Kansas City's top writer on faith & morals shares EXCELLENT reporting on raw data and dollar signs beyond the immeasurable human damage and loss in trust . . .
"A recent report from the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at Georgetown University shows, as this RNS story reports, that "(O)ver two decades, Catholic dioceses, eparchies and men’s religious communities spent more than $5 billion on allegations of sexual abuse of minors."
"Not million but billion. It's both astonishing and appalling. When, in several places, the Bible has verses about how the sins of the fathers will be visited upon the children, surely the writers didn't have priests who are called "father" in mind nor the young people supposedly under their spiritual care. But that is what's happened."
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
Faith Matters Blog: The sexual abuse scandal is costing Catholics billions
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