As Pope Comes Here, Another Bishop Fights Another Victim

SNAP
September 21, 2015

http://www.snapnetwork.org/mn_as_pope_comes_here_another_bishop_fights_another_victim

On the very day that Pope Francis lands in the US, a Minnesota bishop will try to block a child sex abuse and cover up lawsuit involving a predator priest who is accused of sexually assaulting at least 26 girls.

[andersonadvocates.com]

New Ulm Bishop John M. LeVoir should be ashamed of himself for seeking to exploit legal technicalities to protect clergy who commit and conceal child sex crimes. But he’s not ashamed. In his eyes, he’s doing what thousands of other Catholic officials do and have done: work shrewdly to keep clergy sex crimes and cover ups covered up. And he’s right.

Pope Francis refuses to change this decades-long immoral practice.

We long for the day when a bishop says “We’ll fight abuse victims on the merits, not on the legal technicalities” or “We’ll let the evidence surface in open court, rather than do all we can to keep a lid on it.”

And we long for the day when a top Vatican official, maybe even the pope himself, will say “We forbid bishops to spend parishioners’ donations to fight against their sexually abused children.”

[snapnetwork.org]

[snapnetwork.org]