According to a report in Huffington Post the letter documents the Vatican's rejection of a 1996 Irish church initiative to begin helping police identify pedophile priests. The document could have very far reaching implications.
"The letter is of huge international significance, because it shows that the Vatican's intention is to prevent reporting of abuse to criminal authorities. And if that instruction applied here, it applied everywhere," said Colm O'Gorman, director of the Irish chapter of human rights watchdog Amnesty International.
Joelle Casteix, a director of U.S. advocacy group Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests, described the letter as "the smoking gun we've been looking for."More here.
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It is outrageous and dangerous that Vatican officials block others who try to take the right action against abusive priests.
Why on earth do they think we should believe them when claiming they are taking meaningful steps to prevent future child sex crimes and cover ups?
One lie, creates another lie, and then another lie... But eventually the truth comes out.
The fact that victims who have been harmed so deeply by predator priests, and then harmed again and again by those at the top, is unconscionable.
Judy Jones, SNAP Midwest Associate Director USA
snapjudy@gmail.com
"Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests"
http://www.snapnetwork.org/
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