Hei Readers, I was prompted by the LA Church topic to add a cautionary note about confessionals. Here is what you can read on the net "Argentine priest in Dirty War trial". Here are extracts.
This one from Agentina. "Von Wernich would visit prisoners after horrific torture sessions and asked them to trust him, to give him information in exchange for an improvement in the conditions of their detention," Carlos Zaidman, a survivor of one of the detention camps, said." "The prosecution said, in a statement read to the court, that: Von Wernich participated assiduously and maintained direct contacts with the detainees and was fully complicit in the crimes committed by the state." "It must be clear that the Church is not on trial, but that the role played by its hierarchy during the dictatorship Guadalupe Godoy, a lawyer representing some of the victims, said." Here is from Chile "Chilean priest, a Pinochet supporter, draws fire - Catholic priest and television broadcaster Raul Hasbun; At a military gathering in August, he referred to Chilean Socialists as 'parasites' and 'bloodsuckers.' Despite the Socialists 'intrinsically unpatriotic' attitudes, he said, some people are willing to allow them to 'guide the country's destiny at the highest levels.' " I guess all religions are about "good" and it is the singers not the song that we need to guard against. You should take care of what you say to who. You could be giving information that could endanger your life or those of others. There could be agent provocateurs in our midst that we do not know about. It is getting to be a shrinking and dangerous world. Manipulation and guile can be disarming. I cited two cases of Agentina and Chile. I suspect that we are and have not been immune past or present. Our basic instincts are good. However, we should be on alert and do something about it when we see :- Politicians use the religion card The enemy within (spies, traitors and agents provocateurs.) Abusers of power The chain of corruption. Take care.
