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Vatican questioned by UN child rights watchdog on child sex abuse by priests
The Vatican was Thursday pushed for the first time to provide answers to the UN over its commitment to stamp out child sex abuse by priests. The landmark question-and-answer session before the UN's child rights watchdog in Geneva came as Pope Francis said Catholics should feel “shame”, in an apparent reference to the scandals that have rocked the Church. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rules”Monsignor Scicluna; “Our guideline has always been that domestic law of the countries where the churches operate needs to be followed.”
Jan 17th, 2014 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0So there we have it. NO dictate from the (previous) Popes to stop the kiddie fiddling then.
If this is the best they can do the whole edifice of the RCC should be pulled down and the assets distributed via a trust fund to the vistims of these “holy men”.
TWO problems there of course:
1) they are NOT holy;
2) they are NOT men.
But what can you expect from puffed up “men” who wear dresses?
I wonder just how far the UN are prepared to push this, it's been going on for decades and the UN have only just got to the centre of the “problem”.
About time.
Jan 17th, 2014 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Put their feet to the coals.
Spanish Inquisition back at'cha.
Until they had all of their files to law enforcement including of course the records of the shell games they played with predators they claim to have “contained” this just isn't going to go away. It's not that hard to do, so do it and hand them over.
Jan 17th, 2014 - 03:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Have to disagree with popey when he says Catholics should feel “shame”.
Jan 17th, 2014 - 04:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Theres ...what ..1 billion (??) Catholics on this sphere and he wants them to feel some kind of vicarious shame for the actions of people they never even knew. home boy got it twisted.
@4 On this, I can agree with you: The rapists and the bastards who covered for them taught their young victims to feel shame over this for years.
Jan 17th, 2014 - 04:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The only people who should feel shame are a) the rapists b) their accomplices who plaid the shell game or terrorized the victims into silence with retaliatory abuse including threats of damnation, c) the “little Eichmanns” who knew of it and did nothing and to a lesser extent, d) the people who “suspected that something was up” in their parish or diocese but didn't want to rock the boat since their sinful church, ironically was their ticket to salvation.
Like I said, they are openly still shielding known accomplices, some of them with rather high profiles. Release the files, extradite the people they're protecting, then we can talk them satisfying their long overdue “penance on earth.”
#1. I think that maybe the Pope's team have done the sums
Jan 17th, 2014 - 04:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and found that there would be very little of the edifice of the
Catholic 'church' left if all paedophiles-in-office were excommunicated and jailed.
My, my, my. How the world turns.... It is about time that the lid was lifted on that nest of child molesters and woman haters...
Jan 18th, 2014 - 09:27 am - Link - Report abuse 0As they say “it's god's will” and “The lord works in mysterious ways” Suck it up you rapist scum bags.
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