Yesterday, August 12, 2008, Francis Cardinal George settled with the victims of priest/cleric abuse in the amount of $12.6 million dollars. The Chicago Tribune reported that story. The Sun Times, like the little fat punk who watches two tough guys fight and then rekindles the violence with taunts to each combatant, intends to milk this issue.
The horror of the abuse is too monstrous to imagine. Catholics are all too aware of the damage inflicted by monsters in stiff collars and vestments who hid behind canon law, the majesty of the Catholic Church and the protocols of the hierarchy, the trust of the faithful and innocence of children in order to lunge out and sodomize babies.
The victims, for the most part (there have been a couple of dubious claimants here and there), deserve every tiny bit of monetary and legal compensation – nothing can restore the damage to their souls by the monsters who abused them.
I take issue with the agenda of some of the lawyers who have made the abuse of children by the clergy a cottage industry and I take strong exception to the morons in the media who do their PR work for them – much like the law firms who get fatter suing over allegations of police abuse. The Chicago Sun Times has been especially keen to shill for such vermin.
It is one thing to fight for Justice and another thing entirely to fog the truth while undermining the public trust in our institutions.
The Chicago Sun Times insists upon picking at this scab as it does with every societal problem in order to undermine any and all confidence in the Catholic Church.
The kleptocracy that is Russia, behaving like the three hundred pound bar bully beating up a tiny bar maid, invades its neighbor Georgia, agrees to a ceasefire, and violates that agreement, but the idiots at the Sun Times insist upon pulling the scabs that have yet to heal in the Clergy Abuse Scandal.
The Sun Times smears its agenda across the front pages of its tabloid and thickens its thin gruel of information with pieces throughout the edition:
Victim was 7 when abused by priest Excerpts from Archdiocese's communication with abusive priest Chicago Archdiocese priests listed in settlement Cardinal George:Archdiocese worked to free abuser earlyCardinal George has worked to resolve some of issues, bound by legal complexities, PC nonsense that mountains up from the molehills by agenda ready zealots, and within the limits of canon and civil law in this horrific chapter in American Catholic history.
The word settled should mean something. Settled. Settle down. Allow the healing to begin.
But, this not how the idiots at the Sun Times roll. They, (the Editorial Board of STNG) are the degenerate gamblers of journalism, cashing in the mortgage, taking out the Pay Day Loans, lying to their friends and caging the last bit of value out of any trust in order to stay in the game.
The Sun Times pulled scabs on race relations, gave Chicago Police Officers a daily beating, created a Thug Comfort Zone in Chicago and, now, intends to keep hope alive for future lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Chicago, despite every heroic effort by Francis Cardinal George.
Judy Jones says:
To Pat Hickey, You have got to be kidding! It is apparent that you do not know the magnitude of this sex abuse problem which is still being covered up by catholic dioceses, and I do especially include the Chicago diocese.
You are not out here on the other side of this crises. Survivors, their lawyers, and their supporters have a very difficult time of getting any kind of media to listen. The scabs of abuse are always, always there, they never heal. This sex abuse within the catholic church is NOT done. Any very remote possibility of getting attention in the media is small compared to the real size of what is an ongoing problem.
Thanks god the Chicago Sun Times "intends to keep hope alive for future lawsuits against the Archdiocese of Chicago,despite every heroic effort by Francis Cardinal George." Also, Please tell me what the heck is HEROIC about doing the right thing? Also "Catholics are 'NOT' all too aware". It is way past time for the public to believe just how bad this abuse is being handled by the church. Settlement 'does not' mean DONE.. this settlement meant that more secrets were disclosed and names of priests involved. Now maybe more will believe what kids have been dealing with for centuries, not just for a few years.
Please, you are degrading these victims by dismissing and degrading their lawyers, who are just as brave to take on these cases, because when it comes to fighting the catholic hierarchy, most lawyers do not want to touch these cases. You have no idea what you have just posted in your newspaper. It hurts the wrong people. Judy Jones
Sarah says:
No, sir, Catholics are not "all too aware of the damage inflicted by monsters in stiff collars and vestments." I have read thousands of stories across the U.S. where parishioners overwhelmingly support the abuser priest who was removed from their parish. And they routinely castigate the victim.
A review of local newspaper stories makes it clear that Catholics are far more outraged about the closing of churches/schools than the rape of their own children.
Even worse, Catholics either don't know or don't care that their diocese (and every diocese/Archdiocese across the board) is paying millions of dollars and spending enormous political capital to lobby state legislatures to NOT extend the statute of limitations for sexual abuse of children and to NOT provide any further remedies for victims of child rape.
You, sir or madam, are so wrong about this. Can you not even admit that the only reason these tens of thousands of cases of abuse of children by priests came to light is because lawyers brought cases to court and judges ordered documents to be produced?
Regardless of what goes on at the Chicago Sun Times, I can't respect the Chicago Daily Observer for allowing your column to be printed, not only because it was vicious but also because the editing and grammatical errors were atrocious. Terrible newspaper.
Albino Luciani says:
http://www.bishop-accountability.org
/abusetracker for daily verified coverage listing domestic and global systematic abuse by the highly cuplable criminal curia of my Church.
To date, the criminal curia cover up has cost American laity at least $3 Billion Dollars, with no correction, child endangerment still widely pervasive, and no punishment of bishop or cardinal enablers, aid, and abetters.
http://www.amazon.com for over 90+ recently published and 100% accurate books on the subject from such salient & cogent authors as Roman Catholic Bishops Thomas Gumbleton and Jeffery Robinson, as well as Dr. Robert Grant, MD, Richard Sipe, Attorney Marci Hamilton, Dr. Leon Podles, Jason Berry, David Yallop, Fr. Thomas Reese, SJ, Fr/Dr. Howard Bleichner, SS, and Fr/Dr/Canon Lawyer Thomas Doyle, OP, to name only a few.
