Posted on 10/27/2018 4:17:39 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Department of Justice has sent a sweeping request to every Roman Catholic diocese in the United States not to destroy documents related to the handling of child sexual abuse, a sign that the federal investigation into the church could grow far more extensive.
Catholic bishops have been asked by the federal government to retain their files on a broad array of internal matters, including sexual abuse investigations, and the transfer of priests across state or international borders, or to treatment centers. The request includes documents contained in “secret archives” — the confidential files that are kept by each diocese.
News reports last week revealed that the Justice Department had opened an investigation into all eight Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania, and the diocese of Buffalo in New York. This marked the first time the federal government had undertaken an investigation of the church’s handling of abusive priests, a scandal that surfaced in the United States in the mid-1980s.
But this request to preserve files, first disclosed by Whispers in the Loggia, a site that closely follows the Catholic hierarchy, suggests that federal investigators are throwing a very wide net. The abuse scandal, long fueled by the shocking details in the church’s own personnel documents, may now grow like an uncontrolled wildfire.
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Already on an airplane on their way to the Vatican.
The snowball will begin,Now
Could this be the Achilles’ heel of the Liberation Theology/SJW movement?
Who to over? The Pope or Mammon?
Who to obey, is what I was trying to type.
Gee we’re sorry, all those were archived on Hillary’s Server.
“Could this be the Achilles’ heel of the Liberation Theology/SJW movement?”
Yes. This pure evil goes all the way to the top, specifically including that pure evil piece of anti-Catholic, Islamocommunist, homosexual vermin, Bergoglio, the false Pope, himself.
The US RC Church is about to be gutted in a legal spectacle similar to the execution scene in “Braveheart.”
What does it say when I, a lifelong “devout” Catholic, trust the Federal Government more than my own Bishops?
Although a non-Catholic, I hugely admired the Holy Fathers John Paul II and Benedict. That evil Bergoglio has, along with violating the Church, violated Western Civilization.
Too little to late.
Yeah. That’ll stop them.
“...asked by the federal government to retain their files ...”
And DON’T send them to Hillary for safekeeping.
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