How The System Works

by Zoe Pollock

The Catholic cover-ups continue, this time captured in a conversation between Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels and an unnamed 42 year-old victim of childhood sexual abuse who secretly recorded his meetings with the Cardinal.Two Flemish-language newspapers, De Standaard and Het Nieuwsblad, published the texts last Saturday and Faith World reports, providing one of the better English translations available online:

"What do you really want?" asks Danneels, cutting the...