MINNESOTA
Pioneer Press
By Ruben Rosario
rrosario@pioneerpress.com
POSTED: 01/29/2014
But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea. Matthew 18:6.
I made a New Year’s resolution not to write too often this year about the church — my church — that has forgotten Jesus and his admonition when it comes to protecting and doing right by child sex-abuse victims over the years.
It almost at times feels like piling on, so much has been and continues to be documented about clergy sex abuse and impropriety scandals. I’m sick already of this stuff, for it continues to stain the great majority of the good people of faith.
But like my supposed diet, I’m breaking it right here and now.
It has a little something to do with Wednesday’s announcement that local law enforcement officials declined to file criminal charges against church higher-ups in one priest child-abuse case and another one involving alleged possession of child pornography.
It has more to do with garage parking lights.
Now the little bit of news that has prompted my rant comes from an excellent story by Minnesota Public Radio last week about secret accounts the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis set up to pay off problem priests and child sex-abuse victims and their families.
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