Following weeks of media coverage of sex abuse by priests in the United States, Ireland and Germany, three deaf men from Italy appeared on national TV last week.
Gianni Bisoli, 61, entered a Catholic institute for the deaf in Verona at age 9. He described how he was subjected to three years of sexual abuse. And he listed the abusers’ first names ”” many of whom are still serving as priests.
Bisoli described how he was often taken to the home of the local bishop, who used him as a sexual toy. The network bleeped out the bishop’s last name. A total of 67 former students of the same institute for the deaf had signed similar affidavits last year.
Their story was briefly in the news but was quickly swept under the rug.
Robert Mickens, Vatican correspondent for the British Catholic weekly The Tablet, says that was possible thanks to a long entrenched code of silence.
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Following weeks of media coverage of sex abuse by priests in the United States, Ireland and Germany, three deaf men from Italy appeared on national TV last week.
Gianni Bisoli, 61, entered a Catholic institute for the deaf in Verona at age 9. He described how he was subjected to three years of sexual abuse. And he listed the abusers’ first names ”” many of whom are still serving as priests.
Bisoli described how he was often taken to the home of the local bishop, who used him as a sexual toy. The network bleeped out the bishop’s last name. A total of 67 former students of the same institute for the deaf had signed similar affidavits last year.
Their story was briefly in the news but was quickly swept under the rug.
Robert Mickens, Vatican correspondent for the British Catholic weekly The Tablet, says that was possible thanks to a long entrenched code of silence.
Read it all.