UNITED STATES
Church Militant

by Peter O’Dwyer • ChurchMilitant.com • January 17, 2016

Is the clerical code of silence still alive and well?

Oscar nominee Josh Singer, screenwriter for the critically acclaimed film “Spotlight,” speaks with Michael Voris in the latest episode of “Mic’d Up,” and says a code of silence among the clergy sustained the homosexual abuse crisis, and this code of silence exists today — this according to several experts, and even the United Nations itself.

Richard Sipe, a psychotherapist instrumental in the Boston Globe’s exposé of the scandal, claimed the code of silence is so powerful that priests will lie even on anonymous surveys.

The United Nations has recently addressed the problem of the code of silence; a scathing 2014 report authored by the Committee of the Rights of the Child revealed that the code of silence and a culture that punishes whistleblowers exists in the…