Roman Catholic Womenpriests : " Ignore the bells and the smells and the lovely Raphaels, the Pope's visit to Britain is nothing to celebrate"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/sep/29/the-pope-visit
"Ignore the bells and the smells and the lovely Raphaels, the Pope's visit to Britain is nothing to celebrate"
by Tanya Gold
The Guardian

"In May 2001 he wrote a confidential letter to Catholic bishops, ordering them not to notify the police – or anyone else – about the allegations, on pain of excommunication. He referred to a previous (confidential) Vatican document that ordered that investigations should be handled "in the most secretive way . . . restrained by a perpetual silence". Excommunication is a joke to me, perhaps to you, but to a Catholic it means exclusion and perhaps hellfire – for trying to protect a child. Well, God is love."