It was not a “tragedy”.
It was evil human beings molesting children, evil human beings covering it up, and an evil church trying to continue the cover up...
If the church will not admit is was raw evil, then it still is raw evil.
The Catholic church has known since the 1980’s at least that they had a problem with pedophile priests.
Instead of cleaning it up, they shuffled them around to unsuspecting parishes and made the problem worse with cover ups.
Anyone can file a claim.
(Buffalo) Bishop (Kmiec) Named in RICO Lawsuit Dies
Edward U. Kmiec died Saturday night at the age of 84. The head of the Buffalo diocese from 2004–2012, Kmiec was named in a 2019 lawsuit alleging he and other diocesan officials covered up clerical sex abuse.
Buffalo-area attorney Kevin Stocker named Kmiec in the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) suit for his part in moving more than $90 million in assets to protect church holdings from clergy sex-abuse claims.
Malone also wrote a letter recommending Rev. Arthur Smith for a post as a cruise ship chaplain after Smith was accused of inappropriate behavior with two men and a boy. And during Malone’s tenure as bishop, Rev. Fabian Maryanski, accused of child sexual abuse many years ago, remained in ministry at Nativity Church in Clarence until a Buffalo News article in May 2018 revealed accusations against him. These events were reported before and led to Malone’s resignation. The details in the attorney general’s 218-page report, many obtained from the diocese’s own files, shed new light in Malone’s apparent complicity in covering up crimes and misdeeds by diocesan priests, despite his assurances that he did no such thing.
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The tipping point was the release of private audio recordings in which Malone discussed keeping quiet about an alleged sexual harassment by a priest of an adult seminarian and on another priest’s love letter to the seminarian.
Stunning! And beyond stunning!
The Catholic Church is mostly pro-life when it comes to pregnancy, contraception and abortion.
But they generally oppose the death penalty.
And they facilitate sex abuse of children and ACTIVELY shield pedophiles.
Friends, it doesn’t add up. I don’t understand what game they are playing.