Wow. This really is really disturbing. It's further proof that the Pope really doesn't get the magnitude of the child rape scandal that has engulfed the Catholic Church:
In a move that has stunned critics Pope Benedict XVI has rejected the resignations of two Dublin auxiliary bishops.Church leaders have enabled and protected child rapists for decades. Decades. Pope Benedict is the leading enabler. Still.
Bishop Raymond Field and Bishop Eamonn Walsh had both tendered their resignations in 2009 in the wake of the Murphy report into clerical child abuse.
Both men had come under intense pressure because they had served as bishops during the period investigated by the Murphy Commission into clerical child sex abuse in the Archdiocese of Dublin.
The Murphy Commission in Ireland found that sexual abuse was 'endemic' in boys' institutions but that the church hierarchy protected the perpetrators and allowed them to take up new positions teaching other children after their original victims had been sworn to secrecy.
