The articulate and brilliant New York Times columnist Frank Bruni
once again takes a complex issue and puts its in perspective for all
Americans. This time Bruni focus on the Catholic Church and how they
attempt to handle the public relations disaster of widespread child
molestation within the Church and their attempts at cover-up.
Not surprising jovial New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan is at the center of it all.
Bruni reports:
I
mean the way that a religious organization can behave almost precisely
as a corporation does, with fudged words, twisted logic and a
transcendent instinct for self-protection that frequently trump the
principled handling of a specific grievance or a particular victim.
The
Milwaukee documents underscore this, especially in the person of
Cardinal Timothy Dolan, now the archbishop of New York, previously the
archbishop of Milwaukee from 2002 to 2009 and thus one of the characters
in the story that the documents tell. Last week’s headlines rightly
focused on his part, because he typifies the slippery ways of too many
Catholic leaders.
The
documents show that in 2007, as the Milwaukee archdiocese grappled with
sex-abuse lawsuits and seemingly pondered bankruptcy, Dolan sought and
got permission from the Vatican to transfer $57 million into a trust for
Catholic cemetery maintenance, where it might be better protected, as
he wrote, “from any legal claim and liability.”
Several
church officials have said that the money had been previously flagged
for cemetery care, and that Dolan was merely formalizing that.
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