manny4life: Nna man, see frustration

It shall be well... AMEN

Ummm... No! The only "Frustration" being exhibited is yours... clearly angry at the fact say market for easy choir boy booty don spoil. look as you dey work hard to derail the thread, homo!

Imagine, the same punk thats pissed that hom.ose.xuality in the highest office of christiandom is being exposed is daring to utter the word "Amen". Omo, no let lightening strike you o.

Anyways, I'm out. I got a wifie to attend to, and a club to go boogy at. Stay on NL fighting phantom people that post stories culled from reputable news agencies all over the world. I can see that you clearly dont have a life. smh

huni_naija:
The catholic priests are known to have a gay ring of cabals that feast on little boys.. This news isn't surprising..

The question is when will the authorities do something about it? Nonsense

Making use of "The Catholic Priests" is way off the track. Not all catholic priest are homosexuals. Some are. As to your question, the Catholic church authorities isn't taking it lightly especially in the seminaries were priests are formed. A little suspicion of being gay is all that is needed to get a young man expelled. He doesn't leave alone. All his friends especially close ones even those with no manifested gay tendencies will need a miracle not to get expelled. A Gay priest once detected is in for serious disciplinary action which does not exclude laizication (loss of clerical state).

Yoruba_Omoge: Seriously, I'm not surprised.
This dirty, hypocritical religion comes with colorful secrets.

No religion is dirty, some of its adherents may be corrupted but not religion. Even atheism have corrupt adherents who claim not to subscribe to d worship of any deity but end up doing such in secret. Reflect more and u'll b slow to bash a religion.

Seeking cheap attention. Always forcing a link where there's none.

OMG!!!

Why is‎​ he resigning?? Isn't he supposed to clean up the mess?? Or is‎​ he a lily-livered guy??

This is‎​ what you get when you treat misconduct with kid-gloves.

Priests, Bishops etc who are found to be culpable should be excommunicated from the church.

Dragging the name of the church in the mud is‎​ a serious offence!!

denzel2009: He was the one distributing horsemeat around Euro zone

But christians eat pork now. Horse meat shouldn't be a problem. Atleast it's herbivorous.

Pygru:

Big teeth. Stop grinning widely jore.

The pope was no stranger to the intrigues, but he probably did not know that under his pontificate there was such a complex network and such intricate chains of personal interests and unmentionable relationships.

...Unmentionable relationships.

So those close to the Pope weren't just gays...they were gays doing 3somes, 4somes, using dil-dos and toys with sadomasochismic styles and org-ies sprayed all over their faces after giving themselves a hot deep throat.

Mary mother of Jesus!!!

If "Fathers" could do these things, only God knows what those "sisters" would be doing to themselves.



Frawzey

The world is close to some serious end time events. These current confusions and blackmail at the Vatican are a pointer to the darkness that is enveloping the world.


No one knows what truth in all these. But people following Catholic prophecies know that there were messages which predicted a time like this to come; a time of confusion, a time where some satanic forces will try to ruin the church from within. It looks we have now arrived at the hour, and in a few months or years the Great Tribulation will commence.

The false prophet will fight his way to the top of the Vatican and finally fulfill the prophet Daniel where he said abomination will be seated in the most holy place. The false prophet will find reasons to justify changes he will bring to the church, he will change most of the traditional teaches and make the church circular as the world applauds. He will point to the Antichrist as the messiah. The world war will start, economies will collapse, chips will be inserted in humans as a means of control and tracking.

It looks like the world is on the verge of these events. The messages keep coming and are happening before our own eyes.

Cardinal: Married Catholic priests a possibility

Associated Press - 12 hrs ago

LONDON (AP) — Roman Catholic priests should be allowed to marry and have children, Britain's most senior Catholic cleric said Friday.

Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who heads the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland, said the requirement for priestly celibacy is "not of divine origin" and could be reconsidered.

He told BBC Scotland that "the celibacy of the clergy, whether priests should marry — Jesus didn't say that."

