Nothing surprises me about the catholic church anymore. A structure for lies, depravity, corruption, and abuse of every kind. Sincere folks and the faithful in general should cultivate a direct line to "God" rather than hang around this literal den of iniquity.
"A.. filtering system failure". That could apply to the whole catholic church in general I think judging by the amount of paedophiles currently infesting its corridors.
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New Zealand Herald via Cryptogon
Germany's biggest Catholic-owned publishing house has been rocked by
disclosures that it has been selling thousands of pornographic novels
with titles such as Sluts Boarding School and Lawyer's Whore with the full assent of the country's leading bishops.
The revelations made in the publishing-industry newsletter Buchreport
concern Weltbild, a company with an annual NZ$3bn turnover and 6,400
employees. It is Germany's largest bookseller after Amazon and wholly
owned by the Catholic Church.
Buchreport revealed that Weltbild's massive assortment of titles
available to customers online includes some 2,500 "erotic" books with
unmistakably lewd titles including Call Me Slut!, Take Me Here, Take Me Now! and Lawyer's Whore,
to name a few. The publisher's website also pictures the titles'
lascivious dust jackets that feature colour photographs of scantily clad
women in high heels and erotic underwear.
Yesterday, Carel Haff, Weltbild's managing director, was quoted as
saying that the revelations had provoked "a very intense and critical
dialogue" within the company. He said discussions were under way about
possibly limiting the assortment of titles that would be available in
future.
Catholic bishops responded with a statement claiming that "a filtering
system failure" at the publishing house had allowed the books to stray
on to the market. "We will put a stop to the distribution of possibly
pornographic content in future," they said.
But Bernhard Mller, editor of the Catholic magazine PUR, dismissed the
clerics' reaction as grossly hypocritical. He alleged that the
pornography scandal at Weltbild had been going on for at least a decade
with the Church's full knowledge.
Mr Mller said that in 2008, a group of concerned Catholics had sent
bishops a 70-page document containing irrefutable evidence that Weltbild
published books that promoted pornography, Satanism and magic. They
demanded that the publisher withdraw the titles.
But their protests appear to have been completely ignored. Writing in
the Die Welt newspaper, Mr Mller said most of the bishops refused to
respond to the charges. "The sudden proclaimed astonishment of many
church leaders that pornographic material is being distributed by their
publishing house, is play acting - bad play acting," Mr Mller said.
"Believers have been complaining to their bishops about this for years."
The Catholic Church bought Weltbild more than 30 years ago. The
publisher has gradually transformed itself into one of Germany's largest
media companies with the help of millions in Catholic Church tax levied
on believers. To increase its profits, in 1998 the company merged with
five other publishing houses that market pornographic titles.
One of them is Droemer Knaur, which is 50 per cent church-owned. Another
is Blue Panther Books, which was excluded from the list of
participating publishers at this year's Frankfurt Book Fair allegedly
because of the pornographic content of is titles.
It emerged yesterday that in an attempt to clear itself of potential
embarrassment over the sale of porn, the Catholic Church tried to sell
Weltbild in 2009. But the bishops apparently abandoned the idea after
they failed to get the price they were asking.
(Money is an aphrodisiac for the Vatican...)
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