The explanation lies in centuries of Catholic Church history and is a tale involving secret betrothals, scandal, even a murder or two. Since the time of the Enlightenment, the Catholic Church has maintained two sets of records: one for the mundane and a second "secret archive" for matters of a sensitive nature. The cache — known as sub secreto files, Canon 489 files, confidential files or C-files — was to be kept under lock and key, only for the eyes of the bishop and his trusted few.

After the files became known to prosecutors and plaintiff's lawyers, the American justice system has pried open the doors to an archive long kept sealed. Thousands of additional pages are set to become public in coming months, as more than a dozen Catholic orders — Salesians, Claretians, Vincentians and others — prepare to bare their own secrets pursuant to agreements with victims. L.A. County Superior Court Judge Emilie Elias could set the date for their release at a hearing Tuesday.

The earliest mention of the secret archives in church history dates to the 1700s, in an edict on marriage issued by Pope Benedict XIV. The archives were to bear witness to "marriages of conscience" — unions that may be banned under civil law or otherwise scandalous, but celebrated by a priest in secrecy.

In the 20th century, when church law regulating the archives were written, Canon 489 prescribed that there was to be "a safe or cabinet, completely closed and locked, which cannot be removed" to which only the bishop would hold the key.

http://articles.latimes.com/2013/may/27/local/la-me-church-secret-files-20130528

I'm just as happy to let your bilge stay out there in public so that everyone can see how you respond when you're exposed for what you are.

After six years of American court appeals by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to keep 30,000 pages of internal, sealed files of priesthood sex crimes out of public scrutiny, the State Supreme Court recently ordered their release, and the documents became public for the first time. They make for startling reading, soul-jarring and shocking, an incontrovertible record of brutal and heartless rapes committed by 122 Roman Catholic priests who presented themselves to the world as the earthly agents of God. These files are a remarkable archive of criminal behaviour condoned by the Holy See, and are disturbing to read. Ray Boucher, the lead attorney for plaintiffs, said that what is revealed in the files is ‘chilling’, and ‘the irony in all of this’, he added, ‘is that in their vain attempts to protect the image of the church, they’ve tarnished it beyond repair’. Upon reading the unsealed documents, an anonymous Vatican official said that the Los Angeles Catholic priesthood ‘left a wake of devastation that is hard to comprehend’.

As a direct result of the release of the documents, and in a move unprecedented in the American Catholic Church, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez announced that he had relieved his predecessor, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, of all public duties over his serious mishandling of clergy sex abuse of children over the previous decades. Archbishop Gomez also announced that Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Curry, who worked with Cardinal Mahony to conceal child sex abusers from police, had resigned his post as a regional bishop in Santa Barbara, California. In a letter addressed to ‘My brothers and sisters in Christ’, Archbishop Gomez wrote; ‘I find these files to be brutal and painful reading. The behavior described in these files is terribly sad and evil’. Such is the nature of the Catholic priesthood the world over.

http://www.vatileaks.com/_blog/Vati_Leaks/post/Vatican_loses_fight_to_keep_sex_files_secret/

Abuse victims had insisted that the Archdiocese of Los Angeles release the records as part of a settlement in 2007, which provided $660 million to 508 victims. The Vatican’s response to intense media coverage about decades of paedophilic crimes in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles was simply to say that the accusations were nothing more than ‘petty gossip of the moment’ (Cardinal Angelo Sodano, April 2010, at Easter Mass in St. Peter’s Square), but the records of the Catholic Church now released reveal something entirely different.

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VATI LEAKS is a site dedicated to publishing unknown and suppressed information that has been hidden from the people by the Vatican hierarchs in an attempt to conceal the truth about its past.

Tony Bushby

After achieving the necessary academic qualifications, Tony Bushby became a self-employed architectural draftsman early in his life, and later established a magazine publishing business that involved 20 years of research, writing and the publishing of a series of colour magazines primarily for the Australian and New Zealand markets. Some of his titles were; Relieving Arthritis; The Renovators Guidebook; Glimpses of Life Beyond Death, some ‘Collector Editions’ motoring magazines, an immigrant’s handbook, and other general topics. Tony has also had some of his controversial articles published in NEXUS, a renowned international magazine, some of them being, ‘The Forged Origins of Christianity’, ‘Ancient Cities Under the Sands of Giza’, The Criminal History of the Papacy, ‘Celestial Prophecies and the Great Pyramid’, and Shambhala, the Valley of the Immortals.

With strong spiritual beliefs and an interest in metaphysical subjects, Tony developed a long and on-going relationship with many associations and societies throughout the world. He has been given access to several private libraries and, in one instance he actually lived for some time in an archival library that housed a collection of monastic documents more than 1000 years old. An elderly lady in London kindly offered him access to her vast private collection of ancient Bibles (763 in total) and other rare religious texts, and Tony was then able to identify the differences in the wording between old Bibles and newer versions. The development of his series of published books involved him in 30 years of full-time research and a substantial personal investment. Being fiercely tenacious, he was able to peel back the layers of ignorance, deception, superstition, and fear that surrounded the creation of particularly the Christian Gospels and the Vatican’s centuries of brutal enforcement of unsupported ‘truths’ that emanate from them.

Tony travelled extensively through Egypt, the Middle East, England, Wales, Scotland, USA, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Australia and New Zealand, and synchronicities allowed opportunities to come to him during this period. For example, an official written ‘Introduction’ signed by an Australian Prime Minister opened doors overseas for him with the trustees of a large European museum subsequently allowing him exclusive access to rare biblical manuscripts in their archival library. While living in Cairo, Tony spent time researching age-old papyri scrolls in the Rare Manuscripts Room in Egypt’s Alexandrian Library where he was provided with a translator to assist him in deciphering a rare collection of ancient sacred Temple texts at least 4000 years old. He was also privileged to explore subterranean chambers and sculptured temples under the sands of Giza that are denied to the general public and around that time, he was shown a series of top-secret photographs taken under the Giza Plateau in 1935 that would require a total re-assessment of world history if they were ever released to the public.

He was also privileged to explore subterranean chambers and sculptured temples under the sands of Giza that are denied to the general public and around that time, he was shown a series of top-secret photographs taken under the Giza Plateau in 1935 that would require a total re-assessment of world history if they were ever released to the public.