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Saturday, July 31 2010 @ 05:12 PM EST

Catholic Church appeals to High Court over sex abuse ruling

Tuesday, July 13 2010 @ 09:31 PM EST

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The Catholic Church has gone to the High Court in a bid to overturn a ruling that could force it to pay £8 million compensation to victims of sexual abuse at an East Riding home.

More than 170 people were abused at St William's Children's Home in Market Weighton between 1960 and 1992.

A judge ruled previously that the Middlesbrough Diocese and the Catholic Child Welfare Society (CCWS) were responsible for the home.

Pope Benedict's divisions

Tuesday, July 13 2010 @ 01:13 PM EST

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The current form of governance of the Catholic church and the Vatican City State raises fundamental questions about these institutions - and their titular head, says Michael Walsh.

There was a legal tag, much used by medieval canon lawyers, that the pope could not be judged by anyone. This did not put him above the law, because the law was God’s law to which all were subject. It meant, rather, than he could not be summoned before a court, even an imperial court, although one way or another that sort of thing very occasionally happened.

Abuse appeal started by Catholic Middlesbrough Diocese

Monday, July 12 2010 @ 01:39 PM EST

Tag: england

A Catholic diocese has launched an appeal after being found liable for running a boys' school where 150 former pupils are suing for abuse.

Middlesbrough Diocese is facing the £8m compensation claim.

The alleged abuse took place between 1960 and 1992 at St William's in Market Weighton, East Yorkshire.

Cardinal Rode clears monks of wrongdoing in abuse reporting case

Friday, July 09 2010 @ 05:51 PM EST

Tag: italy

Rome, Italy, (CNA).- The Benedictine abbey in Ettal, Germany has announced that the Vatican has cleared two monks who were asked to resign from their positions over the reporting of a sexual abuse allegation.

A personal letter from Cardinal Franc Rodé states that his dicastery has found no reason that the two men could not be re-elected to their former positions.

Catholic Child Abuse Scandal: Seeking Accountability

Friday, July 09 2010 @ 01:18 PM EST

Tag: usa

A report in the July, 1 2010 New York Times offers detailed information about the complexities that attend the Vatican's handling of priests accused of molesting children.

Although the particulars of canon law are quite interesting for people like me who find the details of law and things ecclesiastical interesting, they are irrelevant when it comes to truly addressing the abuse crisis.

The Vatican Adjusts Its Child-Sex-Abuse Policies, Torture in Canada

Wednesday, July 07 2010 @ 03:21 PM EST

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By MARCI A. HAMILTON

A Reminder of How Statutes of Limitations Play a Nefarious Role

People rightly shake their heads in disbelief at each halting step that the Holy See makes toward fixing its morally-reprehensible approach to child sex abuse by clergy. Even now, the enormity of the revelations regarding the coverup is still hard to absorb.

As readers will remember, it all started with the Boston Globe’s groundbreaking investigative reporting in 2002.

Vatican says not liable in U.S. sexual abuse case

Tuesday, June 29 2010 @ 04:48 AM EST

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – The Vatican said on Tuesday it would prove it cannot be held legally responsible for the actions of a priest at the center of a sexual abuse scandal.

THE CLERGY SEXUAL ABUSE CRISIS AND THE SPIRIT OF CANON LAW

Tuesday, June 29 2010 @ 12:12 AM EST

Tag: vatican

Rev. John J. Coughlin, O.F.M.*

Abstract: Recent revelations of cases in which Catholic priests have sexually abused minors over the course of the last five decades have drawn intense media scrutiny and public outrage. But discipline of the clergy for sexual offenses is not novel in the history of the Catholic Church, and canonical structures have long been in place to address the problem.

This Article argues that the recent crisis has resulted in part from a failure to respect and enforce the relevant provisions of canon law. If bishops had fulfilled their duty to abide by the rule of law, especially in the cases involving clergy who are serial child abusers, there probably would have been no crisis. This Article proposes that an important aspect of responding to the present crisis must entail re-commitment to the rule of law, thereby allowing injured individuals and communities to heal and forgive.

