Religious Orders - Sometimes "Independent," Sometimes Not

SNAP
March 3, 2014

http://www.snapnetwork.org/religious_orders_sometimes_independent_sometimes_not

Bishops consistently claim they aren't responsible for child sex crimes and cover ups committed by religious order clerics. "They're totally separate from us," bishops repeatedly say about the Jesuits, Salesians, Benedictines and the like.

And Vatican officials consistently claim they aren't responsible for clergy sex crimes and cover ups across the globe. (Their jurisdiction, they want us to believe, is limited to the actual, tiny, physical Vatican city/state.)

But today, the National Catholic Reporter is disclosing that hundreds of treasurers of religious orders have been summoned to Rome by the bishop of Rome, Pope Francis, to talk about money.

[ncronline.org]

Once again, church officials say they're A, until that's disadvantageous. Then, they say they're actually B. And when claiming to be B becomes disadvantageous, then they go back to claiming to be A.