UNITED STATES
Care2
by Paul Canning
January 10, 2012
Catholic League President Bill Donohue has called victims of priest abuse and their advocates and supporters a “pitiful bunch of malcontents” and “professional victims.”
He made the comments on the League’s website in response to a conference organized to mark a decade since the Boston Catholic Church abuse scandal emerged. The comments are illustrated with an image of a crying baby.
He also said that Catholics had “moved on” and were not “wallowing in negativity.”
Donohue has been criticized multiple times for comments seen as lacking any sensitivity towards the victims of abuse by the church.
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