The Catholic Church has been trying desperately to suggest that the
days of rampant sexual abuse of minors by priests and subsequent
cover-ups by bishops are a thing of the past and that the church has
moved into a new, more transparent future. But to paraphrase a classic
mob movie, just when they think they’re out, they get pulled back in.
First, it was Spotlight’s focus on the Boston-area abuse scandal that proved to be the tipping point for public awareness of widespread abusive priest-shuffling. It also reminded people of just how hard senior Vatican officials like Cardinal Bernard Law worked to keep the church’s complicity covered up.
http://religiondispatches.org/did-catholic-church-abuses-amount-to-organized-crime/
First, it was Spotlight’s focus on the Boston-area abuse scandal that proved to be the tipping point for public awareness of widespread abusive priest-shuffling. It also reminded people of just how hard senior Vatican officials like Cardinal Bernard Law worked to keep the church’s complicity covered up.
http://religiondispatches.org/did-catholic-church-abuses-amount-to-organized-crime/