tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81721141921706252242024-02-19T07:49:56.466-08:00Secrets of the UniverseCydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-493791691483286202013-04-26T11:48:00.003-07:002013-04-26T11:48:44.876-07:00Review of Steven Greer’s (You Can’t Be) Sirius Film<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">Cris Putnam sent me a <a href="http://www.logosapologia.org/?p=4916" target="_blank">link to his review of Steven Greer’s film</a> – Greer’s latest effort to cast himself as an avatar for “ET Relations.” Cris noted in the email:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">It’s amazingly incoherent that Greer claims to be in contact with the ETs but at the same time the problem with the world is that government is hiding the ET technology…. If he’s telling the truth ET should just give it to him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">Uh . . . yeah. But that’s Greer. Tell everyone you’re an MD till many are convinced that makes you an authority on issues outside of medicine, make lots of noise on the web, then produce content that’s about as logical as a square bowling ball.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">Source: <a href="http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/">http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/</a></span></div>
Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-64856206091638596702013-04-25T09:20:00.002-07:002013-04-25T09:20:30.205-07:00REAL: DNA Tests Prove Six-Inch Creature is <span style="background-color: black; color: #45818e;"><span class="headline" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 2em; text-shadow: black 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em;">Humanoid</span><span class="date" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 0.8em;">2013 04 24</span></span><span class="text5" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana;"></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #45818e;">By Lee Speigel | <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/sirius-documentary-dna-re_n_3135628.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular" style="font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;">HuffingtonPost</a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #45818e;"><br /><br /><b>RIC Editor’s Note: </b><i>The media has gone to great lengths to downplay the importance of this discovery. They’re calling it ’human’ to diminish the discovery, pointing out that it’s not identifiably ’alien’. In fact, this finding is amazing.<br />The professor of microbiology and immunology, <a href="http://med.stanford.edu/profiles/cancer/faculty/Garry_Nolan/" style="font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Gary Nolan</a>, who did the research by extracting bone marrow and running DNA tests stated the lifeform was ’closer’ to human than chimps are. But being ’close’ to humans genetically doesn’t MAKE one human - just ask the chimps!<br />Some speculate that this hominid is a ’perfect storm’ of genetic malfunctions and mutations, but that is only a speculation at this point. Technically, it has not been proven that this isn’t a different type of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hominidae" style="font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">hominidae</a>. More research must be done before the gloves can be taken off. </i><br /></span><div class="hr">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #45818e;"><br />The mummified remains of what looks like a 6-inch space alien has turned "Sirius" into the most eagerly awaited documentary among UFO enthusiasts.<br /><br />The findings, however, might come as a disappointment.<br /><br />In early publicity, filmmakers claimed the documentary would reveal that the DNA of the creature with an oversized alien-looking head couldn’t be medically classified.<br /><br />In fact, the film, which premiered Monday in Hollywood, features a scientist who concluded the little humanoid was human.<br /><br />"I can say with absolute certainty that it is not a monkey. It is human -- closer to human than chimpanzees. It lived to the age of six to eight. Obviously, it was breathing, it was eating, it was metabolizing. It calls into question how big the thing might have been when it was born,"said Garry Nolan, director of stem cell biology at Stanford University’s School of Medicine in California.<br /><br />"The DNA tells the story and we have the computational techniques that allows us to determine, in very short order, whether, in fact, this is human," Nolan, who performed the DNA tests, explains in the film.<br /><br />"Sirius" focuses on the remains of the small humanoid, nicknamed Ata, that was discovered in Chile’s Atacama Desert 10 years ago and has, literally, gone through different hands and ownership since then.<br /><br />The film also explores an ongoing grassroots movement to get the U.S. government to reveal what it reportedly knows about UFOs, extraterrestrials and the availability of advanced alternative energy technologies that could greatly benefit everyone on Earth.<br /><br />The primary force behind "Sirius" is Steven Greer, a former emergency room doctor who founded the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) and The Disclosure Project.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />One of the leading theories going into the DNA testing was that Ata may have been an unborn fetus. But, even that turned out to be incorrect, according to Nolan’s surprising (or not, depending on your point of view) conclusions of his investigation.<br /><br />"The sequence that we got from the mitochondria [energy factories of cells] tells us with extremely high confidence that the mother was an indigenous Indian from the Chilean area. The other thing that immediately fell out of the analysis is that it’s male. It probably died in the last century, if I were to make a guess."<br /><br />Nolan concedes he entered this study thinking that DNA was the answer, but then realized there were other biology questions about Ata that still needed to be understood and answered. He plans to eventually publish his findings after more analysis.<br /><br />[...]<br /><br />Read the full article at: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/sirius-documentary-dna-re_n_3135628.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular" style="font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">huffingtonpost.com</a></span><div class="hr">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #45818e;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><b>Sirius Trailer</b><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="360" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/CnRIR3pqY9A" width="640"></iframe><br /></span><a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/348717" style="background-color: black; color: #1eb2ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">’Sirius’ documentary has premiered, now available to view or buy</a><br />Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-22174779682430887442013-04-18T10:32:00.002-07:002013-04-18T10:32:27.195-07:00Academic unearths new lead to fabled Babylon Gardens<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="color: #76a5af;"><span class="date" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 0.8em;">2013 04 17</span><span class="text5" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana;">By John Henzell | <a href="http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/academic-unearths-new-lead-to-fabled-babylon-gardens#full" style="font-size: 1em; text-decoration: none;">TheNational</a></span></span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Ever since the peak of the Hellenic empire, visiting the seven wonders of the ancient world has been the way to pay homage to the early achievements of human civilisation.</b><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">But there was one catch for those who wanted to see them all. The farthest one from Athens, the famed Hanging Gardens of Babylon, in what is now central Iraq, existed in reports but its exact location had never been definitively proven.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Of the other six, the pyramids of Giza remain relatively intact and there are ruins or at least traces of the temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the statue of Zeus at Olympia, the mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Colossus of Rhodes and the lighthouse of Alexandria.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Finding traces of the Hanging Gardens became a kind of ultimate goal for archeologists and antiquarians but every investigation of the site of Babylon, near the modern Iraqi town of Al Hillah, came up short. Some postulated that the gardens might have been legendary rather than real.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">This is where Dr Stephanie Dalley comes in.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Her academic speciality is early Mesopotamian civilisations: she is an expert in ancient Babylonian language and has taken part in archeological excavations in the fertile crescent where human civilisation began.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Now retired from the University of Oxford, she is visiting Abu Dhabi and giving a lecture tonight about her theory that the Hanging Gardens existed but that an ancient misunderstanding led the Greeks who compiled the original seven wonders to site them in Babylon, when the gardens were really in the neighbouring Assyrian empire.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Next month the Oxford University Press will publish </span><i style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon</i><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">, Dr Dalley’s account of her exhaustive 20-year pursuit of the truth about the gardens.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">According to antiquarian reports, the Hanging Gardens were built in the citadel of the Babylonian ruler Nebuchadnezzar II, who ordered the recreation of the mountainous homeland of his homesick wife, Amytis of Media.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">By all accounts, it was a true wonder, with a raised garden at the very top of the citadel that was big enough for full-size trees to grow.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Built on a series of arches as a quadrangle with sides four plethra (123 metres) long, surrounded by walls six metres thick and with passages wide enough that "four-horse chariots can easily pass each other".</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Nebuchadnezzar II ruled the city-state of Babylon on the Euphrates River between 604BC and 562BC and the gardens were supposed to have been destroyed by earthquakes sometime in the 2nd century BC.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">But although there were numerous reports of the Hanging Gardens by later Greek and then Roman writers, they all quote from an earlier text by Berossus, a Babylonian priest. Berossus’s original work has never been found. However, Dr Dalley came to question the accuracy of those reports, beginning a kind of CSI Mesopotamia to unravel the truth from the fiction.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">One factor that triggered her suspicions is that the gardens are not mentioned in other earlier texts in which Nebuchadnezzar II had recorded in detail his other building projects in the city state.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Other writers who visited Babylon during the era when the Hanging Gardens were believed to exist, such as Herodotus, Xenophon and Pliny, also made no mention of them.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">An extensive and painstaking 19-year excavation of Babylon by German archaeologists at the start of the 20th century had also failed to produce anything to corroborate the Hanging Gardens’ existence.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">At the time, the local building style was mud brick, which would not have survived centuries of use supporting an irrigated garden. And the garden also predated the invention of the Archimedes screw irrigation method.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">There were two main civilisations in ancient Mesopotamia in that era: the Babylonians in the south and the Assyrians in the north, centred on Nineveh, near what is now Mosul.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The two were often confused in biblical and classical writings, such as the Old Testament book of Judith which calls Nebuchadnezzar the king of the Assyrians and said he lived in Nineveh, when in reality he lived in Babylon. Arab writers describe an earlier ruler, Sennacherib, as being based in Babylon when he actually ruled from Nineveh.