The Book No Pope Would Want You to Read is filled with hard hitting truths tracing the Catholic Church's scramble for power and money using the veil of its self created religion.  The content goes beyond the smash TV series The Borgias and trumps all up to the minute media coverage of molestations and cover-ups. The Catholic Church serves as the template for today's corporate greed and world wars waged in the name of someone's god.

This site is to keep the dialogue going long after you've read the book...because we know the Church hasn't curbed its appetite nor positioned itself for an act of contrition evidenced by its US Conference of Catholic Bishops and local pastors violating US federal law by lobbying against amendments for federal funding of abortions, civil unions, euthanasia, health care reform and reporting of sex offenders. This practice takes the crusade off the battle field and into the voting booth.

Today that conference will convene in Bellevue, Washington, with an interesting line up on the agenda:

• vote on revisions to the Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People (adopted in 2002 in response to the sexual abuse crises; revised in 2005)
• debate and vote of physician assisted suicide
• present efforts of the USCCB on the Defense of Marriage
• report on Anglicanorum coebitus, the Vatican guidelines allowing communities of Anglicans to enter into full communion with the Catholic Church
• vote on two liturgical items pertaining to the Spanish translation of the Roman Missal and a collection of prayers for major feasts in Spanish speaking countries.

It's taken the Catholic Church nine (9) years to reach a decision on how to deal will clerical sex offenders; it's going to debate and vote on what is already in place as doctrine about suicide and marriage and it's coups de grace - implementing the big corporate practice of buying up the little guy to increase numbers. They're on the move and the pulpits will be buzzing this Sunday.