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8/07/03

 

 

VATICAN INSISTED ON SECRECY IN SEX ABUSE CASES

 

  

By Al Hembd

Correspondent

 

CBS News has uncovered a document in the Vatican that instructed priests and bishops to cover up sex crimes in the clergy.  If you click to the URL below, you will find a link on that page--where the text says, as below, "Here is the secret Vatican document that instructs bishops to cover up..."--you will find a link to the actual document online in Latin, or to an English translation of it.

The text is printed with an old-fashioned Underwood-style manual typewriter.  It begins: "The crime of solicitation takes place when a priest tempts a penitent, whoever that person is, in the sacrament of confession...

The document goes on to say that a secret tribunal is to be held...and that the evidence is to be concealed from the civil authorities.  It also says that "They will be able to TRANSFER HIM TO ANOTHER ASSIGNMENT...."

In other words, as revealed some months back on website Puritan News Weekly, Cardinal Law of Boston, in transferring proven child molesters repeatedly, was only following orders from the Vatican!!!

Article below from CBS News.

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/08/06/eveningnews/main566978.shtml

Sex Crimes Cover-Up By Vatican?

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6, 2003


According to church records, the document was a bedrock of Catholic sex abuse policy until America's Bishops met last summer and drafted new policies to address the crisis in the church.


SECRET VATICAN DOCUMENT
Here is the secret Vatican document that instructs bishops to cover up sex crimes by priests. Below are the original Latin version and an unofficial English translation provided to CBS News.  

 
(CBS) For decades, priests in this country abused children in parish after parish while their superiors covered it all up. Now it turns out the orders for this cover up were written in Rome at the highest levels of the Vatican.

CBS News Correspondent Vince Gonzales has uncovered a church document kept secret for 40 years.

The confidential Vatican document, obtained by CBS News, lays out a church policy that calls for absolute secrecy when it comes to sexual abuse by priests - anyone who speaks out could be thrown out of the church.

The policy was written in 1962 by Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani.

The document, once "stored in the secret archives" of the Vatican, focuses on crimes initiated as part of the confessional relationship and what it calls the "worst crime": sexual assault committed by a priest" or "attempted by him with youths of either sex or with brute animals."

Bishops are instructed to pursue these cases "in the most secretive way...restrained by a perpetual silence...and everyone {including the alleged victim) ...is to observe the strictest secret, which is commonly regarded as a secret of the Holy Office...under the penalty of excommunication."

Larry Drivon, a lawyer who represents alleged victims, said, "This document is significant because it's a blueprint for deception."

Drivon said the document proves what he has alleged on behalf of victims in priest-abuse lawsuits: that the church engaged in Mafia-style behavior -- racketeering.

"It's an instruction manual on how to deceive and how to protect pedophiles," Drivon said. "And exactly how to avoid the truth coming out."

"The idea that this is some sort of blueprint to keep this secret is simply wrong," said Msgr. Francis Maniscalco, spokesman for the the U.S. Conference of Bishops.

The conference said the document is being taken out of context, that it's a church law that deals only with religious crimes and sins. And that the secrecy is meant to protect the faithful from scandal.

"This is a system of law which is complete in itself and is not telling the bishops in any way about how to handle these crimes when they are considered as civil crimes," Maniscalco said.

But Richard Sipe, a former priest who has written about sex abuse and secrecy in the church, said the document sends a chilling message.

"This is the code for how you must deal with sex by priests. You keep it secret at all costs," Sipe said. "And that's what's happened. It's happened in every diocese in this country."

According to church records, the document was a bedrock of Catholic sex abuse policy until America's bishops met last summer and drafted new policies to address the crisis in the church.


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This post pertains to the secret document that has just been uncovered by CBS News.  The secret document in the Vatican, drafted by Cardinal Ottaviani in 1962, mandating the popish hierarchy to conceal child molestation on the part of popish priests--and even authorizing their "transfer."

A little further research into Ottaviani reveals that the document's having been drafted by him is *very* significant.

Cardinal Ottaviani, the author of that abominable "secret document," was *not* a Freemason.  To the contrary; he was an ardent opponent of Freemasonry.

In fact: he was an opponent of Vatican II, and an opponent of the "Novus Ordus"--the new rite of the Mass in native languages, that was the workmanship of Vatican II.  

http://www.cathinsight.com/apologetics/tradmass.htm

In fact: here is Ottaviani's online "Intervention" that he wrote to Pope Paul VI in opposition to Vatican II.

http://www.dailycatholic.org/issue/2002May/2002cru.htm

Now: what is the significance of this, Parnell.  Well, as a former Roman Catholic, I'll tell you.

The "Tridentine Mass" or "Traditionalist" Catholics have been blaming the entire sex molestation scandal upon Vatican II and the "modernists".  In fact, Malachi Martin's book entitled "The Jesuits, and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church" (Martin himself was a "traditionalist")--basically blames the entire sexual molestation scandal on "Freemasons" and "modernists" in the Vatican II movement--especially, the Jesuits.

However, this latest revelation about Ottaviani utterly undermines that thesis!  It proves, to the contrary, that it was a traditionalist who drafted a document mandating the coverup!

Moreover, the document--when compared with Chiniquy's famous work, "Fifty Years in the Church of Rome" proves what Chiniquy affirmed all along--that Ottaviani's "secret document" is only but another document in a long string of documents, that upheld what has been the practice of the Roman Church for centuries.

So, the Church of Rome is rotten to the core!  The current corruption is *not* the result of "modernist declension" within the Church, as the traditionalists today are claiming.

This will be a major blow to them, I can tell you.  Pat Buchanan and Lew Rockwell, two noted Catholic political conservatives who are advocates of the Tridentine Mass, will be roiling from this blow.  The uncovering of the staunch traditionalist Cardinal Ottaviani's "secret document" authorizing the concealment of flagitious sins by the Romish clergy, utterly disproves their thesis, and proves, to the contrary, that the Church of Rome is rotten to the core.