The Rehabilitation – Excerpts – The Crimes of the Church Against Children (Excerpts, Booklet) by Gabriele-Verlag Das Wort

The Crimes of the Church Against the Children

Unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. (Matthew 18:3) This is the response of Jesus of Nazareth to His disciples when, according to the scriptures, they asked Him who was the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Where then do many churchmen stand considering all that they have done to countless children?

There is often talk about the “churches’ scandal of abuse” – but this goes far beyond a mere “scandal.” It concerns the worst crimes committed against children and their cover-up ten-thousandfold. In his book “The Case of the Pope, Vatican Accountability for Human rights Abuse,” attorney Geoffrey Robertson QC, founder and leader of the largest British law office for human rights, came to the following conclusion:

Tens of thousands, perhaps even a hundred thousand children and teenagers, mainly boys, have been sexually abused by the clergy, and most have been caused serious and long-term psychological damage. (The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability ..., p. 164)

Jesus of Nazareth and the children

Because all this happened, and still happens, under the label “Christian,” the mainstream churches are thus dragging into the mud the teaching that Jesus of Nazareth brought and lived as an example, the teaching of love for God and neighbor, while disregarding the example He gave us in dealing with children.

In the Bible, that is invoked by the churches, we can also read the following: And they were bringing children to him that he might touch them, and the disciples rebuked them. But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me;

do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.“ (Mark 10:13-14)

Jesus of Nazareth gave the children love and care. However, in ecclesiastical facilities that call themselves Christian, thousands upon thousands of children were physically and emotionally violated with sexual crimes by priestmen. How is it possible that such an inconceivable number of the worst sex crimes could be committed on children entrusted to their care – over decades, even centuries?

This is possible solely because these crimes are covered up by the Catholic system which prevents their disclosure and any legal resolution. As part of the system itself, the perpetrators are aided and abetted, thus encouraging further crimes. Through the cover-up strategy, the underage victims stand helplessly at the mercy of their priestly tormentors – and these criminal acts escalate into both physical and emotional torture.

UN committee denounces the Vatican

After the cover-up system of the clerical childabuse crimes had gradually become visible worldwide, in 2014, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child issued a scathing report on the Vatican, denouncing the clergy ethically and morally.

Among other things, the UN report denounced the Church for not providing children with sufficient protection from physical violence and for not doing enough to forbid flogging and other “corporal punishment.” But the primary criticism denounced by the UN was that the Church does not protect children from sexual abuse by its priests and that the Vatican is, above all, concerned with protecting itself – not the children in its care.

The UN committee literally wrote: The Committee … expresses deep concern about child sexual abuse committed by ... clerics ... in the sexual abuse of tens of thousands of children worldwide. The Committee

is gravely concerned that the Holy See has not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed, has not taken the necessary measures to address cases of child sexual abuse and to protect children, and has adopted policies and practices, which have led to the continuation of the abuse by and the impunity of the perpetrators. …

Well-known child sexual abusers have simply been transferred from parish to parish or to other countries. … The practice … has allowed many priests to remain in contact with children.

Cases ... have been reported to the Committee, ... of priests who were congratulated for refusing to denounce child abusers. … The Holy See ... has allowed the vast majority of abusers and almost all those who have concealed child sexual abuse to “escape” judicial proceedings. (UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Report Feb. 25, 2014, § 43).

The committee’s [Norwegian jurist] Kirsten Sandberg said that the Vatican had “systematically” placed the reputation of the church over the protection of children. (www. abc.net.au)

That is the Catholic pattern of “clearing up the past” – its sole goal is to avert any damage to its own reputation. The victims of the criminal priests are usually left to their suffering. The double standard of the Church becomes obvious here; outwardly, it bears the label “Christian,” but within its own ranks and facilities, it has permitted the most despicable crimes against children and has protected the perpetrators. Every one of these crimes is thus also a mockery of Jesus, the Christ.

Emotional wounds – lifelong!

What is indicated in the UN report matter-offactly does not begin to express the extent of the suffering experienced by the child victims and their families, caused by these pedophile priestmen.

Innocent children who seek protection and security from adults, who are dependent on care and affection, are deeply injured physically and emotionally through such despicable acts. These are wounds that rarely heal, even in an

entire lifetime. Studies show that later in life abused children often suffer from vague pains, chronic abdominal pains and nervous breakdowns.

