NEW YORK (NY)
Daily News
Oct. 5, 2019
In response to “Purged of pervs” (Oct. 1): Really? Cardinal Timothy Dolan expressed that those who harbor mistrust can find it in their hearts to be thankful for the church’s good-faith efforts to right past wrongs. “I’m trying my best to serve my people,” he said.
Let’s get one thing straight, for all of the church’s pontificating, if it weren’t for some victims coming forward and the rest that followed, the church would still be operating in the shadows of human decency and abusing young children. The gates of deception and sex scandals opened up to a widespread massive cover-up with priest reassignments and secret perv priest name lists. The church had not once brought any one of them to justice but kept it all internal and squeaky clean, so as to not upset the parishioners and to maybe lose them.
The church first responded that it was only a small number of priests. They responded wrongly and they knew it. But hey, what’s a little lie when you have a gigantic sex scandal erupting? This was going on for decades.
Then when the real numbers started to surface, what did the church do? Damage control posthaste! They hired the best lawyers and lobbyists, and tried to prevent any laws being passed that would implicate the church for past misdeeds and cost them millions of dollars in compensation the very victims they are crowing about now and saying that they are “helping.” To have such a widespread sex abuse scandal of young children for many decades and the church pretending that for the most part, they knew nothing about it, is more than criminal.
Mike Pedano
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