I love the Germans, and not just because I'm married to a man of German descent. I love the Germans because they are the first nation on the face of the earth with the intestinal fortitude to speak the truth about the Roman Catholic clergy abuse crisis. "Germany says Vatican covered up priest child sex abuses," proclaims the headline in an article from today's World Bulletin. The justice minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, is the very first high-ranking public official to call the Vatican on their actions.
"In many schools there was a wall of silence allowing for abuse and violence," Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger told Germany's Deutschlandfunk radio, the article reported. "Even the most severe cases of abuse are subject only to papal secrecy and should not be disclosed outside the Church," she said, citing a 2001 Catholic congregation directive.
Danke, Ms. Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger! While virtually all the other government leaders around the world pussy-foot around the fact that the Catholic church is operating the world's largest organized pedophile ring, you are calling them out on it. Finally, finally, someone with authority is saying what we lowly bloggers have been shouting at the top of our laptops for so long.
To read more, go to http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=55225
Finally. A place to get it all together. Break the Silence is where I'm going to post all the various blogs and articles I've written about Roman Catholic clergy abuse and other sexual abuse issues and have them in one place. And, because it's not over, I'll be adding new material way more often than I'd like.
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