Papal Impropriety
(or: 'pass
me another catamite, I've worn this one out!')
Monumental
indiscretions at the highest level of the Christian
heirarchy.
From
St Peter to recent history, the papal line has shown
an incredible propensity for almost all forms of the
worst kinds of corruption. Throughout the ages, the
Holy Roman representatives of the Catholic Christian
God on earth have been very naughty boys and girls
indeed! Several of the following (by no means
exhaustive) examples are taken from 'Sex lives of the
Popes' by Nigel Cawthorne. A most enlightening tome I'm
sure you will agree, but beg, buy or borrow it
yourself for the full sordid revelation.
Documented
history proves that for nearly two thousand years the
Christian tradition of the Bishops of Rome has been
founded on, indeed, has wholeheartedly supported
deceit, murder, sexual depravity, torture, rape,
paedophilia, prostitution, incest... well I won't go
on, you get the picture. I suppose that the real
message of this web page is to inform Catholic
Christians of the true nature of their god, for why
would He allow such deviation in His name by His
chosen messengers? And of course the answer is that
gods don't exist. As an Atheist, I understand
perfectly well the real nature of the historical
Catholic Popes - power breeds corruption, but to be
corrupt with the authority of a god behind you...
The dates shown in brackets are indicative
of the years in papal office.
And now, in no particular order...
It was said that Pope John XII (955-64)
invented sins that had not been known since the
beginning of the world and whole monasteries
spent days and nights praying for his death. He
turned his home, the Lateran Palace, into a
brothel. He used the papal treasury to pay off
his gambling debts. He died on May 14th 964 aged
twenty-four, after he was caught in bed by the
husband of one of his mistresses in 'the very act
of adultery'.
Pope Innocent VIII (1484-92) sired
eight illegitimate sons and probably as many
daughters, of whom he openly acknowledged. His
reign as Pope was known as 'The Golden Age of
Bastards'. He authorised an inquisition against
those thought to be witches. On his death bed a
wet nurse was found for his final craving - woman's
milk.
Pope John XXII (1316-34)
excommunicated fellow clergymen for not paying
their taxes.
In 1932, Pope Pius XI (1922-39) as
well as condemning contraception, ordered German
Catholics to drop their hostility towards Hitler.
He also backed Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia.
Pope Celastine II (1143-44) had a
certain Count Jordan condemned to a horrible
death, he was strapped naked to a scalding iron
chair while a red-hot crown was nailed to his
head.
Pope Innocent III (1198-1216)
instituted the approved method of interrogation
of suspected sodomites. In order to make them
confess, suspects were lowered naked onto a red-hot
spike. This method was kept until the year 1816.
Robert of Geneva was well known for
his ability to decapitate a man with a pike. He
became Pope Clement VII (1378-94) and was 'much
given to fleshy pleasure'. He surrounded himself
with page boys, whose jackets, it was noted,
shrunk from being knee length, to mid-buttock 'or
even worse'.
Pope Benedict XIII (1394-1417) gave
a dispensation to the twenty-nine-year-old
Richard II of England to marry Isabella, the
seven-year-old daughter of the King of France.
The child-pope Benedict IX (who
became Pope at the age of 12!) was bi-sexual,
sodomised animals, ordered murders and dabbled in
witchcraft and Satanism. He loved to throw wild,
bi-sexual orgies. Benedict IX held the post of
Pope in the years 1032-44, 1045 and 1047-48. He
was described as "A demon from hell in the
disguise of a priest...", and St Peter
Damian said of him: "That wretch, from the
beginning of his pontificate to the end of his
life, feasted on immorality". Dante
estimated that under Benedict IX the papacy
reached an all-time low in immorality and
debauchery. When he was 23 he survived an
assassination attempt (strangling at the altar
during Mass). Benedict went on to marry his
cousin and sell the papacy to his godfather,
Gregory VI.
