There was a great article in the New York Times July 7th
by Frank Bruni and titled: THE CHURCH’S ERRANT SHEPHERDS.
Frank Bruni takes Catholic Church leaders (in this case
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of NY) to task for handling the priestly sex scandal in
the United States how a corporation handles charges against itself; by various
legal means designed to protect itself and not to do what is just, honest and
fair.
Diocese after diocese in the U.S. are having to deal with
not only specific priests who sexually abused children but also with bishops
and archbishops who tried to cover up those attacks, protect the priests
committing the crimes and producing more victims by not stopping those sick ass
priests dead in their tracks.
Bruni specifically mentions Cardinal Dolan because it was
Dolan who actually transferred millions of dollars from the Milwaukee diocese
into a “cemetery” fund that could not be touched by law suits against the
diocese by victims of those priestly sexual abuses; Dolan behaved just like a
CEO trying to cover his ass and keep the corporation out of harm’s way.
I guess Bruni was not saying that Dolan is himself guilty of
cover-ups etc. but what he is saying that Dolan no longer behaves like a “priest”,
dedicated to his “flock” and dedicated, as the representative of Jesus on
earth, to the welfare of his “charges” that make up the body of the church.
No Dolan is a business man, a CEO, committed to preserving
the church as a corporation and at all costs.
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