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Jungtinės Tautos užvakar užsipuolė Vatikaną:

Kirsten Sandberg, chairperson of the U.N. human rights committee on the rights of the child, talks during a press conference at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2014. A U.N. human rights committee denounced the Vatican on Wednesday for adopting policies that allowed priests to rape and molest tens of thousands of children over decades, and urged it to open its files on the pedophiles and the churchmen who concealed their crimes.

 While several bishops have resigned after abuse scandals in their dioceses, victims’ groups say the Vatican must make bishops legally accountable for alleged cover-ups.

“If the pope is serious about turning the page on this scandal, he should immediately dismiss any bishop who oversaw a diocese in which a priest who abused children was shielded from the civil authorities,” said Jon O’Brien, president of the U.S. lobby group Catholics for Choice.

The report said Francis’s commission should invite outside experts and victims to participate in an investigation of abusers “as well as the conduct of the Catholic hierarchy in dealing with them”.
Miguel Hurtado, who was sexually abused by a priest in Spain when he was 16 and travelled to Geneva for the report’s release, said he felt emotional and vindicated.

“Many times, victims were disbelieved. They doubted our stories, they doubted our motives. They thought that our motives were because we were after money or destroying or attacking the Church,” the 31-year-old told Reuters.

At a stormy grilling by the committee in Geneva last month, the Holy See’s delegation, answering questions from an international rights panel for the first time since the scandals broke about 15 years ago, denied allegations of a cover-up and said the Church had set clear guidelines to protect children from predator priests.

February 5, 2014, the United Nations initiated an aggressive attack on the Catholic Church.
Under the guise of an ongoing investigation into the Church’s response to sex abuse, the United Nation Committee of the Right of the Child misused their authority to viciously attack the Pro-Life stance of the Catholic Church.

It became clear that this report carried other motives, as it recommends the Catholic Church to:

• identify "circumstances under which access to abortion services can be permitted" (section 55)
• "overcome[s] all the barriers and taboos surrounding adolescent sexuality that hinder their access to sexual and reproductive information, including on family planning and contraceptives" (section 57a)
• "ensure[s] that sexual and reproductive health education and prevention of HIV/AIDS is part of the mandatory curriculum of Catholic schools" (section 57c)

The entire report can be read at: http://tbinternet.ohchr.org/Treaties/CRC/Shared%20Documents/VAT/CRC_C_VAT_CO_2_16302_E.pdf

It just so happened that the UN report was issued days after the Pope made this statement via his twitter account: "I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable."

Was this report really sex abuse? Or was it to deliver punishment to the Church for not conforming to the liberal ideology of the UN?

In relation to the Church’s response to sex abuse, the report failed to mention that Pope Benedict XVI dismissed over 400 Priests.

The Catholic Church has continuously shown shame in the actions of Priests that were pedophiles. Pope Benedict XVI expressed support that all Priests should face justice.