Dublin
Church still hiding pedophiles: The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland is still covering up the sexual abuse of children by priests, the Irish government charged in a blistering new report. The Irish church promised in 1996 to report all abuse cases to state authorities, but the government found that clergy in the diocese of Cloyne did nothing about complaints voiced against 19 priests between 1996 and 2009. Worse, the report found that the Vatican explicitly directed Irish bishops not to abide by the 1996 policy. And after a seminarian complained that the bishop of Cloyne, John Magee, inappropriately hugged and kissed him, church officials justified such behavior as simply “Italianate.” The Irish government is now planning to make it a criminal offense to withhold knowledge of child abuse from authorities.
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Budapest
Nazi collaborator acquitted: In a verdict that shocked human-rights advocates around the world, a Hungarian court has acquitted a Hungarian police captain of involvement in a notorious Nazi massacre. Sandor Kepiro, 97, was accused of assisting in the slaughter of some 1,200 Jews, Roma, and Serbs in the Serbian town of Novi Sad in 1942. In 1944, Kepiro was convicted for his role in the massacre, but he was subsequently freed after a fascist coup in Hungary. After the war he fled to Argentina along with other Nazi collaborators and was convicted a second time in absentia by Hungary’s communist government. This new acquittal “flies in the face of all the evidence, all logic,” said Efraim Zuroff, the chief Nazi hunter for the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Hungary has lurched rightward in recent years.
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