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by Peter O’Dwyer • ChurchMilitant.com • January 17, 2016
Is the clerical code of silence still alive and well?
Oscar nominee Josh Singer, screenwriter for the critically acclaimed film “Spotlight,” speaks with Michael Voris in the latest episode of “Mic’d Up,” and says a code of silence among the clergy sustained the homosexual abuse crisis, and this code of silence exists today — this according to several experts, and even the United Nations itself.
Richard Sipe, a psychotherapist instrumental in the Boston Globe’s exposé of the scandal, claimed the code of silence is so powerful that priests will lie even on anonymous surveys.
The United Nations has recently addressed the problem of the code of silence; a scathing 2014 report authored by the Committee of the Rights of the Child revealed that the code of silence and a culture that punishes whistleblowers exists in the Church. The report referred to these problems as “systemic.” The Vatican, however, challenged the report’s findings.
The report went further, raising concerns that the climate that allowed the sexual abuse to flourish still exists, and that the Vatican as an institution is in denial over how vast the problem is.
Father Dariusz Oko, Ph.D, a Polish priest who has spent years studying the homosexual lobby in the Church, published an essay in 2012 where he described how homosexuals build and maintain a secret society in the Church:
They know well, however, that they may be exposed and embarrassed, so they shield one another by offering mutual support. They build informal relationships reminding of a clique or even mafia, aiming at holding particularly those positions which offer power and money.
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