Vatican: Cardinal Pell Is Just 1 Of 8,000 Pedophile Priests
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
YourNewsWire.com
July 3, 2017
According to the Vatican, there are still 8,000 high-ranking pedophile priests at-large, and Pope Francis refuses to do anything about it.
In 2013, Pope Francis admitted that around 2% of the Church’s priests were pedophiles.
Yet, despite the recent firing of the 3rd highest ranking Catholic Cardinal, George Pell, the Pope does not intend to actively pursue any other pedophiles within the church unless forced to by the police.
News.com.au reports: Pope Francis on Saturday decided not to renew German Cardinal Gerhard Mueller’s position, instead replacing the 69-year-old with his 73-year-old deputy, Spanish Jesuit Monsignor Luis Ladaria Ferrer.
Although no exact reason was given for the dismissal of Mueller, one of the most powerful men in the Vatican, it is believed to have been made due to a backlog of some 2000 cases of sexual abuse that had amassed during his five-year term in the position.
His office had also come under intense criticism from survivors of abuse for not doing enough to protect children from paedophile priests. Criticism which Pope Francis agreed with.
In May, Francis assigned more staff to the office, known as the Congregation for the Doctine of the Faith, to handle the overload of sex abuse cases.
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