By Philip Pullella
ROME (Reuters) - Victims of abuse by Roman Catholic priests will try to march on the Vatican on Sunday despite the lack of a police permit, to demand the Church do more to protect children and hold abusers accountable.
Bernie McDaid and Gary Bergeron, founders of www.survivorsvoice.org, told a news conference on Friday they would start a petition drive to ask the United Nations to declare systemic paedophilia a crime against humanity.
"We are not crippled. We are injured people who are willing to talk about it now. The guilt and the shame is in the cover-up," said McDaid, who become one of the first abuse victims to meet with Pope Benedict in Washington in 2008.
Asking the United Nations to declare 'systemic paedophilia' a crime against humanity, is like asking Joy Behar to come out against lasagna.
ReplyDeleteIf they want to declare paedophilia a "crime against humanity", fine. But only if they concurrently declare homosexuality to be a crime against humanity - which it is, of course, and which is also at the root of the priest scandal in the Church.
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