Raids in Catholic dioceses have started in recent months – first in Chile followed by the United States – and now that an entire generation believes that the Catholic Church is run by paedophiles nobody is questioning them.
In September, Chile authorities raided four dioceses in clerical abuse probe.
In October, police raided Michigan’s all seven dioceses and in November, dozens of local and federal law enforcement officers raided the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
In May this year, police searched the headquarters of the Diocese of Dallas and other properties Wednesday as part of the church’s widening sex abuse scandal, police and church officials said. After the raid, Bishop Edward J. Burns told media “I stand before you confident, knowing that what we’re doing is right…and in being confident, it’s an opportunity for me to say ‘go ahead, search’!”
Unreported false sexual allegations
There are more false allegations towards priests than those covered in mainstream media.
Police in Brazil recently revealed after an inquiry completed on Aug. 2 that a Venezuelan refugee in Brazil had falsely accused a priest of sexual assault.
In 2014, Father Ronald Domhoff reassumed his priestly services after abuse accusations were proven to have been fabricated.
In 2015, Colombian priest Father José Isaac Ramírez – having been imprisoned for three years – was set free after accusations of abusing a child under 14 were proven to be false.
Father José Isaac Ramírez, who has been freed after being unjustly imprisoned for three years.
The Wall Street Journal also wrote a piece in 2013 on false allegations of molestation having been made to Father Gordon MacRae, who was confined to life imprisonment in 1994.
In his blog, Fr MacRae describes them as “claims that were accompanied by monetary demands which his diocese settled for hundreds of thousands of dollars despite evidence of fraud.”
Father Gordon MacRae, falses accused and imprisoned. Picture courtesy from his blog http://thesestonewalls.com .
“The insanity of self-congratulators, self-proclaimed heroes of a witch-hunt, only destroys justice for all, making hatred into a virtue, further destroying lives,” he writes. “People will get sick of allegations being made equal to guilt and no longer listen to real victims. False accusers, drawn by the lure of ultra-super-easy money, will also live destroyed lives.”
Vatileaks
Former Vatican ambassador to the US Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò released an 11-page letter in 2018 accusing Pope Francis and other top Vatican officials of reinstating Cardinal Theodore McCarrick to a public position despite allegations of sexual abuse of seminarians and minors. Pope Francis declined to comment despite other sources backing Viganò’s accusations.
Anonymous emails circulated within the Vatican in 2010 accusing Viganò of nepotism in the career of his nephew, Father Carlo Maria Polvani.
Viganò was expelled from the Vatican by being expatriated to the United States and by not being created cardinal, despite the promise of Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone of making him president of the Vatican City State governorate.
Through the Vatileaks letters, Viganò portrayed himself as a whistleblower and a martyr in that he was putting himself at risk, but many Vatican officials doubt his credibility and see it as a struggle of power.
In May, Pope Francis issued an order for all priests and nuns to report sexual abuse.
The possible engineering of paedophile scares
According to Centro Studi sulle Nuove Religioni (Center for Studies on New Religions) director Massimo Introvigne, the Nazis engineered a “paedophile priests scare” campaign desgined by Joseph Goebbels to discredit the Church after Pope Pius XI had severely criticised the Nazi regime.
Pope Pius XI wrote the encyclical Mit brennender Sorge (meaning ‘with burning concern’) in 1937 and the Nazis arrested 276 religious and 49 diocesan priests.
The media has been laying the groundwork for the current raids for over 15 years. The New York Times ran an article in 2003. That same year, The Boston Globe won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on sex abuse by Catholic clergy at the archdiocese of Boston which was later used by Hollywood for its Oscar-winning movie ‘Spotlight’.
The Epoch Times revealed that a scholar on Soviet Russia “uncovered claims that former General Secretary Yuri Andropov wanted to subvert the West by creating child trafficking and pedophile networks to blackmail business leaders and politicians.”
The report labels it “a method of espionage to lure people into compromising sexual encounters for blackmail” but “taking it a step further by using children as the bait.”
It underscored that “pedophilia, if you look at it, is an important tool for corrupting, controlling, and manipulating a foreign government, and sabotaging its economy, sabotaging its political process, even sowing confusion,” he said. “This whole thing can be used in all kinds of creative ways to hurt the target country.”
This method may have also been used in Great Britain. The Independent reported in 20016, that there were claims that “the UK security services knew about the sexual abuse of children at Kincora Boys’ Home – an accommodation for boys in Belfast, Northern Ireland, set up by the local health authority – but did nothing to stop it, instead using the information to blackmail and extract intelligence from the influential men, including senior politicians, who were the perpetrators”.
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