CANADA
The B.C. Catholic
Malin Jordan
For an agency of “peace,” the UN sure likes to lob missiles. Its latest salvo, fired from the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, is aimed at re-making the Catholic Church.
The report from the UNCRC was supposed to be on the sexual abuse scandals that have rocked the Church over the past couple of decades or so. And that would have been fair enough.
The UN body blasted the Vatican in the report over what it called a “code of silence” that Rome used to cover abuse cases, to silence victims, and to move guilty priests around. It likened the Vatican’s actions in dealing with the cases to a culture of protection.
“The committee is gravely concerned that the Holy See has not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed, has not taken the necessary measures to address cases of child sexual abuse and to protect children, and has adopted policies and practices which have led to the continuation of the abuse by, and the impunity of, the perpetrators,” the UN report stated.
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