And, just as terrible, children who have been sex ually abused are often unable to have a normal, happy and free relationship at any time in their life. Many abused children become incapable of trusting anyone. Their entire lives, they are plagued by deep-seated fears; they are often incapable of working and they have no self-confidence, no feeling of self-worth. Many victims of abuse were so despairing that they saw no escape except by taking their own life. …

“Pontifical secrecy”: A criminal cover-up

Sexual deviancy within the framework of the church institution is by no means limited to the common priesthood, but reaches into the highest ranks of the Catholic Church.

But why has there been so little heard or read about these cases until just a few decades ago?

The Catholic canon lawyer Dr. Norbert Lüdecke stated the following in a lecture entitled “Sexual Abuse of Children and Youth by Priests”:

Until the beginning of the 1980s, the cartel functioned against the victims. They remained silent because they had to experience that they were not heard, that they were intimidated or even given the blame themselves, yes, even penalized. So the priestly perpetrators, who predicted exactly that in a threatening manner, were right. Psychologists played it down, social service authorities looked the other way; investigative authorities and the judicial system were partial to the Church; journalists couldn’t publish their research. (www.imprimatur-trier.de)

How did this cartel function against the victims? Since 1962, the Vatican’s treatment of such crimes was based on a pontifical decree entitled: “Crimen sollicitationis.“ (“Crimes of Solicitation”).

This decree applied to all internal church procedures relating to sexual offenses committed by priests, whereby every perpetrator, every victim and every witness was obligated to keep absolute secrecy – a strategy that is known to

be used by criminals. In addition, in case of a breach of confidentiality, members of the church tribunal were threatened with the severest Catholic punishment: excommunication. On April 30, 2001, in a “Motu Proprio,” an Apostolic Letter, Pope John Paul II reinforced the policy from 1962. On May 18, 2001, this document was supplemented in a letter to all bishops of the Catholic Church from the former head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Cardinal Ratzinger. Among other things, it calls these crimes a delict against morals, namely: the delict committed by a cleric against the Sixth Commandment of the Decalogue with a minor below the age of 18 years. Only these delicts … are reserved to the apostolic tribunal of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. (Robertson, op. cit. p. 199)

“Reserved to the apostolic tribunal”: This clearly means that the criminal acts are to be reported solely to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and not to the officials usually responsible for this. There is never a word about the police.

It also says in the letter to the bishops: As often as an ordinary [i.e., bishop] or hierarch has at least probable knowledge of a reserved delict, after he has carried out preliminary investigation he is to indicate it to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which unless it calls the case to itself because of special circumstances of things, after transmitting appropriate norms, orders the ordinary or hierarch to proceed ahead through his own tribunal. ... Cases of this kind are subject to the pontifical secret. (Ibid., pp. 199-200)

A bulwark of horror

“Pontifical secrecy” – that is the bulwark behind which the priests mutually protect themselves from prosecution in secular courts, thus concealing their appalling crimes against children. Even the Attorney General of Massachusetts at that time, Thomas F. Reilly, who headed the 16-month investigation of child abuse by priests, spoke of an institutional culture of secrecy. (www.nytimes.com July 24, 2003)

This “culture” was also examined by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in its study, with the following result:

The truly shocking finding was that 76 per cent of child sex abuse allegations made against priests had never been reported to law enforcement authorities. Only 6 per cent of accused priests had been convicted and a mere 2 per cent had received prison sentences. (Robertson, op. cit., p. 22)

The Murphy Commission in Ireland came to the conclusion that in Massachusetts, as in Dublin, secrecy protected the institution at the expense of children. (Murphy Report, op. cit., Part 1, No. 1.28)

For the Vatican, the secrecy of such crimes, which were again referred to in the letter from Cardinal Ratzinger in 2001, was not only the highest precept in legal terms – the cover-up was also, in reality, a common practice.

That may very well be the teaching of the Vatican Church, but such crimes and their coverup has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with

Jesus, the Christ, who loves the children, yes, all people. He taught something quite to the contrary ...

Sexual crimes come under the “professional secrecy” of priests

The Vatican is obviously concerned about its reputation – and less about the well-being of children. In view of increasing child-molesting scandals, the American Conference of Catholic Bishops suggested a strategy of zero-tolerance. It wanted the perpetrators reported to the police and demanded more frequent defrocking of guilty priests.

