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THE young mum who uncovered the Iraqi PoW sex snaps scandal said last night: “I felt sick to the stomach at those pictures.” Kelly Tilford, 22, called police after developing a film in her photo shop. The shocking pictures — revealed by The Sun yesterday — showed male Iraqis apparently forced into sexual positions by their British captors. In another a prisoner was suspended by rope from a fork-lift truck driven by a laughing Brit. Fusilier Gary Bartlam, 18, of Tamworth, Staffs, is being grilled by the Army’s top criminal investigator — amid fears the scandal is the tip of...

The Church’s travail in this most recent public scandal is being watched by the world. Many have said that the exposure of the homosexual* predators is nothing more than an attack by the liberal press on its most hated enemy. But the fact remains that if the Roman Catholic Church does not take this opportunity to really clean house, it will be cause for a dramatic exodus on the part of the faithful membership. Many faithful have been praying for years for the truth about abusing priests and bishops to be made known. (*“pedophilia” is a safe term and doesn’t...