These Stone Walls: Claudia Rosett, is journalist-in-residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and heads its investigative reporting project. Clearly, she is not someone with a defensive pro-Catholic axe to grind. Her article [Wall Street Journal, “The U.N. Assault on the Catholic Church,” Feb. 10, 2014] began by exposing the charge levelled against the Holy See in a Report published Feb. 5, 2014, by the United Nations on the Rights of the Child:
“A Report on the Holy See – released by a U.N. Committee last week to much media fanfare – alleged that tens of thousands of children have been abused by Catholic Clerics and that the Vatican has helped cover it up.”
This charge by the U.N. Committee blindsided the Vatican which was given no real opportunity to offer a defense. It all sounds terribly familiar. The U.N. Report was published with no evidence whatsoever, and without a single reference, footnote, or attribution. It was described by Catholic League Bill Donohue as “one of the most ambitious power-grab efforts ever undertaken by a U.N. Committee.” Read more on this here.
