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=== News Update ===
British documentary alleges pope linked to "child abuse cover-up"
Oct 01 7:38 PM US/Eastern
A British documentary claimed that Pope Benedict XVI was implicated in
the systematic cover-up of child sex abuse allegations against Catholic
priests.
Before becoming head of the church, the then cardinal Joseph Ratzinger
enforced church doctrinal orthodoxy, including a "secret Vatican decree
which seemed to shelter the perpetrators and silence the victims of
abuse", the Panorama programme said.
This was the 1962 document Crimen Sollicitationis, which told top
churchmen how to deal with priests who "solicit or provoke the penitent
toward impure and obscene matters", according to a translation from
Latin on the BBC website.
It imposed an oath of secrecy on victims, witnesses and those probing
abuse claims and said that anyone breaking this would be excommunicated,
the BBC said.
Father Tom Doyle, a canon solicitor reportedly sacked by the Vatican
after criticising its handling of child abuse claims, told the BBC that
Crimen was "an explicit written policy to cover up cases of child sexual
abuse by the clergy, to punish those who would call attention to these
crimes by the churchmen."
But the programme's claims have provoked a furious response from the
Catholic Church in Britain.
The Archbishop of Birmingham, in central England, the Most Reverend
Vincent Nichols, told Britain's Press Association news agency that it
used Vatican documents "quite misleadingly in order to connect the
horrors of child abuse to the person of the pope."
Speaking on behalf of bishops in England and Wales, he accused the BBC
of "a deeply prejudiced attack on a revered world religious leader".
And he added that the Catholic Church in England and Wales was working
to protect children with transparency and care.
Ratzinger clarified church law on the issue in 2001 and Panorama
reported that he had ordered that the Vatican must have "exclusive
competence" for child abuse cases.
"It's all controlled by the Vatican and at the top of the Vatican is the
pope so Joseph Ratzinger was in the middle of this for most of the years
that Crimen was enforced," Doyle added.
The pope could "tomorrow" order that the church take strong action
against those accused of child sex scandals and co-operate with legal
proceedings.
The Catholic Church told the Press Association that the second, 2001
document does not hinder investigations of child abuse allegations and
that Crimen is not directly linked to child abuse but deals with the
misuse of the confessional.
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Archbishop of Westminster, central
London, and spiritual leader of Catholics in England and Wales, has
written to Mark Thompson, the BBC's director-general, to protest about
the programme.
The BBC said it was standing by it and would respond to the letter when
they received it.
The programme was presented by Colm O'Gorman, who was abused by a priest
as a boy and is now director of One In Four, an Irish charity which
supports people who have been sexually abused.
"What gets me is it's the same story every time and every place.
"Bishops appoint priests that they know have abused children in the past
to new parishes and new communities and more abuse happens," he said on
the programme.
The show also claimed to have found seven priests facing child abuse
investigations living in and around Vatican City.
Panorama told its viewers that the Vatican had failed to respond to
requests for interview.
source:
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/061001233844.0n6u9xt6.html
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