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Opus Dei To Hunt Down Vatican Whistle-Blowers
First time accepted submitter Aguazul2 writes "In a familiar story relocated into the bizarre world of the Vatican, a whistle-blower who brought to light excessive overpayments on contracts to friendly suppliers was sent to the USA as punishment, and further sources of leaks are now being hunted down by a crack team headed by an 82-year old Opus Dei cardinal. It's just like Wikileaks, only with parchment and quills — probably."
...we need anonymity systems. People who are afraid to report unethical behavior are less likely to report it (shocking!), and whistleblower protections are neither universal nor reliable.
Palm trees and 8
Has the Vatican not been wasting vast amounts of gullible people's money on stupid shit for over a millennium?
Keep your legs crossed and your mouth shut, expect in the confessional where you can tell us all but no one else. Whats wrong with this picture?
Must... find... albino... assassin... religionfreak... and... send... him... after... whistleblowers... (Amen?) ------ But seriously, what a weird story this is. Isn't the Vatican supposed to be all about "The Truth Shall Set Thee Free" because, erm, Christian belief mandates it? So what is wrong with a little whistleblowing? Why is someone exposing the truth even a "whistleblower" in this particular case? Very strange story all around...
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because Elon Musk put an AI chip in its head.
Although the story is interesting, this is not the place for it.
Don't know something? Look it up. Still don't know? Then ask.
Have you noticed 0 Catholics said a word about this article? Believe me its not because we don't know anything or because we are stupid and we just like to give our money out... Think about it for a second.
Most important: Why hate? i mean there is no constructive criticism here, only hate and disrespect. If you don't agree with a religion (Catholicism is a religion not a cult =p) Its cool, but what is the necessity to insult it or the people who believes in it? If you are fat or gay, yellow, black, etc Would you like to hear other people insulting your race or religions/believes?(Even though many people do as you guys are doing it here, wouldnt it be better just to keep silent instead of writing insulting words to other human beings?)
Please people be a better person
... is Dan Brown furiously scribbling notes for his next book.
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Funny that a religious organization would hunt down whistleblowers, but provide shelter for child molesters.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Oh, come on!
Please read history before you post.
The only reason Galileo was not burned alive is because he was a close friend to the pope.
It was his colleges who wanted him death because his ideas were against the ideas they had based their entire carriers on.
The academic establishment is even more reluctant to change than the catholic church.
Second example: this case. So the Vatican has been shown to be corrupt in its financial dealings, and what is their reaction? Hunt down the whistleblowers, rather than punish the ones doing the actual crime! It's the same kind of thinking--what threatens the Church, in their view, is not the failure to do the morally proper thing. It's whomever exposes their leadership for the arrogant crimes they commit under the guise of being holy.
Find and replace and will still make complete sense:
Vatican => United States
Church => Nation
God supposedly already knows your sins whether you tell them or not. In fact, he knows them before you even commit the sins, or before you even think of committing them first place. Telling a priest does nothing.
Thus the purpose of confession is so that the Church has the goods on everybody in the community.