VATICAN CITY
Church Militant
September 11, 2018
By Gene Thomas Gomulka
If Pope Francis was lax with sex abuse in Argentina, he’d have reasons to downplay it in Rome
American attorney Robert S. Bennett, a former member of the U.S. Bishops’ National Review Board, was interviewed on Sept. 6, 2018 by Raymond Arroyo on The World Over. Bennett said he wrote to Cdl. Daniel DiNardo, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), offering to return to the National Review Board to help undertake a forensic investigation into failure on the part of U.S. Catholic bishops to deal with clerical sexual abuse in a responsible manner. Bennett strongly believes that only a lay organization like the National Review Board is capable of undertaking such a study.
His remarks echo those of Bp. Edward Scharfenberger of Albany, who rejected Cdl. Donald Wuerl’s call for the USCCB to form a special committee to study the problem. Scharfenberger feels that the USCCB has lost all credibility on the issue and that “bishops alone investigating bishops is not the answer” (Lawler).
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