The current controversy in Germany between criminologist Christian Pfeiffer and the German Bishops Conference yet again paints a most unattractive image of the institutional Catholic Church.
Add the latest news of the cover up in the US Catholic Church to the German story, one is left with a worrying reality.
The subject matter is the criminal sexual behaviour of priests and the subsequent cover ups.
Is it not iroinc than an organisation which never stops talking about what it sees as sexual misdemeanours is alledged to be engaged in criminal behaviour in covering up the criminal sexual behaviour of its priests?
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