Vatican Criticizes Raid on Belgian Church Offices

Saturday, June 26 2010 @ 05:22 AM EST

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BRUSSELS — An extraordinary series of raids on the Roman Catholic Church in Belgium provoked sharp criticism from the Vatican on Friday, with the church expressing “shock” a day after Belgian investigators interrupted a bishops’ meeting at the church’s Brussels headquarters, detaining clerics for nine hours, and opened an archbishop’s grave at a cathedral north of the city.

Is The Smoke of Satan in the Vatican?

Thursday, June 24 2010 @ 12:33 AM EST

Tag: vatican

By Colleen Hammond

Fr. Gabriel Amorth has served as the Vatican’s chief exorcist for the past quarter century. During those twenty-five years, the quietly outspoken priest has raised eyebrows with his sober accounts of brushes with the Devil — a routine occupational hazard for someone who has dealt with over 70,000 cases of demonic possession.

But his recent declaration that Satan is alive and well in the heart of the Vatican itself has to rank as his most provocative revelation to date.

Catholic lawyer says La Crosse Diocese uses too high a standard on abuse cases

Friday, June 18 2010 @ 06:18 PM EST

Tag: usa

LA CROSSE - A Catholic lawyer says the La Crosse Diocese might be putting young people at risk.

James Connell says a church review board uses too high of a standard in deciding if sexually-abusive priests should be punished.

Church opens investigation into abuse

Thursday, June 17 2010 @ 09:48 PM EST

Tag: denmark

Church opens independent investigation into abuse charges by an external lawyer, whilst the police continue their own case

An investigation proposed by a church commission is one of two looking into allegations of sexual abuse by the clergy

Not liable for Lahey's actions: church

Thursday, June 17 2010 @ 08:40 PM EST

Tag: canada

By Mark Quinn, CBC News

The Roman Catholic Church in St. John's denies any responsibility for alleged sexual misconduct by Bishop Raymond Lahey when he was a priest in the city.

The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of St. John's filed a statement of defence in the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court on June 9.

Pope Sees the Devil Behind Timing of Sex Abuse Crisis

Friday, June 11 2010 @ 02:30 PM EST

Tag: vatican

Since the Catholic sexual abuse crisis erupted a decade ago, there have been numerous attempts to explain its causes, from a lack of fidelity to an over-emphasis on celibacy and clerical privilege.

This morning in Rome, Pope Benedict XVI pointed to a deeper unseen force lurking behind the crisis, especially its timing: the Devil.

Bertie Ahern defends church abuse deal

Tuesday, June 08 2010 @ 07:54 AM EST

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The former Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has defended the decision his government took in 2002 to cap at €127million the contribution of Irish religious orders to the State compensation scheme for victims of church abuse.

In an interview with Irish journalist Karen Coleman, Mr Ahern said he had no regrets about the deal that was struck during his tenure as Taoiseach. Irish opposition politicians are calling for a review of the deal. They want the religious orders to pay more money to the compensation scheme.

Venezuelan bishop denounces media coverage of sex-abuse in Catholic Church

Friday, June 04 2010 @ 02:41 AM EST

Caracas, Venezuela, Jun 4, 2010 / 02:09 pm (CNA).- Auxiliary Bishop Luis Armando Tineo of Caracas recently praised Pope Benedict XVI for his decision to confront the issue of clerical sex abuse and denounced the tabloid journalism of some media outlets that seek to denigrate the Church’s image.

“Benedict XVI is being transparent, firm and calm in this sense. His Letter to Catholics in Ireland is proof that he has opted for a pastoral and not a ‘tactical’ approach,” the bishop said.

New Catholic Church Hypocrisy Alert

Monday, May 31 2010 @ 11:49 PM EST

There are times that I doubt people could make up stuff that would be a bigger case of outrageous hypocrisy than the members of the Roman Catholic Church hierarchy trying to depict media coverage of the literally world wide sexual abuse scandal as nothing more than anti-Catholic bigotry.

