August 31, 2010
Pedophiles and Popes: Doing the Vatican Shuffle
When Pope John Paul II was still living in Poland as Cardinal Karol Wojtya, he claimed that the security police would accuse priests of sexual abuse just to hassle and discredit them. (New York Times, 3/28/10). For Wojtya, the Polish pedophilia problem was nothing more than a Communist plot to smear the church. By the early 1980s, Wojtya, now ensconced in Rome as Pope John Paul II, treated all stories about pedophile clergy with dismissive aplomb, as little more than slander directed against the church. That remained his stance for the next twenty years.Click Here For The Full Story......