The retired military physician who last year helped expose China's initial cover-up of the SARS outbreak is now calling on the Communist Party to confront one of its darkest periods and acknowledge that it was gravely wrong in violently cracking down on the Tiananmen Square pro-democracy protests in 1989.
Acknowledge, acknowledge!
According to a 2014 report by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, the committee was "gravely concerned" that the Holy See had not acknowledged the full extent of the crimes committed, nor taken necessary measures to address cases of child abuse.
"The committee is gravely concerned that the Holy See has not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed, has not taken the necessary measures to address cases of child sexual abuse and to protect children, and has adopted policies and practices which have led to the continuation of the abuse by and the impunity of the perpetrators," it wrote.
It said it was gravely concerned that the Holy See had not acknowledged the extent of the crimes committed, and expressed its "deepest concern about child sexual abuse committed by members of the Catholic churches who operate under the authority of the Holy See, with clerics having been involved in the sexual abuse of tens of thousands of children worldwide".
While quick to plug the benefits of being test-optional, he acknowledges, "This is a problem that we are gravely concerned about".
Acknowledging that some people in the church are "gravely concerned" by Bishop-elect Robinson's appointment, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury and the spiritual leader of the more than 75 million Anglicans, urged restraint.
While acknowledging the personal strain Wells has been under over his wife Grace being gravely ill, Robinson said: "I have always advised Jim that we stand ready to assist him in any way we can.
"I don't know," he said gravely.
Small urchins angle gravely,.