Devine slams anti-Catholic agenda in child sex abuse row

Monday, May 31 2010 @ 02:59 AM EST

Tag: england

The Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Devine, claims today that opponents of his church are using child sex abuse scandals to further an “insidious” anti-Catholic sectarian agenda.

In an interview with the Sunday Herald, to accompany an exclusive article on the scandals, Devine said sectarianism was “constant” for most Catholics in Scotland, adding: “The proper name for it is anti-Catholicism.”

Devine slams anti-Catholic agenda in child sex abuse row

Sunday, May 30 2010 @ 03:11 AM EST

Church abuse cases: Mgr Scicluna speaks on need to 'amputate' to heal'

Saturday, May 29 2010 @ 03:03 AM EST

Tag: vatican

The Church 'may have to amputate to heal' the Vatican's top prosecutor in sex abuse cases by priests, Mgr Charles Scicluna, has warned.

Speaking in St Peter's Basilica during a Mass of reparation for abuse committed by priests, and for healing within the church, Mgr Scicluna said that when the innocence of children was trampled upon, broken, sullied, abused, and destroyed, then "the earth becomes arid and the whole world sad."

Bishop of Durham criticises ‘time-wasting paper trail’ of Criminal Record Bureau checks

Thursday, May 27 2010 @ 12:26 AM EST

Tag: england

By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent

One of the most senior figures in the Church of England has spoken out against the excessive bureaucracy involved in child protection procedures.

The Bishop of Durham, the Rt Rev Tom Wright, called repeated demands for Criminal Records Bureau checks a “waste of time” and claimed they are solely designed to create a “paper trail” rather than safeguarding the vulnerable.

Child molestation suits stopped; Clergy sex abuse victims respond

Wednesday, May 26 2010 @ 04:51 AM EST

Tag: usa

Statement by Barbara Dorris of St. Louis, Outreach Director of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (314 862 7688 home, 314 503 0003 cell)

This renewed legal challenge by Catholic officials to a wise Delaware public safety law recklessly endangers kids, protects predators and delays justice, healing and closure for public school victims. It’s another painful reminder that the church hierarchy remains primarily committed to protect itself rather than children.

Canon law guides church's response to clergy sexual abuse

Wednesday, May 26 2010 @ 02:14 AM EST

Tag: usa

By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- With roots in the Council of Jerusalem of the first century, canon law is a cumbersome but necessary set of regulations that help church officials govern the Catholic Church on issues as diverse as clergy sexual abuse and the role of baptized people within church structure.

I never covered up abuse, says Archbishop Philip Wilson

Saturday, May 22 2010 @ 02:03 AM EST

Tag: australia

By Michael Owen From: The Australian

THE Catholic Archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Wilson, has denied claims he covered up sex abuse involving the clergy in NSW.

Archbishop Wilson maintained he had not mishandled nor covered up sexual abuse cases during his time in the Maitland-Newcastle diocese, north of Sydney, in the late 1970s and 80s.

Church calls abuser 'living treasure'

Thursday, May 20 2010 @ 10:33 PM EST

Tag: australia

THE Melbourne Catholic church's vicar-general has attacked the emergence of what he describes as a ''victims' industry'' that seeks to exploit victims of church sexual abuse.

In an interview with The Age in which Bishop Les Tomlinson dismissed calls from a victims' collective to review the Melbourne archdiocese's handling of sexual abuse claims, he said he ''wouldn't rule out the possibility that there are people willing to exploit these victims for their own gain".

Belgian Catholic bishops ask pardon for sexual abuse

Thursday, May 20 2010 @ 03:23 AM EST

Tag: germany

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's Catholic bishops asked all victims of sexual abuse by priests for pardon on Wednesday in a pastoral letter promising tougher guidelines for clergy working with children.

