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Going back to the original post, "since when does money offset sin?" I think all the LA Diocese did was dispose of a bunch of lawsuits. Period. Pretty much a lawyerly sort of settlement, no attack on sin, the same leaders are still there. If more lawsuits arise, they have more money to settle those also. Boston has done the same thing a while back. And many others. Oh yeah, a lot of wringing of hands, but c'mon, these church leaders know all about this stuff and have tried to make it go away for years.
The people who will suffer are the true Catholic believers in the little parishes that will see all that go away as the parishes get consolidated as the real estate gets sold off, and the Church continues to fail to attract new priests(I wonder why?). There must be a name for the sin the leaders are committing by their cynical dismantling of the Church in the US to protect their brothers of the cloth. May the Heavenly Father have a special surprise for them in the future.
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