Leo Zagami – While all eyes are on Cardinal George Pell, who in June of last year became the highest-ranking Vatican official to face criminal charges involving accusations of sexual offenses, yet another Archbishop was found guilty of covering up the sexual abuse scandal in Australia’s Catholic clergy.

67-year-old Archbishop of Adelaide, Philip Edward Wilson, failed to report allegations of child sexual abuse inflicted on altar boys back in 1976 by a pedophile priest named Father Jim Fletcher, who died in jail in 2006.

The extensive cover-up of pedophilia exercised by the most senior members of the Catholic Church, not only in Australia, but all over the world, pushed the Catholic Bishops of Chile to resign last Friday. Let’s remember that a government inquiry  found that in Australia 7% of Catholic priests working in this country between 1950 and 2010 have been accused of Child sexual abuse. It’s outrageous how these resilient individuals are not resigning or even attempting an act of forgiveness  as the Chilean’s did. Continue reading →