Cempaka Belanda: Child abuse is pope's road of thorns

"A Summary" – Apr 2, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Religion, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Intelligent/Benevolent Design, EU, South America, 5 Currencies, Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Middle East, Internet, Israel, Dictators, Palestine, US, Japan (Quake/Tsunami Disasters , People, Society ...), Nuclear Power Revealed, Hydro Power, Geothermal Power, Moon, Financial Institutes (Recession, Realign integrity values ..) , China, North Korea, Global Unity,..... etc.) - (Text version)

"The Timing of the Great Shift" – Mar 21, 2009 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Text version)

“ … Here is another one. A change in what Human nature will allow for government. "Careful, Kryon, don't talk about politics. You'll get in trouble." I won't get in trouble. I'm going to tell you to watch for leadership that cares about you. "You mean politics is going to change?" It already has. It's beginning. Watch for it. You're going to see a total phase-out of old energy dictatorships eventually. The potential is that you're going to see that before 2013.
They're going to fall over, you know, because the energy of the population will not sustain an old energy leader ..."

"Update on Current Events" – Jul 23, 2011 (Kryon channelled by Lee Carroll) - (Subjects: The Humanization of God, Gaia, Shift of Human Consciousness, 2012, Benevolent Design, Financial Institutes (Recession, System to Change ...), Water Cycle (Heat up, Mini Ice Ace, Oceans, Fish, Earthquakes ..), Nuclear Power Revealed, Geothermal Power, Hydro Power, Drinking Water from Seawater, No need for Oil as Much, Middle East in Peace, Persia/Iran Uprising, Muhammad, Israel, DNA, Two Dictators to fall soon, Africa, China, (Old) Souls, Species to go, Whales to Humans, Global Unity,..... etc.)

"The Recalibration of Awareness – Apr 20/21, 2012 (Kryon channeled by Lee Carroll) (Subjects: Old Energy, Recalibration Lectures, God / Creator, Religions/Spiritual systems (Catholic Church, Priests/Nun’s, Worship, John Paul Pope, Women in the Church otherwise church will go, Current Pope won’t do it), Middle East, Jews, Governments will change (Internet, Media, Democracies, Dictators, North Korea, Nations voted at once), Integrity (Businesses, Tobacco Companies, Bankers/ Financial Institutes, Pharmaceutical company to collapse), Illuminati (Started in Greece, with Shipping, Financial markets, Stock markets, Pharmaceutical money (fund to build Africa, to develop)), Shift of Human Consciousness, (Old) Souls, Women, Masters to/already come back, Global Unity.... etc.) - (Text version)

“… The Shift in Human Nature

You're starting to see integrity change. Awareness recalibrates integrity, and the Human Being who would sit there and take advantage of another Human Being in an old energy would never do it in a new energy. The reason? It will become intuitive, so this is a shift in Human Nature as well, for in the past you have assumed that people take advantage of people first and integrity comes later. That's just ordinary Human nature.

In the past, Human nature expressed within governments worked like this: If you were stronger than the other one, you simply conquered them. If you were strong, it was an invitation to conquer. If you were weak, it was an invitation to be conquered. No one even thought about it. It was the way of things. The bigger you could have your armies, the better they would do when you sent them out to conquer. That's not how you think today. Did you notice?

Any country that thinks this way today will not survive, for humanity has discovered that the world goes far better by putting things together instead of tearing them apart. The new energy puts the weak and strong together in ways that make sense and that have integrity. Take a look at what happened to some of the businesses in this great land (USA). Up to 30 years ago, when you started realizing some of them didn't have integrity, you eliminated them. What happened to the tobacco companies when you realized they were knowingly addicting your children? Today, they still sell their products to less-aware countries, but that will also change.

What did you do a few years ago when you realized that your bankers were actually selling you homes that they knew you couldn't pay for later? They were walking away, smiling greedily, not thinking about the heartbreak that was to follow when a life's dream would be lost. Dear American, you are in a recession. However, this is like when you prune a tree and cut back the branches. When the tree grows back, you've got control and the branches will grow bigger and stronger than they were before, without the greed factor. Then, if you don't like the way it grows back, you'll prune it again! I tell you this because awareness is now in control of big money. It's right before your eyes, what you're doing. But fear often rules. …”

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Child abuse is pope's road of thorns

NRC International, by Bas Mesters in Rome, 17 March 2010 16:56

Pope Benedict XVI. Photo AP

With each successive revelation the spectre of child abuse comes closer to endangering the position of pope Benedict XVI.