But a resounding veto came from Rome: The then Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith under Cardinal Ratzinger and later Cardinal Secretary of State, Tarcisio Bertone, stated in an interview in February 2002 reported by John Allen in the National Catholic Reporter: In my opinion, the demand that a bishop be obligated to contact the police in order to de-

nounce a priest who has committed a crime of pedophilia is unfounded, Bertone said. Naturally, civil society has the obligation to defend its citizens. But it must also respect the “professional secrecy” of priests ... . If a priest can no longer confide in his bishop for fear of being denounced, Bertone said, then it would mean that there is no more liberty of conscience. (Allen Jr., John. National Catholic Reporter: natcath.org)

What an outrageous argumentation by an influential cardinal in the Catholic Church! The cardinal claims liberty of conscience for childmolesting criminals; he calls the clarification of such crimes denunciation! And this is what the churches mean when they call upon the “secrecy” of the priests’ profession!

A bitter balance is drawn Geoffrey Robertson summarizes the atrocities of countless clerical sexual crimes in his book “The Case of the Pope” as follows: Thousands of clergy, known to be guilty of very grave crimes of a kind which most perpetrators

have a propensity to commit again, have not been defrocked. They have been harbored by the church, moved to other parishes or countries and protected from identification and from temporal punishment – usually a prison sentence – under Canon Law protocols that offer them forgiveness in this world as well as the next. The Holy See, a pseudo-state, has established a foreign law jurisdiction in other friendly states pursuant to which, in utter secrecy, it has dealt with sex abusers in a manner incompatible with, and in some respects contrary to, the law of the nation in which it operates, and has withheld evidence of their guilt from law enforcement authorities. (Ibid., p. 164)

The human-rights jurist Robertson further concludes that the Vatican has operated a parallel, para-statal jurisdiction, forgiving sins that host states punish as crimes. (Ibid., p. 166)

And such a church pins the label “Christian” on itself. It covered up and promoted crimes of child abuse, thus violating the good name of the Christ of God, who as Jesus of Nazareth taught the highest ethics and morals and lived them as an example. ...

The police and the secular court system continue to be excluded. Isn‘t that the same as giving an organization from which ranks the worst crimes are traditionally committed the right to “punish“ their own criminals?

It is soul murder

Jesus, the Christ, said:

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. (Matthew 5:6) That is the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth.

To condemn, cover up, obscure and prevent the disclosure of crimes committed by priests – those are the instructions of the Catholic Church.

It is particularly infamous when these kinds of crimes against children are committed using the good name of the Christ of God, who taught the highest ethics and morals.

Geoffrey Robertson QC explains in his book, “The Case of the Pope,” why, in his opinion, a sex crime by a priest is even worse than any other abuse:

The sexual abuse of children is an outrage – bad enough in ordinary cases of “stranger danger” pedophilia, and worse when teachers or scoutmasters or baby sitters or parents abuse the trust placed in them and molest their charges. But worst of all are priest offenders who groom their victims in confessionals or on retreats or otherwise through the spiritual power vested in them (often absolving the child after they have satisfied their lust).

Victims describe their assault as, quite literally, soul destroying – damaging their capacity for faith as well as the equilibrium of their future lives. The evidence suggests that victims of clerical abuse take longer to heal, and are more likely not to heal at all, than others subjected to abuse as children, and the damage is aggravated when they are sworn by the church to “pontifical secrecy” but know that their betrayer is forgiven and free to attack again. (Robertson, op. cit., p. 3)

The sex psychologist Christoph Ahlers reports from his experience why especially children who are abused in the shadow of the cross and the confessional often cannot talk about it for decades:

The offender is a representative of a morally higher-standing organization. How can I then tell anyone about this? It cannot be that he is an offender, then God would be an offender, for he represents him. That makes me silent and even more silent than it would make me if the abuse were to take place outside the church. (Ahlers, Christoph, tagesschau.de, March 15, 2015)

The priests purport to represent God. However, neither God, the Eternal, nor Jesus of Nazareth appointed any priests as their representatives. Through such crimes, they rob children of their prospects for joy in life – and moreover in many cases, they destroy the children’s trust in God and the belief in a loving spiritual Father. And that is soul murder under the misappropriation of the name of God and of His Son, Christ.

“Blows in the name of the Lord“

Sexual abuse is not the only crime that was committed against children by the churches.

Until just a few decades ago, unwed mothers were stigmatized as “fallen women,” they

were ostracized and their children branded as “children of sin”:

Formerly, unmarried mothers often had their children taken from them; and the mothers as well as the children landed in homes run by churches.

The churches decisively shaped the education in these homes with concepts that were far from God. A particularly cruel example is the Magdalene Homes in Ireland.

They [ the young mothers ] are shorn and beaten. They have to surrender their belongings to the cloister regime and exchange their name for that of a saint. As a lifelong atonement for their sins, approximately 30,000 women toiled away with no pay in the laundries of the Order of St. Magdalene.

