The Guardian reports on the Vatican's reaction to the BBC Panorama programme on the sexual abuse scandals of the Catholic Church and their willed inability to do anything about them. 
Based on the evidence presented, the whole Catholic Church seems to be the biggest conspirator in sexual abuse ever perpetuated. It must be a step down. In previous centuries, they had the ability to kidnap, torture and kill people with whom they disagree. Now they only get to have sex with the underage offspring of their followers.
The Catholic Church is one of the most ghastly and repulsive organisations on this planet. Having studied Catholic theology and so-called Catholic morality, I find the whole setup repugnant and utterly vile. No other organisation of it's size could be let off so easily. Imagine if the British civil service covered up for civil servants who committed sexual abuse of children. Or if Microsoft or Wal-Mart or another large, multi-national corporate offered their employees the benefit of helping cover up for their paedophilic actions.
What, then, is the reaction from Rome?
The head of the parliamentary committee that oversees RAI [the Italian public service broadcaster], Mario Landolfi of the formerly neo-fascist National Alliance, said yesterday that he had written to the director-general urging him not to allow screening of the documentary. To do so would be to turn the public network into an "execution squad ready to open fire on the church and the pope", he said.
Oh, we wouldn't want dear Mr. Ratzinger or whatever he calls himself subject to any criticism, would we?
The Roman Catholic church accused Mr O'Gorman of misrepresenting the documentary evidence. It said that the Vatican's directive, first issued in 1962, was intended to avoid the misuse of information gathered in confessional. It imposed an oath of secrecy on the child victim, the priest and any witness.
Why did nobody from the Vatican speak to BBC reporters then? Are the Holy Ones so deepy in contact with Him Upstairs that they are unable to pick up a telephone and call the journalists at the BBC and give them the full story?
No other organisation in the world has been as unforthcoming and uncooperative as the Catholic Church in the investigation of it's members in to the crime of sexual abuse. Again, you would not get this if there was sexual abuse going on within any other organisation of a similar size. Say what you like about globalisation, but give me rule by the corporations over rule by the utterly absurd, hypocritical, equivocating, sexual-abuse-endorsing, homophobic, reality-deprived vermin in the Vatican. If these people are getting annoyed by a television programme, that should be only the start of it.
Back in the 80s, people started conjuring up sexual abuse charges out of the blue. That is true. Conspiracies were conjured up of how 'Satanic ritual abuse' was being conducted all across the Western world - including allegations of torture, drinking human blood, cannibalism, even ritual sacrifice being carried out in the chamber of the House of Commons and even twenty-sided die. The Freudian idea of 'repressed memories' was dragged out - apparently, children who were subjected to all of this 'repressed' it - despite there being no evidence at all of human memory acting in a 'repressing' manner.
And here, with the Catholic Church, we have a preponderance of evidence of men engaging in institutionally-supported rape and sexual abuse of minors, and nobody is getting nearly as angry about it as this kind of pious evil deserves.