The bishops, just returned from a visit to Pope Benedict in Rome, also promised in their first letter about the scandal to Belgian Catholics that they would improve the way they exercise their authority as leaders of the Church.

Can the Pope Learn a Lesson From Spiderman? Vatican Claims Bishops Not Employees of Church

Thursday, May 20 2010 @ 02:43 AM EST

Tag: vatican

Vatican Not Responsible for Bishops Actions

The Vatican is defending a lawsuit that claims Bishops in the United States covered up allegations of sexual abuse. That's not news. The Pope and the Roman Catholic Church have never acknowledged the responsibility the Church as an institution has to survivors of priest sexual abuse. The Catholic Church tends to fight lawsuits filed by priest abuse victims vigorously, even if the priests involved have been criminally convicted.

Archbishop Listecki says bishops responsible for sex abuse cases, not Vatican

Wednesday, May 19 2010 @ 02:36 AM EST

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Milwaukee, Wis., May 19, 2010 / 02:18 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Responding to a recent lawsuit that argues the Vatican is responsible for bishops who failed to report clerical sex abuse, Archbishop Jerome Listecki of Milwaukee weighed-in on the issue Tuesday, stressing that according to cannon law, the responsibility “always falls on the shoulders of the bishops,” not the Vatican.

Two Catholic authors defend the Pope

Wednesday, May 19 2010 @ 12:18 AM EST

Tag: usa

This interview appeared in the USA Today website.

Pope Benedict XVI's legacy will be shaped by his response to the explosive global clergy sex-abuse crisis, say two Catholic authors who detail and defend his record in a book published this week.

Vatican asks U.S. court to dismiss suit

Tuesday, May 18 2010 @ 01:58 AM EST

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By Julia Duin

The Vatican asked a U.S. District Court on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit against the Holy See filed by three Kentucky abuse victims, saying that bishops are not church employees and that a 1962 church directive did not mandate their silence on priestly sex abuse.

The motion, according to multiple church and secular news sources, is in response to a 2004 lawsuit, filed by Louisville lawyer William McMurry, that implicates the Catholic Church with allowing clergy sex abuse to go unchecked for decades.

Vatican to make most robust defence against U.S. child molestation claims yet

Monday, May 17 2010 @ 10:15 PM EST

Tag: usa

By Mail Foreign Service

The Vatican will make its most detailed defence yet today against claims that it is liable for US bishops who allowed priests to molest children.

It will say bishops are not its employees and that a 1962 Vatican document did not require them to keep quiet.

The Vatican will make the arguments in a motion to dismiss a US lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds filed in Louisville, Kentucky, but it could affect other efforts to sue the Holy See.

Vatican says document does not prove coverup

Monday, May 17 2010 @ 02:42 AM EST

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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican today will make its most detailed argument yet for why it is not liable for bishops who let priests in the United States remain in positions where they molested children, in a court filing that could affect other efforts to sue the Holy See in American courts.

In a motion to dismiss a lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, the Holy See is expected to argue that a key Vatican document calling for secrecy in church trials for sex abuse cases was not, as victims’ lawyers say, proof of a Vatican-orchestrated coverup.

Pope's defenders push back

Sunday, May 16 2010 @ 11:13 PM EST

Tag: vatican

by John L Allen Jr

Rome -- Both in the media and on the street, defenders of Pope Benedict XVI pushed back this weekend – in effect, insisting that the pope still enjoys popular support, and that media focus on the Catholic church vis-à-vis the sexual abuse of minors, as opposed to the broader culture, amounts to “moral panic.”

The bishop said that pedophilia is a "gold mine" for the "enemies" of the Church.

Friday, May 14 2010 @ 02:13 AM EST

In their pastoral letter adds that "some have even dared to attack the Pope Benedict XVI, accusing it of covering up and if they got to test the slightest blemish, would have been the target of their claims," referring "not only the white dress the sweet Christ on earth, but because it attacked the pope would remain discredited the entire Catholic Church, "he emphasized the bishop.

