Jude
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Post by Jude on Jul 4, 2007 2:27:33 GMT -5
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Post by That Latvian Guy on Jul 4, 2007 3:12:17 GMT -5
Call me crazy, but they look kind of similar  |
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Post by LOVELYRITA on Jul 4, 2007 15:54:25 GMT -5
As much as Don Knotts to Brian Epstein???
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Post by Jude on Jul 5, 2007 4:34:57 GMT -5
Call me crazy, but they look kind of similar I dunno if you were joking or not, but they *do* kinda share the same nose.... |
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Post by That Latvian Guy on Jul 5, 2007 5:04:54 GMT -5
Call me crazy, but they look kind of similar I dunno if you were joking or not, but they *do* kinda share the same nose.... I am not joking, this is kind of weird |
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Post by beatlies on Jul 5, 2007 13:33:42 GMT -5
Joseph Ratzinger was a German Hitler Youth and Wermacht Nazi soldier. There are rumors that CIA-connected-Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland, Pope John Paul II, became a priest at age 25 to cover his Nazi-collaborating past. He was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years, and it is widely believed that his liberal predecessor of 30 days reign, Pope John Paul I, had been assaassinated. They replaced Pope Paul VI the "Rosemary's Baby" pope, with an imposter, thread here: invanddis.proboards29.com/index.cgi?board=connection&action=display&thread=1134244907 |
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Post by jarvitronics on Jul 5, 2007 13:56:56 GMT -5
Joseph Ratzinger was a German Hitler Youth and Wermacht Nazi soldier. There are rumors that CIA-connected-Cardinal Wojtyla of Poland, Pope John Paul II, became a priest at age 25 to cover his Nazi-collaborating past. He was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years, and it is widely believed that his liberal predecessor of 30 days reign, Pope John Paul I, had been assaassinated. They replaced Pope Paul VI the "Rosemary's Baby" pope, with an imposter, thread here: invanddis.proboards29.com/index.cgi?board=connection&action=display&thread=1134244907That thread was pointless. People age. Eyesight degrades. Moles can be removed. Rumors. -j |
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Post by Jude on Jul 5, 2007 20:41:39 GMT -5
Although this thread was just a bad joke, I agree with beatlies that Pope John Paul I was assasinated. Amazing. The Vatican sticks to their "heart failure" story despite the fact that an EKG from two months earlier showed that he was in good health. It's so obvious that he was murdered that the fact they got away with it only shows how powerful the Vatican truly is.
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Post by il ras on Jul 5, 2007 21:08:24 GMT -5
that's what the real 3d Fatima's secret is about: evil inside Vatican
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Post by Jude on Jul 6, 2007 11:55:17 GMT -5
that's what the real 3d Fatima's secret is about: evil inside Vatican Could very well be. The "abridged" version of the third secret that Vatican officials released sounded nothing like the messages that were originally communicated. Up to that point they all shared a common theme: that mankind needed help and needed to seek God's face. Either the final piece was a warning message about the end of the world, or it was something that would incriminate the papacy itself. |
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Post by LOVELYRITA on Jul 6, 2007 19:06:57 GMT -5
So is this what you would call Papal bull? ; P
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Post by beatlies on Jul 14, 2007 15:47:09 GMT -5
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LA church to pay $600M for clergy abuse
By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer
48 minutes ago
LOS ANGELES - The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles will settle its clergy abuse cases for at least $600 million, by far the largest payout in the church's sexual abuse scandal, The Associated Press learned Saturday.
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Attorneys for the archdiocese and the plaintiffs are expected to announce the deal Monday, the day the first of more than 500 clergy abuse cases was scheduled for jury selection, according to two people with knowledge of the agreement. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because the settlement had not been made public.
The archdiocese and its insurers will pay between $600 million and $650 million to about 500 plaintiffs — an average of $1.2 million to $1.3 million per person. The settlement also calls for the release of confidential priest personnel files after review by a judge assigned to oversee the litigation, the sources said.
It wasn't immediately clear how the payout would be split among the insurers, the archdiocese and several Roman Catholic religious orders. A judge must sign off on the agreement, and final details were being ironed out.
Lead plaintiffs' attorney Ray Boucher confirmed the sides were working on a deal but he would not discuss specifics. He said negotiations would continue through the weekend and said there were still many unresolved aspects.
Tod Tamberg, archdiocese spokesman, declined to comment on any settlement details.
"The archdiocese will be in court Monday morning," he said.
Steven Sanchez, 47, was one of the plaintiffs set to go to trial Monday. He was expected to testify in the trial involving the late Rev. Clinton Hagenbach.
Sanchez, a financial adviser, said the past few months have been especially difficult because he had to repeat his story of abuse for depositions with his attorneys and archdiocese attorneys in preparation for trial.
"We're 48 hours away from starting the trial and I've been spending a lot of time getting emotionally prepared to take them on, but I'm glad," he said. "It's been a long five years."
The settlement would be the largest ever by a Roman Catholic archdiocese since the clergy sexual abuse scandal erupted in Boston in 2002.
Among the largest total payouts was $100 million in 2004 by the Diocese of Orange, Calif., to settle 90 claims. The Archdiocese of Boston agreed in 2003 to pay $84 million for 552 cases, roughly the same figure the Diocese of Covington, Ky., agreed last year to pay to settle about 360 claims. Facing a flood of abuse claims, five dioceses — Tucson, Ariz.; Spokane, Wash.; Portland, Ore.; Davenport, Iowa, and San Diego — sought bankruptcy protection.
Last month, the Archdiocese of Portland agreed to pay about $52 million to 175 people, while setting aside another $20 million for anyone who comes forward in the future.
The Diocese of Spokane, Wash., also recently emerged from bankruptcy protection after agreeing to pay $48 million to settle about 150 claims.
The Los Angeles archdiocese, its insurers and various Roman Catholic orders have paid more than $114 million to settle 86 claims so far.
The largest of those came in December, when the archdiocese reached a $60 million settlement with 45 people whose claims dated from before the mid-1950s and after 1987 — periods when it had little or no sexual abuse insurance. Several religious orders in California have also reached multimillion dollar settlements in recent months, including the Carmelites, the Franciscans and the Jesuits.
However, more than 500 other lawsuits against the archdiocese had remained unresolved despite years of legal wrangling. Most of the outstanding lawsuits were generated by a 2002 state law that revoked for one year the statute of limitations for reporting sexual abuse.
Cardinal Roger Mahony recently told parishioners in an open letter that the archdiocese was selling its high-rise administrative building and considering the sale of about 50 other nonessential church properties to raise funds for a settlement.
A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge overseeing the cases recently ruled that Mahony could be called to testify in the second trial on schedule, and attorneys for plaintiffs wanted to call him in many more.
The same judge also cleared the way for four people to seek punitive damages — something that could have opened the church to tens of millions of dollars in payouts if the ruling had been expanded to other cases.
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