A scandal that was silently tolerated for decades by the Church, state and the public. Only in 1996 was the last Magdalene home closed in Ireland. (Die Zeit No. 3/2003)

Both corporal and sexual abuse existed there.

Between 1945 and 1975, it is estimated that 800,000 children lived in institutional homes

in West Germany. Over 80% of these homes were run by churches. In many of these church homes, babies, children and youths were humiliated and often emotionally and physically mistreated and abused. Similarly as with the cases of sexual abuse, the churches kept their terrible treatment of institutionalized children under cover of silence as long as they possibly could.

But these crimes, too, also were increasingly revealed in recent years. With his book “Schläge im Namen des Herrn,” the journalist and book author Peter Wensiersky triggered a wave of publications about the fate of institutionalized children, which brought the terrible circumstances to light.

In his book, he describes the dark pedagogy of church homes governed with ideas of discipline and order, in which the children often suffered draconian punishments, physical and emotional violence, which sometimes verged on torture.

A former institutionalized child, Alexander Markus Homes, wrote several books about such homes ...

In an interview, Homes literally described this as a “methodical ill-treatment.”

What Homes understands by this is made clear in his following statement: With this, I mean that particularly by focusing on denominational homes I presume that their notion of a “punishing God” was purposely used as an instrument of suppression, to demand obedience, or better said: submission, from the children. In the name of God, these institutionalized children were beaten, mistreated, tormented, humiliated and degraded, to force upon them discipline, obedience, diligence, submission and, of course, also belief in God. In this respect, I speak of a system. That was the focus of institutional education – to do everything possible to turn children from the lower class into submissive, God-believing people. (n-tv.de, Feb. 17, 2009)

Here, we should be more precise: In which “God” should they believe? The ecclesiastical system wants church-believing people who believe in a punishing God, who, intimidated by the priests’ words, are misled their entire lives.

In the interview mentioned, Homes describes several of his horrible experiences; he describes the beatings and many more humiliations and states:

And all this took place before the background of religion. I wrote in my book from 1981: When we were threatened, punished, beaten, mistreated, then the nuns acted vicariously on behalf of God. They were God’s words, God’s admonishing and aggressive looks, God’s hands, God’s feet, that insulted, humiliated, punished, beat us. It was God’s will: the consuming fears, pains, grief, loneliness which was bored and ate ever deeper into our souls. We had God and His Son Jesus Christ to thank for our childhood.

To read such words is appalling and hurts deeply. One senses the suffering and hardship, the fear and sense of abandonment that children in the denominational homes experienced –and one learns of the vicious abuse of God and His Son Jesus Christ, in whose names the iniquity took place. ...

Not even Pope Francis in the 21st century is willing to totally abstain from punishing children; instead, he stated that parents can smack their children; as long as their dignity is maintained. (www. Independent.co.uk February 6, 2015). With this, he disregarded the fact

that already two thousand years ago, Jesus of Nazareth cherished the children in a way that was still unknown back then, and that, without exception, He defended these who were weaker. ...

How many generations of children had a cruel punishing image of God beaten into them – in the truest sense of the word?

Jesus of Nazareth gave His followers the task:

… let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 5:16)

The works of the churches in dealing with children are just the opposite. They have brought darkness and alienation from God into the lives of countless generations of children.

The Rehabilitation of the Christ of God

The Christ of God, once in Jesus of Nazareth, is being rehabilitated on the Earth, for the Christ of God was and is abused and brought into discredit by the institutional, denomination power structures, using the most infamous ways and means.

In this work, the authors extensively examine the various facets of abuse of the name of Jesus, the Christ – above all, the distortion and falsification of His original teachings and its devastating consequences for mankind and for all the Earth.

Learn more about:

- the continual fight of exterior religions against the stream of Original Christianity

- violence, war and crime under the guise of being called “Christian”

- church dogmas and tenets

- the traces of blood left behind by the churches

- the abysmal depths of the teachings of Martin Luther

- the disdain and suppression of the woman - the crimes of the church against the children - the war against the animals and the crimes against Creation

Because the teaching of the heavens brought to us by Jesus of Nazareth was not accepted and partly falsified, God, the Eternal, sent the Comforter during this time of radical change, who was announced by Jesus of Nazareth with the following words:

“I have much more to say to you, more than you can now bear. But when he, the Spirit of truth, comes, he will guide you into all the truth. He will not speak on his own; he will speak only what he hears, and he will tell you what is yet to come.“

(John 16: 12-13)

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