Pope Benedict XVI is facing charges of crimes against humanity in the International Criminal Court for “the preservation and leadership of a worldwide totalitarian regime of coercion which subjugates its members with terrifying and health-endangering threats,” and for his part in the Vatican’s pedophile priests molestation and rape scandals, and the Vatican’s “adherence to a fatal forbiddance of the use of condoms, even when the danger of HIV-Aids infection exists,” according to a report in The Irish Times.
Read the complete document here below.
“Christian Sailer and Gert-Joachim Hetzel, based at Marktheidenfeld in the Pope’s home state of Bavaria, last week submitted a 16,500-word document to the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court at the Hague, Dr Luis Moreno Ocampo.
“Their charges concern “three worldwide crimes which until now have not been denounced . . . (as) the traditional reverence toward ‘ecclesiastical authority’ has clouded the sense of right and wrong.”
Though not widely reported, Chris in Paris at AmericaBlog writes, “The case is going to have plenty of challenges, but the basis of the accusations is not wrong. The behavior of the church has been immoral and irresponsible with its response to the global AIDS crisis as well as the child rape problems inside the church.”
And AmericaBlog’s Joe Sudbay agrees, adding, “Sounds like all those Catholic leaders in America who’ve been obsessing about same-sex marriage should start worrying about the crimes committed by their boss. And, instead of spending money to fight marriage in states like California, Maine and Maryland, they better start collecting for the Pope’s Legal Defense Fund.”
The Pope, who just one month ago decreed that “no one can make a claim to the right to a nuptial ceremony,†and marriage is therefore not a God-given right, also earlier this year claimed that same-sex marriages were “penalizing” opposite-sex marriages.
Additionally, it’s important to remember that this is the Pope who said in an end of year message to his Cardinals that “In the 1970s, paedophilia was theorised as something fully in conformity with man and even with children,†and added that paedophilia wasn’t even considered an “absolute evil.â€
Benedict XVI has declared that laws which legalize same-sex marriage “contribute to the weakening of the principles of natural law,†and to “confusion about society’s values,†and claimed that same-sex marriage “attacks†the “endangered species†that is mankind. Even before he was elected Pope, he knew of the pedophile priest sex abuse scandal, yet did not act.
This is also the same pope presiding over a Vatican that has said the Vatican was being treated like Holocaust victims, and blamed homosexuality and Jews on the Catholic Church’s international pedophilia scandal.
The document below is purportedly the actual document, via the Internet site of Dr. Christian Sailer, one of the parties who reportedly filed the charges.
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