How hypocritical is the Catholic Church you may ask?
Well, here is a scum who as archbishop of Boston protected priests while knowing they had sexually abused minors.
And how did the Vatican punish him you may ask?
Did they turn him over to law enforcement in the United States? No. Did they prosecute him in Italy? No. What they did was to promote him to a higher rank within their criminal organization, in Rome no less, and allowed him to stay on until just recently when he turned 80 years-old. He remains a cardinal. How disgusting is that? TGO
Refer to story below. Source: Reuters
Reuters
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Cardinal Bernard Law, who was forced to resign as archbishop of Boston in 2002 over a sex-abuse scandal, has left his prestigious post in the Italian Church after turning 80, the Vatican announced on Monday.
Cardinals have to offer to leave their posts when they turn 80, but Pope Benedict could have rejected his automatic resignation and allowed him to stay on.
Instead, the Vatican said in a brief statement that another prelate, Spain’s Santos Abril y Castello, would now take charge of the Rome Basilica of St. Mary Major.
Cardinal Law was at the center of the U.S. Catholic Church abuse scandals when it emerged that he had reassigned priests known to have sexually abused minors to new parishes instead of defrocking them or reporting them to the authorities.
Dozens of his priests publicly called on him to step down and he eventually resigned in disgrace in December, 2002. Pope John Paul was widely criticized for subsequently offering Law stewardship of one of Rome’s most important churches.
An association representing victims of the U.S. abuse scandal had urged Pope Benedict not to extend Law’s term at St. Mary Major when he turned 80 on November 4.
As an 80-year-old, Law will no longer be able to elect any future popes in the secret conclaves, but he will remain a cardinal.
(Writing by Crispian Balmer; Editing by Tim Pearce)