The solution REMAINS that which St. Peter Damien suggested, almost 1,000 years ago, STOP DONATING LAITY!
Until Law, Mahony, George, Egan, McCarrick, Leveda, Burke, Rigali, O'Malley, Ratzinger, Scola, Sodano, Bertone, Re, Maida, Keeler, Becq., DiNardo, Rigali, Rivera, Pell, Hummes, etc. are each removed from office, nor rewarded for there decades of CRIMANILTY, each canonically censored, and each placed under life house arrest, like proven pedophile and sexual assault enabler Marciel, founder of the Mexican cult order The Legion Of Christ, nothing will improve.
The perpetrators are the CURIA, period.
Alternatively, each of the above, plus many more miters and red hats, need to be EXCOMMUNICATED.
"Proportionality" demands the remove of these evil men.
There are 1.1 Billion laity, and less than 3,500 curia trouble makers (including many guilty guilty Superior & Order heads).
The laity have control of all revenue through donations (over $8 Billion annually donated from 64 million, just in the USA that is tax free) - fire these racketeering and embezzling DEVILS!
No Curia Accountability? No Laity Monies! It Is THAT simple!
Ciao e pace,
Albino Luciani
NOT Smiling From Heaven, Where John Paul II (NO SAINT) Is No Where to Be Found, Who Appointed 99% Of These Curia CROOKS!
Kevin Parisien says:
They are not LISTENING to the
dirrective the Pope gave.The Pope
said it was the CATHOLICS God given
responsibility to give compasion,
heal and restore Clergy victims of
sexual abuse.There is no compassion
Healing or Restoration if the STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS is there barrier wall of protection.I know
JESUS CHRIST can smash down any wall,if it stops us victims of sexual abuse from HEALING OUR FAITH.
STEP # 1.God, please remove the statute of Limitations.
And just like SNAP says,the civil
cases,nothing happens,they walk away,leaves them free to abuse us again.Its like,JESUS,somthing does'nt seem right for telling the truth.Its like,some people are alloud to get away with Sexual abusing Gods people in front of the worlds face,Huh...
John Powers says:
Kevin,
Much like there is no patron saint of swindlers, there is no patron Saint of trial lawyers.
I expect no divine intervention will occur to remove the statute of limitation, but quite a bit of intervention from political swindlers to take it away.
There is abuse everywhere, and it needs to be stopped, but the recipient of the attacks is generally the Catholic Church, rather than organizations where abuse is much more prevalent.
The Sun-Times articles were spoon-fed by the trial lawyer industry and represent the worst kind of journalism.
JBP
Amos says:
Has anyone done any investigative reporting into how much money has, directly or indirectly, found its way into The Sun-Times ownership and editorial board from the lawyering trade? This might make for some interesting reading.
Albino Lucani says:
The American Roman Catholic Church takes in $8.1 BILLION DOLLARS per year, from 64 million laity, TAX FREE.
This number is DOWN to $5.4 Billion, annually, in the last 14 months.
The PR Spin & Damage Control Tour Of Benedict XVI th, in NYC, DC, and WYD, DID NOT WORK, to hold deep pocket donors.
To date, the American RC laity have been soaked for at least $3 Billion Dollars in hush monies, extorsion, bribes, settlements, legal fees, court fees, hiked insurance liability premiums, sold off assets and property, massive parish and school closing, etc.
The Curia are 100% at fault and remain unpunished.
As a Mother Superior General of A Large Cloisteredd Order, with no axes to grind, recently remarked:
"There is a special place in HELL for the current curia, below the level of the lawyers."
The Mother Superior General is correct.
Ciao e pace,
Albino
Keyin Parisien says:
Its plane to see,things are happening as usual,the catholic church needs to know what has to be done for us,Bottom Line time
will tell,FACE THE TRUTH,quit fighting justice that belongs
to the victims of abuse.
peter vann says:
If the statute of limitation on criminal and civil cases is to be removed completely on cases involving child molestation, then it must be remove across the whole spectrum of society. That means the public school system (where more abuse takes place than any other sector of society), Planned Parenthood which hides the identity of child rapists every time they carryout an abortion on a minor, and child services.
I do not think for a moment that this will ever happen, because the state is not willing to be sued or held responsible for the over whelming number of child rape that takes place in this country. The real reason for the hysterics in the media and in other sectors of our society with respect to the one sided attacks on the Catholic Church in this lamentable crisis is not love or care for the safety of children, but rather it is the need of the radical leftist (predominantly feminist and homosexual) in our society to advance their agenda, an agenda that seeks in part to silence public expression of the Catholic faith, and marginalize the institutional Church.
I can assure you, if the Church tomorrow were to drop its teaching on abortion, on homosexuality, on the uniqueness and necessity of the Christian faith that the crisis would come to an end. What more would the so called victims groups such as snap have the church do--go away that is all they want, and until that happens the church will not have done enough.
JohnB says:
WOW as we Aussie victims of clergy abuse say when we come across writing like this - sk for a refund as the author of this article only got 50% value on his frontal lobotomy.
MM says:
Are you serious? That is about the most amazingly irrational rant I have read in all my 65 years. An exceptional instance of stunning ignorance
5 of us says:
We have not stopped shrieking with laughter here for the past hour. Is this guy a journalist? ... seriously. Come on, this has to be a joke as no one is that ignorant.
Pat Hickey says:
Didn't care for it, did you?
Well, thank God you missed my Siegfried during the Lyric's 'Ring Cycle' a couple of years back - brutal.
Kevin Parisien says:
So,why did'nt your statute of limitations work this time.Is
Jeff Anderson the only Lawyer
to whip your ass?