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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (122479)	5/6/2010 6:17:22 PM
From: Freedom Fighter	Read Replies (1) of 132070

skeeter, My guess is that the any continuing cover ups are more related to potential lawsuits than actually protecting guilty priests. I'm all in favor of the parishes and diocese where abuse occurred giving financial aid to the victims when appropriate. I don't know to what extent that is going on because as far as I know there were ZERO cases in Queens NY in any of the parishes near me. The problem is the lawsuits are about breaking the Church financially, gaining access to the assets of all the churches regardless of whether there was abuse there or not, and enriching non Catholic lawyers etc... over and above actually helping victims. That creates a delicate problem where the Church has to decide whether exposing someone because he moved abusive priests around long ago when he's already deceased or totally out of power is worth a few hundred million dollars for lawyers or whether hiding it and privately helping families might be a better approach.

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