During the Second World War, in an anti-Catholic diatribe, writer
and historian H.G. Wells posed the provocative question: ‘Why do we
not bomb Rome?’ Wells could not accept that Italy’s capital should be
spared only because of the pope and the Catholic Church, a church
which had always been a political force as much as a religion.
In an across-the-board examination of her history, dogma and present
day strategies, David Ranan reflects on whether there is a systemic fault
in the blueprint of the Catholic Church. Double Cross: The Code of the
Catholic Church is not fiction. Ranan shows how some of the Church’s
teachings and policies actually kill people; he explains where, how
and why.
Ranan’s insightful analysis explains why the modern Church has
such difficulty in reversing her teachings on such fundamental
questions as birth control, abortion, the Jews, and other shibboleths.
He explains why the Church has even today failed to give anything
more than a half hearted apology for Galileo’s ‘trial’ and why she has
for so long covered up sexual abuse by her priests.
The author’s careful analysis of the Church’s use of power in various
fields leads inexorably to the conclusion that the pontifical structure
should be dismantled, the Roman Curia dismissed, and the political
status of the Vatican State removed, if the Catholic Church is to be
saved for its members and for humanity generally.