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Five years ago I published a condemnation of the Roman Catholic Church for their systematic sheltering of clergy who rape children.  This fact is now being discussed by the mainstream media and by courts around the world.  I hope that attention brings about positive changes in the Roman Catholic Church and some measure of peace to those whose lives it has spoiled.

While the mainstream media does discuss the policy of the Roman Catholic Church for systematic sheltering of clergy who rape children, and while the mainstream media correctly states this policy is a written document, they refrain from stating the name of that document.  The name of the document used as policy by the Roman Catholic Church for systematic sheltering of clergy who rape children is the Crimine Solicitaciones.  A google news search for “vatican scandal” yields 5000+ results.  A google news search for “vatican document” yields 500+ results.  A google news search for “Crimine Solicitaciones” yields no results.  I take this as evidence that the name of the document is not to be found in contemporary mainstream media.  The Vatican may benefit from keeping the name of the offending document out of the public eye.  It is less clear how the mainstream media benefits from the same.  A google search (non-news) returns over 2000 hits. In this case it appears the Internet has made a specific piece of information more readily available than mainstream media.  The document has been named in the mainstream media of the past.  A number of links to the Criminie Solicitaciones as well as Cardinal Ratzinger / Pope Benedict’s direct approval and continuation of the Crimine Solicitaciones can be found here.

The Crimine Solicitaciones, Cardinal Ratzinger’s direct approval of it and Pope Benedict’s refusal to denounce it are the smoking gun that they seem they are.  What is more, should Pope Benedict denounce the Crimine Solicitaciones then he risks invalidating the Roman Catholic Church’s claim to papal infallibility.  There is a fine history of papal fallibility, of course.  But the more the Church suffers for its misdeeds, the more possible it is they will learn from their mistakes and not commit them again.