My sister in law was the HR Manager for the Diocese. They used Canon Law in every pleading.
Our Bishop Marshall was swiftly taken out of town to pedo rehab in Baltimore—right before the charges were filed.
Our own parish priest had his homo lover priest buddy come up to visit every holiday. He skipped town and “retired” with his gay priest lover to Cape Code.
It was disgusting. Their take on it was, “We don’t have to follow your laws, we follow the laws of the Church.”
If my Congregational Church tried that, they would have been laughed out of town. But the Irish Catholic DA and Congressman played racquetball with bishop. So waves were not made.
Any sane person who does not see the Catholic Church as aiding and abetting pedophilia, and covering it up, has not done a whole lot of research.
And wasn’t there a whole coven of pedo priests in Arizona a couple of years ago?
While I appreciate that MA and NY had it bad...so didnt the priest of my parents parish in far away Derby Vermont.
It isn’t just my town. The water is fine here. We arrest pedos and they get on the register. The priests get promoted and transferred. They get to retire to Cape Cod. While my childhood friend decays in his grave.
Were you once Catholic? I thought you were. Maybe I am confusing you with another poster.