WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, the United Nations criticized the Vatican for what the “Committee Against Torture” panel has referred to as an inadequate response to child sexual abuse scandals in the Catholic Church. Once again, the UN has resurrected the hyped-up fear over so-called “pedophile priests,” while ignoring the ongoing epidemic of teachers having sex with students.
In February, the New York Times noted that in a report issued by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, the UN “called on the Vatican to remove all child abusers from its ranks, report them to law enforcement and open the church’s archives so that bishops and other officials who concealed crimes could be held accountable.”
Not surprisingly, the report also condemned the Catholic church “for its opposition to contraception, homosexuality and abortion in cases of child rape and incest.” (more...)
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