Hodor (4) Says:
February 12th, 2013 at 9:26 pm

A good start but you missed a fair bit out. For example the Catholic Holocaust in Croatia.

http://jesuswouldbefurious.org/Catholic/CroatianHolocaust.html

http://www.fantompowa.net/Flame/yugoslavia_catholic_church.htm

Those of you who are bored by history, may want to research what they did in more recent times.

He’s a monarch after all.

There happens to be a truck load of articles proving that the Catholics are telling bare faced lies. That is just two of them.

You shouldn’t talk about Muslims like that.It could be construed as racism.

Big blouse quotes articles from 10 years ago. ( which have since been proved wrong)

Best you can do? you useless tosser.

Oppression of other religions
Destruction of native cultures, languages and customs
Burnings and torture
Persecution of homosexuals
Refusal to allow women roles in the church
Failure to condemn nazi persecution of Jews
Protection of nazis at end of WWII
Continuation of expectation that dirt poor Catholics to keep donating money they can’t really afford to one of the richest outfits in the world ( also the largest property owning entity in the world)
Failure to promote safe sex and birth control
Forcing families to have dozens of kids they can’t afford
Child abuse
Covering up child abuse
And of course, silly hats

Apart from that, they’ve been awesome

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/oct/09/aids

http://www.libchrist.com/std/vaticanlies.html

These articles prove that Raztinger is indeed an evil little man.

Source

The director of an African AIDS care center is supporting Benedict XVI’s words about the ineffectiveness of condoms in the struggle against the spread of the disease.

Rose Busingye, who directs Meeting Point Kampala, a center in Kampala for those suffering from AIDS, and cares for about 4,000 people a day, responded to the Pope’s words and the public criticism he received.

In an interview published online March 20 by Il Sussidario, Busingye said that “those who contribute to the polemics over the Pope’s statements must in reality understand that the true problem in the spread of AIDS in Africa is not condoms; talking about this would be to stop at the consequences and never go to the origin of the problem.”

“At the root of the spread of HIV,” she explained, “there is a behavior, there is a way of being.” She added, “And then let’s not forget that the great emergency is to take care of the people who have already contracted the disease and for whom condoms are useless.”

“The Pope,” Busingye emphasized, “is doing nothing else but defending and supporting precisely that which will be useful for helping these people: affirming the meaning of life and the dignity of the human being.”

She continued: “Those who attack him have interests to defend, but the Pope has no such interests: he is concerned about us, and he is concerned about Africa.

“He is not the one, who is bringing mines to blow up our children, our children who become soldiers, who become amputees, without ears, without mouths, unable to swallow saliva: and what should we give them, condoms?

“When a few years ago there was genocide in Rwanda, everyone stood by and watched. Nearby there is a tiny town, which could have been protected, and no one did anything.

“My relatives were there, and they all died in an inhumane way. No one cared, and now they are coming here with condoms.”

Pointing out that malaria kills more people than AIDS, Busingye asked: “Why don’t they bring us aspirin and anti-malaria medicine?”

She stated that there is a method that works and that caused a reduction in the spread of AIDS in Uganda from 18% of the population to 3% and “it is to do it in a way that makes the people feel cared for.” She concluded, “We see it here at Meeting Point: when the people come here, they don’t want to leave.”

http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/aids-worker-says-africans-don-t-need-condoms

ps, that ‘method’ she mentions at the end there is abstinence.

Actually, it turns out that MORE condoms and contraception = MORE AIDS. I know it might sound counter-intuitive, but it’s true.

‘We have found no consistent associations between condom use and lower HIV-infection rates, which, 25 years into the pandemic, we should be seeing if this intervention was working.”

So notes Edward C. Green, director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at the Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, in response to papal press comments en route to Africa this week.

Benedict XVI said, in response to a French reporter’s question asking him to defend the Church’s position on fighting the spread of AIDS, characterized by the reporter as “frequently considered unrealistic and ineffective”:

I would say that this problem of AIDS cannot be overcome with advertising slogans. If the soul is lacking, if Africans do not help one another, the scourge cannot be resolved by distributing condoms; quite the contrary, we risk worsening the problem. The solution can only come through a twofold commitment: firstly, the humanization of sexuality, in other words a spiritual and human renewal bringing a new way of behaving towards one another; and secondly, true friendship, above all with those who are suffering, a readiness — even through personal sacrifice — to be present with those who suffer. And these are the factors that help and bring visible progress.

“The pope is correct,” Green told National Review Online Wednesday, “or put it a better way, the best evidence we have supports the pope’s comments. He stresses that “condoms have been proven to not be effective at the ‘level of population.’”

“There is,” Green adds, “a consistent association shown by our best studies, including the U.S.-funded ‘Demographic Health Surveys,’ between greater availability and use of condoms and higher (not lower) HIV-infection rates. This may be due in part to a phenomenon known as risk compensation, meaning that when one uses a risk-reduction ‘technology’ such as condoms, one often loses the benefit (reduction in risk) by ‘compensating’ or taking greater chances than one would take without the risk-reduction technology.”

Green added: “I also noticed that the pope said ‘monogamy’ was the best single answer to African AIDS, rather than ‘abstinence.’ The best and latest empirical evidence indeed shows that reduction in multiple and concurrent sexual partners is the most important single behavior change associated with reduction in HIV-infection rates (the other major factor is male circumcision).”

And while, as Travis Kavulla writes from Kenya today, the international media will ignore all sorts of fascinating new stories about church and civilizational growth in favor of a sexier, albeit way-too-familiar storyline, Green has some encouraging news: The pope is not alone. “More and more AIDS experts are coming to accept the above. The two countries with the worst HIV epidemics, Swaziland and Botswana, have both launched campaigns to discourage multiple and concurrent partners, and to encourage fidelity.”

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/227110/saint-peters-square-harvard-square/kathryn-jean-lopez

So, this “evil little man” is actually saving people by sticking to the centuries-old values and morals of the Church.

The date of the resignation corresponds with the Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes and World Day of the Sick. From that perspective, not a coincidence. As to the specific resignation time, means Pope Benedict will be officially available until 8pm on Feb 28th, and he’s not giving world cardinals that much time to do politicing to pick his successor. I wouldn’t read more into it than that, though it might also be a feast day on the old calendar.

Could be cha, personally I go with Arinze.

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2013/02/nigerias-cardinal-francis-arinze-the-next-pope/

He said he’s resigning Feb 28 at 8 PM, Rome time. Why was he so specific, to name the time as well as the date? The date of resignation announcement, Rome Time: 11/2/13 also has significance to those familiar with the esoteric.

A couple of people above, including cha, have mentioned Malachy.

That’s good, at least a couple of people know.

It’s a pity the Vatican Library isn’t open to the public isn’t it. I bet the answers in there, somewhere.

Sad looking old man on the telly tonite.
Good decision.
Pity it was a lady who actually gave him the idea.

Just goes to prove there’s no such thing as ‘jobs for life’ any more.

I will be glad to see the back of this evil little man. He has directly sentenced thousands of people to a life of misery and poverty, to say nothing of those poor sods that will die of AIDS because a stupid old man in Rome thinks that condoms are more evil than AIDS.