Vatican Hissy Fits Continue After Belgium Police Raids

My, my! Knowingly engage in conduct which, if done by anyone else, would quickly land one behind bars yet feign shock and rage over the treatment that is all too deserved. It is truly perverse to see the criminals within the Catholic Church hierarchy act as if they are the victims rather than the hundreds of thousands of molested children and youths worldwide. I sincerely hope that the police raids on of senior Catholic prelates' offices and residences in Belgium begins a trend. It is truly the only way the filth and moral decay at the heart of the Church will ever be excised. To counter the disingenuous crocodile tears and feigned outrage from the Vatican, prosecutors will have to highlight any documents and evidence against wrong doing to shut up the whining and belly aching coming from Rome. Needless to say, turning up a "smoking gun" involving Rome would be too sweet! The BBC and NPR look at the bullshit being disseminated by the Nazi Pope's henchmen. Here are some highlights:
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The Vatican has stepped up its criticism of raids by Belgian police investigating alleged child sex abuse, calling the detention of priests "serious and unbelievable". Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the Vatican Secretary of State, said "there are no precedents, not even under the old communist regimes". . . . Bishops holding a meeting there were barred from leaving the premises for several hours.
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Police in Leuven seized nearly 500 files and a computer from the offices of a Church commission investigating allegations of sex abuse. They also searched the Church's headquarters, the Brussels archdiocese in Mechelen, north of the Belgian capital. Prosecutors have said the raids were over alleged "abuse of minors committed by a certain number of Church figures".
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"Does such an assault not assume a symbolic meaning, is it not the sign of a desire to attack the Church in its entirety?" the newspaper [Avvenire, the newspaper of the Italian Bishops' Conference] said in a front-page editorial Saturday. It said the raid "smacks of a settling of the score" with the church by a secular country.

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The Church has proven itself utterly unwilling to punish the bishops, cardinals - and yes, Popes - who enabled and covered up for predator priests. If the Church refuses to act, then the civil authorities need to move in. Kudos to the police in Belgium.