PRIEST SPEAKS OUT ON ABUSE

Wednesday, May 05 2010 @ 06:22 AM EST

Tag: ireland
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By AINE FOX

AN all-Ireland inquiry into child abuse within the Catholic Church should not take place, according to a Banbridge priest and canon law expert.

Father Aidan McGrath, who is based in Rome, said he believes more inquiries into a scandal that has rocked the Church in Ireland and throughout the world in the last 12 months will focus too much on the past instead of working to prevent the cover-ups happening again in the future.

The Archbishop and House Bill 5473

Tuesday, May 04 2010 @ 06:28 AM EST

Tag: usa

Archbishop Henry J. Mansell has written a column for The Catholic Transcript regarding House Bill 5473, which would have extended the statute of limitations for victims of childhood sexual assault and abuse, while it placed limits on precisely who could sue, and under what circumstances.

The bill will not be brought to a vote this legislative session, which ends Wednesday.

Church leaders are spinning their wheels

Tuesday, May 04 2010 @ 04:41 AM EST

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by Maureen Paul Turlish

The institutional Roman Catholic church can attack every newspaper in every country in the world but that will not change the fact that as an institution it has participated in an extremely well documented, egregious pattern of enabling and covering up for the sexual abuse of thousands of innocent children the world over during almost an entire century.

Modernism made me do it

Monday, April 26 2010 @ 05:51 AM EST

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By Kevin Clarke

Now I wasn't there, and it's possible that these quotes from Catholic News Service can be taken out of context, but the comments below betray a certain consistency with other recent episcopal responses to the physical and sexual abuse of Catholic children and the media and public reaction to same that I think is worth noting.

Apparently it is modernism and a malevolent media to blame for all. Who knew?

Jeffrey S. Lena: Lawyer at center of Vatican storm

Monday, April 26 2010 @ 05:46 AM EST

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An unassuming Berkeley man has emerged at the center of the Vatican’s unfolding clerical sex abuse scandals.

Jeffrey S. Lena, whom the Associated Press describes as “a tennis-loving, Saab-driving solo practitioner from Berkeley“, is the Vatican’s go-to guy on matters concerning sexual abuse of parishioners by priests.

Church Fighting To Deny Justice To Victims

Sunday, April 25 2010 @ 05:59 AM EST

Tag: usa

Several weeks ago, a victim in the St. Francis Hospital child sexual abuse case called me, sobbing and suicidal.

"Nobody cares," he said. "Nobody cares."

The Archdiocese of Hartford doesn't care, I told him. But Catholics care. People care. Someday, I said, the church and the hospital will apologize, acknowledging their responsibility, under the weight of public pressure, legal obligation or moral repentance.

Catholic Church's response to sex abuse allegations murky

Wednesday, April 21 2010 @ 09:47 PM EST

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By James W. Breedlove

�But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.��Matthew 18:6

The Catholic sex abuse crisis, so prevalent in the U.S. some eight years ago, is now garnering headlines in Europe and a number of other countries.

Chile's Catholic Church apologizes for child abuse

Wednesday, April 21 2010 @ 08:58 PM EST

Tag: chile

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church in Chile on Tuesday said there had been 20 confirmed or alleged cases of child abuse by priests, and asked for forgiveness from the victims.

Monsignor Alejandro Goic, head of Chile's bishops' conference, said that in five of the cases sentences had been imposed, in another five trials were still under way, and in 10 others priests had been absolved or results were pending.

Mexican bishop blames ‘eroticism and internet porn’ for clerical child abuse

Monday, April 19 2010 @ 09:17 PM EST

Tag: mexico

JUST days after Ratzinger’s No 2 in the Vatican – Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone – caused outrage when he blamed homosexuals for clerical abuse in the Catholic Church, a Mexican bishop declared that the root cause was, in fact, eroticism on TV and internet porn.

