Tuesday, July 2, 2013

It's Sunday (in About Five Days or So)

And I'm just not willing to wait until Sunday to post this.
The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel [...] has done us all an estimable service to putting online all the documents that were jacked out of the Archdiocese there as part of the bankruptcy proceedings resulting from thousands of cases of sexual abuse by priests of said Archdiocese. Needless to say, nobody comes out looking very good. In fact, the Roman Catholic Church comes out of them looking very much like an organization that should be disbanded and fed piecemeal -- hierarchy first -- into a woodchipper. One guy molested 50 people in 11 parishes before anything happened to him, and not very much did. The sheer magnitude of the criminality is stunning, and this is one archdiocese, and not the biggest one, either.

  Charlie Pierce
You know what? This is really an outrage. No, it’s beyond that. And if anyone out there reading this (ha!) is still giving money to the Catholic Church, I want you to go to a quiet place and think about just what it is you’re doing.

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