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">All this raised the question: are the reports of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon actually mistakenly describing a feature in Nineveh instead?</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">[...]</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Read the full article at: </span><a href="http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/academic-unearths-new-lead-to-fabled-babylon-gardens#full" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">thenational.ae</a></span></span>Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-13613745410842565162013-04-14T10:22:00.003-07:002013-04-14T10:22:39.808-07:00New and Surprising Discoveries about Mysterious Easter Island Statue: Origin of the Birdman Cult<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><b style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Archaeologists have made some new and surprising discoveries about the mysterious statue from the Easter Island. Using the latest in digital imaging technology, they were able to find a little bit more about the religion that precipitated the downfall of these giant statues.</b><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The Easter Island statue </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoa_Hakananai%27a" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Hoa Hakananai’a</a><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;"> is impressive to look at. Standing at about eight feet high, its solemn expression stares out onto visitors in the British Museum in London. While its front is smoothly carved, though, its back is another case entirely. It’s grooved and pitted with multiple depictions of birdmen, figures which arose during a time when the people of Easter Island gave up worshipping statues and instead turned to the birdman cult.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /></span></span><div align="center" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Around 1600 AD, the Rapa Nui, the people inhabiting the Easter Islands, faced an ecological crisis. They stopped worshipping their iconic statues and instead turned to the new birdman religion. This cult included a ritual that was based around collecting the first egg of migrating terns from a nearby islet. The first swimmer who was able to gather the egg and bring it back safely would achieve sacred status for a year.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">In fact, Hoa Hakananai’a most likely represents a time when the Rapa Nui were slowly adopting the new religion. Its back is carved with images that reveal some insights into the cult. Yet before now, researchers have had trouble deciphering the depictions.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The researchers took hundreds of photos of the statue from different angles. They then created a fully textured computer model of the statue, capable of rotating 360 degrees. Then, they used a virtual light source which was moved across the surface of the digital image of the statue. This allowed the researchers to view unseen details.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">So what exactly did the researchers find? They noted that two birdmen on the back of the statue were actually marked as male and female. This allowed them to unlock an entire narrative story relating to the birdman cult. The scene shows a male chick leaving the nest, watched by its half-bird, half-human parents. The female birdman is matched by the female komari on the right ear of the statue, while the male birdman is matched on the left with a paddle--a symbol of male authority.</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">[...]</span><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><br style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" /><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Read the full article at: </span><a href="http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/6178/20130411/new-surprising-discoveries-mysterious-easter-island-statue-origin-birdman-cult.htm" style="font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">scienceworldreport.com</a></span></span><br style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;" />Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-61364663812979130562013-04-13T07:34:00.002-07:002013-04-29T10:38:07.463-07:00The Atacama Mummified Human Fetus … er, Alien<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; text-align: justify;">
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<a href="http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/atacama4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="atacama4" border="0" class="alignleft wp-image-1469" height="400" scale="0" src="http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/atacama4.jpg" style="border: 0px solid rgb(186, 182, 94); float: left; margin: 3px 1em 3px 0px;" width="342" /></a><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Yesterday I blogged about the upcoming <a href="http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/2013/04/citizen-hearing-ufo-disclosure/" target="_blank">Citizen’s Hearing for Disclosure</a>. Trust me when I say I’m hoping something substantive comes of it. Stephen Bassett has assembled a lot of people I’d consider credible (but I wouldn’t say that about everyone on the witness list).</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Also fast approaching (April 22) is the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/07/tiny-alien-humanoid-among_n_3017854.html" target="_blank">Sirius world premier</a> that is the centerpiece of Steven Greer’s “<a href="http://siriusdisclosure.com/" target="_blank">Sirius Disclosure</a>” project. Greer is a high profile researcher. There are some high profile people in ufology who I trust to be forthright and objective, and there are those I don’t trust that way. Dr. Greer is in the latter category. He’s controversial even within the ufological camp.<sup class="footnote"><a href="http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/#fn-1465-1" id="fnref-1465-1">1</a></sup> My most current reason not to trust Greer is his touting of the “Atacama Alien” pictured below.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">This “discovery” is not new; it’s actually a few years old. <a href="http://www.ghosttheory.com/2013/04/12/atacama-humanoid" style="line-height: 19px;" target="_blank">The specimen has also been examined by several specialists</a>. No word on whether any of them will be featured in Greer’s film, though I wouldn’t expect that given the conclusions drawn prior to this world premier. (No doubt Greer will have his own “expert yes men” for the film). Here’s an excerpt from the report linked above:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">“The second transcribed document is a forensic medical report written by Dr. Francisco Etxeberria Gabilondo, a professor of Legal and Forensic Medicine in the Basque Country University, and specialist in Forensic Anthropology with the Complutense University, who wrote the study at the bequest of the IIEE (probably for a fee, although that is not mentioned). <strong>Dr. Etxeberria wrote that</strong>, “it’s a mummified body with all typical the characteristics of a fetus. The body has a length of 14 cm and displays all the structures and anatomical links normal for the head, trunk and extremities. . . .</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Taken as a whole, the proportions of the anatomical structures (skeleton and softer parts), <strong>the level of development of each one of its bones and its macroscopic configuration, allow us to interpret it without any shadow of doubt as a completely normal mummified fetus </strong>… Both based on the total length of the body as well as the length of the bones, it can be estimated that it’s a fetus in an approximate gestation period close to 15 weeks.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">This of course isn’t exciting enough for a world premier, so don’t expect to hear anything about it in the movie. The whole thing reminds me a bit of the bogus “nephilim skulls” that are out there. <a href="http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2009/07/ancient-elongated-skulls-alien-remains/" target="_blank">I blogged about that over on my PaleoBabble site</a> many moons ago, complete with a picture from a medical supply catalog of these “amazing” skulls – the medical supply company has several models so their medical students can learn about <em>human</em> cranial deformities (which is good, so they don’t have to rob the Smithsonian of one of their hidden specimens from the late 1800s). Sad to say, I’ve seen these models at Christian conferences to promote various nuggets of nephilim nonsense (I normally hate alliteration, but I’ll let that one pass – truth be told, I was tempted to add “nattering nabobs” to that from the Aladdin movie).</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">It also reminds me of a book I’ve read . . . that had unscrupulous people using doctored human fetuses to create alien remains. . . . Oh yeah, that was my novel, <a href="http://www.facadethebook.com/"><em>The Facade</em></a>. Funny.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Of course there will be <a href="http://beforeitsnews.com/beyond-science/2013/01/tiny-alien-body-confirmed-with-ct-scans-and-x-rays-says-dr-steven-greer-presidential-briefing-documents-2440614.html" style="line-height: 19px;" target="_blank">those who think that because the specimen has a skeleton</a> that it must be alien. To all you Einsteins out there on that point – a human fetus has a skeleton, too. <a href="http://www.answers.com/topic/skeletal-development" target="_blank">All 206 bones of the human being are present by the end of the fifth week</a>. (Please note that the 5th week would fall before the 15th week noted in the quotation above).</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">This whole world premier thing illustrates the poor thinking of many who want desperately to have aliens explain everything in world history and our origins (i.e., who want that as a religion). Just Google it. Or better yet, look at the name of Greer’s project: “Sirius Disclosure. The title plays off Robert Temple’s iconic but <a href="http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2011/06/the-sirius-mystery-you-dont-columbo-for-this-one/" target="_blank">demonstrably bogus</a> “Sirius Mystery.” Think about it. Let’s say this six-inch specimen isn’t human — how the Zeta do we know it’s from Sirius? Because that’s a narrative Greer likes – it “connects” (in the Land of Non Sequitur) to cool things like ancient Egypt (Temple had the image of Akhenaten on the cover of his Sirius Mystery book – we all know he was an ET, despite what the <a href="http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2010/08/king-tut-dna-family-tree/" target="_blank">recent DNA research</a> on the mummies in his lineage says).<sup class="footnote"><a href="http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/#fn-1465-2" id="fnref-1465-2">2</a></sup></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">So where does this leave us? Well, if you’re like me who’d like to see <em>serious</em> people do <em>serious</em> thinking about a subject as <em>serious</em> as whether we’re alone in the universe, you’re embarrassed by this latest stunt (by the way, that sound rhyming on “Sirius” is called assonance – oh, crud, I ruined the aural subliminal). You all know that, if there are such things, I’m on the side of the public having a right to know (i.e., at least confirm the idea if it’s real – I do allow for legitimate national security issues). Stuff like this generates cash and sets tongues to wagging, but doesn’t really help credibility.</span></span></div>
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<li id="fn-1465-1" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">For some of those, click <a href="http://vitalherbs.hubpages.com/hub/Reasons-To-Doubt-CSETI-And-Steven-Greer" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.ufowatchdog.com/steven_greer.htm" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="http://www.ufowatchdog.com/greer_truth.htm" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="http://projectavalon.net/forum4/showthread.php?22431-Steven-Greer-Charged-in-Federal-Court/page2" target="_blank">here</a>. <span class="footnotereverse"><a href="http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/#fnref-1465-1">↩</a></span></span></span></li>
<li id="fn-1465-2" style="font-size: 11px;"><span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">See <a href="http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2010/02/leaked-dna-findings-on-king-tut/" target="_blank">here</a> as well. But what about the alien fetuses in King Tut’s tomb, Mike? We won’t leave them out of the post. Click <a href="http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2010/06/dna-results-for-the-fetuses-in-tuts-tomb/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></span></li>