Pope Boniface VII (974; 984-85) was
described as: "a horrid monster" and
"a man who in criminality surpasssed all the
rest of mankind".
In the year 440 Pope Sixtus III (432-40)
was tried for the seduction of a nun.
Pope Leo I (440-61) was a warped and
sadistic torturer. He made his victims confess
that they mixed semen with the sacrament and used
young girls at the altar for the purpose. He was
the first Pope to claim the right to put anyone
who disagreed with him to death.
Pope Pius VII (1800-23) comdemned
bible societies as "a most abominable
invention that destroyed the very foundation of
religion".
It was widely rumoured that the ex-pirate
Pope John XXIII (1410-15) was an Atheist. He
tortured his own cardinals and was said to have
"had wicked company with two of his own
sisters". Robert Hallum, Bishop of Salisbury
said that he: "ought to be burnt at the
stake".
The homosexual Pope Paul II (1464-71)
liked to see naked men being racked and tortured.
Alledgedly, he died of a heart attack whilst
being sodomized by one of his favourite boys.
Pope John XIII (965-72) { yes, I
know there was more than one John XIII } was
condemned as an adulterer who "defiled his
father's concubine and his own niece". He
was said to have died at the hands of an enraged
husband, caught in the act of adultery - just
like his dad, Pope John XII.
Pope Sergius III (904-11) enjoyed
sex with underaged girls. According to the
historian Baronius, Sergius III was "the
slave of every vice". When he was 45,
Sergius took a 15- year-old mistress - the affair
produced a son who went on to become Pope John XI.
Pope Stephen VI (896-97) had the
body of his predecessor, Pope Formosus (891-96)
dug up, dressed in papal vestments, set on a
throne and tried for perjury and coveting the
papacy.
Pope Benedict XII (1334-42) was such
a hardened drinker that the expression "drunk
as a pope" became popular in his lifetime.
Pope Anacletus (1130-8) committed
incest with his sister and several other female
relatives. He enjoyed raping nuns.
Pope Clement VI (1342-52) was
described by Petrarch as "an ecclesiastical
Dionysus with his obscene and infamous artifaces".
Clement VI slept with prostitutes and had dozens
of mistresses. When he died, fifty priests said
Mass for the repose of his soul for nine
consecutive days, but it was generally agreed
that this was not going to be nearly enough to
prevent the dead pope from going directly to hell.
Pope Pius II (1458-64) had been a
well known author of erotic literature, and had
fathered about 12 illegitimate children.
The Sistine Chapel was built by Pope
Sixtus IV (1471-84). He had six illegitimate sons,
of which one was the result of an incestuous
relationship with his sister.
Pope Julius II (1503-13) who
commissioned Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of
the the Sistine Chapel, was a paedophile and
spent much of his time with small boys and male
prostitutes.
In the year 1095 Pope Urban II
introduced the callagium, a sex tax
which alllowed the clergy to keep mistresses,
provided they paid an annual fee to the papacy.
This had the immediate effect of reducing the use
of concubines and hugely increasing clerical
homosexuality.
Pope Paul III (1534-49) enjoyed an
incestuous relationship with his daughter. To
gain control of his family inheritance, he
poisoned several relatives, including his mother
and neice. He killed two cardinals and a Polish
bishop to settle an argument over a theological
point. Paul III was probably Rome's biggest ever
pimp - he kept a roll of about 45,000 prostitutes,
who paid him a monthly tribute.
Pope Julius III (1550-55) sodomized
young boys, of which one was his own,
illegitimate, son. He appointed several handsome
teenage boys as cardinals. Cardinal della Casa's
famous poem In Praise of Sodomy was
dedicated to Pope Julius III.
There
are some more examples of current Catholic priestly
behaviour on my bits and bobs page!
I found the
following article on the Internet Infidels splendid
website -
The Apology of John Paul II
Or:
'Will 50 pages be enough?'
