Catholic clergy still doesn’t get it.

What? It’s not proper to expose children to priests with a well-documented track record of abusing children? Money quote from MSNBC:

“We would have assumed,” said the grand jury in a report, “by the year 2011, after all the revelations both here and around the world, that the church would not risk its youth by leaving them in the presence of priests subject to substantial evidence of abuse. That is not the case.”

The authorities should throw Justin Rigali into prison for reckless endangerment.

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Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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  1. Avatar of Tim Hogan
    Tim Hogan

    Roman Catholic Cardinals Justin Regali and Raymond Burke spent their times in St. Louis as latter day Savonarolas decrying anything but the clergy abuse scandal here. Both spent the majority of their time decying the "scandals" of the ordination of women priests, the fight with the lay board of St. Stan's Church and involving themselves improperly and probably illegally into electoral politics on behalf of the extreme right. I would expect nothing less of both men elsewhere.

    http://dangerousintersection.org/2010/09/16/roman

  2. Avatar of Mark Tiedemann
    Mark Tiedemann

    St. Louis was a relatively liberal diocese. Burke and Regali were sent here to "tighten things up" and bust up all this liberal theological permissiveness, like parishes determining their own finances and what not. They were punishment for not towing a hard line. They did much damage.

  3. Avatar of Erich Vieth
    Erich Vieth

    Irish pushing back against Rome:

    "The Irish Prime Minister has criticised the role of the Vatican over allegations that the Catholic church covered

    up child abuse by its priests. Enda Kenny said the recent Cloyne Report into how allegations of sex abuse by priests in Cork had been covered up showed change was urgently needed.

    Kenny told his fellow Irish parliamentarians "the historic relationship between church and state in Ireland could not be the same again."

    http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2011/07/

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