Catholic church paying out hush money shhhh...:shutup:

[Bro.David Drake DeLaurento]

NEW YORK, May 31 (Reuters) - New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan

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authorized $20,000 payments to a handful of sexually abusive

priests so they would immediately leave the Milwaukee

archdiocese when Dolan was archbishop there nearly a decade ago,

a church spokeswoman said on Thursday.

The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP)

first announced the payments on Wednesday upon discovering

minutes of a March 2003 meeting of the Milwaukee archdiocese

finance council meeting. SNAP is demanding full disclosure of

all such payments.

Church officials confirmed the payments as approved in the

minutes but archdiocese spokeswoman Julie Wolf said she had yet

to determine how many priests received them, estimating the

number at "a handful, a couple."

"This money has been characterized as bonuses or payoffs and

that's simply not the case. In 2002 and 2003 when the clergy

abuse crisis really came to a head, people were calling for

priest offenders to be removed - get them out of there - and the

church here agreed in order to expedite that process," Wolf

said.

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The payouts encouraged the abusive priests to voluntarily

accept laicization, the process of turning an ordained priest

into a lay person.

Had the priests contested laicization, it could have taken

years during which time the priests would have received salary

and benefits, Wolf said.

Dolan has become the face of the Catholic Church in the

United States since moving from Milwaukee to New York in 2009,

becoming president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in

2010 and being elevated to Cardinal by the Vatican earlier this

year.

(Reporting by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Jackie Frank)

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(Romans 13:3, 4) . . .Do you, then, want to have no fear of the authority? Keep doing good, and you will have praise from it; 4 for it is God’s minister to you for your good. But if you are doing what is bad, be in fear: for it is not without purpose that it bears the sword; for it is God’s minister, an avenger to express wrath upon the one practicing what is bad.

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I am so glad that headlines like that appear. Catholics we meet who proudly announce their faith in their church have NO excuse.

Anyone who supports any organization that has the proven accusations of criminality like them does not see the bigger moral picture.

Local Scout group - local church - national organizations - governments - The United Nations (always too little too late) have all been tainted with moral ineptitude.

We can see it, say it and know it. They really have been blinded.