UNITED STATES
Finger Lakes Times
By TOM MORGAN
Forgive me for my thickness, please, but there are items in the news a lot that I don’t understand.
One is how various institutions act as if they have their own laws. For instance, we know officials in the Roman Catholic Church ignored the law in various countries. They knew some priests were violating the laws, yet they chose to deal with the priests instead of calling in police. They disciplined some; they shielded others.
Point is that they acted as if they had their own laws, as if their churches were another country. They apparently believed the laws that applied to the rest of us did not apply to members of their clergy. They knew about child molesting and did not report it. Does this mean priests could have murdered kids and not been reported by fellow clergy? Simply because officials felt the church had better ways of dealing with the crimes?
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