Cdl. Robert McElroy
Posted on 05/15/2023 6:45:21 PM PDT by ebb tide
SAN DIEGO (ChurchMilitant.com) - The diocese of San Diego is set to file for bankruptcy later this year under a siege of new lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by clergy.
Cdl. Robert McElroy
Over 400 people say they were sexually abused by clerics in past decades in the Southern California diocese. As a result, the diocese plans to file for bankruptcy protection by November. This comes in the wake of the state's Assembly Bill 218, which reopened a three-year window for filing claims of sexual abuse. That window had closed at the end of 2022.
In February, the San Diego diocese warned the public of its intention to file for Chapter 11. At the time, Cdl. Robert McElroy of San Diego praised the bankruptcy solution as "a pathway" created for the benefit of sex abuse victims.
As if to assuage the moral weight of the abuse, the prelate added, "The majority of these suits concern actions that took place more than half a century ago."
Clergy victims' attorney John Manly shot back at McElroy's pretense of protecting the victims:
The Diocese is a healthy, wealthy institution. The Bankruptcy Courts should be a refuge for organizations who have encountered financial difficulties. It was not intended and should not be used by institutions who have engaged in the systematic criminal conduct. The Mafia is not allowed to file bankruptcy, and neither should the Catholic Hierarchy when they have knowingly allowed the rape of boys and girls by priests like the Diocese of San Diego.
The diocese serves over 1 million Catholics in 96 parishes.
This is the second time the diocese has declared insolvency.
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The news of bankruptcy also comes in the wake of the promotion of Robert McElroy, well-known for his cover-up of predator priests to the College of Cardinals.
McElroy covered up for arguably the most infamous predator of all: now-laicized Theodore McCarrick. McElroy, who as early as July 2016 had been told of McCarrick's sexual predation by renowned clerical sex abuse expert Richard Sipe, has remained silent.
And in 2014, when an abuse victim reported to San Diego diocesan officials that North American College alumnus Fr. Jacob Bertrand ritually raped her at her home when she was 24 years old, McElroy sided with the predator priest.
Ping
I guess the illegal alien Mexicans weren’t as Catholic as the church thought they were. All that deeply religious family jazz was just a myth.
In 2005, the Church clarified that men with “deeply rooted homosexual tendencies” cannot be ordained. The Vatican followed up in 2008 with a directive to implement psychological screening for candidates for the priesthood. Conditions listed for exclusion from the priesthood include “uncertain sexual identity” and “deep-seated homosexual tendencies”.
But in 2013, the St Gallen Mafia installed Jorge Bergoglio who has since been promoting and protecting homosexaul prelates at every opportunity. Not only that, Bergoglio is a vocal advocate in favor of the supposed “rights” of sodomites, both in the Church and in civil society.
And the the majority of catholic bishops remain silent.
Because they're gay? Priests need to be allowed to be married. This will solve the problem.
It appears that the “universal Church” doesn’t believe in “universal Debt”
I told FR over 10 years ago that this was the “arrangement” that Obummer made with the Pope.
“Back our gay agenda or we will sue you into oblivion”
Look for hundreds of Catholic Churches to fold in the next 5 years.
You forgot your “sarcasm” tag.
No. The gay ones are the ones who get promoted/protected. The straight ones are afraid their heads will roll if they publicly oppose the dictator pope.
How many of them are straight in the U.S. and Western European Catholic Church?
In Latin America and Africa, obviously that's not the issue over there.
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