I think it’s more like queers in the Catholic Church are protecting one another.
What is your logic there, how does hiding the names of two priests serve to protect the catholic church?
And the bishops are in something of a bind. If they laicize these bad actors, they have no further control over them. If they exercise their authority to seclude them from contact with the laity, then you get articles like this one.
If our diocese is any guide, these men have been put 'under obedience' in a religious house to spend the remainder of their lives in penance and prayer. The diocese has no obligation to inform this lawyer of their whereabouts - so that he can demand their depositions or otherwise harass them and their custodians. The diocese may have an obligation to do so to the local authorities if the men were charged, indicted, or convicted. But this very noisy and indiscriminate organization is not lawfully constituted authority of any kind.
Wish the public schools were so careful with the whereabouts of those accused . . . !
At least they’ll never work as priests again. The Southern Baptists and many other denomination simply fire them and without removing their credentials, without identifying them to any databases.
Currently, the standard for removing priests from office is far, far easier than the standard for initiating criminal procedures, let alone getting a conviction. It *is* SOP for diocese to post information about where such priests are WHEN THEY HAVE THE INFORMATION, but without such a conviction, the diocese has no authority to track the priests.
The article’s implication that the diocese did not report the crimes to the police is absurd; the diocese publicly announced the removal from ministry and why it was done. SNAP’s agenda is not stopping clerical abuse, but destroying the Catholic Church, and the media is blindly parroting them without even using common sense.
Isn’t this a matter that is normally handled through the law? It seems to me that as long as these “priests” were removed from ministry, the Church has done its job with respect to them. I would think that state law would cover whether the general public has a right to know their whereabouts once they have been convicted, etc.
Posted voluntarily, or posted by order of the court?
Are they actually pedophiles, or homosexuals hitting on teenagers? Or does it matter, as long as it furthers the meme?