SYRACUSE (NY)
Syracuse.com
January 28, 2019
This is in response to the many daily articles bashing our Catholic bishop. He has been complying with the minor victims’ parents request to keep the molesting accounts secret to prevent embarrassment and stigma. The guilty clergy were removed from contact with children; and in some cases they were expelled altogether from the priesthood.
It is now way beyond the statute of limitations. Also, the economy has increased far beyond that at the time of the molestations. But greed has obviously surfaced to change their original request for privacy to sue now for all they can.
Parishioners funded building many schools, provided modest housing for the nuns who taught, day care after school and summers (with meals) for children whose parents worked. Nowadays they are paying additional lay teachers with salaries, insurance and retirement benefits. Because of this, they have to charge tuition to cover the extra expenses. Plus they fund Catholic Charities and some nursing homes.
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