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Fox News
An online game takes the idea of child’s play to a questionable new level.
Vatican Quest, which has a character resembling Pope Benedict XIV snagging children and delivering them to pedophile priests while being chased my camera-wielding members of the media, is under fire in Spain by critics who claim it makes fun of both sexual abuse victims and the Catholic Church.
The Spanish human rights group Maslibres.org recently launched an online petition demanding that the website RoundGames.org remove the video game from its free website.
“Reducing to caricature the drama of child sexual abuse, and then profiting from it, offends the victims and their families, said Miguel Vidal, spokesman for Maslibres.org, according to The New York Daily News. “Representing the pope as a pimp and the cardinals as pedophiles is an offense to Catholics.
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