Two powerful pieces sat on my desktop this morning.

In “Bearing False Witness: The Pope Commits Perjury” at News Junkie Post Liam Fox writes brilliantly, “The evidence continues to mount and the mantle of blame begins to cloak the entire hierarchy of the Church.” This is a post you do not want to miss.

That we even have to read terms like “pedophile priests” and “Pope commits Perjury” is sad enough. That these crimes, perpetrated by pervert priests against defenseless children, was covered up at all, is in itself, a Crime Against Humanity.

In a post on The Raw Story, “UN Judge Calls for Prosecution of Pope Benedict” author Stephen C. Webster builds on a story on the GuardianUK, by quoting Geoffrey Robertson, a United Nations Jurist and human rights lawyer. The Pope should “Feel the full weight of international law.”

Think of it for just a moment. Cardinal Ratzinger and his cronies not only tried to hush the cries of the victims, in many instances the team of co-conspirators left the demented, criminal priests in place, in position to molest again and again. This is only partly about a coverup; the aiding and abetting makes this case cruelly disgusting.

In this situation, it will not be enough to cut the head off the snake; it seems that the disease goes farther down the serpent.

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Cardinal Ratzinger signs a document cautioning the removal of Rev. Stephen Kiesle and calling for “as much paternal care as possible”  for the abuser in the 1985 letter. The kicker? Ratzinger was the head of a Vatican office responsible for punishing pedophile priests.

Is there a greater crime than the crime against a child? How much “paternal care” should we show for an adult who kidnaps, ties-up and molests two young boys in a San Francisco Bay area Church?

What will be the boiling point? When will there finally be enough evidence to cause the Pope to stand up and do the right thing by stepping down?

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Do you find it fascinating that so many claim interest in the sanctity of life and “protecting the unborn” yet they turn aside when it comes to standing for the unprotected once they are born? Is there a better definition of hypocrisy than being “pro-life” then actively, secretively protecting pedophiles in the Catholic Church? Protesting against abortion physicians then timidly ignoring abusive priests, I can’t get it to fit in my mind. You either defend those who can’t defend themselves or you don’t. There is no grey area. If you are going to champion human life, champion human life.

You decide. Sanctity or Sacrilege? You can’t have both.

I have suggested repeatedly that we use RICO statutes to prosecute any vatican officials responsible for covering-up sexual attacks against children. Today, great article in the Daily Beast refuting the Vatican’s claim of “Immunity for the Pope” because he is a “Head of State” and therefore an untouchable. Are you kidding me? Our focus has turn from pedophile priests to political protections?

Instead of immunity for the Pope, how about incarceration for the guilty? No Pontiff is above the law.

The world has enough plaster saints.

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