While most of the the public's attention is falling on the obvious issues—the monarchy's increasing irrelevance to the 21st century, the colossal waste of taxpayer resources that go towards the upkeep of the world's richest family and their multiple palaces, the dark history of slavery and other colonial abuses for which royals of the far-distant past are responsible—few are aware of just how dark the history of the royal family is, or just how twisted Charles' vision for the future of the United Kingdom - and, indeed the world- really is.
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Tom Doyle: Vatican is the world’s “last absolute monarchy”
Tom Doyle is a priest and long-time advocate for victims of clergy sex abuse. A former canon lawyer for the Vatican embassy in Washington, D.C., Doyle says the church’s power structure has served to exacerbate the abuse crisis. “The attitude that the clergy are somehow.....above other Catholics and that we have to be protected at all costs, I think this is a heresy,” he told FRONTLINE. “It’s an evil virus that infects the institutional church.” This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on Sept. 5, 2013. [Full article]