He said that "many priests have found it very difficult to cope with celibacy," and while he had never considered marriage himself, "I would be very happy if others had the opportunity of considering whether or not they could or should get married."

O'Brien, 74, will form part of the conclave of cardinals that chooses the next pontiff, following the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI.

Benedict announced earlier this month that he will step down Feb. 28 — the first pope to resign in almost 600 years.

The cardinal said that the next pope would be free to consider changing church policy on issues, such as celibacy for priests, that were not "basic dogmatic beliefs."

He said that "we know at the present time in some branches of the church — in some branches of the Catholic church — priests can get married, so that is obviously not of divine origin and it could get discussed again."

In recent years a number of traditionalist Anglicans opposed to the ordination of women and other changes have joined the Roman Catholic Church. The pope granted special dispensation for married Anglican clergy to stay married and be ordained in the Catholic Church.

O'Brien also said it was time to think seriously about having a pope from outside Europe.

He said he would be "open to a pope from anywhere if I thought it was the right man, whether it was Europe or Asia or Africa or wherever."
http://news.yahoo.com/cardinal-married-catholic-priests-possibility-172115510.html. ........

Mathew 19: 11-12Jesus replied, “Not everyone can accept this word (celibacy), but only those to whom it has been given. 12 For there are eunuchs who were born that way, and there are eunuchs who have been made eunuchs by others—and there are those who choose to live like eunuchs for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. The one who can accept this should accept it.”

....... Cardinals like this are enough to give the Pope plenty headache.

Vatican blasts 'false' pre-conclave reporting
By NICOLE WINFIELD | Associated Press – 31 mins ago

In this photo provided by the Vatican.

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican lashed out Saturday at the media for what it said has been a run of defamatory and false reports before the conclave to elect Pope Benedict XVI's successor, saying they were an attempt to influence the election.
Italian newspapers have been rife with unsourced reports in recent days about the contents of a secret dossier prepared for the pope by three cardinals who investigated the origins of the 2012 scandal over leaked Vatican documents.
The reports have suggested the revelations in the dossier, given to Benedict in December, were a factor in his decision to resign. The pope himself has said merely that he doesn't have the "strength of mind and body" to carry on.
On Saturday, the Vatican secretariat of state said the Catholic Church has for centuries insisted on the independence of its cardinals to elect their pope. Now, it said, the "pressures of public opinion" is in play in a bid to influence their vote.
"It is deplorable that as we draw closer to the time of the beginning of the conclave ... that there be a widespread distribution of often unverified, unverifiable or completely false news stories that cause serious damage to persons and institutions."
It was issued as Benedict met for the last time with the Vatican bureaucracy before stepping down Feb. 28. The occasion was the final session of the Vatican's Lenten spiritual retreat, a weeklong series of meditations composed by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi, himself a papal contender.
In one of his final meditations Friday, Ravasi denounced the "divisions, dissent, careerism, jealousies" that afflict the Vatican bureaucracy — divisions that were exposed by the leaks of documents taken from the pope's study. The documents revealed the petty wrangling, corruption and cronyism and even allegations of a gay plot at the highest levels of the Catholic Church.
The three cardinals who investigated the theft of the documents had wide-ranging powers to interview even cardinals to get to the bottom of the dynamics within the Curia — the Vatican bureaucracy — that resulted in the gravest Vatican security breach in modern times.
Benedict has referred obliquely to the Vatican's dysfunction in recent days, deploring how the church is often "defiled" by attacks and divisions and urging its members to overcome "pride and egoism."
On Saturday, in his final comments to the Curia, he lamented the "evil, suffering and corruption" that has defaced God's creation. But he also thanked the Vatican bureaucrats for eight years of work, love and faith and promised them he would continue to be spiritually close to them in retirement.
http://news.yahoo.com/vatican-blasts-false-pre-conclave-reporting-130526801.html

kingoflag mumu, hear ur name abeg.. So off... Mitcheeeeew manci

kingoflag jst hear ur name.. So off mtcheeeeew manci ur papa no b black man? Adamu lyk u

