Revoking the Corporate Charter of the Boston Archdiocese

[Ian David]

Please note that I am making a strong distinction between "Catholics" and "The Catholic Church."

In my mind I see opposing "The Church" to be the same as opposing "The Republicans." You can oppose "The Republicans" without being "Anti-American" and you can oppose "The Church" without being "Anti-Catholic."

Catholics have had even less to do with electing their pope than we had to do with electing Bush. We can hardly blame Catholics if their popes and cardinals are assholes.

Here in Massachusetts, Catholic parishes are being shut-down-- mostly because they've run out of money after paying child molestation settlements.

People are suing the Archdiocese for other reasons, as well. For example, someone donated $120,000 to build some fancy-schmancy church thing and then the Archdiocese announced it was closing the parish and selling it along with Mrs. Moneybag's god-accessory to a condo developer. The story goes something like that, anyway.

In addition, the leadership of The Catholic Church has been threatening and intimidating their own members, the citizenry at large, and local politicians in an attempt to bend them to the will of The Church.


For this and various reasons, I believe it can be shown that The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, A Corporation Sole has been acting against the best interest of the public and should have its corporate charter revoked by The Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
http://www.rcab.org/Finance/2003/Financials.html






Chartering a New Course: Revoking Corporations' Right to Exist
... When they hear the proposal to "revoke corporate charters," most people ... from people when you explain that they can revoke a company's charter
http://yeoldeconsciousnessshoppe.com/art120.html

The Corporate Charter Revocation Movement
... to ask a court to dissolve a company by revoking its corporate charter. ... Legal Defense Fund's links to help you revoke corporations' charters ...
http://www.co-intelligence.org/Y2K_Corp_Revocation.html

More:
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=revoke+corporate+charter


See also:

http://www.bishop-accountability.org/resources/resource-files/timeline/2002-08-27-Sullivan-LandRich1.htm

http://worcestervoice.com/civil_actions.htm

http://www.votf.org/parish_closings/financial_primer.html

http://corporationsole.insights2.org/ChurchProperty.htm


More:
http://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&c2coff=1&q=Catholic+Archbishop+of+Boston%2C+A+Corporation+Sole&btnG=Search


Related Thread:
Don't despise the GROUP. Despise their LEADERSHIP
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[Ian David]

1. What, nobody has feedback or comments on this?

<sigh>

[Mist]

2. Has anybody actually filed to revoke the RC charter? It's a

fascinating idea, so I hope you keep us up to date on it!

[Ian David]

3. I would do it myself, except my wife won't let me

She's concerned about things like bombs and lynchings and stuff like that.

If I wanted to get divorced, I'd do it.

But hey, if someone else wants to put their name on the document, I'll gladly help any way I can.

Still, it's much more polite than trying to get Homeland Security to designate Catholics as "Enemy Combatants."

The grounds being that The RCC has been trying to unlawfully influence the electoral process at the behest of a foreign power through threats and intimidation and (sometimes) acts of violence,

[Mist]

4. I thought you meant revoke it's charter for doing business (!)

The Homeland Security angle is interesting though.