[steadfastconservative]

. . . this is just a very weak attempt to deflect the heat from long-standing, documented Vatican policy, outlined in Crimen Sollicitationis and Ratzinger's accompanying 2001 letter to all the bishops, which clearly, under threat of excommunication, muzzles the victim, his family, his church and anyone else with knowledge of this sexual abuse crime by priests upon children.

This is completely false. The Vatican has never had a policy that imposes excommunication on Catholics who report cases of sex abuse by priests to the civil authorities. This is just another rabid, slanderous attack on the Church by a bigot.

[Dr. Eckleburg]

The Vatican has never had a policy that imposes excommunication on Catholics who report cases of sex abuse by priests to the civil authorities. This is just another rabid, slanderous attack on the Church by a bigot.

lol. Good grief. Do Roman Catholic apologists ever read any of these links to their own church's documents?

Read CRIMEN SOLLICITATIONIS, paying particular attention to paragraphs 11, 13 and 42a.

And try to ease up on the name-calling.