It’s SO counter-intuitive. It’s SO hard to imagine. How could Catholic officials – after decades of devastating, embarrassing and morale-destroying prosecutions, lawsuits and exposes – how could they NOT radically reform and prevent the widespread sexual abuse of boys and girls in the church? How could they NOT work overtime to fix this? But they don’t, and here’s the latest…
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Where did The Vatican Go Wrong with Cardinal McCarrick?
One sentence says it all about McCarrick & the Vatican “McCarrick’s denial was believed.” In the nearly 460 page just-released Vatican report supposedly about the church personnel who enabled a top church official’s sexual abuse, this single sentence strikes us at Horowitz Law as particularly telling. https://in.reuters.com/article/us-pope-abuse-mccarrick-report/report-into-disgraced-ex-u-s-cardinal-shows-failings-by-popes-top-clerics-idUSKBN27Q1UZ The report’s title is “Report on the Vatican’s Institutional Knowledge and Decision-Making Regarding…
Resignations Just Don’t Cut It Anymore
Albert Einstein is widely credited with saying, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” Sadly, the popes of the Catholic church seem incapable of learning this lesson. Last month, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of French Cardinal Phillipe Barbarin who was convicted in early March of refusing to report child sex crimes by…
New Vatican Panel. Don’t Hold Your Breath Waiting For Change
Please join us in a quick little experiment Feel like playing along with a little experiment? Let’s imagine you wanted to set up a panel on the Catholic abuse and cover up crisis. BUT. . . you want to make sure it’s totally ineffective. How would you do it? Here’s our recipe. First, we’d appoint only Catholics. More insularity in an…
The Vatican Struggles To Keep Up With A Record Number of Sex-Abuse Cases Reported This Year
The Vatican Struggles To Keep Up With A Record Number of Sex Abuse Cases Reported in 2019 Late December 2019, the Associated Press reported that the Vatican office responsible for processing clergy sex abuse complaints, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), has seen a record 1,000 cases reported from around the world this year. The CDF said…