Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
Today in Christian Values:
It turns out that Cardinal Dolan authorized payments of up to $20,000.00 to priests accused of child rape in order to get them to leave the priesthood. Meanwhile gay teachers at Catholic schools are being unceremoniously fired for NOT RAPING ANYBODY.
Way to go Catholic Church!!
Cover Up Is Also A Pay Off
So far,no word from Bill Donahue. Bill lashed out at Jon Stewart hours after he mocked the nativity last month and threatened to boycott The Daily Show. Hypocrisy at its very best!
"'It made sense to try and move these men out of the priesthood as quickly as possible,' Archdiocese spokeswoman Julie Wolf told local news station WTMJ-TV."
How about calling the cops and reporting them for child molestation, as any right-thinking citizen should have done? I imagine that would have been pretty quick.
While I appreciate that they were at least removing these men from their positions, once again the priority was to avoid a scandal that might harm the reputation of the church.
Sickening.
They need to realize the reputation of the church is already ruined. They could start barbecuing children after fvcking them and most people wouldn't think it's an odd thing for them to do.
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
"Spokeswoman Julie Wolf said the payments were to help the men transition to lay life without completely losing access to needs such as health care."
Child molesters need parachutes, too. Were they so considerate as to the health care needs of the victims?
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
As a practicing Catholic, I find this information to be absolutely repulsive. This, and the fact that John Paul II is on the fast-track to sainthood. How saintly is a man who decided the best way to deal with the Church's pedophile problem is to keep gay men out of the priesthood!
$20,000 really doesn't go very far, even in Milwaukee. I would think the dollar amounts that are being reported are much lower than what's actually been shelled out, not to mention the $1,250 monthly "pension benefit" and continued health insurance. It really gives a whole new meaning to the term Peter's Pence. Time to hang a little moolah on the washline- cough up, Catholics.
Thank God (pun intended) the health care didn't include birth control.
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