POPE PIUS CHRISTMAS FARCE REEKS OF VATICAN HYPOCRISY
Posted by Caledonian Jim in Daily Posts
The Vatican has defended its moves towards beatifying the late Nazi-loving Pope Pius XII (pictured above), saying that they reflected the piety of the wartime Pontiff and not his “historical importance”. Former Hitler Youth and Nazi anti-aircraft gunner Pope Benedict XVI has sparked anger among Jewish groups by bestowing the title “venerable” on Pius, criticised by historians for his silence during World War II in the face of the Holocaust. The title is apparently a necessary step towards beatification and eventual sainthood for Pius, who was pope from 1939 to 1958. But a spokesman for the Prussian Pontiff Benedict said in a note issued yesterday that it did not derive from Pius’s “operative choices” but his deep piety and “witness of Christian life”. What hypocritical sophistry, even by the corrupt standards of the Roman Catholic church, which might be better employed purging paedophiles from within its own ranks rather than awarding posthumous sainthood to a war criminal. In any case I’m not sure that the Jewish victims rounded up by the Nazis in Rome during 1943, under the very eyes of and with the active connivance of the Vatican, suffering in cattle trucks on their way to be gassed in Auschwitz, would have understood the ecclesiastical distinctions highlighted within such sophistry. And it’s striking to note that Pius may have been a “witness of Christian life”, but that didn’t apparently extend to remembering that Jesus was a Jew.
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UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown (pictured above) has been called to give evidence to the official Iraq Inquiry but will not appear until after next year’s general election, it was announced yesterday. Sir John Chilcot’s committee will also wait until after the election to question Foreign Secretary David Miliband and International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander. The move is likely to trigger outrage as Sir John, a retired Whitehall mandarin, had insisted that his inquiry would “remain firmly outside party politics”. Yeah sure. Yet another expensive farce of a government whitewash which will achieve nothing exept increase the public’s contempt still further.
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In the UK a failed asylum seeker who left a 12-year-old girl to die in a road traffic accident has won the right to remain in this country, outraging her family and stunning officials from the UK Borders Agency. Aso Mohammed Ibrahim (pictured above) was banned from driving and had run out of appeals against deportation when he fled the scene of the accident as Amy Houston lay dying under the wheels of his car. The Iraqi Kurd, who has since committed further driving offences, was told by a judge in Manchester that he could stay in the UK because, in the 6 years since the tragedy, he had put down roots, married a British woman and now has 2 daughters. A display of inept politically correct stupidity which illustrates quite clearly why Britain is up shit creek without a paddle. I suppose we’ll be paying him social benefits as well – if not compensation for having the temerity to infringe his “rights” by taking him to court in the first place.
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Sinn Fein leader and former IRA commander Gerry Adams (pictured above) heard yesterday that his brother had handed himself in to police after going on the run over allegations that he sexually abused his daughter. Liam Adams walked into a police station in County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland and offered himself up for questioning over the alleged abuse. It is understood detectives there could not detain him because they did not have the necessary European arrest warrant. So off he went. But I’m confused, because one of the Provisional IRA’s claims to fame during “the Troubles” was that it kept law and order in republican areas. In particular, it would mete out summary justice to child molestors. So how come it never found out about the nocturnal activities of Liam Adams ? After all, it was surely in a position to know.
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A GOOD HOLIDAY TO ALL .
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