Posted on 08/02/2021 1:40:15 PM PDT by Dr. Thorne
A former Catholic bishop admitted that the Archdiocese of Albany covertly moved around priests accused of sexual misconduct before reintroducing them back into the ministry.
Howard J. Hubbard, who headed the diocese from 1977 to 2014, said it was common practice in the 1970s and 1980s to temporarily remove accused priests, send them for supposed rehabilitation — then put them back on the job.
Hubbard said that he regrets the “flawed” system.
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Enabling pedophilia.
Stupid man.
They should have been moved to prison and been publicly shamed, regardless of any hit to the reputation of his diocese It would have deterred hundreds of others.
The Wanderer Catholic newspaper had been covering this back in the early ‘90s, before Dallas and Boston broke. Hubbard was a wunderkid Bishop named in his youth (for a bishop) and had lots of time to mess up what had been a good diocese. The 12-part series was called the “agony in Albany” and may well be findable online.
It amazes me that the Vatican allowed this mass pedophilia to go on in the U.S. for so long. Didn't they understand they were ruining lives and ruining the Catholic church?
In 2008 a movie came out called “Doubt” with Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman that explores this subject.....it was probly way more accurate than ever imagined.
He regrets that the "system" damaged hundreds — and perhaps thousands — of children, some of whom went on to damage other children in a slow-motion chain reaction.
It’s Mary’s fault.. Jesus was nowhere to be found.
Bottom line,they didn’t care what happened to those boys... They didn’t care what happened to the church.
If you look at Hubbard’s career, “ruining the Catholic church” in Albany pretty much sums it up.
Ping to you, friend!
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