Cardinal William J. Lavada submitted to 8 hours of questioning by lawyers according to the paper today. In that time he could not answer as to why he continued to allow confirmed sex offenders to practice within the Church.
Leaving this article I didn't really have much feeling besides being confused as to what was supposed to come of this questioning. Okay, he's admitting his part, but nothing is going to happen to him so what is even the point? Why are all of these guys protected? Clearly the reasoning that they are Holy men goes out the window, after all I am pretty sure there is not one religion in which a God says "my people, go and sexually molest young and innocent children".
His explanation for the Church's delayed response? It was a "learning process". Are you out of your flipping mind ? What is there to learn? If someone is being taken against their will into a room and touched inappropriately, forced to touch a grown man inappropriately there is no learning that needs to be done. It is wrong. Plain and simple.
The kicker for me, however, is that they cannot just admit they were wrong, they have to keep coming up with all these lame excuses and then they get mad that the media coverage has gone on so long. If they just admitted everything up front all of this perhaps would have already been settled.
Why is no one facing criminal charges? It seems that this process of questioning, etc. will take so long that all of these men involved will be dead or very much near death by the time it goes to trial. Will there be any final trial? I wish there was more to the article to fill in these gaps.
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