Lawyer files criminal raps vs Pope, Cardinal Rosales
‘Disturbance of order, swindling, immorality’
MANILA, Philippines — A lawyer filed on Tuesday a criminal complaint before the Manila prosecutor’s office accusing Pope Benedict XVI and Manila Archbishop Gaudencio Cardinal Rosales of human rights violations, including alleged disturbance of public order, swindling and teaching immoral doctrines.
Elly Pamatong claimed the Pope and Rosales “have been arrogantly, oppressively and offensively mounting loudspeakers on church rooftops, towers, belfries and trees that are blaring with monotonous false dogmas and doctrines.”
“They have been disturbing the peace and quiet of non-Catholics throughout the country,” he said in his complaint.
Among others things, Pamatong wants the court to rule that those who will not respect the rights of non-Catholics to live in peace “be deported to the Vatican and forever barred from entering the country.”
