He looks like everybody....LOL
Maybe we need to try and figure out who he doesn't lool like...
I think this will help him while he rides the bus. No one will recognise him. He looks like any ol Joe blogs...ha ha ha
New Pope about to come out
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Gosh...looking at that picture of his family. Got me thinking. Can you imagine if your child ended up being the pope...LOL
Yeah..this is my son...the pope...
We're off to spend the weekend at the vatican visiting our son...THE POPE...LOL
Oh, what do your children do for a living? well...one is a plumber, one is a hairdresser, one's in IT...and the other ones the POPE...ha ha ha ha
Shall we go and see uncle POPE today Johnny?
Do his parents have to call him Father?
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st- spooky is all I can think of, channeling the ghost of Peter Sellers.
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Wow, that lookalike with Woody Allen gave me the creeps .. I mean, we are comparing pics of a child molester and the new Pope? how ironic is THAT?
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I see a SNL skit on this.
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LMAO! Is it me...or does she look like a female version of the pope?
Pope Francis: Amalia, the childhood sweetheart whose snub created a pope
The childhood sweetheart of Pope Francis revealed that she had been forced to reject his boyhood offer of marriage, a move which eventually led him to devote his life to God.
The woman, known only as Amalia, said that the young Jorge Mario Bergoglio, when they were both just 12 years old in the Buenos Aires suburb of Flores, declared: "If I can't marry you, I'll become a priest."
She spoke as the only remaining sibling of the new pontiff confided in her that he never wanted to become the leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
María Elena Bergoglio, 12 years the junior of the 76-year-old pontiff, said he never wanted to be pope and now faced a lifetime of "infinite loneliness".
"He didn't want to be Pope and when we chatted privately about it, we joked at the prospect and he would say 'no, please no'," she told The Daily Telegraph .
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Pope Francis: saviour of the poor, or traitor who betrayed his fellow priests?
Pope Francis is one of Argentina’s most divisive Church leaders; loved by many for his humility; detested by others who claim he hides a dark past.
By Jonathan Gilbert , in Buenos Aires and Alasdair Baverstock
10:23PM GMT 14 Mar 2013
While he was seen as an archbishop of the people, who would eat alongside the poor in Buenos Aires’ biggest slum, accusations that he colluded in the human rights abuses of the 1976-1983 military junta taint his reputation.
In an article in 2006, Horacio Verbitsky, a prominent Argentine investigative journalist and one-time Leftist guerrilla, said of the new Pope: “Bergoglio is the most overwhelming and conflicting personality of the Argentine Church in decades, equally loved and detested.
“Depending on the source, he’s either the most generous and intelligent man who ever said Mass in the country or a Machiavellian felon who betrayed his brothers and had them disappeared and tortured by the military in the name of an insatiable ambition.”
The human rights group HIJOS, which represents children of the estimated 30,000 people kidnapped and murdered by the regime, yesterday renewed claims he was complicit in stealing victims’ babies and turned in priests, who were then tortured.
The longest-standing accusation is that in 1976, as a high-ranking official in Argentina’s Jesuit order, Pope Francis allowed two priests to be kidnapped.
How staged does THAT photo look?
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Sexual abuse scandal in the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
Abuse in the United States
Main article: Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States[edit] Diocese of Fairbanks
Main article: Sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic diocese of FairbanksIn February 2008, the diocese of Fairbanks announced plans to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, claiming inability to pay the 140 plaintiffs who filed claims against the diocese for alleged sexual abuse by priests or church workers dating from the 1950s to the early 1980s. The Society of Jesus, Oregon Province, was named as a co-defendant in the case, and settled for $50 million. The Diocese, which reports an operating budget of approximately $6 million, claims one of the diocese’s insurance carriers failed to "participate meaningfully". [1] [2] [3] [4]
[edit] Diocese of Portland
Main article: Sexual abuse scandal in Portland archdiocese
The lawsuits in the Fairbanks diocese have also affected the Jesuit community in the diocese of Portland, given that the Western Province of the American Jesuits is located in the State of Oregon. [5] [6]
[edit] Diocese of Boston
Main article: Sexual abuse scandal in Boston archdiocese
In 2002, criminal charges were brought against five Roman Catholic priests in the Boston area of the United States, John Geoghan, John Hanlon, Paul Shanley, Robert V. Gale andJesuit priest James Talbot, which ultimately resulted in the conviction and sentencing of each to prison. [7]
[edit] Cheverus High School
Main article: Cheverus High School
In 1998, nine male alumni claimed that they had been molested while attending the Jesuit school Cheverus. Two former faculty members were accused. The school confirmed the abuse and apologized to the victims. The victims also accused both Cheverus High School and the Portland Diocese of hiding information, and that they had previously known about the abuse. Settlements to victims have reached a cumulative seven figures, with ongoing counseling additional. Primarily, two long time Cheverus faculty members, one the former chair of the English Department, the other, the former head of the Track Team, have admitted they are guilty. Both teachers lost their jobs at Cheverus in 1998. [8]
[edit] Abuse in Germany
Main article: Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Europe#Germany
[edit] Canisius-Kolleg Berlin
Main article: Canisius-Kolleg Berlin
In 2004 and 2005 two former students of the school told the headmaster of this Jesuit school that they had been sexually abused by two of their former teachers. In December 2009 and January 2010 two other boys contacted the headmaster and claimed the same about the same teachers. The headmaster decided to write a letter to all former students in which he stated that he was deeply sorry for what happened. After receiving the letter several others of the former students contacted the headmaster and said that they - too - had been abused.
