06 May 2014

Vatican for the day


Rico isn't sure the details are helping their case, but Dan Kedmey has a Time article about the pedophile-priest problem:
The Vatican's ambassador released comprehensive figures during the second day of grilling by a United Nations committee that monitors an international convention against torture, claiming to have defrocked hundreds and sanctioned thousands of priests in the last decade
The Vatican revealed a rare, year-by-year tally of how many priests it had disciplined over the past decade for alleged sexual abuses against children.
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi (photo, right), a Vatican ambassador, revealed to a UN committee that the Vatican had defrocked a total of 848 priests and sanctioned another 2,572 over the last ten years, the Wall Street Journal reports.
A UN committee charged with monitoring an international convention against torture has been investigating whether the Vatican’s senior officials are liable for the abuses, and whether it constitutes torture under the terms of the treaty.
Rico says that cries out for a 'Holy See, Holy Don't See' pun, but he's not sure where to go with it. (And won't it be funny if the UN declares the Vatican to be using torture, just like the old days...)

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