NEW YORK (NY)
Daily News
October 20, 2018
The U.S. Justice Department is finally investigating seven Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania for violating child pornography laws and the Mann Act, which bans crossing state lines for sex. Where was the U.S. attorney general 16 years ago when we first learned about the priest sex abuse cover-up? Why aren’t RICO laws being enforced in every state? Why has Timothy Cardinal Dolan suddenly hired retired federal prosecutor Barbara Jones to vet how the New York Archdiocese handled pedophile priests? There are too many unanswered questions. According to USCCB 19,001 children were abused by 6,846 Catholic priests. The church has to be held accountable. The late Fr. Andrew Greeley estimated that priests molested well in excess of 100,000 kids. If every U.S. diocese opened its files and financial books to the DOJ authorities we may have fewer sex assault victims in the future. Thomas Patrick Folan
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