Thanks to KL, who commented on "An Anti-Everything Choice," for the link to an article on instructions by Cardinal Joséph Ratzinger—now Pope Benedict—to keep pedophilia committed by Catholic priests away from public scrutiny. Not only is the UK'S Observer reporting this story but the Guerilla News Network, South Africa's Mail & Guardian Online, the Sydney Morning Herald, and the Tapei Times are reporting it, too.
Keeping abuse of any kind secret is evil when you are not the victim who has been terrorized into staying silent. It serves to perpetuate the abuse and kills the spirit of the victim(s). I speak from experience—though I was physically and emotionally abused, not sexually abused. I can't see such an action by a leader in any religion as being something God wants, by any twist of the imagination. If Ratzinger–Benedict is a changed man, I want to see his actions show it.
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Monday, April 25, 2005
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