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In reply to the discussion: Dolan Calls Child Victims Act "Unjust" To Church [View all]Aerows
(39,961 posts)"the people that -- the perpetrators dont suffer. There is no burden on them. What suffers are the services and the ministries and the apostolates that were doing now. "
The Church as an organization suffers - that's the idea. See, the organization covered this up, and it's going to have to make reparations. That's going to include suffering a tremendous financial hit. That's called punishment.
If the Church hadn't have covered this up, then it wouldn't be the Church's problem. The Church did cover it up, however, and is just as guilty as the people who did it - because they enabled them to go on doing it elsewhere. Instead of worry about abortion and contraceptives, the Church needs to clean up around it's own moral front door. Whining about how much it might cost the Church makes the Church look even worse. If they don't get that yet, they are completely tone deaf.