LA Archdiocese’ out-of-pocket contribution to the $660 million clergy sex predator settlement equals approximately $1 million per parish.
Special collections won’t be needed (what would the church call them?) because the Archdiocese owns $4 Billion in non-parochial real estate.
But it’s all collection-plate money, current or past.
Some think it unfair that honest, humble parishioners should have to pay such huge sums for the misbehavior of a few pedophile priests.
But the huge sums are generated not by the evil of the molesting priests but rather by the evil of the Church hierarchy who protected and enabled the offending priests to continue fucking children, and in many cases to escape the sanctions of secular criminal law.
Unfair is that no bishops (or superiors) have been arrested for conspiracy to commit child rape, a charge to which they open themselves by knowingly moving rapist-priests into victim-rich environments.
It is the parishioners, however, who enable the corrupt hierarchy by their obedience, financial support, and consent to be governed.
Roman Catholics choose to belong to an authoritarian organization. The authority they grant their bishops and popes can be rescinded. Those who blindly support the hierarchy share the culpability.
Special collections won’t be needed (what would the church call them?) because the Archdiocese owns $4 Billion in non-parochial real estate.
But it’s all collection-plate money, current or past.
Some think it unfair that honest, humble parishioners should have to pay such huge sums for the misbehavior of a few pedophile priests.
But the huge sums are generated not by the evil of the molesting priests but rather by the evil of the Church hierarchy who protected and enabled the offending priests to continue fucking children, and in many cases to escape the sanctions of secular criminal law.
Unfair is that no bishops (or superiors) have been arrested for conspiracy to commit child rape, a charge to which they open themselves by knowingly moving rapist-priests into victim-rich environments.
It is the parishioners, however, who enable the corrupt hierarchy by their obedience, financial support, and consent to be governed.
Roman Catholics choose to belong to an authoritarian organization. The authority they grant their bishops and popes can be rescinded. Those who blindly support the hierarchy share the culpability.
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