The wages of sin

ARTICLE: Delaware Diocese Files for Bankruptcy in Wake of Abuse Suits, By IAN URBINA, New York Times, October 19, 2009

Frankly, a whole lot of priests and bishops and cardinals should have gone to jail for criminal conspiracy re: the priest sex-abuse scandals.

That would have been a lot more just than depriving parishioners of their churches.

If Christ tosses the money-changers from the temple, imagine what he does to the pedophiles.

Cardinal Law, our (then) man in Boston (we lived in RI when it broke finally), escaped his perp walk only to be rewarded--and rescued in Roman Polanski-like fashion--by the Pope with a cozy spot in the Vatican. It was easily the most shameful thing John Paul ever did. No sainthood for those who participate in the covering-up of crimes against children.

But Dante's got a circle for them all.

Comments

[Uncle Johnny]

Right on! The Church could have shown they were pro-family by punishing the pedophiles. Instead they chose to cover-up and try to re-establish their "pro-family" image by lobbying parishioners to vote away gay marriage rights in California.

Meanwhile, it's the parishioners who lose out, having to foot the enormous legal settlement bills for the criminal behavior of others.

[hof1991]

And no lessons learned, except to CYA with process. Same authoritarian style, same blame the victims, same chase out those who disagree. Lose 25% of your members and get promoted. Nice work if you can stand it.

[Petrer]

This is making me more of a closet Deist every day. The problem with the church organization in general is that is is setup with almost no accountability! The lay people have a very difficult time communicating their interests to the clergy, because the clergy was supposed to be infallible!

[large]

Regrettably, it's still "All about the Money!" . .

My particular reason for being an Agnostic . . Why belong to an entity that does no better than yourself, and in a lot of cases, worse?