‘Tell No One’: Poland Is Pushed to Confront Abuse of Children by Priests

A few months ago The Pope said the priests were not to blame as this was the work of The Devil.

All religions are imaginary ... not just the ones you don't believe in. It's time for humanity to move on from childish beliefs in invisible men in the sky.

Pedophilia has nothing to do with homosexuality, period. That's why so many priests, worldwide, abused young girls as well as young boys.

The corrupt collusion between the Polish government and the church extends well beyond priestly misconduct. A recent article in the London Review by Christian Davies explains why the unveiling of a commemorative plaque memorializing 200000 Poles allegedly murdered by the Nazis at an extermination camp in Warsaw, KL Warschau, is a conscious distortion of history. The camp never existed, but both governmental and church officials deliberately created a false narrative which would prove, as Davies writes, " [this] would undermine the status of the Holocaust as a crime of unique proportions. It is a standard trope on the Polish nationalist right that the Jews have exaggerated their victimhood in order to extort money from the Poles and obtain global power and influence." Davies ends by wondering why so many Poles willingly accept a total fabrication to be true. It should be no surprise then that Poles refuse to hold the clergy accountable for crimes against children.

Pope Francis stopped short of requiring all priests to report child abuse to the state authorities. I won't believe that the Catholic Church is taking these incidents seriously until that is policy across the entire world.

Is there any part of the world where this is NOT happening in the catholic church? The rampant incidences of this unspeakable crime against children in this church leads me to conclude the church was created as a front for a gigantic and ages old pedophile ring. Pope Francis will not relieve my distrust of his church until his “law” calls for immediate law enforcement intervention. The damage done to the souls of innocent people is murderous and sickening.

The church is Jesus and his followers. This story is about corruption within the Catholic religion.How deep is this darkness within the Catholic religion?It's had over 2000 years to manifest.Now would be a good time for the Catholic religion to revamp and start over.Religion can become corrupt but not the Church.

Can Pope John Paul 2 be removed from sainthood. He was part of a trend to canonize people in a hurry, against the churches own rules. If they had been honest, he was not fit. He was best buds with Father Maciel, a known pedophile and literally a father of several children. JP2 ignored the pleas of the victims and even said it was a conspiracy among English speaking countries, at a time when Germany, Pope Benedict's home turf, was being riled by abuse scandal. Poland, like many other countries, likes to rewrite its history and this time it is elevating the church to heights it does not deserve. If the Irish could overthrow the oppressive Catholic Church then it is possible for the Poles to do it too. But it will take soul searching and honesty. Do they have the guts? I will not hold my breath. They have already rewritten Holocaust history in their own minds.

The people pulling down the statue have been careful to place tires under it to cushion its fall, so it doesn't break.

The movie, “Tell No One”, is available on YouTube with English sub titles. If you still identify as a Catholic, you have an obligation to view it. Continuing to support this organization while ignoring this horror is truly sinful.

If we admit that theists are human too, instead of perfectly ordained and therefore immune to contestation, then we need to step up and demand accountability! Did the all-mighty really demand that the clergy couldn’t be married? It does not appear that it was the case. Since I do believe in god, i’m really getting fed up with what the old guard has done.

Now we have a better idea of why the Polish R.C, church was so vehemently anti-Communist. The Church is much more comfortable when in partnership with totalitarian leaders who recognize its power to keep the masses ignorant and in line. Each is grateful for the contributions of the other to their continuing success.

It's deeply unfortunate that there are so many who find the preservation of the institution more important than the lives and well-being of young people.

No one who reports clergy abuse is undermining the Church. The Church undermined itself when it chose to pretend these things weren't happening. I was raised Catholic - I am Catholic - but under no circumstances would I ever hold anyone but the abuser, and the bishops and archbishops who protected him, liable for the reckoning that is coming. The Church could have prevented all of this by taking responsibility decades ago. It did not, and now it reaps what it sows.

The church rushed to canonize John Paul before all of this could come out. The Vatican,Polish hierarchy and Government were complicit in the cover up. You had to know that Poland was not exempt from this cancer that cropped up in the U.S, Germany, Mexico all under John Paul's watch. What's the process for defrocking a saint?

Patriarchal religion is an evil influence on society.

As we find again and again, powerful people do a lot of bad things. Sunshine is required in all those corners that the powerful people want to stay in the dark.

I am outraged that politicians in Poland are claiming that uncovering rampant child sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests is undermining the church. The Roman Catholic Church undermines itself, when it fails to police pedophiles and sexual criminals among the ranks of their priests. The opponents of child rape want to stop pedophilia. If that means a mass de-frocking of abusive pedophiles who are Roman Catholic priests, so be it. Revealing the abuse so-called celibate priests have visited on the laity is merely telling the truth about the Roman Catholic Church. They are terribly afraid of the truth, as their endless cover ups have shown. In the US, we should have invoked RICO laws against the Roman Catholic Church many years ago, in my opinion. They act as a crime syndicate protecting pedophiles from secular law enforcement, as they have shown us repeatedly. I believe the systematic sexual abuse of children by supposedly celibate Roman Catholic priests has endured as a feature of the church for centuries. "Suffer the little children" indeed.

The Roman Catholic Church has been eating itself from within for centuries. Historical abuses led to the Reformation, yet here we are hundreds of year later witnessing continued abuses and cover-ups. The level of reform it needs is so severe that only delusional apologists will continue to remain. I know too many ex-Catholics who shake their heads in disgust over the huge percentage of sexual predators the church has shuffled around from parish to parish. It's about time they all got prison sentences.

Meanwhile on campuses across America, many of which have churches prominently situated, they march for BDS and virtue signal to like minded bigots, too terrified to face the monster that has swallowed up decades of innocent Catholic children’s lives. Better to point at the Jews. The whole thing is medieval and tragic.

We wont be safe until all churches are destroyed

As a survivor of their abuse. The Catholic church is evil and should be scorched from the surface of the earth.

Always the same story. Corrupt white older male abusing , financially, sexually, work related. Abusing a child, an underlying, a woman, new young guy on the job, etc DENY,DENY,DENY Evidence comes out, thoughts and prayer, Let's move on for the sake of the Church, the party, the army, the missionary, the orphanage etc. Lawsuits and bankruptcy is a good way to start. Confession by the guilty is a good follow up. I have doubts for a backward country like Poland after so many years of terrible history. Abuse by it's neighbors, it's leaders, it's institutions. The people have suffered so much. Makes a Catholic country wonder why so-called GOD PUNISHES THEM SO MUCH.?

What I believe angers people the most about this scandal, are two things: first, the fact that the Church, far too often, would not only protect the molesting priest, but enabled the priest to prey on an entirely new group of children; and second, that these molestations, and the efforts at covering them up, is still happening. Any large institution will have a few bad actors. But to fail to remove known bad actors, is a clear sign of institutional rot.

The Roman Catholic church loses credibility on a daily basis. Celibacy should be a matter of choice not a dogma.

The Evil that is done by the Catholic church deserves prison time not only for the pedophiles who prey on children but those in the church hierarchy who knew about abuse and either turned a blind eye or covered up the crimes to protect their corrupt institution. And if that cover up goes up to the college and the pope to bad for them.