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There is a serious moral dilemma about lawsuits against the Catholic Church.

Q: Who is going to be hurt by the lawsuits?
A: Certainly not the guilty -- not the pederast and not the negligent bishops.

Q: Who is going to be hurt by the lawsuits?
A: Certainly not the guilty -- not the pederast and not the negligent bishops.

True. I have a friend who teaches at the school in the parish in St. Louis that was hardest hit. In the last couple weeks, the former associate pleaded guitly and my friend told me that it just brought all the anger and resentment back to the surface. Here was the priest they confessed sins to. The counselor. The "good guy" going to jail for a heinous crime - where EVERYONE is a victim and nothing can change that. I'm just glad that the child and that parish were spared a trial. Those people really feel betrayed because that associate was the one who told them about the pastor and was the comforter, the healer - when all along he was just as guilty. And not even a month later, Bishop Dolan, who was living there, was sent to Milwaulkee.