Have you ever asked yourself why it has been decades now since the Catholic church has had any high-profile sex scandals involving pedophile priests? Apparently, it's because they're doing their best to keep it quiet, at least until now.
According to
FoxNews, "Pope Francis acknowledged Saturday that the Vatican has a 2,000-case backlog in processing clerical sex abuse cases and says criticism of the slow pace was justified. But he says more staff are being added and insists the Vatican is 'on the right path.'"
For victims of the alleged abuse, "on the right path"
probably translates into, "we're doing nothing about it." For the Catholic Church, arguably the largest religious organization on the planet, to know about 2,000 cases of alleged pedophilia in its ranks, and to be doing nothing about it, may be as egregious as the heinous acts themselves.
The renewed pressure on the Catholic Church, and specifically the Vatican, stems from the resignation of Marie Collins, an Irish pedophile-priest-sex-abuse-survivor who resigned in March from Pope Francis' sex abuse advisory commission.
Collins said she quit because her commission, formulated to root out pedophile priests was being met with, in her words, "unacceptable" levels of resistance from the Vatican. In other words, they were ignoring the recommendations set forth by the investigative and reform group.
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