This video from the USA says about itself:
8 May 2014
As UN Torture Committee Probes Vatican, Sex-Abuse Survivors Urge Church to End Decades-Long Cover-up.
In Britain, ‘media personality’ Jimmy Savile abused many, maybe 1,000 children, as the public found out after his death. Savile was a Knight of the Vatican. The Vatican said they could not revoke that order of knighthood.
Now, translated from Dutch daily De Volkskrant today, about ultra-conservative Bishop Jo Gijsen, also after his death:
Bishop Gijsen keeps royal honour
05/12/14, 16:29
It is not possible to revoke the royal honour of the deceased bishop of Roermond Jo Gijsen, writes Mayor Peter Cammaert of Roermond in response to questions from a resident of Baexem who asked to posthumously revoke Gijsen‘s knighthood because of the bishop’s sexual abuse of two boys.
Gijsen in 1993 was made a Knight of the Order of the Dutch Lion. Cammaert writes that medals can only be annulled if someone has been convicted to one or more years in prison.
The committee about complaints of sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church recently declared two complaints about abuse by Gijsen valid, but the bishop was never convicted by a judge.
It is sad that people who portray themselves as servants of Christ hide behind their cloaks and prey on innocent children.
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Very true. And the cover-up of abuse by higher-ups in hierarchies who fear the church’s reputation will be damaged by truth is also bad.
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