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Patrick Roberts @irishcentral July 08,2014
Pope Francis is entering uncharted waters with his embrace of pedophile priest victims as occurred yesterday in the Vatican.
The two Irish women present, victims Marie Kane and Marie Collins, quickly pointed out that the cover-ups were as bad as as the actual crimes.
That is why Francis is treading on dangerous turf. There is hardly a serving senior figure in the Vatican, including the former pope Benedict, who has not been accused of a cover-up at some level on the issue.
Now comes Francis, who has never had such accusations made against him, poking around in very dark corners indeed.
His recent warning about the Mafia was meant as a shot across the bows of one of Italy’s most powerful evil forces.
But ranged behind him in the Vatican are men, and they are all men, who will consider any light shone on this subject to be of considerable negative import to them.
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