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Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-28505093575114318082013-04-11T08:43:00.001-07:002013-04-11T08:46:19.276-07:00UN chief hails Pope Francis as a global spiritual leader<img height="399" src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02511/popeFrancisVatican_2511424b.jpg" style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;" width="640" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000; font-family: Arial, Tahoma; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">"It is very important to meet a spiritual leader of the world," Ban said at the start of his meeting with the Argentine pope, who last month became the first non-European leader of the world's Catholics in nearly 1,300 years.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">A giant "monumental" stone structure discovered beneath the waters of the Sea of Galilee in Israel has archaeologists puzzled as to its purpose and even how long ago it was built.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">The mysterious structure is cone shaped, made of "unhewn basalt cobbles and boulders," and weighs an estimated 60,000 tons the researchers said. That makes it heavier than most modern-day warships.</span></div>
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Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-84307513377094865972013-04-10T08:58:00.002-07:002013-04-10T08:58:50.021-07:00IF YOU THINK BIGFOOT EXISTS, YOU MIGHT BE A REPUBLICAN: STUDY FINDS THAT POLITICAL AFFILIATION PLAYS A ROLE IN WHAT YOU CONSPIRACY THEORIES YOU BELIEVE IN<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Your view on popular conspiracy theories depends on your political affiliation, according to new findings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">A study of registered voters in the US has found that whether you believe in Bigfoot or think that global warming is a myth depends on which side of the political fence you sit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">According to the poll, carried out by the Public Policy Institute, when it comes to some of the most famous conspiracy theories out there, American opinion is split right along party lines.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">While a staggering 37 per cent of those surveyed overall believe that global warming is a hoax, it is more likely that you are a Republican if you hold that view.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">For almost 60 per cent of Republicans asked thought that the phenomenon was made up while just 11 per cent of Democrats polled agreed.</span></span></div>
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Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-89289406463003435432013-04-07T06:24:00.002-07:002013-04-07T06:24:24.563-07:00Cardinal recounts details of Pope’s visit to St. Peter’s tomb<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">“His first stop was before the Egyptian Mausoleum (which dates back to the 2nd century),” Cardinal Comastri recounted. “In this mausoleum amid many pagan tombs there is also a Christian tomb. Christianity in fact, like yeast, was penetrating the pagan world. The Pope exclaimed in admiration: ‘It's like this today, too!’”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">“We then made a second stop before the funerary stele of a man called Istatilio,” the cardinal continued. “He was certainly Christian: on his grave is the monogram [chi-rho]of Christ. On the stele is inscribed: ‘He was at peace with everyone and never caused strife.’ The Pope, after reading the phrase, looked at us and said, ‘That is a beautiful program of life.’”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">Climbing back up the stairs and having reached the Clementine Chapel, Pope Francis became absorbed in prayer and repeated with a loud voice the three professions of Peter: “Lord, You are the Christ, Son of the Living God”; “Lord, to whom do we go? You have the words of eternal life”; “Lord, You know all things! You know that I love you!” At that moment, we had the distinct impression that the life of Peter rose out of centuries past and became present and living in the current Successor of the Apostle Peter.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;">For 13 days the Papacy was empty without a Pope in office. Eventually the conclave gathered to elect a new Pope and on the 13th of March 2013, Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected Pope and took the name Francis 1.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;">Many who thought the prophecy of the Popes was true were very disappointed that a Pope called Peter was not elected. Most quickly put it all behind them and moved on in life thinking the whole prophecy was false. Well, they were wrong, here is why.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;">1. Jorge Mario Bergoglio is of Italian descent, making him a Roman by Blood.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;">2. Jorge took the name Francis after St. Francis of Assisi (The founder of the Jesuits) who's Christian name was Pietro (Peter). His Father was also called Peter, in fact it was his father who gave him the nickname Francis.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;">If I am correct, that would make the current Pope, Peter the Roman.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;">All evidence to back up my claims can be found in the links below.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI has ordered several changes to the Masses and liturgies that will mark the inauguration of the next pope's pontificate.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">Rites and gestures that are not strictly sacramental will take place either before a Mass or in a ceremony not involving Mass, Msgr. Guido Marini, master of papal liturgical ceremonies, told the Vatican newspaper Feb. 22.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">One of the most visual changes, he said, would be the restoration of the public "act of obedience" in which each cardinal present at the pope's inaugural Mass comes forward and offers his allegiance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">When Pope Benedict celebrated his inaugural Mass in 2005, 12 people were chosen to represent all Catholics: three cardinals, a bishop, a diocesan priest, a transitional deacon, a male religious, a female religious, a married couple and a young man and a young woman recently confirmed.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">Marini said Pope Benedict personally approved the changes Feb. 18; they include offering a wider choice of traditional Mass prayers in polyphony and chant, rather than the new musical repertoire composed for the 2005 book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">After having personally experienced the liturgical rites drafted by Marini's predecessor — and approved by Pope Benedict immediately after his election — the Pope suggested "a few changes aimed at improving the text" of the rites for the beginning of a pontificate, formally known as the "Ordo Rituum pro Ministerii Petrini Initio Romae Episcopi."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">The changes, Marini said, "follow in the line of the modifications made in papal liturgies" over the course of Pope Benedict's papacy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">The previous edition of the ritual handbook also called for the new pope to visit the basilicas of St. Paul Outside the Walls and St. Mary Major within two or three weeks of his installation. The new book, Marini said, leaves it up to the new pope to decide "when it would be most opportune, even at some distance from his election, and under what form he judges best, whether it be a Mass, a celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours or a particular liturgical act" like the one found in the 2005 ritual book.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f;">On the other hand, in an e-mail response to questions, Marini told Catholic News Service that no significant modifications had been made to the "Ordo rituum conclavis," the book of rituals, Masses and prayers that accompany the conclave to elect a new pope.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">A suspected criminal has been rapidly elected as the new Pontiff of the Church of Rome in a record two day conclave, being the first Jesuit in history to head the papacy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Former Cardinal and Pope-elect "Francis I", Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is accused of helping kidnap opponents of Argentina's military junta during the 1970's "Dirty War", and of <a href="http://www.eldia.com.ar/edis/20110502/acusan-cardenal-bergoglio-robo-bebes-durante-dictadura-20110502214006.htm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">baby trafficking</a>, by lawyers and members of the Plaza de Mayo human rights group. (<a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2005/apr/17/world/fg-cardinal17" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2005, "Argentine Cardinal Named in Kidnapping Lawsuit"</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Besides his personal alleged criminality, Bergoglio – as a Jesuit – represents the group most responsible for the centuries-old Crimes against Humanity and Genocide for which the Jesuit Superior General was found guilty on February 25, along with Joseph Ratzinger and other Vatican officials.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">The Jesuit Order established the murderous Indian residential school system in North America during the mid 19th century, and has led the destruction and killing of millions of non-Catholics around the world since its inception in the mid 16th century.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Under a <a href="http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/jesuits.htm" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">secret oath</a> administered to every member, the Jesuits are authorized and encouraged to kill, torture or overthrow any opponent of the Vatican and the Pope.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">These facts, the Argentine allegations, and his complicity in the global conspiracy against children enunciated in the canon law Crimen Sollicitationas, makes the new Pope particularly liable for immediate arrest and sentencing under international law and the Common Law Court verdict of February 25, 2013.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">The ITCCS understands that Jorge Mario Bergoglio's election was a quick and uncontested arrangement, as evident in its rapidity: in less than two days, a record for papal elections.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Bergoglio's election makes the guilt of the Vatican and its highest officials for Crimes against Humanity all that more severe. The new Pope, as the head fiduciary officer of the Vatican, Inc., assumes that guilt and liability.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Bergoglio is therefore subject to immediate arrest under the terms of the Common Law Court ORDER of March 5, 2013, issued by the International Common Law Court of Justice under the authority of <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">jus gentium</em>, the Law of Nations, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Accordingly, an application has been made by our Tribunal to these courts for an International Citizens Arrest Warrant, to be issued against the new Roman Pontiff, Jorge Mario Bergoglio – Pope Francis I, for Crimes against Humanity and involvement in a global criminal conspiracy based in Rome.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">The ITCCS will soon be issuing more background evidence on the genocidal purpose and actions of the Jesuit Order in relation to the ongoing crimes we have documented; and of the evidence of Bergoglio's suspected crimes in Argentina.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Issued 13 March, 2013<br style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" />ITCCS Central, Brussels</span></span></div>
Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-41594264801584058132013-03-15T10:47:00.003-07:002013-03-15T10:47:10.729-07:00Saint Francis Of Assisi And Islam: How The New Pope Could Bring Muslims And Christians Together<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Cardinal <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/jorge-mario-bergoglio" style="border: none; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">Jorge Bergoglio</a>'s decision to choose the name of Francis as pope has profound significance to Muslims regarding Muslim/Christian relations. The Christian Saint Francis of Assisi -- for whom he has chosen to be named for the rest of his life -- is remembered by Muslims who know their history as a holy man, perhaps the only one (since Jesus) so recognized by Christians and Muslims alike.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">In fact, as much as Muslims have saints in the first place, Saint Francis could be considered one of our saints too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Raised in privilege and renouncing that privilege for the sake of justice, fidelity to God's revelations and God and God's creation -- to the harsh criticism of friend and family alike -- St. Francis' early life path is achingly close to that of Muhammad. And the events of his later life, particularly his three-week dialogue with Sheikh al-Malik al-Kamel the Sultan of Egypt, had a profound affect on Francis, the Sultan and the Christians and Muslims living then that are still being felt today. That should bring hope to us all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Surprisingly, little is know about what actually happened when they talked to each other: everything written was written long after the fact, and carries the obvious imprint of whatever philosophical "spin" was popular at the time. However, the influence of that meeting on those two men was both profound and significant, for St. Francis perhaps as significant as his first embrace of the lepers of Assisi that led him to recognize their equality in the eyes of God. Because Francis went to Egypt expecting to find martyrdom, and evil men who needed to be converted to Christians in order to be saved from hell-fire. But he left respectful of Muslims to the point that he encouraged Christians to emulate them in prayer and prostration, and to join Muslms -- and others -- in service to all despite their different religions, and he specifically told his followers not to try and convert them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Having seen Muslim prayers while in Egypt he declared for his followers: "You should manifest such honour to the Lord among the people entrusted to you that every evening an announcement be made by a town crier or some other signal that praise and thanks may be given by all people to the all-powerful Lord God."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">And, "At the mention of His name you must adore Him with fear and reverence, prostrate on the ground ... so that in word and deed you may give witness to his voice and bring everyone to know that there is no one who is all-powerful but Him."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">And instead of seeking converts among Muslims, in missionary work he charged his followers: "[The brothers] are not to engage in arguments or disputes, but to be subject to (serve) every human creature for God's sake."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Those words calling us all -- Christian and non-Christian alike for the sake of our shared humanity under God-Most-High -- to service alone.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Based on all that, I think it's pretty obvious that in those three weeks St. Francis learned that Muslims were God's people too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">And what did knowing St. Francis of Assisi do to Sultan al Malik al Kamel? Ten years later, in 1229, by diplomacy alone and by no act of warfare, he ceded control of Jerusalem, Bethlehem and a corridor from there to the sea to the Christians, saving only the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque for the Muslims, and the temple area for the Jews.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Now, to be honest, I don't really know what the near future holds for Muslim/Christian relations, or whether <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/pope-francis" style="border: none; cursor: pointer; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">Pope Francis</a> has received those lessons from his studies of Saint Francis. I do know that since those days many different stories have been told about the Saint and the Sultan, some to promote the Christian side, and others to promote the Muslim one; some claiming the Sultan became Christian, or that Saint Francis became Muslim: I think that's just human nature, and the work of those old-time spin doctors should serve as nothing more than cautionary tales to us all. The truth is both men continued to walk the walks that God had ordained for them, one seeking to emulate Jesus, the other to perfect his Islam.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">However, I do know God promised to bring us all one day together, and that Saint Francis and Sultan al Malik found something special from God in each other that changed their worlds for the better, and changed the world for everyone else for the better too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">So in their memory and in that spirit, I wish Pope Francis all the best, and all the blessings God can give him in his life and his service.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">God Bless you your holiness, and through you may God Bless us all.</span></span></div>
Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-73784186495995871372013-03-13T11:35:00.001-07:002013-03-13T11:35:24.775-07:00The White smoke is here<span style="background-color: black;"><br /></span>
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<span style="background-color: black;">VATICAN CITY — White smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney Wednesday to roars of joy from the throngs jamming St. Peter's Square.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">The new pope, his name not yet revealed, is expected to greet the masses from the balcony of St. Peter's Basillica shortly.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">The 115 voting cardinals took four or five votes over two days to reach their decision, which required a two-thirds majority and came after a week of intense meetings. The cardinal conclave came on the heels of the surprising resignation of Pope Benedict XVI last month.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Benedict, who did not participate in the election, cited health reasons in becoming the first pope to step down in some 600 years. In his eight years the church solidified its message on core Catholic values such as opposition to abortion and gay marriage, and saw gains in membership in Africa, Latin America and Asia.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">But his departure comes at a time when the church has lost membership in Europe and the United States, is dealing with financial mismanagement of church assets and still trying to overcome the "scourge" as Benedict described the past cases of priests who molested children.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Still, the mood of the faithful in front of St. Peter's Basilica was celebratory following the news. The first vote took place late Tuesday. Two morning votes Wednesday brought similar results -- black smoke from the Sistine Chapel's chimney that meant no decision on a new pope had been reached.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">Some 6,000 journalists from around the world were here for the announcement, from bloggers in Mexico to U.S. network anchors. It did not compare to the last conclave in 2005, which was preceded by a funeral attended by hundreds of thousands of people for the much beloved John Paul II, who had sat on the throne of St. Peter since 1976.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">A scholar of the church, Benedict did not inspire similar worldwide passion, and because he departed voluntarily the conclave lacked the emotional drama of 2005. But it was not short on surprises.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">During a week of supposedly private meetings among the cardinals to discuss both church matters and the merits of various papal candidates, minutes of those meetings were secretly leaked to Italian media. Meanwhile, U.S. cardinals, who were holding regular press briefings, were ordered to stop, effectively ending all communication between clergy and press as the conclave neared.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;">While weeks ago there had been talk of the possibility of a pope from the church's growth area - Latin America and Africa - the candidate list expanded in the final days to include whispers about a first-ever American pope, with Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York a leading contender.</span></div>
Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-47071328154598818512013-03-12T17:22:00.002-07:002013-03-12T17:24:36.894-07:00The White Stuff<span style="background-color: black; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 2.4em; line-height: 1.083em;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Before Smoke Rises at Vatican, It’s Romans vs. the Reformers</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">By </span><span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;"><span itemid="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/laurie_goodstein/index.html" itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/laurie_goodstein/index.html" rel="author" style="text-decoration: none;" title="More Articles by LAURIE GOODSTEIN">LAURIE GOODSTEIN</a></span> and <span itemid="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/elisabetta_povoledo/index.html" itemprop="author creator" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/elisabetta_povoledo/index.html" rel="author" style="text-decoration: none;" title="More Articles by ELISABETTA POVOLEDO">ELISABETTA POVOLEDO</a></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">Published: March 10, 2011</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">VATICAN CITY — The cardinals who enter the papal conclave on Tuesday will walk into the Sistine Chapel in a single file, but beneath the orderly display, they are split into competing lineups and power blocs that will determine which man among them emerges as pope.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">The main divide pits the cardinals who work in the <a class="meta-org" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/r/roman_catholic_church/index.html?inline=nyt-org" title="More articles about the Roman Catholic Church.">Vatican</a>, the Romans, against the reformers, the cardinals who want the next pope to tackle what they see as the Vatican’s corruption, inefficiency and reluctance to share power and information with bishops from around the world.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">But the factions in this conclave do not break along geographical lines, and in fact, they have produced alliances that are surprisingly counterintuitive: the Romans’ top preference appears to be a Brazilian, and the reformers are said to be pushing for an Italian.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">This conclave is far more unpredictable and suspenseful than the last because the church landscape has shifted in the last eight years. The next pontiff must unite an increasingly globalized church paralyzed by scandal and mismanagement under the spotlight in a fast-moving media age. And among the cardinals, there is no obvious single successor to Pope Benedict XVI, who rattled the church by resigning last month at age 85.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">With all of the uproar over Vatican scandals, the Romans are aware that they may fail if they back one of their own, and so they are said to be coalescing behind the Brazilian, Cardinal Odilo Pedro Scherer, the archbishop of São Paulo.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">Cardinal Scherer is of German heritage, but his selection would give the Roman Catholic Church its first pope from Latin America. The region is home to about 40 percent of the world’s Catholics, and the church is staving off challenges there both from surging evangelical churches and a drift toward secularism.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">The reformers, led by the Americans and some influential Europeans, are reportedly uniting around the Italian, Cardinal Angelo Scola, the archbishop of Milan, a popular pastor and an erudite moral theologian. As an Italian, he is familiar with the culture that dominates the Vatican bureaucracy, but he is not a part of it or beholden to it.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">Many cardinals, however, say they are eager for a pope from outside Italy and better yet, from outside Europe, which they hope would energize the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">Other front-runners could easily emerge in what is shaping up to be a fluid contest with ever-shifting alliances and priorities, according to interviews in the past week with church officials, and the scholars and journalists who study the church.