Can Pope Benedict fix a system which has consistently abused children since 1483?
"Up to 7,400 barrels of crude oil a day could be spewing into the depths of the Gulf of Mexico after Tuesday night's explosion aboard the semi-submersible Transocean Deepwater Horizon rig caused it to capsize and sink Thursday morning." (Patrik Jonsson, Ecological risk grows as Deepwater Horizon oil rig sinks in Gulf, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 Apr 2010) The spill spread quickly, and 
"turtles and other sea animals washed up dead along the coast as crews tried to use booms to contain the slick that threatens the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida." (Doug Simpson, With Oil Spill Spreading, BP Spreads Blame, AOL News, 3 May 2010)
There was a problem. Which just keeps spreading. And could get much worse. Killing many of the animals both in the Gulf of Mexico, and on the surrounding shores.
And that's how it is with the Roman church. They had a big problem. And it just kept spreading: "priests who sodomized and molested children for decades unchecked" 
(Nicole Winfield, Irish bishop resigns, says he didn't report abuse, AP, 22 Apr 2010) have been a feature of the Papist system since at least 1809, as shown here.
WHICH WILL BE REFORMED -- PROMISES THE POPE
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So can the Jewish pope really launch a cleaner, safer children's program for his church?
Sometimes other Jewish businesses experience pressure, and they respond with plans to make their products safer.
SMOKING CIGARETTES IS REALLY DANGEROUS
"BRITISH American Tobacco (BAT) is to launch a controversial “safer cigarette” designed to cut the risk of smoking-related diseases such as cancer and heart failure by up to 90%.
SO THEY'LL OFFER YOU A NEW CIGARETTE!!
The cigarettes use tobacco treated to produce
WHICH STILL HAVE POISONS IN IT -- JUST LESS
lower levels of cancer-causing chemicals. They also incorporate a
CHECK OUT THOSE PRIESTS / CIGARETTE TOXINS MORE CAREFULLY
new type of filter said to remove more of the remaining toxins.
The company wants to launch the cigarettes in 2006 but has kept the move secret, knowing it would infuriate anti-smoking groups.
THERE ARE THOSE CYNICS OUT THERE
Campaigners will dismiss any attempt to reinvent cigarettes as a less harmful product as a cynical
A PLOY TO RECRUIT MORE YOUNG PEOPLE TO FEED THE MACHINE
ploy to recruit more smokers when the habit is already killing 114,000 Britons a year and the government is proposing curbs on smoking in public places."(Jonathan Leake, 'Safe cigarette' claimed to cut cancer by 90%, The Sunday Times, 6 Nov 2005)
YOU SEE, THERE WAS A POLICY OF COVERING THINGS UP
"Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday accepted the resignation of an Irish bishop who admitted he didn't challenge the Dublin church's policy of covering up the sexual abuse of children by priests.
Bishop James Moriarty of Kildare is the third Irish bishop to resign in four months as a result of the Irish sex abuse scandal." (Nicole Winfield, Irish bishop resigns, says he didn't report abuse, AP, 22 Apr 2010)
BECAUSE THERE WAS EMBARRASSING MATERIAL
"In 1992, British American Tobacco had its Canadian affiliate, Imperial Tobacco Canada, destroy internal research documents that could expose the company to liability or embarrassment. Sixty of these destroyed documents were subsequently uncovered in British American Tobacco's files."
