This 8 May 2014 video from the USA is called As UN Torture Committee Probes Vatican, Sex-Abuse Survivors Urge Church to End Decades-Long Cover-up.
From daily The Guardian in Britain, by Rosie Scammell in Rome:
Images of child abuse found in Vatican City
Holy See’s prosecutor general says two cases involving indecent material came to light last year, along with other crimes
Sunday 1 February 2015 20.26 GMT
Two cases of child pornography possession were uncovered within the walls of the Vatican last year, along with numerous other crimes in the city state, the Holy See’s prosecutor general has announced.
Following worldwide allegations of sex abuse by priests, Gian Piero Milano, the Holy See’s Promoter of Justice, said the Vatican was now taking action against paedophilia in the heart of the Catholic church.
Unveiling the Vatican’s justice report, Milano stopped short of naming those accused of possessing child pornography. Holy See spokesman Federico Lombardi however identified Josef Wesolowski, a disgraced former ambassador, as one of the people facing charges.
Wesolowski was stripped of his diplomatic immunity last year following accusations that he abused young boys during his time as envoy to the Dominican Republic. The Polish former archbishop is currently awaiting trial at the Vatican, in what will be the first sex abuse trial ever held at the Holy See.
Beyond the child pornography cases, Vatican authorities are battling an array of crimes including drug trafficking and money laundering. Three drug deliveries addressed to the Vatican were intercepted last year, including a packet containing cocaine-filled condoms. The drugs were discovered at Germany’s Leipzig airport and handed to the Vatican in the hope of ensnaring the buyer, but no one came forward to claim the package.
Despite the array of criminal activity, only six people ended up in the Vatican’s prison last year. They include Marcello di Finizio, an Italian protester who climbed atop St Peter’s Basilica, and Iana Azhdanova, a Femen activist who bared her breasts and grabbed a baby Jesus statue from the Vatican’s nativity scene.
Gay orgies and ‘murder’ scandals engulf Vatican: here.
omg. somehow i not surprised.
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Just terribly sad, don’t really know what to say… It’s hard to even “like” the story when it is just so awful. Hopefully the justice system will see this right for the sake of children through out the world.
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Indeed, I understand why it is hard to ‘like’ sad news. I do blog about sad news items as publicity might help in stopping them from continuing.
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I really do hope so, so often these criminally minded predators are people with ‘community power’. Only, too often their true colours are exposed when the damage has been done.
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Indeed, the problem is not only within the Roman Catholic hierarchy, but also in some other churches, and among some senior politicians, in eg, Britain:
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Well, yes, we all know too well unfortunately. When i was growing up, (interstate) the man who ran the ‘nippers’, was a pedophile, he was was also a judge. To think, while he was locking people up for theft, he was committing crimes far worse. He is now in maximum security prison. To remember the stories from the ‘now men’ brakes my heart. I don’t know if all of the boys came forward, but the judge is locked up now. Thanks for the link…what goes terribly wrong in people’s heads?
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Thanks for your comment!
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No surprise there…
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