Cardinal Admits the Catholic Church Destroyed Files to Cover Up Child Sex Abuse
By Hemant Mehta, February 24, 2019

During the Vatican summit on child sex abuse that’s taking place this week, German Cardinal Reinhard Marx admitted that the Catholic Church destroyed files that documented the abuse as well as the perpetrators. Those actions, Marx argued, led to even more children being harmed at the hands of priests.

“Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed, or not even created,” said Marx, beginning a list of a number of practices that survivors have documented for years but church officials have long kept under secret.

“Instead of the perpetrators, the victims were regulated and silence imposed on them,” the cardinal continued. “The stipulated procedures and processes for the prosecution of offences were deliberately not complied with, but instead cancelled or overridden.”

Critics of the Church have long suspected that Catholic officials knew about the abuse problem and covered it up. The bombshell news stories exposing the abuse problem, as many saw in the film Spotlight, was all about showing the world evidence that was occurring.

Now we have a prominent Church official admitting it all. They hid files. They destroyed files. They purposely didn’t create files. They did whatever they could to keep themselves and their colleagues out of trouble, allowing more children to be raped and traumatized for life. That’s the Catholic Church for you.