Pay up sucker

 

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I posted this as an answer to this clueless essay on the Catholic thing discussing the latest court case for abuse against the Los Angeles diocese, long run by Cardinal Mahoney, who lay folks knew ignored abuse but he was a social justice warrior so the press never wanted to accuse him of anything.

In this painful moment of paying off the debt of sin, Catholics also have to forgive the Church. We let go of our anger for the evils committed. We pray for the repentance of the guilty. We pay our money to facilitate healing and reconciliation. Perhaps financial reckoning can be a turning point for the Church in America. The lay faithful can decide to come forward not with clenched fists, but with open wallets so they can help the Church compensate victims and then move forward to live the Gospel with zeal.

translation: pay up sucker.

it wasn't just LA nor did the failure to investigate and demand accountability stop at the Diocese level:  in San Francisco, Kamela Harris decided not to prosecute these cases when she was the DA.

 

I have links to a lot of stuff here.

I lived in Altoona diocese before that diocese imploded, and here on FR is an article from the local paper that explains what  lay folk were up against in 2002.

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I remain a Catholic because most of our priests and bishops and layfolk are good. I am angry about this because it is criminals/sociopaths/narcissitic manipulators who see good people and churches as an easy mark: so they steal, abuse kids, get cushy jobs, etc. and they don't care.

This is why the good and merciful Jesus recommended millstones for such people: yes forgive them if they repent, but often their repentence is a sham so they can go back to their exploitation of the good.