Dolan was trying to clean up a mess? Really?
He was trying to protect the guilty. He transferred $57 million to a Cemetery Fund to shield it from sexual abuse victims.
The files released Monday contain a letter Dolan wrote to the Vatican in 2007, in which he explained that by transferring the assets, “I foresee an improved protection of these funds from any legal claim and liability.”
The Vatican moved swiftly to approve the request, the files show, even though it often took years to remove known abusers from the priesthood.
Please explain how he is not culpable in the coverup and in any crimes that occurred after that date.
I’m all for prosecuting em all. You seem willing to look the other way in Dolan’s case. And you are the one preaching fairness and equality.
If you participate in pedophilia or cover it up, you belong in jail. That is right and fair for everyone.
I don’t care if you are Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim, atheist or anything else. If they are guilty they should pay the price.
That you deny what even the lefty Milwaukee Journal documents - that Dolan had inherited the criminal sexually abusive priests from decades before - shows that yours is not a good faith argument. Milwaukee’s scandal is part of the entire church’s scandal and it well documented that that past abuses are being addressed.
====The researchers found that a total of 10,667 individuals had made allegations of child sexual abuse against 4,392 Catholic priests between 1950 and 2002, and that most such acts took place between 1960 and 1984. The 4,392 priests made up 4% of all Catholic priests in the 14 Dioceses/ Eparchies in the United States.=====
There is a real lefty bonus to this, because Cardinal Dolan is leading Church as it stands up to the Obama administration’s assault on our right to exercise our religious beliefs. I’m sure that the word has gone out to demonize him. So, jolly good attempt!
Especially the little twist about crimes following that date. Are you hearing about those crimes from the voices in your head? What specific Milwaukee crime are you alleging?
Its pretty easy to accuse the church of vast ‘crimes’. Over the last 3 years 173 false accusations have been made against Catholic priests nationwide. How many teachers have been arrested during that time?
The Church’s transparency following these awful decades of coverup by the church should be acknowledged. But I don’t expect that from you.
My parents lie in a Catholic cemetery. They paid whatever amount with the understanding that their graves would be maintained by the arch-diocese. What justice is it for their funds to be appropriated? Why are you so covetous for that?
Is there really ever enough money to provide justice to the righteous victims? (and what of ‘victims’ looking for an easy payoff?) Can money smooth the spiritual damage? Are we looking for a pound of flesh?
I find your focus on the letter totally unpersuasive. We have a legal system and Dolan is not required to disregard the interests of hundreds of thousands of innocent parishioners because of the acknowledged and complex guilt of the leadership.
What is Dolan to do? Empty out and sell all the Catholic schools? Empty out and sell the missions for the poor? Empty out and sell the Hospitals, the residences for the aged, the retirement homes for the clergy (the vast majority of whom were innocent of these crimes as noted above). Shall we dig up all the graves in the cemeteries? How about reclaiming the gold in the dead’s dentures?
So he was protecting the guilty as the archdiocese goes bankrupt? So you consider me guilty as well? Yes that’s a lefty tribal group analysis, but as a Jewish person you should see the historical dangers in collective guilt.