re: Archdiocese of NOLA parishes and charities on the hook for $60M in abuse settlement

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There is a solution. Stop covering up for pedophile priests. It is sad.

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What I don’t get. Why aren’t the police and district attorney also on the hook? They would have had to participate in the cover up as well. I mean, the victims did report the crimes to the cops, right?

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If a school board was moving known teacher pedos from one school to another you better believe we’d prosecute everyone and shut it down.

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Not necessarily... had firsthand experience of a pedo teacher in my daughter's 9th grade year- he was fired but we found out was hired on elsewhere. Regular public high school. They get shuffled around too, or at least did back then, that was around 2014/2015.

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Head of the NOPD sex crimes unit Stanley Burkhardt was a convicted pedophile and accused serial killer. That’s how this was allowed to take place.

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The archdiocese extends way beyond the city of New Orleans. Are we to believe that this “abuse” occurred only in the city limits?

No, the fact of the matter is that the “victims” don’t go to the cops. They go straight to the diocese because they lose leverage in any civil suit once the allegations are made public. They and their attorneys are as much a part of the cover-up as the bishops are.

And lastly, the abuse “victims” overwhelmingly are vulnerable adults and post-pubescent males. It’s not about pedophilia. It’s about homosexuality (google “lavender mafia”). It’s no coincidence that abuse has virtually been eliminated once we started excluding figs from the priesthood.

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Now? Yes

50 years ago?

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True. 50 years ago they would either find him lying dead on a logging road or trying to steal more chain than he could swim with

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Then go ahead and go every weekend, and keep giving your money to an organization that supports child rape and pedophelia.

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Supports it how? Every unfortunate example is that of someone acting in direct opposition of church teaching.

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Supports it how? Every unfortunate example is that of someone acting in direct opposition of church teaching.

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When violations of the stated teaching result in coverups and payoffs rather than discipline for the offenders and care for Christ’s lambs, I can see where there would be a loss of confidence in the organization.

Tithing is how.

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Do you even hear yourself? Coverups never happen? How about sexual abuse never happens? Geez!

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I'm not naive to think a priest will never ever engage in a sexual abuse situation again. There has been only one incident(which only involved texts) n the last 10yrs or so and thankfully it was handled swiftly and the person is in jail.

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What I don’t get. Why aren’t the police and district attorney also on the hook? They would have had to participate in the cover up as well. I mean, the victims did report the crimes to the cops, right?

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In many cases they did, but the cops are Catholic too. In many cases there was no physical evidence. When enough accusations were received against a priest, enough that it would affect the collection, they’d sent that priest to another parish. If they defrocked and god rid of all the pedophiles priests, they wouldn’t have had enough to manage the churches and do mass on Sunday.

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In many cases they did, but the cops are Catholic too. In many cases there was no physical evidence. When enough accusations were received against a priest, enough that it would affect the collection, they’d sent that priest to another parish. If they defrocked and god rid of all the pedophiles priests, they wouldn’t have had enough to manage the churches and do mass on Sunday.

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Bullshiit. They didn’t go to the cops because their lawyers told them not to. Much easier to squeeze a settlement out of the diocese of f it’s not yet public. The so-called “victims” are as much scumbags as the priests who supposedly molested them.