Did you know Bush had the Pope's name removed from a sexual abuse of minors lawsuit?

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Overlapping Agendas

Things haven't always been tense between Bush and Benedict. They share similar views regarding abortion, gay marriage, and other hot-button conservative issues. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (as Benedict was known before becoming Pope in April 2005) even helped Bush secure the White House for a second term.

Specifically, after Bush visited the Vatican in June 2004, complaining that "not all the American bishops are with me," Ratzinger sent a letter to U.S. bishops, ordering them to refuse communion to "a Catholic politician … consistently campaigning and voting for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws" – a thinly-veiled reference to John Kerry. Ratzinger added that any person even voting for this Catholic politician “would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil and so unworthy to present himself for Holy Communion." Probably no surprise, then, that Bush increased his margin among Catholics by 6% from 2000 to 2004.

In an interesting twist, Ratzinger also partnered with George W. Bush's brother Neil in a foundation "to promote ecumenical understanding and publish original religious texts" in 1999. Oddly enough, business credit reports listed the foundation as a "management trust for purposes other than education, religion, charity or research," leaving the true nature of the Neil Bush/Cardinal Ratzinger venture unclear.

In 2005, Ratzinger was named as a defendant in a U.S. lawsuit suit accusing him of conspiring to cover up the sexual abuse of minors. At the center of the controversy was a May 2001 confidential letter he had sent Catholic bishops across the world ordering them to keep evidence of the sexual abuse of minors by clergy secret until 10 years after the child had reached adult status.

Soon after becoming Pope, however, Ratzinger was dismissed from the case. A U.S. federal judge decided the lawsuit would be "incompatible with the United States' foreign policy interests."

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1. Ratzinger also personally implicated in a child gang rape case in the UK

The court papers still remain classified on the grounds of being 'a threat to UK security'.

The background of this case is that in 1967 an only child of a UK diplomatic service couple was kidnapped and ransomed in London.

While negotiations were taking place for the nine year-old's release she was raped and tortured by the kidnap gang which had been hired a group of Polish Fascist Party-supporting priests called The Marian Fathers.

This Catholic order was the subject of a criminal bankruptcy petition which would have seen them extradited back to Communist-ruled
Warsaw.

They operated a boys boarding school in Berkshire and children's orphanages outside London which had been successfully prosecuted for child sex abuse cases.

A number of subsequent private prosecutions for negligence damages by pupils' parents had resulted in the Marians facing over half a million pounds in legal debts.

Joseph Ratzinger had personally authorised a Vatican bank loan which had financed the Marians' legal defence. The document was one of the exhibits during the rape/torture trial.

His fixer in this arrangement had been Prince Stanislaw Radziwill who at the time was married to Jackie Kennedy's sister Caroline Lee Bouvier, ex-wife of Michael Canfield, now known as Lee Radziwill.

Radziwill had financed the Marians' building of a church in their Berkshire school grounds, dedicated to the memory of his mother Ann and officially consecrated by Joseph Ratzinger in a ceremony conducted by Polish Archbishop Wyszynski.

Eventually the rape gang was caught and tried in a case heard in London in 1970. Eight men including foreign nationals were convicted of rape, sexual assault, grevious bodily harm and extortion.

Then in 1976 four of convicted were released on parole and managed to hunt down their victim after a data blunder by social services and Crown Prosecution Service officials.

There was a second life attempt on the 1967 attack vicitm who by then had married and changed her name. The victim remained in a coma for several months amid a police news blackout that many took as being a cover for her actual murder.

A number of property asset documents belonging to the young woman were stolen by the life-attempt parolees who rancasked her home and left her for dead after a vicious physical attack.

The property deeds were then sold on to a London mobster gang. Several cash mortgages in excess of £20 million were also raised on these, with the funds eventually being traced to transactions linked to the Vatican Bank.

Six years later Joseph Ratzinger's personally chosen God's Banker Roberto Calvi was found hanging under Blackfriars Bridge in London
after the collapse of the Vatican Bank and Banco Ambrosianop, with debts of over £400 million.

It took two inquests to claim that Calvi had committed suicide, a finding that was eventually overturned in 2006 when new forensic evidence showed he had been murdered.

The conspiracy theory circus has been particularly buoyant on Calvi's death, especially in relation to the Masonic paedopjhile lodge the P2's involvement in both the Vatican Bank's bankruptcy as well as in Calvi's murder.

Of utmost significance in the circus palaver is the Blackfriars Bridge location which many have seen as part of a satanic ritualistic killing recipie.

What is perhaps more important is the prosaic fact that the Bridge is the first landmark on the river Thames that demarkates the territory of the City of London Police.

In 1982 when Calvi was murdered London's Metropolitan Police answered to the Home Secretary. The Met's jurisdiction over solving crimes at that time lay on the other side of Blackfriars Bridge.

However, the City of London Police, a separate body enjoying specific royal charter priviledges, answered directly to the Prime Minister - who at the time was, of course, Margaret Thatcher.

Officially nobody has ever been prosecuted for Calvi's death and City of London police have kept the files open after a number of suspects walked free in a Rome trial last year.

Throughout this period Ratzinger has scaled the ecclesiastical heights, guided no doubt by his unfailing faith in Bush Senior and Junior.

Ratzinger's man in the Vatican Bank Cardinal Marcinkus secured immunity from prosecution over Calvi and the Banco Ambrosiano fiasco after the personal intervention of Bush when he was Ronnie Raygun's Veep. Marcinkus died recetly in Arizona after a cushy life on the run supported by Opus Dei handouts.

Not for nothing has he been dubbed 'God's Rottweiler'. And not for nothing maybe was Tony Blair dubbed Bush's Poodle, to extend the analogy.

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2. I wonder if Junior has his honorary cape and sword yet

like his daddy.

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3. Pope Adolf II was, is, and always will be the holy voice of repression. Is it any wonder

he sided with the pedophiles and the GOP?

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4. I was raised Catholic and I strongly encourage everyone to watch "Deliver Us from Evil"

Ratzinger is mentioned in the documentary as having played a very important role in covering up child sexual abuse in the U.S. --

Deliver Us from Evil - This unsettling Oscar-nominated documentary from filmmaker Amy Berg investigates the life of 30-year pedophile Father Oliver O'Grady and exposes the corruption inside the Catholic Church that allowed him to abuse countless children. A mix of victim stories and a disturbing interview with O'Grady provides a view into the troubled mind of the spiritual leader who moved from parish to parish gaining the trust of congregations ... all the while betraying so many.

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