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RP lawyer charges Pope, archbishop of swindling


MANILA, Philippines - A lawyer who once ran for president but was disqualified as a nuisance candidate on Tuesday filed swindling and public disorder cases against Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Alois Ratzinger) and Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales before the Manila Prosecutor’s Office. According to lawyer Elly Lao Pamatong, the Roman Catholic Church, represented internationally by Ratzinger and locally by Rosales, “has been defrauding billions of innocent members of the human race by telling mythical and deceitful stories” that “have proximately caused the herein complainant and billions of other victims to turn over one-tenth of their incomes to Ratzinger, Rosales and their accomplices.” “In other words, Ratzinger is the mastermind of an international criminal syndicate or racket wherein the innocent members of the Christendom are forced to run over trillions of dollars to the pockets of Ratzinger in the hope that the Pope will save them from being thrown into a boiling lake of fire and in detrimental reliance to Ratzinger’s misrepresentation that the Jewish Old Book was actually written or, at least inspired, by God,” Pamatong said. Aside from swindling, Pamatong also accused the two ranking Church leaders of causing public disorder for “arrogantly, oppressively and offensively mounting loud speakers on church rooftops, towers, belfries, and trees that are blaring monotonous rituals and falsehoods (that) seriously disturbs the peace and quiet of non-Catholics throughout the country.” “True to form as one of Hitlers former killers and soldiers, Ratzinger is forcing even non-Catholics to listen to his false and misleading doctrines through oppressively loud sound systems designed to brainwash all humans through the airwaves,” he said. Pamatong, who in 2004 was arrested and subsequently released for allegedly perpetrating a "spike attack" on Metro Manila roads, urged the Manila Prosecutor’s Office to take the cases he filed “very seriously.” The Manila archdiocese, on the other hand, said it will be up to the prosecutor’s office to “determine the merits” of Pamatong’s case against the cardinal. There is still yet to have an official reaction, if any, from the office of the papal nuncio, the Vatican’s representative to the Philippines. Peachy Yamsuan, the communications head of the Archdiocese of Manila, said the Cardinal is not yet informed of the case against him. Lingayen Archbishop Oscar Cruz expressed doubts that the case would even prosper. “I have my big doubts on how this case would prosper. Suing the Holy Father based on religious principles and other alleged misdeeds is quite way above the ordinary. But off hand I can readily predict that the case will not prosper,” he said, adding that the filing of the charges against the Pope "is quite a strange issue to bring before the Philippine justice system.” - GMANews.TV
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