Posted on 08/01/2018 11:41:01 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
HARRISBURG, Pa. — A landmark grand jury report identifies more than 300 "predator priests" in six of Pennsylvania's Roman Catholic dioceses, the state Supreme Court said Friday in ordering the findings released. (Tap here to read the court ruling.)
The justices said the report on clergy child sexual abuse going back decades and allegations of cover-up efforts will be made public but without the names or "individual specific information" of priests and others who have challenged the findings, at least in the initial version to be released.
The court wants the redaction process to be completed by Aug. 8, when the 900-page report is expected to be made public. If there are disputes about what a court-appointed special master should black out, the report will go out the following week.
The Supreme Court said it will consider the challenges by some priests and others who say their constitutional rights to their reputations and to due process of law are being violated, based on not being able to address the grand jury.
"We believe that the risk that the grand jury's pronouncements will be seen as carrying the weight of governmental and judicial authority -- and as themselves embodying the voice of the community relative to particular findings -- is substantial," Chief Justice Thomas Saylor wrote.
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People in our day did not talk about it.
And who is going to rat on a priest and risk him NOT remitting your sin and you going to hell?
True and the cases should go to trial.
Yet, the men themselves know if they are guilty and if they are, they should man up and admit the guilt and take the consequences.
I never thought of it like that, but it makes sense. Besides the priest that married the church secretary, the only other “scandal” that I knew for sure, was that one of the nuns quit being a nun, and married one of her students. All of us male students, thought she was utterly drop dead gorgeous, and we thought he was a lucky guy. 😁 In the end, however, was what she did, much different from the priest who married the secretary?
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