Cardinal admits the Catholic Church destroyed sex-abuse files
By Julio
Severo
A top cardinal has admitted that the global
Catholic Church destroyed files to prevent documentation of decades of sexual
abuse of children, telling the Catholic leaders attending Pope Francis’ clergy
abuse summit on February that such misconduct led “in no small measure” to more
children being sexually abused.
“Files that could have documented the
terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed, or not even
created,” said Marx.
It is not the first time compromising
files are destroyed to cover up crimes and their authors.
Renowned Catholic historian Paul Johnson,
in his book “A History of Christianity” (published in the United Kingdom in
1976), said of the Inquisition: “Many countries would not admit the Inquisition
at all… There was the destruction of records.”
Because of this destruction and because
only more favorable Catholic files survived, many radical Catholics say today
that the Inquisition was a myth created by Protestants and they attack even popes
who recognize and apologize for the crimes of the Inquisition.
Perhaps the same kind of radicals will
say, 500 years from now, that the epidemic of sexual abuse in the Catholic
Church today was just a myth, disparaging its own existence. There is only a
myth in this issue: That there is no link between Catholic abuse and homosexual
abusers.
The existence of sexual abuses especially against
boys is so undeniable today and it will be so undeniable 500 years from now as the
crimes and abuses of the Inquisition are undeniable.
Files and documents can be destroyed, but
one day God will make the destroyers, abusers and killers accountable to him.
With information
from WorldNetDaily and National Catholic Reporter.
Portuguese version of this article: Cardeal
admite que a Igreja Católica destruiu arquivos de abuso sexual
Source:
Last Days Watchman
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