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NY Cardinal’s Ulterior Motives
Church Militant ^ | January 20, 2021 | William Mahoney

Posted on 01/20/2021 6:35:01 PM PST by ebb tide

NY Cardinal’s Ulterior Motives

Money before victims

A recently released document shows the cardinal of New York had ulterior motives in establishing a victims' compensation program. 

Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York set up a compensation program in 2016, supposedly to bring "peace and healing to those who have suffered abuse."

But ABC News obtained a transcript of a 2017 teleconference in which the compensation program's lawyer, appointed by Dolan, explains the cardinal was trying to stop the reopening of New York State's Child Victims Act or CVA.

Kenneth Feinberg, the lawyer, said Dolan's thinking was along the lines of, "We are already doing this, why bother? Don't reopen the statute. We are taking care of our own problem."

At the time, the debate in Albany over reopening the CVA was ongoing.

The act lifts the statute of limitations for sex abuse for one year, allowing victims to sue during that window.

One of those victims, James Larney, was abused by his priest at the age of 13.

"He [the priest-abuser] put his hand behind my head. And I started to cry quietly, but he was not going to stop. ... I never thought that this moment would come where I would be able to legally seek justice," Larney said.

In the leaked transcript, Feinberg also reveals another aspect of Dolan's intentions was to save money.

He explained, "The whole point is to get the release, so we offer $10,000. In Buffalo, maybe $5,000. Get the release. We want to be able to show Albany that people are accepting this money and signing releases. You don't need to change the statute."

If Feinberg is correct, then Dolan says one thing officially and another behind closed doors.

Like Hillary Clinton, who unwittingly remarked in an exposed email, the cardinal seems to have a public and a private position on issues like clergy sex abuse.



TOPICS: Catholic; Moral Issues
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; dolan; franciscardinal; homos; liars; timothydolan

1 posted on 01/20/2021 6:35:01 PM PST by ebb tide
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2 posted on 01/20/2021 6:35:56 PM PST by ebb tide (We have a rogue curia in Rome.)
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To: ebb tide

Seems like smart thinking to me. This is money donated by thousands of parishioners and he should be using it justly but carefully.


3 posted on 01/20/2021 7:10:18 PM PST by Marchmain (i vote pro-life)
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To: Marchmain

Those boys lives were destroyed..Let the church sell it’s art collection or whatever and start paying those boys for their pain and suffering......Annnnd lay Catholics can keep reminding the bishops,cardinals in charge,if they had done their job,the first time and got rid of those pedo priests,they wouldn’t be in this mess......


4 posted on 01/21/2021 2:49:44 AM PST by Hambone 1934 (When will the dems turn the US into Venezuela????)
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