‘Child abuse cover-up cardinals should not elect pope’

This video from the USA is called LA’s Cardinal Mahoney covered up child sex abuse.

Translated from NOS TV in the Netherlands:

Also pressure on Cardinal Danneels

Update: Thursday, February 21, 2013, 23:45

The Belgian Working Group on Human Rights in the Church says that [Belgian] Cardinal Danneels should not participate in the conclave to elect a new pope next month. He is controversial because he is said to have known of abuse by priests without having acted against it.

“Danneels has lost all moral authority, we think”, says the priest Rik Devillé, whose group represents 800 victims. With a petition the group wants to persuade Danneels not to go to Rome.

In the U.S., a similar protest is going on against Cardinal Mahony, who also is said to have known about the abuse.

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