Priests who move up to be bishops, and bishops who get the bigger archdiocese and become archbishops have proven to the Vatican that they know how to manage victim survivors and coddle predators.
Church officials are complicit as accomplices in all of the sex crimes against our children and vilnerable. They cannot be trusted and must not be given any opportunity to manipulate the work of this commission.
The Vatican once again shows us that they hold the legal rights and material wealth of predatory clergy in highest regard over the suffering and critical needs of survivors.
As Becky says: Ignoring wrongdoing perpetuates wrongdoing. The cover-ups continue because there are still so many hidden predators in the church’s ranks.
Clergy sex abuse is not the media’s fault. Chaput has created his own imaginary self-serving world and he demands that we take it seriously in the name of religion. No. We won’t be fooled again.
Bishop Conlon is allowing our children to be used as the “test of cure” for the troubled Father Ryan. This church is like a big pedophile ring in the way they support each other and give each other new venues to attack our young.
Clever PR moves are more important than the truth in today’s Roman Catholic priesthood. Their double lives are all about self-deception and deceiving others. This is bad religion at its worst.