It's tragic that bishops and priests can evade responsibility by hiding behind legal technicalities. Because of this ruling, dozens of dangerous predators will not be disclosed and kids will be hurt. Kids are safe when molesters are exposed.
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At best, it's a distraction at worst, it's damaging. It will feed the mistaken notion that the abuse scandal is about the behavior of priests and not the behavior of bishops. Gay seminarians didn't hire and transfer and cover for child-molesting priests. It was bishops who did that.David Clohessy
This is an ancient, rigid, secretive, top-down, all-male monarchy. It always has been. It always will be. The answer is not to reform them, but to go around them and to contain them.
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When can we understand that a man can be a wonderful mentor and a great teacher and still be a child molester If these guys had horns and tails, no child would want to be with them and no parents would trust them.
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It's easy to see the Vatican is wildly inconsistent.
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There's no state in the union where the bishop has been as hard- nosed and vicious as in Colorado. None. I wouldn't even be able to name the second-worst.
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It's not about Jenkins or Appleby or even Notre Dame. It's about church leaders who choose to make it even harder for victims to report criminals.
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