Basil Venitis points out the clergy are abusing the faithful on a consistent basis. In various dioceses across the world, church leaders are going great lengths to avoid making amends with the same victims of abuse they claimed to be trying to make peace with. Facing waves of lawsuits by now-adult victims, churches react more like a big business than a sacred institution.
Wealthy dioceses have claimed to be broke and taken the drastic act of filing for bankruptcy. Only when forced to open their ledgers in bankruptcy proceedings does it become clear that several of these dioceses were actually flush with assets that it could have made available to victims seeking restitution.
Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens plan a legal ambush to have Pope, the Unholy Father, arrested for crimes against humanity. They have asked a distinguished group of human rights lawyers headed by Geoffrey Robertson to produce a case for charging Pope Benedict XVI over the cover up of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. The Pope does not enjoy diplomatic immunity, because the Unholy See is recognized by the United Nations only as an observer State, not a regular State. Church's Augean stables need to be comprehensively cleaned up now.
Basil Venitis asserts that Magdalene, Jesus's wife, is the most important person of Christianity. She was the smartest and best apostle. She was the only apostle who could understand Jesus completely, and that's why all other twelve apostles were jealous of her. Magdalene is the first bishop of Christianity. Nevertheless, misogynist gay bishops of the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church defamed Magdalene in order to restrict hierarchs to males, transforming church leadership to a gay club.
It had taken a whole year for Benedict to comment on the myriad scandals of clergy all over the world. In April, the Unholy Father met with victims in Malta and denounced the enemy within the church. In early June, he asked for forgiveness for the sins of clergy and vowed to do everything possible to prevent such abuse from occurring again.
But now that secular investigators have decided to take action, the Unholy Father has condemned the surprising and regretful circumstances of police raids. In a message of solidarity with the freakish bishops, Benedict insisted on the church's right to conduct internal investigations.
Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone, the second most powerful man in the Vatican, expressed outrage at the fact that it was possible to hold bishops for so long, as if they were children. After a brief period of remorse, it looks as if everything is back to business as usual at the Unholy See. Little appears to have changed.
Viennese Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn has traveled to Rome. He is widely seen as the most courageous advocate for clearing up cases of abuse. Schoenborn came to receive a personal reprimand from the Unholy Father, because he had accused a fellow cardinal of stonewalling abuse investigations for many years. Only the pope is allowed to reprove a cardinal, no one else!
German bishops Robert Zollitsch and Reinhard Marx were also given a dressing down. Benedict reproaches them for not being tender enough with their fellow bishop Walter Mixa when he came under fire amid violence and molestation towards children. The Unholy Father has announced that, following a period of healing and reconciliation, Bishop Mixa and all other freakish bishops would again be available for pastoral duties!
The most corrupt bishop on Earth was Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens, aka ayatollah Christollah, godfather of Chrysopege mafia, archbigot of Balkans, master of perjury, trial-fixer, chauvinist, antisemite, racist, grand robber, nymphomaniac gay, Vesuvius of vanity. Christollah's civil name was Christos Paraskevaidis. Christollah walked on dead bodies to reach the ivory throne, and he led a skulk of crucifoxes to devour the flock of faithful sheep.
Christollah organized myriad scandals, manipulated Greek justice, manipulated the election of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, tried to manipulate Greek politics, and tried to impose the religion specification on IDs. Christollah asked students whether they wanted to be minced meat or meat, explaining that foreigners want to turn Greeks into the meat-grinder, while meat is a solid thing! Christollah frequently criticized the principles and values of what he characterized the atheist Enlightenment, and which he contrasted to Christian values!
Basil Venitis, twitter.com/Venitis, points out Chrysopege means Golden Fountain, but angry Greeks spell it Chrysopyge, which means Golden Buttocks! Bishop Kallinikos was the founder of Chrysopege and the spiritual father of Cristollah. Kallinikos tried to rape a cantor, chasing him around the Holy Table in the Piraeus Cathedral! Bishop Panteleimon of Attica was withdrawn from duties for sex orgies with young men and embezzlement of five million euros. In the wake of suggestions by fellow members of the unholy synod that he resign, Panteleimon's reaction was very revealing: If I speak, there will be an earthquake. I'll take many with me to my grave, including Christollah and Chrysopege! Bishop Chrysostomos of Zakynthos predicted that a tsunami was coming and it would reach Christollah himself.
After the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, Greeks were shocked to hear Christollah attribute the attacks to despondent men who acted out of despair caused by the injustices of the Great Powers! In 2004 he criticized globalization as a bulldozer that is out to demolish everything, on account of those who want to rule the world without resistance or obstacles! In 2003, he fell out with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Istanbul, and Christollah' name was stricken off the Diptych of the Orthodox Church as a punishment. Christollah died of AIDS on January 17, 2008.
Churches already struggling to cope with myriad sex abuse scandals, have been hit by revelations of billion-euro thefts, opaque accounting, and Byzantine extravagance. While the grassroots faithful are being forced to make cutbacks, most bishops enjoy the trappings of the church huge wealth.
In many places, this blatant disparity, along with reports of mismanagement, misappropriation and pomposity have prompted the faithful to challenge church officials. They are accusing many bishops of just covering up the problem, as they did in the sex abuse scandal. Bishops are determined not to allow anyone to see behind the curtain into their parallel world of bulging bank accounts and hidden assets, which, in some cases, have buttressed their power for centuries. The church true assets, like cockroaches, remain in the shadows.
Church assets, accumulated over the centuries, are invested in many areas, including real estate, banks, academies, breweries, vineyards, media companies, and hospitals. Churches also derive income from stock holdings, foundations, and bequests. As a rule, all of this money flows into the accounts of the bishop's See. Only a bishop and his closest associates are familiar with this shadow budget, which tax authorities are not required to review. The public budgets of dioceses consist of far less than their total finances.
This complicated web is handled with such secrecy that not even the financial department heads of all dioceses openly discuss their finances with one another. Seemingly Byzantine structures make these finances even more difficult to fathom. Depending on the diocese, the administrators of the church's funds can be members of a church tax council, a diocesan tax panel, a financial board or an administrative board. Sometimes assets are also spun off into foundations.
Governments pay substantial sums of money for the maintenance and constant renovation of cathedrals and other church buildings. Most governments pay the salaries of religion teachers and in some countries, such as Greece, governments pay the salaries of all clergy. Substantial subsidies are paid for church conferences, church libraries, pastors who minister to police officers, inmates of prisons and psychiatric institutions, and the military. Some huge benefits towns make to their bishop, are based on century-old entitlements that politicians have never reviewed. Churches likes to point out how much they do for the poor and the weak, and to promote social cohesion, but governments foot the bill for many of these activities.
Stung by myriad charges of clergy sexual abuse, corruption, robberies, orgies, and coverup that reach the pope, patriarchs, and archbishops, churches face a crisis of empty pews and empty coffers. Churches need to address their own failures, acknowledge their own guilt, ask for forgiveness, and heal as a family. Those leaving Christianity outnumber converts by four-to-one.
In 1966, John Lennon claimed the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Lennon said: Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.
Lennon uttered those wise words at the height of Beatlemania. The British Invasion happened to also coincide with the decline of Christianity, especially in England, and especially amongst the younger generations. The mass hysteria of Beatlemania was analogous to religious ecstasy. Many fans truly saw the Beatles as musical messiahs. John, Paul, George, and Ringo reported that fans would bring sick people to their concerts, in the belief that the band had a divine healing presence.
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