[size=13pt]The end of the Mother of Harlots is at hand, her daughters will follow.[/size]

"This title was written on her forehead: MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." - Revelation 17:5

The report sounds a bit illogical, would the pope resign over a scandal that he is not involved in? It seems more like media people making a field day out of this resignation, this is not the first time a pope would resign! Secondly one would expect the pope in such a situation to crack down on such foolishness rather than run to hide in a monastery as if being chased by the devil? any way nothing is impossible but before Ratzinger became pope he was referred to as doctrine enforcer, how would someone who enjoyed hounding catholic priest who did not tow the line of the official catholic doctrine suddenly become scared stiff of some hoodlum gay priests?

The Catholic Church has been hiding a lot things over the centuries... I am sure this is not the only item on the list. Greed, Excessive Power Abuse, and probably most everything regarding s.exual orientation - anonymous

woky: kingoflag jst hear ur name.. So off mtcheeeeew manci ur papa no b black man? Adamu lyk u

Hear what name? Have Priests been ra.ping innocent boys and having homo.se.xual relationships amongst themselves for centuries now? Ok then, dummy.

P.S: Can you prove my father is a black man? Are you a magician or just another dunce that doesnt know the history of your fathers and seeks consolation in the beliefs of alien invaders?

kingoflag: Report: Pope resigned in wake of gay priest scandal
Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY4:51p.m. EST February 22, 2013
Pope transfers top official amid speculation about report on Vatican leaks scandal.



(Photo: Gregorio Borgia AP)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS


Three cardinals reportedly discovered an underground network of gay priests
Pope Benedict announced Feb. 11 he would resign Feb. 28
The Vatican will not comment on the reports of the cardinals' investigation
The Italian media is reporting that Pope Benedict XVI resigned after receiving the results of an internal investigation, delivered in a 300-page, two-volume dossier, that laid bare a sordid tale of blackmail, corruption and gay sex at the Vatican.


The respected Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported Friday that the report stamped "Pontifical Secret," contained "an exact map of the mischief and the bad fish" inside the Holy See.

The newspaper said the findings of the nine-month investigation, headed by Spanish cardinal, Julian Herranz , with the assistance of Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi, former archbishop of Palermo, and Slovak cardinal Jozef Tomko, was delivered to the pope on Dec. 17, 2012.

"It was on that day, with those papers on his desk, that Benedict XVI took the decision he had mulled over for so long,'' the newspaper said.

La Repubblica said the panel drew upon "dozens and dozens" of interviews with bishops, cardinals and lay people. It said the pope was kept apprised of the investigation in weekly meetings from April until December. The final, bound in red leather, is being kept in a safe in the pope's Vatican quarters, the newspaper said.

A similar story was carried by Panorama, a conservative weekly.

"What's coming out is a very detailed X-ray of the Roman Curia that does not spare even the closest collaborators of the pope," respected Vatican expert Ignazio Ingrao writes in Panorama. "The pope was no stranger to the intrigues, but he probably did not know that under his pontificate there was such a complex network and such intricate chains of personal interests and unmentionable relationships."

A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, has refused to comment on the reports.

"Neither the cardinals' commission nor I will make comments to confirm or deny the things that are said about this matter. Let each one assume his or her own responsibilities. We shall not be following up on the observations that are made about this,'' Lombardi said, according to the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur.




Pope Benedict XVI embraces children during a visit at the Fazenda da Esperanca, a facility for recovering drug addicts, on May 12, 2007, in Guaratingueta, Brazil. Franco Origlia, Getty Images Fullscreen

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In announcing his resignation Feb. 11, Benedict said that he no longer had the "strength of mind and body" to carry on. A conclave will select a new pope next month.

Lombardi has indicated that Benedict would meet with the three cardinals before stepping down Feb. 28, in one of his final private audiences.

