The blogger has never been a harsh critic of Pope Benedict and his ministry; case in question, he is the pope who began to crack down on Child Abusing Priests.
The present interrogation of the Vatican before the UN commission for Children's Rights is shedding light on this
The Vatican Defrocked Over 380 Priests in Two Years for Abusing Children
By Abby Ohlheiser
6 hours ago
Thanks to the UN, the
Vatican is facing its first public questioning on the years-long child
abuse scandal that's plagued the church for decades. For hours on
Thursday, child protection experts from the UN criticized the Holy See for its lack of transparency over an epidemic of clergy abuse in the church.
On Friday, the Associated Press reported
a startling statistic revealed at the UN hearing that seemed to show
the depth of the problem: in 2011 and 2012 alone, they wrote, Pope
Benedict XVI defrocked 400 priests for sexually abusing children. The
statistic came from a report, prepped by the Vatican, to defend its
handling of the child abuse scandal. Some Vatican experts initially
questioned the accuracy of that number, until the AP explained the breakdown of how they got the figure in a later version of their report.
In
2012, there were 418 cases of sexual abuse of a minor, while in 2011
the figure was 404 (that's the highlighted number). The columns the
second to the right apparently detail defrockings. 260 were defrocked in 2011, and 124 in 2012. That adds up to 384.
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