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Vatican accused of putting fear of scandal ahead of child safety
(The Scotsman, 12 December 2002)
THE Vatican was facing the threat of being directly drawn into the Catholic Church’s Boston abuse scandal yesterday, after campaigners claimed they had a document which indicated that Rome’s policy stressed avoiding scandal over the safety of children. . . . Pope John Paul II said a defrocked Catholic priest who had a history of molesting boys should leave the areas where his "condition" was known - or stay put as long as it caused no scandal. . . . Joseph Gallagher, co-founder of the Coalition of Catholics and Survivors in Wellesley, Massachusetts, said the newly-released document was the "smoking gun" that spelled out the Vatican’s policy of placing image ahead of child welfare. . . . "That would explain why (other) bishops have done the same thing as Cardinal Law - they’ve moved sexual offenders from parish to parish without notifying the parishioners," he said.

posted by Lorenzo 12:37 PM