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">With the stage truly wide open, the next pope to come out on the balcony to address the crowd in St. Peter’s Square could be a cardinal from Argentina, Canada, Hungary, Mexico, the Philippines or even the United States.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">Whoever he is, he will have to convince his fellow prelates that his gifts as an evangelist and an administrator can move the church past the scandals of child sexual abuse, the Vatican bank, the recent resignation of a cardinal who admitted he had used his own priests for sexual favors, and the so-called VatiLeaks episode in which the pope’s personal papers were stolen and published, revealing bitter infighting in the church’s central administration, known as the Curia.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">“The most perceptive cardinals understand,” said Sandro Magister, a Vatican analyst with the weekly magazine L’Espresso, “that the evangelization of the church is obscured by the petty realities that represent the disorder of the Roman Curia.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">The last conclave eight years ago presented a far simpler scenario. There was one dominant candidate to beat going in, and that was the German cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the longtime head of the Vatican’s office on doctrine and the close collaborator of the previous pope, John Paul II. He was elected on the conclave’s second day after just four ballots and took the name Pope Benedict XVI.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">“In 2005, it was, if not Ratzinger, who? And as they got to know him the question became, why not Ratzinger?” said Austen Ivereigh, a writer on Catholicism from England and the former spokesman for the retired Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000; font-size: 1.5em; line-height: 1.467em;">The alignments then were animated by theological differences, with the dwindling pool of liberal cardinals backing alternatives to Cardinal Ratzinger whom others might find acceptable. But this time, there are not enough theological liberals among the cardinals to create a viable bloc.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">“While there is doctrinal homogeneity between the cardinals,” said Paolo Flores d’Arcais, editor of the liberal Italian journal MicroMega, “the divisions are harsh between those who want change, in particular on issues of pedophilia and the Vatican bank, and the bishops who want to preserve the status quo of the Curia and preserve its power, even though on the surface they all say they want to change.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">The election comes down to the vote count, and with a two-thirds majority required of the 115 voting cardinals, the winner will need 77 votes. The cardinals in the Roman bloc, who work in the Vatican bureaucracy, number only 38 and come not just from Italy but also from other countries.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">They, too, are split into rival factions, many church experts say, between those loyal to the secretary of state, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, and the dean of the College of Cardinals, Cardinal Angelo Sodano. Cardinal Sodano is beyond the age of 80 and ineligible to vote, and will therefore not be in the conclave in the Sistine Chapel.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">For the first time, an American could be poised to overcome the conclave’s traditional aversion to a pope from a superpower, though not all analysts agree on this. The most likely contenders are: Cardinal <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/timothy_m_dolan/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Timothy M. Dolan.">Timothy M. Dolan</a>, the archbishop of New York, known for his exuberant presence and evangelizing skills; and Cardinal <a class="meta-per" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/sean_p_omalley/index.html?inline=nyt-per" title="More articles about Sean P. O'Malley.">Sean Patrick O’Malley</a> of Boston, a Capuchin Franciscan friar, who has a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/23/national/23church.html" title="NYT article.">reputation</a> for having calmed the waters in three successive dioceses (Fall River, Mass.; Palm Beach, Fla.; and Boston) torn by child sexual abuse scandals. Both have spoken out in favor of change.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">Gian Guido Vecchi, a journalist who covers the Vatican, said last week in the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, “Even if this won’t be the time for the first American pope, it’s difficult to imagine that the pope can be elected without, or even against, them.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">Some cardinals are considered long shots as candidates, but they could still play kingmakers whose endorsements carry great weight. One kingmaker for the reformers is Cardinal Christoph Schönborn, the archbishop of Vienna, a savvy diplomat descended from nobility who studied with Benedict. Cardinal Schönborn supports Cardinal Scola, the archbishop of Milan, according to Carlo Marroni, a Vatican expert for the Italian business newspaper <a href="http://www.ilsole24ore.com/" title="The Web site.">Il Sole 24 Ore</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">One name mentioned even before Benedict’s resignation is that of a Canadian, Cardinal Marc Ouellet. He is a doctrinal conservative who taught philosophy in Colombia and may have support from some Latin American cardinals. But Cardinal Ouellet has spent many years working in the Vatican and has led the department for bishops since 2010. He could be seen as a crossover candidate acceptable to both Romans and reformers.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">Another candidate who is attracting a lot of attention is Cardinal Peter Erdo of Hungary, 60, a canon lawyer who despite his relative youth has twice been elected president of the European bishops’ conference. He has also cultivated close ties to African prelates.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">Although both Cardinals Ouellet and Erdo are liked by their colleagues, neither can light up a room, church observers point out, which could be a liability at a time when the church needs a pope who can connect with people.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #cc0000;">Nobody can now say reliably who will come out of the conclave as pope, Mr. Flores d’Arcais said, “Today only Nostradamus can make predictions.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">It is known throughout the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/vatican" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Vatican">Vatican</a> as the Relatio (Narration). It is contained in two stiff, unmarked red folders and runs to around 300 pages. Lying in a safe in the papal apartments of the Apostolic Palace overlooking St Peter's Square, it will be at the forefront of the minds of the 115 cardinals who on Tuesday are to file into the Sistine chapel to start the conclave that elects the next pope.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">In the Relatio are the findings of three cardinal-detectives, appointed last year by ex-<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/pope-benedict-xvi" style="background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" title="More from guardian.co.uk on Pope Benedict XVI">pope Benedict XVI</a> to investigate the leaking of documents from his study. The cardinals, headed by a Spanish member of the Opus Dei fellowship, Cardinal Julián Herranz, discovered the main source of the leaks – the pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">But they found a great deal else – and some of it is reportedly extremely compromising. According to one unconfirmed report, they stumbled on a gay sex ring in the Vatican, some of whose members had been blackmailed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Already dismayed by the blunders that marred Benedict's papacy, many of the cardinals in Rome to elect his successor are seething with resentment towards the Roman Curia, the intensely secretive and predominantly Italian bureaucracy that administers the Catholic church.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">On the first day of last week's pre-conclave discussions, known as general congregations, three cardinals demanded that Herranz circulate the Relatio. For Massimo Franco, author of a recently published book on the protracted crisis rocking the Vatican, this was more than just prurient curiosity. "The cardinals must vote with a clear view of the situation in the Vatican," he said. "Otherwise, they could be voting for a pope who is accused of wrongdoing in the report. If that comes out afterwards, it would cause mayhem."</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Neither can they avoid that risk simply by voting for a pastoral cardinal – one who is an archbishop in his own country. Most have at least one seat on the committees that oversee the work of the Vatican's various departments and they are frequent visitors to Rome. Innocently or otherwise, one or more could have been linked to events detailed in the Relatio.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Yet Herranz's reaction was to hold out, apparently signalling that Benedict ordered that the report be kept for his successor. Many in and around the Vatican interpreted his reaction as confirmation of something already becoming apparent – faced with demands for transparency, the departmental satraps of the Curia were closing ranks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Indeed, the approach to this conclave has brought about what many in Rome would deem a miracle: an apparent, if temporary, healing of the breach between the Vatican's two most renowned adversaries, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the secretary of state, and his predecessor, Cardinal Angelo Sodano. As a result, a conclave that had been billed as a trial of strength between the two men is shaping up instead as a battle between the "Romans" and invading "Barbarians".</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">The first group includes the power-brokers in the Vatican and their allies, many of whom are Italians; the second faction, bent on shaking the Curia to its foundations, is led by cardinals from the United States and Germany.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">The most obvious sign of the Barbarians' drive for greater transparency was visible last week on the Janiculum, the hill south of the Vatican that at this time of year offers sublime views to the snowy Apennines. In the North American college, the US cardinals attending the general congregations gave daily media briefings in which they managed to shed light on the process without breaking their duty of confidentiality or contradicting the official account of the pope's spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Initial skirmishing, then, went to the Romans. But the battle itself has yet to be fought, even if there are indications already of who initially will champion each side. The choices are deceptive. The Romans have, for the moment, put their faith in a cardinal who is neither Italian nor curial: the archbishop of São Paulo, Odilo Scherer. Though an "out-of-towner", Scherer is well versed in the ways of the Vatican. The extent of the curial insiders' trust in him is shown by his appointment to the commission that oversees the Vatican bank. Meanwhile, the Barbarians' hopes have coalesced around an Italian, Angelo Scola, archbishop of Milan. A disciple, like Benedict, of the Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, Scola is intimately linked to the conservative fellowship Communion and Liberation. Temperamentally, though, he is unlike the retiring Benedict and could vigorously wield the new broom the Barbarians would like to see sweep through the Vatican. He is handicapped by his association with Communion and Liberation, which has recently been tarnished by a corruption scandal in Lombardy, the region around Milan. And, according to someone present, Scola made a speech to the general congregation that was felt to be rather too electioneering.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">What may be the world's only gilded scaffolding is to be found on the left as you enter the Sistine chapel from the Scala Regia (the Regal Staircase) down which kings and queens, emperors and empresses descended after paying their respects to the pope of the day. The scaffolding holds the pipework that will convey to the outside world the white or black smoke that signals a new pontiff has, or has not, been elected.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">For once, it was not Michelangelo's awe-inspiring ceiling, or the frescoes by Botticelli and others, that were the centre of attention but a cast-iron, grey stove, built circa 1939. It is in this that the ballots are burned at the end of each session.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">Straw used to be added to turn the smoke black. But, like the content of many a Vatican communication, the colour of the smoke was often hard to discern.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">A new device, designed to generate clearly distinguishable colours, was put alongside and connected to the smoke stack by another copper pipe. It does nothing to enhance the solemnity of the lofty chapel in which the cardinals will vote under the forbidding gaze of Christ in judgment.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">But neither does the plywood – and there is a lot of it. It is used for the long tables at which the cardinal-electors sit and for the raised floor in the part of the chapel, beyond the carved marble screen, in which balloting takes place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #e69138;">By the time the conclave begins, the floor will have been carpeted and the tables covered in rich, crimson baize. But, on this occasion more than any other, the chapel has had to be fitted out in haste. So when their eminences file in on Tuesday there may still be, lingering on the air, a hint of that distinctive aroma which you get in your local do-it-yourself shop.</span></span></div>
