Editor’s Note: The interview here raises very important and disturbing issues in the Catholic Church: specifically, how treaties with national governments are and have been used to protect Pedophile priests and religious and enable sex trafficking. Some of the claims regarding confession, being made by the Vatican, and as described in this article, are contrary to Catholic Teaching, since a confessor is gravely obliged to urge a potential sinner not to sin and a past sinner to make amends for his sins. So it is gravely immoral for a confessor to allow a confessed pedophile to omit turning himself into the authorities, as part of the penance, just as it is gravely wrong for a priest to grant absolution of the crime of theft without first requiring that the penitent make restitution, especially by documented proof in the case of major larceny.