Posted on 06/06/2019 7:51:01 PM PDT by aimhigh
The Catholic Church spent more than half a million dollars trying to stop lawmakers from extending the statute of limitations on sex abuse cases, a new report reveals.
From 2011 to 2018, the church spent $633,000 on lobbying efforts in the Garden State alone. They spent more in neighboring states: $5.32 million in Pennsylvania, $2.9 million in New York and $875,000 in Connecticut.
The lobbying expenses could pale in comparison to what the church might pay if more victims of clergy sex abuse come forward and seek compensation.
The report commissioned by the law firms of Seeger Weiss, Williams Cedar, Abraham Watkins, and Simpson Tuegel tracked lobbying efforts across the country. It found that the church spent the most in Pennsylvania, where a grand jury report last year named more than 300 priests accused of molesting 1,000 children. Several of those priests had ties to New Jersey.
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The Church is a RICO.
But hey, the Catholic Church is the moral authority of the whole world! s/
however, this is about money for lawyers so anything the church does will be attacked......
no doubt my church has had a dirth of good leadership, but I hope when people read "300" priests its just a number including dead priests, includes innuendo, and opportunistic people wanting money.....
and yes, there are sexual predators in my church...in all churches for that matter, and any group that deals with young people including the military and the boy scouts.
The Church needs to learn that a body of 10 million faithful is better than 1 billion pew warmers.
I’m thinking of printing this article and dropping it in the collection basket instead of money.
Ok but, that's kind of damning with faint praise.
... "dirth of good leadership" ...
I can't abide by that. Leadership is not like drought and rain, feast and famine of old days, where there is no control over it. In ALL organizations, the people get not the leadership they want ... but the leadership they deserve. Countries get not the government they want, but the government they deserve.
I don't have a problem with the individual members of the church except on one thing: They don't seem to demand any better than they get. They don't seem outraged. Here in the US, many say 'If US Muslims are really moderate, why don't they speak about against the evil extremes?" Since they don't speak out often, Americans assume they either support it or passively condone it.
Where does that leave members of the Catholic church when it comes to this issue? The problem is I think far worse in the church that in other organizations that work with kids. I think you're fooling yourself.
In my book, if you can't abide by the standards of the leadership, you change it, or you walk out if you determine it's not your spot of land to die on. If you accept it and stay without fighting it, then you passively condone it and are complicit. You may not be evil, but you are complicit. That is, you're "missing the mark," which is the original meaning of 'sin.'
Am I totally wrong? I don't see where.
The difference is that none of the other groups are lobbying for laws to cover up their crimes.
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