The names of the former students claiming to be sexually abused have been withheld from the public, but the public was told many of them were notable scientist or held political or economic positions of power. It was also revealed that some of the alumni, who had been abused decided to send their children to the Canisius-Kolleg. [9] One of the teachers has spoken out and said the allegations made against him were true, because he really had abused boys. The teachers might not be sued for what they did, because it seems that in most cases the time limit for pressing trial has passed, but the abused boys want them to apologize. [10]
An investigative report detailing allegations of substantial abuse was released in 2010. [11]
[edit] Jesuit College of Sankt Blasien
Main article: Kolleg St. Blasien
In 2010, Padre Wolfgang S. admitted to several acts of sexual abuse of minors during his years as a teacher in Sankt Blasius from 1982 to 1984. Prior to that he had taught in another Jesuit college in Berlin (Canisius-Kolleg) where he had also molested children. The order in 2010 concedes that upon discovery, his superiors did provide help for him to emigrate to South America. Other cases of sexual abuse of minors in the Jesuit order have also been reported lately and are being investigated. As of February 2010, it seems that all cases have become time-barred. [12]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_abuse_scandal_in_the_Society_of_Jesus
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Catholic sexual abuse cases in Latin America
Argentina
- Julio Grassi was found guilty (by a three-judge panel of the Criminal Court Oral 1 Morón) of one count of sexual abuse and one count of corrupting a minor in the “Happy Children’s Foundation” [1] and sentenced to 15 years in prison as the third member of the Roman Catholic Church in Argentina to be convicted of sexually abusing minors. [2] Prosecutors said they were considering an appeal on behalf of the two plaintiffs whose sexual abuse accusations were dropped. Father Grassi maintained his plea of innocence of the charge and promised to appeal. [3]
- Archdiocese of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz
Allegations of sexual abuse on 47 young seminarists surfaced in 1994. [4]
[edit] Brazil
- Diocese of Anápolis
- In 2005 Brazilian priests, Fr. Tarcísio Tadeu Spricigo and Fr. Geraldo da Consolação Machado were convicted of child molestation while Fr. Felix Barbosa Carreiro was arrested and charged with child sexual abuse in the northeastern state of Maranhão after police seized him in a hotel room with four teenage boys. [5] [6]
- Archdiocese of Penedo
- In 2010 Authorities in Brazil began an investigation into three priests after a video allegedly showing a priest sexually abusing an altar boy was broadcast on the SBT television station. [7]
[edit] Chile
- Archdiocese of Santiago
José Andrés Aguirre Ovalle, aka "Cura Tato", was found guilty of nine sexual abuse charges by the highest court of this country. Aguirre was sentenced to 12 years in jail. At the beginning of this trial, the catholic church was sentenced to pay 50 millions in damages to the victims, but then this sentence was revoked by the supreme court. [8]
[edit] Mexico
Main article: Sexual scandal of Father Marcial MacielFr. Marcial Maciel (1920–2008) founded the Legion of Christ, a Catholic order of priests originating in Mexico. Nine former seminarians of his order accused Maciel of molestation. [9] One retracted his accusation, saying that it was a plot intended to discredit the Legion. Maciel maintained his innocence of the accusations. In early December 2004, a few months before Pope John Paul II's death, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (who would replace him as Pope, becoming Benedict XVI) reopened a Vatican investigation into longstanding allegations against Maciel. [10]
[edit] Peru
In 2007, Daniel Bernardo Beltrán Murguía Ward, a 42 year-old Italian-Peruvian Consecrated Layman of the group Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, was found by the Peruvian National Police in a hostel in Cercado de Lima with an 11 year-old boy, whom he was taking sexually explicit pictures of. The boy was initially lured by Murguía Ward and given Pokémon figures in exchange for photos of his intimate parts. When Murguía Ward was caught, he had paid the boy 20 Nuevo Soles ($7 USD) for his services in the hostel. The police have reported that pictures of two other boys were also found on Murguía Ward's camera and that the boy has claimed he received oral sex from Murguía Ward. These charges have been denied by the accused. Murguía Ward has since been removed from the group Sodalitium Christianae Vitae for his misconduct
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_sexual_abuse_scandal_in_Latin_America
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Germany
- In February 2010 Der Spiegel reported that more than 94 clerics and laymen have been suspected of sexual abuse since 1995; but only 30 of those suspects had actually been prosecuted because of legal time constraints on pursuing cases. [42]
- On March 30, 2010 the Catholic Church set up a Sexual Abuse Hotline in Germany and received almost 2,700 calls in its first three days of operation. [43]
