Guilty

Cardinal Francis George is guilty of aiding in the molestation of children and he should be punished as such. The people that support him* should be ashamed of themselves. The Cardinal was very vocal during the Catholic church’s recent issues regarding abuse of children by priests. The church has been tolerant of child molesters for decades, maybe centuries. It was, and apparently still is, church policy to move “troubled” priests from parish to parish when word of their abuses made it back to the local bishops. Basically, the church sanctioned the abuse by moving criminal priests from place to place which, (a) greatly decreased the possibility of criminal prosecution, and (b) gave the priest a fresh group of kids to molest each step along the way. CFG made it clear that the church would not tolerate this behavior any more. Turns out that he’s a liar. As if giving the leadership of the church a second chance wasn’t sickening enough, CFG allows Daniel McCormack to molest 2 additional children after the church was notified about his initial victim. CFG, at the very least, should have immediately stepped down from his position, and if I was in charge he would be going to jail. Isn’t one of the tenets of the church to protect the innocent? How does this scenario fit into that?


* Who are these people? Who says to themselves, “well, Cardinal George was informed that McCormick was accused of molesting a kid. He had the power to remove him while the police investigated, but instead he chose to leave McCormack in place while he molested 2 other kids. Sounds good to me. I’m with the Cardinal on this one.”? Nothing like cheering on the enabling of child molesting.