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	Church Knew about Canada's Worst Pedophile Priest By John McGiggen Abuse Claims Blog [Canada] July 5, 2007 http://abuseclaims.wordpress.com/2007/07/05/church-knew-about-canadas-worst-pedophile-priest/ I just watched the CBC's documentary "The Good Father" about one of the worst pedophile priests in Canadian history, Charles Sylvestre. The heartbreaking stories of Sylvestre's victims are similar to those I have heard from the many sexual abuse survivors that I have represented. Watching the documentary one finds it incredible that Sylvestre could openly sexually abuse hundreds of little girls, that the Church knew about the sexual abuse for four decades, and did NOTHING to protect the children in Sylvestre's parishes. You can watch the documentary online here: http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/goodfather/index.html The unfortunate fact is that the Church's cover up of Sylvestre's abuse appears to be more the rule than the exception. You can learn about Pope John XXIII's instructions to maintain a policy of "strictest secrecy" about sexual abuse by priests on the Clerical Whispers blog or you can read it yourself here: http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-files/Observer/documents/2003/08/16/Criminales.pdf
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