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| What Kind of Church Traffics and Profits in Pornography? By Kristine Ward National Survivor Advocates Coalition November 2, 2011 nationalsurvivoradvocatescoalition.wordpress.com/editorials/ Readers of NSAC News were among the first in the English speaking world to learn yesterday that the Catholic Church inGermanyis a:
Catholics inGermanyincluding the German author Gabriele Kuby and Bernard Mueller, editor in chief of the Catholic magazine PUR have been complaining about this hip boot deep involvement of the Church inGermanyin pornography and erotica for a decade. So much so that their raising of the alarm reached a 70 page report stage in 2008 which was sent to every Bishop inGermany. Nothing happened. In fact, half of the Bishops didn't even respond to receiving the report. Now the German Bishops have been outed in the mainstream media. The German Bishops have already begun to tell us through their spokespeople that this ownership of pornography and erotic publishing was an "oversight." No one comes to hold financial property through an oversight. The German Bishops have been caught and they are backpedaling and covering up. Their disinterest and desensitizing in regard to pornography is akin to the tactic taken by Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City/St. Joseph Diocese in theUnited States. Bishop Finn exhibited no responsible executive inclination to see for himself the images that were on the computer of a priest in his diocese who is being prosecuted for child pornography. For this non-reporting, Bishop Finn now finds himself indicted by the civil authorities. Neither the German Bishops nor Bishop Finn have thrown their proverbial arms or voices up in horror in the face of child or adult pornography, We've become used to the lameness of the Church's spokesperson's comments in the clergy (and religious sisters) sexual abuse scandal, but this one reaches a new level of arrogance. Said theGermanChurch's spokesperson: immediate corrective action would be taken. The only immediate corrective action that is equal to this situation is the immediate removal of all sitting German Bishops by the German Bishop sitting on the Throne of St. Peter. No moral statement from any of the German Bishops can have any standing and will indeed be laughable until these Bishops are removed from their office. We have said repeatedly that in the course of the post-Boston era of the crisis in the Church that the Church has laryngitis in her moral voice. The outing of the German Bishops in their pushing of pornography for its profit places a pillow over the Church's mouth. How long do Catholics think this suffocation will take? The publishing house in which the Church is the sole owner must be purged of its erotica titles forthwith. No matter the financial losses. The Church must divest itself of its 50% share of the house publishing pornography, No matter the financial losses. Whatever money is made should be used for the benefit of the victims of pornography. These German Bishops do not operate in a vacuum. Make no mistake about it: all of the Church is tied to this situation. All of the Church bears the responsibility if the corrective steps are not taken. Here is contact information our readers may wish to use for expressing their opinions. Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: His Eminence William Joseph Levada, Cardinal, Prefect His Excellency Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, S.J., Secretary Piazza del S. Uffizio, 11, 00193 Roma, Italy Telephone: 06.69.88.33.57; 06.69.88.34.13 Fax: 06.69.88.34.09 E-mail: cdf@cfaith.va Congregation for Bishops Marc Cardinal Ouellet, Prefect Palazzo della Congregazioni, Piazza Pio XII, 10 Roma, Italia 00193 Phone: 06.69.88.42.17 Fax: 06.69.88.53.03 If you do make contact with these Church authorities, please let know about your correspondence. Contact: KristineWard@hotmail.com |
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