The New York State Catholic Conference claims that a bill lengthening the statute of limitations for sexual abuse of minors by clerics “is designed to bankrupt the Catholic Church.”
“We believe this bill is designed to bankrupt the Catholic Church,” said Dennis Poust, spokesman for the New York State Catholic Conference, a group representing the bishops of the state’s eight dioceses. He said that Cardinal Egan and Bishop Nicholas A. DiMarzio of Brooklyn visited Albany this week to voice their opposition, and that a statewide network of Catholic parishioners had bombarded lawmakers via e-mail.
Nah. It’s not like that but, yes, the end result could be the bankruptcy of many of New York’s dioceses.
So what? After all, it is now a matter of incontrovertible public record that the Catholic Church has shielded known pedophiles for decades. (For centuries, actually.) That it has not merely shielded pedophiles, but actually moved them around knowing perfectly well that their depredations would resume in the new posting, stonewalled complaints, and denigrated and damned those who fought back. Practically, it is a criminal enterprise whose officers belong in prison. So … so what if they go bankrupt?
And how thoroughly has a lifetime in the church degraded those parishioners that they act to protect it from the consequences of its own sick and cynical depredations?
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