By John
Patrick Michael Murphy (26th February 2000)
In a bit more than
a fortnight Pope John Paul II will make a request for
forgiveness for the conduct of his church over the
centuries. The infirm pontiff has prepared a list of
the murders, tortures and horrors the papacy has
caused to humanity. It reportedly takes 50 pages to
lay it all out--things like the papal pogroms against
the Jews, the crusades against Islam, and the
Inquisitions that went on for centuries. Will 50
pages be enough?
Not if he tells it
all. He knows his church historically engaged in
political assassinations and other monkeyshines to
impose the will of the Vatican upon the civil
governments of the world. Will he mention that, even
while families hold up pictures of desaparecidos,
their kin, who disappeared in countries run by
Catholic bishops and generals, like Argentina, Chili,
and Croatia? Will he mention Rwanda? Will he
say he's sorry Pius XII said nothing while million of
Jews were taken to their deaths? Will he mention
Monsignor Tiso, head of the Slovak State, who
delivered the first trainload of Jews to Auschwitz?
How about the Catholic Ustashi of Croatia who carried
out the "quiet holocaust" of Jews and Serbs?
I doubt it.
How about women who
had priests inspect their naked bodies, claiming to
be looking for "witches marks" so they
could light them on fire, in a sacred celebration
during the Middle Ages called auto de Fe (act
of faith)? Will he admit to hundreds of
thousands of victims in this category alone, or will
he avoid numbers?
And then there are
other matters, like the mad monks led by Saint Cyril,
the patron saint of arsonists, who burned the Great
Library at Alexandria, destroying 600,000 volumes of
knowledge of the ancient world--the greatest property
crime of all time. Surely he should mention that, but
he probably won't. Then there was that dust-up with
Luther and the wars that followed wherein Germany
lost half its population in a generation. And of
course the slave trade-shall he admit that his church
was an instigator and a major player in that
institution? And the destruction, plunder, rape and
papal pillage of the peoples of the Americas and the
eradication of their culture-will he go into all that?
Will he say he's sorry that some of his predecessors
tried to kill every Protestant in France when they
were called Huguenots?
Will he admit the
"Donation of Constantine" was a forgery,
and thereby acknowledge that his predecessor, Adrian
IV, the only English pope, really didn't own Ireland
and therefore had no right to give it to England?
Will he admit that forging documents has been a
Vatican tradition for centuries, even during John
Paul's lifetime, when favored Nazis had Holy See
passports to escape Europe and their crimes?
And finally what
about all the boys who were castrated to make them
into church singers, shouldn't he apologize for that
also? What will he say to the children who have
had their bodies raped and their trust stolen when
the priests of his church molested them? Will he ask
forgiveness for the bishops who knew, and re-enabled
the priestly perverts by moving them about, giving
them access to more and more children? If so, will it
be a real apology or some whiny, wishy-washy non-apology,
like he gave before he came to Denver. Will he now
apologize for insulting the American victims and the
American people with that crass, so called apology of
seven years ago when he implied we were so bad we had
corrupted his priests?
No one expects him
to apologize to the Third World, which has been kept
in hunger, in major part, due to the Vatican's ideas
on birth control. Women may not expect an apology
either, as he is convinced they have no right to
control their own bodies. Don't even ask about the
gays and lesbians.
I
think the question must be asked: could a church
devoted to deviltry have beaten the record of harm
and horror established by this one, which claims it
was selected by the Lord to run the world until his
return? Could Judas and a long line of betrayers have
done worse than Peter and the popes?
(The
above article, and many more are available at the Secular
Web: http://www.infidels.org/ For more information send mail to infidel@infidels.org)
THE POPE APOLOGISES - NOT
Well,
the pope finally came out with a bunch of prayers
shrouded in a made-up religious ceremony - which can
be found here. It's a sort of wishy-washy
prayer session that addresses nothing. No apology for
anything really. Was the planet dissapointed? I 'spect
so. I was. Didn't even mention contraception. Bah.
The
Internet Infidels - a great source of information -
go visit!
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