AUSTRALIA
WA Today
Peter FitzSimons
Sports Columnist
The Fitz Files
Typical Vatican. For decades it has presided over a global system whereby numerous priestly paedophiles are endlessly moved on to continue their devastation in ever more dioceses, rarely calling them to account and even more rarely calling the cops. They even harbour some of the worst, and their enablers, in the Vatican itself! No calls for resignation there, nothing bar actively working to hide their institutional shame for the destruction of so many young lives.
But if just one priest may have possibly acted in a sexually harassing manner 30 years ago to other adult priests and – if it might generate some bad headlines for the pope himself – that priest is GONE!
So we have seen in Britain this week with Cardinal O’Brien, an outspoken anti-gay-marriage advocate who – and now there’s a surprise – is actually gay himself.
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