Pope Benedict XVI has his own cross to bear on the way to Easter this year. The revelations of child abuse have grieved the ecclesiastical leader deeply, or so rumours emanating from the Vatican would have it. Every day seems to brings new scandals, as previously unknown crimes come to light in yet another country. Rampant child abuse was first revealed in the US and Australia years ago, but now Ireland, Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Switzerland have followed suit.

“As always, he has undergone the matter in the deepest of prayers and with understandable concern,” a close associate of the pope was quoted as saying in Italian daily La Repubblica. The German scandals in particular have upset pope Benedict, since they are encroaching ever more closely on him personally. Not only has the scale of the abuse led to disquiet and disappointment within the Vatican’s walls, there is also a great deal of worry over the damage this could cause to the German pope’s position.

Last week, the authoritative Süddeutsche Zeitung revealed a paedophile priest, referred to as “Brother H.”, had been transferred to the diocese of Munich in 1980. Benedict, then still known as Joseph Ratzinger, was archbishop in the same city. Brother H. was supposed to undergo therapy there, but was allowed to serve in a pastoral capacity again. A position he promptly abused to resume his paedophile activities .

In an attempt to control the damage caused by this revelation, father Federico Lombardi, a spokesperson for the Vatican, responded to the allegations immediately. “Everything has been cleared by the diocese of Munich’’,” he announced on Radio Vatican. “The vicar-general, mgr. Gerhard Gruber

, has assumed all responsibility,” he added. According to Lombardi, Ratzinger was not involved in the decision to allow Brother H. to reassume pastoral duties. The priest in question was suspended earlier this week.

A plot against the pope?

That the Vatican has been driven on the defensive is aptly demonstrated by the bitter insinuations of a possible ecclesiastical plot against the pope voiced by Lombardi. “It's rather clear that in the last days there have been those who have tried, with a certain aggressive persistence, in Regensburg and Munich, to look for elements to personally involve the Holy Father in the matter of the abuses," Federico Lombardi told Vatican Radio."For any objective observer, it's clear that these efforts have failed," he added.

Lombardi called it an “unlikely coincidence” that the news broke on the same day the prelate of the Catholic church in Germany, Robert Zollitsch, received papal permission to start an investigation into the reported abuse.

Pope Benedict, the Vatican emphasised, could not be held responsible for the physical abuse of boys in the choir led by his brother in Regensburg. Benedict should also not be held accountable for the suspected child abuse that took place in Ettal abbey, which falls under the diocese of Munich, Ratzinger’s former seat as archbishop.

A growing number of people are now leaving the Roman Catholic church in Germany, and the Vatican is starting to worry about the effect the paedophilia scandals could have on priest recruitment. In anticipation of World Youth Day, which will be held on March 28, the pope last Monday asked young people not to be afraid to engage in religious life. “Do not fear, dear boys and girls, when the Lord calls you to a religious, monastic or missionary life. He gives great joy to those courageous enough to answer His call!” the pope said.

An old enemy of ‘filth’

The greatest tragedy for pope Bendict is that he has come under fire for a policy he had already repudiated before becoming pope. In the week before his election to the papacy in 2005, he referred to priests who abused their positions as “filth”.

The pope's change of heart came at the beginning of the last decade. The stories of the American abuse victims and the growing pressure from his associates at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith made him realise the cover up of scandals - for which he was responsible for so long as the Congregation’s prefect – was a disastrous position. Ratzinger has since visited the Australian and American victims of paedophile priests to apologise on behalf of the Church. Bishops have been sacked and damages paid to the victims.

Now Benedict sees himself confronted yet again with the Church’s filth, this time in Europe, the continent he holds so dear. Shortly after his installation, he declared Europe a missionary area. As Ratzinger is well aware, if he is to stop the decline in church attendance and vocations to the priesthood, he will need to eradicate the “cancer of the child abuse” as it is referred to within Vatican circles. He can only hope the process of eradication of the Church’s ranks and the related inquiries will not yield any more evidence that could hurt him.

Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini tried to put the matter into context speaking in the Italian weekly Genter, saying „The Church has known darker years”. „In the end, the Church is now present in all countries worldwide, something which has never been the case before,” he said.

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