Evil hiding with the Good

If you were evil  the best place to hide as someone so good, you are above suspicion - say as a priest.  Is there anything more evil than someone who rapes children? The thought that someone could do such a outright unredeemable act makes me worry for the the future of humanity. Even worse is the thought that people who are there to oversee this  person find out about the evil that they have done then sweep it under the rug in order to protect the name of the church... the institution of control, created by men, in order to tell others how to live in the, supposed, name of god.

And that it what the pope has done:

The spreading scandals of paedophile priests in the pope’s German homeland have snowballed, after it was found that a 2001 church directive he wrote, while a Vatican cardinal, instructed bishops to keep abuse cases confidential. Source http://story.australianherald.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/c08dd24cec417021/id/611852/cs/1/

And

a personal letter from Cardinal Ratzinger to bishops accompanying the 2001 document said complaints against paedophile priests were covered by “pontifical secret”, to be handled by bishops in strict confidentiality. Thus, the charge of “cover-up” against the Pope. Source http://www.independent.ie/national-news/pope-will-struggle-to-survive-abuse-scandal-2098357.html

Sadly, it should be noted that the previous Pope John Paul II wasn't much better. See http://atheism.about.com/od/popejohnpaulii/a/sexualabuse.htm

Not to forget that the current Pope was in the Hitler Youth. While he may have been conscripted, as put at http://atheism.about.com/od/benedictxvi/i/RatzingerNazi.htm

Ratzinger’s recollections of his youth in Nazi Germany makes it seem as though all the problems, violence, and hatred existed outside his local community. There is no recognition that resistance to the Nazis existed — or was needed — just outside his door

the article continues:

 While Ratzinger was not a Nazi in the past and Benedict XVI is not a Nazi now, there is more than enough reason to question his handling of his past. It appears that he hasn’t been honest with others — and probably not honest with himself — about what he did and what he could have done.

It’s simply not true that resistance was impossible at the time. Difficult, yes; dangerous, yes. But not impossible.

This is the highest of offices in a church that not only enforces abstinence for priests and prevents the use of birth control but has become synonmyous for child abuse. As far as I am concerned, its time to tear the whole man-made, symbology strewn, archaic edifice down.

At least the Scientologist don't rape the children in their care - or at least no one seem to have come forward yet to state it happened to them