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In Reply to: Re: Good to hear that posted by exer on March 30, 2004 at 12:19:54:
I work with a local Archdiocese on events that they produce, and I've seen some of the effects of the Priest scandal up close.
All levels of the Catholic Church in this area have undergone huge changes. When I went to the main office down on Wilshire for a meeting a few weeks ago, almost all the offices were dark and empty. A lot of people laid off and entire departments closed. Two people I worked very closely with left with early retirement packages forced by downsizing due to the payment of the gigantic awards. Some people are in jail.
But, that's the cost when an organization behaves in that fashion. If they had just turned these Priests over to law enforcement in the first place, there wouldn't have been a problem like this.
That's justice. When something goes wrong, and people get hurt, somebody has to pay. In the case of the Catholic Church, it is both jail time and economic punishment.
What The Family did was even worse. The Pope never said that molesting children was a good thing to do. They screwed up by trying to avoid scandal by covering it up and moving the offenders around. But, it was never an official doctrine of the Church, as it was in The Family.
