Posted On: August 29, 2008, 9:02 am CDT

Posted By: Stat Guy

I know for sure this is about the money; but I think that is appropriate: it was the only way to get the Church to acknowledge the initial problem and their role in exacerbating it through inaction when these came to light. Further, they tried to downplay it by circling their wagons! Too bad that the bishops who are the defacto managers for the organization did not recognize that they were putting their own enterprise at risk by condoning this situation because they could not turn their backs against "one of their own"... I have always been against frivolous lawsuits but this had merit from the start. I sympathize with the victims because the Church relied on the victim's embarrassment to keep silent for so long; the Church did not learn or change from the abuses which lead to the reformation. The "holier-than-thou" attitude is still there. Just look at the continued lobby against abortion...talk about disingenuous...