Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: US campaigners for sex abuse victims held after Vatican protest

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7075598.ece
Four American campaigners for the victims of clerical sex abuse were 
this morning detained by police after holding an "unauthorised" 
demonstration on the edge of St Peter's Square to protest against 
decades of Church "silence".
Barbara Blaine, Peter Isely, John Pilmaier and Barbara Dorris from the 
Chicago-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) were 
talking to reporters about sex abuse cases, including revelations by the 
New York Times about the alleged role of Pope Benedict XVI in covering 
up the case of the late Father Lawrence Murphy in the Archdiocese of 
Milwaukee, when they were approached by police and asked for their 
passports.
They were then taken away in a police car. Barbara Blaine, the leader of 
SNAP, was heard several times asking the police what they had done 
wrong. Before being detained the group held up banners reading "Stop the 
secrecy now" and "Expose the truth", and accused Pope Benedict of having 
imposed secrecy on clerical sex abuse cases when he was head of the 
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith before being elected Pope 
five years ago.
The SNAP activists are on a trip taking them to Germany, Austria and the 
Netherlands as well as Rome. SNAP said that Pope Benedict's letter last 
weekend to the Irish bishops on the sex abuse crisis over their handling 
of a half-century of sexual abuse of minors by clergy was inadequate 
because it made no reference to the Vatican's own responsibility. SNAPS 
said that Benedict should "do more to help victims heal, discipline 
clergy members and prevent future abuse".
Before leaving for Europe Ms Blaine said: "We're extremely concerned 
about what's coming out of Rome. We've been hearing from so many victims 
from across the globe. We're going to be meeting with some of the 
survivors and advocates. We're hoping to possibly meet with government 
officials as well."
She added: "We're hoping to spread the word that the bishops shouldn't 
be investigating themselves. We're hoping that the governments and 
police agencies will launch investigations, and we're going to encourage 
anyone who has been abused, or witnessed or suspects abuse to speak up 
and report what they know to the police. We hope that by their doing so, 
they could protect others from these dangerous predators and they could 
begin their own healing."
In a statement Father Federico Lombardi, the Pope's spokesman, said: 
"The tragic case of Father Lawrence Murphy, a priest of the Archdiocese 
of Milwaukee, involved particularly vulnerable victims who suffered 
terribly from what he did. By sexually abusing children who were 
hearing-impaired, Father Murphy violated the law and, more importantly, 
the sacred trust that his victims had placed in him."
He said that "during the mid-1970s, some of Father Murphy’s victims 
reported his abuse to civil authorities, who investigated him at that 
time; however, according to news reports, that investigation was 
dropped. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was not informed 
of the matter until some twenty years later."
Father Lombardi said that suggestions of a relationship between an 
instruction from the then Cardinal Ratzinger as head of doctrine 
applying secrecy to sex abuse cases and "the non-reporting of child 
abuse to civil authorities" were false. "In fact, there is no such 
relationship," he said. Neither the instruction nor the Code of Canon 
Law "ever prohibited the reporting of child abuse to law enforcement 
authorities".
He said that no action had been taken by the Vatican against Father 
Murphy because he was "elderly, in very poor health and living in 
seclusion, and no allegations of abuse had been reported in over 20 years".

 Before leaving for Europe Ms Blaine said
Forte questa cosa. Il New York Times pubblica un articolo e questi fanno
una manifestazione di protesta poche ore dopo in un altro continente,
sventolando copie dell'articolo. Before leaving for Europe, Ms Blaine
sapeva gi� data e contenuto dell'articolo?
-- 
Luca Logi - Firenze - Italy        e-mail: 
ll...@dada.it
   Home page: 
http://www.angelfire.com/ar/archivarius
                   (musicologia pratica)

 sapeva già data e contenuto dell'articolo?
Eh, qui c'è puzza di complotto  anticattolico giudeoamericano...
Mica di Italia putiniana, dove si arrestano dimostranti pacifici per
lesa maestà pontificia.
Logi è fantastico...
-- 
Tb (bieco illuminista)

 Eh, qui c'è puzza di complotto  anticattolico giudeoamericano...
magari le vittime della pedofilia sono "sionisti".

 Forte questa cosa. Il New York Times pubblica un articolo e questi fanno
oh s�.
Sai, il New York Times ha solo un'idea: parlar male dei cattolici.
Anzi, � stato proprio fondato con questo intento.
E i suoi milioni di lettori sono tutti belve assetate di sangue cattolico.
Davvero, non te n'eri accorto?