SAN FRANCISCO (CA)
San Francisco Chronicle
August 21, 2018
By Douglas W. Kmiec
No amount of monetary damages can compensate the victims of clerical sex abuse; plus the money wrongly hurts the impressive social justice work of the Catholic Church. No, an appropriate act of contrition requires that the episcopal level of the American Catholic Church submit to the holy father its resignation en masse, allowing Pope Francis, if in prayer he discerns it necessary, to clean house.
Note: This is an Abuse Tracker excerpt. Click the title to view the full text of the original article. If the original article is no longer available, see our News Archive.