Exposing Pedophile Priests Is Now A Crime In Vatican

Source: Yahoo News

23/07/2013
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Pope Francis brought the Vatican's legal system up to date by

criminalizing information that is damaging to the Church. A
closer look to the new laws revealed that the pope has made it
illegal to report pedophile priests.
Illegal to report crimes
According to the new laws, revealing or receiving confidential Vatican
information is now punishable by up to two years in prison, while newly
defined sex crimes against children carry a sentence of up to twelve years.
Because all sex crimes are kept confidential, there is no longer a legal way
for Vatican officials to report sex crimes.
“We didn’t mean for this to happen, obviously,” lamented Vatican foreign
minister Monsignor Dominique Mamberti. Mamberti said that the
simultaneous passing of each law is merely a coincidence and insisted that
the Church is not trying to protect itself against further embarrassment, but
critics outside the Vatican are skeptical.
“They know exactly what they’re doing,” claims Fabrizio Perona of Italy’s La
Repubblica newspaper. “They just thought nobody would notice. The
Church wants to impress the world by getting tough on sex crimes, but they
criminalized leaks, which is the only way anybody would ever discover their
crimes. It’s genius, if you stop and think about it.”
God will be the judge
As the Holy See moves to clarify the law, Mamberti has warned would-be
offenders within Vatican walls that they “are still subject to the most
watchful eye of all: the eye of God."
July 2013
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