"KRK: reporting child abuse to police by bishops is not necessary. Child pornography in the Vatican"

 

The Roman Catholic Church has a decades-long (and probably even longer) history of covering up the sexual abuse of children. The hierarchs of the NCC looked through their fingers even when child pornography was found behind the walls of the Vatican itself. And now, despite Pope Francis' declarations that he will put a stop to it, the church's recent actions and statements largely contradict those assurances.

 

Times Live reports that a set of guidelines drawn up to train newly ordained bishops includes the following statement: "'According to the state of the law of each state in which information is mandatory , ‘not necessarily' it is the bishop's duty to inform the authorities about suspects when [bishops] become aware of crimes or sinful acts" - so in other words, these people are telling their new bishops that they don't have to contact the police when they discover that one of their subordinates is molesting children.

 

This is in sharp contrast to an earlier statement by Pope Francis, which read: "Everything possible must continue to be done to eradicate from the Church the scourge of sexual abuse of minors and to open the way for reconciliation and healing for those who have been abused."

 

Pope Francis, your words are magnanimous, but your guidance on this matter is no more. Nothing has changed. Your people can feign concern about the continued abuse of children in your parishes that your priests and bishops manage, but you don't, really. All you care about is the image of the church, getting new butts to warm the church pews and cash in the collection trays.

 

It is absolutely indefensible. They are essentially training the new bishops to keep covering up these monstrous crimes and to hide behind religious freedom and also privileged communications to be able to do this.

 

Word to the wise, parents - the last people you entrust your children to without question should be those priests and bishops. It is impossible to predict what might happen to them.

 

Despite (alleged) efforts to eradicate pedophilia among priests, the problem persists.

 

A reminder of the next chapter in this scandal: a mass of child pornography material, including photos, videos and everything in between was found behind the walls of the Vatican last year. This is, of course, no surprise to anyone who views Roman Catholic Church as the religious, child-abusing cult and defender of pedophiles that it essentially is.

 

Vatican Promoter of Justice (an ironic title considering how little justice there is) Gian Piero Milano has released a 50-page report detailing child abuse material in the Holy See. Vatican officials got a full look at the details during the opening ceremony of the 2015 calendar year. In true Catholic style of covering up the truth, Milano did not give specific names of people accused of possessing child pornography. Federico Lombardi, the Vatican spokesman, did, however, name Archbishop Joseph Wesolowski as one of the accused, an unusual display of decency.

 

There have already been reports of Wesolowski not only possessed more than 100,000 photos and recordings of children being forced to engage in sexual acts, but also indicating that he had molested large numbers of children in Poland and the Dominican Republic. You might think that would be enough to put this man in jail, but no. As usual, the Vatican protects its people. This high-ranking Vatican official was protected at home by house arrest, despite the abhorrent nature of his crimes. The only reason for the arrest was that he seemed to have been allowed to move around without restrictions after Vatican officials quietly moved him from the Dominican Republic to the Catholic capital to avoid prosecution there.

 

On Wesolowski's computer, more than 160 recordings of teenage boys forced to masturbate in front of a camera and have sexual intercourse with each other. In addition, the boys were raped and forced to engage in sexual acts with adults. Wesolowski painstakingly hid his collection of child pornography, assigning more than 86,000 images to categories in locked folders. In addition to the material present on his computer, he had already deleted at least 45,000 other photos and videos. What's more, the archbishop wanted to make sure he would not be left without a handy supply of child porn when he traveled, so he took a laptop containing even more photos and recordings with him on trips.

 

As we all know this is an abomination, but it is also nothing new in the Roman Catholic Church. While I know that grey Catholics, like all decent people, condemn such behavior, I have to ask them this question: How are you able to sleep at night if you continue to pay the tray, attend mass, or otherwise support a criminal organization that has always protected pedophiles in its ranks, moving them from one parish to another so that they can continue to rape children with impunity, and which continues to do so? How can you think that such an organization knows anything about being a guide to morality and the good life?

 

This is truly astonishing. I really wish that there would be a mass exodus from this place and that a manhunt would be made for all pedophiles along with the people helping and protecting them, throw them in the dungeons and throw away the keys. Regarding this, however, I will not hold my breath.

 

Translated by Jacek. Thank you in the name of Jesus.