Wednesday, July 10, 2013

The Catholic Church Is An Expert At Hiding Their Mess

FrankBruni
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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