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Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-33121454720387597282013-03-11T18:38:00.004-07:002013-03-11T18:38:50.156-07:00Not long now<br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The College of Cardinals' eighth General Congregation has decided that the Conclave for the election of the new Pope will begin on 12 March 2013. This is according to a communiqué issued by the Holy See Press Office. The Mass "Pro Eligendo Pontefice" will be celebrated in St. Peter's Basilica in the morning andf in the afternoon cardinals will begin the Conclave.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;">The 115 cardinal electors are ready to vote for the new Pope. The average age of the cardinals is 72, most of them were appointed by Benedict XVI and over half of them are European. There are 28 Italian cardinal electors making them the largest group but all five continents are represented.<span lang="EN-GB" style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> (View the new infographic of the cardinal electors <a class="external-link-new-window" href="http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/the-vatican/conclave" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" target="_blank" title="Opens external link in new window">here</a>).</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b style="border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">- AVERAGE AGE 71-72.</b> There are eight cardinals who have either just turned eighty or will turn eighty this year.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: black; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">- KASPER IS THE OLDEST CARDINAL AND THOTTUNKAL IS THE YOUNGEST.</b> The German Walter Kasper turned 80 on 5 March, before the start of the Conclave but after the start of the sede vacante period. Cardinals are eligible to vote up until the age of 80. Severino Poletto and Juan Sandoval Iniguez turn 80 this March. The youngest cardinal elector is the Indian Baselio Cleemis Thottunkal who turns 54 in June. Filipino cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle’s birthday is also in June but he will turn 56. There are three more cardinals under the age of 60: two Germans and one Dutchman.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="background-color: black; border: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #6aa84f;"><b style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">- OVER HALF OF THE CARDINAL ELECTORS ARE EUROPEANS. </b>There are 60 electors representing the Old Continent, followed by Latin America with 19 representatives and North America with 14 (so 33 in total), Africa with 11 and Asia with 10. There is also one Australian, george Pell.</span></span></div>
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Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-16601813185244166782013-03-11T18:36:00.001-07:002013-03-11T18:37:14.900-07:00The Final Seat<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">Second Vatican state to be established in Jerusalem</span></h2>
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<em style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">“The Old City of Jerusalem will become a “special regime”. It will be an autonomous, self-governing entity. The Chief Administrator will have minimum reliance on the existing regimes and structures”.</span></em></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">On the left of the Pope the Commander Swiss guards Elmar Theodor Mäder to right personal bodyguard, the Pope Benedict, Domenico Giani is the Inspector General of the Corpo della Gendarmeria, the police and security force of Vatican City.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">This is a policy proposal from <em><strong>“Jerusalem Old City Initiative”</strong>. The proposal is a</em> fruit of the<em>“peace process”</em>, and inter faith dialogues between Jews, Muslims, Catholics and claimed to be <em>“Christians”.</em><a href="http://ivarfjeld.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/jerusalemoldcityinitiative1.jpg" style="text-decoration: none;"><img alt="" class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-15694" height="235" originalh="235" originalw="300" scale="1.5" src-orig="http://ivarfjeld.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/jerusalemoldcityinitiative1.jpg?w=300&h=235" src="http://ivarfjeld.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/jerusalemoldcityinitiative1.jpg?w=616&h=486" style="border: none; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 7px 2px 0px; padding: 4px;" title="jerusalemoldcityinitiative" width="300" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">People are not aware that the planning of a the seat of the last antichrist has reached its final stages. This work got a booster after the implementation of the Oslo <em>“peace accord”.</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">The final push for the end game, started with the formation of<em><strong>The Council of the Religious Institutions of the Holy Land</strong></em> in 2005. This council has Muslims, Jews, Catholics and claimed to be <em>“Christians”</em> in its governing body.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">When you read their statement of faith, you are introduced to the final One World Religion. They try to tell us that all faiths leads to the same god. Now they plan the arrival of their leader.</span></div>
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<em style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">“As religious leaders of different faiths, who share the conviction in the one Creator, Lord of the Universe; we believe that the essence of religion is to worship G-d and respect the life and dignity of all human beings, regardless of religion, nationality and gender”.</span></em></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">This is the councils<a href="http://www.crihl.org/" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"> website:</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;"><em>Did you know that both The Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the</em><em><strong> The Islamic Sharia Courts of the PA</strong> is supporting this Norwegian proposed</em><em>“inter faith initiative” in Jerusalem?</em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">And the head of this council is a Norwegian Lutheran priest, Mr. Trond Bakkevig. He is supported by the Church of Norway, and the World Council of Churches.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">And when the final <em>“peace deal” </em>almost went through in Annapolis in November 2007, The Religious interfaith Council was getting ready to party in the Norwegian Embassy in Washington.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">To get the Old City of Jerusalem ready for a <em>“special regime”</em> to come, The<em>“peace makers” </em>have formed an International work shop called<em>“Jerusalem Old City Initiative”</em>. This initiative is sponsored by the mainly protestant Christian republic of Canada. Their head office is at The University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;"><em>The website of <a href="http://web2.uwindsor.ca/wsgcms/Projects/JerusalemInitiative/indexTpl.php" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">“Jerusalem Old City Initiative”</a></em><a href="http://web2.uwindsor.ca/wsgcms/Projects/JerusalemInitiative/indexTpl.php" style="text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">.</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">Members of the Council of Religious Institutions in the Holy Land at the Norwegian ambassador's residence in Washington DC. They met prior to peace talks in Annapolis.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">When you go through this web-site, reading strategic documents, reports and plans, you will be stunned by what they have suggested.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">It is a copy-cat plan of the foundation of the Vatican statehood in 1929.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">And the ideas of how to rule this Old City statehood in Jerusalem, seems to be collected from the governance of the present Papal system.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">The final plan will be presented to the government of Israel as an offer, they simply <em>“have to”</em> accept.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">The new statehood in Eastern Jerusalem will have a <em>“Chief administrator”</em>who govern a <em>“special regime”</em>. His powers will be similar to the Pope of Rome.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">Below are some of the suggestions from Jerusalem Old City initiative.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">The Chief Administrator will be lifted above the laws. He will have his own statehood, and his inhabitants will be a closed circle of faithful servants. From this seat, He can practice his lawlessness.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">These suggestions are found in the summaries of the executive reports:</span></h4>
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<em style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">2. To have its own inhabitants.</span></em></blockquote>
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<em style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">4. A Council, a partly democratically elected body with power of veto over actions of the Administrator.</span></em></blockquote>
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<em style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">5. Old City as a single unit under a single administrator, having executive authority.</span></em></blockquote>
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<em style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">6. Agreement between the parties, with two national capitals, Al Quds and Yerushalayim.</span></em></blockquote>
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<em style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">7. A single Old City Police service to be established.</span></em></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">This is an image, copied from Jerusalem Old City initiative website.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">This is the text found in one of the strategic document on this web site.</span></div>
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<em><strong style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Key Characteristics and Functions of the Special Regime</span></strong></em><br />