La Repubblica reported that the pope would personally hand the confidential files to his successor, with the hope he will be ''strong, young and holy'' enough to take the necessary action.

The investigation was triggered last May when the pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested and charged with having stolen and leaked papal correspondence that depicted the Vatican as a hotbed of intrigue.

The papers were published in a blockbuster book. The butler was convicted in October of aggravated theft, and later pardoned.

The three-man panel, according to La Repubblica, discovered an underground gay network whose members organized sexual meetings in several locations, including a villa outside Rome, a sauna in Rome's Cuarto Miligo distirct and even in a beauty salon inside the Vatican.

The gatherings, in turn, left them open to blackmail from people outside the Vatican, the report said, according to the newspaper.

La Repubblica quoted an unidentified man described as ''very close'' to the authors of the dossier as saying it contained information about violations of the sixth and seventh commandments, which forbid adultery and stealing.

The British newspaper, The Guardian, notes that the sixth commandment also "is linked in Catholic doctrine to the proscribing of homosexual acts."

The U.S. website, The Daily Beast, reports that investigative journalist Carmello Abbate went undercover with a hidden camera in 2010 in Rome to produce an expose called Good Nights Out for Gay Priests.

The scandal has erupted as the pope is clearing the decks of his pontificate, tweaking the rules of the conclave, finessing the religious rites used to launch the next papacy and making some eyebrow-raising final appointments before he retires next week.

The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said in editions published late Friday that Benedict had signed a decree earlier in the week making some changes to the papal installation Mass, separating out the actual rite of installation from the liturgy itself.


Vatican Undersecretary for the Relations with States, Monsignor Ettore Balestrero, arrives for a press conference at the Vatican in July.(Photo: Domenico Stinellis, AP)
He is also studying the text of a separate document governing the rules of the conclave, though it's not known if it will address the thorny issue of whether the election can begin earlier than March 15, by some interpretations the earliest the vote can start under the current rules.

And on Friday, the Vatican announced Benedict had transferred a top official in the secretariat of state, Monsignor Ettore Balestrero, to Colombia.

Some of the documents leaked in the midst of the "Vatileaks" scandal concerned differences of opinion about the level of financial transparency the Holy See should provide about the bank, the Institute for Religious Works. However, Balestrero himself wasn't named in any significant way in the leaks.

Lombardi said Balestrero's transfer had been months in the works, was a clear promotion and had nothing to do with what the Vatican considers baseless reporting.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/02/22/pope-leaks-fallout/1938321/

i was trying to post on this thread:

https://www.nairaland.com/1205528/finally-cat-out-bag


if indeed, the pope was forced to abdicate [note, he did not say he was], that's not good, because this type of thing can lead to war.

mankand: why the catholic faithful angry here? you should be aware that the vatican habours the highest criminals in the world and even your pope is not exempted. he was a former Nazi member.

Shine your eyes

its palpable from all ramification that you are a frustrated fellow. The titanic attack on catholicism makes no diffrence to the belif of 1.3 billion catholics around d world. Just a sheer show of academic hooliganism

Na wa o, una see watin i dy read so?www.thewarningsecondcoming.com

JudismphD: its palpable from all ramification that you are a frustrated fellow. The titanic attack on catholicism makes no diffrence to the belif of 1.3 billion catholics around d world. Just a sheer show of academic hooliganism

my brother in as much as i knw catholic church is the most powerful and contrversial boby, to have survived 2000years. But serious the devil has infiltriated the church, jst watch as the next pope will bring change to the world. www.thewarningsecondcoming.com

kingoflag: Report: Pope resigned in wake of gay priest scandal
Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY4:51p.m. EST February 22, 2013
Pope transfers top official amid speculation about report on Vatican leaks scandal.



(Photo: Gregorio Borgia AP)
STORY HIGHLIGHTS


Three cardinals reportedly discovered an underground network of gay priests
Pope Benedict announced Feb. 11 he would resign Feb. 28
The Vatican will not comment on the reports of the cardinals' investigation
The Italian media is reporting that Pope Benedict XVI resigned after receiving the results of an internal investigation, delivered in a 300-page, two-volume dossier, that laid bare a sordid tale of blackmail, corruption and gay sex at the Vatican.


