throwmeawaypoopy

How in God's name do you consider yourself a journalist? You seem incapable of doing even basic fact checking. 300,000 children per year? For fuck's sake, man, there are only about 60,000 kids born in Norway every year. You're telling me that 5 years' worth of kids are taken away each year?

Not OP (obviously), but I worked in the intelligence community for a number of years and turned down a position with the CIA because I liked a different offer better:

Basically, as silly as it sounds, you apply for it like any other job. They are looking for certain skills, be it language, science, engineering, etc. (In my case, my degree was in Arabic.)

Once you are initially screened as a potential hire, you go through a series of tests and interviews. Once you have been conditionally hired, you start the background investigation process, which can take anywhere from about 6 months to a year. Once you go through that, you have your Top Secret clearance. (At some point, CIA also requires a polygraph, but I'm not sure where in the process that's required.)

And how could it not.

The Church is a highly decentralized organization. There are only about 3000 full-time staff who work in the Curia, and that includes janitors, housekeepers, cooks, etc. I know the popular perception is that all of the power in the Church is consolidated in Rome, but that's far from true. The bishop of each diocese exerts far more control and influence over individual parishes and priests than the Holy See does.

In other words, a cover-up need not necessarily extend further than the Diocese level. If the local bishop didn't want the Holy See to know about it, it is entirely possible to hide it without a great deal of effort.

(I'm of course not defending any of this. You can look at my comment history on r/Catholicism and see precisely what I propose for priests who commit abuse and bishops who hide/enable it. I'm merely pointing out that while I understand the assumption that "The Vatican knew" has appeal on the surface, it's not necessarily accurate.)

God is perfect -- it's what makes Him God. You and me and everyone else -- we aren't perfect. We're all sinners. So while there is this ideal (God), we can never attain it.

You must be joking. There have been 4 killed in 2018 alone, all of whom -- coincidentally, I'm sure -- were critical of Putin or government corruption.