Antônio Mello, from blogdomello [1][Pt], blogs about “Sex, Crime and the Vatican [2]” — a BBC documentary (parts 1 [3], 2 [4], 3 [5] and 4 [6])[En, subtitles in Pt] about children sexual abuse by catholic priests and the shelter provided by the Vatican to the accused ecclesiastics — and a Vatican internal document named Crimen Sollicitationis, reportedly signed in 1962 by Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, that “said that if you were molested by a priest, you could complain to the bishop, to the cardinal, to the pope, but if you denounced the case to Justice, you would be excommunicated.”
Brazil, USA: Sex, Crime and the Vatican
· Written by Daniel Duende
Categories: Latin America, North America, Western Europe, Brazil, U.S.A., Vatican City, Film, History, Law, Religion, Youth