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Frum Follies
The Catholic Church is none too happy about the bad publicity it is getting from the Academy-Award-Winning movie, Spotlight, and from the Australian Royal Commission’s Grilling of Cardinal George Pell. Now the #3 in the Vatican, he presided over horrendous cover-ups when he was in Australia. So they issued a long winded press release.
I often say that Haredi and Catholic sex abuse coveru-ps have a great deal in common even though some are done in Yiddish and others in Latin. Granted, Catholics have it fully centralized and leave paper trails. Granted Haredim go further in protecting almost every last molester, not just priests, monks and nuns. Nevertheless the mentality and the spin have a lot in common.
Read and laugh or weep, as is your bent. But also share your thoughts about how this could be turned into frum-speak. Choice comments will be moved up into the body of this post or perhaps be turned into new posts.
Declaration by the Director of the Holy See Press Office:
Protecting minors
Vatican City, 4 March 2016 – The director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., today issued the following note regarding the protection of minors from sexual abuse:
“The depositions of Cardinal Pell before the Royal Commission as part of its inquiry carried out by live connection between Australia and Rome, and the contemporary presentation of the Oscar award for best film to ‘Spotlight’, on the role of the Boston Globe in denouncing the cover-up of crimes by numerous paedophile priests in Boston (especially during the years 1960 to 1980) have been accompanied by a new wave of attention from the media and public opinion on the dramatic issue of sexual abuse of minors, especially by members of the clergy.
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