At a United Nations hearing the
Vatican tries to turn the moral question of whether child abuse is
torture into a legal debate about jurisdictions.
This
may come as a huge surprise to many Catholics, but the Holy See is
claiming it doesn’t really bear legal responsibility for how they or
even their priests behave. Too good to be true? Actually, too horrible
to be believed. What the Vatican is claiming this week before a United
Nations panel is that, really, the question of priests sexually abusing
little kids is a matter for local law enforcement. And, no, the physical
pain and mental anguish inflicted on children by pedophile prelates
should not be called “torture,” at least as defined by the U.N.http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/06/torture-the-little-children-the-catholic-church-says-it-s-not-responsible.html