<em style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">The proposed special regime, headed by a Chief Administrator, would be responsible for the efficient and equitable management and governance of the Old City, including ensuring the sanctity of and access to the Old City’s Holy Sites.</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">To meet these responsibilities, the special regime would require an empowered autonomous bureaucracy — one whose leadership has the confidence of both Israel and Palestine and one that is vested with both the authority and the capacity to administer, manage, and police specific aspects of the Old City and its inhabitants.</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">A key function of the Special Regime this regime would be to ensure equity, law, and order. Security will be the test of any peace agreement: if order in the Old City breaks down, any Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement itself will be at risk.</span></em><br />
<em style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f3f3f3;">Thus, the Old City Special Regime would require a robust security force, with the capacity both to deliver even-handed law enforcement and justice and to confront successfully large-scale security threats, including potential efforts by extremists from the various camps seeking to undermine an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.</span></em></blockquote>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">First the Old City security force, as a model from the Vatican City.<em></em></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">The Chief Administrator in the Old City will need to have proper security around him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">Like in the Vatican, security officers needs to scan people entering the Zone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">The Watchmen needs to have proper guns, like this assault rifles available for the Swiss guards in the Vatican.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">Its not enough with a few men. Like the Swiss guard in the Vatican, there has to be a proper regiment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">And when the noblemen and freemasons enter the Zone, they need to feel secure. In the center, US President Obama.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">To met the Chief Administrators in the Vatican, you need to get your belongings scanned.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">The powerful head of the Vatican state greet his police force on certain occasions.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">The Pope visited the Old city in Jerusalem in May 2009, to inspect the proper facilities for a head office. He also met his inter faith colleagues.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;"><strong>841</strong> The Church’s relationship with the Muslims.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #f3f3f3;">“<em>The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”</em></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">A potentially explosive report has linked the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI to the discovery of a network of gay prelates in the Vatican, some of whom – the report said – were being blackmailed by outsiders.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The pope’s spokesman declined to confirm or deny the report, which was carried by the Italian daily newspaper La Repubblica.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The paper said the pope had taken the decision on 17 December that he was going to resign – the day he received a dossier compiled by three cardinals delegated to look into the so-called "Vatileaks" affair.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Last May Pope Benedict’s butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested and charged with having stolen and leaked papal correspondence that depicted the Vatican as a seething hotbed of intrigue and infighting.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">According to La Repubblica, the dossier comprising "two volumes of almost 300 pages – bound in red" had been consigned to a safe in the papal apartments and would be delivered to the pope’s successor upon his election.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The newspaper said the cardinals described a number of factions, including one whose members were "united by sexual orientation".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">In an apparent quotation from the report, La Repubblica said some Vatican officials had been subject to "external influence" from laymen with whom they had links of a "worldly nature". The paper said this was a clear reference to blackmail.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">It quoted a source "very close to those who wrote [the cardinal’s report]" as saying: "Everything revolves around the non-observance of the sixth and seventh commandments."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The seventh enjoins against theft. The sixth forbids adultery, but is linked in Catholic doctrine to the proscribing of homosexual acts.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">La Repubblica said the cardinals’ report identified a series of meeting places in and around Rome. They included a villa outside the Italian capital, a sauna in a Rome suburb, a beauty parlour in the centre, and a former university residence that was in use by a provincial Italian archbishop.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, said: "Neither the cardinals’ commission nor I will make comments to confirm or deny the things that are said about this matter. Let each one assume his or her own responsibilities. We shall not be following up on the observations that are made about this."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">He added that interpretations of the report were creating "a tension that is the opposite of what the pope and the church want" in the approach to the conclave of cardinals that will elect Benedict’s successor. Another Italian daily, Corriere della Sera, alluded to the dossier soon after the pope announced his resignation on 11 February, describing its contents as "disturbing".</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">The three-man commission of inquiry into the Vatileaks affair was headed by a Spanish cardinal, Julián Herranz. He was assisted by Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi, a former archbishop of Palermo, and the Slovak cardinal Jozef Tomko, who once headed the Vatican’s department for missionaries.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 16px;">Pope Benedict has said he will stand down at the end of this month; the first pope to resign voluntarily since Celestine V more than seven centuries ago. Since announcing his departure he has twice apparently referred to machinations inside the Vatican, saying that divisions "mar the face of the church", and warned against "the temptations of power".</span><br />
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<br />Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-24001607899277099622013-02-19T04:22:00.005-08:002013-02-19T04:22:35.764-08:00Rat runs from the Vat<span class="headline" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 2em; text-shadow: black 0.1em 0.1em 0.2em;">The Rat Scurries from the Vat: The Latest Coup in Rome</span><span style="background-color: black;"></span><span class="date" style="background-color: black; color: #7a8192; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana; font-size: 0.8em;">2013 02 12</span><span style="background-color: black;"></span><span class="text5" style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Century Gothic', Helvetica, Verdana;"></span><br />
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<br /><br />Theories are abounding this week now that the first pope in seven centuries is resigning his office. But as always, the most direct way to the truth behind the world’s oldest corporation is simply by following the money: and specifically, Vatican Bank money.<br /><br />Let’s put to rest, first of all, the fallacy that "looming scandals" about child rape and coverup are behind Joseph Ratzinger’s resignation. That’s just the cover story.<br /><br />Nobody in the church hierarchy is losing much sleep over their standing, canon-law endorsed policy of concealing and protecting child rapists in their ranks. Even the International Criminal Court application about such crimes has been stymied by catholic-run legislators and jurists.<br /><br />What pronounced the death knell on Pope Benedict was his personal implication in the bribery and money-laundering practices of the Vatican Bank, comically known as The Institute of Religious Works (IOR); and how that dirty connection gave the anti-Ratzinger faction in the College of Cardinals the lever they needed to dump the obstinate German from the papal throne.<br /><br />We had a whiff of that dump-Rat Boy agenda last year, when "Vatileaks" broke into the news with a ludicrous story of how Ratzinger’s loyal butler Paolo Gabriele disclosed the pope’s dirty secrets to the Italian media. In fact, the damning documents detailing Ratzinger’s secret rewarding of Vatican contracts to his friends and family members originated in the Vatican Secretary of State’s office, which the fall-guy butler could not have had access to.<br /><br />The Secretary of State and the real power behind the papacy is Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, an old insider who also engineered the sacking of Gotti Tedeschi, head of the Vatican Bank, last May.<br /><br />Tedeschi had taken seriously the call of the European Parliament for "greater transparency" by the Vatican Bank /IOR, and was about to disclose to Brussels how his bosses had been laundering money for the mob for decades. The last Pope who had tried such a disclosure, John Paul 1, died from poisoning in September, 1978 after less than a month in office.<br /><br />But even with Tedeschi silenced, the IOR house of cards kept tumbling, as the European Parliament seized from it 300 million Euros fraudulently acquired, and even the American Securities and Exchange Commission declared the IOR’s assets and practices "insecure". A major Vatican housecleaning was required; or at least, the appearance of one.<br /><br />It was the pivotal Cardinal Bertone who leaked the pope’s diary and other incriminating papers to a catholic-friendly journalist in Rome last year the same month that Tedeschi was sacked, to prepare the world for Ratzinger’s removal. For it is Bertone who is now reaping the benefits of the papal housecleaning; he is not only a primary contender for the pope’s position but a key player in the IOR.<br /><br />During my second speaking tour in Rome, in the spring of 2010, I met with several senior Italian senators and officials of the parliamentary Radical Party. They all said the same thing about why Joseph Ratzinger had been made pope, and what awaited him. To quote one of those politicians,<br /><br />"Nobody becomes pope without a sordid past, because only with such liabilities can he be controlled by the Curia. It’s the same in any big company. Well, Ratzinger made many indiscretions as a Cardinal and made many enemies. His signing letters ordering criminal concealment was just one sin. He was to be the scapegoat for all of the trash that the church knew would surface"<br /><br />So now, the papal scapegoat is gone, pensioned off to wherever ex-popes end up; and the time for the big face life has arrived.<br />The idea of applying cosmetic surgery to a decaying facade like the Church of Rome reminds me of Shirley Maclaine trying to look forty at the age of ninety. And yet appearances are everything in show business as well as in religion.<br /><br />Tarcisio Bertone is about as institutional as you can get, and represents the old Italian crowd of the Curia and are part of the Mob-government-papal clique that run the country and the Roman catholic church. In the words of one of the Roman Senators I spoke with,<br /><br />"You must understand that in my country, the Mafia and the government and the Vatican are all the same people, and they really have only one concern: protecting their assets."<br /><br />Bertone, or whoever from the victorious ranks of his faction does assume the papal tiria, cannot be expected to do much but maintain the assets and security of the church, and that means by continuing the policies of silence and dissimulation that keeps the cash flowing. But their position is more difficult now in the wake of the enormous rifts developing within the wider church, where Cardinals are facing criminal prosecution for shielding child rapists, and talk of disaffiliating from Rome is widespread among Irish, American and German Bishops.<br /><br />"We have all the grounds for a second Reformation now. That’s how serious is the crisis. The church will either rid itself of itself or face collapse" said an Italian media commentator recently.<br /><br />It was easy to despise Joseph Ratzinger: the Hitler Youth raised, reactionary bigot who sacked liberal and independent thinkers in his church as the Cardinal-head of the Vatican Inquisition, and who told American Bishops that purgatory awaited any of them who did not cover up priestly child rape. Even among fellow Cardinals, he was known as "Joe the Rat".