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20 Apr 2006 01:34:40 AM |
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Sex scandal costs Boston Catholic Church millions |
They brought it on themselves and now they are crying crocodile tears.
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Sex scandal costs Boston Catholic Church millions
By Jim FinkleWed Apr 19, 6:00 PM ET
The Roman Catholic Church's sex-abuse scandal has cost the Boston
Archdiocese at least $151 million since it erupted in 2002, the Church
said on Wednesday in a financial report.
Struggling to restore public confidence after it was exposed for moving
abusive priests to new parishes instead of reporting them to
authorities, the archdiocese had to close move than 60 churches to raise
money and was pressured to reveal its finances.
Church leaders called the latest report the most comprehensive public
financial account in the history of the Boston church and said a growing
budget deficit had put its programs and ministries at risk.
The archdiocese lost $8.3 million in its fiscal year to end-June 2005 as
spending rose and donations shrank. That compared with a year-earlier
loss of $2.5 million.
Cardinal Sean O'Malley said he would cut costs to try to reverse that
trend and hopes to balance the budget by 2008.
"We're poised to stop the bleeding," he told a news conference, nearly a
month after he was elevated from archbishop.
In a letter to parishioners, he said the drop in donations reflected
anger over the sexual abuse scandal. "These numbers are one response of
a wounded community, an expression of deep hurt," he said.
The abuse scandal, which surfaced in Boston before spreading nationwide,
set off a decline in donations at churches across the United States.
The Boston Archdiocese has spent $127 million compensating victims and
another $24 million on counseling and prevention efforts.
O'Malley's plan calls for streamlining the bureaucracy that runs the
archdiocese and eliminating some positions.
But the church closures and school shutdowns have triggered protests by
parishioners, creating a public relations mess just as the archdiocese
is trying to stem the fall in donations.
The church raised some $18.7 million in fiscal 2005, down from $19.2
million the prior year, according to the audited financial statements.
O'Malley was put in charge of the Boston archdiocese after it became
known that his predecessor, Cardinal Bernard Law, was among several
Church leaders who left known pedophiles in active ministry.
Law resigned in December 2002 after dozens of his own priests publicly
called on him to step down.
To date the Church has settled claims with more than 650 victims, but at
least 200 more are working their way through legal channels, according
to Mitchell Garabedian, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs.
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On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 23:34:40 -0700, johac <jhachmann@sbcglobal.com>
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They brought it on themselves and now they are crying crocodile tears.
That's the Christian Way®.
All they had to do was practice what they preached.
Ah, Christian hypocrisy at its finest.
Sex scandal costs Boston Catholic Church millions
By Jim FinkleWed Apr 19, 6:00 PM ET
The Roman Catholic Church's sex-abuse scandal has cost the Boston
Archdiocese at least $151 million since it erupted in 2002, the Church
said on Wednesday in a financial report.
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