UNITED STATES
Press TV (Iran)
An American Catholic cardinal in New York has authorized payments of up to $20,000 as an incentive to priests that were sexually abusive for agreeing to dismissal from priesthood.
Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, who is president of the national bishops’ conference and rapidly rising in stature as the nation’s most high-profile Roman Catholic cleric, first rejected the charge at the time, when he was archbishop of the City of Milwaukee, but a new document reveals that he indeed did make the payments, The New York Times reports Thursday.
Questioned at the time about reports that one of the particularly notorious pedophile cleric had been given a “payoff” to leave the priesthood, Dolan, then the archbishop, responded that such an inference was “false, preposterous and unjust,” according to the report.
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