<br /><br />But Ratzinger was a made to order object of hatred, and put there to play out the oldest game in politics: the venting of popular rage on a disposable figurehead so that the institution itself could proceed unscathed.<br /><br />I doubt that it’s totally coincidental that Ratzinger was forced out of office so quickly barely ten days after our Common Law court published online hard evidence of the Pope’s involvement in crimes against humanity. Any new Pope will face the same charges, of colluding in a massive criminal conspiracy.<br /><br />But the real issue is not who or what will replace Joseph Ratzinger as the latest figurehead, but how to displace the Vatican itself as a criminal power unto itself. And that struggle is just commencing.<br /><br /><i>By Kevin D. Annett</i>, <a href="http://canadiangenocide.nativeweb.org/" style="color: #1eb2ff; font-size: 1em; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank">CanadianGenocide.NativeWeb.org</a><br /><br /><div align="center">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394;">Earlier this week, I suggested that because the end of Benedict XVI's papacy is not occurring in tandem with his death, it may create greater psychological space for cardinals to take a critical look at the pontificate, without fear of speaking ill of the late pontiff.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394;">A small confirmation of that theory has come in the form of an interview given to a German newspaper by Cardinal Joachim Meisner of Cologne, one of Benedict's closest friends in the College of Cardinals.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394;">In the context of describing what qualities the next pope might need, Meisner revealed that in 2009, he approached Benedict on behalf of a number of cardinals to ask him to dump his Secretary of State, Italian Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394;">Bertone, now 78, had served under then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger at the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 1995 to 2002, and his appointment as Secretary of State in 2006 sent off shock waves inside the Vatican because he didn't come out of the diplomatic corps and had no prior experience in those circles. The Secretary of State is generally considered the pope's "Prime Minister" the second most powerful official in the Vatican after the pope himself.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394;">Throughout Benedict's papacy, Bertone shouldered much of the blame for what is widely perceived as a series of gaffes and meltdowns. He's become the leading symbol of the convention wisdom that Benedict has been a great teaching pope, but a mixed bag as a governor and administrator.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394;">In 2009, a global tempest erupted following Benedict's decision to lift the excommunications of four traditionalist bishops, including one who turned out to be a Holocaust denier. Benedict was compelled to send an anguished letter to the bishops of the world, apologizing for mishandling the affair but also grousing about the bitter backlash it generated.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394;">Insiders blamed Bertone for not seeing the train wreck coming, which was the context for Meisner's effort to get Benedict to cut him loose.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394;">According to the interview in the <em style="border: 0px; font-size: 15px; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Frankfurter Rundschau</em>, Mesiner told Benedict: "Your Holiness, you have to make Cardinal Bertone resign! He has the responsibility, like in a secular government.'</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394;">According to Meisner, Benedict's response was: "Listen to me carefully. Bertone will remain! Enough, enough, enough."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394;">"After that, I didn't bring up the subject again," Meisner is quoted as saying. "It's typical: The Ratzingers are loyal, and that doesn't always make their life easy."</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394;">To be sure, this was not a direct criticism of Benedict – on the contrary, Meisner seems to admire his loyalty to his friends. Yet it certainly is a critique of the team around Benedict, and perhaps a not-so-subtle hint that the next pope needs to have a better eye for managerial talent, and a more robust sense of accountability for poor performance.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394;">Needless to say, the Meisner interview also probably isn't a big boost for Bertone's electoral chances.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394;">In response to another question, Meisner said the next pope should have Benedict's intellectual and cultural depth, but be a younger man – "No more than 70," he's quoted as saying.</span></div>
Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-21101402422374526172013-02-18T05:43:00.001-08:002013-02-18T05:45:35.730-08:00Lightning strikes twice.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #3d85c6;">Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation came like a bolt from the blue overnight.<br /><br />And the weather around the Vatican was eerily appropriate, with lightning striking St Peter’s Basilica, one of the holiest Catholic sites, on the same day that Pope Benedict announced he would be stepping down.<br /><br />Global news agency Agence France-Presse published an image of lightning striking the basilica’s dome, which it said was taken "on the day the Pope" announced his resignation.</span></blockquote>
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Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8172114192170625224.post-91741215846504978202013-02-18T05:40:00.002-08:002013-02-18T05:45:59.837-08:00Ratty in the Vatty<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">I came across a news article posted on Redice and thought it might interest a few people here.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Pope Benedict, Joseph Ratzinger, has scheduled a meeting with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano for Saturday, February 23 to discuss securing protection and immunity from prosecution from the Italian government, according to Italian media sources.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Ratzinger’s meeting follows upon the apparent receipt by the Vatican of a diplomatic note from an undisclosed European government on February 4, stating its intention to issue an arrest warrant for Ratzinger, who resigned from his pontificate less than a week later.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">In response to the February 23 meeting, the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS), through its field Secretary, Rev. Kevin Annett, has written to President Napolitano, asking him to refrain from assisting Ratzinger in evading justice.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">"I need not remind you, Mr. President, that under international law and treaties that have been ratified by Italy, you and your government are forbidden from granting such protection to those like Joseph Ratzinger who have aided and abetted criminal actions, such as ordering Bishops and Cardinals in America and elsewhere to protect known child rapists among their clergy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">"Your obligation to the Vatican through the Lateran Treaty does not negate or nullify the requirements of these higher moral and international laws; nor does it require that you give any protection or immunity to a single individual like Joseph Ratzinger, especially after he has left his papal office."</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">A copy of the complete text of the ITCCS letter follows.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">In response to the documented crimes of child torture, trafficking and genocide linked to Pope Benedict and Vatican officials, the ITCCS will be sponsoring a series of ongoing protests and occupations of Roman Catholic churches and offices through its affiliates around the world beginning in Easter week, March 24-31, 2013, and continuing indefinitely.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">These actions will accompany the legal efforts to bring Joseph Ratzinger and other Vatican officials to trial for their proven complicity in crimes against humanity and criminal conspiracy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">The Easter Reclamation Campaign will seize church property and assets to prevent their use by child raping priests, who are protected under Catholic canon law. Citizens have this right to defend their communities and children when the authorities refuse to do so, under international law.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Rev. Kevin Annett and an official delegation from the ITCCS Central Office will also be convening a formal human rights inquiry in Rome commencing the week of May 13, 2013, to consider further charges against the Vatican and its new Pope for crimes against humanity and obstruction of justice.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Rev. Annett and his delegation will be working with organizations across Italy in this investigation. In 2009 and 2010, he held rallies outside the Vatican and met with media and human rights groups across Italy to charge the Vatican with the death of more than 50,000 aboriginal children in Canada.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">An Open Letter and Appeal to Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Republic of Italy from Rev. Kevin D. Annett, Secretary of the International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Read the full article at: </span><a class="postlink" href="http://itccs.org/2013/02/14/pope-benedict-to-seek-immunity-and-protection-from-italian-president-giorgio-napolitano-on-february-23/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #e6cf9c; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank"><span style="color: violet;"><u><i><strong>itc</strong></i></u><i><strong>cs.</strong></i><strong>org</strong></span></a></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Ex-Pope Benedict will have security and immunity by remaining in the Vatican</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Pope Benedict’s decision to live in the Vatican after he resigns will provide him with security and privacy. It will also offer legal protection from any attempt to prosecute him in connection with sexual abuse cases around the world, Church sources and legal experts say.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">“His continued presence in the Vatican is necessary, otherwise he might be defenseless. He wouldn’t have his immunity, his prerogatives, his security, if he is anywhere else,” said one Vatican official, speaking on condition of anonymity.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">“It is absolutely necessary” that he stays in the Vatican, said the source, adding that Benedict should have a “dignified existence” in his remaining years.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Vatican sources said officials had three main considerations in deciding that Benedict should live in a convent in the Vatican after he resigns on February 28.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Vatican police, who already know the pope and his habits, will be able to guarantee his privacy and security and not have to entrust it to a foreign police force, which would be necessary if he moved to another country.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">“I see a big problem if he would go anywhere else. I’m thinking in terms of his personal security, his safety. We don’t have a secret service that can devote huge resources (like they do) to ex-presidents,” the official said.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Another consideration was that if the pope did move permanently to another country, living in seclusion in a monastery in his native Germany, for example, the location might become a place of pilgrimage.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #f2e3c6; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px;">Read the full article at:</span><a class="postlink" href="http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2013/02/15/ex-pope-benedict-will-have-security-and-immunity-by-remaining-in-the-vatican/" rel="nofollow" style="color: #e6cf9c; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: initial;" target="_blank"><u><i><strong>blog.reute</strong></i></u><i><strong>rs.</strong></i><strong>com</strong></a></span>Cydoniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09207789322792415722noreply@blogger.com0