BALTIMORE (MD)
Washington Post
October 5, 2023
By Nicholas Penning
The Oct. 1 Metro article “New rights for child sex abuse victims in Md.” reported that Baltimore Archbishop William Lori said of his archdiocese’s Chapter 11 filing that if the archdiocese had not made this filing, the litigation for some child abuse victim settlements would have “exhausted” his church’s insurance funds. But, sir, what is the fate of the Catholic Church’s vast treasury compared with the cost of one person’s destroyed childhood and adult life? Does your institution merit a healthy bank balance after the Catholic Church hid and promoted pedophile priests, moving them from one unsuspecting parish to another, allowing them to prey on still more vulnerable children, decade upon decade?
Nicholas Penning, Arlington