Tuesday, April 12, 2005
The appearance of Bernard Cardinal Law presiding over the funeral mass of the recently departed Pope has raised a lot of hackles here in the Boston area, he being the former Archdiocese Cardinal for this area who presided over the time period when most of the priest sex-abuse was going on, and who apparently covered-up for much of it as well. This is not surprising, considering the scope of the scandal. Some people have some, shall we say, "novel" ideas about the scandal, however:
Senior German parliamentarian on a conspiracy rampage
"As a guest on the weekly talk show 'Berlin Mitte,' Vollmer seemed to be starting off with the right intentions. She spoke of the 'wonderful image' of President George Bush, his son President George W. Bush and President Bill Clinton before the body of the pope in St. Peter's Basilica. But then, out of nowhere, she veered straight off a cliff."Her theory? It seems the U.S. had to do something to weaken the influence of the pope, who was an outspoken opponent of the war in Iraq. Vollmer finds it all very suspicious that after the war, 'Poland was made a top occupying power in Iraq, naturally to weaken the pope's hinterland. Or how then, of all times, the campaign against the Catholic Church and the pedophilia was started, which was, of course, totally justified, but at this point in time was definitely a tit-for-tat response.' Vollmer found it somehow strange that the US presidents traveled to the Vatican despite the 'tough power struggles'."...
I guess if you're in Europe these days it can be difficult to understand that not every bit of movement in society is government generated.
