundreds of priests gave Monsignor Lynn of child endangerment indictment fame, they gave him a standing ovation for a job well done, a few weeks back at a private secret dinner.

While we know that Bill Lynn will never become a Made Man in Joe the Pope’s crime family, he is no doubt a honorary “made man”.  

Look at all the other made men associated with pedophile protection-enabling over the years nurtured by the Philly Cardinals Bevilacqua and Rigali past regimes – Bishop Cullen of Allentown Pennsylvania, Bishop Cistone of Saginaw Michigan and let’s not forget Archbishop Naumann of Kansas City Kansas who is now sympathetic to Bishop Finn’s plight in Kansas City, Missouri.


Need a favor, move a priest around.  Throw a dart onto the map. 

And over all this, we have Bill Donohue, over at the Catholic League, the guardian angel of the pope’s crime family in America. 

Bill serves in a catholic Judenrat like function, approved of by two popes or he would not keep his job, no doubt paid for with Vatican cash to oversee the persecuted Catholic family/community in the hostile Protestant United States. Persecuted?  In heaven's name - Why?

And let’s not forget Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, head of the USCCB, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops:

“ninety-nine bottles of beer on the wall, ninety-nine bottles of…”

Great dysfunctional crime family papa Joe the Pope.  You must be very proud.

Have a nice day.

Big Frank Rigali and his Religious Crime Family in Philly

Ascension Church Philly - Out of the God Business - October 1, 2012

St Jerome's Parish in northeast Philly must be a great bed and breakfast kind of place. Great at least for a few priests involved in the current criminal Catholic sex abuse scandal to have lived there. One, the current Bishop of Saginaw and one, the “Smiling Padre” Edward Avery.

Smiling Padre

Somewhere on the timeline between Joe Cistone's hanging out at St. Jerome's and smiling Ed Avery's hangin out there, I went to my aunt's funeral there which was her parish.

Of course Joe Cistone was only in residence there working his ass off in the Chancery downtown shuffling pervs all over the archdiocese and Ed Avery was on “no child” duty as a chaplain at the nearby Nazareth hospital. The “no child” duty as chaplian did not somehow prevent him from hearing children's confessions at St. Jerome's as a resident of the rectory there. Oh well.

I look at last week's clergy sex abuse indictments in Philadelphia, that festered and festered over decades of neglect and cover-up, and have seen all this before.
 
Catholic sex abuse cases
 
Looking at all this I have to agree with Canon lawyer Thomas Doyle that:

...Doyle said of attempts to reform the Catholic Church that it was like "trudging through what can best be described as a swamp of toxic waste".

From stats, I know that few people bother to read what I write on this subject. Not that they want to look away, they are probably just disgusted and can only take so much diarrhea overflowing the cups of catholic bishops and their criminal conspiracy to hide this ongoing situation.

And the catholics do not have a monopoly on this but the Celibacy bullshit, not specifically spelled out in the gospels, is a thousand year old problem with the Romans who split with the Orthodox church a thousand years ago and went to one sex only, males (unmarried!), in its clergy thing.

The comments in the first article above seem to typify the situation as most people see this ongoing spiritual mismanagement of criminal activities by the Vatican on a worldwide scale.

-What was it Rigali said on As Wednesday? "The safety of children is paramount". I wonder when that policy began????
 
 -...I know, that whenever I see a catholic priest, the first thing I think of is, how many little boys is he molesting.
 
-The church needs to take a long, hard look at their practices. The church has become a hiding place for men with sexual problems of all sorts. Reevaluate the requirement for priests to refrain from marriage and you will see a change in the men who come into the priesthood.

I am tapped out on comment and anger and indignation. I see the recent Philly scandal in terms of allegory or metaphor or parable in looking at it.

I see retired Cardinal Tony Bevilacqua as playing some part in a Soprano like soap opera like “Uncle Junior”.

...yoos can't indict me. I'm senile.

And “Big” Frank Regali, the de facto head of the archdiocese gang, a religious crime family, and its irregulars, like the infamous Tony Soprano seeing a shrink but knowing all along he is a total bastard.

No doubt Frank Regali knows Tony Bevilacqua's consigliere Ed Cullen who got promoted to Bishop of Allentown Pa. No doubt Frank misses one time enforcer or enabler Joe Cistone who also got a promotion within the crime family as Bishop of Saginaw Michigan after taking over Ed Cullen's old job.

But then you gots to feel for Frank Rigali's current Capo, Billy Lynn, aka the “Monsignor” who got indicted last week as an enabler of the rank and file priests who touch and feel occasionally but are all getting a bad rap in the media.

Imagine, Monsignor William Lynn, under indictment and thinking to himself like Brando in On the Waterfront

“I could a been a contender” (bishop) if these whining bleeding hearts in the D.A.'s office had only looked the other way for a few more years.”

I can only imagine how many pervs in the ranks got promoted to Saginaw or Allentown when the heat was on regarding some private sexual habits of some really special priests or they just got to hang out at a St. Jerome's type bed and breakfast for naughty priests.

To finish, I go with an allegory or parable with the words of a visitor to a once great city on a hill structure of Ascention Church in Kensington-Harrowgate in Philadelphia (pictured above), to describe feelings about both the bishops and clergy in the upper church, the laity in the lower church and the general outlook of the sick sister of the Christian faith – the RC church in general.

As I stated in an earlier blog, I do not want attack the RC church. But my original image of it was formed during a period when the neighborhoods of Kensington-Harrowgate in Philly were filled with full churches, full catholic schools, full factories and full working class simplicity. That simplicity lasted two, three or even four generations floating in time somewhere between the the 1880s and Vatican II.
 
Ascension of Our Lord church

The upper church is, in the words of Pastor Michael Chapman, a “disaster” and is totally off-limits, even to visitors. The Project tried very hard to get a glimpse, but even I was denied. … The lower church is supposedly still in use, but a good chunk of their masses instead take place at the rectory chapel. That’s where ...(I)... found (my)self this past week. Nice, but not exactly what I had in mind when I dropped by for a visit.

It’s really a sin, because Ascension looks to have been really wonderful at one time. It’s a good-sized behemoth that’s notable for its red-tile roof, Greco-Roman-style colonnade, and elaborate stone banisters and staircases. Some of those design elements, particularly the banisters, are not seen anywhere else in the city.

Unfortunately, this church has seen better days. The roof is caving in, there is visible water damage and cracks everywhere, a couple of broken windows and even graffiti on all the side doors. Even worse, the front portion of the church is blocked off by a chain link fence, where the front banister wall is crumbling. Huge chunks of concrete are just lying on the sidewalk, and what’s left is warping and buckling. You can still get glimpses of its past glory, but mostly you just see a desolate husk rotting before your eyes. Despite the fact that it’s still an active parish, it feels more like a ghost town.

 And so it goes.