THEY FIGURED OUT THE SYSTEM WAS BAD
"Imperial Tobacco destroyed documents that included evidence from scientific reviews prepared by British American Tobacco's researchers, as well as 47 original research studies, 35 of which examined the biological activity and carcinogenicity of tobacco smoke. The documents also describe British American Tobacco
BUT THE POPE PROMISES THE CATHOLIC SYSTEM CAN BE MODIFIED
research on cigarette modifications and toxic emissions, including the ways in which consumers adapted their smoking behaviour in response to these modifications. The documents also 
depict a comprehensive research program on the
SO WHY NOT GET THOSE SLAVES ADDICTED
pharmacology of nicotine and the central role of nicotine in smoking behaviour. British American Tobacco scientists noted that "... the present scale of the tobacco industry is largely dependent on the intensity and nature of the pharmacological action of nicotine," and that "... should nicotine become less attractive to smokers, the future of the tobacco industry would become less secure."(Hammond, David, Chaiton, Michael, Lee, Alex, Collishaw, Neil, Destroyed documents: uncovering the science that Imperial Tobacco Canada sought to conceal, Canadian Medical Association Journal - CMAJ, Nov 2009)
Or make that, should participation in the children's ministration program become less attractive to your members, the future of the Catholic church would become less secure. And why not throw in all those high schools, football teams, and homes for the deaf.
THE REASON FOR BEING
Which brings us straight to the central question: If Jewish tobacco products are really bad, why should anyone use any form of them?
For the good of the user, or for the good of the company? Spending thousands on a cigarette habit over a life which will be shorter, and filled with disease and suffering doesn't help the addict.
But the business is oh so profitable.
No, if the system is bad, why use it at all?
The "abuse" is nothing new. Back in 1483, the first inquisitor general of the inquisition in Spain was Thomas de Torquemada. A man who had "at least" one Jewish grandmother. During his 15 years of service, he persecuted more than 114 000 victims. Of these, 10 220 were burned. (Peter de Rosa, Gottes Erste Diener – Die dunkle Seite des Papsttums, Droemer Knaur, 1989, p 212)
The Catholic church has long been dominated by "Jews who only pretended to convert but continued to practice Judaism in private". (Damien Simonis, Spain, Lonely Planet, 2005, p 196)
A SYSTEM WHICH CONGRATULATES
"A letter confirmed by the Vatican on Thursday showed that a top Holy See official in 2001 went so far as to congratulate a French bishop for shielding a
THE PRIEST RAPED CHILDREN
priest who was convicted of raping and sexually abusing minors.
The Sept. 8, 2001 letter from Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, then the head of the Vatican office in charge of priests, praised French
THE BISHOP PROTECTED THE RAPIST
bishop Pierre Pican for risking prison time to defend one of his priests.
Four days earlier, a French court gave Pican, then bishop of Bayeux-Lisieux in northwestern France, a suspended prison sentence for concealing knowledge about the Rev. Rene Bissey. Bissey was sentenced to 18 years in prison in 2000 for raping and sexually abusing 11 minors in the 1990s.
In the letter, Hoyos wrote: "I congratulate you for not having turned in a priest to the civil administration, and I am delighted to have a colleague in the episcopate who, in the eyes of history and all the other bishops of the world, will have preferred prison rather than to turn in its son-priest."" (Nicole Winfield, Pope breaks silence on abuse, urges repentance, AP, 18 Apr 2010)
Before 2010, there were plenty of warning flags, now there are more. The system of the Catholic church has been explained. Its business. A business which needs new customers all the time. Like the tobacco trade, its a harmful business. Which has hurt a lot of people.
Those sincere members might claim they didn't know. Because they didn't check history.
In Toledo, on Sunday, 19 July 1467, "a group of conversos invaded the cathedral during the high mass, shouting such things as 'Die, die, this is not a church but a congregation of the wicked and vile.'" And then the conversos battled Christians throughout the city, with plenty of looting and burning. (John Edwards, The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs, 1474-1520, Wiley, 2000, p 81)
And ever since, this attitude has been spreading. Like that oil spill in the gulf. And its damaged of lot of the living creatures in the eco-system.
So how can we decide who to believe? The conversos of 1467 or the converso of 2010?
The topic is religion. Christian religion.
So let's check with the founder:
"You will know them by their fruit. Grapes aren't gathered from thorns, or figs from thistles, are they?" (Jesus cited in Matthew 7:16, Holy Bible)
And the fruit? A solid record of abuse. From the 1400s to 1809 to today. A system with "priests who sodomized and molested children for decades unchecked". (Nicole Winfield, Irish bishop resigns, says he didn't report abuse, AP, 22 Apr 2010)
Make that centuries.
