The shameful Catholic Juggernaut rolls on.
More evidence, in the form of a 1997 Vatican letter which warned Ireland's Catholic bishops not to report suspected child-abuse cases to police. It documents the Vatican's rejection of a 1996 Irish church initiative to begin helping police identify paedophile priests following Ireland's first wave of publicly disclosed lawsuits.
Consider this: The level of evidence that is now in the public domain would be more than enough to force any President or Prime Minister out of office if such weighty evidence were directed at them.
It is further conclusive evidence of the stinking Vatican cover up that we already know so much about. However, as we all know, the Vatican has no use for evidence anywhere in it's teachings or it's practices; and the corrupt Catholic leadership bandwaggon will just roll on, regardless of how much conclusive evidence is produced against them.
The 'ungodly' behaviour of priests appears to have been secretly tolerated or encouraged by Popes, Cardinals and Bishops for centuries. Now the secret is out, it is tolerated openly. Molesting children is part of the sick culture of this rotten organisation and it is a sad indictment on the world that it still permits it to continue, even though it has been exposed for all to see.
The means to stop it rests in the hands of the Vatican but they continue to do nothing. They continue to deny the cover up and they continue to protect the guilty. Meanwhile, world leaders do nothing and the Catholic congregation do nothing.
Shame on them.
Public opinion should force worldwide governments to take action but they won't. Members of the Catholic church should demand action but they don't. Victims do demand action but no one heeds them.