Matthew 18:6
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

"I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret."
- Walter Winchell

"Secrecy is the badge of fraud."
- Sir John Chadwick

"The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper."
-Thomas Powers

Well you see Jim, it was a secret communique within the R.C. "church", an internal memo if you will, meant only to be seen by their "clerics", until it was discovered & exposed by the media. No doubt the whistleblower in this case was a disgruntled priest, (although that is mere speculation on my part) who was sick and tired of being made out to be the fall guy for these crimes, so this "secret memo" from "his unholiness" was leaked to the press, and the rest, as they say, is history! Now it is common knowledge that the "pope" had full knowledge of these things, and indeed wrote the directive as to how to handle these sordid matters, that being to conceal, cover up, and keep them SECRET!

Secret Vatican document: "Crimen Sollicitatiois"

Found here: http://www.religioustolerance.org/clergy_sex23.htm

Overview:
According to the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) the Vatican issued a secret document, "Crimen Sollicitatiois" (The Crime of Solicitation) in 1962. 1 It was distributed to:

"... Catholic bishops worldwide who are ordered to keep it locked away in the church safe.

"It instructs them how to deal with priests who solicit sex from the confessional. It also deals with 'any obscene external act ... with youths of either sex'."

"It imposes an oath of secrecy on the child victim, the priest dealing with the allegation, and any witnesses."

"Breaking that oath means excommunication from the Catholic Church."

“Many have realized that, according to Bible prophecy, there is a definite plan in Satan’s kingdom to put the world under the control of one organisation.

The Bible contains prophecies about this. But, while Communism is being used to bring this to pass, Communism is not the fulfillment of the prophecies. And, while the Illuminati is indeed a part of the system, the Illuminati is not the apex of the pyramid. Nor is Freemasonry the very top of Satan’s hierarchy, although it is under the control of the system as much as the many other organisations and movements which are all part of the conspiracy. Many Christians have seen that all these groups are aiming for world domination. There is, behind all these groups, a far more powerful and sinister organisation, one which is all the more deadly because it appears so beautiful and holy.

According to the written Word of God, as well as the historical evidence which perfectly fits the prophetic picture, this is the Roman Catholic Institution.

"When Adam sinned . . . God began to uphold the creation in a cursed state. Suffering & death entered into His creation. The whole universe now suffers from the effects of sin (Rom. 8:22).

The sad things (e.g., the death of a loved one, tsunamis that kill thousands, hurricanes that leave many dead or homeless, etc.) that happen around us and to us are reminders that sin has consequences & that the world needs a Savior.

God took pleasure in all of His creation (Revelation 4:11), but He loved people most of all. He uses the deterioration of the created universe to show us the consequences of our sin. If we did not experience the consequences of our rebellion against the Creator, we would never understand that we need salvation from our sin, and we would never receive His offer of mercy for our sin.

Most people easily recognize that there is a problem in the world. We need to realize that there is One who has overcome this problem of death & suffering—Jesus Christ."

"It sometimes takes a tragedy to reveal to people their need of Christ. All glory to God for this!"

Frank, you are so right. It is often in a time of affliction and in the wake of the loss of all worldly goods that sinners are enabled to see the poverty of their souls for the first time, and just as these poor afflicted folk look to the mercy of those who bring them food, aid, medical care, etc., so it is when we are brought to feel our spiritual bankruptcy and the misery sin has brought into our lives, that we look to the Lord alone to deliver us from all our afflictions and cast ourselves upon HIS mercy to relieve, comfort and save us from our sins.
May this tragedy, humanly speaking, and the misery that has accompanied it, be used of God to bring himself glory.

