The Hierarchy Re-Abuses the Sex Abuse Victims

By Andrew Sullivan
Daily Beast - the Dish
March 13, 2012

http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/03/the-hierarchy-re-abuses-the-sex-abuse-victims.html

How hard is to to support the institutional hierarchy of the Catholic church these days? This hard:

Mr. Donohue said leading bishops he knew had resolved to fight back more aggressively against the group SNAP, [Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests]: "The bishops have come together collectively. I can't give you the names, but there's a growing consensus on the part of the bishops that they had better toughen up and go out and buy some good lawyers to get tough. We don't need altar boys."

He said bishops were also rethinking their approach of paying large settlements to groups of victims. "The church has been too quick to write a check, and I think they've realized it would be a lot less expensive in the long run if we fought them one by one," Mr. Donohue said.