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To: Mrs. Don-o
Treat the Church as a criminal organization and use the RICO laws on it. Massive fines, forfeiture and generally putting the church out of business, That will Rome's attention. Make then pay, make them put up for sale the wealth of the church.
21 posted on 08/28/2018 2:15:11 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Captain Peter Blood
I understand the point you are making because of justified wrath against the gut-wrenching corruption of the "Wolves in Shepherds' Clothing".

But no.

I would oppose RICO or any other strategy that would result in "massive fines, forfeiture and generally putting the church out of business."

That would just re-victimize us, the innocent laypeople, liquidating what WE and our parents and grandparents had lovingly invested in our parishes and schools for generations, and leaving guilty high-level clerics free to retire with not a visible or audible scintilla of repentance.

Weakland paid out $$ settlements in Milwaukee, McCarrick in Metuchen and Newark NJ, Mahony in LA. Many dioceses (is it a dozen now? More?) went through bankruptcy. Everyone who is not living under a rock knows that the Bad Guys are not deterred by financial penalty, as long as those penalties are paid by fleecing or skinning us, the "flock".

I want the perps in jail.

Otherwise the wolves get to eat the lambs and make US pay the tab.

"Make then pay, make them put up for sale the wealth of the church."

No, dammit. They don't get to rape us and rob us too.

The "wealth of the church" belongs to us, not them. Leave us our parishes and schools. Put the cover-uppers in jail for obstruction of justice at least.

Let them find a new vocation doing prison ministry ---- from the inside.

24 posted on 08/28/2018 3:14:55 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (O Lord, save Thy people, and bless Thine inheritance.)
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