For men are most miserable indeed who are never brought to see and feel their need of Christ, for to be without HIM is to be without GOD and without hope in the world. (Eph. 2:12)

1 Cor. 15:19-20
"If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

There is a set time of awakening in the soul of the "remnant saved by grace", when a man is brought to his spiritual senses, as sure as there is a day of reckoning for the unsaved. This fearful and solemn event, when the foundations of the very earth have been terribly shaken, may very well be just such a wake up call for many. When a man is brought to an extremity and is devoid and destitute of all other props, then he begins to search his soul and take spiritual inventory if you will, and begins to call upon the name of the Lord in prayer. Such a prayer as that found in Jer. 17:14a:
"Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved;"

Ps. 65:8a:
“They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at they tokens:”

This is one excellent piece of editorial journalism. Gerry Adam's twisted version of the Gospel of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, whereby he attempts to justify the acts of terrorism he and others of his ilk perpetrated on the population of N.I. to suit and advance his personal and political agenda by “wresting the Scriptures” is reprehensible and despicable.

Gerry Adams has blasphemed both the name and doctrine of Christ and all those who know and love the LORD must stand in solidarity with Mr. Polley in denouncing this Christ-dishonouring programme, one for which Mr. Adams received a sizeable sum!

Excerpt from a tract against Romish Anglicanism by C. H. Spurgeon appeared in the August 1865 issue of The Sword and the Trowel.

"Christians should be interested in these goings-on because of their significance in revealing the real nature of Romanism, Anglicanism, & the wolves in sheep’s clothing who lead them. This kind of backstage intrigue, behind-the-scenes cloak-and-dagger carryings-on, are what one would expect from political institutions, not “churches”. But that’s just it: these are not churches of Christ, & their leaders are not men of God. It is all about power.

Victims ask Pope for €1bn
Brady to hand deliver letter requesting abuse payout
By John Cooney and Breda Heffernan

Tuesday February 09 2010

A LETTER calling on the Vatican to provide a €1bn compensation package for survivors of clerical child abuse in Ireland is to be hand delivered to Pope Benedict by Cardinal Sean Brady, when the Irish bishops hold summit talks with the Pontiff.
The letter from Irish survivors will also contain a request for a meeting with the Holy Father during his visit to England in September.

Michael O'Brien, of the Right to Peace support group, said it was now time for the Vatican and the religious orders to match the money paid by the Irish State. The orders paid just €128m of the total compensation bill of €1.2bn.
"He (the Pope) must come up with a substantial amount of money to help the victims of the institutions," added Mr O'Brien. "The Vatican is as much to blame because the religious orders were under their auspices."

Independent.ie
Victims ask Pope for €1bn
By John Cooney and Breda Heffernan
Tuesday February 09 2010

A LETTER calling on the Vatican to provide a €1bn compensation package for survivors of clerical child abuse in Ireland is to be hand delivered to Pope Benedict by Cardinal Sean Brady, when the Irish bishops hold summit talks with the Pontiff.
The letter from Irish survivors will also contain a request for a meeting with the Holy Father during his visit to England in September.

Michael O'Brien, of the Right to Peace support group, said it was now time for the Vatican and the religious orders to match the money paid by the Irish State. The orders paid just €128m of the total compensation bill of €1.2bn.

“On May 20th, 1998, the General Presbytery of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster was associated with an advert in the local press, calling on all to say NO" in the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement. It was signed by most if not all of the then ministers of the Free Presbyterian church.

. . part of that 1998 advert reads: “We the undersigned, having professed faith in Christ as our Lord and Saviour and bound in conscience by the infallibility of the Word of God, declare the truth that governments have divinely been given the power of the sword for the punishment of evil doers, and the power of protection for the praise of them that do well. The Agreement flies in the face of Holy Scripture and punishes those that do well and praises those that are evil doers. We protest against this outrage.” Romans 13:3-4.”

Article: 'Sinn Fein/IRA Triumphant in Northern Ireland'

http://www.biblebasedministries.co.uk/2006/11/30/sinn-feinira-triumphant-in-northern-ireland/

We might do well to add 1 Cor. 6:9-11

"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, neither idolators, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revelers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of our God."

"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Ghost.
Which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;"
(Titus 3:5-6)

and this we are empowered by faith to do through the Spirit that now indwells us:

"But ye are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.
For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.
For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
(Romans 8:9-14)

Leviticus 18:22

"Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination."

Leviticus 20:13:

"If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them."

Genesis 2:24:

"Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh."

Amos 5:13: