Pooped out Pope out

While the mainstream media were pandering to the Vatican and slobbering over Ratzinger's sudden decision to retire for "health reasons", the facts are that "God's Rottweiler," as he was known in Germany,  has suffered a number of colossal and humiliating defeats.

Ratzinger's ferocious opposition to marriage equality  laws has been defeated again and again.  Since 2001, eleven countries and parts of three others, including several American states, allow same-sex couples to marry.  Bills legalizing same-sex marriage have been proposed, are pending, or have passed at least one legislative house in ten countries.

Then Ratzinger's efforts to cover up and downplay the pedophile priest scandal in at least a dozen countries--including his own complicity in the German  coverup--was another colossal and humiliating defeat--a defeat that cost the Catholic church in the U. S. alone $1.269 billion dollars in compensation to victims of the pedophile priests between 1994 and 2009.

Next, lest we forget, Vatican money laundering.  The Vatican has had a decades-long reputation for financial corruption.. In 2010, Italian prosecutors took custody of 23 million Euros belonging to the Vatican after they became suspicious of potential money-laundering.  And, finally, The U.S. State Department  added the Vatican to the list of countries that are possible targets for money-laundering last year, according to the Financial Times. And in the ultimate coup de grace,  Italy's central bank banned credit card use inside Vatican City because of financial irregularities.

But all the above pales when one considers that, because Ratzinger and his henchmen have obstinately opposed contraception and abortion,  they are guilty of crimes against humanity because tens if not hundreds of millions of unwanted children are brought into the world and condemned to a wretched life of poverty, hunger, violence, disease and squalor.

The ultimate colossal defeat for Ratzinger: attendance at Catholic churches worldwide is plummeting as parishioners, disgusted with the Pope and his corrupt amd perverted cronies, are abandoning the Catholic church in droves and stampeding to practice real Christianity elsewhere.

I guess the old fool finally read the handwriting on the walls.  But no matter who replaces him, the movement for Marriage Equality will continue, there will be more revelations and more million-dollar payouts in the pedophile priest scandals and the stampede away from Catholic churches worldwide will accelerate.

Jagor