The Pope Expresses Shock and Outrage, Road to Recovery, December 12, 2009

The Pope Expresses Shock and Outrage

Road to Recovery
December 12, 2009

http://www.road-to-recovery.org/pope-expresses-shock-and-outrage

STATEMENT BY REV. ROBERT M. HOATSON, PH.D., PRESIDENT AND FOUNDER OF “ROAD TO RECOVERY,” P.O. BOX 279, LIVINGSTON, NEW JERSEY 07039

“THE POPE EXPRESSES SHOCK AND OUTRAGE”

When the leader of over a billion Catholics expresses shock and outrage, as Pope Benedict XVI did today, after reading the “Murphy Report” about sexual abuse of children in the Dublin Archdiocese and its cover-up by numerous bishops, it is expected that he will follow-up with definitive and concerted action.

Road to Recovery recommends that Pope Benedict:

1) scrap plans to write a pastoral letter to the people of Ireland. The time for letters, phone calls and cards is over. Nothing but a tsunami of action is appropriate;

2) act decisively by recalling the Papal Nuncio and firing the bishops who covered up abuse in Ireland and elsewhere in the world;

3) call on the international community (United Nations Human Rights Organization) to conduct a worldwide investigation of the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse history and issue recommendations and appropriate sanctions.

4) establish a multi-million dollar fund to care for survivors of church abuse worldwide;

5) reveal the depth and breadth of his own cover-up of child sexual abuse by clergy, particularly when he was head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and offer his resignation if necessary.