Democratic Underground - Vatican Admits: Most Priests Accused of Sex Crimes were NEVER Tried

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/03/15/vatican.priests.sexual.abuse/

Catholic Church officials never prosecuted more than half the roughly 3,000 priests accused of sexual impropriety in the past decade, a top Vatican official has revealed.

There has been "no trial" in 60 percent of cases, mostly "because of the advanced age of the accused," said Msgr. Charles J. Scicluna, head of the Vatican office that investigates crimes the church considers most serious.

The priests in those cases were subject to "administrative and disciplinary provisions" such as instructions not to celebrate Mass or hear confessions, Scicluna told L'Avvenire, the Italian Catholic bishops' newspaper, on Saturday.

Those cases include some of the most "sensational... which have caught the attention of the media," he said, without revealing more details.

So, they let these pedophiles continue for DECADES to abuse children, DID NOTHING ABOUT IT WHEN THEY KNEW, then did nothing about it WHEN THE ABUSE BECAME KNOWN BEYOND THE CHURCH because they let it go on for so long that those pedophiles are too old to bother with???

The crotch-sniffers in the Vatican are repulsive beyond words. What moral authority does any institution have when it spends DECADES providing COVER AND OPPORTUNITY for pedophiles?

These people DO NOT CARE ABOUT CHILDREN. They do not care about women. They care about perpetuating their own power.

When you contribute to this church, you contribute to the support of pedophiles.

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