Tomb Raiders in Belgium.

Heavy handed tactics by Belgium police as they raid episcopal offices and the tombs...  What up with that?
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Most Catholics in the US would have heard this story on the news or read it in the newspaper already.  It's sex scandal investigation gone crazy perhaps?  Or maybe not?  The Holy Father has condemned the extreme measures as "deplorable" and Cardinal Bertone has said that the raids were "an unheard-of and grave act" and "there are no precedents, not even in Communist regimes."
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I think the police action is a foreshadowing of what is to come - or in fact, what is already upon us.  It is upon us simply because it happened.  That said, I always find Fr. Blake's (St. Magdalen Blog) comments on what is going on in the UK and Europe to very insightful.  He's a very practical man and I appreciate his take on things.  I especially like this candid observation:
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With techniques reminiscent of a raid on a nest of drug dealers, the extraordinarily heavy handedness of the authorities, with dogs and armed police, seizing even mobile phones, is illustrative of how low in public opinion the Church has fallen under Daneels and Suenens, but is it also that Belgium authorities want to deliberately humiliate the Church and present its bishops as a gang of gangsters? Is this really the only way of getting answers from the Belgium magic circle?

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I suspect behind the story is the sheer frustration of getting answers from the Belgium Magic Circle. - Getting Answers   

And this statement seems to be right on the mark:
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Holiness and transparency seem to go together, yet today's Church seems to be more about obfuscation, media manipulation, secrecy, cover-up, spin, unfortunately all that comes from the top. - Transparency

That's pretty much what attorneys said regarding Cardinal Mahony's testimony in the Los Angeles cases.
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Rorate Caeli has posted background on the sex abuse investigation in Belgium, particularly as it involves retired Cardinal Danneels.  New Catholic also links to a particularly damning article on The Fall of the Belgium Church.