
"Journey into Silence"
of Gaito Vania
How much filth there is in the Church ... Lord, as dirty and face of your Church throw us into confusion. But we ourselves who have soiled them! "(Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, 2005). Helped the Church to eliminate this terrible stain.
We're not talking about isolated cases, the scandal of pedophile priests not just the United States (5,000 cases!). are thousands around the world, and many in Italy .
phenomenon kept secret for years. is covered by the Vatican, ready to sympathize with people who have been condemned by the justice of their Countries. Or, if your forced to compensate the injured buy the silence. "You do not talk to anyone": the Church seems to offer only the promise of forgiveness from the victims and perpetrators, all equally sinners. It weighs much praise for Pope John Paul II to the founder of the Legionaries of Christ, blamed for dozens of abuse, the embarrassment of dealing with situations of Don Cantini and Don Gelmini, so a friend of famous people (Berlusconi, Gasparri, Fini). But now something is changing. This book collects the voices of those who had the courage to denounce and rebel, telling also what is now the life of a priest. We expect a strong gesture from the Church that makes it credible in the eyes of the world as inspiration for justice and truth. Afterword by Alice Maximilian, president of the Prometheus Onlus - Fighting child abuse and child protection violated. In a letter to John Paul II a group of former Legionaries of Christ, victims of Father Marcial Maciel Degollado. The author, Vania Lucia Gaitan, a psychologist, originally from Salerno, has collaborated since 2006 with the blog's counter doublethink on which, in May 2007, broadcast and subtitled the BBC documentary, Sex Crimes and the Vatican. The scoop of the video, seen in Italy for more than 5 million people, helped to come out dozens of abuse victims, whose testimonies are gathered here in part.
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