Cardinal Castrillon defends silence on abuse, invokes confessional seal

Monday, April 19 2010 @ 10:21 AM EST

Tag: vatican

The former prefect of the Congregation for Clergy has defended a letter in which he praised a French bishop for withholding evidence of sexual abuse from police.

The letter from Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos to Bishop Pierre Pican of Bayeux caused an uproar when it surfaced last week, with journalists citing it as evidence that the Vatican had a policy of covering up evidence of priestly misconduct. Even the Vatican press office, in a public statement, said that the Colombian cardinal's letter, which was written in 2001, illustrated the need to change Vatican policy regarding sex-abuse cases. Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had pushed successfully for a new policy giving his Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith jurisdiction over sex-abuse cases.

After Malta, the campaign to arrest the Pope in Britain is faltering

Monday, April 19 2010 @ 09:54 AM EST

Tag: england

By Cristina Odone

What will happen when Pope Benedict XVI comes to Britain in September? At Westminster Cathedral they�re dreading the visit, terrified of an anti-papal protest. Already, Peter Tatchell and his Protest the Pope campaign have pledged to picket all venues on the papal tour. Public embarrassment is their weapon of choice.

Christopher Hitchens, writer, wit, and the passionate atheist who has made a fortune out of his best-selling God is Not Great, has plans of his own. He has consulted Geoffrey Robertson QC and Mark Stephens, the human rights lawyer, to mount a legal case to arrest the Pope.

Archbishop of Toronto calls sex-abuse scandals in church �exceptions�

Monday, April 19 2010 @ 05:45 AM EST

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TORONTO � Sexual-abuse scandals rocking the Roman Catholic church are �dramatic exceptions� to the good work done by most priests, the archbishop of Canada�s largest archdiocese said Sunday.

In a pastoral message delivered to churchgoers across the archdiocese, Thomas Collins said the clergy and lay people should not be discouraged by the seemingly endless stream of victims.

Cardinal drags late pope to abuse controversy

Monday, April 19 2010 @ 05:42 AM EST

Tag: france

A senior cardinal who headed the Vatican office for clergy has dragged Pope John Paul II into controversy saying he had papal approval to congratulate a French bishop for hiding a sexually abusive priest in 2001.

Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos, who headed the Vatican Congregation for Clergy for ten years, until 2006 said he praised French Bishop Pierre Pican of Bayeux-Lisieux in 2001 for the cover up.

Priest says he was bullied into taking fall for Pope in abuse scandal

Sunday, April 18 2010 @ 01:40 PM EST

Tag: germany

The church official who initially said it was his fault that a paedophile priest was given succour in Pope Benedict XVI�s former diocese has broken ranks, alleging he was bullied into taking responsibility to protect the pontiff.

Gerhard Gruber was Joseph Ratzinger�s general vicar in Munich during the 1980s, when Ratzinger, now Pope, was Archbishop.

Cardinal justifies praise for French bishop's silence over abusive priest

Sunday, April 18 2010 @ 10:30 AM EST

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MADRID: A top cardinal justified praising a French bishop for not reporting a self-confessed abusive priest to the police, saying the late pope John Paul II authorised him to send the letter, a Spanish newspaper reported Saturday.

Colombia's Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos called Bishop Pierre Pican of Bayeux-Lisieux in northern France a model for all bishops for his handling of the case in a letter he sent him in 2001.

How Not To Argue Against the Catholic Church's Pedophilia Defense

Sunday, April 18 2010 @ 06:02 AM EST

Tag: usa

There are 4,392 priests and deacons in the U.S. Catholic Church alone who have been charged with allegations of sexual abuse from 1950-2002.

As of last week, the Vatican has attempted, at my count, six different public-relations campaigns to deflect any blame away from Pope Benedict XVI on the stonewalling of the church regarding priest sexual abuse.

Then came the smoking gun: A letter surfaced, signed personally by Pope Benedict when he was a cardinal, refusing to take action against a pedophile priest.

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