They didn't just hush up the allegations, by moving pedophile priests around they were 'enablers' in their crimes. It's so disappointing that these senior officials have not been charged with several different crimes. The particular Archbishop in this piece is now a Cardinal in good standing. The video clip is an excellent expose of the attitudes involved in institutional sex abuse. The France24 news report was made in March of this year. Click on the link below to watch the report.
A sex abuse scandal is shaking up the Los Angeles Catholic Archdiocese. A California court has ordered it to release thousands of pages of confidential files, revealing galling details of high-ranking clerics shielding priests from prosecution over sex crimes. The files echo recurring themes that have emerged over the past decade in dioceses nationwide, where church leaders moved problem priests between parishes and failed to notify authorities.
http://www.france24.com/en/20130301-did-senior-catholic-clerics-hush-sex-abuse-allegations
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