pandamania
19-07-2008, 12:16 AM
Catholic Sex Scandals = Internal Power Struggle?
OK, here is my theory. In the late 1970's the gulf between the catholic laity and Vatican power base was gigantic.
Catholics met directly with their local priests and nuns. This was working out well as 99.9% of catholics would tell you they had a very good relationship with their local priests and nuns. A tiny minority were freaks.
The Vatican and Pope was astronomically distant from the laity for decades. Then a new young pope called John Paul shows up and his first proclamation is to make the Papalcy more "people friendly" and to sort out the Vatican banking high-strangeness and root out corruption.
33 Days Later (masonic red flag) he dies of "natural causes" and a new Pope JP2 shows up and instantly looks to show himself as an icon. During his rise to superstardom a whole slew of catholic clergy sex abuse scandals happens which alienate the average catholic from his local clergy and reinforces the John Paul the Second iconic status.
Since then, the power of the catholic church has shifted completely from the local clergy to the uber power structure within the Vatican. Catholics now pray to the Pope and see him as their local priest.
Catholics now trust the pope "not like the pedophile priest and nuns down the road. The man in Rome you can trust..."
See where I am going with this.
OK, here is my theory. In the late 1970's the gulf between the catholic laity and Vatican power base was gigantic.
Catholics met directly with their local priests and nuns. This was working out well as 99.9% of catholics would tell you they had a very good relationship with their local priests and nuns. A tiny minority were freaks.
The Vatican and Pope was astronomically distant from the laity for decades. Then a new young pope called John Paul shows up and his first proclamation is to make the Papalcy more "people friendly" and to sort out the Vatican banking high-strangeness and root out corruption.
33 Days Later (masonic red flag) he dies of "natural causes" and a new Pope JP2 shows up and instantly looks to show himself as an icon. During his rise to superstardom a whole slew of catholic clergy sex abuse scandals happens which alienate the average catholic from his local clergy and reinforces the John Paul the Second iconic status.
Since then, the power of the catholic church has shifted completely from the local clergy to the uber power structure within the Vatican. Catholics now pray to the Pope and see him as their local priest.
Catholics now trust the pope "not like the pedophile priest and nuns down the road. The man in Rome you can trust..."
See where I am going with this.