UNITED STATES
Boston Herald
The authors of a new United Nations report on the Vatican’s treatment of children and its handling of sexual abuse by priests have allowed their contempt for core church teachings to cloud otherwise meaningful recommendations for how the church can improve. And that is a terrible shame.
In a progress report of sorts released this week the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child ripped the Holy See for its past actions to protect predator priests and for the church’s damnable efforts to protect its reputation over victimized children. The committee issued a slew of recommendations to both prevent future abuse and to ensure child victims come first.
One particularly strong recommendation is that the Vatican take action against members of the church hierarchy who themselves victimized children simply by reassigning their abusers to other parishes, where they were free to abuse again. Pope Francis could start right in his own backyard in Rome, where Cardinal Bernard Law now makes his comfortable home.
But given the opportunity to wag their fingers before a global audience the report’s authors simply could not pass up the opportunity, condemning church policies on abortion and contraception and recommending that the Vatican amend canon law to allow both.
Yes, really!
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