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Posted by Barbara Blaine on March 19, 2012
New revelations are surfacing about Catholic employees castrating boys in the Netherlands and Catholic nuns essentially stealing babies in Spain.
The Pope has set up a new church investigation, but not into these crimes. Instead, it’s focused on “leaks” in the Vatican hierarchy.
Again, the church hierarchy shows its true, and tragic, priorities. The priests and nuns who abuse and torture children are rarely pursued and punished. Instead, those who allegedly leak details of the Vatican’s mishandling of child sex cases are.
On Saturday it was revealed that during the 1950s, psychiatric wards under the auspices of the Dutch Roman Catholic church were castrating young boys for suspicions of homosexuality.In the late fall of last year, Spain was rocked by thousands of reports of babies being stolen by nuns and priests and sold for a profit, a practice that continued for decades Despite the horrors of these crimes, Church officials have responded more quickly – and devoted greater resources – to uncovering those who hacked its website and which officials leaked information.
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