Stato laico sarà lei

Sui giornali italiani quasi non si è letto, negli ultimi quindici anni, che intere diocesi americane hanno dovuto vendere tutto per pagare i danni agli ex-bambini abusati dai loro preti.

Ora questo minuscolo inizio di dibattito italiano lo seguiamo attraverso National Public Radio. Grazie ai radicali.

" In the last decade, clerical abuse scandals involving Roman Catholic priests erupted in the United States and several European and Latin American countries.

Yet in Italy — a bastion of Catholicism — the issue never came to the surface and never made headlines.

Now, in the Vatican's backyard, the veil of secrecy is beginning to lift.

Friday, in St. Peter's Square, outside Pope Benedict XVI's apartments, about 30 people gathered to demand justice for victims of clerical sex abuse. Some held a banner proclaiming "Stop the Vatican Cover-Up."

This was the final event of a day-long symposium on clerical sex abuse organized by the Radical Party on the premises of the Italian parliament." [...]

Critics Press Italy, Church on Clergy Abuse, di Sylvia Poggioli, National Public Radio, 24 giugno 2007