Catholics: your money went from the basket to settle these priest sex abuse cases. I think the pope should have sold the Vatican to fund it...or some of their priceless art, why should you fund bad behavior? It is like paying your babysitter to beat up your kid. And Catholic people you should know this $660 million is for 508 people. Five hundred and eight lives touched by horror. These sick priests are the bottom of the human chain, preying on children that trust them, that think of them as stand-ins for God. there is no excuse. On top of it all the church knew about it and tried to protect the priests. They just transferred them around, so they could abuse in new neighborhoods...for shame. To add to this mess, there were $114 million in previous settlements.
The total liability for the priest sexually deviant behavior and the church cover-up: A whopping $774 million. No wonder the Mercy Hospital land had to go.
I hope you Catholics think about this next time you fork over money to the Catholic church. They suck. I for one left the church just like I left my political party. Be brave: Turn your back on the basket if you can't turn your back on your church.
P.S. Monday: Miami Herald said: "The settlements push the total amount paid out by the U.S. church since 1950 to more than $2 billion." Nice, that is almost Miami-Dade's budget for 1 year paid because of predator priests.
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As a Catholic it pains me to agree. For all of the work done by St. Francis of Assi, Mayknolls, 8th Day Center for Social Justice, FurtureChurch, and Dorthy Day over the centuries I think of what the current regime in the Vatican is undoing. Thinking about joining the Anglican Church and not the one that is joining the homophobic Nigeria communion.
Dear G.O.D.,
Now when was it you left the church? Before or after that aforementioned foray into the kosher butcher shop looking for pork chops?…is there a therapist in the house? (That’s what all those big settlements are supposed to cover…)
Canon law meets checkbook diplomacy is nothing new. Certainly after Cardinal Law made it clear he only speaks when deposed by the state but is not accountable to anyone in the pews. Slipping out neatly to Rome is no one’s idea of a good shepherd, but to quote my favorite Jesuit on election results (not Bush), it’s not the pope’s church it’s my church too.
Outrage and information are more coolly served up at (print and on line) National Catholic Reporter,
http://ncronline.org/
an independent forum for the engaged but not hopelessly alienated, which interestingly has a link to the Abuse Tracker on the Bishop Accountability website.
http://www.bishop-accountability.org/AbuseTracker/
NCR also has an interesting (call it eyeonthechurch) blog connected to news such as the Vatican’s recent fingernail on blackboard missive. (re: your trip to NY)
Missing Link
Dear catholic person who is not hopelessly alienated:
Left the church when I thought about God sitting on clouds in an easy chair smoking a pipe...
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