You could argue that it’s not news but you would be wrong.
If nothing else, the evidence is a searing indictment of now Cardinal Dolan.
If this organization was something other than the Catholic Church, Dolan would be headed towards jail.
Catholic bashing would be making up charges. This case is not based on made-up charges.
Either one is against child molestation or one thinks it is no big deal. I think it is a big deal and “newsworthy” no matter who the perp is.
When homosexuals molest young boys, I want them prosecuted.
When heterosexuals molest young girls, I want them prosecuted.
When an organization molests and covers it up, I want them prosecuted. When that is the only scenario where prosecution lags far behind the crime, it’s a big deal.
For the record, I am Jewish and when the Orthodox Jewish community commits similar acts and covers them up, I want them prosecuted in court. A few have been, recently, but most are not.
Glad to see any and all perps prosecuted.
Did you care when NY laws were passed focused on abuse in parochial schools while ignoring measurable sexual abuse in public schools? This might target orthodox jewish schools too. Why are we not protecting all children?
====Sexual abuse of students in the New York City schools is exploding, yet New York State Assemblywoman Margaret Markey turns a blind eye to it. She recently introduced legislation, as she does annually, that exclusively targets private schools for cases of abuse that occurred a long time ago.===
http://www.catholicleague.org/sexual-abuse-in-nyc-schools/
Same in California
=====a bill passed the Senate last week that seeks to lift the statute of limitations for one year so that Catholic schools (and other private institutions) can be sued for sexual abuse that allegedly occurred decades ago, but it does not apply to the public schools.
To be specific, no one who was abused in a public school before 2009 can sue the teacher, the school, or the school district, but if someone was abused in a Catholic school when JFK was president, he can sue the teacher (if he is alive), the school, and the diocese.======
http://www.catholicleague.org/sexual-abuse-in-california-schools/
You fall for the media narrative yourself making Dolan an indicted man. Dolan was trying to clean up a mess that was decades old...
====In 2003, nearly 40 years after some of the earliest reported abuse took place, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who was then archbishop of Milwaukee, sought permission to have the priest, Daniel Budzynski, officially defrocked.
The Budzynski case was among at least a half-dozen Dolan inherited when he took over the archdiocese in 2002 amid the growing clergy abuse scandal. It shows some of the difficulty church leaders had in dealing with serial molesters and a church bureaucracy that in many cases sat on pleas for priests’ removal for years.
While other church leaders, including Dolan’s predecessor, Archbishop Rembert Weakland, have acknowledged they didn’t immediately grasp the extent of the problem, Dolan appears to have quickly determined a crisis was in the making.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/usandworld/national/records-dolan-paid-some-problem-priests-to-leaveba6eff7ce7864dcdaec3689831ebe9de-213946671.html
Nice affirmation to ‘indict’ the guy who was cleaning up the mess. Way to go media.
My stomach turns that the church responded so terribly to these offenses over the years. In Milwaukee that response was led by the corrupt, homosexual Rembert Weakland who used church funds to pay his lover. I spit on him.
http://www.seattlecatholic.com/article_20020607_Archbishop_Weaklands_Legacy.html
Human bureaucracies can be counted on to fail due to their humanness.
But now, you show some fairness and admit that in public schools teachers can be found to abuse children and the bureaucracy is unable to fire them.