Cempaka Belanda: Church seeks closure on abuse

"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. …”

Monday, March 22, 2010

Church seeks closure on abuse

NRC International, 22 March 2010 17:06, by Joep Dohmen and Joke Mat

Pope Benedict XVI. Photo AP

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The pope’s letter has met with consent from bishops in the Netherlands. But the Dutch victims of the large scale abuse that NRC Handelsblad recently brought to light are disappointed

Let he who is without sin cast the first stone, was the central message of the Sunday mass in Utrecht’s St. Catherine’s Cathedral. The chose for this theme was an explicit request for clemency on the behalf of clerics who have sexually abused children and illustrated the forces ripping the Catholic Church apart. The Church is trying to estrange neither victims nor perpetrators of the large scale abuse that NRC Handelsblad and RNW have recently brought to light in the Netherlands.

The mass took plays one day after pope Benedict XVI published a letter to the Irish faithful expressing his compassion and regret to the Irish abuse victims and their families. In the Netherlands, bishops responded to the publication with appreciation and agreement. They said the text also fully applies to the Dutch victims, even if they are not mentioned specifically. In Saturday’s letter, the pope did not mention any disciplinary action that the Church would take against clerics guilty of abuse. Instead, he wrote they should answer “before Almighty God” for their “sinful and criminal acts”.

For victims, not enough

Like the Irish Catholics, Dutch victims were disappointed by the letter. Peter Dijcks (54) from Rijswijk, was abused as a 6-year-old boy attending the Sint Henricus institute for the blind in the Dutch town of Grave. “The church fails to investigate to what extent this abuse was caused by the system itself,” Dijcks said. He feels the pope should have called for the “removal” of clerics who have abused children “from positions where they may yet claim further victims”.

Janne Geraets (57) said he felt these clerics should leave the Church altogether. “But I fear this would leave the pope without a Church,” he said. Geraets, who was abused at the hands of Salesian priests in Don Rua boarding school in ’s-Heerenberg when he was 11, said that the letter showed the Church was trying to cover its tracks. But it will have to “face the music”, Geraets said. “The Church has helped abusers for years. This has to stop.”

The internal ecclesial inquiry that the pope announced, failed to impress Geraets. “An inquiry like that should be independent,” he said. Henri Looymans (53) from Middelburg said the Dutch government could play an important role in this respect. “The fundamental right to safety of a lot of children has been violated for decades, and perhaps will be again. The government should take the initiative here,” said Looymans, who was himself abused by two priests of the Brothers of Love order in Eikenburg boarding school in Eindhoven.

‘Your trust has been violated’

The mass in the St. Catherine’s Cathedral did not pass over the victim’s plight lightly. Coadjutor bishop Herman Woorts quoted a few trenchant phrases from the pope’s letter. “Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated,” he read. “Those of you who were abused in residential institutions must have felt that there was no escape from your sufferings.” The coadjutor added the Church had to face up to its own mistakes. ”Those should be acknowledged, not denied.” He mentioned the suffering “that many people have carried within them in silence for years.”

The priest reminded his congregation that no man is free from sin, calling on the story from the Gospel of John of the adulterous woman who is about to be stoned. When the scribes asked Jesus what he thought of the matter, he responded “He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her,” after which the scribes let the woman be. Finally, Jesus told the adulterous woman: "Neither do I condemn you. Go your way. From now on, sin no more."

The coadjutor said this showed Jesus did not want to justify the woman’s sins, but was mostly trying to tell her to look within first.

Closing the book

The mass was proof of a strong desire to close the book on the painful matter for good. “Forget the former things. Do not dwell on the past,” was one of the first verses to be read from the book of Isaiah. De coadjutor mentioned “the four adults in our midst” who would soon be baptised. There were more, he had heard out in the parishes, sixteen all together who chose to undergo the Catholic ritual. “Small signs of a new spring. They may not make the news, but they are important,” he said.

After the mass, an old man grabbed his bike, which he had parked in an alley next to the church. He said he had mixed feelings over the abuse scandal he said. Why did it come to light only now, he asked. And what was the point? “The people should have been brought to justice years ago. It is as simple as that. Now they won’t be. The statute of limitations has long run out. Now the Church is being blamed for act committed by people in the Church’s service,” he said.

Other churchgoers – no one wanted to be quoted by name – refused to answer questions. A middle aged woman said she did not speak to journalists. “I feel that journalists are not doing a lot right at the moment when it comes to compassion,” she explained. A man with glasses said he felt the mass was a good one, and did well to convey the spirit of the pope’s letter. “The Church has shown its heart is open, that it is prepared to look within.” He refused to say anything further, on account of the media being “not particularly objective”.