The Vatican still protects pedophile priests

[cleanhippie]

Urging a sprawling religious institution to take immediate remedial action to redress a scourge of pervasive sexual abuse within its ranks is unlikely to generate global controversy. Unless that organization is the Catholic Church and the edict is issued by a secular watchdog and muddied by the Vatican’s unique status as a hybrid sovereign state ruled by its own religious laws and mores.

On Feb. 5, the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child issued a stern rebuke of the Holy See for its failure to comply with its international obligations under the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The panel’s observations in its second periodic report on the Vatican accused it of systematically protecting pedophile priests and showing greater concern for preserving its own reputation and protecting the perpetrators than for upholding the best interests of the children.(cleanhippie note: This IS what happened here. That is fact. Does anyone dare anyone to deny this?) It called on the church to remove abusive clergy from official duty, turn abusers and those who shielded them over to state authorities for prosecution and release its voluminous archives of sexual-abuse complaints.

The U.N. report has reignited a lingering debate between defenders of the church and critics who deplore its handling of the sex-abuse crisis. Survivor groups and their supporters hailed the report as a watershed development in their arduous and lengthy battle to seek redress for past and ongoing abuses as well as efforts to prevent future ones. They have long criticized the Vatican for hiding behind a stony and impenetrable wall of secrecy, obstructing justice, protecting abusers and punishing whistle-blowers.


http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/2/the-vatican-stillprotectspedophilepriests.html

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1. This is the most salient quote from the article:

Opinion

[cleanhippie]

2. And this is the most salient quote from your post:

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3. You should have manipulated it with bold face and italics like you did the OP.

[edhopper]

4. Here is the

News report that says the exact same thing.

http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/2/5/un-demands-immediateactionfromvaticanonchildsexabuse.html

But I guess you need to side with the Vatican in spite of it all.

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8. Here is the

report itself:

http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CRC-OP-SC/Shared%20Documents/VAT/CRC_C_OPSC_VAT_CO_1_16307_E.pdf

Here is the quote at issue (page 4):

22. The Committee urges the Holy See to ensure the immediate removal of all priests suspected of child pornography and other crimes under the Optional Protocol and adopt without delay regulations, guidelines and mechanisms to effectively prevent in this regard, including in translating the Optional Protocol into local languages of the countries and in disseminating it in child-friendly formats.

Here is the headline of the opinion piece:

The Vatican still protects pedophile priests

But I guess you need to side with bias in spite of it all.

[cleanhippie]

11. It matters not what rug thinks, his apologetic position is well-known and his response was expected.

As much as he wants it to be, its not about him.

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14. In contrast to relying on expectations, your thoughts, when examined, are often found wanting.

[cleanhippie]

15. In contrast to yours, when compared, are literary masterpieces.

Now go on, get that last-word compulsion fix that you so desperately need.

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16. To call another's statement, when compared to yours, a literary masterpiece, is setting a low bar.

[cleanhippie]

17. It says even more about the statement being compared to.

Oops, sorry, now you have to have the last word again.

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18. It seems you're the one with the compulsion.

[Goblinmonger]

5. Most salient quotation you ignore

U.N. Report

[Warren Stupidity]

6. You should have manipulated it with bald Italians.

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9. It wouldn't help. Typography is no substitute for thought.

[cleanhippie]

13. lol

[trotsky]

7. Yup, and this completely undermines ANY moral authority...

that church thinks it has.

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10. How interesting. What precisely do you think is moral authority?

[cleanhippie]

12. ...that they had left. This is just another nail in the coffin.