JoltinJoe wrote:No one has ever defended Cardinal Bevilacqua and the fact that he ordered this memo to be shredded was known years ago. Nothing new here. Bevilacqua's handling of reports within the Philly diocese was just as bad as the manner in which Cardinal Law handled the issue in Boston. Both Boston and Phildelphia are among the dioceses with a crisis of morally indefensible leadership.
That being said, the case against Lynn is weak and the charges will not stick. How many times do I have to be right before you listen? I've called four cases here that have subsequently been tossed.
Well you can add Milwaukee, L.A., Wilmington, and more to come.
They're chipping away at the defenses of the church and these cases will continue. That a case is dismissed does not necessarily mean it has no merit. Your church is spending millions on high priced attorneys whose sole purpose is not to discover truth, but to protect church assets. The church cowardly hides behind statute of limitation laws, sovereignty laws and any other parlor trick to escape accountability and get cases dismissed.
Your church also enjoys preferential treatment by the state. If this were a business or government agency, it would have been raided by the FBI and all documents and hard drives confiscated. Unfortunately each day gives you time to shred more evidence and hide more crimes.
Your church is embroiled in a world wide child abuse scandal that is not going away any time soon.
You're financing it too.