Catholic Church's sex abuse scandal goes global

Yeah, I don't think the rest of the world will be as passive in their reaction to the Catholic Church's pedophilia problem..

From CNN:

"Now we have obvious confirmation that this is a global crisis," said John Allen, CNN's Vatican analyst and senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter. "Anywhere there is a substantial Catholic population there is the potential for this type of scandal."
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..But new revelations about church abuse continued Friday, including in the Munich, Germany, archdiocese where Benedict (Pope Benedict XVI)once served as archbishop.
Under the pope's tenure as archbishop in the early 1980s, the Munich archdiocese ignored warnings to keep a molesting priest away from children, the doctor who issued those warnings said Friday. (Oh snap!)
Werner Huth, a psychoanalyst, said he specifically demanded the priest never be allowed to interact with children again. Instead, Huth said, the church allowed the priest to return to work and to deal with children.
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Beyond the Vatican, the crisis threatens to erode membership in Europe's remaining Catholic strongholds and to change secular Europe's posture toward the church from shrugging toleration to outright hostility. But church experts say the crisis is likely to have far less impact in parts of the world where Catholicism is growing fastest, like Africa and Southeast Asia.

From the BBC:

Pope Benedict XVI's former diocese in Germany is facing daily allegations of physical and sexual abuse, the head of its new sex-abuse task force says.

"It is like a tsunami," Elke Huemmeler told the Associated Press news agency.

She said about 120 cases had come to light so far in Munich, about 100 of them at a boarding school run by monks.

There's a deep conspiracy theory regarding a secret war between the Rothchilds and The Vatican, but I won't get into that here. If you're interested, Google is still your friend..