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Survivors Network of Those Abused by Priests
Posted by David Clohessy on March 20, 2012
This is a callous choice and a terribly disappointing one for anyone who cares about kids.
Again, Pope Benedict elevates a corrupt cleric with a long and troubling track record of protecting predator priests and church secrets over innocent kids. As long as the Vatican keeps rewarding wrongdoers, wrongdoing will continue.
Lori has kept more secrets and more accused priests in ministry than most bishops. He pretends to be a reformer but his public relations and actual performance conflict.
Under Lori, the Bridgeport diocese
–kept Fr. Martin Ryan in a parish for nine years after he was accused, in 2002, of molesting a girl, despite having paid her a settlement. (He was suspended just last year after being accused of sexually harassing a woman.)
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