The Mounting Damning Evidence Against the Vatican

The UK's National Secular Society is doing an excellent job of "connecting the dots" and making a sound case that the Vatican - and Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI - had total complicity in the world wide cover up of cases of sexual abuse of children and youths. Two excellent posts on the organization's website found here and here make the case that the world wide conspiracy to hide abuse and silence victims originated from the Vatican - despite the Vatican's efforts to claim otherwise. The sad truth is that Benedict XVI likely ought to be under indictment and that John Paul II rather than being on a cynical fast tract to beatification ought to being exposed for an accessory to crimes against children. The truth is that the Vatican is a foul cesspool when it comes to the manner in which it either turned a blind eye to sexual abuse or, worse yet, did its utmost to keep information from being reported to the civil authorities. The 1984 letter referred to in the posts can be found here. Yes, it is hard for many Catholics to admit the truth, but as long as they mindlessly continue their church attendance at Catholic parishes and make financial contributions, Rome has no motivation to ever clean house and hold the guilty accountable. Here are some highlights from these posts:
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Two recently uncovered letters from the Vatican provide strong evidence that, despite their claims to the contrary, the present Pope and his predecessor were well aware of the scale of the priestly child sex abuse crisis and took active steps to cover it up.
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The letters make clear that the Vatican, and the Pope’s personal representatives, put protection of the Church before the protection of children. It instructed bishops in two different parts of the world not to report known abusers to the police or release files.
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Keith Porteous Wood, Executive Director of the National Secular Society, comments: . . . . The most effective remedy is pursuing the Vatican itself, and perhaps its leaders, through international organisations and the courts. . . . . “The letters make it all nigh impossible for the Vatican to heap all the blame for gross misdeeds on local bishops. As Prefect of the Congregation of Doctrine of the Faith since November 1981, no one knows more about child abuse in the Catholic Church than the current pope, Joseph Ratzinger. Most of those reading these letters will be asking whether the pope could not have known (to put it no stronger) about these instructions to be obstructive to the secular authorities in reporting suspicions or releasing files.”