On the contrary, repeated and increasingly desperate complaints of abuse were set aside, witnesses were pressured into silence, bishops were praised for their defiance of secular authority, and offending priests were relocated only to destroy fresh lives in unsuspecting parishes. It is no exaggeration to say that for decades (if not centuries) the Vatican has met the formal definition of a criminal organization devoted—not to gambling, prostitution, drugs, or any other venial sin—but to the sexual enslavement of children. Consider the following passages from the CICA report: 7.129 In relation to one School, four witnesses gave detailed accounts of sexual abuse, including rape in all instances, by two or more Brothers and on one occasion along with an older resident. A witness from the second School, from which there were several reports, described being raped by three Brothers: “I was brought to the infirmary … they held me over the bed, they were animals. … They penetrated me, I was bleeding.” Another witness reported he was abused twice weekly on particular days by two Brothers in the toilets off the dormitory: One Brother kept watch while the other abused me … [sexually]… then they changed over. Every time it ended with a severe beating. When I told the priest in Confession, he called me a liar. I never spoke about it again. I would have to go into his … [Br X’s] … room every time he wanted. You’d get a hiding if you didn’t, and he’d make me do it … [masturbate] … to him. One night I didn’t … [masturbate him] … and there was another Brother there who held me down and they hit me with a hurley and they burst my fingers … [displayed scar] .… 7.232 Witnesses reported being particularly fearful at night as they listened to residents screaming in cloakrooms, dormitories or in a staff member’s bedroom while they were being abused. Witnesses were conscious that co-residents whom they described as orphans had a particularly difficult time: The orphan children, they had it bad. I knew … [who they were] … by the size of them, I’d ask them and they’d say they come from … named institution. … They were there from an early age. You’d hear the screams from the room where Br … X … would be abusing them. There was one night, I wasn’t long there and I seen one of the Brothers on the bed with one of the young boys … and I heard the young lad screaming crying and Br … X … said to me “if you don’t mind your own business you’ll get the same.”… I heard kids screaming and you know they are getting abused and that’s a nightmare in anybody’s mind. You are going to try and break out. … So there was no way I was going to let that happen to me … I remember one boy and he was bleeding from the back passage and I made up my mind, there was no way it … [anal rape] … was going to happen to me. … That used to play on my mind. This is the kind of abuse that the Church has practiced and concealed since time out of memory. Even the CICA report declined to name the offending priests. I have been awakened from my unconscionable slumber on this issue by recent press reports (Goodstein and Callender, 2010; Goodstein, 2010a, 2010b; Donadio, 2010a, 2010b; Wakin and McKinley Jr., 2010), and especially by the eloquence of my colleagues Christopher Hitchens (2010a, 2010b, 2010c, and 2010d), and Richard Dawkins (2010a, 2010b). 15. The Church even excommunicated the girl’s mother ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7930380.stm).
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Date: 2013-11-13 06:05 (UTC)set aside, witnesses were pressured into silence, bishops were praised for their defiance of
secular authority, and offending priests were relocated only to destroy fresh lives in
unsuspecting parishes. It is no exaggeration to say that for decades (if not centuries) the
Vatican has met the formal definition of a criminal organization devoted—not to
gambling, prostitution, drugs, or any other venial sin—but to the sexual enslavement of
children. Consider the following passages from the CICA report:
7.129 In relation to one School, four witnesses gave detailed accounts of sexual
abuse, including rape in all instances, by two or more Brothers and on one occasion along
with an older resident. A witness from the second School, from which there were several
reports, described being raped by three Brothers: “I was brought to the infirmary … they
held me over the bed, they were animals. … They penetrated me, I was bleeding.”
Another witness reported he was abused twice weekly on particular days by two Brothers
in the toilets off the dormitory:
One Brother kept watch while the other abused me … [sexually]… then they
changed over. Every time it ended with a severe beating. When I told the priest in
Confession, he called me a liar. I never spoke about it again.
I would have to go into his … [Br X’s] … room every time he wanted. You’d get a
hiding if you didn’t, and he’d make me do it … [masturbate] … to him. One night I didn’t
… [masturbate him] … and there was another Brother there who held me down and they
hit me with a hurley and they burst my fingers … [displayed scar] .…
7.232 Witnesses reported being particularly fearful at night as they listened to
residents screaming in cloakrooms, dormitories or in a staff member’s bedroom while
they were being abused. Witnesses were conscious that co-residents whom they described
as orphans had a particularly difficult time:
The orphan children, they had it bad. I knew … [who they were] … by the size of
them, I’d ask them and they’d say they come from … named institution. … They were
there from an early age. You’d hear the screams from the room where Br … X … would
be abusing them.
There was one night, I wasn’t long there and I seen one of the Brothers on the bed
with one of the young boys … and I heard the young lad screaming crying and Br … X …
said to me “if you don’t mind your own business you’ll get the same.”… I heard kids
screaming and you know they are getting abused and that’s a nightmare in anybody’s
mind. You are going to try and break out. … So there was no way I was going to let that
happen to me … I remember one boy and he was bleeding from the back passage and I
made up my mind, there was no way it … [anal rape] … was going to happen to me. …
That used to play on my mind.
This is the kind of abuse that the Church has practiced and concealed since time
out of memory. Even the CICA report declined to name the offending priests.
I have been awakened from my unconscionable slumber on this issue by recent
press reports (Goodstein and Callender, 2010; Goodstein, 2010a, 2010b; Donadio, 2010a,
2010b; Wakin and McKinley Jr., 2010), and especially by the eloquence of my
colleagues Christopher Hitchens (2010a, 2010b, 2010c, and 2010d), and Richard
Dawkins (2010a, 2010b).
15. The Church even excommunicated the girl’s mother (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7930380.stm).