The Italian cell of the Anonymous
hacking collective has taken the
official website of the Vatican
offline.
In a statement on Pastebin, the
hacktivists have accused the
Catholic church of a catalogue of
crimes from book censorship in
the Counter-Reformation of the
16th and 17th century to the
Spanish Inquisition to the
church's role in helping Nazi
criminals find refuge in foreign
countries after World War II.
"You have burned books of
immense historical and literary
value, you barbarously executed
your fiercest detractors and
critics over the centuries, have
denied universally deemed valid
or plausible theories, have led the
unwary to pay to get access to
paradise with the sale of
indulgences," reads the
statement
"Italy has been forced to tolerate
your daily interference in the
public and social life," the
statement continues. "You are
bound to the past, you are the
last bulwark of an era that is
gone and luckily will not repeat
again."

The collective stressed that the
attack was "not intended to
target the true Christian religion
and the faithful around the
world". It was aimed instead at
the "corrupt Roman Apostolic
Church and all its emanations".
It added that that attack aimed to
show the Vatican site's
webmaster's claim that the site
was "impossible to hack" was
untrue.
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www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/310570/20120307/anonymous-vatican-opitaly.htm

Time somebody did something 'bout those bigoted, sheeple herders.