The respected Italian newspaper La Repubblica reported Friday that the report stamped "Pontifical Secret," contained "an exact map of the mischief and the bad fish" inside the Holy See.

The newspaper said the findings of the nine-month investigation, headed by Spanish cardinal, Julian Herranz , with the assistance of Cardinal Salvatore De Giorgi, former archbishop of Palermo, and Slovak cardinal Jozef Tomko, was delivered to the pope on Dec. 17, 2012.

"It was on that day, with those papers on his desk, that Benedict XVI took the decision he had mulled over for so long,'' the newspaper said.

La Repubblica said the panel drew upon "dozens and dozens" of interviews with bishops, cardinals and lay people. It said the pope was kept apprised of the investigation in weekly meetings from April until December. The final, bound in red leather, is being kept in a safe in the pope's Vatican quarters, the newspaper said.

A similar story was carried by Panorama, a conservative weekly.

"What's coming out is a very detailed X-ray of the Roman Curia that does not spare even the closest collaborators of the pope," respected Vatican expert Ignazio Ingrao writes in Panorama. "The pope was no stranger to the intrigues, but he probably did not know that under his pontificate there was such a complex network and such intricate chains of personal interests and unmentionable relationships."

A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, has refused to comment on the reports.

"Neither the cardinals' commission nor I will make comments to confirm or deny the things that are said about this matter. Let each one assume his or her own responsibilities. We shall not be following up on the observations that are made about this,'' Lombardi said, according to the German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur.




Pope Benedict XVI embraces children during a visit at the Fazenda da Esperanca, a facility for recovering drug addicts, on May 12, 2007, in Guaratingueta, Brazil. Franco Origlia, Getty Images Fullscreen

Next Slide


In announcing his resignation Feb. 11, Benedict said that he no longer had the "strength of mind and body" to carry on. A conclave will select a new pope next month.

Lombardi has indicated that Benedict would meet with the three cardinals before stepping down Feb. 28, in one of his final private audiences.

La Repubblica reported that the pope would personally hand the confidential files to his successor, with the hope he will be ''strong, young and holy'' enough to take the necessary action.

The investigation was triggered last May when the pope's butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested and charged with having stolen and leaked papal correspondence that depicted the Vatican as a hotbed of intrigue.

The papers were published in a blockbuster book. The butler was convicted in October of aggravated theft, and later pardoned.

The three-man panel, according to La Repubblica, discovered an underground gay network whose members organized sexual meetings in several locations, including a villa outside Rome, a sauna in Rome's Cuarto Miligo distirct and even in a beauty salon inside the Vatican.

The gatherings, in turn, left them open to blackmail from people outside the Vatican, the report said, according to the newspaper.

La Repubblica quoted an unidentified man described as ''very close'' to the authors of the dossier as saying it contained information about violations of the sixth and seventh commandments, which forbid adultery and stealing.

The British newspaper, The Guardian, notes that the sixth commandment also "is linked in Catholic doctrine to the proscribing of homosexual acts."

The U.S. website, The Daily Beast, reports that investigative journalist Carmello Abbate went undercover with a hidden camera in 2010 in Rome to produce an expose called Good Nights Out for Gay Priests.

The scandal has erupted as the pope is clearing the decks of his pontificate, tweaking the rules of the conclave, finessing the religious rites used to launch the next papacy and making some eyebrow-raising final appointments before he retires next week.

The Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano said in editions published late Friday that Benedict had signed a decree earlier in the week making some changes to the papal installation Mass, separating out the actual rite of installation from the liturgy itself.


Vatican Undersecretary for the Relations with States, Monsignor Ettore Balestrero, arrives for a press conference at the Vatican in July.(Photo: Domenico Stinellis, AP)
He is also studying the text of a separate document governing the rules of the conclave, though it's not known if it will address the thorny issue of whether the election can begin earlier than March 15, by some interpretations the earliest the vote can start under the current rules.

