[Catholic Caucus] Business as Usual in the Church

The American Spectator ^ | December 30, 2018 | Neumayr

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Business as Usual in the Church

In September of this year, Kenneth Lasch, a retired monsignor from the New Jersey diocese of Paterson, went public with his story of ignored whistle-blowing against a priest still serving in Paterson. Both the Boston Globe and CNN told Lasch’s story without naming the priest to whom Lasch was referring. They reported Lasch’s charges and his complaint that no one in the Church, including Cardinal O’Malley, who heads up the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, had taken his charges seriously.

Lasch said that the unnamed priest had liquored up an 18-year-old male who came to him for vocational guidance, then “abused” him. At the time he started “grooming” the teen, the priest was a deacon. The Boston Globe reported:

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O’Malley could not care less about abuse, but the real problem with him is incompetence. He’s stupid, maybe more than any other bishop. In his “humble” brown robes and bumbling actions, he appears holy, but barely can act out his role as yes-man for the pope.