Protection of child molesters on an industrial scale.



Describes the protection of child molesters on an industrial scale (100,000 victims in recent decades) by the Catholic Church, especially by the current pope in a former role in that officially on behalf of the Catholic Church he handled many hundreds of cases of child molesting by Catholic Church personnel reporting none of them to the police. This book explains how the church prevents church personnel from reporting crimes by using the churches cannon law such that they can be excommunicated for doing so, tries to keep victims quiet, and removes offenders from the jurisdictions in which they have offended to prevent prosecution.



While not being a solicitor this book makes me wonder if the Catholic Churches cannon law by obstructing secular law would make the Catholic Church able to be disbanded as a criminal organization under some Australian state laws. I especially think this relevant after reading a book called The Vatican Exposed which describes the out of money Catholic Church bringing fascism to power in Italy prior to WW II, with full knowledge that this was a vote to end democracy in favour of fascism when fascists were promising to restore the Roman Empire, in return for an enormous cash bribe; influence in education; control of various businesses including a munitions company that supplied weapons during Italy's invasion on Ethiopia; statehood for the Vatican; and exemption of any accountability of the Vatican Bank, and the bringing to power of Hitler in Germany by a catholic controlled religious party giving up its elected places in government to the Nazis in return for a 9% tax on all German Catholics for the Vatican, as well as the Catholic Church's siding with the fascists in Croatia and its help in carrying out an attempted genocide in that conflict and the looting by the Catholic Church of the victims. The book details the Catholic Church's efforts of helping 30,000 Nazis fleeing justice after the war in return for bribes.



The book also details the church's involvement with the Italian and American Mafia beginning after the war including the use of Vatican Bank by the Mafia in return for a slice of the illegal profits, and the Vatican placing a Mafia man in control of Vatican Bank.



The apparent murder of a pope who removed criminal Catholic personnel from influence and their subsequent replacement back into power by the next pope, John Paul II, is also detailed. I mentioned The Vatican Exposed partly because people interested in The Case Of The Pope might also like it.



The Case Of The Pope is a must for all parents and children.



People who are interested in the above issues might like some of the following books, ranging from evolution to why there is no god :-



The Case of the Pope: Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abuse, by Geoffrey Robertson QC, dealing with child molesting in the Catholic Church;



The Vatican Exposed: Money, Murder, and the Mafia, by Paul L Williams, dealing with the Catholic Churchs association with Hitler, Mussolini, the mafia and other similar issues;



Attack of the Theocrats: How the Religious Right Harms Us All and what We Can Do About It, by Sean Faircloth, dealing with superstitious fanaticism in the USA,



The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins, dealing with the extremely low probability of the existence of god,



The Faith Healers, by James Randy, dealing with the methods, motivation, and harm done by faith healers,



The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, by Richard Dawkins, dealing with the reasons to believe in evolution,



Why I am not a Muslim, by Ibn Warraq, dealing with the problems of Islam,



Root of all Evil? (DVD), by Richard Dawkins, dealing with problems of superstition,



Telling Lies for God: Reason vs Creationism, by Ian Plimer, dealing with creation science, although its out of print and expensive on some web sites,



Deceit and Self-Deception: Fooling Yourself the Better to Fool Others, by Robert Trivers, dealing with why and how people deceive themselves over various issues,



Keplers Witch, by James A. Connor, dealing with the work of Kepler and the religious perils he and others faced in the 1600s during the lead up to the 30 year war between Catholics and protestants which killed a third of Germanys population,



Origins of Us (DVD), presented by Dr Alice Roberts, dealing with human evolution.



There are of course other books on these subjects but Ive included those I have at least read. I included above a book on creation science but did not include one on intelligent design as I am waiting for one to arrive called God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory, although not having read it yet I cant say more than that it exists. There are also books on the psychology of why people maintain superstitious beliefs even in the face of overwhelming contrary evidence but I have not yet got around to any.

Fantastically written and extremely relevant. It's an extra thrill to read a book that's 'hot off the press', referring to evens only months old. Excellent on every level.