And on Friday, the Vatican announced Benedict had transferred a top official in the secretariat of state, Monsignor Ettore Balestrero, to Colombia.

Some of the documents leaked in the midst of the "Vatileaks" scandal concerned differences of opinion about the level of financial transparency the Holy See should provide about the bank, the Institute for Religious Works. However, Balestrero himself wasn't named in any significant way in the leaks.

Lombardi said Balestrero's transfer had been months in the works, was a clear promotion and had nothing to do with what the Vatican considers baseless reporting.


http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/02/22/pope-leaks-fallout/1938321/

while reading this long piece i had a thought, do u think the pope knowing fully well that there are gay cardinal will step down and gives those cardinal a chance to elect a gay supporting pope? no i dont think so! if such cardinal did exist u would b hearing news of cardinals retiring into monastery before retirement age.
not to talk of d fact that d above lacks proof. Dis one na dem say dem say.

mankand: why the catholic faithful angry here? you should be aware that the vatican habours the highest criminals in the world and even your pope is not exempted. he was a former Nazi member.

Shine your eyes

too dumb, do u even know anything about the nazis? while i wont give u lessons i'll tell u dat every male old enouf to use his head and carry a gun was recruited not by choice but by force of law. if u lived in germany at that time u too would have been a soldier. if that makes one a criminal then ur moral compass is off by some 100 degrees

kingoflag:

Lmaooo

This dude, do you have a pen.is or a vag.ina? Are you on your period? Right now youre like a person than wasnt invited to a party, but insists on dancing with the celebrant in the middle of the dance floor. And you dare talk of madness?! lmaooo Anyway sha, na you talk say you dey dance azonto, no be me. Look at ur 1st post till now... typical... goad, prod, irritate... then when you get some sense slapped into your flat head you start trying to acting innocent.

Are you ok in the head? Why are you trying to derail the thread? Are you the Pope? Are you a Priest? But your pathetic, looney, hypocritical African self is doing everything in your might to derail a thread based on a subject even white people are distancing themselves from. But, like the typical African that has embraced another's beliefs, you lack integrity and will lie even if God himself stood in front of you. Didnt your Bible preach against homose.xuality? So whats your grouse? Why do you guys revel in worshipping men? Are you more Holy and Knowledgable than the Pope himself who has chosen to distance himself from this scandal by resigning?

Gawwd, the hypocrisy of a certain sect of black men will never cease to amaze me. Everything about you is always filled with lies and deceit. Can you speak the truth for once, u demon? Before we know now, you go encourage your family make dem stand for sun make each person vote 15,000 for a re.tard that'll do nothing but drag the rest of the country back just because your myopic self hates the religion and language of the better qualified man.

Abeg move and go play in traffic. Bloody hypocrite.

d words of d vatican publicity guy fr lombadi comes to mind "u are responsible 4 d illusion u subscribe to".

lexio:

Making use of "The Catholic Priests" is way off the track. Not all catholic priest are homosexuals. Some are. As to your question, the Catholic church authorities isn't taking it lightly especially in the seminaries were priests are formed. A little suspicion of being gay is all that is needed to get a young man expelled. He doesn't leave alone. All his friends especially close ones even those with no manifested gay tendencies will need a miracle not to get expelled. A Gay priest once detected is in for serious disciplinary action which does not exclude laizication (loss of clerical state).

many dont know this or simply chose to portray d catholic church in black colours.

ayox2003:

...Unmentionable relationships.

So those close to the Pope weren't just gays...they were gays doing 3somes, 4somes, using dil-dos and toys with sadomasochismic styles and org-ies sprayed all over their faces after giving themselves a hot deep throat.

Mary mother of Jesus!!!

If "Fathers" could do these things, only God knows what those "sisters" would be doing to themselves.



Frawzey

this again, is speculation