“Only a small percentage of the Catholic priests in the US were charged with abusing children, but a very large percentage of the country’s bishops (fully two-thirds, according to an exhaustive search through the available evidence published in 2002 by the Dallas Morning News) had been implicated in the cover-up…
“Priests who have been accused of abuse have been removed from active ministry, but bishops who were demonstrably guilty of protecting the abusers remained in office.”
A similar pattern can be seen in a recent case here in Minneapolis involving a retired chief of park police, who had a long history of sexually abusing boys. He finally went to prison last week, but the elite prep schools and the YMCA camp that knew of his behavior many years ago are suffering no legal penalty -- or even public disgrace -- for their quiescence.
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