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Summertime is movie time. So if you’re bored with reruns and the same old stuff on cable, with no new ideas for Netflix, for your convenience, there’s the Fallen Priests Film Festival pages. I got ‘em all; ranging from funny priests to devil worshippers and outright nunsploitation, with dramas and historical epics in the middle. Even clergy abuse documentaries are now included.

Check the nearly 300 shows currently listed starting with Part I: Clerical Comedies.

I’ve left out all the pro-Church syrupy schmaltz that I can. No Sister Act or Going My Way here, folks. Most of this stuff would get you into trouble with the Legion of Decency, which is kinda the point here. ;->

I’ve listed a few new ones, updated several more. Along with the hilarious Father Ted, there’s the movie I saw last night, Goya’s Ghosts, an excellent period drama about the famous painter, a model (Natalie Portman, whose roles are getting even more curious), and Javier Bardem as the creepiest and most vile inquisitor I’ve seen in a long time. And it’s quite “on topic” too…

And as always, if you think of any I should know about that aren’t listed, please let me know. Thanks!

Stay cool and pass the “popecorn”….

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Who ya gonna call?

Frankly, I’m gobsmacked. Finally, unexpectedly, as it did in so many places, the scandals appear to be reaching flash point around none other than the pope. Questions have arisen about Pope Benedict’s role in dealing with perpetrators when Joseph Ratzinger was but a bishop, a scandal in the choir headed by his own brother, another scandal involving prostitution in the Vatican choir, and even the chief exorcist of the Vatican admitting to the presence of Satanists there (more on that later).

Bookies are even making odds on the pope’s possible resignation!

Yet, in the midst of all this, I have this incredible information and am being completely ignored. I feel like the kid bursting with the answer, waving his hand desperately to get recognized by the teacher to no avail.

Here is my latest attempt, with a new Press Release.

And here’s documentary proof, in PDF format, adapted from my book, Sons of Perdition:

Ratzinger’s Responsibility for the Sex Scandals

Read it and weep, people.

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Behind the mask

I had a rather peculiar feeling when reading how shocked and dismayed Pope Benedict XVI said he was over the report on Irish abuse.  I was reminded in fact of a scene from the classic film Casablanca (1942). You know the one — the refugees in the bar beat the Germans in the “Battle of the Anthems” and so the head Nazi, the evil Maj. Strasser, orders the corrupt French cop Capt. Renault to shut the place down.

Rick: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Capt. Renault: I’m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of money]
Croupier: Your winnings, sir.
Capt. Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.
[aloud]
Capt. Renault: Everybody out at once!

Yes, caught between admitting that abuse was due in large part to the Vatican’s culture of secrecy and cover-up which he himself has restored and having to do something about it, the Supreme Pontiff’s response of “outrage, betrayal, and shame” is predictable. Since, however, as the former Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , Ratzinger is more likely outraged by the revelations of abuse rather than its actual happening.

For if anybody knew what was going on it was him. And if the Grand Inquisitor didn’t know, that in itself is a major scandal!

But rather than confess any faults of God’s Holy Church, he places the blame squarely on the perpetrators and the bishops who enabled them. Like Capt. Renault, the Holy See profits from the cover-up and also by the abuse.

Let’s face it: Abuse, or even homosexual acting out with their peers keeps some of the remaining clergy — mainly men who cannot survive in the “real world”, content.  The cover-up is necessary to keep a lid on things and the papal hands as white and unblemished as his robes. And the corruption in the sacred premises is every bit as seedy and degenerate as that in a refugee hellhole.

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