The Vatican's Child Rape Program
When syndicated cartoonist Pat Oliphant published this cartoon in 2002, he was roundly condemned. One Catholic wrote a letter to his local newspaper saying "I don't need the newspaper to make me feel like I am part of an ongoing criminal conspiracy." The Catholic Church has for decades (if not for centuries) sponsored, staffed, covered up for, and fought mightily to maintain the most successful child rape program in human history. No other individual monster or group even comes close to the enormity of its crimes. The Church leadership is still, today, actively covering up its crimes against children, even after all the horrific details exposed in Boston, Anchorage, Chicago, Crookston, Davenport, Denver, Dubuque, Fall River, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Memphis, Miami, Milwaukee, Oakland, Omaha, Orange, Palm Beach, Peoria, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Antonio, San Diego, Savannah, Spokane, Stockton, Tucson, Kenya, Tanzania, the Philippines, Vienna, Antwerp, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Scotland, Wales, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. The Church's campaign to use the statute of limitations to ensure that priests will not be brought to justice has worked brilliantly. Our best recourse to provide some measure of justice to the innocent victims and to ensure that the Catholic Church no longer sponsors or accepts such behavior is to methodically bankrupt it.