Training God's Rottweiler: Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Must End

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Training God’s Rottweiler: Catholic Church Sexual Abuse Must End
By Anthea Butler
March 22, 2010

"Back in 2002, the Boston Globe first embarked on its Pulitzer Prize-winning series that would shock Catholics in America and around the world. The sexual abuse scandal the Globe uncovered in the Boston Archdiocese, which sparked similar exposes around the country, would rock the American Catholic Church, bankrupt dioceses, and even resulted in the murder of a notorious pedophile priest. The reporting shined a bright light on travesties the Vatican wanted kept in the dark: suicides, abuse, and shattered lives of children and adults who suffered the abuse — the product of malfeasance at all levels of the Church hierarchy, which tried to blame it on “America,” "homosexuality” and “a few bad priests.”
The story is repeating itself, with a vengeance. Its stench now reaches all the way to the seat of Peter in Vatican City, and the late Pope John Paul II's "Rottweiler," Pope Benedict XVI.The biggest don't-ask-don't-tell outfit in the world..."