UN Report Means Bad Headlines for the Church
UN slams Vatican for protecting priests over child abuse Screams the BBC headline today. And it seems the world has forgotten all the progress made over the last 13 years and reverted back to unreservedly attacking Catholicism. The UN has denounced the Vatican for "systematically" adopting policies allowing priests to sexually abuse thousands of children. I have managed to dig up the actual report on the UN website and you can read it for yourself in full here . I guess the first thing to do is to acknowledge how bad this is. The abuse of even one child is unacceptable as far as I am concerned, and the fact that anyone should suffer abuse at the hands of someone who claims to be a servant of the Church is even more appalling, if that is possible, because of the hypocrisy that is involved, and because of the damage it does to the Church. I think it is clear to everyone that the abuse of children has, for a long time, been a problem for the whole of our societ...