UNITED KINGDOM
National Secular Society
The UN’s recent examination of the Holy See presented yet more evidence of the Catholic Church’s responsibility for, and cover-up of, child abuse. Yet the Catholic majority remains persistently silent, argues Terry Sanderson.
After the drubbing over child abuse that the Catholic Church (in its guise as the “Holy See”) got at the United Nations in Geneva earlier this month, you would think that Catholics around the world would be horrified and angry.
But they aren’t. There was little evidence of a widespread furious reaction to the arrogance and dissembling that Vatican representatives exhibited when confronted with crimes so enormous in their reach and depravity that they’re almost incomprehensible.
Then a cleric was caught red handed in Rome trying to launder millions of pounds in “false donations” through the Vatican bank.
In the USA, the Archdiocese of Chicago has released thousands of pages of documents that reveal how its hierarchy routinely covered up child sex abuse and shuffled abusing priests from one diocese to another. The scale of it beggars the imagination
But no one seems to want to know about it. Catholics are, reportedly, rushing back to church, pouring money into its coffers again and feeling generally quite good about things now that they’ve got Pope Francis.
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