The Vatican isn’t going to take any action to prevent the widespread sexual and physical abuse on children by these perverted priests. As I stated in a post on this Blog yesterday, there are over 400,000 priests working for the Catholic Church worldwide. If only 1 percent of these is a misfit, which is quite an extremely small percentage, this translates to 4000 abusive priests. There is no way the Vatican is going to engage in a worldwide investigation of these men. Furthermore, those few that are being retired and used as propaganda by the Vatican are already into their seventies. There hasn’t been one young or even middle-aged priest brought to justice.Yet there is no question that young priests are also guilty of sexual abuse on children.
By the way, doesn’t this Pope have a cynical and sinister appearance? Look at the photograph below. This is not the first time I notice this.
On a lighter note, he really does need to get rid of that funny-looking hat. TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AFP) – A US support group for victims of predator priests said Tuesday comments made by Pope Benedict XVI on the sex scandal rocking the Catholic Church were meaningless and a poor substitute for action.
Benedict said on the plane taking him to Portugal for a four-day visit that the long-running abuse scandal, which has tainted his five years in the Vatican, was a “truly terrifying” evil that came from within the Church itself.
His words won praise from the media accompanying him on the visit to Portugal, who called the statement the strongest the 83-year-old pontiff has made to date on the painful issue.
But Barbara Blaine, founder and president of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), dismissed the pope’s statements as “pretty meaningless.”
“There is no action,” Blaine, who was herself abused by a priest when she was 13, told AFP.
“None of the words that he said today make children any safer than before he spoke the words,” said the now 53-year-old Blaine.
“Previous to this, he was pointing fingers at the press, saying you were anti-Catholic. He said victims who spoke up were engaging in petty gossip.
“He may have stopped that extreme pointing of fingers, but he hasn’t taken any action that will protect children,” Blaine said.
Benedict’s papacy has been rocked by allegations that the Vatican protected pedophile priests from prosecution in Europe and the United States, and that he knew about several cases of predator priests, prior to becoming pope, but took no action against them.
SNAP wants the Vatican to take concrete steps to protect children from pedophile priests, including firing bishops who protect them, handing such priests over to the secular authorities, and establishing a website with a database of the names of abusive clergy members.
he looks a lot like the evil emperor in the Star Wars saga, who on the balance, I think was a lot more caring.
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